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Hello everybody and welcome back to the V1 podcast with Matt and Tommy.
Chinese Grand Prix race done.
In the locker.
Wow.
We.
I am ready to talk about it.
I am feeling like a proud Ferrari fan.
Yes, Charlotte Clair didn't even finish on the podium.
I have a smile on my face because there are lots of things to talk about from this race
that were quite frankly, excellent and despite our how we sit on what the cars are made
of and how we disagree with perhaps the regulations and things like that, we are taking the stance
of let's try and enjoy what we can and when we look at this, when the teams figure out
what they're doing with these cars, I don't think we're going to get racing like this
and we have a lot to talk about from this one.
We certainly did.
It was, I personally thought it was a really enjoyable race.
I've wanted battles in different corners and things all the time and that's exactly what
we got and yeah, unfortunately, as to be expected, you look at the kind of performance
gap between the teams.
There's quite a big field spread at the end, but you're always going to see that in a new
regulation and you kind of think that as we go on throughout the season, hopefully
teams catch up and yeah, overall, I really enjoyed it and a very wholesome result in
race as well.
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Tommy, it is time for you to begin and give us your most memorable moment, please.
It's got to be Kimmy Ansonali's first win.
What a moment, like I said at the start, incredibly wholesome.
I was fighting back the tears when he was welling up in that interview with David Coulthard.
I thought that'd be just because of the max damage.
Really emotional.
Well, we'll talk about that later if we have to.
Yeah, amazing to see Kimmy get his first win and did so.
Yes, George Russell had the problems in qualifying, but once Russell had got through, you thought,
there's a big gap but not an absolutely humongous gap here.
Is he going to make a mistake?
Yes, he did at the end, a very slight one, which would have made him incredibly nervous.
But to win second race of the season, now he's got the championship winning car underneath
him, is very, very impressive.
The scenes afterwards were absolutely amazing how much it meant to him, how much it meant
to all the team, to see Hamilton on the podium as well.
I just think that the relationship between Hamilton and Kimmy Antonelli is one of the
most wholesome things.
I'm using the word wholesome a lot, but it's so true because Hamilton could quite easily
just be like, oh, this guy's taken my car.
I know he chose to leap for Ferrari, but Hamilton has that such father figure and seems genuinely
really chuffed for Antonelli.
And it was great to watch and I'm really glad to see Antonelli.
Top of the podium.
It was it was great.
It's what we watch Formula One for these these stories, these moments and Kimmy Antonelli
getting his first win did not disappoint at all.
I did wonder after qualifying where it wasn't much of a celebration, but perhaps that was
because he had in the back of his mind that George Russell had problems.
And I thought, oh, I hope he maybe feels it when if he if he does get his first win.
And my goodness gracious me, he certainly did.
You know, just the the fight when literally fighting back the tears and crying in his
post race interview, just such an awesome moment to see.
It's it's what, you know, because Formula One drivers are so PR wrapped in cotton wool
by their teams.
You don't get to see true emotion all that often.
That's why the cooldown room is such a cool thing for us to watch because you feel like
the drivers almost let go a little bit and they chat about the race.
They talk about the things and they talk about the sofa.
If you live as Hamilton, which I found absolutely hilarious, but but back to Kimmy, you know,
his win.
Yes, George Russell had problems in qualifying and maybe the Sunday would have turned out
differently had George qualified on pole, but that's not the case.
Kimmy put in, I think, a great lap in qualifying.
But the most impressive thing for me was he lost the lead at the start.
It was not plain sailing.
Hamilton made sure that he didn't lead every single lap.
But he still was able to bounce back.
Yes, he has a better car.
But this is his second season, a lot of inexperience.
And he's fighting for his first win.
An issue, a mistake easily could crop up for Kimmy Antonelli.
But he didn't. And then, as you mentioned, Tommy, it was a time trial between Kimmy
and George for about half the race.
And he lost a couple of seconds.
And mainly that was because of the lock up towards the end.
So Kimmy showed great pace.
And I know for a fact, George is going to be pushing to the absolute limit
to try and catch his TNA.
He wants to win. He wants to win the World Championship.
So Antonelli had his number for the entire race.
And that is probably the most promising thing.
When you think about the championship picture of if Kimmy can just iron out these
mistakes and he's done that already with his start.
Yes, he lost the lead, but he was able to fend off George going into turn one,
which box ticked after the last two races.
Russell was second as well, wasn't he?
We're talking about like, oh, Russell had problems in qualifying,
but he wasn't 10th.
And it was a case of Antonelli gets the lead and then he's got a big gap.
And Russell can close in a bit like Russell was second on the grid.
They shared the front row.
Exactly. So well done, Kimmy Antonelli.
Awesome, awesome scenes to watch unfold.
Question from P1Patreon member Bex P.
