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00:46Good evening, all. Welcome to Belgium.
00:49It is the evening after the night before, and once again, it doesn't appear to be coming home.
00:55Will it ever come home? Who knows?
00:57But what it does mean is that your attentions will be fully focused on the Ardennes Forest,
01:02even more than they already were going to be, and on the Belgian Grand Prix.
01:06Joining me to look ahead to this weekend, one slightly deflated Belgian lady who has sympathies for France.
01:12And Belgium. Both of whom are out as well.
01:16And one slightly smug Scotsman, Craig Slater, who I saw you fraternising, by the way, with the Argentine TV company.
01:23Well, I have to say, Scotland is also the home of football. We invented crossbars.
01:27OK. Did you? Yeah. And passing, apparently.
01:31I didn't know that. I've got an English grandmother, so I'm a little bit upset, but...
01:35But not that much. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Hanging in there.
01:38Good. Commiserations to you.
01:39Commiserations. I think I'm going to get into badminton as well, or something like that.
01:43But, right, let's set up this weekend then, because, as we said, two more before the summer break,
01:49and a classic track in the form of Spa, Naomi.
01:52Well, personally, I love to come back to Spa. I know that this is a location that sometimes we get
01:57rained on a lot,
01:58and, actually, looking up at the sky behind us, things are looking OK.
02:01But just over here, things are looking very different, so you never really know what you're going to get in
02:05terms of weather.
02:06But, as a racing driver as well, just besides the fact that I'm Belgian, this is a circuit that drivers
02:11absolutely adore.
02:12I mean, it's a circuit that offers so much in terms of the experience that you get in the cockpit.
02:16A lot of hard braking zones, a lot of high-speed sections, blind corners, elevation.
02:21I mean, it's like a wild roller coaster, and we absolutely love the sensations around the circuit.
02:26No, it matters. I was in the butchers yesterday, and I was talking to my butcher as I ordered the
02:30sausages for the barbecue,
02:31and he was absolutely thrilled by this. He's a big F1 fan, and he said, it's just that, I mean,
02:37everybody's excited about the fact
02:39that the Ferraris now appear to have an opportunity against the Mercs because of reliability.
02:43What's your thought process about, about where everything is at the moment on that front?
02:48Yeah, well, it should be quite similar here to Silverstone. You'd think high speed, a few long straights as well.
02:55Lewis said after Silverstone, I made a few silly mistakes. There are some obvious things I can improve.
03:00He's only 32 points behind Kimi Antonelli as well, so maybe they can turn the tables here.
03:06So, yeah, I think it's a lot to play for. Should be an eventful race.
03:11Yes, it's maybe a tricky track with the new power units, but it will also cause a lot of movement,
03:17particularly early on as well, because there should be big offsets in terms of battery power.
03:22So, yeah, it's going to be eventful, could be championship significant too.
03:26Yeah, and track by track, we know how important the upgrades are, Naomi, but it's just in behind the Mercedes,
03:30it's been those other three teams kind of jostling positions.
03:33It feels like McLaren might have fallen away a little bit.
03:36You know, Max Verstappen was frustrated with what happened at Silverstone,
03:40but that's the talk of it.
03:41If one of them can just get it in the right window, again, it seems to be track dependent.
03:46Yeah, every weekend we kind of wonder who's going to be best of the rest,
03:49but you've got to say that Ferrari have been the most constant threat to Mercedes.
03:54As you say, McLaren, I think, maybe are the ones that we've expected a bit more from in certain moments
03:58that we haven't got, but they do have, finally, the new upgraded Mercedes engine
04:02after two races after the works team, and so let's see if that brings them any additional performance,
04:06but it's going to be interesting to see whose it is.
04:09Ferrari aren't looking very happy about, you know, their engine around this circuit.
04:13It might be a big, big, big uphill battle for them.
04:15Okay, well, in Silverstone, though, they did have a winner in the form of Charles Leclerc.
