Guenther Steiner's 2026 Hungarian GP Review! | Vankah Hours S3E15

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**Guenther Steiner** (0:17)
Hello, Wankers. What's up, Wankers?

**Brian** (0:21)
Greetings, Wankers. Guenther, what a race.

**Guenther Steiner** (0:28)
Yeah, what a race. You know, I think normally hunger is more like, okay, you cannot overtake. What do we expect here along Sunday afternoon? You know, maybe a little nap in between, you know, but there was no time for napping in Hungary. You know, there's always something happening amazingly, amazingly good, you know, so pretty happy with the race, but no, it was good.
Did you enjoy it?

**Brian** (0:56)
Well, I'm a Lando guy, so I did enjoy it.

**Guenther Steiner** (0:59)
Oh yeah, I forgot about, I was thinking of you, you know, you must have been so proud of yourself on Sunday night, you know, it's like, whoa, it's all about me. I'm the Lando man, you know. So why are you not wearing his hat?

**Brian** (1:13)
I've got it, I'm saving it for it.

**Guenther Steiner** (1:14)
I'm sure you got it.

**Brian** (1:15)
If I need to defend him at some point in this episode, I will be putting it on. I'm actually curly rocking the Mayo hat. Shout out to County Mayo, who just won the Gaelic Football Championships after a 75 year drought. It's been a good year for the teams that I support.

**Guenther Steiner** (1:30)
Yeah, Knicks and the Mayo, yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Brian** (1:32)
Yeah, the Knicks and the Mayo, and the movie that I shot, Finnegan's Forreston, which you still haven't seen, which you need to see, we shot in Mayo. So I have warmest place in my heart for Mayo. So Mayo won, Lando Norris won, Matt's obviously miserable as an Oscar guy. We're gonna get into all of that.

**Guenther Steiner** (1:48)
Matt is always miserable. It's nothing to do with Oscar, you know, it's him, you know.

**Brian** (1:53)
That's right. Wherever you go, Oscar Piastri is getting screwed over by the papaya rules. We're gonna discuss all of that. So much happening in this race. There's a ton of drama. Carlos Sainz and Oscar Piastri are at war.

**Guenther Steiner** (2:08)
About blue flags.

**Brian** (2:10)
About blue flags. Guenther, you are the team principal of Haas. You know a thing or two about good blue flags. We're gonna be talking to you about blue flags in this episode, but so much to discuss on this episode of Vankah Hours, part of the Vox Media Network. Before we get into that, let's cue the music.
And we're back! Had to throw a little jab in there, Guenther. We got Blue Flag Drama. You know a thing or two about Blue Flags. What happened there?

**Guenther Steiner** (3:01)
I think I'm the expert in it. I think I got more Blue Flags than all the other people together, you know, in my career, you know, so.
But what we have to say about the Blue Flags? Obviously, there was an issue with another software issue, because we are having over a software issue. I mean, I don't know why they're reoccurring. I think they need to work on their software department. I think the Blue Flag is FIA. Yeah, must be the FIA responsibility.
Oh, that's something strange, you know. That's something new, you know. Oh, okay. But anyway. Because they had the issue.

**Matt** (3:38)
At least it's a different problem each week, and not the same. Remember, a few weeks ago, it was the Red Flag that was an issue, then it's Yellow Flag that are the issue.

**Guenther Steiner** (3:46)
And then it was the Safety Car. You remember the Yellow, yes?

**Brian** (3:49)
Safety Car, then it was the pit limiter, the pit speed in Monaco. I mean, it's whackable.

**Guenther Steiner** (3:57)
Yeah, yeah, there's always something. That was FOM. That was FOM. We need to be correct here. Okay, okay. So they were measuring wrong, you know.

**Matt** (4:03)
No, but the stewards were the one that were over-eager and giving out the penalties.

**Guenther Steiner** (4:08)
They're always eager to give penalties, yeah.

**Matt** (4:10)
And then taking them back and then having a whole court case over it with Pierre Gasly. So the FIA did maybe overreact to those penalties, to the speed limit.

**Guenther Steiner** (4:21)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, but now it's a new thing. But the software is a problem, you know. I think there is a lot of good software companies out there, you know, to fix these problems, you know.