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mintmobile.com. Hello

1:05

everybody and welcome back to

1:07

the P1 podcast with Matt

1:09

and Tommy qualifying edition and

1:11

what a banger of a

1:13

quolly we had. Can't quite

1:15

believe it. You know you look back

1:17

to our predictions, Tommy's writing off

1:20

literally everybody and saying that

1:22

they're not going to be

1:24

within half a second of

1:26

the McLarens on poll, but

1:28

it was Max for Stappen.

1:31

I see what you were doing all along

1:33

Tommy. I would ask how you are

1:35

but I think it's pretty obvious.

1:37

Giddy, I'm excited and happy.

1:40

Yeah, that was, it's funny because I,

1:42

we had the whole of 2023 in

1:44

the start of 2024 and people

1:46

being like, oh is Tommy

1:48

actually a Max fan? Why

1:51

does he not go absolutely

1:53

crazy? It's because it's like

1:55

expected, whereas now he's the

1:57

underdog. My word to those, does

1:59

a poll... like that feel absolutely

2:01

insane and you saw it with

2:03

Max himself he even celebrated like

2:05

it probably more than he did

2:07

when he won the world championship

2:10

because it's just so it was never

2:12

really on we just thought like which

2:14

McLaren's it going to be basically and

2:16

yeah what a collie right let's dive into

2:18

Q1 begin at the very beginning

2:20

Hulkenberg bought a letto Okon doin

2:22

and stroll the bottom five large

2:25

stroll deciding you know what

2:27

let's go back to let's go

2:29

back to my roots Let's go

2:31

back to my roots. Last is

2:33

quite, quite something. Of course, he

2:35

had an off at the end

2:38

of qualifying, which definitely did not

2:40

help his case. But yeah, Lance

2:42

Stroll, Tommy, has had enough carrying

2:44

this Aston Martin team. He's like,

2:46

I'm gonna have a weekend off.

2:48

Alonzo, if you could just possibly

2:51

just grab a few points,

2:53

maybe even finish the race, that

2:55

would be a good start. But he

2:57

has kind of just... delivered

2:59

in where he should be in that

3:02

in that car and obviously not had

3:04

the bad luck of his teammate but

3:06

this one kind of back to to poor

3:08

form where you know made a mistake and

3:10

yeah it's well it's embarrassing to be all

3:12

the way at the back in P20 even

3:15

though it's an incredibly close field now

3:17

isn't it between the midfield is

3:19

it can kind of be anyone

3:21

now really in that last spot.

3:24

And also, of course, we have

3:26

to mention Jack Dewin, who had

3:28

that massive off in practice, which

3:30

has now been confirmed that the

3:32

DRS was not shut into term

3:34

one. Now I don't know the

3:36

absolute confirmation of the, I'm going

3:38

to call them rumours, because I'm

3:40

not sure if it's actually

3:42

been solidly confirmed about the fact that

3:44

he had tested it in the simulator

3:46

and the DRS had worked. Fine with

3:48

their being open into term one. But

3:50

that's the rumor that was going around

3:52

and a lot of memes have come

3:54

out of that of all kinds of

3:56

simulators and things and quite funny clips

3:58

to be honest with you. doing really

4:00

glad to see he was okay

4:02

after that that crash and and

4:04

and alpine managed to get the

4:07

car back together because it was

4:09

a severe amount of damage but

4:11

19th for doing yeah you have to

4:13

start questioning how I mean look

4:15

he's had three races I'm proud of

4:17

alpine for at least giving him

4:19

that but I think we're kind

4:21

of entering the danger zone the

4:24

danger zone for sure because in Australia we

4:26

saw glimpses of, oh okay, all right doing,

4:28

all right I see you in the

4:30

dry conditions. We've now had a

4:32

dry condition qualifying for Japan, is

4:35

in the back row of the grid, Gazley's

4:37

up in 11th, he's had crashes, so like

4:39

he almost is ticking all the bad

4:41

boxes that you... that for Alpine as

4:43

an excuse to make a change

4:46

would be we'll be jumping on.

