A “reliability issue” is when something on the race car breaks or doesn’t work properly. In F1, that can force a driver to stop early or lose speed even if they’re driving well.
“Wheel-to-wheel” means the cars are racing extremely close together, often side-by-side. It usually happens when both drivers are pushing hard and trying to take the same space on track.
“Overtake mode” is a race setting that gives the car a short burst of extra speed to help it pass. It’s usually limited, so drivers use it strategically when they’re close enough to make a move.
“Sliding” means the car isn’t gripping the road as well as it should, so it moves sideways while turning. The hosts are saying modern cars/driving make that kind of visible mistake happen less often.
Russell is a Formula 1 race driver. The hosts are saying he had a problem (he locked up and then didn’t finish), which took away from a great fight between cars.
A “lock up” is when the brakes are so strong that the tires stop rolling and start sliding. That can make the car lose traction and become harder to steer.
In 2022, Formula 1 changed the rules for the cars. The hosts are talking about whether those rule changes actually made racing more exciting and easier to pass. Here, they say it helped.
DRS is a system in Formula 1 that briefly makes the car less “slippery” in the air in a way that helps it go faster. It’s used to help drivers get close enough to pass, especially right before a corner. The hosts are saying it worked as intended here.
“Batteries” here is shorthand for the hybrid energy system in modern F1 cars, where drivers rely on stored electrical energy for extra power. The hosts mention that people may criticize the racing impact of these systems, implying concerns about how energy availability affects overtaking. It’s discussed as part of the broader debate over whether the current rules produce good racing.
The FIA is the organization that writes and enforces the rules for motorsport. Here, they’re mentioned as adjusting the rules to change how Formula 1 races play out.
Here “boost” means extra power the car gets to accelerate. If it’s only “just enough,” it can make the race feel more like close fighting instead of one car easily blasting past.
“Flat out” means they were pushing as hard as possible. In this context, it suggests both drivers were driving at full throttle and using all the grip they had.
Tires don’t stay perfect for the whole race—they wear and lose grip. If they aren’t degrading, the tires keep working well, so drivers can drive harder for longer.
F1 cars use a hybrid system that stores energy in a battery. Drivers can’t always use all the stored energy whenever they want, so it can limit how hard they push.
“World champion material” is basically a compliment that someone looks like they can win the whole championship. It means they’re fast and smart enough, not just having occasional good races.
“Race trim” is how an F1 car is set up for the race itself. It can feel different from qualifying because things like fuel and tire strategy change the car’s grip and balance.
“Slipstream” is when one car gets a speed boost from drafting behind another car. Being close reduces air resistance, which can help you pull alongside for an overtake.
McLaren is a Formula 1 racing team. Here, they’re being discussed as having reliability problems—meaning the car can break and stop the driver from finishing.
A “race of attrition” means lots of cars have trouble and don’t finish. When that happens, the race can be decided by who can keep the car running, not just who is fastest.
Mercedes is another Formula 1 team. The hosts are saying that if Mercedes is fast enough, they can gain a lot of points quickly and change who’s leading the championship.
A “mechanical issue” is when something on the race car malfunctions. If it happens while the driver is leading, it can cost them the win or even force them to stop racing.
Red Bull is another top Formula 1 team. They’re using Red Bull’s past championship lead as an example of when a title can feel decided—unlike this season.
“Championship over” means the leader can’t realistically be caught. They’re saying that in F1, big point swings can still happen, so the title isn’t decided yet.
“Boxing” means pulling into the pit lane for a tyre change. If you do it before the race start lights go out, you can lose a lot of position because everyone else is still lining up to start.
The “grid” is where cars line up to start the race. The “second row” is near the front—so giving it up usually means you start much farther back than you should.
At the start, F1 uses a set of red lights that control when the race begins. If you’re in the pits when that happens, you may have to wait to rejoin, losing time compared to cars that get going immediately.
A pit stop is when the car pulls into the pit lane to change tyres and get serviced. When you do it can decide whether you come back ahead or behind other cars.
Wet tyres are made for rainy conditions so the car can keep traction on slick roads. They have tread that helps push water away so you don’t lose grip.
They’re talking about a past Monaco race where tyre strategy didn’t work out. Monaco is a track where it’s hard to pass, so if you pick the wrong tyres, you can get stuck and lose a lot of time.
It’s a pit strategy where you stop earlier than the car next to you, get fresh tires, and then go fast so you can come out ahead after they stop. It’s basically a timing gamble to beat the other car in the pits.
It’s a joking way people online talk about teams making bad calls during a race. Here, they’re using it to introduce a critique of the strategy decisions being discussed.
“Intermediate” means the track is wet enough to need special tires, but not so wet that you need the full wet-race tires. Teams choose tires based on how damp the track is.
Intermediate tires are meant for damp roads. If the track isn’t wet enough, the tires can get too hot and lose the advantage they were supposed to give.
“Wets” are special tires for heavy rain. They have deep grooves to clear water so the car can grip, but they’re not ideal once the track starts drying.
Lando is the driver (Lando Norris). They brought him into the pits because of a problem with the car, and he didn’t know exactly what was wrong when it happened.
A “dive bomb” is when a driver tries to pass by braking extremely late and turning in hard at the last second. It’s a high-risk move—if timing is off, it can cause a crash.
Throttle is the accelerator input—how much power the engine is being asked to make. In a race, when you lift off early, it can change how the car grips and turns.
Being lapped means another car gets a full lap ahead of you. It usually shows you’re much slower, and it can also make racing harder because of traffic.
This means the midfield teams aren’t really close together in speed. There’s a big gap, so some cars are much slower than others even if they’re all considered “midfield.”
Lead lap means the cars finished on the same lap as the leader, not a lap behind. If only a few cars are on the lead lap, it suggests a big speed gap in the race.
It’s a penalty where the driver has to come into the pits and stop for a short time before getting back out. It costs time, but the driver can continue the race.
In F1, tires wear out and change grip as the race goes on. If they don’t wear much, drivers can go faster for longer, which can make races chaotic and spread the field out.
It’s about how teams control how much power they use and how they manage the car’s hybrid energy. If that matters less at a track, drivers can focus more on driving fast through corners.
Corner speed is the speed you can keep through a turn without losing control. Higher corner speed usually means the car grips well and handles confidently.
They’re predicting what might happen at the next race in Austria. Weather and track conditions can change how hard tires wear and how the race unfolds.
They’re talking about the British Grand Prix and how rain might affect the race. Wet conditions can change grip and tire wear, which can completely change how drivers race.
F1 cars can store energy and then use it for extra power. The “recharge rate” is how fast that stored energy refills after you’ve used it, which changes how often you can get a boost to pass.
Wheel-to-wheel racing means cars are fighting side-by-side, not just spaced out in a line. It’s the kind of racing fans like because it creates real competition for position.
The “one-second mark” is how far behind one car is compared to another. In F1, being around a second back often means you’re close enough to try to pass, especially with extra power boosts.
“Yo-yo racing” is when cars keep trading places in a back-and-forth way, instead of one driver building real momentum to pass and stay ahead. It can feel less satisfying because it’s not stable, side-by-side fighting.
“Harder to follow” means the car behind struggles to drive as well when it’s close to the car in front. That makes passing harder because the trailing car loses grip and confidence.
A side pod is the car’s side body section, usually where cooling equipment sits. In this discussion, they’re talking about how the shape of that area can affect airflow and performance.
A double yellow flag is the race director telling everyone there’s a big danger on the track. Drivers have to slow down right away, and ignoring it can be dangerous and leads to penalties.
A defensive move is when a driver tries to stop another car from passing by placing their car in the way. The important part is doing it early enough that the other driver can react safely.
It’s like a “slow down” phase in the race. Instead of a real safety car driving out, the rules tell everyone to reduce speed so drivers can get past a problem safely.
