The 2025 F1 United States Grand Prix WINNERS & LOSERS

Max Verstappen put the championship on notice at COTA as McLaren blinked and Ferrari bit back.

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The 2025 F1 United States Grand Prix at Austin was a heat-soaked pressure test that reset the title tone with Red Bull’s Verstappen now just 40 points behind title-leader Oscar Piastri. Red Bull’s “strongest weekend in a long while,” was evident as Yuki Tsunoda scoring in both races showed. Ferrari looked composed as Charles Leclerc’s bold soft-tyre call earned a podium while Lando Norris salvaged big points bringing him to within 14 points. Nico Hulkenberg banked a tidy P8 for Sauber and Oliver Bearman scored in both sessions for Haas at their home race.

Who else won, lost or was meh during this weekend’s USA GP?

00:00 The Winners
10:12 The Meh
17:12 The Losers

The 2025 F1 United States Grand Prix WINNERS & LOSERS

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H I think it is time. A time in which for us to all say game on. Yeah, because Max Vstappen has scored more points than both McLaren drivers combined since we returned from the summer break. I don’t think you need me to tell you, but Max Fappen executed the clean weekend that he needed. If only he had the fastest lap, he would have had another ground shalm to his name. sprint pole, sprint win, race control, off the line, then just enough tire management to keep McLaren at arms lane. Now, of course, it wasn’t the typical dominant win that we saw back in 2023 where he would win by over 20 seconds or something like that. It was similar to what George Russell demonstrated back in Singapore when it was about 7 8 9 seconds. What really matters is the fact that we now have a situation where Max Vstappen has the same amount of wins as Lando Norris and he is now closing in on the Brit and only 40 points behind Pastry. And his debrief was quite telling saying that this was the perfect weekend that everything went off without the hitch. But he also did say that in order for this to continue every weekend would have to be perfect. Team boss Lauren Mechis even said it was the strongest weekend they’ve had in a while, citing their constant upgrades, but I don’t think they actually brought any for Austin, and that is fairly understandable considering, well, it’s a sprint weekend. Why bring parts to a sprint weekend? As we have seen multiple times over the years, you end up either not getting enough data and you park them anyway, or you break them and you well, you have to go back to the old one and you lose all the pace. Not to mention, he had a car that was really, really workable. And we’ll get to Yuki Senota in a moment because you could say that his car was also quite workable. But needless to say, Red Bull looked really polished. It was really quiet. A week where it was dominated by McLaren controversy in the courts and then with Lando Norris saying there were repercussions which are starting to come out to light saying that maybe Pastry has special treatment in qualifying perhaps. It’s very very subtle. But what isn’t so subtle is that Max Vstappen is happy. He is very happy. And that is very important for the driver market next year and how Red Bull feel about their emotions and status going into the end of this year and then into the next. And now okay let’s touch upon Ceno because I’m sorry there are many many doubters out there and still people saying that he is fighting for his life here but this weekend was absolutely fantastic for him. Sure, it wasn’t in the top five, but coming from 18th to seventh in the sprint and then maximizing more points, eight points now, Red Bull are only three points behind Ferrari and the constructors and only 10 points behind Mercedes in second. And this is all coming together at the right possible moment where Yuki can actually get things done and score. Mechis himself said that Yuki was great. This is going to do his prospects of remaining with this team next year a good shot in the arm. Especially considering that Lorson did not score and Hajar had an even worse time of it where he wasn’t even close to scoring due to one thing or another. Maybe they might be bringing more upgrades to Mexico. This could mean even more points for Cenod where he can actually find himself a contender for getting into the top 10 of the drivers standings. And considering that he spent most of the season near the bottom, that would be a really big boost in of itself. Then we have Ferrari. And I have to admit, the Scooteria really came back fighting this weekend. They looked far more composed than McLaren, too. It’s been a rough few weeks, I’m sure you’d know. But Ferrari, I think, left Austin feeling satisfied with both drivers. They were really competitive, not passengers at all, aslair claimed back at Singapore. And it all started with emulating what the staff did at Singapore by starting on the soft. I think he was the only person in the top 10 to do so easily. And wouldn’t you know it, Llair’s efforts on those tires in that heat is a really big surprise. And Pirelli must have been absolutely tearing their hair out. Their plan to bring the step compound C1, C3, C4 failed spectacularly. Nobody really bought into it. I think only a couple of drivers did a two stopper. And it was partly with the dragging out those soft