(upbeat country music)
- COTA.
Go on Max, you do the honors.
- Hello guys, Max and Alex.
We are here on the wing at COTA,
and it's nice and warm as you can see.
(Alex chuckles)
And we've got some questions lined up again, right?
- We've got some more questions for you guys.
So I want to start them off with a very simple question.
Here we are at the COTA track.
(laughs)
What's your favorite moment from the circuit?
- Favorite moment, wow.
Well, actually, my last years here
have been quite entertaining, coming from the back.
Overtaking--
- Why have you been at the back every time?
- Well, once was an engine change,
and once, (laughs) I broke my suspension--
- (laughs) Oh, yeah.
- So that was not so lovely.
- Well, we'll ignore that bit.
- Yeah.
It was nice, you know,
- Coming through the fields. - But,
coming through the fields.
- You know, a lot of action,
and actually, up until the last lap
like fighting for, like, podium.
- Oh, with Kimmy, right?
- Yeah. - Was it Kimmy?
- He wasn't that impressed with you, was he?
- Yeah. - Twice actually.
Twice. - Both times?
- Yeah, because last year I was still in
for like, a win.
- Really?
- But my tires, of course, were dropping off,
because of the one stop and stuff.
But anyway, yeah.
- Well, if you're fighting with Kimmy this weekend,
that's not so good.
- That normally doesn't mean, yeah.
You're normally not doing that well.
In our case.
- Sure, sure. - Yeah.
- Alright, fair enough.
- Max to Alex.
- Yeah. - That's what it says here,
- That's me again. - Max to Alex.
- Yeah.
- This is your first time at COTA,
and this is a pretty nice view
we have from here on the tower.
- Well, we're in the middle of it
so you can't actually see anything, but yes.
- Well have a look.
What do you think?
- It's very green.
It's swampy.
Yeah.
- What's your impression of the circuit so far?
Swampy?
- Swampy.
Shreky.
- Shreky.
Haven't heard that one before.
- Have you seen Shrek?
- Yeah.
- So, swampy.
- You like it?
- It's okay, I haven't watched it recently.
- I liked the donkey.
- That's Eddie Murphy, isn't it?
- What's the donkey's name?
I forgot, it's been a while.
- I only know Winnie the Pooh donkey, Eeyore.
(Max laughs)
I don't know.
It's Donkey!
It's actually, yeah, it's actually Donkey.
Donkey.
'Cause Shrek's Scottish isn't it?
- This is going so well.
Alex, this is going so well.
- Great.
Okay, Alex to Max,
this is my first time in Austin.
Don't know if you knew that already.
- Yeah, I heard that before.
- What three things do you think I should get,
what three things do you think I should do,
to get the full Texas experience?
- Steak, steak, steak.
Three things.
- Next question.
- Yeah, exactly.
(Alex laughs)
This will be your first time racing at COTA--
- Oh, is it?
- Yeah, I think so, apparently so.
- I didn't know that. (laughs)
- How many hours did you clock on the sim to prepare?
- Be precise, please.
I want to know the exact number.
- Well, I had quite a long lunch,
when I was in Milton Keynes the other day.
So, that was when you lost me,
about 30 minutes. (car engine revs)
- Can you shut up, please?
Why is he revving his car?
- It's supposed to be a Mustang, coming to save us.
Are we allowed to promote Mustangs?
- A Somata Mustang. (laughs)
- What was the question?
- How many (beep) hours you did on the sim?
- Oh, yeah.
(car engine revs)
- I want an exact number.
- 200 hours.
I was there every day, Monday to Friday.
- That's dedication.
- I slept in the sim, I breathed on it.
- [Max] Yeah?
- I weed in it, I pooped in it.
- I definitely need a new seat
next time I'm in the simulator. (laughs)
- Okay, Alex to Max.
This is your fifth race,
this is your fifth time racing at this circuit.
What's your favorite corner/corners?
- I don't even know the names for it.
I guess the first sector.
- Yeah. - Like the, S's?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Are they called the S's?
I don't know.
Are they called the S's?
- Yes. - Exactly, yeah.
Those are my favorite corners. - Sure.
Okay, I think it will be mine as well.
- Yeah?
- Even though I haven't driven here.
- You think so? - It looks very fun.
- Yeah, just not the main stretch?
- I do love straights.
- Okay.
- I'm a bit of a NASCAR guy, I am.
- Really? - Yeah, I enjoy my straights.
- Mm.
All right well, Alex, we got a pop quiz.
- Yes, tell me.
- What, a pop quiz?
Why is there a pop quiz?