4:48

So 19th is not good enough

4:50

for doing sadly. I did obviously

4:52

have a little bit of sympathy

4:54

for him by the fact that

4:56

they didn't give him FP1. But of

4:58

course to follow that up with a

5:00

massive crash in FP2, back of the

5:02

grid in Q1. It's not looking good,

5:05

brove. It really isn't, is it? I

5:07

mean... He kind of had almost an

5:09

excuse in Australia because so many

5:12

people crashed out the race and yeah he

5:14

spun off on the first lap and crashed

5:16

but it was in incredibly tricky

5:18

conditions where other more experienced drivers

5:20

went off. But then you know

5:22

in the sprint he made contact

5:24

with Bautiletto didn't he and got

5:27

a penalty he got penalty in

5:29

the in the Chinese Grand Prix

5:31

as well and then to go into to

5:33

Suzuki have a massive crash which has

5:35

now been... drive for error and

5:37

pretty damning for your team principal to

5:40

kind of still like come out and say

5:42

yes it was drive forever like confirm that

5:44

to the world is not looking good for

5:46

the guy has to has to be said

5:48

and yeah he is we said before

5:50

the season that even if Duan did

5:52

a solid job but didn't be ghazly

5:54

they're probably getting colopinto in so

5:57

for him to do this it's

5:59

just adding more kind

6:01

of reasons for it to happen,

6:03

sadly for doing. Yeah, and I'm not

6:05

going to say that there's pressure

6:07

on this driver that starts 18th,

6:09

but Esteban Okon not had the

6:12

best of qualifying so far this

6:14

year, and his teammate up in

6:16

10th making it into Q3 showing

6:18

that there is some pace in

6:20

that has still, and of course

6:22

I am wearing has merch as

6:24

well, so really disappointed to see

6:26

Okon down there. I expected slightly

6:29

better. from Esteban so far

6:31

in Qali, but there's pace in

6:33

the car at least, so he can

6:35

have some sort of reassurance in

6:38

the fact that Ollie's up in

6:40

10th, but disappointing once again

6:42

for Ocon. Yeah, of course he was

6:44

the star of the Chinese Grand

6:46

Prix and then to go into

6:48

this session and it not look

6:50

great for him, of course. Can't

6:52

even run with the excuse that

6:55

he was... close to his teammate

6:57

because Ben did a 28-2 and Ocon

6:59

was a 28-6 almost a

7:01

28-7 so just not a good

7:04

quality for for Ocon. Yes he's

7:06

qualified 19th in Australia and of

7:08

course got to 11th for China

7:10

and then another Q1 exit for

7:12

Japan not ideal for Ocon then

7:15

you had the two salbers 16th

7:17

and 17th the dizzying heights for

7:19

them ahead of a few cars

7:22

so well done. Yeah well onto

7:24

both of those although I will

7:26

now be haunted for the rest

7:28

of time for seeing Holkenberg's slomo

7:30

all I can describe it as

7:33

as like a little like yeah

7:35

yeah that that did not be

7:37

shown they're qualifying really didn't it

7:39

really did let's get a Q2

7:41

then Gazley signs Alonzo Lawson and

7:44

Sonoda were the five drivers knocked

7:46

out and obviously we're going

7:48

to talk about 14th and

7:50

15th and most specifically Question,

7:53

ratio underscore enjoyer. Yuki into Q2, is

7:55

this a result he can be happy

7:57

with and build on for the future?

7:59

No. Now he's not going to

8:01

be happy with that. I don't

8:03

think any driver is going to

8:05

be happy qualifying 15th when he's

8:07

probably going to be up in

8:10

7th if he's in the racing bulls.