How smug is Toto right now?
Oh, that man is bathing in smugness.
You could tell from the team radio when he came over and spoke to Kimmy after
he'd won, basically reeling off the quotes of clearly media that have said,
it's too early, he makes too many mistakes, yada, yada, yada.
And then went, you're a race winner.
And to be fair, that's some serious aura farming from Toto.
I enjoyed that. He had that ready.
He threatened that ages ago.
He was that was a drive to survive script I've ever seen it.
But look, Toto,
you know, he of course had criticism about whether this this move for Kimmy was too
early and it was sort of probably a year early in the sense of if Hamilton had
decided to stay, that Kimmy would not have had this opportunity.
So yes, Toto rushed him into that seat.
Yes, Kimmy made mistakes, literally his first outing in the Mercedes crashes
in Monza in practice, like there were things to put question marks over his head.
But Toto obviously saw the potential.
He saw the seat, you know, the ceiling, which is a long way away still,
probably for Antonelli and thought, I'm going to invest heavily in him.
And I think something that you have to give Toto credit for is that he is
nurturing him in the absolute right way.
He is trying to put as little pressure on him as possible.
He knew that Antonelli would make mistakes in that first season.
And, you know, you see the clips as well of like when Antonelli made the mistake
in Australia, FP3, where he crashed and you can see Toto going, look,
don't worry, just keep the confidence.
Yes, you're going to make mistakes and talking through it with him.
It's the complete opposite of what you would imagine the Red Bull Pressure
Cooker with helmet Marco would have been like with young talent.
So I think Mercedes and Toto are doing a phenomenal job in getting the best out
of Antonelli, because they know that there is serious potential with him.
Absolutely. Toto has played it brilliantly.
And if you've been watching Formula One for a very long time, you'll know that,
you know, Lewis Hamilton joined in at McLaren,
went in as a rookie in a top team.
It was Ron Dennis that brought him on board and had similar
criticisms of like, ah, surely, you know, you put him in a lower team first,
letting build his experience.
No, straight in the top team.
And now, you know, Toto is having that kind of like Ron Dennis moment with Lewis
Hamilton, where he's seen his talent that he's put faith in from the very start.
Winner, Grand Prix already.
And yeah, he's doing a really good job.
Yes, he's still rough around the edges and he's got mistakes here and there in him,
which is to be expected in his second season.
But he's in his second season and he's now found himself with the overwhelming
best car and, you know, could be going for a world championship if everything goes
right for him and he delivers, which is insane to think about because he
still is a kid and I think that is, you know, we have these like youngest
winner things going on and stuff.
I feel like Kimmy Antonelli, even though he's got that similar starter max,
there's something about Antonelli.
He's still he's still got that kind of like child like almost aura about him
with just the way he like approaches and has like a lot of fun and things.
And and it is insane to think, yeah, just at his age, with all that pressure on him,
it's so different, like you say, what's happening with with how Toto was
kept kept him under his wing and not put insane pressure on him.
When you see, you know, Red Bull up to races, you rubbish.
See, later you're gone or Helmut Marco mouthing off and he's not there anymore,
but would have been like, oh, what's he doing?
Yeah, this isn't good.
And it puts more pressure on him.
Toto's like, stopped all that and then could come out with his little script
to be like, look, I told you, I knew he was great.
And I think as well, Toto probably feels a bit of relief after the whole Max
Verstappen saga years ago and missing out on him and now having this moment with,
you know, a talent that he's invested in with Kimmy and and go, yes,
finally, this has worked out.
Because he was always going to go for him, wasn't he?
We had this discussion where I remember it got it was delayed
quite a long time, wasn't it, before they announced Antonelli.
And I was of this opinion and a lot of people are going, oh,
they're going to go for Carlos Sainz.
So they're going to do this, they're going to do that.
And it's just like, there's no way, like they're going for Antonelli.
This is Toto's opportunity.
And yes, it's a really bold and insane call.
But like Toto was just tunnel vision, Antonelli is the future.
And Hamilton leaving forced their hand into basically
promoting Antonelli immediately into that team had Hamilton stayed.
You know, Antonelli is maybe in Williams or something and
and learning his craft.
And then when Hamilton chooses to hang up its gloves jumping in the Mercedes.
But because of what happened, he's straight in that big team.
And I think Toto has done a great job of protecting him under all that pressure.
Completely agree.
A question from P1PET remember SavageMonkey3.0.
Did Kimmy prove today that he can challenge for the World Drivers Championship?
Or is it a bit too early to tell?
It's too early to say Kimmy Antonelli is going to go for the World Championship.
But based on what we've seen so far, you know, my half my half joking prediction
of Kimmy Antonelli to win the World Championship.
He's four points behind George Russell, they've won a race each.
