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Crew Chief Eric: Uh, all right, Brad, well bring us in.

Crew Chief Brad: Welcome

French Speaker: drive through episode

Automobile Automobile.

Crew Chief Eric: This is one of my favorite episodes of the year. Why? Why [00:01:00] is

that?

Crew Chief Eric: Because it’s June, we get to talk about. The 24 hours of incredible time. This is the pinnacle of racing, the best racing on television, the best event of the year, the most spectacular spectacle.

Executive Producer Tania: I’m sorry,

Crew Chief Eric: I thought the pinnacle of racing was Formula One.

What’s the exact opposite of Pinnacle?

Crew Chief Brad: The pinnacle and the pinnacle.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, there it. There it is. There it there. It’s.

Crew Chief Brad: Our new segment. Our new segment, the Pinnacle and the Pitiful.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, we have a guest in the house tonight. He foreshadowed a little bit sooth saying maybe he had some magic juju. He rubbed the Ferrari emblem a little bit last week.

It’s a wonderful thing to have so many creators on the Motoring Podcast Network in studio with us tonight. William, big Money Ross. Here to celebrate Ferrari’s victory.

Crew Chief Brad: Good evening.

Crew Chief Eric: Ooh, listen to you.

Crew Chief Brad: Yes. This isn’t William Ross, who, who is this guy? He doesn’t sound all nasally and doesn’t sound like he’s talking through a sewer pipe or something.

William Ross: Yeah. For everyone listening, I finally stepped up and got a new microphone. We love it. We love it.

Crew Chief Eric: All right, let’s talk about, let’s [00:02:00] talk about the 24 hours of Le Mans. Oh man, what a weekend. William. You must be a proud papa as a Ferrari Papa Threepeat three in a row.

The hat trick.

William Ross: Well, yeah, I mean it’s awesome to see that, but I think the real cool thing is that they, of course, the team won with Robert Kizza at the Wheel.

Yeah, I think that’s just, that’s awesome. For everything he’s been through. It’s come full circle 10 years ago, signing for a fer ride. Then he had his accident in the rally car and now he comes back and you know, he wins Le Mans and that being a private tier team, that was awesome to see. Well earned. It was really.

Cool to see. It looked like for a second there, what was there like two hours to ago, three hours ago, when all of a sudden he’s saying about having a box, something with the air tube or something. Yeah. And it just couldn’t do something with it or something like that. I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Suck it up.

Drive, you know, it is. Just get there and make it happen. I mean, on one side. Yeah. Hey, after s scootering, it wouldn’t have been a 1, 2, 3 because someone got disqualified. It was good to see Porsche bringing it. Penske [00:03:00] getting thwarted again. Two in a row for

Crew Chief Eric: them too. The Indy 500, they got DQ for, we’ll call it, modified their vehicle outside of the specified parameters.

Not cheating, but you know, modifications.

William Ross: Yeah. Something along those lines. However you wanna legalize it.

Crew Chief Eric: Let’s talk about Kizza for a second. Brad. Tanya, you know about this accident, right? Have you seen the videos of what happened to him?

Executive Producer Tania: No. Uh, it’s been a long time. I know I. He almost died, was pretty severe.

I think he hit a tree or something. I know he broke his leg very severely.

Crew Chief Eric: So this was back in the days when, what would today would be like the WRC two cars, like the VW Polo and the Skoda and the Seas and all those that they had running back Then he spins and hits basically a guardrail and the guardrail comes through the car.

Mm-hmm. It’s absolutely horrific when you see the pictures of it and everything. It’s like completely fluke too, of all the things to hit.

Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: just nutty. Absolutely nutty. So he’s been back in the driver’s seat for quite a while, so to go from that, you know, near death. Experience to winning Le Mans. That’s a heck of a story.

William Ross: Yeah. I mean his hand is [00:04:00] basically unusable. Anyways, that’s the one thing that’s, so he is literally basically driving with one hand, you know, he can use it, kind of push things around so that, but they gotta modify stuff ’cause it’s just basically a dangling appendage there. That’s what makes all that much more impressive.

He was able to come back from that and he’s driving at this top level. Just goes to show how easy it is to drive a car with a floppy paddle gearbox. Yeah. ’cause that was back older. That wouldn’t happen in no way.

Crew Chief Eric: So I agree with you. You know I watched a good portion of the race later into the race ’cause I had obligations with the A CO and the Symone event and all those kinds of things.

But what I did watch sporadically through the weekend, I had this moment, I was talking to some folks while we were there at the viewing party. You know, they were talking about Porsche versus Ferrari and this and that and you know, cars and the automotive engine and I’m like, look. You have to realize Porsche, Ferrari, they’re a league above everybody else because we’re seeing two of the finest engineering companies in the world going at it.

Not just car companies, but engineering companies. And so to see them duking it out and then 9 63, [00:05:00] unfortunately it doesn’t have the legs. They haven’t figured it out after all three, four years now of development and good for Ferrari. That’s all he kept saying was for Ferrari, they need to win this. And they need to go out on a high stop after this year ’cause Ford is coming and you don’t wanna set yourself up like Toyota has done the last couple years where it’s just been this downward spiral where it’s evident that Toyota was running with no competition for a very, very long time.

William Ross: Well, I think the one thing Penske or Porsche has that issue with that car is, and I could be wrong, but having to basically make that usable or qualify for both sides of the pond.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah,

William Ross: I mean you got totally different scenarios in regards to tracks that you’re running an INSA than you are to we, yeah.

You got street, all these crazy ass stuff they do over here that those cars aren’t meant to be on that kind of track. First of all. I mean on some of these courses here in the United States, it doesn’t make sense. But I think that could be the issue in regards to what they can’t. Because it’s gonna be give and take.

Alright, do you want to have it for that or you wanna have it for that? What do you wanna win?

Crew Chief Eric: And I hear differing opinions on that. ’cause we had Jordan [00:06:00] Taylor on as part of evening with the legend and he said the Cadillac that they were running, which the Wayne Taylor car didn’t do as good as they had projected, but he was like, the setup really isn’t that different.

They have a different arrow package for Le Mans because it’s so much straighter and so much longer. So they can do more speed. But then again, they’re speed limited. They’re sort of capped around 2 10, 2 12 on the upper end of speed anyway. But the card that they have there is the same card that they run over here.

You know, the Cadillac, VLMP, dh, whatever all the acronyms are now.

William Ross: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: No

William Ross: difference.

Crew Chief Eric: I keep making the argument that the 9 63 is not a Porsche. People are like, oh, what do you mean it’s a Porsche? I’m like, what of it is a Porsche other than the sticker between the headlights? It’s a Delara chassis with an Audi power plant and a oh, but the magic juju.

And I’m like, yeah, whatever. BM BMW is a Delara. The Cadillacs at Delara, the Ferrari, the winning Ferrari is a Delara chassis.

William Ross: Yes. You look up and see on that little one-off they built for Mr. Roger Sil, whatever his middle [00:07:00] name is, Penske, it’s not really road legal. Mm-hmm. Per se. They got special dispensation from government’s, whatnot, to drive it.

But I thought that thing was pretty killer. And everyone’s talking about is that gonna be the next Halo car? Right. But to your point, you’re like, no, because it really can’t, because it’s not really a Porsche. Mm-hmm. It’s just name badge only. That’s what you get with the regulations. I mean, that’s what you’re gonna have.

Crew Chief Eric: So I wanted to ask Tanya, I know secretly you were rooting for the PEO and the nine x eight. I mean, what’s going on? Them and Alpine. I,

Executive Producer Tania: I, yes. I know they’re not gonna do anything, but I would love to see the PEO finish better. I thought when they debuted that car and they debuted it without a rear wing, so without had downforce, it’s just like you guys are buck wild.

Why are you doing this? But then they were actually, they weren’t even terrible. It all kind of fell apart I think in kind of the last quarter, second half of the 24 hours and more towards the last quarter of it. But I felt like they were hanging in there without a rear ring.

William Ross: They let a couple laps, didn’t they?[00:08:00]

Executive Producer Tania: They did. Like they were hanging. It almost looked like, oh my gosh, are these guys gonna pull it off? And I don’t know since then, and I really think it’s cool looking

Crew Chief Eric: peo I agree. I think sweet. They said there were more cars on the same lead lap than there’d like ever been in quite a long time. So I think that’s where you’re getting at Tanya, that even the PEOs were still in the lead lap, even though they were behind like, you know, 40 seconds or whatever it is.

It is a three and a half minute lap after all right. There’s a lot of delta there. But yeah, I root for them too as the underdog. And they did come up with a really slippery car and then they realized that didn’t work. So then they had to put air foils all over it, which has significantly slowed them down.

Alpine. I’m still scratching my head. They’re like, get it together.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, I hope to see them do better and. I guess we also have to look out for the magma. Oh no, it’s back. Brad, look at this thing. But did anyone catch the reveal at Le Mans? No. ’cause we hardly saw any of the race.

Right.

Executive Producer Tania: But apparently they were, team magma was revealing [00:09:00] their.

Future L-M-P-D-H hypercar. It looks like it’s on fire. You know, it’s a really cool paint job.

Crew Chief Eric: I will give it that. Is that the Cadillac with the Genesis badge on it? Yes. I mean, I know that’s an option. Like you could just get your chassis in your body from Dara and that’s that. But it looks an awful lot like the Cadillac.

Executive Producer Tania: They don’t give details other than V eight engine, hybrid system, yada, yada, yada. Oh, I love this.

Crew Chief Eric: The racing team’s decision to employ a V eight powertrain, which was designed basically by combining two of Genesis 1.6 liter turbo four cylinder. That’s like straight outta Audi’s playbook. We need a V eight.

We got two 16 vow Rocco engines. Boom, we got a V eight now. Here we go. There you go. And so these are based on the WRC engines. Hopefully they’re not using the Hyundai hybrid system that’s in the rally cars, ’cause those are notoriously unreliable. So hopefully they’ll get their MGU from somebody else.

Executive Producer Tania: Uh, they don’t really talk about yet [00:10:00] some of those specifics, so I guess we’ll have to watch out for it.

Obviously they’re putting the bug in everyone’s ear. So will it be. Officially debuted on track next, Lemone next year, I guess Time will tell. They do say they’re gonna try to be competing in next year’s we races.

William Ross: What’s McLaren running in theirs? I know they debuted theirs too. Yeah, that’s right. McLaren was talking about coming back as well.

I know they dropped a curtain on that thing as well.

Crew Chief Eric: Also, I believe had a show of that. Can we Photoshop the McLaren badge on this car? ’cause it probably looks very similar. It probably, yeah. In Orange. So it’s getting confusing.

William Ross: Well, you know, and going back to talk about the eo, that’s what’s great about that car is they didn’t copy, they didn’t like, Hey, we’ll take this into, I mean, they just went start from scratch and just went at it and I mean, and the car kudo to them and then for sticking with it.

Yeah, they end up having to add all the arrow and stuff like that after the fact. But you know what, that’s some. Kaho to jump out and what they started with, what are they saying is they’re hoping, was it by 2027 that they said they should be winning or something like that? Of course, everyone, you [00:11:00] know, all teams say that, oh, in two years we’ll be winning.

Yeah. You know, and same with lp, but you know, LPLP, that’s just the whole cluster. You know what, all across the board, all the racing departments.

Crew Chief Eric: So what year is the 9 63 gonna win? Um, the, the classic. Oh yeah, yeah. There we go. There we go. That makes sense. Or historics. Yeah.

William Ross: Yeah. Never until it’s a full fledged factory effort.

Crew Chief Eric: Never. Well, that’s just it, right? Corvette was the last holdout. They were the last factory team, and now everything is private tier, quote unquote works cars. And it’s just like, okay, maybe we’ll see. But you know, that’s another thing I noticed in the GT class, whatever GTLM, it used to be back in the day, they didn’t get a lot of coverage.

This Le Mans either, they focused a lot on the LMP one class, you know, all the big cars, the hypercar. At one point, I think I might have asked you, Tanya, I was like, are there even any Corvettes running? ’cause I don’t even remember seeing them on tv. It was like, and then I spotted the red one and I was like, oh, there is a Corvette running at Le Mans.