8:12

And his team is on pole. That is

8:14

also a very important fact. I

8:16

will say on this one that I'm

8:18

not going to jump and say

8:20

Yuki Snoder is washed because he's

8:23

not. What I have seen so

8:25

far in this weekend leading up

8:27

to obviously this poor final app

8:29

in Q2. is that there is promise

8:31

there, there is potential, and

8:33

that's all Red Ball really needed to

8:36

see. I know a lot of people

8:38

are joking, ask, when's Hadjar

8:40

getting the call-up? He's up

8:42

in P7. Are we going

8:44

to get another revolving door?

8:46

No, they've already said, and

8:48

think, how much Marcos has

8:50

said, we're committed to Sonoda

8:52

for the rest of the

8:54

season, and I fully believe

8:56

that. But yes, I think

8:58

that... There has been potential and that's

9:00

the most important thing for Red

9:02

Ball. Yes, he wasn't able to

9:04

deliver on that final lap and

9:06

yes, it's, oh my God, Lawson

9:08

versus Sonoda, 14th versus 15th.

9:10

But I don't think Red Ball will

9:13

be pressing any panic buttons

9:15

just yet. No, I don't think so. It's

9:17

an insane thing to say that it's not

9:19

that bad that he's 15th when his

9:21

team makes first, of course. He can't

9:23

be happy with that result. I know

9:26

Lawson has done. very poor and obviously

9:28

was 20th in both sessions so he

9:30

made it into Q2 and he's showing promise

9:32

and a bit more you know maybe

9:34

there's something to build on because of

9:36

course it makes it sound like I'm making

9:39

all these excuses for you key and maybe

9:41

I am a little bit but he's

9:43

not done testing you know like Lawson

9:45

has yes he's had three practice sessions

9:47

but it is early days and for

9:49

him to get into Q2 already when

9:51

Lawson of course was 20th in both

9:53

sessions. Are we that surprised that he

9:56

was slower than both Arby's?

9:58

There was a lot of talk. Sorry

10:00

V Cubs, that there was a lot

10:02

of talk that was going to probably

10:04

happen and it did. It's a bit of

10:06

a mixed bag really for you, Kie.

10:08

It can't be like celebrating massively being

10:11

15th when you team makes some poll,

10:13

but I don't think Red Bull are

10:15

kind of going, oh my word, we've

10:17

made a huge mistake, get Lawson

10:19

back in. This wasn't the right

10:22

call. I think it's almost weirdly

10:24

justified that they've made the right

10:26

call here with someone with a

10:28

bit more experience. Yes, as much as

10:30

15th is still absolutely not good enough.

10:32

Not good enough, no. You know, if

10:34

we go two, three race weekends down

10:36

the line and this is still 15th

10:39

positions being put down by Sonoda, that's

10:41

when we start to ask the question

10:43

again for sure, because you can't be

10:45

having Max on Pole and... But then,

10:47

who do they put in Superman? Like,

10:49

you know, what goes... what happens next?

10:51

You know, it's... A bizarre situation which

10:53

we will continue to talk about until

10:55

probably we are in our graves. But

10:57

yes, Sonoda, 15th, Lawson just ahead. People

10:59

on Patriot member Lou mixed head.

11:02

Do Redball now have to finally

11:04

admit that it was the car all

11:06

along and not the second driver?

11:08

Redball will not admit that. For

11:11

as long as they exist. It's very

11:13

clear it's been a problem with

11:15

the car. But at the

11:17

same time this car doesn't have seven

11:19

wheels and is upside down when you

11:21

drive it. Like it is just a

11:24

highly difficult car to find drivers

11:26

that can adapt to it. Max

11:28

Verstappen can because he

11:30

is literally superhuman and

11:32

they're trying to find someone else

11:35

that can also drive that car.

11:37

I genuinely believe Yuki Sonoda

11:39

will make Q3 next time we get

11:41

to a race weekend because of that.

