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The Pit Talk podcast powered by Ethara sees former Red Bull F1 driver Robert Doornbos join forces with and sports broadcaster Chris McHardy. The Pit Talk goes beyond the chequered flag and dives into every twist and turn from the entire race weekend – on and off the track.
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Madrid Was A Flop, Lando Was Too Fast, Kimi's Got The Title & Stroll's 9 DNFs | The Pit Talk (opens the original)
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Monaco gave us ten overtakes this year. Madrid, a brand new circuit with a ten year deal and a World Champion as its ambassador, gave us four. Robert Doornbos was there, and he is not sugarcoating it. An industrial estate 50 minutes outside the city, a build-up that promised Macau, Monaco and Jeddah rolled into one, and then a Sunday where nothing happened in F3, nothing happened in F2 and nothing happened in F1. Plus: Robert's five takeaways, why he is calling the title for Kimi Antonelli right
ANTONELLI WAS SCHUMACHER-ESQUE AT MONZA | Ferrari's Civil War & Russell's Uppercut | The Pit Talk Pod (opens the original)
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Nineteenth on the grid. First at the flag. At the Temple of Speed, in front of a Ferrari crowd, in a Mercedes. Chris McHardy and former F1 driver Robert Doornbos break down the Italian Grand Prix, and Robert spotted something on the onboards that the broadcast never showed you. One driver used more of the circuit than anybody else all weekend. Plus: Charles Leclerc puts it in the wall at Parabolica again. George Russell gets beaten by a teammate who started 19th. Ferrari have no rules of engagem
WHAT'S REALLY IN AN F1 CONTRACT | Money, Small Print & Half a Billion | The Pit Talk Podcast (opens the original)
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What does it cost to crash a Formula 1 car? Seventeen million dollars, if you do it properly. Fourteen of that is the engine alone. Robert Doornbos takes the lid off the money in this one. What's really written into a driver contract — including the clause that said he had to stay within two tenths of David Coulthard, and the bonus he tried to renegotiate before his boss told him to name any number he liked, because he'd never collect it. He didn't. He also takes us back to the F1 that made the
Lift off for Lando, Ferrari’s ‘favourite’ & Max out of options (opens the original)
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Robert Doornbos drops the biggest call of the season so far — Max Verstappen’s options are gone, and Red Bull is the only door left open. Lando Norris and McLaren are BACK, the new floor works, and the number one on the car suddenly looks earned again. Max produces the overtake of the year on Lewis Hamilton. Kimi Antonelli somehow finds the podium from nowhere and inches closer to a title he no longer needs to win races for. And Carlos Sainz? Nine blue flags. NINE. ⚡️ Powered By: @etharalive | @
IS THIS EVEN FORMULA 1 ANYMORE? | Belgian GP (opens the original)
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The morning after the night before in Spa, and Kimi Antonelli’s made it SIX wins in ten races. But the real story? George Russell might be talking himself out of Mercedes. Chris McHardy and ex-F1 driver Robert Doornbos break down the Belgian Grand Prix fallout: Toto Wolff’s brutal “half of it is on the driving” verdict, why Robert says George is “hanging on like a cat on the mirror,” and whether Kimi is genuinely the next Max Verstappen. Plus: the pole time that dropped 3.8 SECONDS on last year
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