tires, keeping Morris behind him was enough to make people go like, “Yeah, no, no, we’re not doing that.” And also I like to feel that Shanneled the spirits of Giga Kubitza over this weekend and it really helps that Robert is part of the Ferrari world endurance fold. So you had Sh doing everything he possibly could cleanly may I add in trying to keep Lando behind placing his car to the point where Lando was getting all of these track limit gongs and almost got a 5-second time penalty. Even though it would have been rendered moot considering that he was like well over 5 seconds ahead of Hamilton, it would have still been a psychological blow. Solair had a lot of control and brought Ferrari back to the podium. And considering all the stuff that’s happening outside of the car within the politics of Ferrari, this was very much needed. And as for Lewis Hamilton, I mean, this was a very solid weekend at a track which has been really, really kind to him over the years. Sure, it’s not that first podium in a Grand Prix which people have been really wanting, Hamilton especially, but he wasn’t that far off and he did enough what he needed to do to come home fourth and keep Pastri at bay who was closing in on him toward the end. It reinforces that the baseline package did cope better than expected in the hot conditions. But the big picture is that this is a confidence boost and it got them closer to Mercedes and to retake second. But nevertheless, Red Bull was still better. Then we have Nico Hulenberg. And for a second there, Nico was public enemy number one. But now with all that said and done, his weekend did have shape with that second row spring qualifying slot and then a tidy points finish in eighth place. Seriously, for a good long while until Zack Brown said, “Ah, no, never mind. No, I was completely wrong about that. Oh, no. My bad. My bad.” He was calling Nico an amateur. I’m sorry, Zach. You are overcorrecting for all of the perceptions of favoritism toward Lando. No, no, no, no, no, no. As we’ll get to later, I do think Oscar very much has to hold his hand up and said like, “Yeah, no, my bad, mate.” But Nico, he was qualifying fourth. He did do well. He was just simply, as he said, part of a sandwich. And he also admitted that the pace he did have in the race where he was actually contesting for some solid points legitimately was too good to be true. But fortunately, unlike previous races where Sala have fallen flat in terms of strategy, it all paid off for him and it was the Brazilian teammate of his which bore the brunt of it. This Nico’s points in the Grand Prix, the first he’s had since his podium in Silverstone. It almost looked like a monkeykey’s paw sort of a thing, you know, where it was like, “Yeah, sure you can have your first podium, but good luck trying to score points again this year, mate, if that’s what you get.” Sabra are also a little bit closer to seventh faith in the constructors being Aston Martin. They only scored one whereas Salar has scored four. And it goes to show that the veteran edge that Nico had is very valuable to Sala especially if he can sort out the qualifying gremlins which have been a really big bug bear for him most of the season actually where he qualifies out of pace. He either has to do a burn from the stern or he simply gets stuck in traffic. and it certainly will be a nice little inflection point toward the end of the year and give many of the Audi investors happy smiles all around. Then there’s Oliver Bman and despite another trip to the stewards and him being very close to a race van, Bman did bad more points then spent Sunday scrapping with faster cars without flinching and then of course his tangle with Buki Cenoda and now the slowly becoming infamous turn 15 where you do get plenty of instance and this wasn’t the first one. Cenod and Bman came together. Bman ended up spinning and we got what we got. He did manage to fight back, but it could have easily been slightly more. The Japanese driver simply having too much of a defense. That Oliver saying was going against the spirit of the regulations, which meant that logistically in terms of the rules, he didn’t have a leg to stand on. But it was like that wasn’t fair. That was against the rules, old chum. You know, it was that kind of thing. In fact, it actually makes you wonder, everyone’s talking about British bias. Bman is getting none of that his way, is he? But nevertheless, he did score at Hassa’s effective home track and something they’ll take great pride in which I think quite a few upgrades helped him bring him into contention. It’s also a tradition and Kamatsu’s takeaway matched that mood. The upgrades worked and that more points were possible. Now the goal for them is to bring Okon into the same picture and for a rookie this was a good look and Ferrari will certainly be looking at this wisely. And then we have Lando Norris. This was a slightly tough one for me to call considering the entire weekend. But ultimately, I do consider Lando a winner since despite being an innocent victim in the sprint crash. His Sunday was a test of patience. This was a situation where Lando might have had a chance for Max, provided he could get past Charl, which he couldn’t. And it took a very long while for him to do so. In fact, it took entirely different compounds for him to be able to do the deed. him going onto the