11:44

potential that I saw in free practice

11:46

and also in the first few parts of

11:48

qualifying, I say first few parts, Q1, because

11:50

he didn't make it through the Q3, that

11:52

there was definitely something to get excited about,

11:55

it's just he wasn't able to deliver, so

11:57

I don't think we can jump too hard

11:59

on this. because yeah we were getting

12:01

quite excited after Friday and I know

12:03

some people like it's only practice it's

12:06

only practice but I was also getting

12:08

excited about Ollie Bearman who only

12:10

was doing practice and look what Ollie

12:13

Bearman is able to do so there

12:15

is some data to at least feel

12:17

mildly positive about and I'm sounding like

12:19

the Yuki Sonota fan boy right now

12:21

and that's that should be what you're

12:23

saying Tommy. And you could also kind

12:25

of take this and this whole result

12:27

obviously not Yuki being P1. And just

12:30

generally the start of the season,

12:32

and we'll get into this later

12:34

about how well Max has

12:36

done so far in this

12:38

championship fight against McLaren,

12:40

that it's almost somewhat

12:43

justified that they've just gone

12:45

all in on Max and made

12:47

that car exactly how it likes,

12:49

because clearly it's not a great

12:51

car, but Max having that car

12:54

in the exact way he likes

12:56

it, it can get in that

12:58

window sometimes. and he can deliver

13:00

something absolutely magic which is of

13:02

course what he did in Q3.

13:04

So they're kind of justifying

13:06

at the moment if this if

13:08

this trend continues it's kind of

13:10

justifying the fact that they are

13:13

going kind of all eggs in Max's

13:15

basket and just adapting the car just

13:17

to see Max and the second driver

13:19

has to deal with it and you

13:21

just you just adapt and get used

13:23

to that driving style and how pointy

13:25

the car is because yeah Max was

13:28

there again. And finally on my

13:30

Yuki Sonoda defense case, I will say that

13:32

in Q1 he did a 27-967 which

13:34

was comparable to Max Verstap

13:36

and another driver around him.

13:38

I think he did go for an

13:40

extra extra lap to secure that on

13:42

fresh tires, but you go to Q2

13:45

and actually went slower. You went slower

13:47

by three hundredths of a second than

13:49

his Q1 lap time and there's usually

13:52

when you look at drivers around,

13:54

you know, taking that step up,

13:56

they're doing three four-tenths. So... In a few

13:58

people went slow didn't they after the the red

14:00

flag fire as well because not generally

14:02

not bringing up this up to trial

14:04

but the Ferraris obviously went slow as

14:06

well didn't they? I know you do

14:08

wonder if maybe the track. No sorry I

14:11

was saying the step up from Q1 to

14:13

Q2 rather than the lapse. So the Yuki

14:15

when he did his second lap on those

14:17

fresh tires he didn't really improve massive amounts

14:20

that we thought was going to happen in

14:22

that in that session so for whatever

14:24

reason that was. Yeah, so we're

14:26

throwing a lot of cases out

14:29

for UKIP snowed right now, but

14:31

what I'm going to say is,

14:33

yeah, there's some speed there. Next

14:35

question comes in from no one.

14:38

It's actually just talking

14:40

about science penalty. So signs

14:42

of course, P12, as far

14:44

as from time of recording,

14:47

there's not been any confirmation. I didn't even

14:49

see any... graphic come up saying he's being

14:51

investigated. It did, it did, it showed it.

14:53

So it was noted, I think. Noted, all

14:55

right, whether it's being investigated or not, another

14:57

question, but I assume it will be, because

15:00

that is a slam dunk penalty if I've

15:02

ever seen it. I know that Hamilton was

15:04

not of course hindered in the sense of,

15:06

he still made it through to Q3, but

15:08

that doesn't matter. I will say that obviously

15:10

there's maybe slight confusion with the fact

15:12

that there was maybe three seconds to

15:14

go in the session. Shouldn't be the

15:16

case though, I don't like that argument.