04:20His first, yes, it finished under the safety car, but his first win since Austin in 2024.
04:26Let's hear from both of those in red.
04:29It was good to see that the work pays off.
04:32At the same time, as I said, it was only on one track,
04:36and now I want to reproduce that on different tracks.
04:39So, yeah, it felt good, but then in terms of confidence,
04:45I'm always confident that if I do a good job inside the car,
04:49then the results come, and if I feel confident with the car
04:53and just at ease with the car, then things come, yeah,
04:58the results will follow, but for that, I need to work.
05:02So, it's what I've been trying to do in the past few days,
05:08to try and understand first why we were much better than what we expected
05:13in Silverstone in order to try and reproduce that more often in the future.
05:18I feel definitely good.
05:20I think I don't know what to expect this weekend, if I'm really honest,
05:23with the more straights and or longer straights.
05:28But I love this track.
05:29The weather's great, and yeah, I'm really proud of the team
05:34and the incremental steps that we're taking.
05:36For me, Silverstone and Spa are two tracks that should suit a lot better Mercedes.
05:43However, in Silverstone, I mean, it was honestly a surprise for us also to be strong,
05:50but we were also lucky on the Sunday because Kimi was probably as strong as what we expected.
05:58So, yeah, I think in Spa, Mercedes is still the favourite.
06:03I think everybody would echo that, but prior to Silverstone,
06:07four points in three races for Charles Leclerc, as you're saying,
06:10he changed his brakes this year, gone to the same as Lewis in the carbon industry once.
06:15There was something that wasn't clicking, was there?
06:18But then it all seemed to fit together, and he seems a different man again.
06:20Yeah, he said on the Friday, wasn't it?
06:22I mean, they're very hush-hush, Ferrari, about their car and what they're changing on it,
06:27and it was a bit of a corporate issue that they've switched to the carbon industries once,
06:31so they haven't publicised that too much.
06:33But, yeah, Charles said on the Friday at Silverstone, something fell into place,
06:38and he'd been lagging Lewis Hamilton for the previous few rounds.
06:43I still expect Lewis, if he can avoid the little mishaps he had at Silverstone,
06:48to maybe reassert himself this weekend, but let's see.
06:51I was just looking at it, what's the gap?
06:5239 points, isn't it, between the pair of them now?
06:55But what have you made of Charles' lack of form, you know, up until Silverstone,
07:00and the way that Lewis has, I suppose, defied the critics?
07:03We were talking about it, weren't we, a couple of weekends ago?
07:06You know, Nico and some of our other pundits were first to say,
07:10it's your qualifying pace that goes first.
07:11That's happened.
07:12This year, totally different guy.
07:14Yeah, that's true.
07:15But, honestly, when you look at it on paper, it's slightly less dismal than it maybe seems on the outside.
07:21I mean, most times he qualified within the top four.
07:24Actually, back in Austria, he qualified front row.
07:26So, actually, it hasn't been for a total lack of pace from his side.
07:31I think it's just pulling it all together.
07:32There's been a couple of driver mistakes from his side as well, putting it in the wall on two occasions.
07:37But, as you say, he made the choice post-Monaco to change his brakes.
07:40And that, from a driver's perspective, will make the experience in the cockpit slightly different.
07:44His driving style would need to take some time to adapt to that.
07:47But I spoke to him a little earlier today, and I'm sure that that interview will come to the audience
07:51later on in the weekend.
07:53And his point was to say that he was just lacking a little bit of confidence in the car in
07:57the terms of not having much predictability,
08:00whereas in the past it was much more instinctive the way he went driving.
08:03Now he didn't always know what to predict from one corner to the next, and he started to make sense
08:07of that.
08:07Yeah, there's another engine upgrade coming for Ferrari, which is more significant than the one they brought a couple of
08:13rounds ago, was it now?
08:14Yeah, yeah.
08:15So, do they need to just hang in there, maybe get a little bit of a result if they can
08:19work, get a bit of luck or a break over these next two rounds?
