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Ep85: The Insider's Travel Guide to Monza and Sepang with Stewart Bell
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Two race trips dominate this episode: Monza next week, and Sepang, hosting Malaysia's first Formula 1 race since 2017. Journalist and author Stewart Bell has worked both. At Monza he explains what the oldest track on the calendar feels like on foot: the historic banking too steep to walk up, and Ascari taken at speeds that look impossible from trackside. The practical layer is all here too. Stay in Milan near a metro, take the train from Milano Centrale in roughly 25 minutes, and leave the car alone. Then eat properly: risotto alla Milanese, cotoletta, and aperitivo with a Select...
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was going to be like a one-stop race or maybe a two-stop race and it ended up being four or five stop race. It was nuts. Just slammed into the wall and went across the track and slammed into the other wall and his car was in bits. He just literally by inches missed as he said himself T-boning Bortolato. It was so impressive. Very scary, very intense. I don't understand what
happened with Ferrari today. Felt like Piestri had 17 pit stops and slow ones. Can we talk about the pit stops? What is going on in Zantfort? So many teams. And pit stops that were like 3.8 seconds and it wasn't until Piestri's last pit stop that it was under 3 seconds. Like, this is McLaren, they only do 2.2 seconds. I will say Ferrari did a pretty good
double-stack pit stop. It was like bang bang. I honestly think McLaren are deluded. There's no explanation for it. Like if it can't be Ferrari, if it can't be Oscar, let it be an Italian.
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