15:18

No, it's not an argument. No, no,

15:20

I'm not saying you, I just meant

15:22

the reason for them. Yeah, because they

15:24

all were out of sync as well,

15:27

which again probably caused more confusion within

15:29

the teams, because we don't tend to

15:31

see out of sync runs as such

15:33

as usually. Everybody goes back into the

15:35

pits back into the pits. But we

15:37

had some starting, some finishing. Because when

15:39

someone does do an out of sync run

15:41

and everyone's dawdling because they're about to do

15:43

their runs or they're coming into the pits

15:45

and they get blocked by everyone they don't

15:47

give everyone a penalty when I think

15:49

arguably you should because you're allowed to be

15:51

on the track and do a fast type just

15:53

because you're out of sync doesn't mean you should

15:55

be punished for it. So yeah it's a slam

15:57

dunk for science I can't see any way that

15:59

is not. getting a maybe maybe a

16:02

three place for that. Yeah it's

16:04

the team's job to monitor this

16:06

as part of part of

16:08

what formal one teams have

16:10

to do so yeah I

16:12

completely agree I think that is

16:14

a slam dunk and if it

16:17

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17:16

Okay, Q3. The top 10 were

17:19

Verstappen, Norris, P. Astry,

17:21

LeClaire, Russell, Antinelli,

17:23

Hadjar, Hamilton, Albon,

17:25

and Bairman. Question

17:28

from F1, underscore, Oscar. Was

17:30

this the best poll for

17:32

Max Verstappen? Not the fastest

17:34

lap in every sector, but

17:37

nail all the corners. This

17:39

is one of the best qualifyings

17:41

of Maxwell's career for sure.

17:43

The fact that he stepped

17:45

up by over half a second from

17:47

Q2 to Q3 got into the 26s

17:50

is pipped both of the McLarens

17:52

and this is what F1 Oscar

17:54

says and it's a very good

17:56

point. The optimal fastest sectors

17:58

were McLaren. in sector one

18:01

sector two and sector three. But

18:03

Max delivered and you can tell

18:05

as well from the team radio

18:07

how much Max knew that that

18:09

was a lap. Like GP even

18:11

said I think it was GP.

18:13

He said that was insane. Like

18:15

that Red Bull know exactly what

18:17

Max just extracted and it's probably

18:19

more than they even anticipated was

18:21

possible. So. Hat's off to Max

18:23

Verstappen, that was absolutely sensational. And

18:25

I cannot believe in 2025, I

18:27

am saying right now, wow, what

18:29

a lap Max, you've given us

18:31

a race tomorrow because you're on

18:33

pole? Like, how has things changed

18:35

so much that that's not the

18:37

case? A year ago, he was

18:39

the one with the car that

18:41

we thought no one's gonna be

18:43

anywhere near him. And now it

18:45

very much felt like it was

18:47

a battle between Verstappen, La Clair

18:49

and Russell and Russell. for P3

18:51

behind the two McLarens and Max

18:53

just delivered. Yeah, I think that's

18:55

got to be the greatest lap

18:57

of his of his career. Qualifying

18:59

normally for Max, it's not his,

19:01

it's not his weakness, but he's

19:03

so strong in the races that

19:05

he's never normally been this guy

19:07

that is absolutely rapid. Of course,

19:09

when he's got a dominant car,

19:11

he's got a lot of pole

19:13

positions and things, but normally the

19:15

races where he comes alive, but

19:17

what a performance just out of

19:19

nowhere to just. hook that lap

19:21

up and yeah while while the

19:23

McLarens were quickest in every sector

19:25

and showed that the McLaren was

19:27

the better car they just made

19:29

you know didn't quite get maximum

19:31

out of it in all the

19:33

corners Max just put the perfect

19:35

lap together to to topple them

19:37

and I just can't believe that

19:39

that happened. It shouldn't have been

19:41

anywhere near Paul really and to

19:43

do it and to make that

19:45

much time up. from Key 2

19:47

showed that he just absolutely went

19:49

for it and got everything he

19:51

possibly cut out of that car.

