01/08/2014
NEWS STORY
In a strategic blunder worthy of McLaren, Mat Coch gets his time zones totally confused leaving the Pitpass podcast team one short.
Still struggling to master the art of understanding international time zones, Coch is left red-faced as he is joined only by Glen Crompton, editor Chris Balfe being notably absent, the result of an alleged gaffe.
Unsupervised the Australian duo do their best to work through the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, with Lewis Hamilton's stellar drive from the pitlane to a podium place catching Crompo's eye in particular.
The team steers clear of the Mercedes team orders saga, suggesting enough hot air has already been wasted, and instead goes for the jugular at Caterham.
Coch is especially critical, suggesting nothing emanating from Leafield of late has been positive for either the team or the sport. Taking the lead Crompo goes off on one of his traditional rants about how the sport isn't run like it was in his day, before invariably singing the praises of his countryman Daniel Ricciardo.
In addition to criticising the sport for constantly playing about with the rules in order to manipulate a result, the Antipodean pair are highly critical of talk of Flavio Briatore returning to the paddock as an 'entertainment consultant'.
The team now heads off on its summer break (well, winter for those who walk upside down) during which time Coch has promised to learn how to read a clock.
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