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Formula 1 Drive to Survive S08E05
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00:17You
00:20We're here to fly with the blue angels
00:28I don't know if they told you I went and did two days of flying aerobatic aircraft
00:33To get myself up to speed
00:36Okay
00:37Here he is
00:38How are we doing?
00:39Very good, how are you?
00:40Excellent
00:41I'm James Valves, I'm the team principal for the Atlassian Williams Racing team
00:47Gentlemen, good morning
00:48When you're doing any kind of maneuvers that are pulling X amount of G's
00:51Tighten those glutes, tighten that core
00:52Don't hyperventilate, because then you're going to pass out
00:55Yeah, sure
00:56I don't want the footage to be me passed out
01:00My name is Alexander Albon
01:01I've been with Williams for
01:05Well, this is my fifth year
01:07Five minutes
01:08I'm a bit nervous
01:09A bit nervous?
01:10Yeah
01:13How much does James like planes?
01:15James loves it
01:17He likes to look at the data
01:18This is the kind of guy James is
01:24There's a big link between being in fast jets and being involved in Formula One
01:29We both need to push to the absolute limit
01:42Here we go
01:50You didn't know you have the best job in the world
01:52Yeah, it's a pretty good one
01:53What I enjoy about Formula One is that from one year to the next you can have this complete topsy
01:59-turvy change
01:59And that's what we have
02:00Oh wow, that's amazing
02:02This season, I'm buzzing because there's an upstep in the team
02:06There's a strength in the team
02:10And I'm buzzing because Carlos will be here
02:16Carlos Sainz is one of the biggest stars in Formula One
02:23One of the sports poster boys
02:25Multiple race winner
02:27This is a massive catch for James Vowles
02:31Today I'm announcing that I will be joining the Williams family
02:36Carlos had a lot of options for 2025
02:39The decision to join Williams was a surprise one
02:43Congratulations
02:44Give me a hug
02:45In the last five years
02:50Williams found themselves towards the back of the field
02:52If I sort of summarise that year so far
02:54It's not one to be proud of
02:59The Williams team having a horrible, pointless season
03:05Whatever James sold him on
03:07It has to be something pretty big
03:09And meaningful
03:14I'm really excited to have Carlos joining
03:16He had probably half the grid that he could have gone to
03:18What excited him is the journey that we're on
03:22Vision's simple
03:23We're here to win multiple world championships
03:30That's work
03:31Thank you so much
03:32How do you feel?
03:34I feel shaky
03:35Just thank you so much for letting us be a part of your team
03:37I'll sleep well tonight
03:38That's all that
03:39James has been telling the world
03:42That Williams finds itself at the dawn of a new era
03:46It's a big statement
03:47And now the pressure's on
03:49And he has to deliver
04:08British countryside
04:10Quite different to the road to Maranello, no?
04:19One of the biggest things that I'm gonna miss from Ferrari is the food
04:23This is high-performance food for athletes
04:27Bacon roll
04:30British food
04:34Food in England
04:35I would say is not the best
04:37At the same time
04:38There's three or four things that I always really enjoyed about England
04:42One is the porridge
04:45English breakfast
04:46Just the baked beans
04:47Apart from this
04:49There's nothing really
04:52Particularly good about it
04:55Oh, here we go
04:57Overtake
04:59What a move
05:03Why are you sending us here?
05:05What the fuck?
05:07Where are you going?
05:08This is a fucking farm
05:10It's set to the left
05:14We are late
05:15On our first day to school
05:26Morning
05:29What is this I hear this morning
05:31That you're eating
05:31A egg bacon sandwich
05:34When I'm in the UK
05:35I follow the UK diet
05:37Which is the bacon bag
05:40Wow
05:40And the sausage roll
05:41And the sausage roll
05:42I need to speak to Caco
05:43This is not good
05:44I think James has pulled a blinder
05:47Getting Carlos
05:48Knowing what that can bring to that team
05:51James Fowles deserves to celebrate
05:53Do you think it'll be a slightly less glamorous lifestyle
05:56Or do you think
05:57What are you saying about Williams?
05:58Rude
06:01The Union Jacks are waving
06:03Williams has got an extraordinary legacy
06:06In this sport
06:07Damon Hill wins the Japanese Grand Prix
06:1116 World Championships
06:139 Constructors
06:157 Drivers
06:16114 race wins
06:18And it would just be a wonderful thing
06:21To see Williams back
06:23Winning Grand Prix's in Formula 1 again
06:26So the big question is
06:27Is James Fowles the guy to do that?