08:23And maybe we could really see them, particularly Lewis, who has the points advantage, really put pressure on Mercedes.
08:29Absolutely.
08:29I mean, you've interviewed Lewis probably more than any of us, right?
08:32When you did it last year and this year.
08:34What difference have you noticed?
08:36Today, he was quieter and more brief with his answers, but he can change day to day.
08:45I mean, let's see how he gets on this weekend.
08:47I don't think there was anything particularly to read into that.
08:49He just wasn't particularly forthcoming.
08:50Maybe he was a particular downer about the football last night.
08:53You know, we'll hear from him about that a little bit later on.
08:57Yeah, he probably thinks, I could have done a bit better at Silverstone.
09:02There was a false start that he wasn't happy with his wing angle.
09:07Little things that he knows could have been better that could have put him in a position where he could
09:11have worked his Silverstone magic.
09:13So, maybe that was an opportunity missed, but maybe he gets another opportunity here.
09:17Okay, the gap between Kimi Antonelli and George Russell after Monaco three races ago was 68 points.
09:24It's now down to 25.
09:25Let's hear from both of those at the top.
09:29It's great that the gap has closed up, but it's not really a focus at all.
09:33The focus is trying to get the best result, best performance possible.
09:38Still, every race learning so much on how to find more performance, to be honest.
09:43It's still a challenge getting on top of these new power units for cars, for tyres.
09:49But I feel in a good place, Spar's a place.
09:52I enjoy the drive.
09:54I've got some good memories over the years.
09:56So, yeah, bring it on.
09:58Yeah, I mean, our car has been quick every race.
10:02So, for sure, I'd expect us to be up there.
10:09But also, Ferrari, they were very strong in Silverstone.
10:13It was a surprise, you know.
10:17But to be fair, we always kind of expected them to be up there.
10:23Because especially when it comes to qualifying, they seem to find some extra time.
10:31So, definitely, we think they can be up there this weekend.
10:35And then, of course, you can have a ride-off Red Bull, McLaren, because they can always come out and
10:43be fast as well.
10:45So, yeah, just as always, just focus on myself.
10:49But, yeah, we're pretty confident that the package is going to be good because it's been good all throughout this
10:55year.
10:57Naomi, rumor has it that everybody at Mercedes is now a full Kimi Convert.
11:03As if they weren't before, they are now.
11:05Just because, attitudinally, during that race, when he had everything thrown at him at Silverstone, he never gave up.
11:11It was like he would do anything to get that final point.
11:15And I think that kind of, that's the kind of thing that would spur a garage, right?
11:20That's the kind of thing that makes people say, I want this kid on the team.
11:23No, totally.
11:24I mean, I think we were all pleasantly surprised by his attitude on the radio.
11:28Of course, you know, that maybe he was a little bit flustered in the moment.
11:30But deep down, the meaning was that he was desperate to get whatever point he could get out of it.
11:35And that he's fighting for each and every single point on track.
11:38We saw a little bit of that in Montreal as well, although the context was very different.
11:42You could just tell that when things aren't going right, he's really trying to make sure that he can still
11:46salvage something out of it.
11:47And, you know, Kimi this year is a very different driver to what he was last year.
11:51Actually, here at Spa last year, he had a very tough, tough year.
11:55And he's a completely different kid come 12 months later.
11:59And, yeah, I can't understand why anyone at Mercedes wouldn't be cheering him on.
12:03I mean, what a fantastic story and a young character that's very, very likable.
12:07Fully enough, though, sorry to interrupt, but if you contrast and compare, like, Toto was slightly short with George.
12:13Wasn't he on the radio when he was complaining about the top speed?
12:16And then, you know, Kimi does that.
12:17I mean, I'm not drawing anything into it, but it just shows you where the two drivers' mindsets are at
12:22the moment,
12:22if you're to read into that a little bit.
