Val Khorounzhiy

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463 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Race F1 Podcast · Belgian GP: Antonelli heaps more misery on struggling Russell · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

I imagine.

Not that he's never acknowledged that as being part of his thinking, but it's got to be.

If you want to continue to fund the other parts that he maybe enjoys even more into age 50, 60, whatever, than every season he does under the current formula, it's awesome.

What Ben said is, I mean, very particularly relevant in terms of, I mean, it's probably maybe a different motivation to Helmut Marko, I'm not sure, but both in his past, in Verstappen's past interest of turning sim racers with no budget to race into pro racing drivers because he believes they're talented enough and don't have the opportunity to, you know, this McLaren kid that you mentioned, Dries van Langendonck,

his rhetoric about it is like i want to ensure he gets to f1 because i've seen that the talent is there to to get him through so i want basically the the wording that he's kind of been using is i don't want anything to be able to derail him so i'm going to put my weight behind him also and that kid's you know fantastic record in carding currently leading british f4 if i'm not mistaken and mclaren very keen now verstappen very keen that should be i mean that name's going to come up i imagine and

My head hurts, dude, on that one.

Because, you know, coming in on Thursday, I put some question to him that I don't remember.

But basically, the gist of it is when he said that he understands where the lap time has been going relative to Antonelli.

Because this is, I mean, this weekend has been particularly pronounced.

And I know you guys and I over your shoulders, we've looked at a bunch of data of, you know, George Russell laps versus Kimi Antonelli laps.

lisa recreation yeah yeah so he mentioned the mona lisa recreation on on thursday that you know like you see the mona lisa which in that case did you see it no data no no no nothing nothing like that that's i would have to have a pretty low opinion of the mona lisa to compare any of that stuff that i've seen to to the mona lisa just a bunch of squiggly lines um which i guess the mona lisa you could also describe as a bunch of we're getting ahead of ourselves you're not thinking of munch is the scream are you

Well, that is more certainly... That's how Russell felt when he was in the gravel.

Well, that's also the face Ben has made all weekend when talking about the quirks of these regulations.

I have to say, I did not see on the data anything that he did particularly wrong in the key moment of this weekend in the Q3 part of it.

Because obviously, for me, the Q3 defeat of half a second...

is more important going forward than the fact that he ended up in a crappy position at Lacombe at the start of the race and ended up in a gravel.

Of course, that's a lot of points gone and this is a game of points, but when there's still however many rounds to go, it's a game of projecting pace.

But it's also, you can't ignore the fact that Russell, not Antonelli, has been in this situation over and over and over again for one reason or another.

There's something that means his performance is just not as robust, that it goes beyond individual races or qualifying sessions.

F1 2026, every time you put on one of the godforsaken practice sessions and bore yourself to tears watching them, but you see that the lap time comes to Antonelli

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