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0:00Here is one bag of pistachios. Here is
0:02the second bag. A little bit of beer
0:04here. Today is Saturday.
0:05Not beer, just tea. Just tea.
0:09I didn't even drink yesterday, I just
0:11stuffed myself with pistachios.
0:12First snow, first bags.
0:14Ah no, not the first ones anymore. Who
0:15are you going to tell that you’ve...?
0:16Well, we already have. Yes. That’s it
0:19,
0:19yes, already.
0:20That’s it. Good afternoon. This
0:22burned electrically, which didn't go
0:29according to plan for us.
0:32We have an exciting day today. Today in
0:33Moscow is "tinsmith's day" for sure,
0:35because it started snowing, everything
0:37started freezing a bit. And suddenly,
0:40once again for drivers, well, in
0:42November, snow, minus temperatures,
0:44cold, time to change tires. All of that
0:47.
0:47And how many times have you changed
0:49yours?
0:49By the way, my car isn't changed yet.
0:50Angle grinder. We have the windows open
0:53there. Yeah,
0:53yeah,
0:54someone is already cutting off a fender
0:55. Damn,
0:58I hope you're already driving on winter
1:00tires, everything is fine, everything
1:01is good. At the moment you are watching
1:03this video, I have already returned
1:04from the racing stage. I hope, you
1:07never know, like, I'm recording this
1:09video, well, well, when you'll be
1:10watching it, what status I’m in right
1:12now, I’m totally fine, everything is
1:14moving, all is well. We steered, we
1:16steered, our little fingers got tired.
1:17Can I do all of this? I don't know,
1:19we'll see.
1:19And where are you? Will you be at the
1:21races? Ah,
1:21in Sochi on Plastunka.
1:23Ah, karting.
1:25Oh, well then indeed, yeah, need to
1:27light a candle for you.
1:28Well, I started driving the DD2 now.
1:31It’s basically a Rotax, just with two
1:32gears. You've started stuttering
1:34already, yeah?
1:34Well, it's DD2, that’s what it’s
1:35called. I don't know where D1 went,
1:38where D1, D2, D3 went. I don't know
1:40that. They just came to me and said: "
1:41This is the DD2." I was like: "Well
1:42okay, fine, it really says DD2 there,
1:44well, you have two gears, you have,
1:46accordingly, first, second, or rather,
1:48first, second." Don't mix them up there
1:50.
1:50Yeah, you won't mix them up there. And
1:52there are these two huge paddles. You
1:53have to reach for them with your hands.
1:54And since, you know, in a car, for
1:56example, usually those steering wheel
1:58paddles are electronic, they, well,
1:59press quite nicely, click-click,
2:01there’s calibrated force, but here,
2:02nothing, it’s just a metal, well,
2:04like a rod. And you literally have to
2:06engage it with one finger, uh, or two
2:09fingers. And I only had literally a
2:10couple of test days, where I was just
2:12driving, getting used to the car, and
2:13finally understanding how it works in
2:14general. My fingers got tired, like,
2:16you're in a situation where you need to
2:18snap it in there sharply, because even
2:20though it's two-stage, it's a
2:21sequential, so it’s just like that,
2:23but a sequential. And you just
2:26from now on, girls are looking for guys
2:27on DD2s at the Patriki,
2:29yeah, the DD2 guys have it. Well, like,
2:31straight up
2:33we'll buy you a little kettlebell so
2:35you can actually work out there. Like,
2:37seriously, no joke. I
2:38a little bell like ting-ting,
2:40like my coach is all, "Well, grab a
2:42grip strengthener, like, come on."
2:45stands for girl and girl. That’s
2:47yeah. And two, first and second. Let's
2:51go without the clutch from the start.
2:54How horrific.
2:55Something indecent is happening in the
2:57Rotax Cup, because some time ago, like
2:59a couple of years back, when I was
3:01talking about it, or 3 years ago when I
3:03first ended up at a Rotax race stage.
3:06And we talked about it for a long time,
3:07how a wheel hit me in the helmet. I was
3:10so happy, a car drove over me, and all
3:11that stuff. That was the '22-'23 season
3:13. Well, something around that time.
3:16Well, it was winter, it was definitely
3:17winter. It's hard to tell, from '22 to
3:19'23, I think, or was it from '21? From
3:20'22 to '23, that was already wartime.
3:22And I was racing in the most popular
3:24category. Just the adult Rotax. At that
3:27time there were something like 25, 26
3:29drivers. Now adult Rotax has 50 people.
3:34Juniors have another 30 people. It's
3:35essentially the same, just a little
3:37smaller. Well, both the person and the
3:38machine. Something like 30 DD2 drivers,
3:42too. And nobody counts the microbes.
3:43Microbes are the micro-karts, well, the
3:45kids, I mean, in the really tiny cars.
3:47And you effectively have like 200
3:49drivers showing up at Plastunka now,
3:51200 of them. And you have, never
3:56shutting up, I really like that.
3:58There’s a big scandal, actually,
3:59surrounding Plastunka. Plastunka is a
4:00karting track in Sochi. It's located a
4:02little bit in the mountains. And
4:03accordingly, it was built who knows
4:05when. Either in the nineties or early
4:07two-thousands, somewhere very long ago,
4:08when there was absolutely nothing there
4:10. Just nothing at all. Now, naturally,
4:12there is land, a village, and so on
4:14there. People buy land there, build a
4:16house, and then go, "What kind of mess
4:18is this?" I mean, if there's a race,
4:22you have two-stroke engines—like 200
4:23of them—roaring in the mountains with
4:25echoes and everything else for a week.
4:27It’s like a swarm of bees buzzing
4:29constantly. Essentially, the locals are
4:32used to it, but one way or another,
4:33there are always complaints that
4:35someone, somewhere is making noise.
4:38There are even people who manage to buy
4:40land next to an airport and then
4:41complain about the airport. "Why are
4:42you flying here?" Yeah. It’s exactly
4:45the same story with a racetrack. It was
4:47built far away in the mountains on
4:49purpose. But no, you come along, buy
4:51land, find it, and complain. You
4:53shouldn't do that. I’m sure the two
4:55crazy people who complain about
4:57Plastunka will attack me now, but
4:58seriously, there is a real chance we
5:00could lose the karting track. We might
5:04end up with no winter karting track at
5:06all, because if you want to train in
5:08winter, your only options are Plastunka
5:11in Sochi, the stub of the Sochi
5:12Autodrom left after Sirius closed, or
5:15Grozny. That’s it, nowhere else to
5:18train.
5:19I like the Adler track, though.
5:21That’s an autodrom. It’s not a
5:23karting track; there’s no karting
5:24there.
5:25Wait, didn't they turn it into a
5:26karting track?
5:27No, no, it’s just a regular,
5:29shortened car track. Just a half-track,
5:30basically. If you look at the Sochi
5:33Autodrom that was used for Formula 1,
5:35there was that long section, but now
5:37you just have that square part left.
5:41Also, from what I know from the karting
5:43and sports scene, it wasn't really a
5:44problem that there was nowhere to train
5:47in winter, because you could easily fly
5:49to Europe. You’d go to Holland, Italy
5:51, somewhere like that. Like, to
5:53Holland,
5:54yeah, are there
5:55winter, yeah,
5:56to the Netherlands,
5:57yeah?
5:57Are you sure?
5:58Yes, yes, yes.
5:59But that’s in the north. No, there
6:01are karting tracks in the south of the
6:03country that are more or less like
6:04Sochi, where you can ride in November
6:06or December too.
6:06But that’s the North,
6:08The Netherlands is further north than
6:10Germany. And yet, in Germany, you have
6:12snow in winter.
6:13Well, I just, like, at the previous
6:16tests, Nikita was telling me how
6:18awesome they rode.
6:20Well, maybe that winter was weird, some
6:22specific season. Or maybe I don't
6:25understand geography at all.
6:27Well, yeah, they are higher up. Yes.
6:28There’s some Dutch karting cup there,
6:32Sturmal Vydavets.
6:33Yeah, yeah, yeah. And right now, you
6:35basically only have Dubai left. Well,
6:37that's a pain.
