Enforcer & The Dude - Episode 32

[@davidbrown6558]

Well done Craig Baird. Great interview.

[@brucegibson4273]

Great to have Craig along, what a thankless job that is. Take my hat off

[@tonystewart7287]

It was very good of Bairdo to front. 😎

[@harteck4452]

That was great. Always liked Bairdo but now admire him a lot more. Explanation of the Masi F1 incident was excellent.

[@johnbushell5719]

Every show is great, this one is the best so far. Cheers fellows GREAT JOB!👌

[@jawracing911]

How awesome is it to have Bairdo on and just talk through it all! Soooo good! Great Ep as usual. Merry Christmas to you all. 👍🏼👍🏼

[@adamthompson6669]

Merry Christmas team and great work at Bathurst Enforcer kept it neat and tidy all day. Broc did a incredible job too. 😀 thanks for the episode. 🚗 🏎 🤩 💕

[@twelvepointfour]

The production quality is excellent, and Craig was very interesting to listen to. Great episode! Would love to see Ambrose interviewed too!

[@bradpigott8883]

Enforcer and the Dude, don't be surprised you're still putting out clips on KZbin. Good, well informed content will always stay the day. You will be around for a while I'd suggest. Well done!!

[@carolinedevlin1577]

Great show once again have enjoyed all of them this year was good to see Brock best of luck for your new drive at 888 , also for Craig Baird to explain his job and how penalties are applied . Merry Christmas and happy new year to the whole team and hope to see you all back for new shows in 2022.👍🎉🎉🎉😃

[@paulbuchtmann662]

Great eposide and the content continues to become a must watch event. Would love to come back for another day of excitement.

[@tony66au]

Bairdo, What a Coup! Awesome hearing his side of the story too and thanks for sharing his credentials. Good Bloke

[@auzzieworker5183]

The manual shift on the new car is a deal breaker. Its a must in my opinion.

[@FlatBrokeAdventures]

Awesome show as usual guys thank you. Looking forward to next year

[@bluedog1052]

What a great interview with Craig, I've thankfully had the pleasure of watching him fang his Porsche cup car at the Goldy a couple of times, from in the pits too. It's also fantastic having Michael in that position in F1 too. Not only Oscar had a stellar year but the young Doohan had a good one too.

[@FOGTinTops]

So well explained by CB, so many people calling for Michaels head in F1 - His experience and perspective is great to hear - All the best for 2022 guys, keep it up 🙂

[@bruceellicott6232]

Ten out of ten bloody awesome show again guys can't wait till the new year 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

[@svenomick5857]

Another great show Boys keep up the great work

[@franciscoparra3818]

Merry Christmas to all the crew at Norwell Motorplex. It has been an awesome end to a difficult year. Wish you all the very best for the new year. Can't wait for more of the Enforcer and the Dude in 2022. Thankyou.

[@tonystewart7287]

Another great show, great to see Craig on, Merry Xmas to all of you, roll on 2022 & more Enforcer & The Dude shows! Thanks for telling it like it is. 😎😎 Shout out to #Supercheap Auto

[@psivewri]

Always look forward to your next episode :)

[@Johnhealey-]

Thanks for the fantastic year and the production and format is nothing short of excellent. The big boys of the sport and it’s telecasters should take a bloody good few notes on how to engage the fans of the sport in a technical , philosophical and fun sense. Great stuff team and a big thanks to Supercheap Auto for the support. The stores are great and the teams who run them always offer a great deal of support. A special mention to the crew at the Menai store for all the help this year. I am looking forward to next years episodes. Thanks

[@richardbartczak9175]

Awesome show as usual. It was great listening to Craig Baird, it is not an easy job. Well done to Broc Feeney for a stella year. Merry Christmas to all at Norwell and stay safe.

[@clintbraddick2615]

Awesome. Very interesting. Thanks guys.

