OUR MONZA PREDICTIONS! | The Red Flags Podcast

**Matt** (0:00)
What's up, Venkas?

**Brian** (0:03)
Ciao, Venkas! It's Monza, baby!
The Temple of Speed!

**Matt** (0:11)
That's right. That's right. This is a big one.
This is the one that Silverstone thinks it is. This is, that's what I'll say.
Because this is, I mean, this place is actually, I mean, Silverstone is lit, but there's this smugness about it. This place is lit, and the energy is insane, right? They actually, like, you look at the fans, they're actually bringing the energy, whereas if you actually go to Silverstone, we're going right off the top, just fuck England. Going, you go to, you actually go to Silverstone, the vibes are not that high, the vibes are low. We've been there a couple of times, vibes are low.

**Brian** (0:54)
No, yes.

**Matt** (0:54)
The vibes are fucking high. The expectations are through the roof and for Ferrari and let's, they're probably going to blow it. They're probably going to blow it.

**Brian** (1:06)
They're probably going to blow it, but you know what? We've got some hope because they're bringing an engine update to Monza, because they know they can't, they know that they can't fuck this one up.
Listen, will they win the race? I don't know, but they know, they're going to do everything in their power to not fuck this up. Now, will they fuck this up? Probably. But will they try to not? Yes.

**Matt** (1:37)
But it's, you know, it's like one of those things, like the harder you try, it's like when you want some, when you want a girl or a guy to like you, and you're like, let me just try harder.

**Brian** (1:49)
Yeah, that's right.

**Matt** (1:50)
What if I just try harder? What if I just text them five times?

**Brian** (1:54)
It's like the finger trap. The more you pull, the tighter that shit wraps around your fingers, okay? So Ferrari's going to try, and will they trip over their little Ferrari dicks? Probably.
They probably will, because there's tension going in with the drivers. I mean, the state of play is what it is over there. I mean, Charles Leclerc just did a Beyond the Grid interview where he talked about how he views Fred Vassour as a father figure, and it's really a kind of a paternal relationship, which made me think maybe that's an element of what's going on at Ferrari, that Fred maybe looks at Charles kind of like a son. And so, do you tell your son, hey, number two, do you tell your son that?

**Matt** (2:47)
Yes, yes.

**Brian** (2:51)
Sometimes, I mean...

**Matt** (2:52)
To say goodbye, bye, see you there. That's what he needs to say to Charles.
It's time to say goodbye. It's so funny because the tighter they get, the less they want to embarrass themselves, the more they embarrass themselves. It really is a stunning achievement.
They're so image conscious and so sensitive that it then makes them look stupid on an international stage, but now it's the national stage, so they're going to be really focused. I remember we said to Guenther, like, you know, Ferrari really wants to... They put more effort in Monza. He goes, no, no, they don't. They're bringing a fucking upgrade just for this race.

**Brian** (3:39)
Yes.

**Matt** (3:40)
It's the least, they're probably their least likely track that they're going to be good at, but they're going to try everything to be good at this specific track, because it's obviously engine dependent. And we'll see, like, maybe the second to do an upgrade is going to be advantageous to them, but it's all sound and fury signifying nothing. They're not going to make the tough call. Well, it's actually kind of an easy call.

**Brian** (4:08)
You know, move bitch, get out of the way. To back one Lewis Hamilton. I mean, both drivers have been very historically good at Monza. It's Charles' best track, and it's one of Lewis' best track. Lewis has won there five times. Charles has won there, I believe, three times.
And it's where he won his first, you know, race as a Ferrari driver. That's big.
But yeah, at a certain point, push is going to come to shove, and you're going to have to actually make a tough decision. And will Ferrari make said decision? That is the question. Sorry, Charles has won there twice. He's won there twice, had two poles, where Lewis has won there five times with seven poles. So good track for both boys in red. But will Ferrari get in the way and fuck it up? Well, we're going to be talking about all of that. This is a little preview episode, little predictions episode. Before we get into all of it, babies, we got the Monza merch drop.