06:32I want this team to be successful with all my heart
06:35But I knew what I was getting myself into
06:37This will be incredibly difficult
06:39We've got to be realistic
06:41The top four are the top four still
06:43But our goal is to make sure we're moving forward
06:45From where we were last year
06:47And not fighting for eighth or ninth
06:49But I think we have it within our ability
06:51To finish fifth
06:52Go from ninth to fifth
06:54It would elevate the team
06:56To a new level
07:01Carlos is going to go on
07:03For his first run very shortly
07:04This is the kickoff
07:08The team has done a very big step forward into 2025
07:18The decision of moving to Williams
07:20I think he did the right goal
07:23But I think it's still early stages
07:27You have an F1 interview with the top line questions
07:31Who was it going to be your best man?
07:32Who would you trust to cut your hair?
07:34Really simple
07:35We do that together with Carlos
07:36Carlos is going to do it individually
07:38Because we can't get you both at the same time
07:41It's too difficult
07:42Carlos joining
07:43If anything, if anything, it's fuel
07:46It's what motivates you to extract your best
07:49And it's a great challenge to have
07:55Good luck, Carlos
07:56You're all good
07:58It's a new car to me
08:00But it may have good pace
08:01And I feel like I can get a good lap time out of it
08:06Oh, I'm happy
08:07All the work comes together in a few minutes
08:10Going to Williams
08:11I'm not going to lie
08:12I had doubts
08:12It's a decision that is going to be so important for my career
08:15Oh, good
08:18It's a big step from last year
08:20But I strongly believe in this team
08:23I strongly believe in James' vision
08:25And I strongly believe in myself
08:27I took his word that I'm hiring you
08:29Because I think you are the guy
08:31That needs to help me to go back to the top
08:36The new season is underway
08:43Okay, Carlos, go race when you can
08:45Go race
08:45Okay
08:53Fucking hell
08:54What happened?
08:56Oh, shit, he's in the wall
09:01Carlos Sainz
09:02And he's first up for Williams
09:03Out of the race
09:04And he's first up for Williams
09:06Out of the race
09:09That's P5
09:11Quite a
09:12Well, why don't I?
09:13It's a combo
09:19Okay, Carlos
09:20That's P40
09:25It's been a tough start to this season
09:27I'm struggling with the car
09:29At the driving start
09:30That the car requires
09:32Alex, I have some light
09:34Thanks, man
09:36Well done, everyone
09:37Alex Albon's been a revelation this year
09:43Carlos will definitely need time
09:45To adapt to Williams
09:46How we operate
09:47How we extract the most performance from the car
09:49All of that is different
09:52Let's wait to see the Williams
09:55Oh, my word
09:57That car's far too damaged
10:04It's been strange how difficult it's been
10:06Adapting to a new car
10:07A new team
10:08And, uh, yeah
10:10It frustrates me, for sure
10:17Carlos is absolutely going to take some time
10:20It's not just stepping from one race car to the next
10:23But despite that
10:25Williams have clearly come out of the box
10:27With a competitive race car
10:29P5 and the constructors
10:31But it would seem that the old hand
10:34Alex Albon is the one scoring most of their points
10:37And Carlos is being somewhat left behind
10:59We may have your attention for a moment, please
11:02Observe the seatbelt and no smoking signs
11:08Alex, have you eaten anything?
11:10A little bit
11:10I can offer you an avocado
11:12Oh, this is you
11:13That's very kind
11:14Thank you
11:16Feed me
11:17Not many team principals feed you
11:18They want you to be as light as possible
11:21Do you want a water, Alex, as well?
11:23I'm good
11:23I'm good for water
11:24Thank you
11:27I think really well done
11:29For what has happened
11:30Across the beginning of the season
11:32You came swinging to the first test
11:35And the first races
11:36And I think we have to acknowledge that we are where we are
11:40Thanks to you
11:41And I don't just mean in this year
11:42I mean the last few years of your hard work and dedication
11:45Has put us there
11:45With Carlos being my teammate
11:47There's maybe a bit more incentive to be motivated to do well
11:50But actually most of it just comes down to
11:53If we have the opportunity to score points
11:54We must score them
11:56I think that Carlos took a bit of time to adapt
11:58It's because he came in driving it more like it was a Ferrari
12:01And that actually exposed the issues far more
12:06Alex is doing brilliantly this year
12:08This is the best I've known him as a driver
12:11And with Carlos
12:12I think the transition was hard than expected
12:15But now we need two drivers to make sure that we're competing in the front
12:19We will be landing in a few minutes
12:21Please place all tables in the five-star position
12:25In Miami
12:26There are golf courses here that are like a million dollars to join
12:36Miami's been an incredible addition to the Formula One calendar
12:39You know, South Beach, sunshine, fun
12:47Glitz, glamour, famous faces
12:49There's always something wild happening
12:57Are we driving Lego car for real?