[@Spiraldeath]

Great wrap up show....Merry Christmas and keep up the good work next year. 👍

[@Joe-ik7uu]

Awesome show guys. Thanks Bairdo for taking the time to come on the show and for your excellent explanation of what is involved in your role and Michael Masai's decision. The first thing they need to do is cut the team principals contact with the race director, who needs that when you are trying to make split second decisions. While I appreciate the difficulty of Michael Massi's decision at that time, my feeling at the end of the race was that Mercedes were making decisions based on a set of know rules and those rules changed when Michael decided to wave the 5 cars between Lewis and Max by. Given that there was a championship on the line, the race should have been red flagged. Hamilton would have the opportunity to put fresh softs on and the race would have been restarted with both title contenders on the front row fighting it out, putting the onus back on the drivers (not the officials) and we would have had an equitable race to the end. Personally I did not care who won as both teams and drivers deserved to win the championship, just a shame it was decided in this manner. I have to make a final comment, Russell, wow your presentation and interview skills have become so polished! Well done to all involved in the production. Seasons greetings and best wishes for the New Year.

[@brendanmcgovern4517]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year team. Awesome show

[@shawnmoore4292]

Thanks guys the best motor sport show going.

[@randelspence]

Awesome seeing Craig Baird - big props for explaining your position, and admitting you are human, describing the way you look at incidents. Massive respect 👌

[@1fisho]

3 years wow where has that gone merry Christmas team and thanks for a bloody great show cu in 2022 🏁

[@davidporeilly1]

Gents thanks for a great episode to close out 2021. It was great hearing Craig Baird on the show. The intro alone did enough to boost his credibility and image but his explanation of doing the job was fantastic and I went away with only respect for this guy. Like 45 million other people I will make a remark about the Formula One finale. After a passing interest from 84 to 2000 I have hardly missed a race in the last 22 years. I agree with Craig Baird that Hamilton deserved to win this final race. However after a dominance in the first half of the season by RedBull was in part squandered by Verstappen including 19 points thrown away at Silverstone when he went for an apex at Copse that was clearly not going to be available# Mercedes Benz fought back impressively and entered that race tied on points. So that race WAS the title decider. That's the thing that made it such an event. It felt like "The rumble in the jungle", something massive, something you didn't need to be a seasoned F1 fan to get excited about. A Hamilton win would have sealed an amazing team fightback and his 8th record breaking championship. The way it was ended made it a farce. The decisions made might have made for a dramatic finish and might have made a good show but were not in keeping with the rules and totally unexpected. Hamilton out dragged Verstappen from the start despite being on one step harder tyres and out drove him and led every phase of the race on pace. Hamilton led by 11 sec with 6 laps to go, he had won that race and so the title. So now the ultimate prize the Formula One Drivers Championship has been terribly tarnished, devalued. If 2000 people in a team can "bust a gut" to win that title and it is denied them in such a way it becomes a hoax. Hamilton like a statesman congratulated Verstappen. I don't think that was false, what they were pissed about was the bullshit, whining and conniving and lobbying that Horner used to influence Massi. EG Copse (where Hamilton left space) was "a desperate move by a desperate driver" but Brazil T4 where Verstappen made Hamilton use a different post code to avoid contact was "letting them race". Hamilton was robbed and passionate fans have a very bad taste in their mouths. #Copse corner at Silverstone. I have raced there and been attacked up the inside. Its a VERY fast corner with a VERY late apex. If you squeeze someone to the wall on the approach they WILL run wide. Even so Ham left room, just not the whole track. So Max created the situation where Hamilton was never able to take the classic line and hit the apex, but guess what that is not a thing in the rules. If somebody is on the inside and entitled to racing room you need to leave quite a bit there. Max caused the contact by demonstrating his apparently genetic inability to share a corner and going for the apex as if he was on his own. Seriously if Max raced against himself he would never finish a race. If not for Max's "own goal" 54 g impact there would have been no penalty.

