The Bloke and a Bird Show Episode 248

The theme for this week’s show is “controversy” because there sure was a lot of it this week.Sebastian Vettel held a private karting event in Saudi Arabia - and invited only female Saudi racers to participate.Lewis Hamilton expressed his displeasure with F1’s decision to come to Saudi Arabia.Mercedes has a new sponsor - that might cause the UK government to change the laws around sports sponsorship… Dmitri Mazepin wants to pay retention bonuses to Haas personnelHelmet Marko says that Red Bull gets treated differently by the Stewards - he might be right, just not in the way he thinks.Max Verstappen says that F1 is more about penalties than racing - and while we have problems with how penalties have been awarded this season… Max is his own worst enemy.We know where F1 wants to hold sprint races in 2022.