William Ross: There’s a couple, weren’t there? There three? Yeah, there

Crew Chief Eric: were, but they were just, [00:12:00] nobody was paying attention to them because no one pay attention to anything. They’re privateers, right? So you’re just like, eh, whatever. Who cares? It’s all Pratt Miller. Yeah. I

William Ross: was a little surprised by

Crew Chief Eric: that. ‘

William Ross: cause you know, usually you have your better racing.

In that class that’s going on ’cause they’re banging on each other and going at it from drop of the flag. I was a little surprised by that. They weren’t paying much attention to it as intently as they normally do. And then there was a big

Crew Chief Eric: battle that somehow we all missed it. That happened in the GT three class.

That’s what it’s called now. Right? Between Porsche and Ferrari. And that ended with Af Corsa in second place.

William Ross: Yeah, man. Tie one. Exactly.

Crew Chief Eric: But that was a good battle. But they hardly ever showed

William Ross: it on tv. It was like, it was ridiculous. Well, the one unfortunately in the, uh, other class, Valentino Rossi’s team that he’s running with those BMWs, I mean, they’re good.

I mean, he can drive, there’s no doubt about that. And that’s a strong team. And it sucked if they got knocked out like they did. Yeah, that was unfortunate. That would’ve been cool to see him win at Le Mans in a car. That, that’d been a great story. Well, that

Crew Chief Eric: happened last year too, where they got knocked out [00:13:00] or the car broke or something.

So that’s two years in a row. Disappointment for Valentino Rossi.

William Ross: That’s unfortunate. But hey, got another year to go. Well, I mean, how old is he? 46. Four. Four. Three. I mean, he’s still young. He’s got plenty of time. He’s not as old as Alonzo. So he is still got time.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh yeah. Plenty of time. He’s older. He’s actually, I think he’s older ’cause he is 46.

Lies. Lies Alonzo’s, like 62 years

Crew Chief Eric: old. Come on now.

Executive Producer Tania: Alonzo’s only 43.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, I don’t believe that at all. So I’m gonna throw this out there for you guys to debate. We know that WEC is multi-class racing. We know that IMSA is multi-class racing, but when you get to Le Mans and you start looking at LMP one GTP, whatever it’s called this week, right?

L-M-D-L-M-D-H, yada, yada, yada, yada. But that’s why it gets confusing because inside of P one you have like four other classes running together. You know, hypercar, hybrid LMP one, and then you’ve got stuff normally aspirated. Not that you like the acid mark and Valkyrie. So there’s this sort of weird mixed class at the [00:14:00] top of the totem pole.

And so we even talked about it this weekend. Should they regulate P one or make it an unlimited class? Brad, what do you think? Unlimited. Tanya has popcorn in her mouth.

Executive Producer Tania: I have no comment on this. What?

Crew Chief Eric: How

Crew Chief Brad: she’s reserving her comments for F1.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, okay. Well, yeah, that, yeah, we’ll get to that. So William, GTP.

What do we think? Should it be an unlimited class? Let ’em just do what they’re doing. Unlimited. Go nuts.

Crew Chief Brad: Let the engineers go wild. Yes. Put the, uh, accountants away and let the engineers go crazy.

William Ross: Yeah, just say, alright, here’s your energy capacity. That’s it. Let everything else just go nuts. Like in the seventies, five liter.

Yes. Do whatever you want after that. Do whatever you want. Open up your checkbooks and have at it. Or, I mean, if you cap it, I mean, hey, you know, it’s let, let the engineers go crazy. I think that level, that’s what that should have. I mean, yeah, there’s a couple things here and there. Maybe trickle down 10 years after the fact in the road cars, but I mean that’s your premier racing and reality is the manufacturers getting into it is all about the [00:15:00] powertrain.

It’s not about the car, it is just about the engine. The powertrain here, have that experiment. Do what you want, bam. There you go. There’s your reliability test, everything like that. So I think that’s what they should do is just figure out some engine parameters, stick with that. Then let everything else just go nuts.

I will say that VE Creek sounds amazing, right?

Crew Chief Eric: And I think there were a lot of people rooting for that and they got DQ right away, like back of the pack, back with Penske and they were done. They’re like, who bears? Yeah. At that point, I don’t even remember what the infraction was that caused them to start at the back of the pack, but I was like, that’s pathetic.

I’m like, really? Too awesome.

That sounds very French brat. Too awesome. Back at the pack. It’s too awesome. They should have made him a honorary garage 56 card and then they could have won their own class and it would’ve been all right. Was

Crew Chief Brad: there a garage 56 car?

Crew Chief Eric: No. That’s so seldom that they do that. It’s gotta be something really ridiculously different.

Crew Chief Brad: Like a Camaro.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, yeah,

Crew Chief Brad: like NASCAR car, NASCAR Camaro. Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Alright, so the [00:16:00] GTPP one field keeps getting bigger. Like this is the biggest, it’s been in a long time. Not as big as the seventies and the eighties, where you basically had two classes running at Le Mans prototypes and nine 30 fives. That’s pretty much what the seventies boiled down to.

It’s getting bigger and they’re talking about more brands coming, right? Hyundai slash Genesis Ford’s coming. And then we were talking about it like, when is the shoe gonna fall and Mercedes is gonna throw in a car? And then, you know, Lambos supposed to have a car that qualifies in that class, not just in GTD, if that’s the case.

Brad, your favorite class. You know Jackie Chan’s gonna be sitting only in those grandstands. He is not gonna be able to campaign an LMP two car. Are you okay with that?

Yes.

Crew Chief Eric: Yes. It’s like pop quiz. Which class gets the least amount of TV coverage during a Le Mansr race Over 24 hours. LMP two. I’m personally not sad.

If LMP two goes away, it would be cool to make LMP two a support race where it’s like they run for maybe four hours or six hours the day before or [00:17:00] something, you know, whatever. Just get ’em out of the way. But if the P one class gets so big, there’s just not gonna be enough space. Or we gonna have like 90 cars running at Le Mans.

Crew Chief Brad: How is there not enough space? It’s an eight mile track. How many cars do they fit on Watkins Glen? Like what’s, what’s the ratio? How many cars per mile?

Crew Chief Eric: 20 per mile or something.

Crew Chief Brad: Okay, so, so 20. Yeah, so at that point, so, okay. Was that 160 cars?

Crew Chief Eric: We got plenty of space then.

Crew Chief Brad: Yes.

Crew Chief Eric: Just keep adding, bring back P three as well.

We’ll be all right. I don’t know. I personally would like to see P two go away just because they don’t get enough love. And it would be cool to have like a dedicated coverage just for them and get excited about a spec race. ’cause that’s what it is. They’re either orcas or they’res. And the power plant is like Gibson or Judd.

It’s very watered down to like, this is the formula and that’s it. And then, you know, none of the drivers really get any airtime really. And at the end you’re like, oh wow, somebody won P two. Like that’s fantastic.

Crew Chief Brad: This sounds like a support race for a NASCAR race. Gibson and Judd. [00:18:00] You got a Gibson in there or Judd?

I got the Judd in mine. Oh, we got the Gibson over here.

William Ross: Yeah. Right.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, what is the point

William Ross: of LM two? I mean, what, what is the point?

Crew Chief Eric: And I could be wrong. Sort of like almost like a feeder system into the bigger classes. That exist, like the hypercar and GTP and all that. But it also helped keep the racing sort of going when there were only Toyota and Toyota and Toyota, there was nobody else.

Crew Chief Brad: But I think the LMP two class was strictly a cash grab for the gentleman drivers.

Crew Chief Eric: You know, that’s not far off. No, they, they needed to fund it somehow. Are there any gentlemen, drivers qualified to run in P one? I think they all have to be platinum, right?

William Ross: I would hope you to be platinum

Crew Chief Eric: at that

William Ross: point,

Crew Chief Eric: but you can’t be a bronze driver at that level.

I have to check the rule book. I mean, like to think, yeah, I can’t think of any gentlemen drivers. ’cause even Ben Keating ran P two and GT cars. That’s the only thing he’s been able to do as a gentleman. Driver and I, I don’t think anybody is able to run P one if they’re not like a pro driver. Yeah. I don’t know.

Well, [00:19:00] like I said, Toyota, Toyota, Toyota. Let’s talk about Cadillac for a second. Another car that sounds fantastic. Not as good as Aston, but it’s damn good. It goes back to qualifying hyper pole, all that stuff. Was Ferrari and Porsche sandbagging? Is that what we’ve concluded here?

William Ross: I don’t think so. They even admitted that Cadillac was, you know, over one lap was fast.

It was just sort of long distance runs. So I don’t know what happens to the car if I’m doing one lap to say doing lap 20 on it tires, you know, those things last, how many stints they were doing on the sets. I mean, nothing’s changed on that car from, you know, one lap to 10 laps. So I, I don’t know. I guess maybe they were, I don’t know.

I don’t think they were. But if you’re looking at a big picture, who gives a shit about hyper pole? Just the race win that you want. I mean, as long as you’re starting up front. Well, and that’s just it, right?

Crew Chief Eric: Cadillac’s on the pole, and by the first pit stop it’s like. Ooh, see all later, 14th spot, like, what the heck happened?

Like completely fell apart. And that’s where I was. And to your point, unlike a Formula One race where we try to win by the first corner, [00:20:00] in most cases, Le Mans is not one in the first corner or the first lapper in the first hour because it’s all day. You really gotta stretch those cars out. And you’re right about the tire stents.

They were saying Porsche was doing 13 laps per stent, and then they’re triple stining the tires. So they’re getting well rounded down to 36 laps on a tire, which that’s a lot of miles at nearly nine miles, you know, on a set of slicks. That’s pretty damn good. You know? They’re really making the use out of that rubber.

Yeah, that public school math. Yeah. 36 laps. That’s why Brad’s my number guy.

William Ross: Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, maybe the fact was too, just in traffic, that thing, especially in the beginning, your first few hours, you’re so clustered, it just wasn’t there with it. It couldn’t, who knows? But yeah, it was a little bit surprising that it dropped off that much that fast. Yeah, it was a bit surprising.

Crew Chief Eric: It was. So, I don’t know if you guys noticed or not. This was the first Le Mans since 22. It hasn’t rained during the race. It was a completely dry race, which unfortunately, in my opinion, made it kind of [00:21:00] boring.

William Ross: Yeah. Wet weather always adds a little excitement to things. A little spice.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Even a night racing, because it was so dry, was just like, oh, okay.

Yeah, whatever. They’re just go doing lap. Wow. Well, let’s just hope it’s dry in two weeks. Yes. Oh, so speaking of the classics, I got some inside baseball from people that were at the viewing party. They were telling me that the way classic is formatted, so we were under the impression they’re just gonna send out.

Everything from the chitty chitty bang bang to, you know, the Mazda 7 87 B. And they’re just gonna run for 24 hours straight. No, no, no, no, no. It’s all broken up. There’s all these car corrals, like where all the Porsches are parked. And then the Porsche members come and then they said there’ll be Ferrari parking, lots of four or 500 cars alone.

So they said you can spend all day just looking at cars in the parking lot, let alone what’s going on on track. And then what they do is they break it down like Goodwood, and they run them by classes for a certain period of time. And so certain classes run during the day, and then other ones only run at night.

And so they run cars throughout the 24 hours nonstop, [00:22:00] but they’re going out on track and they’re coming in and doing all that kind of stuff.

William Ross: Yeah. And I’ve seen how that was getting set up, which I thought was, it’s nice because you get to see everything run and you can see the different, everything like that.

And ’cause like they only run for like two hours or four hours per something like that. Which is nice too is ’cause then the break you have between them, you know, all their stuff getting separate like that. I, I don’t know. I’m excited for it. It’s gonna be a lot of fun. That’s gonna be sweet.

Executive Producer Tania: So you mentioned the Ferrari threepeat at the beginning.

Congratulations to them, but not gonna talk about the disqualification of the number 50 car. That’s

Crew Chief Eric: your job. What’s up? Did you know that it was

Executive Producer Tania: disqualified? I

Crew Chief Eric: heard about it today as a matter of fact.

Executive Producer Tania: So the number 50 car, which finished in fourth place, apparently got disqualified for being unsafe. Or possibly having an unfair speed advantage because four bolts were missing from the rear wing.