[@markhowells13]

I fundamentally disagree, Lewis wasn't substantially in front at any point, if he couldn't make the corner he should have hit the anchors and backed out. its not up to Max to make his life easier, its up to Lewis not to hit Max in that scenario

[@davidporeilly1]

@@markhowells13 He did make the corner. Any driver is not required to be in front to command racing room. By having significant overlap before the turn-in point Hamilton was entitled to racing room. This fact is the fundamental issue that makes the scenario very clear. From that point Hamilton is entitled to compete for the corner. He is not required to back out at all. So there were two cars in that corner and both entitled to be there. Verstappen went for too much apex wrongfully expecting Hamilton to back out (signature move by Verstappen). It didn't work out. Verstappen error. Apart from all that if we accept that Hamilton is entitled to compete for the corner what exactly was he supposed to do differently?

[@TheLoganr80]

Great show once again boys. Actually hearing from Craig Baird and the process behind the race control decisions was great. I don't always agree but I now understand a bit more. Merry Christmas. See you next year.

[@tonymcdonald6482]

Just keeps getting better guys. This was the best so far. High bar expected next year

[@brentmcknight5344]

Great episode guys. Great to see Craig on the show. I think he does a fantastic job

[@2burning2turning]

3 years since you got the boot Russ, thanks for the content.

[@DavidA877]

Thank you team - love your work Regards

[@lesgaal4017]

Bloody great show boy's Merry Christmas.

[@lukes5533]

Great shows through the year guys well done.🌲👍💯🍻

[@petertheodore1860]

Great episode enforcer and dude merry Christmas

[@simondent2196]

Merry Christmas guys, can’t wait for next year.. great year boys.

[@68peterbilt68]

Um.... Russell? Dude's life message? Great show. Keep it coming. 🤟😎👍

[@antonpercel4158]

you make me proud to be a kiwi Beardo what a legend you are so well exposed on this show as well bless you Paul and Russel nailed it again what a great show

[@durdre]

Craig Baird was super interesting - great work Enforcer and The Dude 👍🏁

[@jjg1000]

Masi's good mate defending what he did.... no mention of actually breaking their own rules , a decision that would never have happened at another race . At least admit that what he did was wrong.... for the motorsport and the rules they enforce. Mercedes made a decision based on the rules ... if they change the rules at their own discretion then what good is having rules laid out? Lewis dominated that race ... Max was in no- mans land all race ... and he started on faster tyres

[@Hillzy_Eighty7]

Turn it up Toto,Lewis and Mercedes have had it too good for too long Max shouldve had the championship tied up in Saudi Arabia if 'sir' Lewis didnt punt him into the wall in Silverstone at 50g

[@ck-lumen]

Pretty disappointed there was no discussion on whether the allowing of select number of cars to unlap was within the sporting regulations or not. This was what's controversial about the race. Not the fact Hamilton was leading the whole race only to be overtaken by Verstappen on the last lap. Not interested in how Masi is a good bloke or who deserves the championship or making a good show- these should be totally irrelevant. Race control are there to apply the rules of the game objectively, not act as a movie director.

[@fatman6121]

Absolutely brilliant this is what racing was all about just friends getting some cars and racing having shit loads of fun thanks for another brilliant year and marry Christmas to you and all yours from all here to all there Melbourne

[@debugin1227]

Didn’t fursnapper walk off the podium in the prior race?

[@aaaaab5909]

Really enjoyed the baird interview, brilliant to get his opinion on things unfiltered,

[@mgrant011]

I’m no Walkinshaw fan by a long shot but seeing them best T8 head in was fantastic. It really disgusts me that most of the weekend Skaife wouldn’t mention the supercharge name. As for Gen3 Mustang looks like a beast the sound was off the scale but will be interesting to see when the coyote flogs the Chevy how it’ll be adjusted.

[@ianriordan6382]

Brock Feeney is an articulate, polite and keen young man. He can drive and is a team player. Paul, you have done well grooming him as a driver. I hope that he has a long and successful career in pushrod V8 manual racecars.

[@formulafish1536]

I’ll admit. When Craig first came in, I hated what he was doing, but the guy has managed to massively modernise the wheel to make Supercars’ penalty system far better! 2019 was a shambles with his penalty calls, but he rarely makes a bad call today! Thank you Craig for the massive and brilliant changes you have made for Supercars!