All right, what does COTA stand for,
and what year was the first F1 race held over here?
- Okay, COTA stands for Circuit of The Americas.
What was the next question?
- [Max] When was the first race over here, for F1?
- 2010?
(Max mimics buzzer)
'11?
(Max mimics buzzer)
'12? - Yep.
(Alex chuckles)
You were close mate, you were close.
- Well okay, 2010, two years.
I mean, who cares?
- Yeah, it's not bad, it's not bad.
- Two years, it's only two years.
- You were just born anyway, so.
- (laughs) Exactly.
Max, oh, this is a two-part question.
Max, this is your 100th race,
- Yeah. - Can you, (laughs)
rank your top one, (laughs) - Top 100?
- Can you rank your top 100 moments from your 100 races?
And can you put it in order, please?
Starting from 100.
- Okay I will go race 55, race 53, race 69.
69 was a very good one.
Yeah, it's gonna be a long one.
I need to really think about it.
- Think about it.
Don't worry guys, our next video,
we're going to have a two hour documentary--
- We'll come back. - of his top 100 moments.
- In our next video, thank you, guys.
- Who made that question?
- (laughs) I don't know.
Let's have--
- (laughs) Can you read?
- Your English isn't very good, truthfully.
So I'm having to correct you.
- This is not me writing this!
- I know.
Let's have your favorite moments from your 100 races then.
One off-track moment, and four on-track moments.
But you can only include a maximum of two wins on the list.
- I actually had one,
I had an off-track moment here.
That was my off-track moment.
Apparently that was off-track,
so that's my off-track moment.
- Great.
- Great, great. - And on-track moments.
- On-track moment? - Four.
Can we see what--
- First win, first win,
needs to be on there. - First win, of course.
I think that's the first,
- Yeah. - First of firsts.
- Yeah, always nice. - Second?
- Second, this year's Austrian Grand Prix.
- Yes. - Yeah, very nice moment.
- Yes, very nice, very nice.
Third.
- Third, third.
My win in...
Mexico.
- Yes. - The second one.
Yeah, it was nice, that one.
- Second one.
- And Malaysia, yeah.
That was after a lot of things happened, and I got that win.
- You've already put more than one win.
That's great.
- No no no, okay, skip that.
There's so many to choose from.
Podium in Spa was also nice.
Yeah, that's not a win.
- Okay, great.
- Yeah, now it's my turn?
All right.
Your drawing skills are pretty good,
here's a challenge for you.
Draw the COTA track.
You have 10 seconds,
and you have to draw it with your eyes closed.
Include the tower on the drawing.
- Let me just use a bit of a reference.
- Yeah that's good, yeah.
I mean, the track is here.
- It is here.
- Just a bit bigger.
- Okay.
- You tell me when--
- Okay okay okay, hang on, hang on, hang on.
- 10 seconds.
- Three, two, one, go.
(watch beeps) - What am I doing?
(watch beeps)
Oh, no!
- Stop. - Are you kidding me?
- Yeah that's, (laughs) where's the tower?
- There.
- (laughs) That's us there.
Nice, mate, nice.
- It's alright, right?
- Nice.
- It's actually quite abstract.
It looks like a person.
Hang on.
- You missed a whole intersection.
- Does that look like a person now?
- You missed a whole section.
- No I didn't.
- Yeah.
- Turn one, turn two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
- And the last sector? - Nine,
10, 11, and then, ch ch ch ch.
- Yeah, but that covers--
- That would've been like this, so,
- Ah, all right, okay.
- You didn't realize, this weekend they've actually--
- They made a chicane?
- They've added a chicane, which does this.
- Right, right, that makes sense.
- Yeah, just be careful when you come up the last corner,
what you think is the last corner,
there's an offset off the straight of about 300 meters.
Okay, your turn to draw now. - Nice.
- Draw the track, but you only have five seconds,
but you can keep your eyes open.
- You mean five seconds?
My hands are frozen I can't even draw now.
- Making excuses already, yeah?
Tell me when.
- Wait, wait, wait.
- Think about it.
I guess he has to do the tower as well?
Yeah, tower as well, mate.
You ready?
- Three, two, one, go.
- Stop.
Ah,
it looks like a,
- I had five seconds, I mean.
I just forgot the tower, but, I mean.
- Did you ever watch the Thunderbirds?
Did you? - (laughs) No, I didn't.
- Have you ever seen Thunderbirds?
You know Thunderbirds 2?
The green one?
It looks a bit like Max's drawing.
- I guess that's not a compliment.
- It's a good compliment.
You've drawn a rocket ship.