William Ross: Yeah. Did you start reading into it? It’s like, huh?

Executive Producer Tania: And it’s like, okay, so four bolts were missing. It was unsafe, and yet the car drove for 24 hours without anything happening.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay. Yeah. So let me [00:23:00] explain how this collusion works. Okay. The fact that the 51 car did that ridiculous pirouette going in into the pit lane.

Remember that? Where they were like, they weren’t sure if they were gonna give him a penalty or not. They had just given Sebastian Bourdain a penalty for doing the same thing. You know, running over the white line. Pure GUI comes in, smoking, hot into the pit, locks it up, spins it around, you know, hits the curb, all this stuff.

And then nobody says a word. You know, he comes in the pit, changes his tires, goes back out. Everybody’s just, they’re like, oh man, we’re gonna get like a, you know, whatever, ten second penalty like they would do in Formula One. And they went the whole race and nobody said anything. The officials were like, it’s under investigation, blah, blah, blah.

And then. There was never any talk about it ever again. And we were watching the official feed from France, so you’re getting all like the extra stuff coming through that versus the televised stuff on HBO. Okay. So they went radio silent on the Ferrari and I think this was their opportunity. They found something else and they said, ah, we didn’t get you the first time because you know, we couldn’t, [00:24:00] but now we’re gonna get you and we’re gonna get you really good.

So collusion.

William Ross: On the car that didn’t do it. Yeah. Well,

Executive Producer Tania: and apparently too, I, the claim I guess is like the final 37 minutes is where this all matters. And it was lapped 380 of 387 Oh my God. Where it made its highest top speed and therefore the loss of those bolts, the deflection of that wing, allowed it to, they were falling back.

They got no competitive advantage. They were in

Crew Chief Eric: fourth place for crying

Executive Producer Tania: out loud, does it even matter? Fourth place and falling back. I don’t know. I mean, rules are rules. I get it.

Crew Chief Brad: I think Christian Horner made a phone call.

He hates Ferrari so much. He made a phone call, he was watching the race. He’s like, this is unfair advantage. That’s awesome. Check the bolts. He sent a text message. Check the bolts.

William Ross: Was that before or after? Called ’em up. Asked em if they wanna take F spot on the, oh yeah. [00:25:00]

Crew Chief Eric: As we kind of tail out the Le Mans talk.

And we’re gonna talk a little bit more about the related motorsport here ’cause we need to do a little comparison shopping. Let’s talk about the sione event. Tanya, you came up for a good portion of the first day and uh, what did you think?

Executive Producer Tania: Uh, it was a good event. I was a little bit surprised actually.

Maybe I shouldn’t have been, I don’t know. But by the number of people that were there, I’m surprised how many people know of the place, I guess, and maybe that’s not fair to them, but it’s definitely a hidden gem, I think, because very few, if basically anyone else does live demos of historic vehicles, basically, right?

Only other one that’s

Crew Chief Eric: like, this

Executive Producer Tania: is revs. Down in Florida. I think that’s pretty interesting and it’s more attention grabbing for people than just kind of walking around and reading a placard next to a car and moving on. So, um, it was nice to see that number of foot traffic that went through. I think there’s potential in the event to be.

Something more. I know it’s their third year running it, so hopefully every year. I didn’t [00:26:00] participate in the first two years, so I don’t know how this compares versus those. Hopefully it’s been a somewhat of a step change progress, kind of better and better every year. But

Crew Chief Eric: yeah, I would probably go again.

So let me hit you with some staggering numbers. According to my sources. Because remember people rolling in and rolling out. Yes. It’s really hard to keep track of Yes, it was who was there and who wasn’t there. And every time they did a demo, the chairs that they had set up, they were full. And then there are people outside.

There’s people watching the race, there’s people walking around. I mean, just people everywhere. So somewhere between 800 to a thousand people rolled through in 24 hours. Wow. That many, and I didn’t realize this because you know, we were doing our little thing at the A CO booth and talking to potential members, why should I join and what’s the club about?

And they even gave us, you know, 15 minutes up on stage to talk about and promote the club. And I did that with one of our fellow club members and whatnot. We had 60 new registrants. Oh, sweet. That’s outstanding. So it was like, when did that happen? We made it easy for people. Here’s a QR code, fill out the form, put in your credit card.

Boom, you’re a [00:27:00] member, you’re done. We obviously helped some people do that, that were struggling a little bit with, you know, their cell phones or whatever, but I was like 60. I was like, holy smokes. That’s incredible. The intent wasn’t to really necessarily be a membership drive, but that’s awesome for the a CO to grow like that, you know, in one day.

William Ross: Yeah, that’s huge. That’s a great statistic there to have that happen. That says a lot in regards to one, the interest and it’s gaining momentum, but two. I think the venue helped immensely too, as compared to last year.

Yeah,

William Ross: I should have got in my car and drove there Friday night. I told you it was doable.

Pouring rain Saturday didn’t even go.

Oh man,

William Ross: it was raining. It was like, I mean, coming down buckets, I just, I go, I ain’t going. I was like, I should have got my damn car and drove, it’s like son of a bitch.

Crew Chief Eric: We had off and on rain and I got handed to the curators at the Sione Foundation. Come hell or high water, they are running those cars outside.

Cars are coming in, soaked it. They left a GT 40, mark two parked outside most of the day just sitting out in the rain, like whatever. And then at one point the [00:28:00] hippie, nine 17 was out there with it just sitting out there. And then they bring it in when they, you know, when they needed to. And there was some prototype Ferrari, two 50 pontoon fender, which I’ve heard estimates anywhere between 20 and $50 million in value.

And they’re like, yeah, they took that thing out like three, four times. They’re running around 50, 60 mile an hour. And it’s like. You’re killing me. But it’s good to see a museum that, to Tanya’s point isn’t static.

William Ross: Yes.

Crew Chief Eric: Everything else is just model cars in a big box.

William Ross: Do, does Simone have, um, land around there where they can expand the outdoor, because I know they do it in the parking lot, they do it, but it’s not that big.

So I don’t know if there was actually room where they could potentially grow. It could be cost prohibitive.

Executive Producer Tania: There’s a train that runs directly behind the parking

Crew Chief Eric: lot. Oh, all right. Yeah, that won’t help. Amazon owns the other side. So unless they give up their lot, which apparently is huge, then they got nothing.

And they’re sandwiched in between other businesses. Yeah, it’s back behind basically Philly airport.

William Ross: Well, the great thing is, is they’re continue on and growing. Even after he passed, you [00:29:00] see a lot of these things, the person that was driving force behind it, pushing it, but the money, everything like that, they died and it closes up.

We’ll get, you know, um, what’s her names? They had all those plans for all the, you know, over Chester in England, all that stuff. And he dies and. Everything. Sell it all. Yeah. So that’s good to see. To your point about

Crew Chief Eric: acquisitions, they just acquired another car. They added one to the collection, they revealed it Saturday nights, 1952 Nash.

It was the car that won the first 12 hours of Seabring. I tell you what, it’s gorgeous. It’s this pewter gray. It looks so sharp. It’s got the typical Nash race car with the triple headlights shaped like a triangle in the front, you know? So it kind of makes that shape. It’s nice. Straight six sounded so good.

I was like, oh man, they just ran that thing out there for a while and then bring it in. And they actually used that car in the morning to like wake everybody. They literally drove it around the inside of the museum to like wake everybody up. It’s like, what the heck is going on?

William Ross: No, that’s awesome. I’ll be there next year

Crew Chief Eric: and well, you know, and because you weren’t there, I didn’t get a chance to really take any video.

We were so busy [00:30:00] doing other stuff and then finally like, Hey, I want 10 minutes to watch the race, you know, do this eat, and all that kind of thing. I did take the time to film the Hippie nine 17, and so that’ll be in the show notes for people to check out. That car is just. So cool. And then on top of it all, to have one of its previous owners there to talk to people about it, to talk about it, experiences and this and that.

And then we had him up on stage. We had Harley Clarkson, the owner of Mirage, that’s all the golf live cars, like the GT 40 behind you and all that. We had him there to do a live evening with a legend, which is usually, you know, our private Zoom sessions that we do with the A CO members. So that was really cool.

It was a packed house for that too. It was like, where did all these people come from at seven o’clock at night? That was awesome. So unfortunately I didn’t take as many videos. We’ve got a bunch of photographs and stuff we can share, but very cool experience, even if you’ve never been there before and you don’t wanna wait till next Le Mans look at their demo schedule, pick something that resonates with you.

’cause they’ll do four or five, half a dozen cars and you get to kind of see how the museum works on a basic level, and then [00:31:00] just extrapolate that out to four or five cars every other hour for 24 hours. I mean, it’s just. Constant motion at the museum. Set it up. Let’s go. Got plenty of time this summer. Set it up.

I’ll be there.

William Ross: I got the map and everything already on my phone.

Crew Chief Eric: I’m down to clown William. I’m ready anytime you are. Alright. Ferrari, three peas at Le Mans. How come Ferrari Formula one can’t build a car. That’s worth a damn. I’m just gonna lay it out there.

William Ross: F1 is getting very, very boring. You don’t say especially watching Monaco. That’s just a joke. Charles Aire, however you wanna pronounce his name, Charles, whatever, he’ll never be anything other than angry. Yes, angry. Angry. Little Frenchman. I’m sorry, manganese or whatever he pronounce that

Crew Chief Brad: mangas.

William Ross: I think Louis Hamilton’s passed his prime new regulations come in next year and [00:32:00] it’s either hit or miss.

’cause then you’re always chasing it. But it’s whoever can nail it right outta the thing is gonna win. I mean, look what Mercedes did. And all of a sudden, now it’s Red Bull came into it. Now all of a sudden it’s McClaren. McClaren just got it, refined it and nailed down the little things to it. But now all of a sudden, next year, it’s completely new regulations.

You know, I always look at both sides and say, well, you know, if you look at qualifying that it’s either no more than second or second half between lap times and everyone’s always in 10, 10, this and that. But then you watch the race and everything spreads out and just why they can’t get their shit together.

And I just can’t believe that they would get rid of Asur that quickly. Yeah. And put it all on him. Come on, whoever nicked the idea of bringing Newie and not just, oh, here, here’s the checkbook, Adrian, how much you want? Whatever you need, get it. Why they didn’t sign him. I don’t know. Someone’s ego got in the way.

They didn’t wanna have him there. And I don’t know if it was au, whoever it was, but that was a huge F up on their part for not getting Adrian Newey huge. Especially next year, Aston Martin comes out and starts just crushing it. Heads will roll because that’ll [00:33:00] just prove the point. I mean, as we all know, Adrian knew he is just, you know, he’s the man.

That’s that. And they’ll have Honda engines, so they’ll have the power, how they can still call themselves. Aston Martin is beyond me. I mean,

Crew Chief Eric: so Tanya, you have this meme here.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s not a meme, it’s a quote. Who’s saying this? Fred Vaser apparently.

Crew Chief Eric: And who is he referring to

Executive Producer Tania: himself?

Crew Chief Eric: I

Executive Producer Tania: don’t know who the one thing is.

Is it the car at this

Crew Chief Eric: point? The motor. Why don’t you read it for our audience? ’cause they’re not looking at this.

Executive Producer Tania: Fred Vaser is quoted as saying we must ask ourselves the right questions. If Ferrari hasn’t won for years. We’ve changed the team principle, the drivers, we’ve changed everything. Except one thing

Crew Chief Eric: is that his resignation like.

What is that?

Executive Producer Tania: Well, he’s the principal that’s changed, so they’ve already done that. I don’t know. Is it higher ups in Ferrari?

William Ross: I think he’s talking about their mentality, I would think. But I mean, obviously there’s more than that that needs to change. But the problem with Ferrari is they’re so bureaucratic in regards to how they run everything internally.

It’s. Horrendous.

Crew Chief Eric: How is the Le Mans team? How are the 4, 9, 9 P [00:34:00] guys getting away with it? They built a killer car three years in a row.

Crew Chief Brad: You said it already. They’re not a factory team. They’re a private tier.

William Ross: Mm. And if they poach the guy that’s running that now and put him in charge, get rid of Aser and put him in, then Okay.