softs. Shaw going onto the mediums where he admittedly did not have as much pace as Lando did on the softs. Well, why is he a winner here in all of this? He didn’t get to score anything in the sprint. Well, it’s all about the context, my friend. Sure, the Stafen has closed in that little bit more toward Norris in the championship, but equally, Lander has closed in on the championship with Pastri with him now being only 14 points behind the Australian with five rounds to go. That is a pretty big doozy. And everyone keeps saying that, “Oh, I’m an absolute pestrian and I don’t give Norris any toffee.” Well, you look back to my predictions. I predicted that Lando would win this championship. But then again, Vampen is really trying to test my patience in that regard as well. Andrea Stella’s read was similar. The car had winning capable potential if Shaw had been toppled sooner. That does sound harsh after a podium, but this is how top teams self police. And in a week where McLaren have been dragged over the coals, I think they’ll take this, including Norris. But Max is still closing in. Then we’ll get to the M section. And this was one of those Williams Sundays where the balance sheet showed pace like he did in the sprint with Alex netting three handy points. But for him, the Ledger showed up with nothing in the race ultimately. And I think he was one of those drivers that started on the harder tire, which looked like the reasonable bet because given the hot weather, the hard tire would have been able to endure that little bit longer and then potentially the softs and mediums would have crumbled, but they didn’t. As Charlotte showed us all, that soft tire lasted a lot longer than many people expected and it meant that Albon was completely stuffed and his own lack of pace made the entire grid look at that situation at the C1 tire and go, “No.” Alban also said the car had no grip and the only chance of him actually coming back into the play is if he can have a cheeky pit stop behind the safety car and then maybe hope for the best on a medium medium sort of thing. But unfortunately that wasn’t coming his way. The only thing we got in that regard was a virtual safety car. You know quite clearly the safety cars were all spent in the sprint race where we got two of them. But the upside of all of this is that the raw pace of the car is not the problem as we saw in the sprint race itself. It was according to Val a matter of operational and strategic dropping the ball. And considering that we’ve got a race in Mexico this coming weekend, which unfortunately I will not be covering since I’ll be away on a cruise for the entire week. This is something I think the lessons of Austin will then carry over into Mexico. So, Williams might be able to convert on the weekend itself. But hey, Albon still did score some points and it wasn’t too shabby at all. Three of them not bad. enough to just get him out of the loser section and he was pretty much a victim of the C1 tire being absolutely terrible. And unlike his teammate, he didn’t get in trouble with the FIA. Now we have George Russell. And based on the fact that we were all stunned with the W16 in Singapore, we now looked at Austin and we’re like, “Yeah, that’s about right. That’s pretty much our read with the W16.” But it was a fairly reasonable one where Russell settled somewhere in the middle. He did have a strong sprint with second place. He had a solid qualifying, but he didn’t have much left in the tank over a whole race distance to get higher than P6. The tires simply not having enough for Russell to really push against Pastri after the start. And then from there, it was a bit of a lonely race. And Mercedes only in the situation is that the car was okay. It wasn’t absolutely dire, but that there was very much still work to do in regards to try and figure out how this car can actually handle the heat. Singapore was very much an anomaly. There are still elements of this car that they need to fix, but we’re going to be going away from this concept in a few months time, so why even bother? Is this maybe a sense of pride of holding on to second place, or maybe George to still be in the hunt for the championship now that he is the only other one left other than the top three still mathematically in contention? Russell, I think, isn’t too upset now he’s got his contract. He can relax a little bit more. You felt like he was a little bit less flustered with this P6 because his future for at least next year is guaranteed. So, he’s might be thinking, “Oh, blime me. It wasn’t that great this weekend, but next year I might have better results in general. I might win my first title.” Yippee. And uh oh, all the edits this weekend. George wearing a cowboy hat and then the Woody Photoshop. I’m sorry. That wrote itself. Is Mercedes admin self aware? Did they allow to lean into this? And it was really disappointing because whenever we see Russell in a white Mercedes overall set, we usually expect chaos. Here though, it was very much embodying me. Then we have Liam Lawson. Sure, Lawson missed the points by one place in both races, and that’s sort of Austin Purgatory in some way, but at least he was in contention for at least a sniffter of a point, which is more than can be said for his teammate this whole weekend. And his message afterward cut to that. We heard plenty of radio transmissions