SQ2 is shorthand for the second part of Formula 1 qualifying. It’s the stage where drivers try to post a fast lap so they can move on to the next round.
Hamilton is Lewis Hamilton, a famous Formula 1 driver. In this segment, they compare other drivers’ results to Hamilton and mention a sprint where Russell beat him.
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Charles Leclerc is a Formula 1 driver. They’re saying he had a rough weekend—he didn’t have much speed and didn’t do as well as he usually would.
In modern Formula 1, the cars use an energy-recovery system that stores energy in a battery. Teams can “recharge” that battery by capturing energy during braking and other operating modes, which affects how much boost the driver can use later.
“Super clipping” sounds like a problem where the car’s extra power delivery gets limited or cuts out abruptly. They’re hoping the new rules/settings stop that so the cars feel smoother and more normal.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the P1 Podcast
with Matt and Tommy.
This is going to be a good one.
We got some things to talk about.
A lot of Formula One happened,
and I've got a smile on my face,
and that is despite Charlotte Clair's worst performance
potentially of his entire career.
But we'll get onto all of that.
Don't worry about it.
I'm smiling because we had a lot of entertainment this evening, Tommy.
How are you feeling?
I'm feeling very good indeed.
That was an absolutely incredible race.
Like, genuinely, I thought Miami was good.
This was another level.
Obviously, it got cut short,
but then we had another great battle towards the end.
And yeah, for all the complaints of what we were seeing
at the start of the season, that was absolutely brilliant.
So, so good.
Now, you know what's also very, very exciting and brilliant?
In fact, Tommy, it's the P1 Live Show.
Yeah, that's right.
We've just launched our super-podding tour.
So if you would like to come along,
these are the places and times and things that you need to do.
So the 20th of August, Amsterdam, Delamar Theatre.
11th of November, Leeds, Geely Club.
12th of November, Cardiff, Geely Club.
14th of November, Manchester, home.
15th of November, Glasgow, Geely Club.
17th of November, Birmingham, Geely Club.
And finally, 18th of November, London,
at the O2 Forum, Kentish Town.
Get your tickets.
They will be in the episode description.
Love to see you there.
Now, a quick shout out to our wonderful patrons
who'll be getting extra chat at the end
of every single race review this season.
And what a race to...
I mean, this is just a race that we can probably talk
for about three hours for.
So I'm looking forward to the extra chat on the end,
but we've still got lots to get through
before we even get to the end of the podcast.
So, Tommy, why don't I start with my most memorable moment,
which has to be Antonelli versus Russell,
and then the subsequent Russell DNF.
It has to be.
The pinnacle of entertainment was in the hands
of Antonelli and Russell.
We wondered whether they were going to battle as hard
after the sprint and all the shenanigans that happened then.
Oh, yeah, times 10.
Times a million.
They went at it.
I can't believe that they both survived
the actual physical part of it.
Right, of course, Russell conked out
because of a reliability issue.
Had you shown me an Antonelli Hamilton
for Stap and Top 3, I'm like, well,
Russell must have gone in the wall.
There must have been a moment where it just got a little bit too
saucy and Russell was in the wall.
But no, it was a reliability issue that was the problem.
But the wheel-to-wheel action that we saw between the two of them,
they were so insanely close in terms of competitiveness.
I think Antonelli was maybe slightly quicker,
but with the overtake mode, with that sort of extra boost
that you get as the following car,
it just meant they were inseparable.
It was absolutely awesome.
Genuinely, I don't know if this is just the excitement
of having just witnessed it.
It's one of the best battles I've seen in Formula One
for a very long time because you're watching two drivers go flat out.
I think that's the most exciting thing,
that they were just pushing to the absolute limits.
And one thing that I've kind of modern Formula One
that I find a little bit disappointing
is the fact that you don't see drivers pushing
and making mistakes and sliding.
And that's something you do see with these new cars.
The amount of times you saw Russell lock up into the hairpin,
Antonelli almost going into the wall, locking up,
almost going into the back of him.
And that battle lasted lap after lap after lap.
It was absolutely bonkers how long it went on for.
We mentioned about the sprint and thinking,
oh, if it's half as good as that sprint battle,
it was like 10 times as good as the sprint battle
because it went on for absolutely ages.
And I'm gutted for the Russell DNF
because we were robbed of what would have gone on all race long,
it feels like, because they just could not shake each other.
It was just insane.
Couldn't shake each other.
That sounds very bizarre.
So yeah, I think it's just such a memorable moment,
those two.
And we all felt gutted when Russell DNF'd
because it did rob us of potentially another.
Not the red bull racing.
I don't know if it would have gone...
Look, we'll get onto that in a second, Tommy.
We're still currently basking the glory of this crazy battle.
And then we will touch upon the red bull admin going a little bit.
Let's say...
I don't know if they knew they were on the business account
or something like that way.
But quickly to sort of summarize the battle there,
there was not an inch given at many times.
And you just wondered when it was going to end,
whether it would be one in the wall
or perhaps even break away and be over a second.
Of course, you had Antonelli having a big old lock up.
And then, of course, Russell basically leveling the playing field
and both of them just running insanely locked up tires.
And yet they still battled.
They were still quicker than the rest of the field.
And it just demonstrated how far ahead Mercedes are in race trim.
I think that we would have seen an easy sort of 20, 25 seconds
at least that Antonelli would have won by, of course, with the Russell DNF.
But I'm glad that they sacrificed some time and carried on battling.
Yeah, definitely.
I think that the one that sticks in my mind is when they went side by side
through the chicane.
And I don't know how they both managed to get around that corner side by side.
And that was just one of, I reckon, about 15 incidents.
You know, we spoke about how when we had the new regulations in 22
and how we enjoyed the fact that you had DRS
and they were passing and repassing each other.
Charlotte Clairmax, this happened, was a great example.
That was like a couple of times they passed each other.
This was going on lap after lap after lap.
So good to watch.
And this is what we wanted, or at least I wanted, the regulations to get to.
I didn't think we'd get there that quickly.
And I'm sure there will be times where we are crying about batteries once again.
And I know there is still people being critical over why some of these moves are happening.
But this is where I feel comfortable in saying DRS did the same thing.
You know, if you're upset because your driver got overtaken because they were slightly slower
than the car behind, that's because of an overtaking aid of some description.
We have this boost overtake mode now that I think did exactly what I've asked for.
You know, we saw some great battling in China, for example, with Leclerc and Hamilton.
If they are able to go side by side into corners where an overtake is valuable,
that was hardly a day.
It was hard to pass still.
Yeah, Hamilton was in the call-down room and was saying it is so hard to overtake.
Mercedes drivers were like, guys, I don't know what you're talking about.
We can race lap after lap after lap.
So, yeah, look, I think the regulations were flattered maybe by this track.
I think when we get to.
Tato said that in his interview, saying he thinks it's probably circuit specific.
Yeah, he said that the racing was better because of not.
He said it was at the sort of top level because of the fact it was Canada.
He was still, I think, still having a kind of positive spin on it.
But yeah, I mean, we had Miami where it was an entertaining race.
We then went to Canada, which, thank God, right?
I feel like Canada, we have been sat here for so long saying, what a legendary circuit.
Why do we not get good racing around here?
And then, you know, enter these new regulations.
We've been very critical about them and I think very fairly.
The FIA and Formula One have started to make some tweaks
and they appear to be working to some degree.
So, look, that's the racing I want to see.
I didn't feel like I was sat there watching yo-yo racing.
We were watching two drivers at the front and also further down as well,
battling hard corner after corner.
They weren't flying past each other.
I think that was the main thing.
There's a couple of moments.
But DRS, you know, we see people fly past drivers on the straight with DRS.
Whereas this, the boost was almost just enough.
And don't get me wrong, there'll be times where they get it wrong again
and it's a bit maybe too powerful, but that is exactly what happened with DRS.