6:38Dubai,
6:39yeah. And those Emirati karting tracks
6:42—first of all, you're in the desert.
6:45So, forget about it being expensive.
6:47Screw that. Motorsport is an expensive
6:49hobby in general. It’s extremely
6:50dusty there. Well, you're sitting in
6:52the desert, and, you know,
6:53I don't know, you let the pressure out
6:56of the tires. That's how it works,
6:59right? Yes.
7:01You’re the one talking about
7:02vacuuming the track. Vacuum it, then.
7:04Well, there you go. Yeah. Anyway, at
7:06this point, I’m really looking
7:07forward to the Sochi stage and the
7:08start. I’m curious to see what will
7:09happen there. I’ll probably be
7:10posting something about it on my
7:12Telegram channel. You’ve probably
7:13already missed everything if you’re
7:14just watching this video now, but you
7:15can go back, scroll through, and take a
7:17look. But it’s bound to be absolute
7:19chaos there. It will definitely be the
7:20biggest karting race event I’ve ever
7:22been to. Well, as a pilot. Obviously, I
7:24was at the Russian Championship once
7:25before. That was a total disaster. But
7:28this is the GR Cup.
7:30And why is it the biggest event
7:32I’ve been to as a pilot?
7:34But you’ve been to Plastunka before,
7:35right?
7:36Yeah, they were smaller.
7:37You said there were 30 people on the
7:38track,
7:38now there are 50.
7:39It’s increased.
7:40Well, yeah, yeah, there are more of
7:41them. That’s what I was saying at the
7:43beginning, that you have way more Rotax
7:44and way more DD2s. There used to be
7:46only eight DD2s total. Now it's like 25
7:48or 27, something like that.
7:49And you’re all going to drive at the
7:50same time,
7:51right?
7:51Uh-huh. And in Rotax, well, you have,
7:54say, 50 pilots, but the race is max 34
7:57or 36 people. So, for tests, yes, you
7:59all drive in a crowd. And it’s a
8:00train that, well, in the end, the whole
8:02track turns into 50 people, like, just
8:04spreading out in an even layer across
8:06the track and going. If you fly off
8:07somewhere, stop, or something happens
8:09to you, there's no way in hell you're
8:10getting back in, because the pack is
8:11just flying and that’s it. And in the
8:13race, based on the qualifying results
8:15and the heats, 15 people go home early,
8:17and only about 34 or 36 make it into
8:18the race, I don't remember exactly. I
8:21think there's a separate consolation
8:22race for those who didn't qualify.
8:24It’s literally called the consolation
8:25race. And two or three guys, yeah, two
8:27or three people can then make it to the
8:28main event, well, the winners of the
8:29consolation race get pulled into the
8:31main one. But even so, you drive the
8:33consolation race and then you head home
8:34.
8:34The "consolation."
8:35That, well, that’s what it sounds
8:36like, yeah.
8:37So, do you make it into the race or
8:38just the consolation for the road?
8:39D-HA, yeah? You make it into D-HA. Well
8:41, I probably,
8:41you still make it in,
8:42right? There are just fewer pilots
8:44there. But theoretically, in ROK, there
8:46was a chance to squeeze through. Like,
8:48now I have, well, before there was zero
8:50chance at all. I mean, back when I went
8:52to the first stage, my main goal was
8:54just to finish. The thing is, if you
8:56have, well, the final is 16 laps, if
8:58you get caught, if you get lapped, they
9:00pull you off because it's dangerous.
9:02Because the pack is moving, and you
9:04influence the sporting result too much,
9:06so, well, it’s not classic touring
9:08car racing or Formula. In karting, if
9:09you get lapped, that’s it, you’re
9:11not fighting for anything anymore, get
9:12the hell out of here, kid. And in the
9:14first stage, I didn’t see the finish
9:16flag a single time. In the second stage
9:18, I think I only saw the finish flag
9:19once. And when I finally finished a
9:21stage having seen all the finish flags,
9:23I was like: "Achievement unlocked, I
9:24didn’t get lapped." Yeah. But now
9:26I’m at least in the pack, driving
9:27along with everyone else. Well,
9:28that’s assuming I don’t fly into
9:30the grass, that’s a different story,
9:32because you have to understand that
9:34when, say, the final race starts with
9:3634 people, there’s only one first
9:38corner and only one racing line. And
9:40the fact that there are 34 of you in
9:42the corner, you have to figure out how
9:44to get around each other, across the
9:46grass, or somewhere else somehow. Like
9:48we just saw with Mac, it’s the same
9:50thing, everyone is just flying into the
9:52walls left and right.
9:53You guys probably have more distance to
9:55the walls, though.
9:56First of all, in karting, there isn't
9:58always a wall, but sometimes the wall
10:00is exactly at the edge of the track.
10:02Plastunka, if you look at it from above
10:04, is basically a very simple road. The
10:06whole track can be described as three
10:07left-rights and four hairpins. That's
10:09it, the whole track is three-four.
10:10Three left-rights—left, right, left,
10:13right, left, right—and four hairpins.
10:16The whole road. And the final hairpin
10:17before the start-finish line. A hairpin
10:19is when you drive straight, pick up
10:20high speed, then have a heavy braking
10:22zone, and a 180-degree turn. Off you go
10:24back. At the last hairpin, you're
10:25driving straight into a wall. It's made
10:27of tires, though, not concrete. The
10:29concrete podium is in a different spot.
10:30It’s there at Plastunka too.
10:32Everything’s fine, it hasn’t gone
10:33anywhere. It takes in people around the
10:35clock, no problem. Like, 24/7 visiting
10:37hours. And, accordingly, if something
10:39goes wrong with your braking, not only
10:40are you flying into the wall, but there
10:42are also people standing there, because
10:43the mechanics are cheering and so on,
10:44they’re standing knee-deep behind the
10:46tires, yelling something. And you’re
10:47flying into them.
10:48I hate hairpins.
10:49Why?
10:50I don’t know how to take them. Well,
10:52neither in karting, nor in Kazan when I
10:54was driving the Granta, just totally...
10:56Braked, turned, straightened out, hit
10:58the gas, drove off.
11:00But that moment when I straighten out
11:01and hit the gas, that’s it, the kart
11:03stops moving. Well, it's a rental one.
11:06So, that’s normal. They don't really
11:08go anywhere without the gas.
11:10Well yeah, so that means you're
11:11over-braking.
11:12In short, I don't get karting at all.
11:13Like, the Granta was fun. Karting is
11:16always the pits.
11:18Well, in all fairness, you haven't been
11:19in a racing kart. You’ve only been in
11:21rentals. Rentals are
11:22different. I didn't fit my butt in
11:24there.
11:24There are seats that fit. I mean, there
11:26are people much bigger than you who
11:28drive just fine. Seats come in
11:29different sizes. Finding people who
11:31have a seat that fits you is, like, a
11:32one-day task. Just say the word, and
11:34we'll get you started right away. And
11:36then I'll be the first to fly into
11:38those tires.
11:38Exactly. That is exactly the whole
11:41point.
11:45A podcast just came out with Verstappen
11:48, Coulthard, and some local Brazilian
11:50podcasters. There were also guys from
11:52the Piquet family, it doesn't matter.
11:54Anyway, this podcast of his came out in
11:56the motorsport community. And there,
11:58they ask Max: simulator or karting?
12:00Go-karting, to be more precise, that's
12:01what it's called. In English, they have
12:03the term "go-kart" for our rental karts
12:05, the ones with the bumpers, all the
12:07trimmings, and so on. And "race kart"
12:09is a professional sports kart, with an
12:10open frame, you know, the fast kind.