where Yuki was getting very heated about the antics of Lawson, even though when I actually look at the footage, it was a little bit overblown, accusing Liam of impeding when he actually just got out of the way frantically. But in anyway, Liam did okay. It was very much pointless, but it wasn’t pointless because he did at least hold his own. He didn’t have any complications. He didn’t get into real trouble with the stewards. It was just simply not quite enough. that the execution just lagged that little bit to give him that little bit more to then get past Fernando Lonzo who was 10th place. And Racing Bull’s overall trend is that that car is capable of scoring and being in the top 10 quite handily if things go to plan. If there are elements of a race weekend which go away from the script, then you can expect them just to fall that little bit flat. Speaking of which, Fernando himself, a point, no mystery about that. He said the car had nothing more to give. Simple as that. The sprint might have yielded a little bit more, but that was taken out of his hands with him being one of three victims of the turn one incident after his own opportunistic lunge at Hulenberg was ruined by the switchback attempt at Pastry. And I think the team were quite happy with a singular point that it was a decent return for a very very much middle of the road midfield car which rarely gets chances to do major upsets even with the Spaniard in it. But hey, Racing Bulls didn’t score. They did not terrible. It means they are that little bit closer. And with them saying that this was the standard one stop, considering that Pirelli were really thinking that two stoppers would have been the standard, it very much made me feel that really Alonzo and Aston Martin didn’t have much left in the tank. That they really couldn’t experiment with strategies that a two stopper was impossible. They just had to play it safe and then hope for the best. Especially after Saturday denied them the opportunity of maybe getting a few more and maybe supposedly tying with racing balls or getting that little bit more ahead. And then Kimmy Antonelli. I was going to call him a loser since he did lose out a lot this weekend, but you know what? I’m going to lift him out of there since he did show pace in his fightbacks. He very much got into the wrong place at the wrong time and lost out because of it. He was very much in contention for points in the race itself. He would have been most likely right behind his teammate in P6 with a P7. Not too bad for the constructors, not bad for Kimy’s case of getting closer to 100 points in the championship. But that was denied him with a errant Carlos Science going into the side of him. The switch back of his being denied. He lost places. He got damaged, but he managed to fight back up to 13th, which is no mean feat. He finished ahead of a Williams. And you got the sense that Mercedes weren’t all that bothered with Kimmy. They weren’t disappointed. You didn’t feel the sense that they were going to emulate Toto’s comments of seeing him as underwhelming. They were very calm about Antelli. They didn’t doubt his pace or anything like that. And I think Mexico will be a nice little way for Antelli to boost right back again since it is this weekend. But this was pretty much an opportunity squandered through external circumstances. So that’s why I’m going to be a little bit more generous. But I’m not going to be so generous for my boy because yeah, we start off the losers and hell Oscar Pastry is very much a big loser of this weekend. I’m not going to sugarcoat it. He had a terrible one and the mask of calm definitely fell off entirely around this track. The sprinting incident, my read. It was a ballsy move for him to attempt to switch back on Norris at turn one, especially since Norris had a slow start. It was just a shame that two cars were in the way, that being Hulkenberg and Alonzo, which meant there was no room. In fact, I think Oscar was very close to breaching Papaya rules, which would have been really, really damaging considering all of the stuff he said that previous weekend in Singapore. But then he got some big air, which means two of his wheels were off the track, which meant that he really had no control, even less control than Norris had when he clipped the stappen around Marina Bay to be able to avoid Norris in time, and that stopped him from being absolutely dragged over the coals by everyone, but still, it was a very dandere move. It was a desperate move. It didn’t work. It was ballsy, but it just sadly was not the right place to do it. And then when you get to Sunday, he was mainly just holding on rather than hauling in. It was a case of he didn’t really have enough to go up against Hamilton. And for the most part at the beginning of the race, he was trying to fend off George Russell. At the very least, he was able to keep that British Mercedes driver behind him. But he was very much stuck in a lonely fifth position. The front left of his completely giving up the ghost. He didn’t really have much to answer to. It was very much him repeating the fifth place that he got last year, about 30 seconds or so off of the stappen, whereas Lando was only eight seconds. It did show that this weekend Norris was the stronger of the two. But at least Oscar was clear in his thoughts and said that he simply didn’t have the