Then there goes your Le Manss team. They’re done. Yeah. If they’re trying to say that’s the case, then they both suck. Yeah. Then they’re both bad.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s why I said Ferrari has to leave Le Mans after this year. They need to stop and go out on a high three in a row. You know, wait another 52 years to come back and just call it a

Crew Chief Brad: day.

I feel like that’s cowardly lying. They can’t do that. Ford’s coming in next year. They’ve gotta go against Ford. They have to.

Executive Producer Tania: We need a new movie. Ford V. Ferrari, part two.

Crew Chief Brad: Part two. It’ll be like hot shots. Part part two. Yeah, part part two. Hot shots. Part two. That’s awesome. The second one,

Crew Chief Eric: as long as it doesn’t end up like Highlander Part two.

Nevermind. Like the naked gun.

Crew Chief Brad: Two

Crew Chief Eric: and a half or whatever it was. Oh, there

Executive Producer Tania: is a new naked gun coming out. Let’s not go there. Yeah, right.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, sweet. Don’t search for that on the internet kids. [00:35:00] So let’s talk about Monaco just a little bit longer. Although it doesn’t need any more airtime than it’s already gotten.

Executive Producer Tania: The drivers hate the race.

Crew Chief Eric: The fans hate the race.

Executive Producer Tania: Why are they still racing there? Other than that quote? It’s Monaco. And who gives a crap? What’s that Musical? Tradition. Tradition. Bitler on the roof. Yeah, there

William Ross: you

Executive Producer Tania: go.

Crew Chief Brad: I don’t even think it’s got anything to do with tradition. I think it’s money.

William Ross: Oh yeah.

Now moving the date too. They’re changed all up. Not gonna be on Memorial Weekend anymore. Yeah, just a cash grab. Yeah. I mean, that’s what it boils down to, you know, using that excuse. Oh, it’s traditional. Oh, there’s, yeah, Tanya said Everyone hates it there. Drivers hate it. Teams hate it. The cars are too big, there’s no passing, there’s nothing.

Executive Producer Tania: And they tried to make it more interesting by forcing additional pit stops and it did nothing. Yeah, it did absolutely nothing. It did not change the order of anything. It made

Crew Chief Eric: worse. That should have been a no pit stop race. Just get it done. And there

Executive Producer Tania: should have been blue flag black flags for people that were just worse than parade lapping and holding people up.

[00:36:00] Like get outta the way.

Crew Chief Brad: I think for Monaco, I think they should. Yeah. Like Eric said, no pit stops and then remove all FIA regulations. Just let ’em go. Just the the, the Mad Max race.

William Ross: That would be awesome.

Crew Chief Brad: Thunderdome

William Ross: and every 10 laughs. They gotta switch cars with their teammate. They gotta jump in each other’s car.

That would make it way better be like Formula E. In the old days, they gotta switch cars.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. And they, they should start a reverse grid. There we go. Ooh. And then maybe every 20 laps the drivers get out and fight. They get out into a fist fight.

Crew Chief Eric: If they did reverse grid, that might be the only opportunity.

Lance Scroll will ever win a race.

Crew Chief Brad: Lance scroll. Lance school,

Executive Producer Tania: if they would’ve reversed Grided, Monaco, Antonelli would’ve been first. Ah, that’s

Crew Chief Eric: true. Haass could get a win. If they reversed grid, it’d be amazing. They still wouldn’t get a win. I’m impressed with Haass this year, I have to say, like they’re kind of middle of the pack.

There’s no reason to really make fun of him anymore. And there’s other teams where you’re like, all right, Salberg is just there waiting for Audi to take [00:37:00] over. And Aston Martin’s pathetic. And Williams is sort of, again, fighting in the middle, so I can’t really say too much. But the ones I poke the most fun at is Ferrari, and it’s heartbreaking every race.

Is pathetic. I don’t understand their dog shit. Slow. That’s all I can say. I don’t unders like DRS wide open drafting somebody and you still can’t get around them. Oh, which

Executive Producer Tania: race was it? Catalonia? I don’t remember, but I know you didn’t believe me for the longest time when I said the Ferraris are slow, like there is a problem with them.

And then you saw it when it was like Hamilton versus LeClaire and the DS Open couldn’t pass them. LeClaire couldn’t pass Hamilton with the DRS open. What are you talking about? Yeah. And then you see like whoever the hell else has with their DRS open and they’re like, shoot by somebody. It’s like, what is that?

It’s an air break instead of like a speed up.

William Ross: It was team orders. Yeah, they get on the radio, let him buy Why Made sense. You know why?

Crew Chief Eric: Because you end up like Lando in Canada. That’s why. Oh, what a knucklehead. What was he [00:38:00] thinking?

Executive Producer Tania: That guy is. His own worst enemy. And he chokes. He chokes. What a knucklehead.

Yeah. Where do you think you were going?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, that was a eye racing move. Like he was suddenly gonna have traction and space on an island that is the size of Brad’s shoe.

Executive Producer Tania: Well he, he must have thought pry was just gonna move over for him. ’cause Ptri held his line. He didn’t move to the left, he didn’t pinch him off.

He was in a position and he held that position and then he thought he was just gonna fit in half the size of a Formula One car.

William Ross: Maybe he thought he was gonna pull that. Uh, what that guy did, the NASCAR move where he just. Pinned it against the wall and just pinned it and went around. He figured you just slammed the wall and go,

Crew Chief Eric: no, no.

Like the cars movie where he bounces up and then he flips over and lands on the other side. Yeah, that would’ve been great. Yeah. There we go. Fantastic. James Bond stuff. Ugh. Canada was boring. Just like Monaco because it’s too small. It’s too tight. It’s just one car width wide. I mean, it’s just. Ugh. That’s another one that, it’s tradition.

They run Canada. ’cause they, they have to have a [00:39:00] Grand Prix in Canada, I guess.

William Ross: Well I thought they were getting away from that track. I thought they were supposed to go, um, where to Mosport. I, I thought they were moving away from the island for that reason. ’cause one going racing, two accessibility. ’cause it’s a nightmare in regards to Yes.

There’s only those two ways or one way to get on and off that island. Well, and you gotta get bused on. Yeah. You can’t

Crew Chief Eric: park there. There’s no grandstands.

Executive Producer Tania: Well there are grandstands. Stop saying that you saw them

Crew Chief Eric: compared to Dakota. There’s like no grandstands. There’s like nothing. There might as well be three chairs and 10 people like playing, you know, musical chairs.

William Ross: Yeah. I always thought they were moving it to downtown or something like that. They’re gonna do action. Oh, that’d be

Crew Chief Eric: even worse. We went to Montreal a couple years ago. The streets downtown. Oh, they’re horrendous. It might as well be Jeep Wranglers racing, not formula cars.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, not even that, but Montreal is a very grid laid out, plus city courses are all terrible.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, they’re all awful. Look

Executive Producer Tania: at

Crew Chief Brad: Monaco. They should move it to Toronto and drive around the skydome parking lot.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, that’s like what they’re trying to do for indie car. Right. And down in Texas or [00:40:00] whatever. Down in Dallas. Yeah, around the stadium. But then that ends up like Miami, right. And then you’re like, that’s horrible.

Sucks too. Now I will say I have a newfound appreciation for Catalonia. That was actually a decent race. The Spanish Grand Prix was pretty good. The outcome was nothing short of to be expected. So I was like, all right, whatever. But again, Ferrari can’t get outta their own way.

Executive Producer Tania: Hey, that’s the first race they podium.

By luck.

Crew Chief Brad: How many cars were, uh. Yeah. D nfd. Yeah. Disqualified. Exactly three. What were there? Were there 18 cars? Dnf

William Ross: and nothing’s gonna change now for Ian season because no one’s doing anything more with their cars this year. It’s all going to 2026. There might be one or two changes here and they’re very minimal, but, so nothing’s really gonna change in the order.

Pastor’s gonna be world champion.

Executive Producer Tania: The Spanish GP was exciting because we hadn’t seen it for a while. We got to see Tappin’s true colors once again. Oh, that was

so

William Ross: good.

Oh man, that was good.

William Ross: God. I wanted him to get somehow some ways, so he got that last point on his license so he could get banned for the next race.

Get suspended. That’d been awesome.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s astonishing that at the very least he wasn’t DQ [00:41:00] from that race. Yeah. Collusion. I mean, he pretty much was on the radio saying, I’ll show him. And then purposely tried to punt him off the track.

Crew Chief Eric: I have said it before, you can take the racer out of the cart, but you can’t take the cart racer out of the boy.

He drives like a cart racer.

Executive Producer Tania: No, that was not a cart racing move at all. That was a an aggressive, vindictive move. My

Crew Chief Eric: racing move

Executive Producer Tania: premeditated because he had all the space in the world not to do that.

Crew Chief Eric: I agree with all of those

Executive Producer Tania: things and that sends a bad message to people that are watching.

William Ross: So you think Red Bull will pay him a hundred million dollars next season to stay at?

Only thing that would keep him there cash. Rumor is he wants to leave. Saw that too. But I,

Executive Producer Tania: I don’t know. Then there’s rumors. He is gonna gonna go to Aston or he is gonna go to Mercedes or he is gonna go here. He is gonna go there. Really? I don’t know is gonna go to Aston. ’cause Adrian’s there.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s the only reason.

Is he gonna be the second driver to Lance who?

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah. Who do you get rid [00:42:00] of? Let’s play this game. Who do you get rid of? Stroll or Alonzo?

Crew Chief Eric: Who does Daddy Warbuck’s fire? Well, Alonzo’s 62 years old, so he needs to retire. But he’s

William Ross: a better driver than

Crew Chief Eric: Stroll.

William Ross: Well, but Lance can’t go do tennis now ’cause of his wrist.

So he is stuck. F1. Yeah.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh, poor baby.

Crew Chief Eric: And the, and the worst part is, and I’ve said this by watching the race Alonzo, they like give him a little taste of like being like at the front again and the excitement of the old days. And then it’s like,

Fernando get back in line and start toeing Lance around

Crew Chief Eric: because that’s what he’s paid to do.

He has Lance on his ass the whole time cutting through traffic and just toes lance around. That’s what he’s paid to do. I wouldn’t want that job. And if I was for stopping, I wouldn’t want that job either. Regardless of Adrian Newey. No. ’cause that’s what you’re signing up to do is tow that guy around.

Crew Chief Brad: If I was making the money that they’re making, I would tow Lance Stroll wherever the fuck you wanted to go for his entire life.

I don’t even care. [00:43:00] You want to toe to McDonald’s? Let’s go. Yeah. You wanna tow to Starbucks? You want me to tow you through the Starbucks? Drive through? Let’s it No, no No’s you, you wanna

Executive Producer Tania: toe to Timmy’s Tim Horton’s.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh yeah. You, you wanna tow to the Horton’s? Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Let’s get it right. Let’s get it right.

Official sponsor of the F1 movie is KFC. You’re gonna tow him to get some Kentucky Fried chicken.

Crew Chief Brad: Oh, hell yeah. Can tow you the KFC.

Crew Chief Eric: You seen those commercials? They’re, I thought it was Taco Bell is okay. No, it’s KFC. Well, it’s the same company anyway. KFC, taco Bell, McDonald’s, whatever. It’s all, it’s all Pepsi.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

William Ross: Well, so speaking of the movie, is anyone here going to pay to go see it in the theater? They’re gonna wait till it comes out on Apple.

Crew Chief Brad: I have small children. I will not be paying to go see anything.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh, coming out on Apple. Oh, that’s right.

William Ross: Well, I don’t have Apple. Well, you it. Yeah. So four weeks after it’s released, it’ll come out on Apple.

It should be. Or six weeks. I’ll get it on Voodoo.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. I just canceled my Apple tv, so Yeah. I won’t be watching it for another year.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, I think I have a gift card to a MC.

Crew Chief Eric: God. God. Well, you’re gonna do an episode about it if, if you go see it, I know you’re gonna go see it, William, come on.

William Ross: Yeah, I’m [00:44:00] gonna go see it.

We got this great new theater that opened up that’s got the reclining seats and everything. That, and tickets are only like $11 dirt cheap instead of like the 20 something. Yeah, it’s, it’s awesome. It’s Phoenix Theaters new first one in this area, I guess, or something. Or they’re starting, I don’t know. But yes, $10 and 79 cents or something like that.