So, the fact that they were racing as close as they were,
and it was great to see them fighting and looking like they were,
they were, you know, sliding through corners.
They were losing the cars a little bit and they were about 0.3, 0.4 apart.
Which how like last year, you know, the biggest complaint was
you can't even get within a second and as soon as you get in the dirty air.
They were pushing like mad and able to stay within another car
to kind of force them into a mistake.
And they were making mistakes because they were both going absolutely flat out.
It was incredible, incredible to watch.
Well, what we've learned from this particular weekend is that Formula One
need to get their arses in gear and announce a winter series.
Because it was 12 degrees in Canada and look what we got.
We got mistakes.
We got drivers pushing so unbelievably hard because they could.
Because the tyres weren't degrading.
I mean, the tyres were decent anyway, but they weren't degrading as much
because they weren't overheating.
And if anything, they had the opposite problem and that they were cooling down,
which can of course bring its own levels of graining and that sort of stuff.
But it felt like, yeah, they were just going for it and not holding back anything.
And that was one thing we were always positive about was that,
yeah, it felt like the drivers were hustling the cars,
but we were so restricted by the battery stuff that we,
it didn't really feel like it was a positive.
But now we get to a point where I was loving it and really not wondering,
apart from like, oh, I wonder if, for example,
Verstappen has deployed a bit more into Turn 1 this time.
Will he be on the back foot for the rest of the lap?
But that's kind of what I thought would be okay when it's just...
It felt like an IndyCar pushed a pass, which is what I kind of liked anyway
and wasn't against happening.
I mean, look, I've had my criticisms of the regulations.
That was some of the best F1 racing I've ever seen
and I've watched for many, many years.
I genuinely was just like in awe of what I was watching.
It was incredible.
Yeah, just Mercedes, look, if you're going to have a DNF, can we not?
Can we just...
Can we not do it when they're battling?
Because that was just phenomenal to watch.
Let's go to a question from P1 patron member Albans1.
Will Mercedes have to implement racing rules to pre-empt their drivers crashing?
I don't think they will until they have the inevitable contact.
Maybe George Russell's mechanical failure was actually a blessing in disguise
because they probably would have crashed at some point
if we'd have gone on for another 30 laps
and then maybe they call off the fight and we never see it again.
So hopefully we are going to go into another race and see that again.
And I certainly hope so because it was...
Yeah, they were pushing the limits.
Both of them were making their cars as wide as possible, going for moves.
I can't believe Antonia didn't go into the back of George at one point into that chicane.
That was probably the sketchiest moment of the lot, I think.
And yeah, we saw it again where they were just absolutely going for it.
And I don't think at this moment they're going to call that off until they collide.
And it's a weird one because if you look at it on a negative,
it's like, oh, it's a shame that Mercedes are very clear, they're dominant.
But like 2014, like 2016, the reason they can fight like that is because they almost
know, even though they won't want to admit it,
that it is probably a two-horse race in the championship between those two drivers,
certainly at this stage, and they can afford to race that hard and still pull away from third place.
And that's, you know, despite it being a bit of a shame that the others aren't close,
we're getting the most unbelievable battle for the lead because of it.
And to just add another thing, thank goodness Kimmy has stepped up because,
yeah, it's epic to watch.
The advantage that Mercedes has is both a blessing and a curse,
a curse because no other team is able to get close to them really,
but a blessing because of the fact that you said Kimmy has stepped up and so we are seeing
a Titanic battle between the two of them, Titanic in the sense of they're very close on track,
not so much when it's a 43-point lead already for Antonelli after five rounds, which is crazy.
But back to the racing rules point, in complete agreement with you, Tommy,
in the fact that they have no reason to at the moment, they've tried to
put down the rules and said, look, all right, let's agree.
Let's agree how we race.
Are we going to race like we are teammates or another team?
They've decided, like, they're going to race like they hate each other, which is even better.
So look, it's going to be great entertainment up until the point they have a crash,
which feels inevitable, but it will depend on having
both drivers very closely matched in race trim and I feel as though Kimmy Antonelli was,
even though he did not hardly, he led a little bit, didn't he?
But he didn't top any of the main sessions and felt like he was behind by 86,000s here,
then it felt like he was the quicker driver in the race in race trim and it felt as though
he should have actually broken away from George and maybe won reasonably comfortably,
but there were mistakes in there from both of them, which enabled this unbelievable racing.
So for Merck, I'm sure they will have a little bit of a, okay, guys, that was a bit close at times,
wasn't it? But it's not going to stop them. And I almost am sort of going to believe that
even if they're having similar battles with that and Toto comes over and goes, please stop,
I don't think they will. I genuinely don't think Antonelli would just, okay, cool, no worries.
Yeah, George, you can take the win. The fact is that they were concerned about Verstappen
potentially catching them. And that is, of course, they have to make sure that the other teams and
drivers aren't going to potentially steal the win from them. But it doesn't seem like that's
going to happen anytime soon. Although Monaco, I don't know if we'll see side by side.
Well, they can do it Monaco, but we'll see. But I think the fact that, as you kind of said there,
you know, it's both the drivers chance like George has been hoping since joining Mercedes to have a
car to win the championship, which he now has. Kimi Antonelli is, of course, you know, loving
the fact that in only a second year, he's got an opportunity to win the world championship.
And yeah, they're in this position where they can fight. And there were moments in that race
where it felt like you were watching Max Verstappen versus Max Verstappen,
because they were going into corners and no one was basically yielding. It was a case of like,
you're going to let me through now, aren't you? No. And then they would just go either
both cut the chicane together or both go round the chicane together. And yeah, it was a case of like
neither of them were basically giving either of them any room, which is why it does feel
like a crash will happen at some point. It's got to. We will see. We've got a,
what, 17? Yeah, 17 rounds to go. So plenty of time for that to happen. Question from
people on Patreon about AMG Piper. Actually, it's more of a statement. This weekend has Kimi shown
he's both... No, it actually is a question. This weekend has Kimi shown he's both world champion
material and still got a lot to learn as he made a few naive mistakes. Kimi did make mistakes,
but he also won. He has four wins on the trot now and he leads by 43 points. There are mistakes in
there, but categorically, you cannot say he is not world champion material because he's already
shown it within five rounds that he's on at the very least on par with George, but he's been better
than George. That's why he's leading the championship by a comfortable margin. I think he was quicker
in Canada as well. That won't really be the big story, I don't think, coming out of this weekend,
but as much as, yeah, George topped the sessions, it felt like Kimi had his number when it came to
race trim. But of course, what happened in the sprint happened because we saw what happened
there. And there are things that Kimi is learning. And we saw that. Kimi took the learning from the
sprint and the fact he tried to go around the outside of George into turn one didn't do it in
the race. Every time he shaped for the move, no, didn't bother about it because he knew
I'm going to get shoved on the grass. So Kimi's learning a lot. He's 19 years old and he is going
to have naive mistakes. I mean, how close that was to a replica of the two Red Bull drivers at Baku
with Kimi sort of basically trying to have a little look up the inside into the final chicane,
coming back into the slipstream. But you lose braking performance when you're that close
to the car ahead. And that's exactly what we saw, massive lock up. And that must have been an inch
away from a Lewis Hamilton win at Ferrari. That's how close we were. But look, he got away with it.
And yes, he is world champion material. The question marks still are, how much further
can he go until mistakes, small mistakes become potentially bigger ones?
Definitely. He's definitely world champion material. He's a generational talent. I think
he's kind of showing that already he's showing why Toto had so much faith in him. He's got that kind
of special something about him that even if he doesn't win the world championship this year.
And even last year, when he had those moments where he was quite poor and had some bad runs,
but when it all came together, you could see that his ceiling was enormous. He had such potential.
