(cheesy retro music)
- Shine, bright, like a diamond.
What are they thinking with this question?
Okay, Max, you start.
- I start.
- You do the intro.
So little intro, we are back on the sofa apparently.
- And when we say sofa, we mean,
- It's not really, guys it's not really a sofa.
So I don't know what you guys are thinking here,
but we'll make it well we give it our best efforts, right?
- I feel like I'm going to break it.
- Yeah, I'm gonna break it with my weight
- And we have a lovely flowerpot,
which is 23 pounds.
Good number.
So do we just start?
- Full scent, full scent only.
- It's the 70th anniversary of Formula One.
Amazing, emotional, totes emoshe.
I'm going to even skip the first question.
- Can I see it?
- Yeah, what's his--
- Yeah.
I got the same guys.
- Okay.
Oh yes, yes.
Can we?
- Well, I just did,
- So we'll try and hit the camera.
- Almost.
- Max, tell us about your first race of the season,
the Australian grand Prix.
- Yeah, that was a great race.
- How was...
- We all won?
- We did.
- And we all finished last as well.
- We did.
- At the same time.
- It was quite, what was your, like,
how did it go for you Thursday to Friday?
- So I had some lovely room service, nice soup.
And then on Friday.
- Did you go to the circuits?
- No, so I was literally walking from my hotel room
to the lobby and then I got the call.
It's not happening.
So I was like back up packing my bags.
- Did you get the first flight back?
- Yeah, so I packed my bags and went to the airport
and flew back.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- The best was Helmut, because he literally arrived
and turned around and went back.
- Yeah, that was a long travel for him for a few hours.
Will you ever look at a cotton bud in the same way again?
- I hate it, but actually the worst was,
you're lucky, I guess you're lucky because
the team did it at the factory and the person at the factory
was insane, like that much.
And my eyes were watering and it was terrible,
but actually it's not too bad now.
- No, at the track is okay actually,
but I have to say also in Monaco
it's quite
- Rough.
- Well it's not very pleasant,
let's say it like that. - Oh really.
- Yeah.
- It depends who you have.
I think I'll look at cotton buds the same.
I have a mutual respect for cotton buds
and I think they have the same respect to me.
Okay, oh, nice.
I wonder why people do a track walk
since we just been here.
- Well, I stopped doing a track walk since 2016, so.
- Okay, tell us about your first race
after the restart of the season, the Austrian Grand Prix.
- Yeah, it was great.
- I did like 11 laps.
- Next question.
- There was not much to say about that one, Jesus.
(laughing)
- How did that one go for you?
- Equally, it lasted a bit longer,
but in the end we scored the same amounts of points.
So it made no difference.
- Yeah.
- It was actually a good race for me only,
- Got rear ended.
- Only I got rear-ended, yes.
Okay, you're next.
- It's 70 years of the British Grand Prix this weekend.
Could you imagine racing in the 1950s?
- Yes, I could.
I mean, I think it would be quite nice.
Like the tires were so skinny
and you're just sliding everywhere,
but I would,
I think I would be a little bit worried
because I've definitely had crashes nowadays.
- Oh you would not be alive.
- I wouldn't be alive right now.
So I think it's mixed.
I can imagine it, but it wouldn't last long.
- I'm happy I was not racing in the fifties.
- Yeah.
- What has been good about racing behind closed doors?
- Of course you miss the fans around the track,
but like in the paddock,
sometimes it's so busy
and I, God knows where they come from, I swear.
- They hibernate.
- But you can't just walk normally like to your garage
and now you can just walk freely whenever you want.
And actually that's great.
- Yeah, I'd say that.
And also just, I quite like these Zoom calls
rather than the media stuff.
- He needs to loop his chain.
- He's fast though.
- But his chain is not, it's a bit,
did you hear it rattling?
- Yeah I did.
(laughing)
- It's not so lovely.
- But also I like the fact that we don't need to,
the speaking to the media is a little bit more one-to-one,
which is nice.
I'm going to aim it to the left.
'Cause they always go to the right,
watch out Glad.
(laughing)
- Full on a header.
- You know what?
I don't actually mind it that much.
- Yeah.
- What about you?
Do you like the double headers?
- The thing is that,
why do we have to do again three practice sessions?
Descending into qualifying straight.
- Let's go straight into the race.
- Yeah, sure.
- And do like a random grid or something, I don't know.
Max, you start from the pit lane, great.
- Max, how many sheep did you count last weekend?
Sheep?
- Yeah, 19 I counted.
- Is he saying.
- I counted 19 other sheep, mate.
- What? Is this a phrase that I don't know?
- No I said that I was counting sheep while driving.
- Oh, okay.
- And I counted 19.
