On this episode of Nailing The Apex, Tim Hauraney is joined by Nate Saunders from ESPN F1 to discuss Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris both signing long term deals with their current teams. Charles Leclerc inked what he called a deal that spanned “several years” Tim and Nate discuss why this could be a mistake for the Monégasque racing driver (4:49).

Lando Norris’s deal wasn’t up until the end of 2025, but the British driver still signed an extension to stay at McLaren for the foreseeable future, but his mistake could have been thinking that McLaren was back on the right path (24:20). In F1 it was unheard of for a drier to sign a long term deal, now in the past week we’ve two drivers ink very long term agreements 

Tim and Nate discuss how we got to where teams now treat start drivers with franchise tags (37:03). Both have their say on the Visa Cash App RB F1 Team name (43:44), and Nate gives his prediction on what happens in 2024 (53:37).

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