19:53

So you know Tommy when we...

19:55

did our predictions at the start

19:57

of the year of who's going

19:59

to win the World Championship and

20:01

we both went for Max first

20:03

happen and I know there's a

20:05

lot of listeners out there that

20:07

commented saying what the hell are

20:09

you too smoking there's no way

20:11

Max is going to be anywhere

20:14

near in the fourth fastest car

20:16

yeah shall we pull our Jeremy

20:18

clerks and smoke face at this

20:20

point or should we leave it

20:22

to sort of halfway through the

20:24

season I don't know like it's

20:26

very very early of course to

20:28

say There's evidence there that why

20:30

we've predicted it already, because we

20:32

have gone into a season where

20:34

that McLaren is so, so quick,

20:36

you know, should be one, two,

20:38

every race, like Max, basically like

20:40

the Red Bull was. And you

20:42

know, even George Russell has said

20:44

that McLaren right now is probably

20:46

even quicker than the Red Bull

20:48

was at this stage last year.

20:50

And yet Max just happened is

20:52

eight points behind Lando Norris, and

20:54

he's starting on pole for tomorrow's

20:56

race. you should be 30 points

20:58

off the championship lead already not

21:00

not eight points and starting from

21:02

pole and this is exactly what

21:04

it is you can't you can't

21:06

write him off You know how

21:08

I said that we're in for

21:10

a good race tomorrow because Max

21:12

is on pole, not if it's

21:14

raining and it's a dry session,

21:16

then it'll be, you know, cheers,

21:18

wins by a lap, thanks so

21:20

much Max just happened. So maybe

21:22

we needed him to start in

21:24

12th actually. But yes, congratulations Max,

21:26

that was a phenomenal lap. Next

21:28

question, P1 Patriot member Drey, does

21:30

McLaren activate Papaya rules to beat

21:32

Max as a team? No, McLaren

21:34

don't know how to stop their

21:36

drivers from battling. I think we

21:38

know this, right? They can't. They

21:40

can't at this point, really. They

21:42

are willing to work together. That

21:44

is clear. Lando and Oscar. There

21:46

are points, obviously, we reflect on

21:48

Monza example, for example, in Oscar

21:50

showing his tenacity. But they have

21:52

shown moments where they are able

21:54

to work together. And they're going

21:56

to have to, in my opinion.

21:58

McLaren have the strategy to be

22:00

able to roll the dice. They

22:02

can hit Oscar earlier. I'm leaning

22:04

now obviously more towards it being

22:06

a dry race of this wet

22:08

weather is not confirmed and it's

22:10

not an absolute, you know, that

22:12

it's going to be there come

22:14

at the start of the race.

22:16

But McLaren have the strategy to

22:18

be able to roll the dice.

22:20

They can hit Oscar earlier. make

22:22

him jump the pair of them

22:24

get track position track position being

22:26

really important around here don't forget

22:29

it is difficult to overtake around

22:31

Suzuki there's one DRS zone term

22:33

one as much as that is

22:35

where the DRS is It's not

22:37

a hard-breaking zone. You have to

22:39

be alongside, if not slightly ahead,

22:41

to swoop around the outside and

22:43

it looks amazing, but the outbreaking

22:45

potential isn't really there. And Kamui

22:47

Kobayashi isn't in the grid. So

22:49

no one can overtake in the

22:51

hairpin. I mean, that is a

22:53

niche reference, isn't it? But Kobayashi

22:55

is that hairpin was absolutely phenomenal.