(laughing)
- Okay, I was like, how many (beep)
did you count last weekend?
Did you have an indigestion problem?
- No, it's shit mate. - Did you eat some bad food?
- Oh, you're getting there.
You're getting there.
Alex is a hotdog a sandwich?
- No, it's not. - Who cares anyway?
I just like to eat a hot dog.
If it's a sandwich or not, not my problem.
- It's a bun, it's not a sandwich.
- Yeah, exactly.
Not my beep problem!
- Okay, next question.
How many more corners do you think you needed
to catch Lewis for the win last weekend, two?
- But it finished there so.
- Sure.
- That's it.
Honestly this question, mate,
Would you be friends with yourself?
- That's it?
- Yeah, that's it.
- I was like, would you be friends with yourself
if you only had one foot or something?
- I would.
- Is this like one of them deep therapist questions
that we have to look within?
Go zen mode?
- I would, I would be friends with myself.
- Sure, sure why not?
I think I would annoy myself as well.
Message from the chief hydration officer.
Don't forget to drink.
- Always remember that?
Maybe, what the?
(laughing)
- I didn't actually expect this.
- We have a little shunt.
We have a little shunt here, boys.
- Is this basically the remote control trophies?
It's like a tank.
Okay, can we eat?
Ginger nuts.
It's Patrick's biscuits.
- Oh!
- What's the date today?
- I like those.
- Used by 7th of August.
You guys want to kill me, sabotage.
I know I didn't have a great race last weekend,
but you don't need to do this.
Honestly, who did this?
Who prepared these foods?
Guys what's this?
Sausage rolls?
- These are good.
I would trade. - Let's give it a little try.
Mmm approved.
- Our trainers are looking behind this camera
with a very disapproving face.
- Guys, this is a sausage.
- Have you ever had these before?
You like licorice, don't you?
- Yeah it's a typical Dutch thing, that we like it.
- You honestly are crazy.
Did you get the ginger nuts as well?
I'll take the Hobnobs.
Give me your nuts and I'll have your knob,
- All right, I'm going to lube myself up.
I sanitized.
- Oh wait, wait, wait!
Have you put yours back?
I'm leaving mine here.
(laughing)
- Look how well balanced mine is.
Oh Alex, you're a bit out of control.
- Can we drive them?
Can we do Robot Wars?
- What did you think
when you heard I'd hit the wall in Hungary?
- They didn't tell me.
- That's good.
- You know what they said?
- "Max has an issue."
- They were like, "Alex, take care, turn 12."
- Yeah. - And I'm like.
I wonder why.
I'm like, "Why 12?"
the first time I heard about it was when you told me
in the national anthem and then I presumed you're okay
because I didn't, 'cause you know when like
we're all in the line
so if you're ever going to get moved away,
I would've seen you pushed out.
But you were still there.
So I was like, well fair play.
- Yeah, I fixed it.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
To go on to that question,
at which point on the formation lap in Hungary
did you realize you had (beep) up?
- I realized I (beep) up when I hit the (beep) wall!
How 'bout that?
When I hit the wall,
I could see one wheel pointing to the,
like another direction than my steering wheel was.
So I was like,
"Oh, I think that's not very lovely is it?"
- Yeah, that's a good point actually.
- Yeah Alex, your girlfriend is a professional golfer,
yet you rage quit in a game this week, explain.
- Oh, in my golf, to be fair to us, we had to go anyway.
But unfortunately Lily is a bad coach.
- She gets angry at you when you do bad?
- No, she just doesn't teach me the right things.
I think the problem is--
- Alex, hit the ball.
- You know, for us, I think we would be bad to teach.
- Yeah, well I could never. - How to drive.
- I could never be a driver coach.
- No, never.
- Like I already got angry
if a guy is driving my simulator and he's making mistakes,
I'm already like, I need to turn away.
I need to stare at the TV 'cause I'm about
to just take the simulator and throw it off the balcony.
I think that would be better.
- You can only teach good people how to be better.
You cannot people who don't know how to play the game.
- Idiots.
- Idiots to play golf.
- Well, I'm useless.
Like I don't play golf because I'm just so bad.
Like for me, it's already a struggle to hit the ball
So I just don't do it.
Like it makes no sense.
It's like a, not even anger management.
It's just making myself super angry.
It just makes, like when I was in Austin
we have to stay there, I don't know why.
I think it was before we went to Mexico.
- Yeah.
- I was like, you know what?
With a few friends, let's go to top golf.
I take four swings.
I was so hilariously bad.
I was like, "You know what guys?
"You play, I'm going to order some food
"and have a beer because this is just unacceptable."
Like it's a joke.
- And this was on the Friday.