12:12Anyway, they ask him: "Go-kart or
12:13simulator?" And he says: "Well, doing
12:15both is probably better." They insist:
12:16"No, no, no, you only have the
12:17opportunity to do one." And Max, well,
12:19not verbatim, but the point is that
12:21it's definitely the simulator, because
12:24a go-kart, meaning a rental kart,
12:26doesn't feel like a real car; it
12:27handles differently. In rental karts,
12:30you always have to slide. I mean, if
12:33you're gripping the wheel perfectly,
12:34sitting dead straight, and driving for
12:36maximum traction, you're likely slow
12:37because you have to constantly, well,
12:39break it, turn it, slide, drift through
12:41it, and power out. That's not exactly
12:45how you drive in all other bodywork
12:46cars or karts, because in all other
12:48disciplines with more power—in
12:50Grantas, anywhere else—if you're
12:52sliding, you're losing time. Like, you
12:55shouldn't slide; you need to drive
12:56right on the limit instead. But in a
12:58rental kart, it’s completely normal
13:00to take half the corner in a slide, and
13:02that's faster. Indeed.
13:03That’s exactly why it was annoying
13:05for me that Nakazanie was faster than
13:07Nikita in Grantas, but in karts, he
13:08always pulls away.
13:10Just a slippery guy.
13:14And again, it doesn’t just depend on
13:15the power; it also depends on the fact
13:16that you have this protective perimeter
13:17. I mean, this barrier or whatever it
13:20is, so you don't get your wheels
13:21tangled with each other. It adds extra
13:23rigidity to the entire structure. Of
13:25the kart. Well, you remember yourself
13:27that the rear axle is a solid, direct
13:29drive. Essentially, you're driving on a
13:30welded diff the whole way. In
13:31automotive terms, your rear end is
13:33always locked. And you can only turn
13:35properly, like a human, when you lift
13:36the inside wheel off the ground. You
13:38have to load the machine so heavily
13:39that the wheel lifts up, and then you
13:41can properly navigate the turn. Because
13:43in a turn, you have different radii,
13:44different speeds, and different path
13:46lengths. Forget about it. And in
13:47professional racing, the frame flexes
13:48normally. Your frame flexes easily, it
13:50twists easily. Even if you don't crash
13:52the machine, a fast driver wears the
13:53frame out in a year to the point where
13:55it becomes unusable. Exactly because
13:57he’s constantly twisting and turning
13:59it, it just, well, starts losing speed.
14:01And in a rental, since you can’t flex
14:02the kart, it just doesn’t flex. It
14:04either hops or slides, you just have to
14:06manage it somehow, and that’s not
14:07quite right. But in a simulator, well
14:09yes, you have significantly fewer
14:11sensations, you have significantly less
14:12information. Understood, but in terms
14:15of proximity to a real car and how you
14:17need to drive, a simulator is better.
14:19In short, either try competitive
14:21karting or don't go to rentals anymore.
14:24That's it.
14:24No, why? Rentals teach you very well
14:27things like how a track works, how a
14:28race works, how to bump with people,
14:30how to overtake them, how to fight,
14:32things like that. Because besides how
14:35to carry speed through a turn, you have
14:36a hell of a lot of other things. You
14:38have preparation, tests, studying the
14:40track, understanding where there's grip
14:42, where there's dust, where the line is
14:43, and so on, where you can pass, where
14:45you can't, how qualifying works, how a
14:47race works. Because again, in rentals,
14:49if needed, you should be racing. Not
14:51just showing up to clock in lap times,
14:52because time is like, well yes, you can
14:54walk around and show off that I drove
14:55this track in 33 seconds, what’s your
14:56time. But that’s all, because the
14:59moment the race starts, it doesn't
15:00matter what your lap was and it doesn't
15:02matter what your time was. It's a
15:04question of your position and your pace
15:05at that specific moment. Will you be
15:06able to overtake someone or will you
15:08not be able to? Because a person can be
15:09driving in front of you slower than you
15:11, totally calmly, but let’s say they
15:12got ahead of you somehow because of
15:14your mistake or something else. If they
15:16defend well, you’re not getting past
15:17them. You might be driving faster, like
15:18a full second faster. What’s the
15:19point if you're behind Alonso, you'll
15:21just get passed in general, like. Well,
15:23because Kimi Taliban-Tonelli will
15:25appear out of nowhere.
15:27That’s a different conversation.
15:28Besides, I find it amazing. Honestly,
15:30the more I practice, the more I realize
15:32that I understand nothing. It just it
15:34only progresses further. Meaning, the
15:37further I go, the worse it gets.
15:40Well, that’s like life. The longer
15:41you live,
15:42the more you don't understand.
15:44Buy a plane.
15:46What for? Which one,
15:46damn it? I really want to learn how to
15:49fly a plane, for sure.
15:50Why? Are you tired of living?
15:53Why?
15:54It's safe.
15:56Mhm.
15:57Statistically safer than your little
15:58races,
15:59probably. But it's one thing when we
16:02talk about statistics,
16:03and you don't believe in us that much?
16:07Yeah, sometimes we forget to change the
16:09batteries. Yeah, sometimes we miss the
16:11focus. Yeah, sometimes we don't dump
16:13the memory cards. Hey, look at the
16:15camera. At the thirtieth minute of the
16:16video.
16:16Come on, give me a double queen. Go on,
16:20go on, don't be shy.
16:22This is an aviation double check,
16:24ladies and gentlemen. Our crew is
16:26preparing for takeoff.
16:28Oh, what's that? Everything is spot on.
16:30Well, it's just with my luck and
16:32everything else. I mean, like, for me,
16:35I don't know about you, but for me,
16:36definitely. If something can go wrong,
16:38it always inevitably goes wrong for me.
16:40If some obscure breakdown or obscure
16:42thing can happen, then I am the perfect
16:44tester in that regard.
16:45But the plane will just glide, and
16:47that's it. It's always light aviation.
16:49You're learning on very light, small
16:51planes. You can land in any field there
16:53. Just don't aim for the trees.
16:56Like, when we are training,
16:57otherwise it'll be a disaster.
16:59When I am training there at Adem. And
17:02in general, we have a Rotata sports
17:04division at Adem, and you have the
17:05whole local, uh,
17:06Uh-huh.
17:07airfield there. Yeah. Every time I get
17:09out of the race car, I stand there, see
17:11how, like, a guy is taking off, and I'm
17:13like: "Well, who is crazier, him or me,
17:14I don't understand."
17:16Well, he's definitely crazier, though
17:17not a fact.
17:18Well, yeah, you're like, why are you
17:20still seeing him take off, and he's
17:22like,
17:22it's not...
17:23And you were just driving the same way.
17:25It's not because he's clumsy, it's just
17:26, you know, air currents.
17:27Well yeah, you have wind shear. Well
17:30that's normal.
17:30And on the track, we sometimes have a
17:32phase shift where you did something
17:34wrong and you end up going somewhere
17:35else.
17:36Do you have a parachute system for an
17:37emergency? Yes, it's installed on the
17:40plane. Uh-huh.
17:40Well, no one does that. Well, the
17:43producers probably aren't really that
17:44...
17:49Well, at the very least, in aviation,
17:50it's not normal for someone to lean on
17:52someone else in a turn,
17:55crashing into walls.
17:56Yeah,
17:57you know, we also lean on each other in
17:59turns. Not because we're provoking
18:01danger, but because it's actually safer
18:03that way. When there's no distance
18:05between you, it's not going to work.
18:08That's why you arrive early and say, "
18:10Bro, either we both perish, or let's do
18:12something about this." That's quite
18:16fair. It often happens that you're
18:18driving, someone pulls up and says, "
18:20Well, now we're a pair, good."
18:21A tandem.
18:22Yeah, yeah. A tandem now. And then
18:23you've got someone else pushing you
18:25from behind, too. And you're like, uh,
18:26I think otters have this thing where
18:28there's an otter, and a bunch of small
18:31otters around it. And so we all go into
18:33the turn as a crowd. Well, one of them
18:34is bound to get shot out at some point
18:36at the apex. Well, it happens.
18:38Well, they don't do that in airplanes,
18:40so the safety aspect is debatable.
18:43Vladimir, do you have something to tell
18:45us?
18:45Right to the news.
18:47Guys, why am I even here?
18:54Well, to change the subject, Cadillac
18:56started testing, they've washed it off,
19:00so to speak. In what context? News from
19:03the world of Formula 1. There's a lot
19:05of commotion going on in there.