13:01No
13:01Apparently
13:02I'm building the new Falcon right now
13:04How many pieces?
13:06Like 76,000 pieces
13:08It's going to take me forever
13:09I could never do that
13:11After 10 minutes, I would say
13:15They've made Formula One-sized Lego cars
13:17And we're just going to drive on track
13:20Which will always be chaos
13:26The Miami parade was
13:28It was awesome
13:31I've never been so close to Charles
13:33Between my legs
13:37Come on, jump in
13:40Get on with it
13:42You've lost your place
13:47Look at this
13:48Wow!
13:50Ah!
13:52They nearly crashed
13:53This is Kimi
13:54You look like you're doing business school
14:02This has clearly become a race now
14:04This is the best fun over here
14:07Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
14:10Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
14:13God fuck, from wind
14:14I actually wasn't a Lego kid
14:16I had a Playmobil
14:18It was like west coast, east coast, you know
14:22Mercedes looks close
14:24Yes
14:25I might get a volume
14:26It gets competitive very quickly
14:30It was always going to end badly
14:31Oh, no
14:38Oh, no!
14:40Oh, no!
14:46Oh, no!
14:46Yes! Yes!
14:48Last corner, last night.
14:50Woo!
14:50It was chaos, but probably the best race of the season for us.
15:02How are you feeling about qualifying? Expectation?
15:05Two cars in the top ten is all we should be aiming for,
15:08and I think it's possible.
15:10Just tricky. It's that first run-out that we do.
15:13You're just never quite sure if something's gonna go well.
15:18Go see.
15:20With Carlos, I mean, probably on reflection, I was a bit naive
15:24and asking any human being in the world to come in
15:26and instantaneously adapt is just not realistic.
15:30And we still have some performance to bring this year
15:32to make sure that he's extracting absolutely everything
15:34from himself and his engineers.
15:36And that's the area where I still see him developing.
15:39We haven't connected everything that Carlos is capable of doing yet.
15:42I know that. He knows that. The team knows that.
15:44But I'm confident Carlos will adapt to the car,
15:48and we can deliver as a team.
15:58Time for qualifying once again. It is round six.
16:05Obviously, Carlos coming in, there was a lot of question marks,
16:08like, who's gonna be the better driver between those two?
16:12And the fact Alex is sort of, you know, wiping the floor at the moment,
16:16I'm really happy for him.
16:18Carlos is extremely talented.
16:20And as difficult as it may seem on paper,
16:23I think he's very strong.
16:25And it's only a matter of time before people realize that.
16:29So I'm not worried for Carlos. He's an incredible driver.
16:35You get beaten by a teammate almost every race.
16:38Your own confidence gets a bit of a knock.
16:42I think the challenge is more the mental side.
16:49Straight out, track is clear.
16:53Alex, good start. Let's keep the speed up.
16:56Come on, Alex.
17:08Alex, please.
17:10Good.
17:11Nice, check.
17:12Carlos, good.
17:17Carlos Sainz starts a new flying lap.
17:25Sainz has gone fastest in the middle sector.
17:34Oh my God, my nerves.
17:38A brilliant lap from Carlos Sainz,
17:42who jumps ahead of his teammate.
17:44That's easy.
17:52Very good job, eh?
17:54Yeah, that was a solid one.
17:55It was super nice.
17:59The former Ferrari man, Carlos Sainz,
18:01ahead of his old team.
18:06My God.
18:13Well done.
18:21It took me a few races to adapt to the car,
18:24but after quality in Miami,
18:26I'm feeling like the season's starting to click.
18:30I saw you on TV.
18:32Really? What was I doing? Giggling? Being excited?
18:36I was trying to control it,
18:37but not being able to control it.
18:41Everyone's here now.
