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Reaction to Monaco GP practice

P1 with Matt and Tommy

Reaction to Monaco GP practice

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Monaco practice day gets a vivid reaction from Matt and Tommy: watching F1 action “with a Formula 1 car on a super yacht,” then breaking down the on-track chaos. Isaac Hadjar’s FP1 crash is traced to grip and the rear “stepped out,” while Monaco’s tight pit lane and cramped garages make everything feel intense. Ferrari’s pace dominates (including a “Ferrari 1-2”), Verstappen’s P3 sparks hope, and the hosts zero in on qualifying, track position, and undercut timing for Sunday.

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Company

Audi garage

In F1, each team has a garage area where they work on the car. When they say “Audi garage,” they mean they watched from an Audi-related team area during the race weekend.

01:46

Term

free practice one

“Free practice one” is the first practice session of the F1 weekend. Teams use it to try things and learn about the car and track—this is also where the big crash happened.

02:01

Person

Isaac Hadjar

Isaac Hadjar is an F1 driver. In this Monaco practice session, he crashed into the wall, then later got back out and was running again.

02:09

Term

right-left chicane

A “right-left chicane” is a tight section where the track turns right and then immediately turns left. At Monaco it’s especially risky because the walls are very close, so mistakes can send you into the barrier.

02:21

Term

free practice two

“Free practice two” is the second practice session in the F1 weekend schedule. It’s where drivers can try again—here, Hadjar was back running after his earlier crash.

02:45

Term

hard tyres

“Hard tyres” are a tougher tire choice in F1. They usually last longer, but they don’t grip as well—so the car can feel less stable, especially if the track isn’t cooperating.

02:49

Term

rear just stepped out

“Rear stepped out” means the back of the car lost traction and slid outward. When that happens at Monaco, it can be very hard to save before you hit the wall.

03:04

Person

Charlotte Leclerc

Charlotte Leclerc is mentioned as another person who’s experienced a similar crash pattern. The takeaway is that Monaco is so tight that mistakes happen even to very skilled people.

03:30

Company

Red Bull

Red Bull is an F1 racing team. The hosts are saying that if something goes wrong in practice, the team gets nervous because it can hurt their chances in qualifying.

04:24

Term

team radio

Team radio is the live communication between the driver and the team during the race. The team tells the driver what’s happening and what to do next.

04:41

Term

cool lap

A cool lap is a slower lap after a fast one. It helps the tires and brakes cool down so the car is ready for the next attempt.

04:41

Term

hot lap

A hot lap is the driver’s fastest timed lap. It’s when the team wants the driver to push hard for the best lap time.

05:17

Term

in-laps and out-laps

In-laps and out-laps are the laps around the pit stop cycle. They’re used to get the car ready—especially warming tires—before the next fast lap.

05:29

Place

Monaco pit lane

Monaco pit lane is the pit area at the Monaco Grand Prix track. It’s famous for being very tight and intense, so watching cars in and out is especially dramatic.

06:41

Term

lockups

“Lockups” means the brakes are so strong that the wheels stop turning for a moment. When that happens, the tires lose grip, and the car can become harder to control.

Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 podcast live from Monaco.

You might be able to tell that either visually or maybe even on audio as well.

We are here in Monaco.

We're going to talk all about practice.

We're going to give you a bit of an insight into what we've been up to as well

over the last sort of 12 hours, even 24 to be fair.

Yesterday was pretty chaotic as well.

Tommy, you're in your favorite place, Monaco.

How are you feeling?

Of course, I am absolutely amazing.

I can't believe the view we have.

I can't believe we're on this super yacht.

I can't believe I'm telling people we're on a super yacht, but we're on a super yacht

with a Formula 1 car on a super yacht.

Yeah, as you may well be able to tell with the livery,

even though it's not the same livery as what they're running this weekend at Monaco,

that's the Audi Formula 1 car.

And big thanks to Libertex right there.

They got us on this super yacht for the whole weekend to basically watch the action

and have an unbelievable weekend and a big shout out to Marios as well.

What a legend to give us a core memory.

I don't think I'll ever, I mean, don't get me wrong.

I feel entirely out of place the whole way through.

It took me an hour to get a water because I was scared to ask someone.

That's the kind of levels that we are, Tommy.

We're not super yacht born.

We're not born for a super yacht, but we're having a great time nonetheless.

And obviously being in Monaco is such an awesome place.