- Yeah, great.
- That's all right. - I'm not too disappointed.
- No, that's a good effort.
- Yeah, thank you.
All right, what are you most looking forward to?
Eating brisket, barbecue, or burgers?
Where's the steak?
Is that part of the barbecue?
- Well, I think a brisket.
No, I don't know what...
what are we known for here, barbecue or brisket?
- I think fish.
- It's a seafood place, isn't it.
In the swamps, there's seafood around.
Okay, barbecue, I'll change, I'll go barbecue.
- Right.
- I'll go tonight, actually.
- I mean, your stomach is fine.
- My stomach's fine.
I just had a couple of bad days from Mexico,
so my stomach is empty.
And it needs nutrients.
It needs grease and fat.
- (laughs) You're not gonna go vegan?
- Not yet, next year.
- Cool.
Next year, what do you mean, next year?
- Start now.
- All right, cool.
- Okay, it's Halloween week.
If you could haunt any driver, (laughs)
who would you haunt and why?
- When was the whole palette made?
- You do it now, don't you?
You scare Sebastian and Lewis.
- I don't even need Halloween for that, you see?
(Alex laughs)
- Yeah, true, true.
- That's it. - Yeah, sure.
- No more comment. - Next question.
Easy, done.
- Yeah.
All right, we were just in Hollywood for the F1 festival,
so let's talk movies.
- I'm done.
- Yes.
Who would play you in your biopic?
- Yes.
- Biopic.
And what would be the title of the movie?
- (whistles) So I've already had a question like this,
when I was there.
And I decided, the guy from "The Hangover", the Chinese guy.
Mr. Chow, Mr. Chow - Kim Jong, Kim Jong.
Kim Jong, is that his real name?
- No, no, that's the dictator of North Korea.
- I'm talking about-- - (laughs) What?
- That's who you're talking about.
- No! - I'm talking about Mr. Chow.
- Yeah I know I know, but his real name is--
- His name is not Kim Jong.
- Is it not?
Ken.
- Ken Jeong.
- Yes.
- Not Kim, sorry, Ken.
I was close.
- Sorry, Kim, for offending you.
We meant Ken.
I'm sorry Ken for offending you.
(Max laughs)
- So Mr. Chow. - So it would be Mr. Chow.
- Right. Why?
- Because how many Asian movie stars are there?
There's not many.
- Well, two now.
- We've got Kim and Ken.
- And you. (laughs)
- I'm not a movie star.
(Max laughs)
Okay, I'll say, Ken,
and the movie would be called, I don't know.
- "Alex in the Wild."
- Sure, "Alex in the Wild."
- (laughs) Naked.
- Naked.
- With a blade.
- (laughs) It's about my life.
I'm not a,
(Max laughs)
You watch too much "Tropic Thunder."
- That's what you've been watching.
What about you?
What's your--
- What did I say again?
I said Leonardo DiCaprio, right?
- He's a bit better looking than you are, mate.
- He's a bit fat as well, though.
- Yeah.
- I think it evens out.
- (laughs) Okay, okay.
- Yeah.
- So Leonardo on a diet?
We'll tell him to loose a couple pounds.
- Yeah, no, just the young Leonardo.
Like "Titanic" or something.
- That's a good looking dude you're up against there.
- Sadly.
- Look at me. - I just--
I'm sorry.
But you said Mr. Chow.
- He's not good looking. - Exactly, that's why I mean.
- I'm honest, I'm honest.
- Okay.
- Okay, and what's it called?
- I don't know, you tell me.
- Your name is set up for it, so it should be called, like,
"Max Attack" or, I don't know.
- Well "Mad Max" already exists, so.
- "Mad Max."
- Well you can call it "Mad Max," but not "Fury Road,"
but another road, "Country Road."
"Mad Max Country Road."
- "Mad Max Turn One Fury Road."
- No, no, what turn one?
(Alex laughs)
Lap one, lap one.
"Lap One Fury Road."
- (laughs) Great, okay, are we done?
Are we wrapped up?
Thank you, everyone, for watching.
- We really enjoyed it.
- Yeah, let's get this movie made, shall we?
- Yours.
- Mine might be a bit political,
and I think we might get in trouble from several countries.
- Mine will not be political at all.
- Okay, so let's watch-- - Just need to find a budget.
- So let's watch "Mad Max Turn One-
- "Fury Road." - Lap One Fury Road"
in cinemas next year, get ready.
Walk off?
I've been told to walk off,
so I'm walking off right now.
(Alex laughs)
- I'm comfortable over here, it's nice and sunny.
Getting a tan.