19:06Everyone is running around on the
19:07ceiling like this. Regular people have
19:09no idea what's going on at all. In
19:10Formula 1 lately, for the last decade,
19:12there have been 10 racing teams. From
19:142026, not only are the regulations
19:16changing, with brand new cars, but an
19:18eleventh team, Cadillac, will also
19:19appear.
19:20There were 10. Show me 10. Well, you're
19:23showing it like it's five.
19:24Well, two times five.
19:27Isn't it Andretti Cadillac? No, that's
19:29not the team name. Ah.
19:31No, they are just Cadillac for now.
19:32They are, like, the Cadillac racing
19:34team based on the Andretti racing team,
19:36something like that. But they haven't
19:38officially presented their full name
19:41yet. They'll present the actual racing
19:43name when they reveal the race car
19:45itself, because you have, like, the
19:46hypothetical AlphaTauri, which has just
19:48stuck in my head as AlphaTauri. But the
19:51current name is Racing Bulls, VCARP,
19:53V-sharp, something or other.
19:56Who the hell knows, honestly. The name
19:58is something like that. So they might
20:00also end up with something like
20:02Cadillac F1 Team Andretti Collaboration
20:04USA and all that. Anything is possible
20:07there.
20:07Alright, even Hamilton didn't know the
20:09full name of the Mercedes team. So what
20:10?
20:10Yeah. He was like, "I'm with Mercedes."
20:12And someone off-camera says, "AMG
20:13Petronas." He says, "AMG Petronas," and
20:15they add, "F1." He says, "F1." I mean,
20:21that's a classic.
20:22Black people have short memories,
20:24that's why they have two walks of
20:26justice. Well, in all fairness, when
20:35the regulations changed in '22 and
20:36Hamilton lost that car that could just
20:38drive way ahead of everyone else. And
20:41he finished like seventh or eighth in
20:43the first race. No, no, he, he finished
20:45in the points. And he's driving and
20:47goes, "Do they even give points here?"
20:50He was asking, like, what's even going
20:52on here? Like, I don't remember, I
20:55don't know. So, Cadillac is appearing
20:57in 2026. It's already been announced
20:59that Perez and Bottas are driving there
21:01, the perfect team of second drivers.
21:04And there were rumors that Sergio Perez
21:06was supposed to fly to Italy and test a
21:08Ferrari as part of his preparation for
21:11working with Cadillac. And this just
21:13happened recently. There were these
21:16journalists who apparently had
21:17absolutely nothing better to do,
21:19sitting in Imola, Italy, snapping
21:20photos of a solid black 2023 Ferrari,
21:22the SF23, I think, and Perez was there.
21:25He was clocking some times at Imola.
21:27Then he posted a photo on Instagram
21:29saying, "Everything is fine, my neck
21:31survived, I'm flying back on my private
21:33jet."
21:33I wonder if it finished without any
21:35issues?
21:35Well yeah, no, no problems at all. If
21:37anything had happened, it would have
21:39surfaced immediately. Well,
21:40maybe because there were no Ferrari
21:42mechanics there, I don't know.
21:44No, the main crew was at the races, so
21:46they were just beating up the car,
21:48everything's fine. Well, it was logical
21:50to expect that Perez would just show up
21:51, drive, and leave, because he's an
21:53experienced pilot. Regardless of how
21:54everyone feels about Perez and so on.
21:56The guy has been in Formula 1 for many
21:58years, he perfectly understands what a
21:59formula car is, including a
22:00ground-effect car after '22, because
22:02he's been driving for many years.
22:03But he also won.
22:04He won, he's a runner-up several times,
22:06so, like, he's perfectly fine as a
22:08driver.
22:09He performed better than any other
22:11second driver at Red Bull.
22:12Yes.
22:13Out of everyone since Ricciardo, from
22:15that point on.
22:16Yeah, yeah. Yes, that's correct.
22:18Neither Tsunoda, nor Lawson. Now Isack
22:20Hadjar is on the list to be shot. He
22:23probably doesn't want to go to Red Bull
22:24, but what can you do. Anyway, the
22:26point is, he tested, he prepared. We're
22:28waiting for the presentation. Let's get
22:33back to some normal automotive news
22:35after all. Audi has shown a prototype
22:36livery for their future Formula 1 car.
22:41I really like the memes since Audi
22:43unveiled this livery. And again, it's,
22:45well, kind of the official livery, but
22:47they're showing it on a concept. Who
22:49the hell knows what it will actually
22:50look like in the end. There are already
22:52so many memes in the Russian internet
22:54saying I know for a fact that Russian
22:56Railways has something to do with this,
22:58well, hard to prove.
23:00Absolutely magnificent.
23:02Well, tweak the shades a bit, yeah, and
23:03it will be just...
23:04it will be just, yes, like...
23:06no, yeah, there are videos comparing
23:08the livery to a Sapsan train, it’s
23:10exactly like that.
23:12Yeah, yeah, yeah, "dear passengers,
23:13please vacate the platform."
23:16Wait, when are they returning?
23:17Well, from 2026.
23:18Too. They’ve never been in Formula 1.
23:20They aren't returning. They’re
23:22first-timers.
23:22Audi, yes. Audi has never been in
23:24Formula 1. Well, how to put it, in 2024
23:26they foolishly decided to get into this
23:28and thought about returning to
23:29motorsport. But they already realize
23:32even now that they can't afford it. And
23:34most likely they'll come in for one
23:35year and then exit. Then they'll resell
23:37it to someone if anyone happens to need
23:38it.
23:39A 20-minute adventure.
23:41Yeah, although at their official
23:42presentation when they showed the car,
23:43they were like, "We aren't coming here
23:45for nothing, we believe we will win.""
23:47And in 2030 we will be fighting for
23:49podium positions." Yeah, right.
23:53Listen, well, Sauber finally started
23:54moving somewhere, that's already
23:55interesting. But they are finishing in
23:57the points. They aren't at the back, at
23:59the back there is...
24:00Alpine.
24:01No, at the back there are usually
24:03horses with the sign "out."
24:06I like it.
24:07That's Ferrari, yes. One of the recent
24:09races. Hulkenberg qualified in fourth
24:12place,
24:12and his car is labeled Sauber Ferrari.
24:14I’m like, overall, well, Ferrari is
24:16in high positions.
24:17Everything is fine, I can root for them
24:19.
24:19Yes.
24:23Volkswagen has postponed the approval
24:25of its new model plan due to financial
24:27uncertainty. The Volkswagen supervisory
24:29board gathered here like this. And look
24:32, each of our brands has its own
24:33kick-ass development strategy and
24:35wonderful plans regarding what cars we
24:37will show, what we will roll out into
24:39production, what production sites are
24:41needed for each individual brand, and
24:43what to do in general. Everyone has
24:46wonderful plans. The problem is that we
24:47don't have enough money even for
24:48day-to-day operations. Next year, as a
24:50group, we need 11 billion euros just to
24:52cover, well, our operational costs. And
24:55you know, let's hold off on approving
24:57any plans for now. Let's take some time
25:00to think, reflect, and so on. And so
25:02things have just come to a standstill
25:03for now. But this is yet another signal
25:05that a bloodbath is happening between
25:07the brands within the group. From my
25:08point of view—not confirmed
25:09information, not some kind of insider
25:10scoop—these are just thoughts out
25:12loud. We’ve been discussing for the
25:14last two years that VAG has major
25:15problems: not only is their cash flow
25:17breaking due to the green transition,
25:19but they also have a confusing internal
25:21hierarchy. Porsche is pulling the
25:23blanket over to itself, Audi is pulling
25:24the blanket over to itself, Volkswagen
25:26is doing the same, and so on. Everyone
25:27is trying to survive somehow. Now, on
25:29top of that, we have another chip
25:30crisis in Europe again. We’ve had
25:33logistics issues for 5 years now, plus
25:36tariff wars, plus all this uncertainty
25:38with Cariad and Rivian, where no one
25:40can write decent software for cars.
25:43That’s all secondary. The most
25:45important thing is that when the pool
25:47of money inside a large company
25:49suddenly runs dry, someone has to die.