Being able to watch from the yacht as well.

We were lucky enough to watch a bit of practice as well from the Audi garage,

which was amazing, like a viewing platform.

So we are just feeling like the luckiest Formula 1 fans in the world right now.

So let's begin with free practice one.

I'm really happy to talk about Friday running at Monaco

because Ferrari are turning up like we kind of thought they would.

Leclerc was fastest ahead of Hamilton and Verstappen.

The big story is, I suppose, from free practice one was a crash for Isaac Hadjar

who went into the wall in the final sector,

the notorious famous right-left chicane where you have the slow-mo's of the one millimeter away from the wall,

the brushings of the wall.

But for Hadjar, firstly, obviously not ideal to be crashing.

I know he was very happy in free practice two to be back up and running.

But another mistake for Hadjar this year,

but it was such a unique and bizarre way to have gone into the wall.

That's the thing that I took from it is usually it's you clip the inside,

you break the suspension and then you go straight over the curb and into the wall.

But this felt like a little bit too much pace.

We'd heard from Max Verstappen earlier in the session that his tyres were dead.

This was, of course, on the hard tyres, struggling with just general grip.

It felt like the rear just stepped out for Hadjar and into the wall he went.

He did. I remember saying to you when we saw Hadjar in the wall,

I know exactly what's going to happen.

He's going to clip the inside wall and go straight into the barrier,

which is what we've seen from Max Verstappen and Charlotte Leclerc.

You did. You had to say it, didn't you?

It's true.

Thanks for reminding me.

All the best have done it.

It's happened to the best drivers on the grid.

It's happened to a lot of them.

But Hadjar flew around the corner, got wide and spun into the corner,

which we rarely see.

It was unfortunate for him.

Thankfully, it's only practice because had that been FP3,

I think Red Bull would be sweating a little bit because of how much

we've seen people miss qualifying before for an FP3 crash.

Indeed.

So the biggest takeaway I think for us that you sort of touched upon,

Tommy, at the start was the fact that one of the experiences,

I hope that you guys will understand just how lucky we feel to be here

and the experiences we're going to get over this weekend

and something we were able to do today was basically go to the Audi pit garage.

We were above where the team were.

Basically, it's kind of like a viewing experience for Audi guests

and we were able to have the headphones on and listen to the team radio.

It's basically completely unfiltered, just constant information.

And I have to say, it's just such an awesome thing.

We've been doing this for nearly nine years now, but it never gets old.

When I peer over and see the cars ready to go out for the session

or have the headphones and just listen to the team radio constantly,

it's things like that that I'm just like,

Ah, yeah, I think I am in the right job because I love this sport so insanely deeply.

And yet what an experience it was.

I found it fascinating to listen to the team radios of Hülkenberg and Portoletto.

And it was just constant talking about who was on a hot lap, who was on a cool lap,

what's basically going on out on track.

Of course, this is when they're on slow laps themselves,

but I would be overloaded with information if I was driving around Monaco,

preparing for a lap and hearing all of this stuff about other drivers

that are closing at a right rate of knots.

Exactly. That was my biggest takeaway from listening as well,

that I'm a guy that I will firmly admit I cannot multitask for the life of me.

And if someone was feeding me that much information, my brain would explode

because the amount of just constant,

you think that the push laps would be the ones that were stressful.

Is the in-laps and out-laps where they're just constantly being told,

gap to this person.

And of course, Monaco of all places is even more extreme.

And Monaco pit lane is something quite incredible to witness

because it is crazy.

I remember thinking like it's small enough anyway.

Now they've got an extra team involved as well.

But it's actually so kind of tight.

Normally you have like the big paddock.

You have these kind of the pick garages that they walk back into and have lots of space.

But we actually had, you know,

Gavi Bortoletto and Nico Holkenberg kind of like walking in from the session,

walking passes down this really tight staircase

because all the teams are crammed into this tiny pick garage.

And of course, that is a new pick garage from like not what we saw long ago.

But it's the best they can do at Monaco

because it is just an insane circuit.

And it's still insane that they're racing here full stop.

Yeah, it's mad to think that they now have an additional team to cater for as well around Monaco.

It's a tight squeeze.

Let's put it that way.

But it is still unbelievable just to see it all unfolding around a place like this.

Something I will also say, you know, back to the session itself.

Free practice one.

Yes, Leclerc was fastest in it.

Yes, I was very happy.