18:42Everybody's here.
18:43All right, everyone.
18:45Uh, we need to, as a group now,
18:47move our expectations
18:48that we should be scoring points
18:50every weekend going forward.
18:52That's a mindset shift from where we've been,
18:54but that's the capability that we have
18:55with both Carlos and Alex around us
18:57and the car that we've been delivered.
19:00Carlos.
19:01Enough talking.
19:02It's time to go racing and enjoy.
19:03Well done.
19:04Yeah, just got to focus on execution.
19:06I think we can score points this weekend.
19:08Very...
19:09I don't want to...
19:10I don't want to jinx anything.
19:11Just because of the weekend,
19:12I will see.
19:13Enjoy this weekend.
19:14Let's go do it.
19:14Thanks so much, everyone.
19:17In Miami, I want for Carlos
19:19that he walks away
19:21with an absolutely brilliant result.
19:23I think it would ratify his decisions,
19:27and it would cement us effectively
19:30in that bond of we're here,
19:32and we're here to win together.
19:36It is now time for the main event,
19:40the Miami Grand Prix.
19:45Thank you, Alex.
19:46Give me a right answer.
19:48Copy.
19:52That's one minute.
19:54Okay.
19:57Qualifying means one thing,
19:59but I need to put a full weekend together
20:01to prove to Williams
20:03and to prove to myself
20:04that I'm exactly the guy they need.
20:18I don't know.
20:19Thank you, Alex.
20:19Oh, it's bad of you.
20:21Alex, you want to pay?
20:22Yeah, I'm good.
20:30Come on, Doug.
20:30I'll give Alex.
20:35The two Williams make contact,
20:37and Alvin gets ahead of Sainz.
20:42Over-take him in the boat.
20:43Carlos Sainz is taking the position back
20:46that he lost at the start.
20:53And here comes Charles Leclerc.
20:58Alex, you want to hold this position.
21:07I could do with a bit of help from Alex.
21:14All right, Alex,
21:15we need to maintain a gap
21:16at least this second.
21:20Alex, I'm speedy.
21:23I'm not trying to take him, so...
21:25Okay, go ahead, man.
21:37I know.
21:38I know, I know.
21:39I know, I know.
21:40Let's be the bigger one, okay?
21:45Well, Williams seem to be confusing their drivers there
21:48with poorly delivered instructions.
21:54Oh, yeah!
21:56Look like a landing put on behind, huh?
21:59Carlos Sainz under big pressure
22:01from his old teammate
22:02and the man who replaced him.
22:04Can I have a chance?
22:06Go ahead, my dish.
22:10Maximum pace, please.
22:19Carlos Sainz tumbles down to ninth position.
22:23Thanks.
22:23We're compromising the ratio.
22:26Come on!
22:27What the fuck is that even possible?
22:31Thank you, Alex.
22:33Don't ask Gordon.
22:38He died.
22:39Lovely job.
22:41Come on!
22:41Yes!
22:42Yeah!
22:49Okay, second flight.
22:51Nine for you, Alex.
22:53Five.
22:54That's not how I go racing, guys.
22:56I don't care.
22:58I've lost a lot of confidence here.
23:00On everything.
23:26It's, um...
23:27We need to tighten up as a team.
23:29They gave the instruction to the cars.
23:31Very poorly, very loosely, it needs to be.
23:33If you're saying stand in position,
23:34stand in position.
23:38Good recovery.
23:39That was great.
23:40That was great.
23:40I'm really good.
23:41Fantastic.
23:41We were just re-watching it.
23:43The end result was not the one I wanted.
23:47And it happened in a very frustrating manner.
23:51And it was purely down to poor execution.
24:01We made a mistake.
24:02Some of our areas are simply not at the level we need to be.
24:06One, one, two, three.
24:19There's a direction you.
24:21Yes, it's the Hotel Martinez.
24:28Miami, in that sense, it was a disaster.
24:30No.
24:33It all went bad.
24:36It's not just to go fast with the car but also to be able to do it well every week.
24:42Obviously, the team needs to be able to take that experience.
24:48For me, the important thing is that when the car is like Miami,
24:53it's not going to be able to do the shit that they did.
25:01Right. We're here to take photos.
25:12It's a very crucial time in my career.
25:15Over the last few years in F1, I've been doing well.
25:18But at the same time, it's a very short-term memory sport.
25:23Your stocks are pretty much decided on the race by race.