And he's now showing that, but he is still definitely rough around the edges. Had Russell
not had that DNF and ended up winning that race, you could have argued, I know it's if
but so maybe it's because we don't know if Kimmy would have got through again. But say the race
had finished then when George was ahead again, you could argue that we would have seen George
winning both races where Kimmy was actually faster and I think the quicker driver, but just
didn't manage to make the move stick. Again, he got into the lead but made a mistake again,
things like that. So yeah, Kimmy, he's definitely got what it takes to win the world championship.
And so far, the mistakes haven't cost him too much, if at all. He's had a few rough sprint races,
I think luckily for him, all his kind of poor results have been in sprint races where barely
any points are handed out. So that's good for him. But yeah, four on the bounce, regardless of how
good your car is, you don't win four on the bounce by not being a champion material, basically.
Exactly. Yeah, for sure. Let's get to another question from P1P, remember Blackson, 43 points,
that is a bigger gap than it ever was between Norris and Piastri. Championship over!
How dare anyone even suggest that, two words, Oscar Piastri. It happened at Zandvoort,
we had this very same question of, save it now surely, Lando had his mechanical failure
and there was a big gap. I thought your two words were going to be Max Verstappen,
not Oscar Piastri. Well, all that, exactly. That example is bigger than the 34 points.
Well, yeah, yeah, it's true. But look, Piastri, everyone thought it was
done, finished after Zandvoort and there's a lot more races to go now than there was then.
And there's so much more of this season to be had. I think we've seen with the issues that
George has had, not just today, but he's had an issue before and McLaren, we'll talk about them
later, but more issues for McLaren and reliability problems that is not bulletproof. And we've seen
a race of attrition again, so mechanical failures can decide things.
Kimmy could literally have two, he might DNF in the next two races and then based on how quick
Mercedes are, there's a 50 point swing back in the other direction. It can change so easily
in Formula One. We saw it even just last year. So it's not even remotely close to being over.
I don't think Kimmy will be even be at this point and Toto will be the same of when I'm
thinking about the championship, which they are, but they're going to say they're not.
Yeah, exactly. You can't ever think it's over when you have what, 17 rounds left.
Is it three more sprints? Three more sprints, is that right?
Yeah, yeah, I was about three.
So it's a lot of points, 17 times 25 is a lot of points. That's 400 odd points.
It's, yeah, there's a lot still on the table and you have a literal, well, second season,
19 year old leading the championship. This is not by any stretch over. I still believe,
George showed some great pace this weekend. He bounced back from a poor run of races.
He took pole in the sprint. He won got pole in qualifying and was leading
when his mechanical issue kicked in. So from a pace perspective, George is right there
and he could easily go on a run of races and get back into this fight. And if this was a
Max Verstappen 43 points clear in a red bull in 2023, yeah, we know it's championship over.
But with this one, I really don't, and I'm fascinated to see how this unfolds moving forward.
I really hope there isn't much more reliability over the course of this season because I'd love
for it to be settled on track because we were robbed of great entertainment, but we also would
like it to be a reasonably level playing field if we've got just two drivers fighting for the
race. George, it's a good time to have it if there is ever a good time because there's plenty of
races to bounce back with. So yeah, there's no chance that it's championship over,
even with seven races to go if it's 43 points, it is still not championship over.
Just look at last year and Max Verstappen 104 points behind and he lost out by two. So there you go.
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Tommy, your most memorable moment, please, and it does include Mr. Max.
It certainly does include Mr. Max and also Mr. Hamilton. It's Hamilton versus Verstappen, which
if we thought the race was going to, yeah, we were robbed of that Mercedes battle and maybe
kind of lulled a little bit in the middle, but thankfully Hamilton put on a race for us
in that battle with Max. Again, similar to the Mercedes battle, what we saw was Hamilton closing
in. We thought, slam dunk, he's going to easily pass him or boost past him. See you later. He's
gone. Then of course, Max then gets the boost. He's behind. He's fighting. They're very close.
There's a lot of traffic as well. It was just a frantic battle. It's so great to see Hamilton
and Verstappen have a little battle because I think despite us talking about them like they are
great rivals, the big shame, I think, in Formula One is the fact that we only had one season
of them going head to head in the World Championship before the rules changed. It didn't
happen again because it would have been epic for that to continue. But yeah, it was great racing
again for P2 and a really exciting watch that went all the way to the end of the race.
Yeah, it was great to watch and it sort of saved us after the lull that we had post-Russell
retirement. The fact that we had that, the Hamilton versus Verstappen battle, which it wasn't like the
most insane or lengthy one, but it was good to watch and Hamilton gets through. It's funny,
isn't it? There was a really interesting bit of insight and perhaps still shining a light on
where the regulations are just insane is that he was saying in the post-race interview about how
basically managing trying to overtake is really, really difficult and the fact that he has to
guesstimate how much energy he's going to have in certain parts of the track and that
it's just nowhere near as simple as what we might think as viewers watching.
So I found that really interesting to hear and no wonder he's probably saying I need more power
because he's having to do all these calculations by the sounds of it in the car whilst racing
and doing that rather difficult thing as well. So yeah, great to see these two fight for sure
and I want to see more of it. May well do, I think Ferrari and Red Bull seemingly reasonably close
at least around Canada, but we've got a very, very different track in Monaco coming up next.
Now, before we dive into anything more to do with Hamilton, I realized that we haven't actually
spoken about the thing we teased, which was the Red Bull social media admin. Now, you know,
Max Verstappen is at Red Bull, so there's still a light segue there, but of course it was to do
with George Russell and his headrest that he so kindly yeeted out of the car as of recording
right now still under investigation about that and I don't see anything but fine really being
given that I don't think it'll be a grid drop or anything like that. But yeah, George absolutely
sent that headrest out of his car and there's a screenshot of it. I think a Formula One fan on
Twitter basically posting a screenshot of that and then the Red Bull admin themselves, right,
they didn't do it on a personal account. The Red Bull admin themselves replied to said tweet
with borderline something something. Which is of course in reference to his comment that the
infamous comment about Max borderline violence. Max lashes out with borderline violence and
and so on and so forth. So I did find that rather interesting to say that it clearly no love lost
there between the Red Bull social media admin and George Russell. Yeah, yeah, take it back when I
say that. I think I've said it a few times that if George doesn't win the title and wants to move
on, I was like, oh, maybe Red Bull. No, maybe not. Yeah, with that one tweet,
he is like, nope, not going anywhere near that. Right, let's head back to the Hamilton
Restappan chat. P1Patreon member Rosie Rangetsu comes in with great drive from Hamilton. Will this
podium help finally silence the retirement rumors? I do I do love how formal ones is like one result
in the bin. No more rumors about this. Lewis then has a poor result in two weeks time.
Then it's straight back to retirement women. No, that was the best. I would say Lewis has
performed whilst at Ferrari. I think China, of course, China spent last year, for example,
there have been a few highlight moments. But I think for Hamilton this weekend,
just from a pace perspective, the way in which he managed this really difficult weekend,
such cold conditions, really windy, he was brilliant. He absolutely destroyed Charles
Leclerc and I'll put my hands up. Hamilton still had mistakes himself in there. He left
time on the table of the straight mode thing. I don't know if that was because he just didn't
turn it on or if there was an issue with it. Either or that was not great, but then he made
a mistake trying to push back for those couple of attempts that he'd lost. So there all were
mistakes in Hamilton's weekend, but they weren't massive. The underlying pace was the thing that
was so impressive for Lewis. In terms of the retirement rumors, you can just see it. He
lives and breathes this sport and you can see it in every interview, especially I think in the later
stages or latter stages of his career. He just says it how it is. If he is hating life, he will
tell you. If he's loving life, he will tell you. That makes for quite difficult watches at times,
but also some really heartwarming, I'm really happy for Lewis times. And I think this one in
particular, hearing him chat in the pen afterwards, you could see how happy he was. It was a sigh of
relief. You could see the kind of little bit of weight come off his shoulders that he's finally
got a P2 for Ferrari. Of course, he had a P3 in China and it seems to sort of be piecing together
ever so slightly for Lewis. Definitely. It's great to see him deliver, particularly as
we saw him have a great result in China. And then I think after China, the big question was,
is Lewis just really good at China and can't deliver going on to the season because he had a
difficult time after that, where he had a couple of difficult races. But here, one of his best
tracks, yeah, he absolutely was amazing, like way clear of Charles that didn't have an answer
for him. And yeah, Hamilton was just brilliant all weekend. The fact that he managed to fight back
as well, you know, to get P2. And it just seems generally like the atmosphere is better. And he
always wears his heart on his sleeve, as you say. But the whole atmosphere at Ferrari when
things weren't going right, you heard all that we had these kind of discussions in
way of like the communications, not there, things like that. And now he has kind of spoken about
how he's a lot happier. Things are working out a bit better. You know, I saw the joke from Fred
that they called him Luigi on the radio that they were kind of laughing about. And it just seems
like a much better atmosphere with Hamilton at Ferrari. And that's a really good thing.