That’s not just Matt and Nate. That’s like anytime. Wow. At night you can go. It’s like me and my wife and daughter went the other night, saw movies. All three of us tickets were only 32 bucks for all three of us. Do you have to make your own popcorn in the back? Well, I mean, I was smuggling my own candy, of course.

And my diet. Mountain Dews.

Crew Chief Brad: Do you gotta stand there and run the reel?

William Ross: Yeah. Well it’s good exercise.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s why is one arm’s bigger than the other? Yeah.

William Ross: All you have to do is clean up and vacuum after the movie. That’s, oh, there you go. Put on a vest and just clean up.

Crew Chief Brad: You gotta sell concessions to the next movie, the, the next time slot too.

Exactly.

William Ross: It’s all give and take.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: So Tanya, you mentioned to me the other day that there are proposed wing changes. That means that the Ferrari’s are gonna be even slower. Is that right?

Crew Chief Brad: They’re just gonna remove four bolts. [00:45:00] Yeah,

Executive Producer Tania: there you go.

That was a headline that was floating out there, but I think in the end it does all have to do with the crackdown on the front wing deflection. Ah, okay. But I think they ended up changing more of the front wing design as a result of that. And so I think it went into effect ahead of Canada. So I don’t know that it necessarily negatively impacted ’em ’cause they were as slow as normal, so.

Crew Chief Brad: They didn’t get any slower. That’s a plus,

Executive Producer Tania: but that’s a slow track

William Ross: too. But Clare didn’t change anything from my understanding. They didn’t change nothing. Everyone else had to change or they changed it. So then that’s why they’re trying to file protests or something like that and said, no, it’s within line.

I mean, I know who the biggest culprit was of that flexi wing, Adrian Newey. I’d love to see his, you know, his office and just seeing him go into town at the big drafting table, still using the mechanical pencil and everything. That’d be unbelievable to see.

Crew Chief Eric: No, it’s like that episode

William Ross: of the

Crew Chief Eric: office where he walks in and he shuts the door and he closes the blinds and he sits down and he starts crying at his desk.

That’s what Adrian is doing at [00:46:00] Aston right now. What I do, what I do, that’s what he’s doing.

Well that wraps up our showcase devoted to Le Mans and Formula One with the undertone of Ferrari mixed in there. If we didn’t talk about enough motor sports news, we need to go over the pit wall. Quickly add one more topic for our motor sports news this month, and this goes back to the Monaco GP weekend, Memorial Day Indy 500, Kyle Larson Double Fail.

This is what I call the Joe Flacco syndrome. Do you remember number one elite quarterback in the world? Joe Flaco. He would like self-proclaimed Kyle Larson. Yes, I get that. He’s a NASCAR champion. But the same thing, right? Like I’m, I can beat all those Formula one guy, I’m faster than max for stepin, blah, blah,

blah, blah,

Crew Chief Eric: blah, whatever.

All the other bs, you know, armchair quarterbacking that we all do as [00:47:00] razors, but he crashes at Indy, gets on a plane, flies to Charlotte for the, whatever, the Coca-Cola 600 or wherever the heck it was. And then crashes there too, you know? But you’re the best driver on the planet.

Executive Producer Tania: I’d love to see him get in a formula car and show that he’s better than Max for Stepin.

Crew Chief Eric: Yes,

Executive Producer Tania: he ain’t never gonna do that. I’d love to see, for staffing, go do the Indy 500 and beat everybody.

Crew Chief Eric: He’d be so bored, he’d be like, I’ve never driven longer than 75 laps. This is ridiculous. Get me out of here. That’s it for Motors Sports News. But we are gonna rejoin the conversation next month with reports from Le Mans Classic, from the Hillsborough Concourses more F1 more of everything because July is an exciting month, so we look forward to more Motors sports news in the next drive through.

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And so we should probably get back to our regularly scheduled granting and raving. And so, William, since you’re here with us, normally we would jump into Volkswagen, added Porsche news, right? Because that’s sort of our bias. I decided to switch things up temporarily and switch over to STIs because they are the parent company behind, you know, Fiat and Ferrari and all that fun stuff.

There was a headline that came out that says, this is from Ferrari, and it reads, there is zero demand for the next Ferrari ev. And I was like, wait, there was a Ferrari ev.

Crew Chief Brad: What was the first Ferrari ev?

William Ross: Well, first it was gonna be the derivative of the new 12 dolche salinity or whatever it was. They’re gonna do that.

But then they realized there’s probably no uptake on it. So then they switched it over to the SUV, would’ve been the PO San way, but EV one, [00:49:00] then they realize nobody wants to buy a fricking electric car, so they’re like, forget it. They change it so many times to figure out what type of car they wanna put it in.

And you see, you know, all the little secret prototype cars coming out. There’s a great guy that’s Varix, V-A-R-I-Y-X-X-I. I dunno, that just basically camps out every day outside Marine and just takes photos of stuff. There is so many different variations and everything, ’cause obviously you can hear it driving.

No sound. They had multiple ones that they were just trying to go through, but I think they were thinking they were gonna be able to slide in where they, it would be the uptake would be because of what the car was, you know, A SUV, you know, not a sedan or coupe or what have you. So they kind of kept transitioning.

Now they came to realization just as every other manufacturer in this world did. Nobody wants stinking electric cars.

Crew Chief Eric: Hybrid is the answer though. Yes, it is. Well, speaking of electric cars and talking more about Stellantis last month, we’ve talked about yet again, Jeff Bezos. Quote unquote, Amazon coming to the table with the slate Ev, you know, the affordable pickup [00:50:00] truck that you can do all this bolting on and make it look like a Bronco or make it look like a maverick.

You can be a pickup or you can be an SUV, or you can be this, you can be that, you know, for the low, low bargain base price of $20,000 and you get rolled up windows and air in your tires and all that fun thing. Well, the CEO of Ram division of Solanis, you know, Dodge trucks used to be right. He came out and said there’s absolutely no way that they can produce this truck for $20,000.

That’s a on paper vehicle when you actually go to go buy it. So here we go. Here’s the bait and switch Tesla model. It’s gonna end up being 30, $40,000 like everything else, because you’re gonna want the options, and the options aren’t gonna be cheap. They’re not gonna give you the Bronco version of the same truck.

For the same cost as the one without it, it’s just, it’s not gonna work. So he’s calling them to carpet on the, you know, the bargain basement truck. And not only that, he comes out saying that this undercuts the rest of the truck market, which is where I have a problem, because now we have the pot calling the kettle black because big trucks are too damn expensive.

[00:51:00] What am I getting for a hundred thousand dollars from your ram? So we gotta sort of meet in the middle here on these trucks at some point.

William Ross: I like the fact, you know, going back to basics with that, in essence with the roll up windows, everything like that, there’s no big screen or whatnot. Hey, you use your own phone or whatever and just ties all in together.

Maybe it was when you buy, it’s just a rolling chassis, you gotta put in your own engine.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s like the movie theater. You gotta make the popcorn in the back.

Crew Chief Brad: Exactly. You know, I find it hilarious that we’re talking about an electric vehicle. The power plant is driven by just one giant battery and it’s gonna have roll up windows.

Those

Crew Chief Eric: are extra electrons.

Crew Chief Brad: That is just. Completely absurd. Just throw some Duro cells in there. Who

Crew Chief Eric: cares? There we go. No, it’s like red green show. Remember when he had the cordless drill and he made the manual windows go up and down with his drill? That’s how he made power windows. The same thing. Just put a half inch chuck in there and just,

Crew Chief Brad: they just power it with the Ryobi 18 volt.

Done. Yeah, [00:52:00] take a couple of those

William Ross: in there. All your

Crew Chief Brad: peripherals. Just throw a couple, a couple hundred of those in there each, and just take them out as they die.

William Ross: When’s that thing supposed to be available? Are they even taking deposits? Are they taking a hundred dollars deposits yet

Crew Chief Eric: the third Saturday of never.

That’s when it’s coming out.

William Ross: Obviously he needs some sort of tax benefit for all his money, so he just dump it into that as a nice writeoff.

Crew Chief Brad: What comes out first? The slate? The scout or the Tesla Roadster. Oh, damn.

Crew Chief Eric: Why you gotta do that to me? Or the DeLorean?

William Ross: It’s gotta be the slate. He’s the most liquid, cash wise.

Yeah. The other ones are all pipe dreams. Tesla’s going down this crapper. You know Mr. Numb nuts.

Crew Chief Eric: And you remember at Monty Python and the people rejoice a Yeah.

William Ross: Talk about way to sink your own company. Just start doing what that moron

Crew Chief Eric: did. Well, what is it that Elon said when the cyber truck finally rolled out?

We signed our own death certificate or something like that. It’s the best vehicle ever. Yeah. Yeah. With the salute. Yeah. Oh my God. All right. [00:53:00] Well, in Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche land, I. And there’s been some shuffling of the deck. There has been for the last couple of years. It all started, in my opinion, when they fired the guy who designed the ID buzz and all the new retro cars that they were coming out with.

It’s all just been this round robin of CEOs and design chiefs and this and that. And we know Volkswagen just putting out stuff that nobody wants. But unfortunately this has become systemic and now this. Plague that has infested Volkswagen is finding its way over to Audi and they released what their new design language is gonna look like for the next generation Audis, which are coming out basically later this year into next year.

And, oh God,

Executive Producer Tania: it’s ugly.

Crew Chief Eric: This is the ugliest passat I’ve ever seen. And I think you said on Discord. Why did they bolt the GTI front end to the Audi? It was more like F they did that. It’s really bad. And if this is what the new Audis are gonna look like, you’re really gonna have a hard time telling them.

Apart from the Lexi and the new [00:54:00] BMWs and everything else that’s on the road, they just look like anything else. And in profile, this particular car looks a lot like the old Passade. Oof, no thank you.

Executive Producer Tania: Even the hood, the shape, it’s a little bit flatter than the new golf. But the new golf, they made it very, almost more beetle like.

And that’s not a good thing actually for these either of these cars. I don’t know. It’s disappointing. I definitely,

Crew Chief Eric: and the reason I bring this up is Audi is selling, or has sold by this point etal design, so put it all together. They’re getting rid of one of the most famous Italian design houses of the modern era.

And this is what they’ve come up with because they weren’t happy with maybe whatever retail design was coming up with. You guys are making the biggest mistake of your lives. I guess this is the Bengal period for Audi. That’s what’s coming, but we’ll see. I could be proven wrong. It’s been known to happen.

Executive Producer Tania: Yes. So

Crew Chief Eric: whoa, whoa. What is this? Do I

Executive Producer Tania: see some Swedish meatballs on the list? We have some Volvo news, which we don’t normally have

Crew Chief Eric: ever.

Executive Producer Tania: Now. This is [00:55:00] less about a new car coming out and more about a new technology and I don’t know what is this that I feel good about it. So Volvo obviously has a long history and a long reputation for safety, right?

They were the first to invent, I believe, the three point safety belt, four cars back in the day. Now they’ve come up with a new innovation to the seatbelt, and it very much worries me when the words over the air updates and if my seatbelt ooh, are used in the same sentence,

Crew Chief Eric: Ooh, that’s bad.

Executive Producer Tania: That makes me really uncomfortable.

So we can just start there. That’s where this is going. So apparently they’re introducing a new seatbelt design. That essentially is completely sensor based to the level that it’s going to detect your height, your weight, your body shape, how you’re sitting in your seat. It’s going to take that day, aggregate it, [00:56:00] do whatever, and it’s going to optimize the tension, the load of the belt for you.

What you invented the seatbelt like 60 years ago or more. It’s worked pretty well. I mean, granted, depending on the accident, there’s some things you can’t survive, but for the most part, the three point belt with the design of the seats and how they crumple, everything works. Safety as a system and as you can learn about in other previous podcasts, it all works together.

This is an overdesigning solving a problem that doesn’t exist.

Crew Chief Brad: I have a couple points. Oh, one to Tanya’s point, it’s a cash grab. They can’t make money on the old seatbelt design, and they can’t sell cars because they suck. So they’re looking for a cash grab to try and revolutionize the, the wheel. They’re trying to remake the wheel.