12:25And I think, yes, he might be young, Kimi, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't know.
12:30He's being chased down by far more experienced drivers.
12:32And he knows that every single point could decide the championship.
12:37We had a chat in the office earlier today.
12:39You kind of made that point there about with a bit more experience and maybe a better way of communicating
12:47exactly how the car felt.
12:49Maybe they could have avoided the second pit stop.
12:52He could have identified the problem, possibly, and they could have dealt with it in one stop.
12:57And is that a lack of experience?
13:00Did it come into play there?
13:01But potentially, even though he had that run of five races, he's probably been driving better in the last three
13:11when he's hemorrhaged all these points through no real fault of his own and is looking supremely confident.
13:18And even though he's lost a bunch of points, he doesn't look bothered about that either.
13:23But that's not lost on George either, is it?
13:24I mean, he absolutely knew that, yet again, his teammate had done him for pace.
13:30I mean, he would have won that race, wouldn't he, if he hadn't had the wheel shield going on him?
13:34Yeah, and coming into the season, we would have thought that George would have been the top dog quite easily.
13:38And also, again, just to draw back to Kimi's season last year,
13:41it didn't look like he was going to come into the season and be competing toe-to-toe with George.
13:46And he has started, well, he's clearly done that and done it better than George.
13:50But also, as you say, the attitude is, I think, something that would probably frustrate you if you were George
13:54because Kimi's this young driver, but nobody expected it out of him, and he's just delivering.
13:59Whereas George has been there for a longer time.
14:01He's been in Formula One for a much longer time.
14:03And so the pressure, I think, that's weighing on George's shoulders is much heavier.
14:07And you can see that in the way that he's behaving, the nature of, you know, how he does his
14:11interviews.
14:12Whereas Kimi, bizarrely, even though he has hemorrhaged points and has all of this,
14:15he's just like a happy chap.
14:17And that will irritate George, I couldn't imagine.
14:19George, it's interesting today.
14:22I think what is better for him is he, at least he now has a sporting challenge in front of
14:28him.
14:28And I think he also felt the world's against me, and I'm not going to get these points back,
14:33the ones that he'd lost via bad luck.
14:35Now at least he knows Kimi's had the bad luck as well.
14:38But in terms of how he's having to work to deal with this car, he used an interesting analogy today
14:44to me.
14:44He said it's a bit like a golfer having to reinvent their swing.
14:48Nick Faldo, back in the day, I always remember, was getting close in major championships but not winning them.
14:55And did the very radical thing of getting David Ledbetter and completely rebuilt the way he would string his club.
15:02and won majors, but can he do that in the midst of a title fight, George?
15:08Adapt to this car and get ahead of Kimi Antonelli?
15:12It's a lot to ask.
15:14It is, because actually his natural style, as we know, I mean, as he came through the junior formula,
15:19it's been, yes, he's been quick in qualifying, one lap pace, no problem.
15:22But he's always had that sort of, he wants to be a bit more reserved and consistent.
15:27You know, he finishes so many races.
15:28He's always scoring points.
15:29He's always finishing in the, you know, the top ten.
15:33It's just, that might not be enough against someone with the raw speed that Kimi has over the course of
15:38the season.
15:38Speed will win out over consistency.
15:40Well, I mean, consistency is what wins you a title, but you also need speed in that as well.
15:46And we would have thought that Kimi would be making loads more mistakes than he has been.
15:50And yes, it hasn't been a perfect season for Kimi, besides the technical problems that he's had.
15:54He's made a few mistakes as a driver as well.
15:56And I think we were expecting way more of those, and probably George was as well.
16:00So now he can't rely on the fact that Kimi might be making mistakes because he's not making them.
16:04So it just leaves George way more exposed in the sense that he can't get anything wrong if he wants
16:08to win this title.
16:09Eight years building towards this point.
16:11And then a young whippersnapper comes along and annoys you and does it repeatedly.