It's great to see him. You know, we want to see Hamilton at the front. It's a better formula
one when Hamilton is at the front fighting. And yeah, the retirement rumors, he obviously shut
them down very quickly and said, I'm not going anywhere. But this is just a kind of reminder
that, yeah, he's still got what it takes. And it was, yeah, great to watch, probably not great
to watch for Ollie Bearman who's wanting to take that seat at some point.
Yes. Yeah, Ollie Bearman, of course, scoring a point. So congratulations to him. But yeah,
for Hamilton, I think the question now is, you know, can he can he put together a string of races
where he is faster than Leclerc and consistently faster than Leclerc? It'll be horrendous for
me. But that's obviously the aim for Hamilton. If he wants to absolutely squash any chance of
Bearman getting to Ferrari in the next year or two. Another question, Pamas 10. Is there
something better than seeing Max and Lewis fighting near the front again?
Yes, fighting at the very front. But yeah, it's awesome to see those two battling at the front
again, two of the best to ever, you know, race in Formula One. You know, they've got their rivalry,
their fans have their rivalry as well. But I don't think either set of fans can deny that
they're two of the best drivers to ever do it. And to watch them battling at the front is what we
need in F1, you know, because apparently having Kimmy Antonelli and George Russell battling
every single lap for the lead, isn't enough. We want more. And now we want Lewis Hamilton
and Max to stop and battle as well. Thank you very much.
Indeed. And yeah, if they could just ideally all be together like top four or fighting for the
win, that you know, less, you know, it wasn't enough today, was it? It really wasn't.
We needed 17 mini boxes for all the entertainment.
Exactly. Okay, McLaren fans, I'm really sorry, but we're now going to get onto you guys and the
performance from the Papaya Army. Let's go to a question from P1Patreon member Amy.
Why did McLaren gamble on the intermediates?
No idea. I really don't have a clue. From third and fourth on the grid,
it was a risk. I'm not saying that they were the only ones to do it because they weren't,
but they were the only ones to do it in the top 10, from what I could remember. I think
Holkenberg maybe was the next one. It was a huge gamble. And of course, it worked Philando in the
first two laps. Oscar Piatri, not on the one, the three formation laps I think we had, was
constantly on the radio saying, look, I think we've made a poor call here. I will say that it was not
the right call, obviously with a bit of hindsight as well, to box before the lights went out because
you're forfeiting the second row of the grid. You are basically saying we will be at the back and
maybe five seconds off the back as well because you have to wait to be released after all the cars
have been, you know, the five red lights have gone off and all of them have got head down towards
turn one. So on that side, they were correct in staying out. Lando was able to utilize a little
bit of the advantage that he had and then pit. But overall, it's a disaster because they came out,
I think Lando was in 14th, Oscar was down in I think 17th. And it's just a very strange thing to
have done for a team that was, we thought was the closest to Mercedes on race trim.
And it was dry. Like, yes, it had been raining, but the forecast, the forecast only ever said
that it was going to be dry. And Toto Wolff, he said afterwards that they were nowhere near going
for soft tyres, sorry for wet tyres, they wanted to start on the drives. And it's mad to me how
different of a decision two huge teams in Formula One can make because one of them was always going
to be wrong. Definitely. I, you know, this is, thankfully for McLaren, it's not going to,
well, we'll find out if it costs them anything in the world tied to whether they can catch up.
But you know, it's their biggest blunder since Qatar, of course, when that ridiculous strategy
called that they made. And yeah, the most insane thing to me is there's not even a split of strategy
and your third and fourth on the grid. I wish I could think of a more modern example of it,
because the only thing that I remember that's in the depth of my brain is at Monaco back in 97,
where Williams, it was raining. And I'm now 97.
Tommy, I was five years old. Get a grip. Like, you tell me there's not been something else that's
happened in 29 years. Well, I can't think of anything. Someone will probably tell me. But
Williams, it was raining and Williams, who was starting 12 in the race, decided we'll start
on slicks because, you know, it might dry. And basically, it did not dry. And they both went
off. And that's that nah, nah, come on, Ghazlai Imola. Ghazlai Imola. Do you remember when? Oh,
yeah, when he qualified like fourth or fifth and then yeah, yeah, true. Okay, there you go.
There you go. Well, we've accelerated 20 years, everybody. You're welcome. Yeah. Perfect. So
this, this is the most insane thing to me. And why I kind of made that reference as well
is that that's the gamble you make when you've had an absolute stinker of a qualifying.
You're down in 18th or whatever. And you're just rolling the dice thinking, well, I might as well
try something. And yet they're doing that when they're third and fourth on the grid. It's an
absolutely insane call to take such a huge risk when you think, just play it safe, stay in the race.
You can do a hero call later by trying to do an undercut or something crazy. And
yeah, for all the memes about Ferrari and, you know, strategy clown memes and all that,
like McLaren are making some huge blunders in recent times has to be said.
I understand why it was a consideration, because the temperatures were so low.
And even if it wasn't intermediate conditions, I guess the idea was that they would fire up a
bit quicker, because of course, you know, when when intermediates don't have enough water,
they will overheat. So that there was clearly some reasoning behind it. But at the same time,
it was a disaster because they had to pit after two laps. So yeah, it was it was very strange
because the obvious choice was dries with a gamble of wets. It's not like it was a 50-50
choice. Otherwise, we probably would have seen. And there's no rain coming either, was there like,
so it wasn't like a case of it's going to throw it down soon. So we take the risk now,
you try and survive. It was always going to dry out. So it's not a case of it's not even a case
of yeah, it is wet and it's going to dry. So you gamble with dries. There's no logic to it really
at all crazy crazy. And whilst we're talking about McLaren, I guess in general, let's talk a
little bit about how it unraveled from there. Lando was picked up for a reliability issue,
which Lando himself didn't even know what that reason was when he was called into the pits
on lap 18 or something around that time. Oscar, the dive bomb that really was an accidental one,
I don't think he really wanted to try and overtake Alex as well. But completely misjudged it. We
saw a lot of mistakes into that happen. It's not like that was the only one we saw, you know,
George made a huge amount of mistakes in there, lots of lockups, clearly very difficult. And
Oscar, you know, he right on board with him, he breaks early, like he genuinely gets off the
throttle early. And yet he still just goes straight and then into the side of Albonne's
side pod. I mean, Alex Albonne could not get any luck whatsoever this weekend with the Marma and
then that just a weekend to forget for Albonne, of course, you know, complete passenger in that
incident. But it's not as if the gamble for the intermediates was the only problem for McLaren.