pace and now they’re going to have to try and figure out what was wrong. So that means they can fix it. But I’m looking into the final run into 2025 and I’m starting to think that there is a flaw in Pastri that we saw last year. He was very much running on empty after a really long calendar. I would like to think that maybe it might not be as bad. It was certainly a little better with him qualifying third in the sprint, but that still converted into no points in that particular event. And he is very much losing these points steadily. Really much so when you compare to Vstappen who was nigh on 100 points behind Pastri just a couple of months ago. And now give one more DNF on Pastri and Vstappen wins it. Oh, he’s right there. He’s absolutely right there. This is why people are starting to get excited. And I feel like Pastry can no longer afford to keep thinking, uh, I’ve got points between them. I’m fine. But mate, Max is galloping toward you. And Lando got another good result, and you didn’t. And the rest of the calendar was not fun for you. And also, Pastri says that he still does not want any special treatment in the run-up to all of that. Now, would you say that, folks, is a little bit naive? And naivity, you could also say, was playing a part in Isaac’s weekend. A heavy Q1 crash set the tone for the weekend in the wrong way. It pretty much set his prospects of points ablaze, where he would rather be instead ablaze in terms of his pace and performance and getting yet another points hall. But unfortunately, it meant that the best that he could hope for in the race was P16 fighting from the back. And another weekend where he was the lowest placed Red Bull car. And sure, it does help that his seat for 2026 is all but guaranteed, but it’s still not nice optics to see Cenoda and Lawson contesting for points or at least challenging for them, whereas Hajar spent most of his weekend at the back. But this is still a fairly decent showing overall for the season for Hajar. It’s just that this has been a particular stinker like Antony Nelly has had his own fair share of stinkers. And I think Austin will be a valuable lesson in having to deal with track bumps that are unexpected and surprise gust of winds which really caught out many drivers here. So this was very much a school of hard knocks and I think Hajel will come out of this a whole lot stronger but this was just simply a dud of a weekend. Unfortunate but he’ll learn. And then we go to Lance Stroll where you feel like is this guy ever going to learn? Because Sunday looked fairly good. It looked fairly decent. It could have been that little bit better if he hadn’t had that dang stupid Okon incident at turn one where there was no hope of getting that with a big lunge like that. That is probably one of the most overt dive bombs I’ve seen in a really long time. The only saving grace for Lance is that at least he held his hand up immediately and took accountability. Whereas in previous incidents like with Ricardo in China, he was very much not taking any accountability whatsoever. That five place grid drop really set the tone and that wasn’t a good look, but at least he owned it. He was also praising how his car coped with the wind changes better than he thought and it does suggest that points could have been possible had he not made that mistake. Sunday was decent and uncomplicated, but Saturday was the complete opposite. Ah, yeah. With Esaban him being the victim in that, I’m pretty sure that he would like some good vibes coming his way over at H because Bman scoring all the points and Aon’s been spending most of the races recently grinding away at the back on the wrong tire. It’s another case of, yeah, he gained places at the start because he didn’t have to worry about, you know, conserving the C1 tire, but he very much proved that this C1 tire is no good to anybody. And it meant that all the places he might have gained at the start were then taken away from him again when it came to the actual brass tax. Bman was capable of scoring. Okon was capable of only bringing the car home. I mean once onto mediums he looked okay. But by then it was too late. What more could he do because all that time was lost. But at least the team principal Kamatsu is aware of this and he now wants to make Hass’s next mission with these upgrades to ensure that Aon gets some time to shine because he is very mint taking one for the team. But at least he’s been able to have a bit more of a team camaraderie effort than he could have had over at Alpine at the moment. We’ll get to them in a little bit cuz that was spicy. But what we can see here is that with Okon is not a skill issue. It’s simply for the fact that H is rapidly trying to improve its execution and strategy and AON’s having to take the fall for it. That they all thought the hard tire was going to be good, but mate, it’s the 2025 C1 tire. It’s no good to anybody. It really should have been the C245 plan. Then we have Gabrielle Bortalto. And after a string of strong results and racing faster than his teammate, Cota proved to be a bit of a bogey track for him with Hulenberg taking the limelight. Not much else could be afforded to him with a really slow start and him being one of only two drivers I think to have actually tried the two stop. So naturally he lost loads and loads of time thinking that going from soft medium