Subaru is on the verge of entering Formula One.

Okay, it's not, but we bet that got your attention… It's just one of the wild fancies the Pitpass trio throw about in the latest podcast rather than dissecting what was a hugely entertaining race.

To be fair Chris Balfe, Max Noble and Mat Coch do touch on the topic but much prefer to talk about the really important matters, like how many clowns could fit in Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari, or why Coch has suddenly gone all Forrest Gump.

As an extra incentive this week Balfe came armed, launching second place caps at either Noble or Coch whenever the said something he felt particularly disrespectful or silly. Noble earned one for branding himself an excellent Number 2 speaker, a point with which neither Balfe nor Coch argued.

There are serious moments too as they question whether democracy really is the answer and if installing sprinklers around the world's circuits is actually feasible. It probably isn't, though Balfe doesn't seem too upset by that.

He is upset however at Ferrari after Maurizio Arrivabene criticised the sideshow put on by rival teams on Saturday afternoon during the (exceedingly) long rain delay. The Italian was probably just upset Daniel Ricciardo agreed to dance with team-mate Daniil Kvyat and not him.

Fourth placed Max Verstappen gets another thumbs up, which almost certainly means he'll stick it in the hedge at the first corner in Mexico, but the trio universally urge caution over his future. Currently, it's so bright you can only look at it while wearing a welding mask, but the concern is he'll be rushed into a leading team before he's ready and not be afforded the time he needs to develop.

Like the race itself, the podcast has more twists and turns than Pastor Maldonado (and Coch has a theory there…) in a bumper car and covers more ground than the carnage left in its wake.

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1. Posted by Peter Rickitt, 30/10/2015 16:27

"Correction - 1995"

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2. Posted by Peter Rickitt, 30/10/2015 15:05

"I was interested in your remarks about sprinklers and your attribution of the original idea to John Watson: how so ?
You might be amused to know that, in my professional working life as a corporate finance adviser, I orchestrated the buy-out of Brands Hatch Leisure in 1990 with Nicky Foulston and venture capitalist Jon Moulton: at one of our subsequent board meetings, Nicky made just such a suggestion and we seriously considered it for (your excellently-termed) 'motortainment' reasons - as a traditionalist, I managed to dissuade both of them, but perhaps I was wrong ?
Credit to Nicky, then !"

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