Liam telling stories about him and Yuki on the Red Flags Podcast
Source: Red Flags Podcast - WE INTERVIEWED F1'S LIAM LAWSON!!!
(edited down and transcribed by @press-f1-to-grieve)
to @2bluetwo85: i read your tags from that yuki and liam post. thank you for letting me know this exists (and for reading my long tags). i hope i got the right podcast you were talking about.
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beware, it's long. and i'm not familiar with the podcast (my newbie is showing) so i'm not sure which voice belongs to who. please excuse me if i got them mixed up. i listened to the episode on a podcast app and only found out they have a youtube channel later, after i had already finished everything bar hit the "post" button. the visual would have helped greatly with knowing who's speaking but alas...
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Matt: Ye so, I wanna talk about another teammate of yours, Yuki Tsunoda. So we've read that you and Yuki go back. He lived with your parents in New Zealand?
Brian: (laughs) No! He didn't live- He didn't live with-
Liam: He came to- So this is a series called the "Toyota Racing Series" in New Zealand, used to be like, really really big, especially before Covid. And basically we were both competing in it as teammates, and so he came to New Zealand. And we've been teammates a year before that in F3 and Euro Formula, so I've spent a lot of time with him already. So when he came to New Zealand, he basically just hung out with us. A lot. Like, I basically just drive around with him.
Matt: So like step-brothers a little bit?
Liam: Honestly, ye. (laughs)
Matt: What was your favorite thing to do with him, growing up?
Liam: It was always away from the track. Cause away from the track, he's a really funny, genuine dude.
So, obviously, it's harder. When you are competing, with Yuki, (...) competing for the same seat. So, it's like, at the track, it's real intense. And then, away from that, it's real cool.
Matt: How're you able to maintain a friendship when it's just like, you know, blood sport out there for these few seats?
Liam: At points, over the year, (stammers) you know, it's not a friendship. And then he- Like, obviously, his journey was pushed a lot earlier than mine. He went to F1 quite early so, then I was- I wasn't really in competition with him anymore so-
Matt: Right. Does that help your friendship?
Liam: Then we are like, pretty chill again. And then we are put in competition again.
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Brian: I think in one of the earlier seasons of Drive to Survive, you were in his room, and his room was like, all messy, and he was annoyed that they put it in.
Matt: Did you catch him on a bad day or is that just is?
Brian: Is his room just a mess always?
Liam: That's literally- I don't know now.
Oh actually, I went to his house recently and it was a lot better.
Both Hosts: (relieved) Okay!
Liam: He has improved. (stammers) I remember, well, it wasn't really- (vocally winces) It was fierce because you shouldn't live like that anyway. BUT!-
Both Hosts: (crying laughing emojis in audio form)
Liam: But I remember, he had just moved into this apartment at the start of, I think it was the start of that year, and I- Oh no, it was the year before! But same thing, Covid, here, basically. I went to New Zealand because I was about to be locked out of the country. There was no racing. And Yuki stayed, in Milton Keynes for months. Just on (his own), he didn't go back to Japan. Like he just stayed in this apartment.
Brian: Like Cast Away
Liam: But I had to move into this brand new apartment and it was sick! And I went to New Zealand and I came back 3 months later.
Matt: He has got a beard.
Liam: And I walked into this place and it was just like DUUDE.
It was bad, like it was real bad.
Brian: (hums of understanding) Like takeouts and- (all three make noises of agreement)
Liam: It was just food everywhere. Like, the laundry basket was just like, overflowing.
Matt: Yuki was basically all of us during Covid.
Brian: (enthusiastic YE's)
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Matt: So, what are you most competitive with Yuki off the track? Like what do you guys like to-
Liam: Awe, dude, everything.
Both Hosts: Ye?
Liam: No, like, everything. We're like- At the moment, we've been playing table tennis. Just little disc.
Matt: Oh you'll just make-
Liam: M-make one! Ye, just make it. (...) not a proper one.
Matt: Who is up?
Liam: He plays a lot more, to be fair, but-
Matt: So he crushes you.
Liam: (cute babbles) No no-
Both Hosts: (laugh)
Liam: So, we played in Japan. I think I had him in Japan. And then we played last week and he beat me.
Matt: You don't keep a serious tally?
Are you better on certain surfaces? Like if it's a dinner table, you got him.
Liam: On a smaller table, I have him. But on a slightly bigger table-
Like depends on what table we get during race weekend.
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Liam: But one thing with Yuki that was real funny that we did back when we were in New Zealand.
Liam: I don't know how this is a thing but you can rent a boat, at like 15 or 16 years old. And just take it out, to Lake Taupo. And so me and Yuki were like- I was probably 17 or 18 and he was like 19 or 20, and we just rented this boat, and got like, you know, biscuit, or tube? What do you call them? (...) And we just took it out and basically- It started off like real fun. Like we were just towing each other around.
But then it just got like, who could throw the other person off like, the biggest. We just like, tried to kill each other on this little tube, in the middle of this lake.
Matt: Just the two of you?
Liam: Just the two of us. Just out there in the middle of a lake.
Brian: Just the two of you tried to kill each other.
Matt: It's like a fucking thriller.
Liam: Honestly! I've got videos of like, him and me, like, in the air. Like, meters in the air.
Matt: Who won or lost that game?
Brian: "We both lost that game."
Liam: Actually, I lost pretty hard on that one, to be fair.
Matt: He threw you-
Liam: I went off like, big time, ye.
Brian: It seems like, that's the common experience of tubing, is that. It's like, it's fun and then you're like, am I gonna die?
(...)
Matt: So Yuki was a master at flinging you?
Liam: Well, he would like- Sometimes I feel like it's on accident. He would like, get a lot of slack and it will just build up real fast-
Both Hosts: Sure, he said it was on accident.
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Liam: We're drivers. Everything turns into a competition.
Liam: We had a rental car, again in New Zealand with Yuki, that we like, basically would like, make a little track and just set time trials off the side of the road.
Matt: Like with a Camry or something?
Liam: No, Yuki had this little Mitsubishi ASX. I don't know if you know what it is, it's like a boxed car. And we, with like a couple of drivers, basically made like, a little track, and, basically goes until somebody- until Yuki crashed it. (...)
The funniest thing, it wasn't even in the- He had finished his lap. It was afterward, he tried to be cool and do like a flick spin, and just totally sent it into a bank.
We had to go to a store to get one of those plungers to try and plunge out the dent in the front of the- Because we had to get the car back.
Brian: Right, of course.
Matt: Renters insurance, man. If I see you or Yuki walk into an enterprise or something, I'll just like, go somewhere else.
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→ Silas is unresponsive for now... another pup has been brought along with Seance.
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