22:57

But it is difficult to overtake,

22:59

but McLaren have those options available

23:01

to them with two phenomenally fast

23:03

drivers in second and third. Max

23:05

has... the odd stacked against him

23:07

even being on pole in my

23:09

opinion. They can't be they can't

23:11

be favoring a driver to go

23:13

against Max this early on. They've

23:15

got the advantage and both drivers

23:17

have shown in the first two

23:19

races that they are capable of

23:21

winning the world championship. So in

23:23

race three to basically get one

23:25

of them to give up a

23:27

race is insane because you don't

23:29

know when it gets to the

23:31

end of the year. So you

23:33

know just for argument's sake they

23:35

say they say they say Oscar

23:37

don't attack Lando and we get

23:39

to the end of the year

23:41

and Oscar's five points behind Lando

23:43

will look back to that race

23:45

and go well no they should

23:47

have let them race so they

23:49

can't do it this early and

23:51

I don't think they will. Okay

23:53

let's move on to the next

23:55

question R2F1. Will tomorrow's race and

23:57

its strategy be ruined by red

23:59

flags? Well, there's a

24:01

few scenarios here, right? One is we

24:04

have a wet race and therefore the

24:06

grass is wet and there will be

24:08

no fires. So perhaps that will do

24:10

the job for them. I am surprised

24:13

that Formula One have not and the

24:15

FIA have not figured out a solution

24:17

going into qualifying. You've had moments, you

24:20

know, I'm thinking of other... points in

24:22

informal one where they've had to make

24:24

some serious changes from session to session.

24:26

Turkey being one of them, right, when

24:29

we had the slipperyest track possible and

24:31

they were putting road cars out on

24:33

track throughout the night to try and

24:35

lay some grip down. I'm surprised that

24:38

they haven't come up with a actual

24:40

solution as being a literal billion dollar

24:42

sport that we're still getting these fires.

24:45

I am a little bit surprised. I

24:47

was very confident that they would have

24:49

put down a solution that would have

24:51

figured that out like they did in

24:54

China. So it is crucial, especially if

24:56

we have a dry race, that it

24:58

is fixed. Whatever the solution, they have

25:01

to be working throughout the night to

25:03

fix this. Otherwise we are going to

25:05

get... a lancetrol 20th the first victory

25:07

when he doesn't pit and gets a

25:10

free tire change under the red flags

25:12

and we get seven of them like

25:14

it's it just can't happen. Alonzo's finished

25:16

he needs to retire lancetrols winning the

25:19

race. Exactly and also on this as

25:21

well perhaps it's slightly less of a

25:23

concern purely because the drivers aren't on

25:26

the complete limit when it comes to

25:28

to running in the race, though they

25:30

will be running heavier cars, which would

25:32

then suggest maybe they're slightly lower to

25:35

the ground. I'm sure there will still

25:37

be sparks. I think quality is probably

25:39

the most potential for sparks, but they

25:42

still need to have other things in

25:44

place. They can't just rely on, oh,

25:46

well, there might be a bit of

25:48

rain and they'll be going slightly slower.

25:51

So true because we kind of dismissed

25:53

it and I think rightly say because

25:55

we thought there's no way this is

25:57

going to kind of affect it. We

26:00

thought it was going to be exactly

26:02

the same as China where they sought

26:04

it out from qualifying. But this is

26:07

genuinely a concern now because it happened

26:09

again in qualifying and if we go

26:11

into the race and we know what

26:13

can happen with a red flag rule

26:16

you can change your tires that if

26:18

the grass that's on fire and they

26:20

need to do a red flag. it

26:23

could completely change the concept like the

26:25

whole complex of the race and potentially

26:27

even ruin it and imagine how frustrating

26:29

that would be for a potential battle

26:32

that we might get between the stappen

26:34

and the two McLarens or something like

26:36

that and it gets ruined by the

26:38

fact that one of them could just

26:41

pit. and for free. For free. Yeah.