Also, looking at the exploded view of the parts and everything. This thing has more parts than my tundra motor. And at [00:57:00] what point are they going to send this information about your seatbelt and if you’re wearing it properly, to the authorities Uhhuh, where they can send you an an over-the-air ticket. Yep.

For not having your seatbelt properly secured or

Executive Producer Tania: link it to your insurance.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. And then you, yeah. Again, oh, you weren’t wearing your seatbelt for 35 milliseconds on February 4th, 2028. You know, you get a $50 fine and we’re gonna drop your insurance,

Executive Producer Tania: and they’re opening themselves up to data privacy because now it’s recording your personal information that’s going to be stored somewhere.

Let’s say that’s hackable by someone. I don’t know. It’s the modern world. We’re in the internet of things. I have

Crew Chief Eric: a bigger question to ask. How much does this seatbelt contraption weigh?

Executive Producer Tania: A lot. I’d imagine there’s a lot of moving parts on this.

Crew Chief Eric: It

Crew Chief Brad: looks like a transmission. It looks like these are gears.

Executive Producer Tania: Imagine one of those parts fails. It is ridiculous. One of these little components fails and then what? Your seatbelt doesn’t work properly and then you die. Do you

Crew Chief Eric: have to take the car in for seatbelt [00:58:00] maintenance now? Like, is that gonna be part of your dealership plan? How much is this gonna cost?

Executive Producer Tania: Is there like an oil change on your seatbelt?

You gotta keep those parts lubricated.

Crew Chief Eric: We used to make fun of muffler bearings. Those are a real thing. If you have a baffled exhaust, there’s bearings in the exhaust. There might be a

Executive Producer Tania: lot of bearings in this seatbelt assembly.

Crew Chief Brad: They’re, they’re gonna release it on December 31st, 2025, and they’re gonna have the first mass recall on January 1st, 2026.

Geez Louise.

Crew Chief Eric: This is ridiculous. Switching gears and talking about domestic cars. Some sad news. This is specifically with Ford, but hot hatches are officially dead at Ford.

Executive Producer Tania: Wait, they’re officially dead now and not like already 10 years ago.

Crew Chief Eric: No, no. The final hot hatch was built at Ford. That’s it. Uh, Ford, America or Ford.

Globally, there are no more hot hatches. Period. So after 45 years of hot hatches at Ford.

Executive Producer Tania: So Ford is exiting the European market.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s what I’m [00:59:00] reading between the lines. Yes. So no more Ka none done. No more hatchbacks.

Executive Producer Tania: Okay, cool.

Crew Chief Eric: Bold plan cotton. Yeah. We’ll see how this plays out for you. That’s a shame because b spect cars like the Fiesta are hot.

They’re in demand. People like them. They want them. And then, you know, slightly bigger the focus. Stuff like that. But yeah, no, they’re done.

Crew Chief Brad: They’re out. Are they still running Fords in Rally? And what does this do to the rally teams?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, so they’re running the Puma in Rally, which is a hatchback as well.

It’s slightly bigger than even the focus. A little lower, a little longer, but still a hatchback, you know, in that design. But yeah, the Puma’s gone too. So I’m curious what Ford’s gonna run in WRC if they don’t kind of keep the puma going along for a little while, but maybe they’re gonna pull out,

Crew Chief Brad: they’re gonna run a mki.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Okay.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, they have their new super duper EV card that they’re building to take on Volkswagen’s Pike’s Peak record. Good

Crew Chief Eric: luck chasing the IDR up the mountain. That was a hell of a run. But Ford is trying on all fronts because the [01:00:00] Mustang GTD just set its quote unquote lightning lap at the Berg ring.

And I said to myself, does this even matter anymore with the change in the automotive landscape and EVs and all that kinda stuff? I don’t know. An ev, they can do a lightning lap at the ring. ’cause the ring’s so long. I guess they’ve done it in ez, but they get like one lap right? Or two at maximum. And I guess the take hand would be the only other one, but.

Is it really important anymore that a Mustang can do A fast lap at the ring?

Crew Chief Brad: How many spectators did it hit around the track? What? A bit a lap time’s not

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. How many spectators did it hit at the track? Oh my God. Yeah. So I mean, good for Ford. They’re trying and the Mustang competed at Le Mans another car that didn’t really get a lot of airtime over the weekend.

So actually sort of forgot. I was like, oh yeah, there’s Mustangs running in GTLM or GT three rather. But anyway, good for Ford. Get rid of the hot hatchbacks. Focus on the Mustang if that’s where you think your market is and sell trucks. Boom. Done. So switching to Asian domestic news, I’m just gonna read this headline.

Nissan’s new budget [01:01:00] sedan was just leaked online. Uh,

Executive Producer Tania: a new Altima design. What? Right. They don’t make anything else. Exactly. So I guess there’s a new Altima coming. What is this rendering? What is this trash?

Crew Chief Eric: This is what Nissan can afford

Executive Producer Tania: right now.

Crew Chief Eric: Okay. Oh my God’s that bad.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s

Crew Chief Eric: really bad.

Executive Producer Tania: It. Looks like a Tesla or a Lucid or something.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s awful.

Executive Producer Tania: We all are copying each other so

Crew Chief Eric: as per use, so it’ll look like the new Audi, so we won’t be able to tell the difference.

Crew Chief Brad: I read that headline completely different. I read it as the, it just leaked online, meaning like there needs to be a cleanup of someone’s oil all over the internet.

Crew Chief Eric: Toyota’s doing some math.

How about this? 9 million EVs are just as polluting as 27 million hybrids. I’d

Executive Producer Tania: like to see their lifecycle

Crew Chief Eric: analysis. This is the Jeremy Clarkson lifecycle analysis. Remember that thing you did on top gear where he showed like where the batteries for a Prius came from and like the strip mining and this and that, and then it gets transported here, and then it gets put on a ship [01:02:00] and by the time it’s done Yeah, it goes around the world three times.

Executive Producer Tania: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when the car is finally destroyed or whatever, where it all goes, that is a true lifecycle analysis. It is called cradle to grave. That means from the very beginning inception of where all the parts come. Mm-hmm. All the way to where all the parts go, when the thing is no longer.

Functioning anymore. A lot of people choose to draw the box that they say their lifecycle is around a different part of that whole manufacturing chain, and that’s where the math can get kind of funny. And that’s where statistics and numbers and all that kind of stuff, you can play around and have the data say what you want it to say if you don’t know what the fine print of the data is.

So I don’t know what the basis of this is.

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, if he’s basing it on the fact that those 9 million EVs, they’re getting their materials by colonizing Mars, then yes, obviously the Prius’s are better for the environment.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, it goes back to the argument that some people have made from the onset of the EVs, that the actual [01:03:00] manufacturer of them is the polluting part.

Though there is data that I have seen, it comes down to what your manufacturing process is, right? It’s, it’s not as simple as just saying, oh, I made an EV and it’s super polluting and horrible, and the manufacturing process was worse than, you know, the oil refining and a gas car and all this stuff.

Because if you had. Renewable as your energy source for making the car. Then suddenly that’s a whole other can of worms. But then you could argue, well, if I had renewable for when I made the regular gas car, that’s a whole other can of worms. But you still got the oil refining part of there, which is a problem.

Right? So it’s a very dynamic situation really, and nobody ever actually explains or shows where the data comes from and what’s behind these claims, other than they’re very sensational. Yeah, I mean that’s very stark to say,

Crew Chief Eric: nine verse 27. I’d sort of like my math from earlier. Any rate, slight public service announcements.

If you are a Mazda owner, there is a recall [01:04:00] underway for all Mazda threes and CX thirties because apparently we’d never learned our lesson about Tata airbags. So that’s really all I need to say about that.

Crew Chief Brad: Well, they got ’em at a discount.

Crew Chief Eric: Fire sale.

Crew Chief Brad: You notice they’re in the cheap Mazdas?

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. Yeah. Not

Crew Chief Brad: the CX 90 or or whatever.

Not the more expensive ones. The cheap ones the budget friendly.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, speaking of budget friendly Brad, it’s time we go and look under Lost and found your favorite section of the drive through where we call up Chuck La Duck and Gray Chevrolet and see what they have on the lot. And I found something that screams.

Your next purchase knowing you sold your R 32. Got a little cash in your pocket. You should pick up this Oldsmobile Bravada pickup truck

Crew Chief Brad: bra. Nada.

This thing is terrible.

Crew Chief Brad: I love the license plate cut in half.

Can I ask a serious question? Sure. Did Daniel do this? That’s what I [01:05:00] was thinking too, because this looks like something Daniel would’ve done.

Crew Chief Eric: Right. I got old GMC. Jimmy, I’m won’t cut it. No, this is a bad idea from the word go

Crew Chief Brad: Next up is gonna be that mercury wagon he’s got up there at the mountain. He’s gonna cut it up into one of these.

Crew Chief Eric: This is the question I always seem to be asking myself. What compels people to do this? Because you probably could have bought a flatbed pickup that he’s trying to achieve with this at like a government auction for like next to nothing. And yet how much time, effort, labor built, not bought. Hold my

Executive Producer Tania: beard.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, I guess so.

Executive Producer Tania: Wait, we’re not gonna talk about the teeth on the front of it.

Crew Chief Eric: What is that about? That’s,

Executive Producer Tania: that makes it look tough. It’s gonna eat you up. It’s gonna cut you in half with those teeth.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s the truck’s bravado. Ooh. Oh that’s bad. That joke was cut in half.

Executive Producer Tania: And then, wait, hold on. Okay, wait, wait.

So we do all this work Uhhuh, we chop this MF up. We put the fangs and the, the vampire [01:06:00] teeth on it,

Crew Chief Eric: Uhhuh, and then we leave it this nasty Oldsmobile brown color in the catalog that’s listed as diarrhea brown.

Okay.

Crew Chief Eric: Not only that, you’ve done all this work to make it a flatbed pickup truck. Looks like something super industrial.

It can tow as much as those Cushman carts that we talked about on the last episode. Like what’s the payload on this thing? Like 500 pounds. It can’t tow anything. You can’t do anything with it. So what’s the point? You can’t even put mulch

Executive Producer Tania: on there.

Crew Chief Eric: No, it’ll slide off. It would fly out. But you can weld an engine crane to the back of it though.

And then it becomes like a little tow truck.

Executive Producer Tania: Are you trying to do those golf carts from the last time?

Crew Chief Eric: So moving on. Lost and found. Well, guess what? If one of your bucket list cars is a quote unquote Eleanor Mustang from the New Gone in 60 Seconds. ’cause you know, we always have to differentiate between the original gone in 60 seconds, the Mach one Mustang that they had in that versus, you know, the 66 Shelby GT 500 that they used in the Nicholas Cage movie.

If you’ve always wanted one of those, and you probably know the story about how there’s been [01:07:00] lawsuits and lawsuits about making Eleanor replicas and copyrights and this and that, well guess what? Court has now. Overturned all the appeals and replicas of the 66 Shelby GT 500 Eleanor are legal at least for the time being until the next round of lawsuits.

So if you wanna build one, now’s the time to do it. You are not gonna get in trouble for doing it. That’s exciting. They’re gorgeous. So stupid. I know, right? William knows all about that on the Porsche side of the house, what you can and can’t do. And call. And can’t call. Right. That’s why Singer can’t use Porsche in their name.

Right. Singer Design.

William Ross: Yeah. If you ever go to the bottom of singer page, look how many times they state they’re not affiliated. All this stuff. Porsche don’t like that at all. That’s kinda surprising though with this.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s a very Ferrari thing to do.

William Ross: Yeah.

Crew Chief Eric: Ferrari just doesn’t allow you to modify anything.

That’s a no-no. That’s verboten. Speaking of William, did you see that new Baby Blue F 40 that was redone that was restored and they repainted it?

Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: it looks really cool. Like really good.

William Ross: Oh yeah. I dunno if [01:08:00] you watch on YouTube, watch the guy from Stance Works. You ever see that guy? Yeah. Yeah. He’s doing that.