It just seemed to get worse and worse. Yeah, I couldn't couldn't believe it that I think there
were moments in that race where, you know, it's insane to say that the McLaren were getting lapped
quite early in the race. And you think this is a finished two laps down. Well, this yeah, this is
the team that we were questioning. You know, could they even win the race? Could they take the fight
to Mercedes this weekend? They were very confident of their upgrades. They could have won the last two
in Japan and Miami. Had they had, you know, better luck, better strategies as well. And yet here
they are with no points. The fact that in a race where, you know, the chasm of the midfield that
Oscar didn't even get a point in the end, despite the fact that, you know, we were joking that the
midfield was so far behind, they're just getting lapped for fun. So yeah, just can't really get
more of a stinking flop for McLaren than that, really. No, definitely not. And speaking of
drivers being lapped, a question from P1Patreon member Lanu, four cars finished on the lead lap.
Is that going to be something we see often later into the year? Or do you think it's a one off?
I hope it's a one off. I mean, there is a level of the fact that these are new regulations.
And it's something that we, maybe we're kind of teased in testing that the top four would
have a huge margin. And we kind of saw this with Hadjar. I think, correct me if I'm wrong,
but I'm pretty sure when we made our entire championship predictions, we put Hadjar in
eighth and went, well, there's going to be such a chasm. And that kind of happened in that race
where Hadjar had pretty poor race, got a penalty, got a stop go penalty as well. And yet still managed
fifth because the gap is just so huge between the midfielders. So fifth on the road is actually like
a good result and doesn't tell the whole story of the kind of chaotic race he had.
So that the leaders are so clear. But I do think, you know, it's a short track,
the way the tires were in that race and the fact that they weren't degrading meant that the leaders
were just like pushing like crazy, which made them kind of stretch that advantage even more.
I can't remember watching a race for a long time where it felt so frantic, like that everyone
was just going flat out all the time. It feels like Formula One of old, to be honest, of watching
that. Back in 1973. But you do. Handcooked tires. But it's true, one of the,
well, there was never handcooked tires. I know, know. See that, I bait, I put that fishing
rod out and I was like, I know he's going to say he did. So I'm getting F1 wrong.
Yeah, the, I think that the way they were pushing was really great to watch because
we've not seen that in many years gone by because it's always been about saving tires and oh, you
can't overtake because of dirty air. So you just kind of, you might as well save your tires and
things like that. There's been so much tire saving and management has been like our biggest gripe
that it was very refreshing to watch a race where there was none of it, basically.
Refreshing, but also horrendous if you're a midfield team because, as you say, the limitations of
the tires was not a factor and they were just pushing and therefore the massive gaps were
formed. I don't know if it is a one off, you know, I'm looking at the tracks that are coming up.
I wonder if, you know, Monaco, what's the advantage going to be around there? Of course,
less, it's a very short lap, but also, you know, we might see a different, different kind of ball
game. Of course, there's going to be less reliance on the energy side of things. It's going to be
more about corner speed, Ferrari, I'm ready. Austria, I think might be the next time we see
that, but then it could be a lot warmer and therefore we don't have this again, this same
situation. Maybe the British Grand Prix when it rains again and we get rained off of the main
stage as we did the last year. Please name.
In general.
It's getting there. It's improving. We're doing things as Formula One. You know,
the tweaks, as we mentioned earlier, of course, the recharge rate is for qualifying and I think
qualifying in general has become more watchable, definitely less super clippy than we've had
in those first few races, which I think is, you know, there are learnings to be had.
As for the wheel-to-wheel racing, we saw it today, the Mercedes drivers being able to push their
tyres to the absolute limit for, you know, countless laps. The fact that the overtake mode,
I think, was perfect for the amount of advantage you would get. And that's not just with the
Mercedes drivers, I think just in general, you know, as long as that one-second mark was, you
know, we had Hamilton and Verstappen. Verstappen was passed, got to about a second and then down
the straight, maybe gains three tenths. And it wasn't like an insane massive yo-yo type of
racing, which is what I hated to see. Australia was a farce for that reason, because it was just
constant. Back and forth, China, we saw a lot of it as well. Whereas this, this is the wheel-to-wheel
racing I want to see, where it is exactly that. And so fingers crossed, we will see more, but
I'm fully convinced that we are going to have moments where we're moaning and complaining,
because a race didn't give us what Canada did. But I really hope that Canada is now
a benchmark that can be reached on many occasions for the rest of the year.
I hope so. But I think, look, Miami was a brilliant race, in my opinion. I think it was way better
than anything we saw last year. We were always complaining about the lack of bangers. This race
was one of the best I've seen in a very long time. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it was
absolutely epic, to be honest. But this is the thing, and it's not just these regs, but Formula
1 in general. You can't have, as much as we want it, perfect every single week. And in an ideal
world, we'd have that. There'll be races where, as you kind of alluded to, the kind of boosting
is too much, and it's too easy to pass. And then equally, there'll be races where it's almost
impossible to pass, and we just see trains the whole race, and no one can pass at all.
And that is just Formula 1 in general. Some races are good, some races are bad. So
I wouldn't put everything on the regulations if, next time, if we get a bad race, Monaco doesn't
count, because it's completely different. But when we get to a normal track, which I'm guessing is
Barcelona, is it after Monaco, I think? You know, if we don't get a great race there,
I don't think it's Formula 1's in the bin, the regs are terrible. Because yeah, there are many
levels to why things can be good. So yeah, I personally think that the regulations,
all I can say is they've definitely improved since the start.
I will say as well, though, when we're looking to the past, 2022 springs to mind,
try to enjoy these races as much as we can, because Formula 1 teams are always out to ruin
good wheel-to-wheel racing by making their cars harder to follow. That is something that isn't
active. Yeah, I saw, did you see the Red Bull thing that they've already kind of bending the rules
with their side pod, and they're like the FIA looking into whether the side pods,
like they might have to stop them doing it and other teams doing it, where you're not allowed
to have a certain angle. And basically, that means that it's really going to be really hard to follow.
Ban it. I don't care. Ban it. Red Bull might just say it's for performance. No, if it's ruining,
following, ban it right now. Unless Ferrari do it, they can use it. That's fine. I don't mind that at all.
Because at the moment, they can follow very closely. We're seeing the gaps.
You did not see that last year at all, 0.4, 0.5 of cars being that close.
But just remember, 2022 was phenomenal at the start of the year, and then look how the end of
those regulations were. So drink it in. You may never see anything like it again.
Exactly. So please just enjoy this. I really hope it doesn't end up being like that, but
you never know. Question from people on Patreon. Remember, Lumixion, how do you think Hajar will
look back on this race? Got a bunch of penalties, but still finish fifth?
Yeah. We were kind of joking about that before, that it's kind of a poor race from Hajar in terms of,
I think he left a lot on the table with potential when you saw how quick he was in qualifying.
I think he could have had an absolutely fantastic race, because he looked the measure of max
sometimes during qualifying. And he's obviously had a very, very scruffy race as well, where
he's picked up a penalty. His move on Charle-Claire was ridiculous and deserving of a penalty. It was
extremely late, late call to move. You can't do that. It's something the Stappen did on Reichenan,
back at Sparrow, those years ago, and they kind of made sure it wouldn't happen again and said,
you basically can't do that in wheel-to-wheel, which I think is the right thing to do, because
it's going to cause a really massive accident. And then of course, the stop-go penalty, which
we saw coming as soon as we heard that he had sped through a double-waved yellow, which you
cannot do. It's like, you know, the double-waved yellows are there for a reason for safety of
everyone on the track, the marshals that volunteered to do it, and you have to slow down. So,
yeah, he's got good points on the board. But yeah, I think it's slightly disappointing, because
there was an opportunity there, I think, to show that he isn't going to finish Mars behind
the Stappen, because I don't think that was the case in terms of pace.