26:43

And from a safety perspective we don't

26:45

want to see fires full stop like

26:48

this. We had someone in our live

26:50

stream being like why don't they just

26:52

let it let it burn? Like yes

26:54

just let the whole track go it

26:57

go ablaze. That's obviously not what is

26:59

not going to happen. But you know

27:01

if they don't come up with a

27:04

solution and we still do get a

27:06

fire that is easily put out I

27:08

want Charlotte Claire to benefit from it.

27:10

Thank you. So you're saying Ferrari going

27:13

to do that master plan of basically

27:15

hard tires, wait for the fire and

27:17

then... Why not? Why not? Like that's

27:19

the only way they're going to get

27:22

the W. So... I think you said

27:24

to me, wasn't it, that plan F,

27:26

that'd be for us, plan F. Plan

27:29

fire, yeah. Plan fire. Wow. I know.

27:31

But fingers cross, they figure that all

27:33

out. because we hoped yesterday and they

27:35

haven't sorted it. Okay, any other, I

27:38

would, to be fair, I'd like to

27:40

say Kimi Antonelli, great job in P6,

27:42

I know that it's looking slightly closer

27:45

than perhaps it would have been, had

27:47

George Russell not messed up that first

27:49

sector, and Hadjar as well, ahead of

27:51

his hero Lewis Hamilton, he's going to

27:54

be shaking being on the fourth row

27:56

of the grid with Lewis Hamilton alongside

27:58

him. I know I predicted him P5,

28:00

but he wasn't far. away again back-to-back

28:03

P7s for Hadjar is a brilliant job

28:05

in the racing bulls considering Lawson down

28:07

in 14th. And all the problems he

28:10

had of course as well at the

28:12

start of the session with his seat

28:14

belts and things like that or whatever

28:16

it was for him to basically not

28:19

that phase him as a rookie and

28:21

then get into qualifying and get on

28:23

with it. kind of scraped through in

28:26

the first session when it was looking

28:28

like you might even go out and

28:30

then yeah did an amazing job so

28:32

yeah really good performance from Hadja. And

28:35

I know I predicted Charlotte Club opposition

28:37

and I know I was definitely in

28:39

delusion land but I think he's actually...

28:41

Closer than you. Maybe really... Yeah it's

28:44

a really good P4 ahead of George

28:46

Russell was not something I expected as

28:48

qualifying was unfolding and to be three

28:51

tenths clear of Lewis Hamilton with so

28:53

back Charlotte Club. pole position is coming

28:55

soon. We just wait till Baku and

28:57

then I'm going full in on Charlotte

29:00

Claire once again or maybe I'll flop

29:02

him considering how bad my flops have

29:04

been so far this year. So yeah

29:07

there you go I think that pretty

29:09

much wraps it up. Oscar Piastri 44

29:11

thousands off pole and third is wild

29:13

to say it feels like this is

29:16

F1E sports kind of times that you

29:18

tend to see in the game but

29:20

note it's real life I'm looking forward

29:22

to we tapped we tapped upon touched

29:25

upon him, tapped upon him, that's a

29:27

crazy, that's not the correct phrase at

29:29

all, touched upon him, P10, phenomenal job

29:32

from him in the house, and Albon

29:34

as well, out qualifying signs, that is

29:36

a storyline starting to unfold, that science

29:38

needs to start getting a handle of

29:41

the car, it was very close between

29:43

the two of them, like five hundredths

29:45

of a second, so, signs is getting

29:48

there, but yeah, it's been a great

29:50

performance so far from Albon, hasn't it?

29:52

Albums done a really good job so

29:54

far this season and been very solid.

29:57

I know science has kind of said

29:59

that he needs, I think he said,

30:01

even five to ten races to get

30:03

up to speed and some of the

30:06

habits of Ferrari are creeping in and

30:08

how he likes to drive that, that

30:10

Ferrari. but it can't take anything away

30:13

from what a good job album is

30:15

doing. Exactly and that is it. Thank

30:17

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30:19

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30:54

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30:56

Tommy, but if so, what's your final

30:58

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