Building a tube frame, everything forties. He’s got the, I I, I’m excited to see how that thing turns out. I think he’s gonna do a nice job. I, I think it’s gonna turn out sweet. You know when you get one up there. I mean, have some fun with it. Yeah. But yeah, the baby blue thing is beautiful. Those things look great in other colors, that’s for sure.

Yeah. Not just red or black. Not just red

Crew Chief Eric: or black, although they look damn good. Black. But anyway, this next one, Tanya, this came across my desk. Before it came across yours. I was actually hiding this up my sleeve. And then you posted on a Discord and I was like, no. She must have a Google filter looking for totally rad things like replacement headsets for a car from 1985.

And Pioneer has answered your prayers, oh man, I gotta want that so bad. But it’s not sold here. That’s so shortsighted and so stupid.

Executive Producer Tania: There are some other, like Blau Punk actually does make something that you can, I believe buy here. So might have to think about these kind of things in the future. So if you’ve got an older [01:09:00] car or you don’t really have any options, it’s singled in, it’s a tape deck, like what do you do?

And you don’t have the dash space to go put something different in and you just want a more modern looking tape deck that still has a cassette and you need your cassette adapter and all this stuff. Like what? But these Pioneer and also BLO punk, they’ve actually made calling it the retro head unit and it legit looks like very clean, not kind of, you know, back in the day they had all the, the gaudy single in unit and you could take the face plate off because it was the hotness to, you know, have your radio stolen or whatever so you could remove the face.

And it had all the bright neon colors and all the buttons and all that stuff. These are very clean, like almost factory. Style radios period appropriate, and the cassette is there except it’s a flap and when you open it, it’s got USB Ox in Come with Bluetooth. It’s awesome if you wanna keep your car looking period appropriate, but also have [01:10:00] modern radio technology not running around with the wires in the carcass set adapter.

Try and use one of those other air over FM transmitters. It never really works very well, blah, blah, blah. $500. I think the pioneer one is something like that, or 500 Euros, which is pretty expensive, but. If you got kind of a, I don’t wanna say collector car, but a car from back in the, the eighties or early nineties even, that you really care about it, it could be worth spending the money on.

And also a lot of those radios from back then tended to basically die.

Yeah.

Executive Producer Tania: Especially the cassette adapters. The cassette portion of them would sometimes break down. You’d get your cassette stuck or they would just stop really working. And what and what do you do? And even the technology of the, the radios themselves, the receivers aren’t very good.

And you’d struggle to get local broadcast channels. So something like this, more modern in your old car is really pretty cool.

Crew Chief Eric: So you’re gonna get one once. You can get one is what? Once I can get one. It would look great in the Audi. Yeah, it would. And that Blo Punk especially looks factory. The Pioneer looks a little chintzy, but the Blo [01:11:00] punk’s nice too.

It’s got SD card reader and a bunch of other features that the Pioneer doesn’t. So I approve this message. This is good. Good stuff. Good. Find,

Crew Chief Brad: make sure you add it to the Christmas. Yeah. Christmas Special

Crew Chief Eric: Man. 2025 is the year that keeps on giving to our uncool wall. This one came across my desk literally today.

Wow. I don’t even know what to say about this car.

Executive Producer Tania: What did, what did it say? What is, it was something about the sound this makes or something and or the sound you hear. What was that? That was written with it? Because the sound I heard was,

Crew Chief Eric: oh, I said suddenly heard the Inspector Gadget theme song playing when

Executive Producer Tania: I see this.

Oh yeah, no, I suddenly heard that. Sound of somebody w retching.

Crew Chief Eric: This is horrendous. And then I thought about William and I was like, wasn’t there a Ferrari? They called the bread van? Was it? It was like a Ferrari two 50 short wheel base or something.

William Ross: Yes, it was built by Count Volpi or whatever. ’cause he was pissed off ’cause Enzo wouldn’t sell him a two 50 GTO.

So he wanted to have something that was basically the same thing. So had biz design and build it to annoy him. That’s why I [01:12:00] made it a station wagon, bread van. Everyone called it Bread van to piss off Enzo. And that thing was fast man. I think it went and competed with him was good, but it basically was an FU to Enzo is what he did.

’cause he wouldn’t sell a GTO.

Crew Chief Brad: It sounds like there’s a theme there. A lot of people are doing an FU days.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah. I mean this car is an FU to everybody. I understand that the R 33 is not necessarily the GTR that everybody wants, but to go spend the money to do this.

Hmm.

Crew Chief Eric: It looks like a truck cap on it. It’s wild.

Did you guys notice the placement of the sunroof? Who does that benefit? Not even above the back seats. I was like, why is it all the way back there? Like, what is this? Maybe this is a really good Photoshop.

Crew Chief Brad: Really good

Crew Chief Eric: Photoshop, but I have a feeling this is California hot rotting.

William Ross: If you think about it, if they just grafted that on, so that’s all new.

Where that sunroof is like from the line of the roof line back would be new. So anything they didn’t change, they didn’t wanna cut [01:13:00] into the roof of the car itself. The original, they just grafted that on. Maybe

Crew Chief Eric: that’s awful.

William Ross: And that rear

Crew Chief Eric: window, the molding too, is like three inches thick. It looks like a porthole on a ship.

It’s awful. But anyway, we’ll leave it up to the audience to decide. I, I am constantly surprised when I log onto the uncool wall and see all the votes and see how stuff shifts from month to month. Like there are cars now that are, people are judging as you know, these are actually kind of cool. And I’m like, I would’ve never picked that for the life of me.

Like these would’ve been the bottom of the barrel. Now the classics are always at the top of the list, right? The Aztec and the HHR and the PT Cruiser and. All the usual suspects, but this one I had to add it to the list. If you wanna check out what we’re talking about, go to gt motorsports.org, click on podcast, and then uncool wall, and you can go vote on over 60 cars on our uncool wall.

All right. We don’t have any Tesla news, but we do have what Brad has, retitled seriously. What could go wrong? And Brad, I need you to share this story with the audience because I heard [01:14:00] you got into a fight.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. You should see the other,

Crew Chief Eric: the other mammal. I heard it was an animal.

Crew Chief Brad: You should see the other mammal.

Yes, yes, yes. So

Crew Chief Eric: wait, wait, wait. Is this a dashboard confessional?

Crew Chief Brad: My family was walking home from the neighbor’s house after dinner minding our own business, just walking through the yard. And this Mike Tyson deer came up and was like, gimme your lunch money. And we were like, nah, fool. And then it just started attacking my kids and my wife, and she jumped on top of the kids to protect them.

It tried to trample on her. So I literally. Hulked it. I went over, I picked it up like literally lifted this 150 pound deer and threw it, and it kept coming back. So I’m like punching it. I’ve got my arms around its neck. At some point, I mentally decide that I’m going to kill this deer with my bare hands.

Hulk smash you. I [01:15:00] mean, you’re, you’re laughing and you, you joke in the moment. I mean this, it was life or death and it, it was not going to be my death. I, I let it go, was able to scare it off a little bit to get the family inside, but it kept coming back.

William Ross: Wow.

Crew Chief Brad: And I was in my neighbor’s yard. I could not find a usable stick as a weapon because he’s very good at grooming his yard.

I eventually found something and my neighbor drove, you know, the family back to the house. I walked across the street to make sure that I could have eyes on the deer, but it tracked me all the way back to my, my door. Eventually I got it to just run off and ran around the neighbor’s house. Fast forward, it’s terrorizing another family down the street now.

Dang.

Crew Chief Brad: And I don’t know if anybody follows me on Instagram. I think I’ve got like two followers. But I posted a picture of like my baseball bat that I’ve had for like 20 plus years. Basically I walk to and from my office, ’cause my office is in my detached garage. I walked to and from my office with the bat.

Wow. There’s the story.

Crew Chief Eric: And it’s a female deer, right?

Crew Chief Brad: Yes. It’s a [01:16:00] doe, a deer. A female deer.

Crew Chief Eric: It’s not like those shows on National Geographic when deers attack, you know, it’s usually like some other large predator. Is it the color of your car that like pissed off this deer? No.

Crew Chief Brad: So the theory ’cause animal control came out and did absolutely nothing.

Thank you so much Chesterfield Animal Control for wasting my tax dollars on your fuel to come out and tell us, oh yeah, deer attack Uhhuh. Keep an eye on it. The theory is that it was protecting a fawn. Ah, it sensed that my oldest son, who was in front of us all was a threat. And because, you know, he was, you know, little or whatever, dude went after him.

But then my wife and I jumped in and it was very interesting in that situation to see our reactions. ’cause as I think back on it. We both did something completely different, but it just kind of worked. Like she went in full on, protect the kids [01:17:00] mode. I went in full on, I’m gonna kill this thing, and it just, it worked.

I don’t know what would’ve happened if it was, it had been a male deer. I don’t know what would’ve happened if it was just me and the kids, or her and the kids. I mean, thankfully, we don’t have to know, find that out in this situation. It was very scary for one,

Executive Producer Tania: if it was just you and the kids, I envisioned you grabbing them, basically the scruffs of their necks and just running.

Yeah,

Crew Chief Eric: yeah. Put one under each arm and your haul ass outta there.

Crew Chief Brad: I would like to think that too. But I also think that I might’ve still just tried to go after the deer and I would’ve yelled for the kids to go back to the house, but I still probably would’ve done everything I could to go for the deer or put myself between the, you know, the deer and the kids.

Crew Chief Eric: What’s it like to punch a deer?

Crew Chief Brad: Um, well. I’ve got a broken finger. Oh no. Which I did not feel at all. Like I didn’t realize it was broken till afterwards.

Executive Producer Tania: Got all that adrenaline,

Crew Chief Brad: literally trying to wrestle, listening to the ground to choke it. I’m gonna choke it [01:18:00] out, you know? No, no Tapout this time,

William Ross: man.

That’s your shift in hand too. No cameras or video of this anywhere. Neighbors. Someone absolutely

Crew Chief Brad: there. There are eyewitnesses. No, no cameras or anything. Nobody got pictures. It’s

Crew Chief Eric: circulating on America’s Funniest Home video. So he’s doing like he’s doing

this.

It’s cat slaps.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. And I am not a small man. I’m larger than probably 90% of the, the world’s male population. So the fact that I was struggling with this, I mean, I can’t imagine if it was, I mean. It’s 150 pound deer, but it’s like 150 pounds. Solid Muscle.

William Ross: Muscle. Yeah.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. One track mind. It’s like no reasoning, just,

Executive Producer Tania: is that the sound it made?

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah. It didn’t make any sounds. Is there frosting around its mouth

Crew Chief Eric: too? I mean, what’s going on here?

Crew Chief Brad: We joke, like since we’ve moved down here. We’ve had [01:19:00] roaches, we’ve had bats, we’ve had mice, we’ve had chipmunks, we’ve had deer now and we’ve had snakes. So nice. And I live in a suburban neighborhood, like 15 minutes outside of Richmond, the more you know,

Crew Chief Eric: no, it is a public service announcement for folks, right?

Because there are more deer now because less people are hunting. And I am not advocating for anything one way or the other, but it is a concern for drivers. Tanya’s mentioned it before too, ’cause she doesn’t use the oxyo. LED headlights. See my shameless plug. So, you know, spotting deer is the thing that you gotta do because there’s more of them out there than there ever has been before.

Crew Chief Brad: Dude, I am hell bent. I’m gonna take up hunting. I am gonna make it my personal mission to make all of the white-tailed deer go extinct. That’s a tall order

all in.

Crew Chief Eric: Meanwhile. Back of the ranch. I saw this one and it wasn’t quite Florida man worthy, but I figured Tanya, you’d appreciate this. Headline Reads, [01:20:00] woman doesn’t wanna get taken advantage of at the mechanic, so she puts on the disguise. That’s gotta be the worst fricking disguise.

Executive Producer Tania: You know, I thought that at first and then.

As I look more at her. But is it,

Crew Chief Eric: I mean, the TikTok video is the best though. Oh, I didn’t see the booty. Shorts are a problem. Like it kind of throws the disguise off a little bit. I just saw the still shot. Oh yeah. Go to the TikTok video below. But this is where it all falls apart

Crew Chief Brad: the things people do for views.