25:28I'm just trying to prove to everyone what I'm worth.
25:33How are you? How are you?
25:34How are you? How are you?
25:35Again, I've met him before.
25:38Carlos. That was Carlos, you guys.
25:41Nice.
25:42It's very exciting meeting new sports people, especially cute ones.
25:54I always struggle with a neck.
25:58Have one neck.
26:01That's nice.
26:02And look in the way.
26:04Perfect.
26:06And just work on the attitude a little bit.
26:13This year, my expectations need to re-adapt.
26:19Where?
26:20Maybe we are.
26:21Yes, probably.
26:22I'll miss the podiums.
26:27I'll miss the celebrations.
26:29I'll miss being on a headline because I've won.
26:34I remember the feeling still very fresh in my head.
26:38I want to make sure I'm back, back to that as soon as possible.
26:44We need to go, guys.
26:45Come on, please.
26:47I need money today.
26:53Carlos! Carlos! Carlos! Carlos! Carlos!
26:57Carlos, your pace is good.
27:01Keep doing what you're doing.
27:02It's something.
27:04That's a feeling of the rise with the sauce of the car.
27:09Williams with their least competitive outing of the season.
27:12That was not the best you wanted.
27:19It's a really good luck.
27:24Trust is everything.
27:26Particularly when you've asked a driver to believe in the process.
27:31To believe in the dream.
27:33That Williams are not going to be toiling around at the back.
27:35That they can be fighting at the front.
27:40But it just hasn't worked out that way.
27:43Yeah, they fluff this at Williams.
27:45Through the street.
27:47Down to the catacole.
27:49Yeah, they've got issues with the P.U.
27:51They'll probably retire just watch the cars behind you.
27:55Back-to-back retirements for Williams.
27:57They're having a bit of a blip.
28:00James, he's got to try to find a solution.
28:02We've been actually still not good enough.
28:06We're pretty confident.
28:07What we've got now is wrong.
28:09And by a fairly big margin.
28:10We are still not championship-level material.
28:15But what is the potential?
28:16Can you get into the points?
28:17Can you get good points?
28:18Uh, I don't know.
28:20I don't care.
28:21I'm too upset right now.
28:23Williams are rebuilding.
28:25But they're not at a position where they can fight for podiums yet.
28:28They're not even at a place where they can consistently compete for points.
28:36We are counting down to the formation lap here in Austria.
28:43Something is stopping the car from moving forward.
28:47Standby, standby, standby.
28:49Critical.
28:52This lake should know what's going on.
28:54The brakes are currently on fire.
28:56Come and pull them.
29:01Come on, fucking pull the brakes.
29:05Be ready to exit.
29:07Okay.
29:13Game over.
29:14Carlos Sainz will not take the lights.
29:17In Austria,
29:18it was a painful memory that we etched in my brain forever.
29:22A race where we could have performed very well.
29:25Is it bad luck?
29:26Or are we creating environments that make it difficult to perform at that level?
29:30Oh, shit.
29:33James would really have had to have sold Carlos the dream
29:37to get him to sign that contract to join him at Williams.
29:41Yet that dream just hasn't turned into reality yet.
29:51James really has to get a handle on this situation
29:55if Carlos is going to stay at this team for the long term.
30:03We're fully committed with the team,
30:05and that's our full focus.
30:07But if an opportunity comes to join another team,
30:12then obviously we will have to analyze it and decide.
30:16All this.
30:17It's not going to run away.
30:20It's going to run away.
30:21Nice.
30:31Do you sleep properly?
30:33Yeah, I had a good sleep.
30:34That's what I need.
30:35Carlos' frustration is normal.
30:37And my job is to make sure we provide the right environment
30:40for him to want to be here, I hope, for the rest of his career.
30:49Good.
30:55So we're fifth in the championship.
30:56We haven't maximized our point score yet either.
30:58That's the frustrating thing.
30:59We could be even further ahead than this again.
31:02But we're fifth.
31:04You're a man of your work,
31:05and the car is clearly quicker.
31:07Yeah.
31:07But also, we've done a lot of mistakes.
31:10As a team, we are further behind
31:13more than what I expected.
31:16The moment you start fighting top end of the midfield
31:19and sometimes mixing it up with Ferrari, Mercedes, and Red Bull,
31:23it exposes that we're also behind in race execution.
31:28This is team culture in the end.
