MAX & TOTO’S VACATION, NEW SCHEDULE, $10 BILLION VALUATION? This Week in F1 | The Red Flags Podcast

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**SPEAKER_1** (1:21)
What's up, bankers?

**Brian** (1:23)
Hello, bankers!

**Shiraz** (1:26)
How are you doing?

**Brian** (1:28)
How are you doing? How's your summer break going? Let me guess, better than George Russell's?

**Matt** (1:39)
Yes.

**Shiraz** (1:41)
Lonely.
I'm Mr. Lonely. I have nobody on my own.

**SPEAKER_7** (1:50)
I am so lonely.

**Matt** (1:51)
Remember that song?

**Shiraz** (1:52)
Book up in the middle of the night. Yeah.

**Brian** (1:56)
I keep dancing on my own.

**Shiraz** (2:01)
I'm in the corner watching you kiss her.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:09)
Why can't you see me, Toto?

**Brian** (2:18)
But I'm not the driver you're taking to your yacht on Sardinia. Oh, I am George Russell.

**Matt** (2:30)
I mean, not only does he take Kimi, it's like one thing, it's like he invited multiple drivers, and he didn't even make a cut. He invited Kimi Antonelli, fine, but then he invited a second driver, Max Verstappen. It's like, bro, you invite a competitive driver, a driver on another fucking team before you invite me? You invite my rumored replacement?

**Brian** (3:02)
The guy you've been flirting with for the past three years?

**Matt** (3:05)
Not only the guy you've been flirting with, I mean, seemingly public enemy number one, the guy who fucking stole one of your championships.

**Brian** (3:14)
Right.

**SPEAKER_8** (3:15)
Osama Bin Laden.

**Brian** (3:18)
The guy, and the guy that I particularly, if I am George Russell, my number one enemy. The guy who rammed his fucking car into me last year.

**Matt** (3:27)
The guy who crashed into me in purpose. Yeah, ran into me on purpose and bulldozed Lewis Hamilton's eighth title. Okay. Crazy.
But George Russell, like, it's fine.

**Shiraz** (3:39)
I got my own boat. I have my own boat.

**Matt** (3:41)
Yeah.

**Shiraz** (3:41)
I have my own boat.

**Brian** (3:42)
I have my own boat and I'm on my jet ski.
Shiraz, insert George Russell's Instagram posts of him on the jet ski. He's like, nothing's wrong with me, babe. Look at my summer break. I'm killing it. Yes.

**SPEAKER_10** (3:57)
I'm George Russell.

**Matt** (4:02)
He's got like a 20 foot boat, 30 foot boat. You know, it's just, it's like, it's like not like just yachts, yachts that big. Toto's yacht. That's what George is selling. Tom's over right now. George's yacht. It's a Toto's yacht. It's it's it's tacky.
It's tacky to have a hundred foot yacht.

**Brian** (4:23)
It's it's honestly like in terms of also just like in terms of the environmental impact, it's just like actually not above board. My guy.

**Matt** (4:31)
Yeah.

**Brian** (4:32)
No, this is you need a whole staff.

**Shiraz** (4:34)
I mean, it's just too much.

**Brian** (4:37)
Right. George likes to live simply.
George likes to live in a simple way.

**Matt** (4:41)
My boat is the perfect size.

**SPEAKER_8** (4:43)
Toto's yacht way too big.

**Brian** (4:46)
That's what everyone tells me, that my yacht is the perfect size. And yeah, actually, actually the big yachts kind of hurt.
Listen, you definitely don't want a yacht that's too small, but you also don't want a yacht that's too big, honestly. Like you just want the one that's in the perfect size. Okay, we kid, we kid, but listen, it's summer break, but that doesn't mean that the drama stops. That doesn't mean that the news stops. We have a lot to discuss on this episode of The Red Flags, part of the Vox Media Network. We have obviously Toto Wolff cheating on George Russell with Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli. Kimi Antonelli's former manager is now suing for his piece of the pie. We've got James Vowles talking about 2027, screw 2026, it's all about 2027 We've got Mark Hughes saying that Max Verstappen should actually go to Aston Martin if he's going to change teams. We will discuss how high the Aston Martin ceiling is. Then there's news with regards to the calendar. Maybe Imola at the end of the year, we can discuss a little bit about Malaysia. Flavio Briatore says these teams are going to be worth 10 billion down the line. All of that to discuss on this episode of The Red Flags. Let's start with where we've begun this episode. If you haven't seen the news, Toto Wolff, I guess the news, I mean the Internet. Toto Wolff has been on vacation on his yacht in Sardinia, which is a island off the coast of Italy. It's part of the Italian nation. It's where our amazing, actually illustrator for our book, Formula 101 He lives in Sardinia and he's a genius. Jody Schecter, looking like a fuck. Look at that Jewish, the Jewish hammer right there, dude.