[@madelynwilkin684]

Good show hope it go's main stream cheers.

[@petercampbell87]

The Mustang looked the part. All the best for Christmas Rusty and Dude.

[@nickcooper7722]

Great show. In relation to the F1 situation, Masi made the wrong decision and cost Lewis Hamilton the World Championship. Don't forget Masi used to be an assistant race director at Supercars so I don't think there is a completely unbiased opinion here. Merry Christmas Russ and Paul!

[@Az_1987]

Merc lost Hamilton the title with their poor strategy. No risk, no reward.

[@Az_1987]

Merc lost Hamilton the title with their poor strategy. No risk, no reward.

[@markhowells13]

Did you completely miss the conversation that Merc missed pitting Lewis under the VSC ?

[@chrisorr3919]

I dont see Hamilton skipping the FIA awards as disrespectful. It was a silent protest against what happened, but people will always be upset with what Lewis does, good or bad.

[@gavinivers8941]

Two things... Great to see Craig to show his job isn't easy, and nice to see Paul got the BIG toolbox...lol

[@beatmuppet]

Agreed. Bathurst 1000 was a much better race with multiple classes

[@ashdivakaran9664]

I wanted your take on the F1 title decider but you went one better and got Craig Baird’s opinion. I think the turning point of the race was when Mercedes decided not to bring Hamilton in. They can’t blame race control for it.

[@debugin1227]

Great show.. lotsa laughs…

[@MitchZero9]

Lol, when was Bathurst? I like watching this show but totally don't follow any of it now.

[@markhowells13]

such a good episode, Baird was fantastic. Just for once i wish we could have 5 mins without Russel bagging supercars with a mountain sized chip on his shoulder. Why bother being involved in it if he hates it so much ?

[@cv8z231]

Love Russell But agree he s gotta tone down the negative vibe. But he s got a point.

[@TONYCOOLSFISHING4X4TOURING]

CHEERS BOYS Merry Christmas🍺

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

ATT ADMIN: Thanks very much for enabling 'Closed Captions'.

[@collinblack_60103-]

Merry Christmas to all🎄.

[@306champion]

Last to first! Reminds me of Larry,,, now who was his co-driver ? ?

[@philtwigg5409]

Craig never mentioned the other teams that suffered position losses because they were not allowed to uncap themselves as per the requirement of FIA F1 48.12.

[@pault7425]

Glenno seems to be enjoying the show.

[@yeahsure4975]

F1 just proved why Motogp and wsbk are so much better as a sport the respect among riders like fabio and peco rea and toprak

[@PapaBaush]

Bairdo you legend 🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@royferntorp3575]

Please invite the other guys to a day at Norwell. OTL, MCM etc.

[@lancemaher3732]

👏👏👏

[@bodgiesteve8849]

1:05:27, It's up to the commentators to constantly hunt down news, trivia, any information available, and update that information. The current mob too much time gibbering. It comes across to me, that their target audience has no interest in motor cars, much less motor racing. 32 episodes of 'Enforcer & The Dude', plus the Kelly Racing videos, I've learnt more about these cars than I have in 40 years of TV. Also , there's too many smiling faces. Some hatred would go a long way.

[@robertleeimages]

Cracking show to end the year with, always liked Bairdo and great to have that side of things on the show. I do slightly disagree about the Masi call only because there were others whose position became a non fight, Ricciardo in 12th on fresh tyres ended up with 11th and 10th running behind him after they were let through and if I recall a couple of others in a similar situation. They should have let all through when the call came that they weren't letting them through at all, and personally the radio chatter after that I think changed his mind(Alonso: haha typical and he should be in front of me! Max: hahaha of course, what a joke! ) I'm not a Hamilton fan or a Max fan and think it could have been handled better and who ever won the championship would deserve it, but at the end of the day the the best driver over the year won and the numbers say that also

