Guenther Steiner's 2026 Madrid GP Recap! | Vankah Hours S3E18

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Guenther Steiner (1:38)

Hello, Wankers from Madrid.

Matt Elisofon (1:43)

What's up, Wankers? We are luckily not in Madrid.

SPEAKER_1 (1:47)

Yeah, hola, Wankers.

Brian Muller (1:49)

Vamos, Wankers. Vamos.

Wow. Madrid really came in with a splash. They said, hey, Formula 1, I'm here, and welcome to the new best race on the calendar.

Matt Elisofon (2:05)

Isn't that right, Guenther? We signed a 10-year contract, so no backsies.

Guenther Steiner (2:12)

I think they know what to have to do for next year. I think they saw it with their own eyes, as we did. I think there is a lot of improvement to be done. And I want to keep it positive compared with you to negative bastards, you know?

They will change things, you know? We need to have a possibility to overtake Jesus Christ.

Matt Elisofon (2:37)

Well, why didn't that occur to them in the first place?

Guenther Steiner (2:40)

Good question, which I cannot answer.

I do not have the answer for that one. You know, that's beyond me, above me, beside me, you know, whatever you want to say. I was not involved, so please do not blame me for this. Like you do normally, everything is my fault, you know, a little bit like my wife does with me, you know, so.

Brian Muller (2:59)

That's right. No, but Carlos Sainz was involved, and we saw today that he designed that track for him to put on the show that he put on today.

Guenther Steiner (3:08)

No, no, exactly. Just to make one thing sure, he couldn't give a shit about overtaking, because for him it was pretty good not to be overtaken, because he was not going to overtake anybody, you know.

I think being a Sainz, he had a plan. He knew where he was standing and said, I make sure that you cannot overtake here, at least, and that's why I just, I mean, you're just great guys, you know. You found out why he did this maneuver at the start. I need to get a few positions at the start, because then nobody can overtake him anymore.

SPEAKER_7 (3:38)

Right, right.

Brian Muller (3:39)

Well, yeah, Madrid has come in with, I don't know if you'd call it a splash. I think you'd call it like, you know, a dump. If a raindrop.

Matt Elisofon (3:47)

A dump.

Brian Muller (3:47)

A raindrop.

SPEAKER_8 (3:48)

Yeah, a dump.

Brian Muller (3:51)

But this was quite a weekend, quite a race. Obviously, a lot to discuss, the situation with Lando Norris, the VSC, whether McLaren did the right thing by calling him in as the VSC was ending. Gimientinelli extends his lead. Carlos Sainz running into everyone, including the King of Spain, Fernando Alonso, and Mohamed Ben Salaam talking about how he needs to keep Fernando Alonso happy, to keep him in the sport, and the changes are coming. We're going to be talking about all that on this early episode of Vankah Hours, because of Guenther's, he's a man about town, his schedule.

We're getting this episode out first, so Red Flags will be coming out later in the week. We got Vankah Hours first thing in. But before we get to the episode, we got a few orders of business. This is, of course, Vankah Hours part of the Vox Media Network. We are doing a live show in Austin Saturday night, baby, at Austin City Limits. Link is in the description. We're doing a, right after qualifying, grand preview. It's going to be Guenther and us two idiots talking about all things Formula 1 And if you are not there, you're not going to be able to see it anywhere, baby, because we're not filming it. If you're not there, you're not getting the experience. So get your tickets right now. Isn't that right, Guenther?