16:18Now, he was once a young, we were all once young whippersnappers, but Max Verstappen, another.
16:23I can't remember.
16:25What's female for whippersnapper?
16:27Whippersnapper-esque.
16:27What a whippersnapper even is?
16:28Yeah, okay.
16:29We'll get into that later.
16:30Shall we hear from Max Verstappen?
16:32I'll explain.
16:33Here's Max.
16:34There's been yet more speculation about your future in recent days, recent weeks.
16:40Is there any update you can give us?
16:42No.
16:44And what do you make of the speculation?
16:47Nothing.
16:49And do you have a date in mind?
16:52No, there's nothing to say.
16:55So full commitment to Red Bull 2020?
16:58I said there's nothing to say.
17:00So, okay, I don't want to go here.
17:03Yes, say yes and no and this and that about my future.
17:06I said already many times that if there was something new, I would say it myself.
17:11How confident are you that they can give you the tools to operate where you belong, i.e.
17:17at the front, if not this year, then next year?
17:20And are you concerned about the, well, it seems ongoing loss of engineering names, the latest
17:26being Michael Manning?
17:29No, we're just looking to the future, trying to fix also, you know, current issues that we
17:34have on the car, but that's very like an open discussion.
17:39And yes, you know, sometimes you get a little bit disappointed or upset after a race, but
17:44for example, after Silverstone, you go home, you reset.
17:49On Wednesday, I was back at the factory, and then you prepare again the weekends ahead.
17:53That's how I've been operating all the years together.
17:56And of course, some years, you're just a little bit more competitive than others.
18:02But in terms of my approach and how we work as a team, yeah, nothing really changes.
18:07And yeah, that people come and go.
18:10I think that's sometimes also part of the process, that sometimes you want people to
18:15stay potentially, yes.
18:17But I think, yeah, sometimes that's just how life is, how sport is as well.
18:26Well, Craig, you got more out of him than the bloke before you, because that wasn't Crofty,
18:29was it?
18:31Tom Clarkson, to be fair, asked the more difficult questions there.
18:35I mean, it's an interesting one.
18:36A, does Max need to make a public affirmation to Red Bull?
18:40I mean, he's under contract there for another couple of years.
18:43I made all this noise.
18:45Maybe he might do it at some point.
18:49Clearly, there's a gap, isn't there?
18:51He's up here in terms of where he is as a driver.
18:54The team are in a kind of transitional phase.
18:56They can't give him the equipment to fight.
18:58That was the question I kind of put to him.
19:00But do you believe they can by the end of this year or next year?
19:04Difficult one to answer at the moment.
19:06But what are his options?
19:07Is there an obvious one?
19:09Not really.
19:10Mercedes seems like they don't want to take him this, you know,
19:15to put him alongside Kimi or George necessarily.
19:18And McLaren, again, they've stood pretty firm by their drivers.
19:22And Ferrari doesn't seem an option either.
19:24So it looks like he's going to have to stay and make the fight at Red Bull as best he
19:29can.
19:29I wonder, though, how much is...
19:32I mean, we look at Red Bull, you know, the latest...
19:35I mean, there's been a brain drain there has for the last couple of years, obviously.
19:38And that entire team has gone.
19:40And as you said, it is a team in transition.
19:43But that team that is in transition has largely...
19:46I mean, you could levy the blame at saying it has a lot to do with his father
19:51and the management team and the pressure that they put onto, etc., etc.,
19:55onto Christian Horner and the rest of them.
19:57So what would you suggest now?
20:00I mean, do they have to just say, OK, well, fair enough.
20:02Maybe other teams don't want all that baggage coming to us.
20:05Is that an issue for them?
20:08Oh, that's a loaded question.
20:11But I think it's more complicated than that.
20:13No, and I think that, look, obviously it's been a very turbulent time at Red Bull.
20:18I don't think that we can pin it all down to Joss or Max.
20:21I think that there's been a lot of other stuff going on behind the scenes.