25:51Well, definitely. I mean, there won't
25:53be enough money for everyone. And that
25:55is exactly what the board is arguing
25:57about right now, because all the
25:58companies have their own plans and
26:00their own strategies for how to ensure
26:01profit, at least for themselves, let
26:03alone for the entire group. And since
26:06none of the brands currently have a
26:08model that just rakes in cash and
26:10brings it to the till, everyone needs
26:11investments either to finish new models
26:13or to improve current ones—well, to
26:15do something.
26:17No, no, there are brands that finish
26:19the quarters and years successfully; I
26:21mean, Cupra and Seat also report good
26:23results. Lamborghini is reporting
26:26record sales.
26:27Yes. But are you sure that if, say,
26:29Porsche says it needs Cupra's budget,
26:31that the budget will remain with them?
26:34Well, about that.
26:37Yes, and about the fact that, sure, you
26:38can show good financial results at the
26:40moment, but you still need capital
26:41injections, rights to use platforms,
26:43and so on from the group. And plus,
26:45they don't have a situation where each
26:47one develops a separate model on their
26:48own. They have a common platform that
26:50is more convenient for some, less
26:51convenient for others; some tune it
26:53better for themselves, others tune it
26:55worse. Some are given production
26:56facilities, others are not; some are
26:58given priority regarding what should be
27:00in the software, the platform, the
27:02components, what quality the components
27:04should be, and so on. So, it's like
27:06someone makes a decision,
27:07as far as I understood from reading
27:09some articles, they have a scheme in
27:11place where one car manufacturer is
27:13responsible for vehicles in a specific
27:15segment. The other brands that have
27:18similar cars appearing, well,
27:19essentially, they just have to slap on
27:21their own design and their own software
27:23, and that’s it. I mean, for example,
27:25when Skoda and Volkswagen were
27:26officially represented in Russia, Skoda
27:28was responsible for the Russian market.
27:30And most Volkswagen models on our
27:32market were just rebadged Skodas. Well,
27:34at least many of the popular ones.
27:36Simply because Skoda was the one
27:38assigned the task of developing budget
27:40models.
27:41Why were they assigned this task?
27:42Because they snatched it away from
27:43someone else. Because when you are
27:45inside a large concern, you have—
27:46imagine—a huge pool of money that you
27:48can use.
27:49Well, it’s logical that Skoda should
27:51handle budget models, not Porsche. Well
27:53, like,
27:53yeah. But wasn’t Volkswagen a budget
27:56car before that? No. And even before
27:58that, it was
27:58since the nineties, it has been trying
28:00to position itself as something
28:02mid-priced. Exactly. Uh, they actually
28:04didn't like that Skoda started gaining
28:06momentum as such a popular and solid
28:08car. And they, they had a real crisis
28:11because Skoda
28:13It’s not about how it's presented to
28:14the public. Nobody cares how it's
28:16presented to the consumer later, it
28:17makes no difference. It's a question of
28:19spheres of influence within the concern
28:20itself, that you have a concern, it has
28:22production sites, it has markets. Each
28:24individual company can carve out a
28:25piece of power for itself internally.
28:27And when you don't have enough money
28:29for everyone, obviously, someone is
28:30going to run short.
28:31Yes.
28:31Someone is definitely going to die. And
28:33it's quite possible that this isn't
28:35always directly related to business
28:36performance metrics. So, if, let's say,
28:38Lamborghini shows good financial
28:39results, it’s not a given that they
28:41won't be killed off in an internal
28:42power struggle. They also need to
28:44defend themselves somehow. And this is
28:45definitely happening inside right now.
28:46This whole situation is brewing. And in
28:49the near term, those who can protect
28:50their production plans, their
28:52manufacturing sites, and their key
28:53employees—because there’s internal
28:55competition for talent as well—will
28:56prevail. And it’s not just about
28:59people freely deciding that "those
29:01conditions are better, I'll go there."
29:02No, I mean, some people get approved
29:04for a transfer to a different vertical,
29:06while others don't, and so on. And
29:08inside every company, you always have
29:10your own specific resources: human,
29:11financial, production, marketing, and
29:13so on. Take Stellantis as an example:
29:16you have two-and-a-half wings within
29:18the company—that's how I think of it
29:20—where you have the American branch
29:22of brands, the US market, and American
29:24influence, then the French branch, and
29:26then half of Italy, like Fiat, which
29:28sort of belongs to the US side but
29:30still has its own opinion, you know,
29:32the Italian one. And you have these
29:34two-and-a-half opposing poles fighting
29:36among themselves. And obviously, we can
29:38see that the conglomerate is cracking,
29:40in the sense that some are pulling in
29:41one direction, while others are pulling
29:43in another. Some are dying and aren't
29:45being saved. Others are dying and are
29:46being saved. It doesn't matter. From my
29:48point of view, it seems like there are
29:50far more actors pulling the blanket in
29:52their own direction here. And it’s
29:53just an interesting mess. Purely
29:56because Volkswagen is one of the
29:57biggest car conglomerates on the planet
29:58, the internal struggle there is going
30:00to be incredibly fierce. And the fact
30:03that the supervisory board can't even
30:04simply approve a production plan shows
30:05that a bloody battle is going on inside
30:07. We’ll see how it ends. Maybe it
30:09will end with the demise of some brand.
30:12And you said Rivian has been with VAG
30:13for a long time?
30:14They have an agreement where Rivian is
30:16supposed to develop software for all
30:18VAG electric vehicles instead of Cariad
30:20. Things didn't work out for them with
30:22Cariad, although it seems they aren't
30:23burying Cariad just yet. Rivian is in a
30:24situation where they desperately need
30:27money—about five billion dollars. So
30:30they and Volkswagen are like: "We give
30:31you the money, you give us the software
30:33, no questions asked." But then it
30:35immediately hits a wall, because Audi
30:37has its own wishes, Porsche has its own
30:39, and VW has its own. And no one is
30:41willing to consider the others 'wishes.
30:43Rivian is saying, "We can't do a damn
30:44thing here.""Plus, we're Americans, so
30:46we can't even give you half the data."
30:47We can't give you a proper system, and
30:49on top of that, these guys come along
30:50and say: "I need hybrids, I need
30:52electrics." They're like: "For hybrids,
30:53we don't even know how to write
30:54software." And how they agreed on this
30:55in the first place, god only knows. I
30:56mean, it was clear from the start that
30:57the guys wouldn't be able to write for
30:58hybrids because they don't know what an
31:00internal combustion engine is as a
31:01concept at all. And VAG needs to
31:02call Toyota again.
31:04It's quite possible this will all end
31:06with Toyota again. Toyota all over
31:07again. Damn, they need to be taught how
31:09to build cars again. Go and tell
31:11everyone, look, it’s like this and
31:12like that. Here's a Corolla. Here's a
31:14RAV4. Let's find five differences. The
31:22US proposed adding another color to
31:24traffic lights. It's strictly about
31:26California. The guys are thinking that,
31:28look, we're going to have a lot of
31:30autonomous vehicles soon. Well, they're
31:32already in California anyway. It's
31:33still there
31:33why about California? Why did you
31:35decide that? Well, the guys are from
31:37North...It's just a university. They
31:39are proposing to implement this
31:40everywhere. They're just from there.
31:42Ah, I see. And who is North Carolina?
31:44It's, I think, on the border with
31:45Canada, if my memory serves me right.
31:47It's right in the middle of the East
31:49Coast. That's Charlotte.
31:52Oh, there’s an awesome track there.
31:56Charlotte Motor Speedway is there.
31:58Go home, Vov.
32:02Yeah, we'll go too.
32:05Let's just draw a circle around him.
32:09He’ll just stay right there.
32:11We'll add a couple of hairpins there.
32:13Just need to draw a circle of salt
32:15around him.
32:20We'll ask the neighbors to play some
32:22heavier music.
32:23Anyway, the guys at the University of
32:25North Carolina are suggesting that,
32:26look, we'll have a large number of
32:27autonomous vehicles in the near future.