medium would have been the ticket. But the only ticket afforded to him was a ticket to paintown and the only person he could overtake was Pierre Gassley. I think this was just an unfortunate circumstance that people were just thrown for a loop and Sala was yet again thrown for a loop. There is no denying Gabrielle’s skill, especially up against Hulkenberg. It’s making me think that next year is going to be really, really handy. Considering there are reports that Audi in terms of the internal combustion engine is only 30 horsepower or so behind Mercedes, and that’s at the start of the year. If they can progress, they could be even closer. But for right now, Betto, this was just not a great track. And then Alpine, this one was tragic. Team orders for 17th. Really? Is this how low the team has sunk where they’re having to hold position for this? Gastly calling it a disappointing afternoon. And that wasn’t the only thing the team were disappointed with, especially when he wound up Ghastly last of the classified finishers. Colinto also admitted that he had a tough weekend, which only got even tougher when he had to face the prospect of him with the faster car having to stay behind Gastley. And you could hear on the radio going like, “What?” But he’s he’s so slow cuz like he was borderline laughing at the sheer inanity of it all and he decided to go like I’ve got a seat to protect next year. Gastly doesn’t. I’m going for it. And the next lap he went for it into turn one. They didn’t make contact by the way. It was a clean overtake. Him slightly pushing Gastly wide and he took 17th whereas Gastley fell down to 19th behind as I said Porto. The internet liked that. Argentina loved that. F1 adored it because they actually clipped that and put that on their website as an example of one of the highlights of the race, the 17th. And that just goes to show that it was a popular move with everybody except the team principal Steve Nelson over Alpine, him calling it disappointing and that they will be reviewing this to make sure it doesn’t happen again. But quite frankly, here is my interpretation of how this review is going to go down, especially since one of the main things that Flavier Briator told his drivers is to be fast. And right there, Franco was faster and he was able to prove it. It wasn’t a case of him complaining on the radio and then not being able to convert. Briator will probably take a look at that and you see the problem. No, it was faster. What do you need to say? Yeah, it’s just making me think the governor is gonna have no trouble with this. And that that’s mainly from Neielson is to pate Gassley, who I’m pretty sure is spitting feathers right now. Him having to stare in the face a three-year contract, having no guarantees that next year is going to be great for Alpine. Whereas Colinto is doing everything he can to survive into 2026. Okay, if this football world championship points and they wanted to consolidate these just for the sake of having them with no drama, fair enough. That would have been understandable. or they would have wanted to hold position. But this is for 17th. 17th. What’s the point at this point? You need to show that at least one of the drivers have potential pace. Sorry, this was a nothing burger in that regard. I don’t blame Franco for ignoring them in that particular context. If this were for points though, and Alpine just wanted to get them in the bag and then go home, then you might have a little bit of a quibble. right now know that this actually went down well with the majority of F1 fans around the world and it made people think, oh, Franco’s actually got a little bit of, you know, guts. Oh, cool. But what wasn’t so cool was what Carlos SC did after a really good Saturday with the return of Sparkles the Unicorn to his helmet. There was speed, but there was also contact. His move on Antelli ended his race and got him a five place grid penalty for Mexico. All of this stark contrast to that P3 on Saturday in a really smooth operation where he wasn’t really under threat at all and it was a continuation of the form he showed in Baku. And ultimately Carlos did accept part of the fault where he was trying to go for a move. Kimmy then came in unexpectedly. Science realized it was too late. He pumped the brakes but like with Stroll at turn one, there wasn’t really much he could do. This wasn’t a deliberate move, my friend. It was more of a desperate one. And the desperation got the better of him and he ended up with the DNF, the only driver to do so. And Val was quick to calm things down, stating the positives that this car was capable of scoring points because science was really making headway in trying to contest for P7. He might have been able to take down George Russell for P6. Good karma after Baku, but it wasn’t meant to be. That moment was a moment where science got a little bit too cocky and paid the price for it, which is a shame really given his recent return to form. But you still got to look at qualifying, outqualifying his teammate and then also outrunning his teammate in the sprint itself. It’s all going upwards, but it’s a little bit of a bumpy ride up there. But what is also a smooth operation is you potentially clicking this video right here because I think you will really like it. Now, I will be returning to the ladder next time, but for now, enjoy the shed.