20:24But the fact of the matter is they are, as you say, in a transition phase
20:28because of all this turbulence.
20:29And we've seen it with other teams like Alpine,
20:31where they've lost a lot of their senior leadership.
20:33And it has had a direct impact on performance.
20:35So I don't doubt that that's definitely playing a role here.
20:39But, you know, park that for a second.
20:41We know that Max came into this year looking like he might go elsewhere.
20:46I mean, there was lots of talks last year of him potentially going elsewhere.
20:48But the point was to get into this new era of Formula One,
20:52see who's performing, how they're performing, and then make a decision.
20:55But ultimately now he's in a position where, you know, the other teams are looking tightly locked up.
21:00Personally, I still see that the biggest opportunity for him would be at Mercedes.
21:04And, you know, yes, there's Kimi there, but Toto lost out on Max once.
21:08And I think if the opportunity came again, I don't know if he would lose out on him again.
21:12Yeah, personally, I mean, if you had that, I mean, you look at what's going on right now.
21:16The DNF at Silverstone means that he's going to finish outside the top two.
21:20He can invoke that break clause.
21:21He doesn't have to tell anybody until October, and it will happen at the end of the year.
21:25But I just, like, everyone knows that Max Verstappen, pound for pound,
21:31people that recognise him up and down this paddock as the best driver.
21:34Why are you not going to take him?
21:35Despite what I'm saying, I'm just playing down a little advocate.
21:38And if you're McLaren, you might think who aren't an engine manufacturer
21:44and are looking for a bit of performance, he would give you it.
21:48So you could see the logic there.
21:50But they're standing by their two drivers.
21:54Just incidentally, Isaac Hadjar getting a 20-place grid penalty for Sunday
22:00by taking a new engine and turbo.
22:02Max also taking a new engine and turbo, but not getting any penalty.
22:06Lanna Norris has also got a grid penalty, 10 places.
22:09Here he is.
22:11I think the main thing is just another weekend.
22:13Another weekend to look forward to.
22:16Yeah, trying to race well, trying to qualify well and try to have a good weekend.
22:21See what we can improve on.
22:23Of course, certainly won't be made easier by the grid penalty,
22:26but that's just because I've just been unlucky in the first part of the season,
22:29losing a lot of different bits, whether it's the engine or the power unit
22:34or the controls, whatever it's been.
22:36So I'm just on the back foot from a spare parts point of view.
22:41But that's out of my hands and it's out of our hands in some ways.
22:44So that's life.
22:46Just got to take it on the chin and deal with some of the penalties that I have coming up.
22:50But this is certainly a better track to take the penalties than the next two.
22:55So, yes, part of it.
22:58But we can still look forward to try having a good weekend.
23:00Thank you.
23:02Yeah, you do see it year in, year out here.
23:04But, you know, if you've got some issues, take the penalties here at Spa.
23:08But they've got a new rear wing.
23:09They're going to bring big upgrades, as we understand it, Craig, to Hungary next time out.
23:14Yeah, I asked Lando, is it mission critical?
23:16Are these upgrades, the rear wing here and the upgrade package for Hungary,
23:20are they mission critical for giving you a chance to fight for the championship and defend it?
23:24And he said, yes, but it's going to be a big ask.
23:28I mean, it's like a bit like Lewis in 2009, couldn't really defend his title.
23:34Tough on him.
23:36But, funnily enough, Lando thinks he's driving better this year than he was last year.
23:41So, with the added confidence of being world champion, it's just being masked by the relative strength of that car.
23:48Yeah, and yet he says it's the hardest F1 car he's had to drive.
23:51I mean, look, we know even for us to have to explain what the drivers are doing in these cars
23:55is incredibly challenging.
23:56So, in the car as well, it's not necessarily a natural experience.
24:00And I think that's also why we're seeing the likes of a Max not being able to extract the absolute
24:04maximum out of the car
24:05because you're not driving these cars in the traditional, instinctive, sort of, like, intuitive way that you would.