32:29California has them sometimes, but in
32:31general, we are moving toward having
32:32everything in autonomous cars. And
32:34let's add a special traffic light
32:36signal, white, purely for the
32:38autonomous vehicles. They will react to
32:40it. And plus, for regular drivers,
32:42those old pieces of meat, it should
32:44also be clear when the white signal
32:46lights up. It means the autonomous
32:48vehicle can go, and you, as a driver,
32:50can also follow it and cross the
32:51intersection too.
32:53Did they steal this white bus traffic
32:55light from Mosgortrans or something?
32:57Well yeah, yeah. We call it moon-white.
32:59Poetic.
33:00Yeah. It was originally for trams, I
33:03think.
33:03Yeah. It’s for public transit
33:05vehicles.
33:06And you know, our military planes have
33:08soft names. Our Tu-160 is the White
33:11Swan. It can carry nukes.
33:15But in general, there’s not much to
33:17discuss here, because proposals
33:18regarding traffic management can be
33:19absolutely anything at all. And from my
33:22memory and how I’ve been studying
33:24traffic organization, all significant
33:27changes in road infrastructure are
33:30always reactive. I mean, no one has
33:32ever managed to come up with anything
33:34in advance. Everyone just reacts to the
33:36situation developing on the roads and
33:37the need to do something about it. At
33:40first, people were faced with cars,
33:41horses, and pedestrians all moving as
33:43they pleased, everyone using urban
33:44space however they wanted, resulting in
33:46total collapse. Everything comes to a
33:48standstill, and then, okay, we need to
33:50come up with signs, traffic lights, and
33:52some sort of traffic management. Then
33:54it turns out people are dying on
33:56highways, so we need barriers, ways to
33:58keep them from getting killed, and
34:00speed limits. Separating traffic flows
34:02and all that.
34:03Do we want to make a documentary about
34:05this or not?
34:07We could make a documentary.
34:09Exactly about this.
34:10Exactly about this, yes. And what
34:11people will face the moment there is a
34:14significant number of autonomous
34:16vehicles on public roads is still
34:18unknown to us. Even now, when designing
34:21cities or mega-projects—like in the
34:23Emirates or China, for example—no one
34:25can properly design a mathematical
34:27model from the start to see how it
34:29works, even when we estimate a specific
34:32neighborhood or build a large part of a
34:34city, constructing a massive metropolis
34:37for people from scratch. We have a
34:39mountain of data on how cars move, how
34:41they travel, and the number of people
34:43who will live there; we can calculate
34:46it more or less. And yet, no one can
34:47get it right. To design the entire road
34:50network in advance so that it works
34:52exactly as predicted. In the end, due
34:54to the anthill effect, some unknown
34:56mess always happens, some weird issue
34:58pops up here or there. And we’ll
35:00still have to deal with it later in a
35:01reactive way. Because it’s already
35:03happened, and we’re like: "Well,
35:04let's get moving and come up with
35:05something." And it certainly won't end
35:08with just an extra traffic light signal
35:09. Toyota may bring back the top-tier V8
35:14for the Land Cruiser. A huge number of
35:16news outlets, both automotive and
35:18international, have run headlines
35:20stating that which once again shows how
35:23much people are waiting for the return
35:25of any V8 at all, because what is the
35:27news really?
35:28Should I bring you a tissue?
35:30Make that napkins. There are rumors
35:35inside that Toyota is developing a new
35:37sports engine for something like a
35:39second-generation LFA.
35:41Rumors, they are actually developing it
35:42.
35:43Well yeah, meaning they go around
35:44saying we’re developing it, the
35:45engine isn't ready, but we are working
35:47on it, and it will be some kind of
35:48super-duper whatever.
35:50Unlike many others, if Toyota says, "We
35:53will do it," they do it.
35:55That’s right, absolutely, no
35:56questions asked. Yes, they are
35:57developing it. But this is a sports
35:59engine, one that is, well, for some
36:01sports versions, for a theoretical LFA,
36:04for something like that. They came up
36:06with some very clever system there.
36:07They took and joined two inline engines
36:09, two inline fours, and it’s some
36:11kind of super-adaptive thing that can
36:13run on both gasoline and diesel, and
36:15has an impossible compression ratio,
36:17and it can be turned into a hybrid, or
36:19run as a regular engine, basically you
36:21can do anything with it. And someone
36:23asks the engineer: "Can it be put into
36:24a Land Cruiser?""And he’s like:" Oh,
36:27well, technically, probably, that’s
36:29it, that’s the whole news. "And
36:31everyone immediately ran off, saying a
36:33V8 might eventually appear in the Land
36:34Cruiser. But this is exactly the same
36:37kind of news as saying a V10 from an F1
36:38car could be in a Land Cruiser.
36:41They'll definitely make a V8 for the
36:42Arabs.
36:43For the Arabs, they’d rather shove a
36:45Nissan Patrol into a Land Cruiser. Oh,
36:52it overtook Tesla in electric car sales
36:54in China. That is news, I mean, it’s
36:57really serious that Xiaomi overtook
36:59Tesla in sales in China. Yes, this is,
37:01well, a disaster for Tesla, and a great
37:04joy for Xiaomi. And, but it’s very
37:07strange to me, here is the thing. Tesla
37:09is in collapse, everything there is sad
37:10. They sold 20,000 cars in October.
37:1426,000 cars, to be precise, that’s
37:16very little. But then the article
37:18provides a monthly sales chart for
37:19Tesla, and it’s f***ing strange,
37:21because it looks like this. I have
37:24never seen such a sales chart for any
37:26brand ever, because you sell, well,
37:29like almost 70,000, then you sell less
37:31than twenty, then you sell 65, then you
37:34sell zero, then you sell almost 80.
37:38This is within one year, these are just
37:39months. It’s like it’s not even
37:42related to production. It’s as if
37:45they had a shipment of cars, they ran
37:47out, then the next shipment arrived.
37:49Well, there’s definitely something
37:50going on here. And right now, everyone
37:53is discussing this endpoint on the
37:55chart, saying it's a crash, a slump,
37:57the end, but the previous data shows
38:00that there might be a rebound, or maybe
38:02not. Who the hell knows. It’s unclear
38:04. But I’ve never seen a chart like
38:06this for any automaker's monthly sales
38:08in any country, because, sure, during
38:10the pandemic, when there was a
38:12logistics crisis, fine, that really
38:14happened where cars were brought in,
38:16sold, and then silence. But here, this
38:18situation has been going on for these
38:20guys since 2021.
38:21And if you look at any other sales
38:23charts, including their export ones,
38:25the others are doing just fine. You
38:27also have a chart here combined with
38:30the main news that, after such lousy
38:32figures, Tesla is falling out of the
38:34top 10 electric vehicle manufacturers
38:36in China.
38:37Not electric vehicles, electrified cars
38:39.
38:39Well, that includes hybrids. That
38:41doesn't matter. The most important
38:42thing is that you have something like
38:44this here.
38:44Well, the people who made this chart
38:46thought so too.
38:50No, no, I’m talking about something
38:51else. I’m talking about how you have
38:53the threshold you need to meet to be in
38:56the top 10, and you have the volume for
38:58that top 10. And it doesn't fluctuate
39:00wildly like that all the time. It’s
39:02just Tesla that’s getting hammered
39:03for some reason. If you open, maybe,
39:05Xiaomi’s sales chart, maybe there’s
39:06something similar there, I don’t know
39:08,
39:08no, I meant opening Tesla’s sales
39:09chart, where they have exports, where
39:11they don't have that either
39:12no, it’s more precise there. In
39:13Europe, their sales are stable.
39:14Maybe it's just Elon Musk being Elon
39:16Musk.
39:18Well, it’s unclear. I mean, there’s
39:19definitely something going on there.
39:20He writes something about China on
39:22Twitter and even apologizes, and then
39:25it's back to the same.
39:26Quite possible.
39:27You have too narrow a view of electric
39:30vehicles.
39:31And the Chinese are like," Did he
39:32insult us or not? "
39:35Seriously, if you look at it with a
39:37narrow view, the chart flattens out and
39:39becomes generally quite level.
