george russell and mick schumacher in the paddock during pre-season testing, bahrain - february 23, 2023
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just a thick little fella, bahrain - february 24, 2023
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More on Pierre & Max’s shenanigans during the pre-season testing press conference
(Excerpt from Autosport’s What We Learned From F1's Pre-Season Test podcast)
Martyn Lee: Now F1TV and Channel 4′s Lawrence Barretto, I saw him tweet last night that he had a quick conversation with Verstappen. Was walking through the paddock, and said he never seen Verstappen so at ease and so confident before a season.
Did you get that impression as well? Double world champion, great car, team behind him, clearly number 1. This is ominous for everyone else.
Stuart Codling: Yes, he doesn’t even feel like he’s quite switched into full business mode yet. Cause he turned up late for the press conference today. And then started yak-yaking to Pierre Gasly who was next to him, quite loudly, while Logan Sargeant was fielding a question. I was thinking, if I were Logan Sargeant, I’d say “This was noisy in here. Are we in a branch of Starbucks or something?”
The yak-yak grew to such an extent that the press conference host Tom Clarkson had to subtly click his fingers to let the drivers know actually they were being rude as hell. And Later on Max wasn’t even listening to someone while they were asking a question.
Lee: HAHA I love it. He just doesn’t care, does he?
Codling: No.
Lee: If he’s not engaged, if he thinks the person asking the question is a bit of a dimwit or whatever, he’s like, “I’m not even listening to you, mate, what are you talking about?”
Oh my goodness me. Wow. Ok. Wow. He’s just. He seems. Wow. I don't know. Wow. Personal life, work life, everything, career wise, he just seems completely on form.
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i love testing commentary, it’s like i can see them psychically grappling trying to fill hours and hours of air time while there’s barely anything actually going on
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