[@markhowells13]

I still disagree with Bairdo on Scotty vs Lowndes at Newcastle. But i still respect him lol

[@grahamserle7930]

Great show guys. I'm so glad that you had Craig on to explain just how difficult it is to adjudicate on the happening during a race. I for one thought Michael Masi made exactly the right call in the best interests of the final F1 race at Abu Dhabi given the extreme timeline pressure he was under. The poor guy was on a hiding to nothing whatever call he made but at the end of the day Mercedes chose not gamble and take on fresh tyres on more than one occasion when they could have and Red Bull did. Max was just as deserving of the championship when you take into account the whole season. What has transpired since is really poor form by Mercedes, Hamilton and Wolf. Merry Xmas to you all.

[@kermit10]

I've heard plenty of times on supercars abut track position, Lewis had track position if Lewis pitted then Max would have track position, The race director choose not to follow the rules and regs regards to the safety car, the race director has been on tv in 2020 explaining the rules and regs when a couple of drivers were complaining how long the safety car been out for and we all agree that the length of time a safety car is out for after they have cleared an incident is a bit ridiculous at times when we all want to watch racing. The race director stated that all lap cars needed to unlap and then the safety car comes in after the next lap when that happens, the race director choose not to follow the rules & regs this time to create a show so basically fixing the race. Would you be saying the same if the stewards in a supercars championship deciding race choose not to follow the rules & regs that they have followed at previous race weekends.

[@matk4731]

Awesome effort at Bathurst guys👏. Larko gave you guys a bit of love. The right man won the F1 championship IMHO. For once F1 was entertaining. Hamilton & Mercedes are just a bunch of sore losers with no respect. Supercars not racing in the rain is bull shit. If the drivers can’t handle it they should go & do something else. Supercars lost a lot of fans that day. Birdo is an absolute legend & I love what he brings to Supercars. Merry Xmass guys hope there’s a lot more shows next year. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃

[@jogardner2462]

Are you kidding me. Go to 1:02:38

[@Holden0583]

Yep I did notice that too

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

18:29 ...Russell lol he probably just wrote it down and the bit of paper got lost, happens all the time.

[@forddriver8827]

The thing about F1 I dislike so much is the fact it is only for the rich & elite. Provide a realistic pathway and the likes of Lewis Hamilton would be much more common. Personally, I think Lewis Hamilton is a diva.

[@wokss]

Hey guys just on the late episode 31 talks of having more woman in motorsports, back the 90s they had the young Cougars in Holden's, with the money in Supercar, surely, one of them teams can trail lady in supercars II, they could do it like talent scouts, start by contacting some known car clubs from around Australia, get some info on any young girls ladies in the sport, and if they can be serious move to lady racing in our Country be good if you 2 can push it also say get the ball rolling Re:

[@philtwigg5409]

What about the year Rusty won the Championship due to consistency rather than wins, etc ..

[@flammenjc]

Late to the party on this one. Bairdo's great, lot of respect for the guy but : Masi's stewardship of F1 has been bad, with driving standards dropping lower and lower each season he was in charge. Some of the moves they've let people get away with, like Verstappen in Jeddah T1 just sending it and forcing others well off circuit and then him essentially asking RBR what kind of penalty they would prefer for it was ridiculous and coupled with him being berated into making a rash decision at Abu Dhabi again by RBR only stoked the already burning fire. He was making decisions on the fly and not referring to the rulebook at all times. If a race director refers to the rulebook and doesn't abuse his discretionary powers nobody can complain about it. The problem comes with a grey area's that aren't in or excluded in the rules that interfere with the integrity of the sport. Lets face it, the integrity of F1 was compromised most significantly in both Jeddah and Abu Dhabi and that's the reason why Masi got the can in the end.