39:43And GM is severing long-standing ties
39:45with auto parts suppliers from the PRC.
39:47Eh, that’s not a recent development.
39:49GM has been doing this for a very long
39:51time. But the new round of the trade
39:53war is just pushing them to say,"
39:54Alright, fine, we used to order a lot
39:56of interesting things from China as
39:58auto parts to assemble our cars in the
40:00States, in Mexico, or somewhere else. "
40:02But now, obviously, for understandable
40:04reasons—because of tariffs, the trade
40:06war, and generally, as a large
40:07state-owned corporation, it’s kind of
40:09a no-no to work with our potential
40:10enemy. Therefore, we need to gradually
40:13pull in components. Reuters has a
40:15rather lengthy article about how this
40:16actually started back during the
40:18pandemic. And it's not just related to
40:20politics, it's also about GM’s
40:22overall stance that all components
40:24should be produced where the car itself
40:25is manufactured, because it eliminates
40:27logistics chains for us. In the modern
40:30world, this is a very important thing.
40:32And when you have logistics or chip
40:33crises or anything else, the more
40:35components we produce within one
40:36country, the better. Doesn’t that
40:39ring a bell? In an attempt to set a
40:45record, the new Chery ruined a landmark
40:47. They managed to ruin a staircase.
40:49There is this staircase. 999 steps. All
40:54of this. It’s a really important
40:56thing in China. Back in 2018, a long
40:58time ago, Range Rover brought some new
41:00car of theirs there and simply drove up
41:02the entire staircase, showing that,
41:04look, we can climb even here. And the
41:05stairs there are quite steep. The slope
41:07is almost 40 degrees. And for their new
41:11Chery Fulwin T10, they decided to do
41:13something similar. They booked the
41:16stairs, didn't let anyone in, and
41:19totally blew it. Fortunately, there
41:20were tourists nearby who were just
41:21filming the whole thing. The car's
41:23safety cable snapped, and it rolled
41:26back. And because something else went
41:28wrong, the rear end smashed into the
41:29railing. And the historic railing flew
41:31where? Down. Exactly.
41:32It was a total failure.
41:34Yeah. Yeah, a total failure. Yes, of
41:37course, Chery issued their official
41:39apologies, saying they would repair
41:41everything, that we’ll get it done,
41:43everything will be fine, but the news
41:45of this blunder is already out there.
41:47They wanted to repeat what Range Rover
41:50did, I take it?
41:51Well, back then, as far as I remember,
41:52Range Rover was actively entering the
41:54Chinese market. Not only were they
41:56showing off a new car, but it was also,
41:58for the Chinese, a way to show off—
42:00and for the Chinese, that staircase is
42:02iconic. It’s clear that it’s a
42:04really steep climb. And Range Rover
42:06showed that, look, we can even drive on
42:08this without breaking a sweat, they
42:09just flew right up. And here,
42:11apparently, Chery wanted to"
42:12import-substitute, "but something went
42:14wrong.
42:15You see, in China, this staircase is
42:17considered a symbol of overcoming
42:18challenges.
42:19They didn't overcome it in any sense of
42:21the word.
42:22I wonder, did that Range Rover go up
42:23without insurance? Insurance too.
42:25Too,
42:26yeah.
42:26Climbing these stairs is like a
42:28soul’s ascent, where each step
42:30becomes a meditation between earth and
42:32sky.
42:34Well, these stairs look like you could
42:36actually go meet your maker on the way
42:38up if you aren't ready for such
42:39athletic feats.
42:41Besides, the design of this car is just
42:44incredibly weird.
42:45Some sort of monster-like snout, it
42:47seems, with those headlights.
42:48Well, never mind. Hyundai and Kia have
42:55found themselves at the center of a
42:56scandal regarding child labor. Hyundai
42:59and Kia themselves say it has nothing
43:01to do with them, it’s not us, and
43:02basically, well, get lost, but what’s
43:04the point? There is an activist
43:08organization called Jobs to Move
43:10America. Right. And they are all about
43:13fair working conditions, making sure no
43:15one is being mistreated, ensuring
43:17employers treat employees properly, and
43:19so on. And they allegedly have evidence
43:23that component suppliers who make
43:25various car parts for Hyundai are using
43:28child labor, migrant labor, and so on.
43:32Look here: I gathered that the media is
43:35the one linking this to children,
43:37because Hyundai once had a scandal
43:39regarding those same component
43:41manufacturers allegedly using child
43:44labor, and now this non-profit
43:46organization has sued Hyundai because
43:48they are being approached by former
43:50employees of these component firms.
43:54And they say the working conditions
43:55there are just not right at all. There
43:57are migrants there,
43:59yes, and they don't pay wages, and they
44:01promise office work, but then you show
44:03up and it turns out to be hard manual
44:05labor. But as it happens, all these
44:07component manufacturers are located in
44:09Alabama. And we know that’s not the
44:10worst thing that can happen to you in
44:12Alabama, especially if you're someone's
44:13sister. It’s all quite amusing,
44:15really, when California is at war with
44:17Alabama and Texas. There’s that
44:18underlying meaning there, the blue
44:20states versus red states, Democrats
44:22versus Republicans. You didn't explain
44:25the context, what does California have
44:26to do with this?
44:26Well, this organization is based in
44:28California. They filed the lawsuit in a
44:29California court because Hyundai’s
44:31office is also in California. But most
44:33importantly, the organization is in
44:34California, and that's where the brains
44:36are. So, you have Petrovich working for
44:38you, and he was a child 40 years ago.
44:43Well, it's become trendy to hold big
44:44companies accountable for their
44:46contractors' work because all the
44:47luxury brands were squeezed last year,
44:49like Dior and Loro Piana. Apparently,
44:51they've run out of targets,
44:52because you can't really squeeze a
44:53small contractor for anything.
44:54There’s not much money there,
44:55right? But you could squeeze a big
44:57company. To which they say," Well, at
45:00least gather some evidence, at least
45:01get something together, let's go to
45:03court, let's sort this out in court. "
45:06But it's obvious that the point of all
45:08this, like any other non-profit, is
45:10just to bring something to public
45:11debate, generate a bunch of headlines,
45:13so the target audience gets really
45:15worked up about it. And the people who
45:19sponsor this non-profit told them,"
45:20Great, you met your KPIs, here's your
45:22budget, let’s go harass someone else.
45:24"
45:25You really don't believe in unions at
45:26all, do you?
45:27Well, that's just very strange.
45:28No, wait, this isn't a union,
45:30is it? It’s
45:31it’s an organization that helps
45:32workers defend their rights.
45:34Well,
45:34it's a union-like thing.
45:35It’s just strange to go there. You
45:37know, it’s like if, say, I or someone
45:40else came to work for, god, I don't
45:42know, a lighting manufacturer, and then
45:44they came to Stas and said your company
45:47is terrible because you use lights made
45:49under questionable conditions. That's a
45:52very strange connection,
45:54yes. That’s like coming and accusing
45:55you of using a laptop that was probably
45:57assembled by a Chinese child. Why the
45:59hell did you buy it?
46:00No, I think you're misrepresenting it.
46:02You show up for work and get hired. I
46:03think it's also a big problem in Russia
46:05. They promise you one thing. But then
46:07they put you in some production
46:08facility where you aren't trained. And
46:10the working conditions are dangerous
46:12too.
46:13So you go somewhere to complain, saying
46:14," Damn, it's basically a death trap
46:16there. "Where are you going to complain
46:18?
46:19Well, you went somewhere to complain.
46:20Okay, no, it's a good organization. And
46:22the organization should go and deal
46:24with the specific employer. The fact
46:27that Kia orders components from them
46:29doesn't make them responsible for
46:30overseeing how those contractors run
46:32their business or what their working
46:35conditions are. Also look, one step
46:38back, we don't even know if the facts
46:40are true, because this could all be a
46:42fabrication. There’s no court ruling
46:45yet, and nothing official. Secondly, we
46:47don't understand what kind of company
46:48this is. Did the company organize it
46:50itself and is the only client, or is it
46:53a supplier providing various components
46:55to a large number of companies? I’m
46:58just a paranoid person who sees hit
46:59jobs, like, someone just needs to be
47:01slammed in the media.