31:30This year we're letting P5, P6, P8 slip from our hands pretty easily,
31:37which honestly puts me in a position where I'm sometimes obviously frustrated
31:42because still it's points.
31:44I agree, though.
31:45I think this year has highlighted how hard it is.
31:47With this many things that are still not right.
31:49The second half of the season needs to be a clear step forward.
32:07Carlos' comments were apt and spot on.
32:09We're not at championship level anywhere.
32:12How's it all going?
32:13It's been tough.
32:14Yeah, we're getting through it.
32:15The boys are working hard.
32:17So we've had honest, straight talks about what isn't working
32:20and what we need to change.
32:23We'll be redeveloping our systems, processing structures.
32:26Communication methods are working.
32:28We're under pressure, as we expect, but this is when we're expected to deliver.
32:32And this isn't about apportioning blame.
32:34It's about understanding what we can all do better with ourselves,
32:37with the kit that's around us, and ultimately that makes a faster and better team.
32:41As a team principal, making a race-winning Formula One team takes an awful lot of hard work.
32:48Trying to find a bit more performance.
32:50Good. Just need to move quicker.
32:51It's like an orchestra.
32:53You are trying to get every single member playing their part in complete harmony.
32:59And that is not an easy feat.
33:02It takes time. It takes effort.
33:04It takes making sure every single part of your organization is operating.
33:10at its absolute peak performance.
33:13It's good.
33:14But the ambition needs to be much bigger.
33:22The other day I spoke with James.
33:25The team is starting to work better.
33:28It's a matter of time. It's a matter of patience.
33:31At some point, it will change.
33:34You have to change.
33:35Look, I've spent 10 years in Formula One.
33:37I don't remember a year.
33:39Let's take a look.
33:41these things so different.
33:43I remember a little bit
33:462019, the first year in McLaren,
33:48that we had to go fast,
33:50we didn't get results,
33:52and in fact, the circuit where it changed everything
33:54was in Baku.
33:55It was in Baku.
33:55What do you remember?
33:57And then it came to Baku,
33:58a good result,
33:59and from there it changed everything.
34:01It's true.
34:02We've done everything possible
34:03for it to work,
34:06but we have to change it.
34:08Well, you know,
34:09you've already demonstrated
34:10many times that,
34:13trusting in your way
34:14of doing things
34:14and keeping your head down,
34:18centered,
34:18doing what you're doing.
34:19That's what I'm saying.
34:22As soon as it goes fast,
34:24the other will arrive.
34:25Let's go.
34:37Baku is a high speed.
34:39street circuit,
34:40where the walls just close in on you.
34:44The drivers are driving around that
34:46at 300 kilometers an hour.
34:52So child, time for push, push.
34:54Okay.
35:03Ferrari's weekend has gone down the pan here.
35:07Shit.
35:09Nobody quite knows what's going to happen in Baku.
35:13Take care for the turn.
35:15Bye.
35:20Are you okay?
35:21Yeah.
35:32For the sake.
35:35Everyone is giving me absolutely everything.
35:38The hours that people have been pushing,
35:41not for one month, not for one week.
35:42People want this team to be successful
35:45with all that heart and all that might.
35:47Alex Albin,
35:48a former F2 winner on these streets.
35:51Baku's dirty,
35:53it's oily,
35:53it's windy.
35:54All the corners are very, very similar,
35:57but they're not the same.
36:01Baku's so dirty.
36:03It's kind of a recipe for mistakes, really.
36:12Oh, fuck.
36:14Oh, come on.
36:16Sorry.
36:18Oh, disappointing there for Williams.
36:21But they still have a chance with science.
36:24Carlos' season is such a funny one.
36:27You know, coming into Baku,
36:28he hasn't,
36:28hasn't scored points in what is it,
36:30six races now?
36:31That's a horrible run to be on.
36:34And as each week passes by,
36:36it makes you question
36:38whether Carlos has made the right move.
36:40The only thing missing here
36:42is maybe a bit of depth, you know?
36:43Yeah.
36:44Yeah, no, this is,
36:45I need to open early.
36:48Yes.
36:48I felt like in Ferrari
36:50we were already close to a championship winning level.
36:56Here, it helped the team to realize
36:58how much we need to improve still.
37:02If we want to go back to winning.
37:10Push it.
37:11Yeah, I got here.
37:16I don't see this good place.
37:19Look out!
37:39It's a brilliant quarterback session.