He's got mistakes in him as we've seen.
A couple of bad starts that the incident with Hajar yesterday.
But the reason for it was if Mercedes are so clear at the moment, you know, even
even with that battle with Ferrari, they were 20 seconds up the road.
They've got a great advantage.
It does only take a Russell DNF and it's a 25 point swing.
And that's a lot to catch up when you're finishing one, two every week.
Stranger things have happened.
I'm not saying Antonelli is going to win the World World Championship, even though
I maybe did start the season.
But he's got a chance.
I don't think it's completely slam dunk.
And I think it would be crazy to write off Antonelli because I think he's proven
so far this season and in this race, even the last race in Australia.
He got back through the field and was on the back of George in the race.
So he's got very good race pace.
The ceiling is very high.
He's only going to get better.
I don't think George is going to have it all his own way.
And another thing is, I think it's going to be very interesting.
The difference between George and Kimmy when at the moment it's kind of like, oh,
it's great to see my teammate.
Well done, lad.
You've done great.
Whether that's going to be the case if they are still four points apart,
15 races in, I will wait and see.
No chance. No chance.
The niceties will end for sure.
You know, Kimmy's won today at China.
The thing that I'm going to be monitoring closely,
so it's all well and good winning at China.
But can he win where there's a ban on titanium dioxide?
Oh, no, here we go again.
Because it is not banned in China.
So therefore, that's my main thing, of course.
If you're unaware of the meme, there's a big old
trend of Kimmy Anthony doing well when titanium dioxide is allowed in food.
So there you go.
But I think back to the question being more serious.
It is too early to tell.
Because, as I said, George did have slight hindrance to his weekend.
Yes, he started second.
But sometimes that can be the difference,
especially when you've got two Ferraris steaming past you.
And Russ didn't have the cleanest race, did he?
From the first half.
He's in fourth for a very long time.
In fourth for a very long time.
You know, finally got into second.
He was eight seconds behind Kimmy.
So it was a reasonably unassailable advantage because Kimmy was very quick today.
But we need to see that consistency.
And I genuinely believe that we'd have to get to maybe a third of the way through
the season and Kimmy still delivering performances, delivering wins, beating Russell.
Then you can say categorically, yes, he is in this this title fight.
But to say after two rounds, three races, of course, with the sprint,
I think you're far too early to say that at this point.
So not to take anything away from Kimmy.
I think he's proved himself a lot today,
but he has to do it over a twenty two race season.
So we will see and hopefully for our sake and for the entertainment of this season.
He is able to do that.
Speaking of entertainment, let's go to my most memorable moments.
And it has to be without a doubt,
categorically, the Ferrari battle.
My God, I mean, I'm I'm saying this with a big old smile on my face.
And yes, Charlotte Clair did finish fourth,
not even on the podium.
But the entertainment that Hamilton and LaClaire
offered us today was simply.
Lovely. It really was.
It was it was so good to watch that the wheel to wheel,
the side by side through continuous corners and continuous laps.
I was sat here going.
Maybe I was too harsh.
But no, I mean, fundamentally, still the cars a bit weird.
But actually, speaking of that, I've just seen and this is not to do with Ferrari,
but it's to do with the cars.
Max Verstappen popping off again about and he said it's a joke.
This is a translation from Eric V Haran.
So it might not be word for word, but this is along with what you were saying.
It's a joke. I'd say that too.
If I were winning, if someone thinks this is fun, then you don't know what racing
is all about. Anyway, I thought this was really the most.
I thought this Ferrari battle was really fun, like so good to watch.
And this is what, you know, this is why I've wanted Hamilton to be more
competitive, because I want to see Charlotte Clair garb against the seven time
champion of the world, Lewis Hamilton.
I'm so glad that Hamilton now has confidence in the car.
I hope it continues throughout the whole season, because let's remember,
literally last year, he won the China sprint.
So I'm hoping that the momentum continues for Hamilton and and for LeClaire,
yes, he lost out in that battle.
But what a battle to watch.
And I'm probably less irritated by the fact that Charlotte Clair lost out in
this battle because it was for third and fourth and it's three points difference,
whatever, if they were fighting for the world championship and Charlotte
they'll be a little bit more of, ah, damn,
I wish I had won out in this one.
But it was so good.
I mean, Charlotte even came over the radio and said, I'm having so much fun.
You know, you can tell he's read some Twitter comments about
about his comments on the sprint.
My go's got a piece of my go.
It's not a piece of nobody.
Yeah, exactly. It was it was amazing to watch.
I can't probably they didn't show any of it in the cooldown room.
They were like, no, that wasn't entertaining.
But it was. It was absolutely awesome to watch them battling corner after corner.
We've said this before about Lewis Hamilton and Charlotte Clair.