Yeah, I believe that the actual result, fine, 10 points, you know, increases his tally by quite a
substantial margin. So, I can't really say it's a missed opportunity from a point side of things,
but I think it's a missed opportunity that he could have easily been in Leclerc
and had a much cleaner race, because I agree with you, the defensive move,
unsurprisingly, I agree with you, the defensive move on Leclerc could have been catastrophic
with how late he moved. I saw some people jumping to his defence about the fact that,
oh, you know, he moved before Leclerc did, but it's a reactionary defensive move,
which you aren't allowed to do. You have to shape for your defence before the attacking
driver has done theirs, basically. So, yeah, it was far too close for that. Leclerc had to get
out of it. You don't want to see that cars colliding at 200mph down the back straight.
So, that move was fully deserving of a penalty. Yeah, and then just a little bit careless with
the double-waved yellows, maybe trying to gain a bit of time as well, whatever it might have been.
Yeah, it was by no means a flawless weekend from Hadjar, but he can take positives from it,
but I think his blushes were spared by the fact that that was the biggest Formula One and Formula
1.75 we've seen for a very long time. You know, he finished 38 seconds behind Leclerc, spun behind
the virtual safety car who had all kinds of problems. He finished 70 seconds behind Verstappen
and still finished fifth. Like, it's just ridiculous. That's an enormous margin.
Yeah, so I think his blushes were spared a little bit with that, but still good points
and he can move on from this weekend. Now, we head to a quick shout-out to the Alpines,
P6 and P8, Colopinto, another brilliant weekend from him. Just the quietest P6.
Don't think we saw any kind of low lights from him in terms of replays of making
mistakes, like there were a lot of mistakes. Well, he almost went in the wall that they didn't show.
Oh, yeah, the pit wall. Yeah, which I've just seen.
That was something I haven't seen, but I remember them saying in commentary. So,
you talk about it and I'm going to find... So, he comes straight out the pits
and basically loses it on cold tyres and bashes into the wall. Thankfully for him,
he was fine because, yeah, I think he's done a great job.
That is a kind of Leclerc-esque front-left tap to the wall,
but at a slightly slower speed, I think. So, yeah, he got away with that one because that
wasn't a bit of a flatter. Apart from that, did great. No, he did. He did absolutely great and
again, like a brilliant performance in qualifying that we said and delivered in the Grand Prix as
well. He was just in his own world, I guess, in the fact that he could do anything about those
top five that were the five top teams left in that race, of course, I guess,
Piastri, but of course, he was well out of it, but then comfortably clear of the midfield. So,
yeah, Colopinto, to say that languishing in last, he is, where is he, 11th in the championship now.
Hey, as well. Can we also... 15 points. I mean, I'm going to sing his praises even more. He didn't
do any laps in practice. It's not a single lap for Franco Colopinto. Of course, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, amazing job. Even better from him. And of course, Lawson as well did hardly any practice
and he finished seventh. So, a brilliant set of performances from both Colopinto and Lawson
and Franco firmly sort of hushing any sort of criticism, it has to be said now, about that
second... Well, not second seat, Alpine, but you know, you know what I mean,
Gasly is kind of the first driver. It's only five points behind Gasly now and, you know,
a few positions in the championship, but that's a great performance. I think it can be very,
very happy with that. Well done to Franco. Liam, as I mentioned. Gasly
signed, scoring a couple of points as well. And Ollie Berman, as mentioned earlier,
with a single point in the end as well. Let's go to biggest winner, driver or team.
Who are we going to crown biggest winner? I think Antonelli in terms of his championship lead.
That's definitely a biggest winner. Hamilton is certainly a shout in terms of his
inter-team battle with Leclerc. That was a huge performance from him.
Colopinto again, as you say. Who are we going to go for biggest winner?
I mean, it's tough because it depends how you define it because I think Hamilton was
incredibly impressive. Colopinto is incredibly impressive. Antonelli, you can argue, wasn't
like really superior to his teammate and flawless, but in terms of winning,
to have your biggest rival in the championship scored nothing and you get 25 points. It's kind
of the definition of it. We made the rules. I'm going to go with Antonelli.
It's not driver of the day, is it? It's biggest winner and you cannot deny that
Kimi Antonelli has come out of Canada a very happy man and basically perfect result for him,
as much as he won't say, it's the perfect result for me because George retired,
but in terms of his championship it is. You kind of said that on the radio. He was like,
oh, really sad. Would I like to battle George more, but I'll take it.
I'll take it because of yesterday when I was really annoyed.
He's happy with his 25 points. How about biggest loser? I think it might be McLaren.
I think McLaren might be the biggest loser here, starting third and fourth and finishing 11th and
DNF. Disaster for them. I don't think there's any debate really. I don't think there's anyone
else. Apart from George Russell, of course, and his championship hopes as a sort of honourable
mention. It's certainly not a loser, but one person I want to mention that absolutely go for
his limbo. Really such a shame because he had a fantastic qualifying, a great sprint as well.
He could have been up there with Lawson. There's no doubt about it and it would be scoring big
points from the whole weekend. Good that he didn't even get to start the race
and gave us an extra formation lap. Huge shame for him. He was pretty flawless throughout the
weekend, just sitting in P9 the entire time it felt like. Big shame for Limblad.
It's now time to get into the big championship, the predictions championship. It's currently
1811 to Tom Bellingham. We're going to head to a good surprise. My good surprise was George Russell.
No. You're trying to be like, maybe. But then you've just got to remember that the same
argument will then be said in my good surprise. No, he hit the wall, my guys. I don't know about
that one. Sprint pole, sprint win, qualifying pole was leading the race in DNF. Lost 25 points
to championship rival. Yeah, I know. But how are we really judging good surprise? That's the real
thing here. Was it a good surprise that Russell was back on the pace and beating Anthony in three
of the four sessions? No, don't be using that when he's been on a poor run of form. We know what
the loop holes are. You can't just say, oh, well, Russell's actually more experienced than
therefore. I don't know. I want to see what the listeners are feeling about this one because
it is an interesting one. You can't just flat out shut that down. No, it's not a flat out no,
but I would argue my one is also debatable. Don't know about that one, my guy. But okay,
look, let's see what people say in the comments and we will come back to it. It's over to you.
Maybe we'll put a poll up on YouTube community or something like that to really get a good
feedback. Yeah, maybe we need to start doing polls after. Yeah, rather than going off the top
comments on YouTube. But let's do both, just comment. And then if I see enough that say,
Russell, yes, point, then I'll just override it. Brilliant. Fernando Alonso made it into
SQ2 in a tractor. By crushing the wall. Yeah, exactly. You do what you got to do.
Yeah, put a second on his teammate. Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true of the go.
And yeah, he was running really high up actually in the race before his retirement,
which was gutting. He had a really good start and then he fell like a stone, then he retired.
So don't be like, oh, he was running. And I would like to have seen him do well because I had a
nice little Patreon prediction that was linked with him, but it didn't end all too well for
Fernando. So no points. Right, I went for a big flop, Kimmy Antonelli, which don't really think I
cash that in, sadly, as much as I thought I was maybe on to something when he had
several moments where I thought he might have ended up in the wall. But alas,
he did not. And Antonelli did a great job and won the race and seemed like the faster Mercedes
driver, as I mentioned earlier. So sadly, I can't go for a flop for Antonelli.
I went for Charle Claire, 34 seconds off Hamilton. I'm not even going to argue it,
you're seven points clear and clearly not thinking about the narrative here. You're just
trying to really extend your lead. But no, it's true. But look, Claire did have a floppy weekend,
for sure. He had no pace. He said at the start of the show, one of his worst and yeah,
someone shared his qualifying results and yeah, he's had a really tough time at Canada. So
obviously not one of his better races, but of course, his best race is next. So I'm sure
this form won't continue. Exactly. And I also just want to throw in, good surprise,
obviously the Russell thing, right? Oh yeah, but he lost points to a championship rival.