37:47Wow, that was tough.
37:47Well done.
37:52Thank you guys.
37:54Thank you guys.
37:58I don't think you can overstate
38:00what an impactful performance that is.
38:05But you don't score points of qualifying.
38:14Good morning.
38:15Good morning.
38:26I'm Vimpitu.
38:27I'm in the front row.
38:28Good morning.
38:28I'm trying to think positively.
38:33For me, it's just the opportunity to prove to myself
38:37and to prove to everyone the whole paddle
38:39that I'm gonna overcome not being in Ferrari anymore
38:42and that I'm gonna create something good with Williams.
38:48It's a mixed-up grid.
38:50We could be in for absolutely anything.
38:55The team hasn't been fighting for podiums for many, many years.
39:00But we're in a strong position.
39:03This really is about a thousand individuals all pulling together.
39:09All good. That's 90 seconds.
39:12All good.
39:16I'm as focused as possible.
39:18Focusing on having the fastest possible reaction to the lights.
39:24I'm thinking in the first couple of corners in Baku,
39:27it's never easy to get through those three corners safely.
39:31And I'm just telling to myself
39:32that everything's gonna be all right.
39:3730 seconds.
39:39Alex Albon clipped the wall and he's in 19th.
39:54Good start from Max Verstappen who chops across Sainz.
40:10I've lost the first place in the wall on Judge 5.
40:14Copy.
40:17I've lost.
40:18I'll take about it all.
40:35I'll take about it all.
40:43Sainz feeling the heat from Russell.
40:44Pits first.
40:46I lost.
40:48I lost.
40:52I lost.
40:53Box, box, this lap.
41:00Quickstop needed here if he's to hold that position.
41:06This lap's gonna be closed with Russell. Get ready.
41:09Copy.
41:22Russell and Mercedes, Pip, Sainz and Williams to second.
41:29This podium could be slipping away for Sainz.
41:33Kimi closing in fast.
41:35We have seven laps remaining.
41:39It's the GAM ahead one point four.
41:42It's the Sainz, it's the P3 ahead.
41:44So there's podium in it for you, mate.
41:46Copy.
41:48And then you will use over the deck.
41:51We just have a push.
41:52Venga, coño, venga.
41:56And now we're in love.
41:58Two laps remaining.
42:00Push on the exit last corner.
42:03You're racing up 320, 330 kph.
42:09So I'm just focusing on...
42:12Making zero mistakes.
42:15Vamos!
42:20Vamos!
42:22Vamos!
42:25Kama Sainz takes the final step on the podium.
42:31Kama!
42:32Kama!
42:33Kama!
42:35Best podium in my career, guys.
42:37You cannot imagine how this plays.
42:39Kama!
42:39Kama!
42:40Absolutely incredible.
42:41Come on!
42:42This is the beginning of something great.
42:44Kama!
42:45Thank you so much.
42:46Kama!
42:47This is my first smooth operation in Williams.
42:51Kama!
42:51Ah!
42:53And not the last.
42:54And not the last.
42:58P13 in the end.
42:59Well done, the numbers.
43:01Yeah, well done.
43:16I'm just really happy.
43:17I'm feeling that I'm just meant to be here fighting for these podiums.
43:22I needed Williams, Williams needed me,
43:24and together we just feel in a good place.
43:28That's why I can call this a home,
43:30and now we can start building on even better things.
43:35Well done.
43:36Thanks for coming down. Appreciate it.
43:37I'm not going to lie.
43:39I wish I was the one to score the podium,
43:41but to see the team get that result,
43:44to see how much they enjoy it,
43:45to share that moment with everyone was very special.
43:53What meant the world to me was seeing the team rewarded
43:56for their belief in me,
43:58their belief in our journey.
44:02It's showing them that we are on the right track,
44:05and that our future is bright.
44:06We're on a good path.
44:14Mercedes and Ferrari are the two teams
44:16that kind of have their ups and downs.
44:18Let's help keep up.
44:19Self-doubt can creep in.
44:21I feel very ashamed of my performance.
44:24Who's crying?
44:26It's crunch time.
44:27The most important thing is to never give up.
44:30Vegas is a mega event.
44:32In one race in America, we haven't won.
44:35Off to work!
44:37You guys are right, then.
44:39It's after whatever I've got to do.
44:41Bang!
44:42Bang!
44:43Bang!
44:43Bang!
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