PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Hungary Quali Recap!

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
What's up, Venkas?

**SPEAKER_2** (0:02)
Fuck yeah! Gorgeous, Venkas!
It's such a perfect day!
I'm glad I spent it with you, Venka Nation! Dude? Repeat? Repeat? Are we in for repeat?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:27)
Oh my god. Are we back? We are back!

**SPEAKER_2** (0:33)
We are back!

**SPEAKER_1** (0:36)
Lando's up, Oscar is impeded, and nowhere.
Wait, Lando gets the upgrades, Oscar does not. Wait, we are so back? Are we? Is this fucking Groundhog's Day 2025?

**SPEAKER_2** (0:52)
Yeah, why would? Yeah, you're right. Lando shouldn't get the upgrades. He only won the fucking championship last year. Suck my whole dick. Fuck you. Lando Norris on Pizzy Pizzy Pole, baby. What a... Dude. Well, I really... I kind of wasn't expecting this. I was just hyped that he was like gonna be in it because I said that he was gonna be on the podium in our predictions with Gunter.
I thought that this was gonna be a Ferrari, one, two, maybe Lando in third.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:24)
It should have been.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:25)
It should have been. Except...

**SPEAKER_2** (1:27)
Well, except that...

**SPEAKER_1** (1:29)
Except we were talking... You know what it was?

**SPEAKER_2** (1:32)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:32)
We were spending so much time discussing the Aston Martin upgrades that we completely overlooked a much more plausible different game. By the way, the upgrades, the Aston... I only made one note in this whole document, and then I kind of zoned out. I wrote, Alonso is back, baby!
I wrote, Alonso is back. Yeah. But in the fine print somewhere, we missed McLaren are bringing an upgrade. You know, the people who are famous for making in-season upgrades and dunking on everyone mid-season. I mean, I mean, famously, they are the best at this, right? Right. Of the growth spurt, the late growth spurt. That's right. We call it the Brian Muller. That's right. The taking HGH and just all of a sudden showing up and being living amongst the giants. So, I think that, and fucking the girl that everybody wanted to fuck.
That's right. So, we're in the Patriot, this is the Patriot, so basically, we're all racing to lose our virginities. Brian was in Aston Martin territory, then he takes the in-season upgrade, HGH, grows to all of our heights, and then loses his virginity first.
It was, it was a bronze story. It really was.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:11)
It wasn't a bronze WDC Championship.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:13)
It was a New York Nick style comeback. It was, we were down 29 and half, and then all of a sudden.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:20)
That's right. That's right.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:22)
Brian Brunson comes out the woodwork, and Brian Norris comes out the woodwork, and actually.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:30)
It was the Antonoby Tip. You losing your, you losing your virginity before all of us out of nowhere.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:36)
Buzzer beater, baby.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:37)
Buzzer beater.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:41)
That's right.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:42)
I wonder if Gen Z people do, because it was like the years of American Pie, where everyone's trying to lose, like they're trying to lose it as quickly as possible. But anyway.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:52)
I think Gen Z still wants to lose their virginity. It's just none of them do, because they're all on their phones, and they're more comfortable in the comment section than they are in IRL.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:04)
But we digress.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:05)
We digress. But hungry.
You know what? I gotta say something about these regsets.
When it's a track that's not a power starved track, it's lit. This is amazing. It was amazing. It's like you really didn't know what was going to happen. Antonelli was off the pace all through practice. He was kind of nowhere. Russell was kind of nowhere. Verstappen looked like he was going to throw his hat into the ring there for a second. Hajar was on pole there for a second in Q2. I was like, oh shit. Who was going to take this thing? Here's the other thing.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:42)
You can see where the mistakes are made. You can see it with your, oh!
Oh, Landon had that huge wobble. It's like, he lost time. Well, you could see with their steering wheel, every time they move it, time is lost. They're losing time. They're on the edge. Whereas with the batteries, you don't see where the deploy... It would work if you could see it, if they could show it, but they don't and you can't.
And even if you could see it, a lot of what you're seeing is one team has better software than the other, a better, like I'm running on Claude, and you're running on ChatGBT, and the Claude is winning in this race. So, it's just, it sucks. Not like from that standpoint, and I've been a regs defender, but yeah, when you see Quali, when you watch Quali and you're just, you get to see where they're losing time. You get to see them sliding. You get to see them on the edge. You get to see them pushing. Max is spinning. Lando, that wasn't his last run, but I think it was like the second in Q, it was either his first run in Q3 or last run in Q2 where he like almost fucking lost it and just caught it. That was fucking awesome.