47:02Actually, no. All of this is very
47:04correct. Everything,
47:05yes, proper working conditions,
47:06everything is correct, everything is
47:07cool, wonderful. It’s just, like, go
47:08deal with it in court, not in the
47:10headlines.
47:11And, accordingly, take those who
47:12provided the lousy working conditions
47:14to court, not one of the clients. This
47:16is, in fact, this is just, well, it’s
47:18a very complex issue. It’s not just
47:19about the employer, it’s also, in
47:21general, about migrants. Specifically
47:23in the States, right there, especially
47:25in Texas, a border state with Mexico,
47:27there’s actually, well, very little
47:28of that conventional American
47:30population. And that is a huge problem
47:32there. And you won’t solve it by
47:34choosing one specific employer, even if
47:36they are in violation. Anyway, so, like
47:38,
47:38well, you see, these American leftists,
47:40they’ve twisted the leftist agenda to
47:43the absolute maximum, and they’re
47:45already screwing you over for things
47:47that are just, well, unimaginable. Well
47:51, on the one hand, you can agree that
47:52as a large company, with billion-dollar
47:54turnovers like Honda or Kia, you should
47:56be responsible for choosing contractors
47:58, and you must check them, especially
48:00knowing this isn't the first such
48:01conflict and there have been precedents
48:03where they were punished for
48:05contractors. You should be prepared for
48:08this, but on the other hand, it’s
48:10absurd,
48:10of course, you can't physically check
48:12all your contractors. Do you need to
48:15create a separate inspection wing
48:16inside your company that deals with
48:18inspecting working conditions at other
48:20companies? And what
48:23on what grounds, on what grounds would
48:24you even go to bother them? And who
48:25even is the labor authority? Like, you
48:28have an agency, we have the labor
48:29inspectorate, in the States there’s
48:30something else, which exists on tax
48:31money. Why isn't it performing its
48:33functions? You should probably go
48:34harass them instead of going after the
48:36manufacturers. Because when you have
48:39relationships, it's just like the
48:41recent news with GM and Chinese
48:42suppliers; they decided that working
48:44with those suppliers was unsuccessful
48:46and unprofitable due to the shifting
48:48agenda.
48:49Most likely, it’s not about the
48:51agenda; most likely, it’s a political
48:52decision, because they were just
48:54ordered to stop working with the
48:55Chinese for security reasons or
48:56something like that. Plus, due to the
48:58logistics and trade wars, it just
49:00remains, well, unprofitable. And it's
49:02more profitable for you to organize
49:04production here, because on a regular
49:06basis, even with tariffs of like 25%or
49:07whatever—I mean, there are some
49:09absurd tariffs between China and the US
49:11right now.
49:12Well, in the sense that, please, who
49:14are they to tell a Chinese supplier how
49:16to operate? They just said," Well,
49:18sorry, we won't be working with you. "
49:19Yeah, and that’s normal. That’s
49:21okay. I mean, like saying in the
49:23context of Hyundai or Kia, if you
49:25aren't satisfied with the product, or
49:26the price, or the delivery times, or
49:28anything else, telling your contractor"
49:30sorry, we aren't working with you
49:31anymore "is normal. But going and
49:34trying to audit another company when
49:35you have no authority to do so in the
49:36first place, because it’s someone
49:38else’s private business, someone
49:39else’s private company,
49:41Again, yeah, if a private business gets
49:43into a scandal, you can say:" Well,
49:44guys, if you don't change things on
49:45your end, we just won't work with you
49:46anymore, and that's it. "But to make
49:49such a decision, you first need to
49:51figure out if there is actually a
49:53violation. The court case hasn't even
49:54happened yet. Yet the negative
49:55sentiment is already on the table. But
49:58if you, as a large corporation, fall
50:00for all this nonsense—where you make
50:02decisions about your contractors based
50:03on the first headline you see about
50:05someone saying something somewhere—
50:07then you, as a company, become a very
50:09unreliable partner. Because any media
50:12garbage will be used against you
50:13immediately by competitors; they
50:15realize they can pay for articles and
50:17order journalists to trash a company,
50:19it will start rebuilding its supply
50:21chains for no reason, waste money, and
50:23we’ll gain a competitive advantage.
50:25That’s why the court exists, for a
50:26reason. That’s why I’m always
50:29skeptical of all this activist crap in
50:31the media and all those activists who
50:33make things up and go:" Oh,! "and
50:35then headlines emerge from that. I’m
50:38always skeptical of that nonsense,
50:39because eventually the court will step
50:41in, sort it out, and then things will
50:43be much clearer. It’s like that
50:46famous meme where activists in Britain
50:48are standing there, blocking a fuel
50:51tanker.
50:53And they’re like," Damn, no oil, no
50:55this, no that, "and the driver from
50:58there is like," Damn, you idiots,
51:01it’s 'oil' as in cooking oil, not
51:03crude oil. "" I’m hauling sunflower
51:07oil, damn it, leave me alone, please. "
51:15An Aura in Maybach style was
51:16photographed during a presentation.
51:18Look at those things.
51:21Lenya, Power Wheels, look what the
51:23Lepota guys came up with.
51:24What do you mean? Seriously?
51:25Yeah.
51:26It’s just Lenya with Lepota. Lepota
51:28is a detailing shop. Lenya Power Wheels
51:30is a wheel manufacturer, actually. So,
51:31they apparently came up with these
51:32wheels and came up with this Aura. Just
51:34put it on display somewhere at an
51:35exhibition. Just sitting there,
51:36generating hype.
51:36Not at their own place. This is the
51:37Moscow Auto Show. It just opened.
51:39Well, yeah, yeah. Phil even got out of
51:41the hookah lounge for this, where
51:42he’s always—where we always see him
51:44.
51:45The wheels have that floating center
51:46cap. Meaning it’s fixed, like a
51:48Rolls-Royce. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s
51:49it. Well, there you go, the guys know
51:51style.
51:51What?
51:52The wheels are cool.
51:53They brought the whole universe and
51:54Lada Aura together.
51:56Besides, you have to understand that,
51:58well, not only is this just a car, a
52:00total blast, and a one-off build, but
52:02in general, purely by design, it’s an
52:05exclusive. Even if this weren't the
52:07only car, but just a limited run, it
52:09would still be a truly exclusive ride,
52:11because for instance, 21,000 Maybachs
52:13were produced in 2024, but only 900
52:15Auras.
52:17That’s not
52:18think
52:19that’s the exclusive I’d want.
52:22Got it. That’s why the market,
52:24actually, didn’t buy it.
52:25I don’t want a long door.
52:28Well, the guys are just having fun,
52:29hyping it up, they reupholstered the
52:30steering wheel.
52:30No, they’re getting some amount of
52:32mentions. Yeah, that’s right. Guys,
52:34doing everything right, huh? Yeah, one
52:37set of wheels and you’re featured at
52:39an exhibition, and the effect is damn
52:41good.
52:43And that’s it for me in this episode.
52:45Don’t forget to subscribe to all our
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52:52subscribe to the main one. We recently
52:54released some material on safety there.
52:56And our review is already out, too.
52:58It should have already come out, yeah,
53:00our new format at the proving ground is
53:02out. Yeah. Stas is actually praising a
53:04Chinese car there, by the way.
53:05Yeah, imagine that, I was shocked
53:07myself. Well, whatever brief they sent,
53:09that’s what
53:12the tank factory [did].
53:15No, we have no bias, only objectivity.
53:17Well, take a look.
53:18Anyway, I was shocked even there.
53:20So, I was shocked. Well, what can you
53:22do? I mean, it's not like I'm just
53:24trashing some cars and praising others
53:25for no reason; it's because I like this
53:27and I don't like that. You mean the
53:29other way around? There was supposed to
53:32be a bumper here, but we ran out of
53:34money. And the people just left. And,
53:39well, the staff was just aware. Ah.

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