[@WilliamButtel]

For me with F1 If they want an even fair fight, you call a red flag and have everyone stop with soft tyres The problem is the spectacle at the end was fabricated, for tv and think about hamilton winning and having the momentum the last 4 - 5 races and he absolutely destroyed them that race until then The other issue is why can Massi interpret the rules according to him, this isn't a massi hate post its just the truth of whats happening, racing rules vs racing interpretation makes no sense Also why give 5 second penalties for hard racing but when people drive each other off the road aka vestappen its "hard racing" 1. reward hard racing but when its over the line come down hard 2. stop the direct line from f1 teams to stewards 3. stop having backdoor agreements e.g ferrari engine 2018

[@jjg1000]

Simple mate ... they didn't want lewis and Mercedes to win again. Perhaps it's bad for the sport... but this is sport and if one team is better than the other then that's just what it is. They even tried to cap spending to bring the teams closer but merc still do an amazing job. As soon as liberty media took over I feared this would happen, and neflix getting involved. It's bad for the sport in my opinion and I expect masi had pressure from higher ups somewhere to influence the results the way he did

[@Jahanoudis]

Red flag? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Sure let's have red flags for every incident. Sets a precedent if you start doing that. You end up just having mini races besides the incorrect use of the red flag

[@WilliamButtel]

@@Jahanoudis I’m saying if they wanted a proper dash at the end in a weird manufactured way then red flag it, I did not say red flag every incident

[@WilliamButtel]

@@jjg1000 here’s hoping it’s a bit clearer next year They def should stop whinging to the race director tho haha

[@madelynwilkin684]

Better this ssupercar

[@gemini3558]

😜👍🇦🇺

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

*_AUSSIE OSCAR_* Piastri F2 *_World Champ_*

[@carpetpunter158]

Masi STB

[@kymnewman7323]

Why didn't you call out Bairdy big time about backing Masi. The whole world knows he changed the F1 rule game for 1 race. It cost a world record. You blokes knew he was gone. Not because of social media backlash. It happened because he stuffed it big time. Ignorantly or maybe worse. Love your show but really after that effort you are no better than Skaife or Crompton. Long way back to credibility boys. Examine this carefully before a response. Cheers fellas

[@The-Ford-Man]

Whats the go with wincup spinning his wheels before the white line coming out of pitlane and did not get any penalty i have it on vid he released the pit speed limiter before the white line and got nothing no drive though penalty nothing whoops i forgot it is rebull get away with anything

[@bozspeed10carsbikesmotorcy92]

Sorry Craig, but Masi breached the Sporing Regulations. The “excuse “ of sporting reg 15.3 allowing Masi to rewrite the rules is a grossly misleading interpretation of the rules. Masi got it wrong.

[@harteck4452]

Disagree

[@Alex-tu9bh]

Why do people keep looking at other factors like “ Mercedes should have pitted Lewis “ who cares about that. What really matters is massi changing the rules to suit one car over the other. If he kept to the rules and max one nobody would be talking about this. It’s simple

[@Alex-tu9bh]

You didn’t read the second part of what I wrote did you....

[@Alex-tu9bh]

@ MT-Guitars yes merc could have made a pit stop under the safety car but they would have lost track position. Anyway the argument is that massi broke the fia rules, if he just followed the rules and max one no one would be arguing. That’s the point I’m trying to make mate, you can’t just change the rules to make the race more interesting

[@bozspeed10carsbikesmotorcy92]

@Harteck44 With what exactly do you disagree? The sporting Reg’s for yellows and restarts is clear and the FIA have admitted they weren’t followed. They have justified their position by saying article 15.3 grants the authority to the race director to override the sporting regulations. If you read all of article 15, it pertains to officials and their pecking order. 15.3 states the the race director can overrule the clerk of the course, not overrule the sporting regulations. If he can overrule the sporting Reg’s, then what’s the point in having any rules? This is supposed to be the pinnacle of Motorsport, not WWE pro fake wrestling. My point has nothing to do with Lewis or Max, it has to do with the regulation and administration of the sport. If Michael Masi can make up rules on the fly they may as well throw out the rule book and call it Death Race 2022.

[@Jahanoudis]

Spot on Craig, very disingenuous by Merc and Lewis. Sore losers