24:11So, you've had to, like, really redefine the way that you go racing.
24:15And I think that that's a challenge for a lot of drivers.
24:17But, ultimately, the best always rise above it, right?
24:19It's all about adaptability.
24:20At the end of the day, yes, these cars are all slightly different, but the tools and the rules are
24:25the same for everybody.
24:26So, yeah, kind of just work with it.
24:29Work with it, but they are three months behind.
24:30We keep saying it.
24:31That's where they believe they are.
24:33It's funny, isn't it?
24:33But I kind of get that argument.
24:36But I did think when Andrew Stella started talking about changing concepts or reappraising concepts
24:43that maybe they've taken a wrong turn.
24:45They're having to backtrack and go in a different direction.
24:48So, maybe it's more if rather than when they get on terms with everyone else.
24:53Right.
24:53Okay, let's finish, shall we?
24:55A bit of fun to finish with.
24:56You're saying literally every single journalist in the pen today has been asking all the drivers
25:01a little bit about the World Cup.
25:03And here's a few selected answers.
25:06I did watch the game last night.
25:07I wasn't enjoying it.
25:09I'm so proud to be Argentinian.
25:10And I'm so proud to be supporting our country.
25:13And the way that they defended the T-shirt on the court was very impressive yesterday.
25:19And it's been impressive all the World Cup.
25:22They have not been playing great at times, but then they always recovered.
25:25They always gave their maximum to the end.
25:27I felt like one of the first times in a while that I've watched England and they really
25:31had that grit.
25:32And it felt like they really wanted to win.
25:34And, you know, they were playing against Argentina.
25:37And I believe we were the better team, you know, up to the goal.
25:41Tough against Argentina.
25:43Oh my God.
25:45And just felt, I just got it for them.
25:47You know, sitting there with my fingers, everything crossed, hoping that we would pull it off.
25:52But, um, we'll bounce back.
25:55Look, my engineers are Spanish.
25:58Okay.
25:58My manager is Spanish.
26:01But Argentina is my neighbor.
26:04So it's difficult for me.
26:05Whatever I say, I'm going to be compromised.
26:07It will mean a lot, I think, for the country.
26:10It brings, you know, emotions.
26:12It brings happiness, you know, to the people.
26:15So, you know, football is very powerful, you know, sport.
26:19And in Spain, it's everything.
26:21So, you know, I really hope Spain can make it and make everyone proud.
26:26They swept us and they played impressive football.
26:32So, I think they are the best team and the best team should win.
26:35So, I will be rooting for Spain.
26:38Well, if we are in the final, it's because it's possible, no?
26:40And I think, if anything, Spain has been playing the best football of this World Cup.
26:44So, feel confident about our options.
26:47Having said that, Argentina is always dangerous in a pack.
26:50So, it will be difficult to keep our goal at zero.
26:54But so far, we've only been scored once in the whole tournament.
26:57So, I think we, yeah, we have a good chance.
27:03Yeah, he believes it.
27:05I wonder if you do.
27:06There we go.
27:07Spain or Argentina.
27:09However, for us, it is a full quota of Belgian Grand Prix action this weekend.
27:14Practice one from midday.
27:16Practice two from 3.35.
27:18And then we'll wrap it all up.
27:19The F1 show, 5.15.
27:23Practice three is 11.15 on Saturday.
27:262.15 for qualifying.
27:28And on Sunday, we'll get underway.
27:3212.30.
27:32Race start at 2 p.m.
27:34Now, there is a bit of, yeah, there's a bit of rain around.
27:37And it's started already.
27:38It's supposed to be coming tomorrow.
27:40So, we might better get to see these cars in the wet.
27:42Thank you, Naomi.
27:43Thank you to Craig.
27:45We shall see you tomorrow for the start of live track action here at Spa-Francorchamps.
27:57We shall see you tomorrow for the start of live track action.
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