But it wasn't like a completely faultless session for Charles.

There were lockups.

There were things where in those initial moments, I was thinking,

Oh God, has he got the same problems as he had with Canada

where he was struggling on the brakes.

He couldn't really get the confidence in the car to be able to extract the most out of it.

But thankfully he was able to find some speed and I just I loved as well

because Monaco, of course, is such a technical, difficult, scary circuit in if we're being honest

to see the difference in ramp up between some of the drivers.

Max, every time we start a free practice session within the first 510 minutes,

he's going purple.

He's going fastest in a car that is definitely not the quickest around here.

And yet he's always the one to send it the earliest.

Whereas Leclerc felt like he was ramping up a lot slower.

Hamilton was quite quick out the blocks as well today.

But that was another takeaway for me is just like how the drivers prepare and build

to their 99% that they tend to go around it.

Definitely because you see like it's going to be a completely different ball game in FP3

where you can push the limits, you know, the corner where had your spun.

We see people going so close to the wall, but even on some of the people out there,

their quickest laps, you know, they're giving a wide berth to a lot of the corners.

They're not really pushing even still, though.

You're watching some of the on boards, how they thread these cars throughout.

I know they're a bit smaller.

They do look fantastic.

I must say they look a lot more nimble around a place like Monaco,

a bit more old school, kind of like they look like a car from like 2005.

And they certainly feel like it when they're kind of zipping around the streets of Monaco.

So, yeah, definitely like a few mistakes out there, but obviously had job being being the big one.

Indeed, let's head to free practice to where the top three were Hamilton Leclerc and Verstappen.

It is in fact a Ferrari 12 for both of the sessions today.

Just take a screenshot of my very happy face.

I hope it will be the same come tomorrow and Sunday.

But, yeah, Ferrari still looking very quick when we went to the more representative session,

but Max Verstappen coming out of nowhere for P3 and giving you a little bit of hope as well.

Definitely, yeah.

We knew that Ferrari would be quick and they've certainly lived up to the hype big time, actually.

Like really done a great job of how like there was so much expectation on Ferrari, all the drivers.

I think Lando said it of like, oh, like Ferrari are going to be quickest.

Mercedes said it as well.

And they've certainly like lived up to that.

Their car looks brilliant around it.

You know, Lewis Hamilton, wrongfully said in the podcast, but like his form around Monaco.

It's never been one of his specialist circuits, not like a Canada, China, Hungaro ring,

where he's absolutely brilliant around.

He's obviously won here, but he looks brilliant this weekend so far.

Like he is on Charles Pace and that's been a big surprise because we know that Charles is a specialist around Monaco

and Hamilton's really taking the fight to him.

Well, beautiful segue, Tommy.

This is a question from Velox97691723 who asks,

can Lewis really beat Charles at Monaco either in Quali or the race?

Of course he can.

He definitely can.

Charles isn't unbeatable.

I think, look, at the end of the day, Charles has always been fantastic at qualifying.

That's been his big strong point.

But we know that it's not always as the case now and they're very different cars to drive.

Thankfully, we're seeing them push here.

We're not going to have the problems with super clipping.

You know, we're not seeing any of the drag, the straight mode or anything like that.

So we're going to see them going flat out.

But Hamilton does look confident and I think he absolutely can do it.

It's going to be fascinating to watch and it's really good if Ferrari are in fact clear and fastest.

It's going to be fascinating if we have the two of them fighting.

Probably not for you and generally for Ferrari fans because it'll be heart and mouth stuff.

But yeah, Hamilton's been really strong and he absolutely can win the race now.

I feel like it's definitely not out of the question.

Yeah, it's closer than I thought it was going to be.

Hamilton, I'm going to say that.

Of course, I went for Hamilton pole position in predictions because you blocked Charles

and I was like, rather than going for a Norris, I think Hamilton especially after Canada

and at points in season has looked really quick and on Charles' pace.

So in my heart of hearts, I think Charles Leclerc should, in theory, have it covered.

I do think he will unlock an extra percent or two when it comes to Saturday,

the risks he's willing to take and yeah, maybe that's a little bit of hope in there.

But it will either be P1 or he will start 10th because he'll crash in Q3.

I think it's as simple as that because we've seen it before, right?

We've literally seen Charles Leclerc mistakes around his alley

and that's where the Monaco curse came from until he, of course, won in 2024 and lifted that.

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