If you're actually looking at the results, which is what you tried to do with Russell
for the Claire, beat Hamilton in the sprint and then finish one position off the podium,
you know, I'm just, I'm just throwing that out there if you guys haven't voted yet.
Okay. All right. Perfect. You know, not for you to say anything, Tommy.
Sprint poll. I went for George Russell, which was correct. Thank you, George,
0.086 of a second ahead. Thank you. I went for Antonelli, of course, wasn't correct.
Sprint winner. I went for, unsurprisingly, George Russell, which was correct. Give me
another point. Thank you. I'm for Piastri. No.
Pole position. I went for George Russell, which was correct. 0.086. Thank you.
And I went for Lando Norris, which two minutes ago in the session I thought I might have cooked,
but no. You did not. You burnt my guy. P3. I went for Oscar Piastri, finished two laps down.
That was a good one. Wow. I went for Lando Norris, who did not score anything.
No, he did not. Second place. I went for Lando Norris. That did not happen.
No, and I went for Oscar Piastri. We really thought McLaren were going to do something special.
Yeah, exactly. But they went for the Greenwald tyres. And then in first place,
because you blocked me, I went for Antonelli, which was correct.
George got the perfect four. That's crazy.
And you went for? I went for George Russell, because I was like,
oh, no, I get to go for Russell this time. And of course, that was a session he didn't win.
That was a one session. Yeah, the one session he didn't top. So, brilliant.
Yeah, that's crazy. I think that deserves an extra. I think that I get eight points for that.
Actually, it's double. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm making all the rules now. I'm leading. Perfect.
P-Watts, if you're not familiar with what P-Watts is, is where we roll a random number.
And then we, on the spot, guess who was going to finish in that position.
P9 is what we rolled. And it's a draw, because I went for Gasly, who finished eighth.
And you went for Berman, who finished tenth.
Yes, Berman was one second off ninth, and Gasly was 23 seconds off ninth.
So, you know, open to the stewards on that. I'm debating it.
You are. Oh, god, I'm going to slap you, silly.
I can't even, because of the Piastri Norris thing, where we were bantering about,
who was the first to DNS that time. Who's technically on the board,
whose garage is further along.
Okay, so if it's a draw, then we'll go just go zero points, right?
Or do we go one each, so it sounds better at the end of the year.
It sounds better at the end of the year.
I think we deserve a point each, so that come on.
We were one point away from both of them. That's a good prediction.
Yeah, good work. And, you know, if we're going to get into the nitty-gritty,
surely the better of the P9PH, surely that's like a better result.
And therefore, right, so one crazy prediction.
I went for Kimi Antonelli does not top a single competitive session for the main weekend.
He did, in fact, top Q1 and the race. So, unlucky for me.
And I went for Kimi Antonelli not on the podium.
I love how that whole kind of both are predictions, really, where
Russell's going to win, Antonelli's going to flop,
and Antonelli's the one that's come out with a 25-point swing in the race.
Mm-hmm, yeah, that's mad.
So, no points there. How about our Patreon prediction,
where if you're part of the P1 Patreon gang, you can submit your prediction
every single predictions episode. And I went for Philly Burgers,
which was a Lonzo top 10 finish in either race or the sprint.
And that did not happen, because he's in an Aston Martin.
However, I thought there was a chance when he was in the P10 on the point.
Oh, my God, he was absolutely superb.
Mine was Kaley and Alpine finishes in the top five in either the sprint or main race.
It was sick.
The Colopin Tei was sixth.
Oh, my heart bleeds for you.
Oh, my God.
What a shame.
Thank you for not saying the top six.
How just should have been disqualified for his move on Leclerc, though.
So that's half the point.
All right, I mean, I'll agree with the Leclerc defense, but...
Yeah, yeah. No, I'm good about that.
Because I did also, I remember saying in the podcast that the reason I went for that was
because I almost went for Colopin Tei, good surprise.
And I should have done because, you know, what performance.
So no points.
So what are we on now?
So you've scored TBC, 1235
Five, maybe six, and you've scored two.
Okay.
We're so back.
You all wrote me off.
Give me that George Russell point, and we are so, so back.
Okay.
Gosh, four points.
Maybe three points separating Tom Bellingham and Matt Gallagher.
You all, I saw you on Instagram.
Oh, it's all over for Matt.
He's thrown it.
Four races in.
Well, look at that.
The George Russell hype train.
Mad to think I went on the George Russell hype train, and he DNF'd in the main race,
and I somehow walked away with loads of points.
We love to see it.
Right, let's get into the family top three.
The Constructors' Championship.
It is for all very close indeed.
I fielded my dad this week, and you fielded your mum.
So for P3, my dad went for Lando Norris.
No.
My mum went for Charles Leclerc.
No.
Sad times.
Thank you.
I appreciate the P3, even though it wasn't a P3 yet.
It was a P4.
Second place.
My dad went for George Russell.
Could have happened.
Could have.
My mum went for Oscar Pastry.
Could have happened if he put on the right tyres.
Maybe.
Who knows?
Maybe.
Not sure.
And in first place, my dad went for Kimmy Antonelli.
He gets a point and could have been too.
But in fact, only one.
And my mum went for George Russell.
The Gallagher's down the inside.
Yep.
5-4.
My mum, I remember specifically saying that Russell
was going to win Antonelli with DNF, hit the wall of champions.
Yeah.
She said that with confidence as well.
And alas, that did not happen.
The Gallagher's lead, the Boring Bellingham's are behind.
Let's see who Tommy fields for Monaco.
That's really annoying because I was thinking about fielding Grace
for this race, just for banter.
And I was like, oh no.
And she always puts Max P3 in the two L-pins.
So I would have got a point.
Oh, mate.
Devastating.
Grace would have scored a point for you.
Okay.
That is it, everybody.
Thank you for tuning in to this rather beefy podcast from the Canadian Grand Prix.
We enjoyed it a lot.
You can probably see or hear.
You can't hear the smile on our faces.
But you can hear the enjoyment, the emotion
if you're listening on Spotify or wherever you are.
But just so good to be back with a great race.
Of course, we have a week off and then we head to Monaco
where we will be there.
We will be in Monte Carlo doing some very exciting things by the sounds of it.
I'm not going to say any more than that.
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Our podcast will still remain
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We might be slightly slower to it than usual.
But we're going to have hopefully an amazing time
and we'll take you along with us.
So, so excited.
Tommy, final thoughts, please.
Final thoughts.
Oh, yeah.
Bring on Monaco because I'm very intrigued.
What kind of action or lack of or whatever we're going to get
with these new regulations I think could be intriguing.
I'm not going to get my hopes up after me hyping up the race last year
with the new rules, which of course didn't work.
But still very excited for Monaco, excited to be there.
Do follow us on our socials
because we're going to post some exciting things.
And yeah, bring on the next race
because I'm glad Formula One is truly back
because we've got a big old runner races now after waiting so long.
I know we said about qualifying being ruined at times this year,
but I do genuinely believe this might be the first qualifying session
where we actually see it and it feels like old Formula One,
as in last year's Formula One,
because they'll be able to recharge their battery at a rate
that they've not been able to do before.
So I'm actually very excited to see no super clipping.
That would be quite lovely.
So fingers crossed that is the case and I'm not completely mistaken.
And that is it.
We'll see you very soon.
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About this episode
The P1 crew kicks off with a quick teaser that “A lot of Formula One happened,” then digs into Canada’s shortened, high-drama race. They highlight a standout Antonelli vs Russell fight—wheel-to-wheel closeness, repeated lock-ups, and “Right, of course, Russell conked out because of a reliability issue.” From there, they connect the racing quality to modern rules like DRS and “boost overtake mode,” while debating dirty air, tire behavior, and how reliability keeps the championship wide open. They end by looking ahead to Monaco.
We're calling it: best race of the season. One of the best races in recent memory, with some of the best battling we've ever seen around Canada. Chef's kiss, no notes.
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