- So I've never,
yeah, this is on the Friday,
Friday night before qualifying.
No, no, no.
It was on Monday or Tuesday after the race.
But that's like, it's not fun.
Like it's not even fun playing.
It's the same me playing tennis, it's not fun.
The ball is going like 100 meters up in the air.
It still bounces on the other side.
But like one minute later.
- When I am bad at something,
I have to keep doing it until I'm good at it.
On a side note, I shouldn't be speaking trash.
So Lily, you're a good cook.
(laughing)
Okay, Max, did you think you were out of the race?
Oh to Hungary, I guess.
- Oh, still Hungary.
- We're still in Hungary.
- Yeah, well initially, yes.
But then I saw at one point they were repairing
it that fast, I was like,
well, I think it's just gonna be about like,
if they can close it all up.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And they did just in time so.
- How many seconds were left, or minutes?
- 20, they were screaming,
"20 seconds! Put a tire on!"
- Really. - "20 seconds!"
- Yeah.
- So like, it was close,
it was very close.
- We do have the fastest mechanics, that's for sure.
- Yeah, absolutely.
Alex, you're doing a great job by the way.
So keep pushing.
- Okay, next one.
- But if you get on with it now, please,
- If your a 12 year old self could see you now,
what would he think?
I have a good feeling about this.
No.
- Hi Max, nice to see you, good.
- You look a little bit older.
- Good that you're still a hottie.
- You look 10 years older.
- He's just being very happy being 12.
- 12 year old Max. - He's not really worrying
about the future or like how
he's looking at 22.
Who in the team has the easiest job?
Well clearly the one making these questions.
- Yeah, actually that's true.
The media, the PR guys
have the easiest job in the team by far.
Can we pan the cameras or are they fixed?
(talking over each other)
The guy behind left camera here is practically a potato.
They're literally eating biscuits behind the camera
as we speak.
Can we please, someone look at this?
(laughing)
I'm joking, I'm joking.
No one has an easy job.
- It's all so hard.
What they're going for lap two!
Keep sending it boys!
Keep pushing!
Is that lap three?
(clapping)
Your turn.
Who in the team has the hardest job?
Well, obviously the drivers I mean.
- Whilst we're getting. - Just say the drivers.
- Whilst we're getting
food transported to us in electric lunchboxes.
But yes, the drivers have the hardest job.
And then sometimes the mechanics,
when the idiot drivers shunts it into the wall
with like 20 minutes before the race
- Or in free practice too,
(laughing)
yes true. - Keep pushing.
Send it!
Not too fast though.
This weekend, please.
Trying to slow down the competition here.
- Okay, who in the team has the worst job?
- The worst job?
- The worst job
- The drivers.
The drivers, it sucks driving Formula One cars.
God dammit.
- It's horrible.
Why did they make me do this?
- I'm trying to think who has the worst job?
- No one, because everybody loves what they are doing, mate.
- No one.
- Knee down now, need down. - He's fast you know.
- Knee down.
- Although he backs off,
he pushes for the TV and then he goes, look at that!
He's not even peddling after that.
Max, you told your engineere GP
to remember to drink during the British Grand Prix.
Were there any other people
you are looking out for during the race?
- In what way?
- Were you worried about their
- Hydration levels.
- Hydration or their health in general?
- Remember to stretch boys, remember to stretch.
It's very important to be very well stretched
before the race, you know, get ready.
We are about to take off.
- Oh! Batters is out.
- That's maybe the next one.
Remember to stretch,
- Remember to stretch, okay.
- One more.
- You're next.
- Okay, so you're allowed to bring one of your cats to work.
Which one would you bring?
- I mean the imagination in this team exceeds,
or maybe not exceeds, let's use underwhelms my expectation.
- Maybe you really have to put the effort in
putting the thumbs up.
- My cats, I would say
Stan, can we all follow my pet accounts @albon_pets.
- No way, you have an Instagram account?
- Everyone go follow up here.
So if there's no YouTube annotation to click on the link,
you have to blame the editors of this video.
So what will change this weekend to last weekend?
And this is my final one.
- From my side?
- Oh no.
- From my side, I'm a few days older.
It's probably going to be a little bit warmer.
- So you'll get a bit more of a suntan.
- Yeah, do I?
Yeah, I needed one.
But yeah, what is gonna change?
Yeah, we've got softer compounds and yeah
I'll just continue counting sheep.
- It's a good plan.
- Yeah, it's a good plan, Stan.
(cheesy retro music)
(laughing)
- Can we have the remote?
But how do you turn them?
- Mine is really broke.
Yes!
I got it!
(laughing)
- [Alex] Oh my god.
Run away.
(talking muffled by mask)