Crew Chief Eric: Yeah, that’s exactly it. So from like the neck up, it’s all Duke’s a hazard, but the problem is from the neck down, it’s Daisy Duke. So there’s like, there’s nothing left to the imagination. It’s just like, yeah, you’re not fooling anybody. Right. You didn’t go full Peter Sellers here. Pink Panther style, full disguise.

You know, like, no, sorry, that was a fail. Well, maybe she thought there was a counter.

Yeah, so that’s why this didn’t make it to Florida, man. This [01:21:00] has definitely lowered my expectations,

Crew Chief Brad: lowered expectations.

Crew Chief Eric: And speaking of this next one, this cursed road near North Dakota Oil Field swallows up any truck that tries it. And I’m like, okay, cursed. Road cursed by the stupid people that continue to try to drive on it. Oh my God, that’s the only cursed part of this road. There’s a fucking hole in the road

Executive Producer Tania: and people

Crew Chief Eric: drive into it.

Executive Producer Tania: It’s a. This isn’t a road, right? Oh my God. It’s a landslide. What? And then they wonder why their built Ford tough. Got stuck. I apologize. Actually, none of these pictures the picked a Ford.

William Ross: And who was driving that backhoe?

Executive Producer Tania: It’s flipped over the backhoe. Can’t even make it on this quote road end quote.

William Ross: It’s terrible, but it’s hilarious.

Executive Producer Tania: I like this caravan that tried to do it.

William Ross: [01:22:00] Video. Sh. That truck’s getting swallowed up. I mean, it’s underwater again, how hard could

Crew Chief Eric: it be? Right? And this is why I also have said before, reputable news coming from the drive. This is the stuff that they’re reporting on. I was like, come on guys. Like, whatever.

All right. Well I guess it’s time we go down south. Talk about alligators and beer.

Executive Producer Tania: Well, we’re going down south, but not the florid. This time we’re going to Houston’s I six 10 Loop. Oh, I know this road. Oh boy. This would’ve been fun to witness. You really have to watch the video.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, no.

Executive Producer Tania: So before you watch the video, this guy’s sob breaks down. Well, that’s the problem right there. This other person shows up and I guess someone they know they couldn’t afford a tow truck, so they show up in their SUV to tow the sob.

Go ahead and start watching the video. They [01:23:00] attach the toe strap to the rear of the sob.

Are you serious? Can you believe what the hell? You almost have to ask, was this a stunt? But I don’t think, I think it’s just dumb people. Wow. Holy shit. And why don’t you immediately stop when you realize how fast were you going? Way too fast. I mean, that SOB is whipping around. So not only are they trying to pull the car from the rear.

Obviously the tow hook is on a corner, so they’ve got the tow strap caddy corner and then they’re like hauling ass down six 10, which is like a 4 95 but straighter. Oh my god. Poor car. And the dude’s in the sob, you can see the guy. There’s a guy in the driver’s seat. No. Okay. There’s dude in the driver’s seat and the SOB is just whipping [01:24:00] fishtailing back and forth behind.

Wow. And allegedly the lady driving the SUV was like laughing.

Crew Chief Eric: This is the principle of when in doubt throttle out because he obviously kept speeding up. This is insane. You can see the person in the car trying to counter steer to Correct. But it’s actually, that’s what I’m saying. It’s making it worse.

Executive Producer Tania: Oh my God.

Well, here’s the thing. Whatever way the car was going, they’d have to go the opposite way. So they probably were just all over the place In general, did these people get a ticket? I hope so. I mean, they could have caused horrendous accident. Oh

Crew Chief Eric: my god, so, so bad.

Executive Producer Tania: I mean, poor car, that car is destroyed.

Whatever the problem was that it broke down is like 10 times worse. Now, the tow truck would’ve been a far less expensive issue to deal with and the repercussions of that, but. Anyway, couldn’t find much in the Florida scene. Not much going on across the country either, but this was the nugget that I think makes up for the slow month.

Crew Chief Eric: And with that, Tanya, it’s time for our [01:25:00] GTM Trackside Report, sponsored by the northeast region of the Audi Club of America.

Executive Producer Tania: Are you ready to discover the exhilarating world of track driving this season? Step into your driver’s seat and experience the thrill of pushing your car to its limits in a safe, controlled environment.

Perfect for those who have always dreamt of getting on track. Here are some upcoming A CNA events you might want to check out. New for the schedule is a two day HPDE event at Mt. Tru Blanc, also known as St. Jovi, and that’s in Quebec, Canada, partnering with the BMW Club, this event takes place Saturday and Sunday, June 28th and 29th.

Also, there’s a two-day HBD at Palmer Motorsports Park, July 19th and 20, followed by Watkins Glen on a Wednesday and Thursday, August 13th and 14th. And if you are in the Mid-Atlantic region, you can go to NJ MP’s Thunderbolt Circus for a Monday, Tuesday event, September 15th and 16th. And also just added to the roster is an HBDE [01:26:00] Solo Day at Limerock Park on Friday, October 10th, along with FCP Euros, October Fest, which is also being held at Limerock on Sunday, October 26th for experienced track enthusiasts.

These events offer a fantastic opportunity to refine your techniques and challenge your position on the track. Reconnect with the vibrant community of drivers and instructors who share your passion and enjoy the friendly and supportive atmosphere. Push your limits, improve your handling skills, and take the opportunity to make every second on the track count.

Crew Chief Eric: That’s right Tanya. And for more Audi Club events outside of just track time, please visit www.nqclub.org to discover more events like this. You can also visit our motorsports calendar@club.gt motorsports.org and then click on events. All right, Brad, it’s time to take us home.

Crew Chief Brad: And if you’re not quite ready to hit the track, don’t forget that you can find tons of upcoming local shows and events at the ultimate reference for car enthusiasts collector car guide.net.

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Executive Producer Tania: Be sure to jump back into our podcast catalog and check out other programs we offer, like screen to speed, the Ferrari marketplace, the motoring historian evening with a legend, the logbook break fix, and of course the drive through. And remember, for everything we talked about [01:28:00] on this episode and more, be sure to check out follow on article and show notes available@gtmotorsports.org.

Crew Chief Eric: And a spoiler coming in August, we got a new series, so stay tuned. During Monterey Car Week, we have a whole new podcast coming on to the Motoring Podcast Network. So I don’t want to tell you the name just yet, but stay tuned. You will know, and it’s slightly different and we’re hoping you guys will enjoy it.

So give us some feedback when you hear the first couple episodes coming online later this summer.

Crew Chief Brad: And if you enjoy our various podcasts, there’s a great way for you to support our creators on the MPN. We’ve got lots of great extras and bonuses to explore on our expanded Patreon page. So if you’d like to learn more about our bonus and behind the scenes content and get early access to upcoming episodes, consider becoming a Break Fixx VIP by clicking the blue join for free button in the middle of the page when you visit patreon.com/gigg motorsports.

And to thank you to our cohost and executive producer Tanya, and a big shout out to [01:29:00] William, big Money Ross for joining us tonight.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, again, thank you William, for coming on. We appreciate you and we look forward to more of your episodes throughout the season too. And I’m sure we’ll have you back on another drive through.

We’re gonna talk about Le Mans Classic.

William Ross: Yeah, well we got Hillsborough, we got a lot. We got a lot of

Crew Chief Eric: things coming up. We might just have to do a special episode about Le Mans Classic.

William Ross: Yeah, I think so. That’s gonna be a good one. So, ’cause there’s a lot of things we gotta discuss about that because it’s gonna be interesting, that’s for sure.

But I appreciate you guys having me on though. This has been awesome as always.

Crew Chief Brad: And all the fans, friends and family who support Grant touring, motor sports and the Motoring Podcast network. Without you, none of this would be possible.

Crew Chief Eric: I think this is a record. This might be the shortest one ever.

Crew Chief Brad: It’s still gonna be an hour and a half long.

Peace.

Crew Chief Eric: Hang on, hang on.

Crew Chief Brad: Sorry. Stupid audio. Go ahead.

Crew Chief Eric: Well, hello? Hello? Or shall I say Ben? Nu. Ben Nu.

Executive Producer Tania: Is he frozen? Oh,

Crew Chief Eric: it didn’t load. That’s the problem. It doesn’t load. Oh. But [01:30:00] we have a guest in the house with us tonight to celebrate. Le Mansr, are you on mute? Did you mute your mic? Yeah, it’s his new microphone.

Executive Producer Tania: There’s a button on it. Sometimes you can accidentally hit it and it goes red. Ah,

Crew Chief Eric: there we go. That’s how he did his other episode. I wonder why that was red underneath there. He wonders why stuff gets edited.

Executive Producer Tania: You skipped Florida, man.

Crew Chief Eric: Oh, we missed one. Oh oh, look at this. Look, we have the toilet.

Crew Chief Brad: The they, the, the pinnacle and the pitiful

Crew Chief Eric: Williams’s talking. But I think his mic muted itself again. Did it? Did it turn red? Yeah, I did.

Crew Chief Brad: Yeah, I got it.

Well, here we are in the drive through line. Me and her. Cars in front of us, cars in back of us all just waiting to order. There’s some idiot in a Volvo with his bright on behind me. I lean out the window and scream, Hey, what ya trying to do blind me? My wife says Maybe we should.[01:31:00]

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So consider signing up for Patreon today at www.patreon.com/gt motorsports. And remember, without [01:32:00] you, none of this would be possible.

Skip ahead if you must… Here’s the highlights from this episode you might be most interested in and their corresponding time stamps.

• 00:00:00 Kicking Off the Episode #58
• 00:01:39 Ferrari’s Victory at Le Mans
• 00:02:10 Robert Kubica’s Comeback Story
• 00:04:39 Porsche vs. Ferrari: Engineering Giants
• 00:07:21 The Future of Hypercar Racing
• 00:22:24 The Disqualification Drama
• 00:25:07 Simeone Foundation Event Recap
• 00:31:22 Ferrari’s F1 Struggles
• 00:34:59 Monaco, Catalunya & Montreal
• 00:41:53 Adrian Newey and the Struggles of Fernando Alonso
• 00:43:28 F1 Movie Discussion
• 00:44:50 Proposed Wing Changes and Ferrari’s Performance
• 00:46:27 Kyle Larson’s Double Fail
• 00:48:35 Ferrari’s EV Dilemma and Ram’s Affordable Truck Controversy
• 00:54:59 Volvo’s New Seatbelt Technology
• 00:58:31 Ford’s Exit from Hot Hatches
• 01:00:57 Nissan’s New Budget Sedan and Toyota’s EV Math
• 01:03:56 Mazda’s Airbag Recall
• 01:06:36 Lost and Found: Eleanor Mustang Replicas Legalized
• 01:08:32 Pioneer’s Retro Head Unit
• 01:11:10 The Uncool Wall and R33 Bread Van
• 01:24:57 GTM Trackside Report and Upcoming Events
• 01:28:54 Conclusion and Thank Yous

Are you ready to discover the exhilarating world of track driving? This season step into your driver’s seat and experience the thrill of pushing your car to its limits in a safe, controlled environment. Perfect for those who have always dreamt of getting on track … here are some upcoming ACNA events you might want to check out:

• New for the schedule, a 2-Day HPDE @ Mont-Tremblant (also known as St. Jovite, and that’s in Quebec Canada) partnering with the BMW Club. on Saturday & Sunday, June 28-29
• 2-Day HPDE @ Palmer Motorsports Park; Saturday & Sunday, July 19-20
• 2-Day HPDE @ Watkins Glen International on Wednesday & Thursday, August 13-14
• 2-Day HPDE @ NJMP Thunderbolt Circuit on Monday & Tuesday, September 15-16
• And just added to the roster is an HPDE Solo Day, at Lime Rock Park on Friday October 10th, along with FCP Euro’s Autoberfest event (also at LimeRock) on Sunday October 26th. 

MORE DETAILS ON OUR MOTORSPORT CALENDAR

For experienced track enthusiasts, these events offer a fantastic opportunity to refine your techniques and challenge your precision on the track. Reconnect with the vibrant community of drivers and instructors who share your passion, and enjoy the friendly and supportive atmosphere. Push your limits, improve your handling skills, and take the opportunity to make every second on the track count. For more Audi Club events outside of just track time, please visit https://www.neqclub.org