I think when people think that are two competitive drivers,
it was a case of a lot of people go, oh, surely they're going to crash.
Hamilton and LeClaire, two of the best, if not two of the best, the B2 best.
Sorry, that's not the same thing.
Two of the B2 best, if not two of the best.
Oh, wow, the two best drivers in wheel to wheel combat,
particularly fair combat and how they give each other room.
Just, you know, some of some of the moves.
Yes, they're squeezing each other, but they know that they're not.
They give that respect.
Is it is it similar to we say about Max when he's racing,
when he races Charlotte Clair, he knows how to they know how to race
and they they give each other room and stuff.
And this is exactly what we saw with Hamilton and LeClaire.
It's absolutely awesome to watch their swapping positions all the time.
It was so close.
It made you wince in some places, how close they were getting.
But it's what we love to see.
Yeah, very close to an Ollie Berman podium, but a lot of drivers were able
to come out of it unscathed.
And that's what we sort of predicted is when when these two were announced
as teammates, we thought, oh, you know, if they're similar pace,
we're going to have some epic will to election.
And that's exactly what we saw today.
More of that, please.
If we're not going to be able to challenge for the title as Ferrari,
let's at least battle for third as if it is for the title between the two teammates.
Because that was good to watch.
Question from P1 Patriot member Piper MZ Mimic X.
How could anyone look at that Ferrari battle and still be underwhelmed by 2026 racing?
It's true.
Look, I'm a Max Verstappen fan.
I want to see him happy and enjoying racing.
But can I watch what I just saw and go and not be entertained?
I was entertained.
I thought it was it was really good.
And I understand that people aren't happy with the cars.
They're saying it's gimmicky, what I would say.
And I'm not here to change anyone's mind.
Everyone will have different opinions.
And that's absolutely fine.
But I was never a big fan of DRS.
And I know that that was controversial.
And a lot of people grew up in DRS and thought it was absolutely fine.
We're talking about this on a watch song.
But I found the blog again, a blog throwback from the BBC in 2011.
And it's basically the title is Better Racing, but is it fake?
In Monaco, they're here to discuss the drag reduction system.
Fans don't like it because it's artificial and it's making overtaking too easy.
But it's good for the sport.
Honestly, you could read this and it's almost a carbon copy of everything going on now.
And did we not say when we were talking about DRS and I was so I was so like
on the point with this being like, I didn't like DRS because all the overtakes
were done exactly the same part of the track.
They were motorway passes a lot of the time.
And even if they did happen in the braking zone,
it was always the exact same part of the track.
I said with the boost and the overtake mode,
the idea behind that regulation was for them to be overtaking at different parts of the circuit.
We did see that.
We saw it in the first race.
And I think maybe part of the reason it was almost a little bit faster in the first race
because of the nature of that circuit and how they were like losing power and stuff.
But in that they were passing left, right and centre in so many different corners.
You were seeing passing all over the place.
A lot of the time we needed about 10 mini boxes because the leaders were fighting,
the midfield were fighting.
And I want to see people swapping positions and I understand the flaws and the regulations,
but I would take that all day over DRS passing.
I never liked DRS.
I think it ruined basically like going for moves in different places.
And here we are seeing driver skill because they're having to overtake at different parts
of the track and it's a tactical thing.
For sure.
I think that, look, we have been very outspoken when it comes to these regulations.
And I still stand on what the problems are.
I think after seeing these two Sunday races, especially today,
there is potential in these regulations.
There 100% needs to be tweaks.
I think that the battery reliance is too high.
We're seeing occasional Formula 2 cars because they've got no energy down,
certain like maybe the front straight towards turn one.
We saw occasional moments there.
It was like, wow, okay, they're losing so much time.
I think I love the fact that there are opportunities for overtaking in different places.
Yes.
If we're able to improve qualifying and have actually the top speed at the end of the
straight that we're going towards the corner and so they're actually attacking the corner,
then great.
Because I always liked CURS back in the day where, again,
they could tactically deploy when they wanted to to attack or defend.
This is basically that on steroids is what we're seeing in 2026.
I am not underwhelmed by what I've seen.
I'm not going to stand on business or, I mean, I guess I'd be fake if I said,
God, yeah, this was still so rubbish because I genuinely really enjoyed it.
I'm enjoying it.
Yeah, I can't say.
Because DRS was meant to do what this is kind of doing at the moment in a very obviously
strong and obvious way, which is cars battling into the corners.
But we've seen that so many times.
And I'd say arguably better than DRS because DRS, we rarely saw other than maybe
LeClaire and Verstappen in Bahrain and maybe a couple of other times,
the whole you can then pass again.
And that's what we saw.
And I hope that continues because this is something we saw actually at the start of the
regulations in 2022 where we went, oh, rather than it just being they've overtaken,
the other person comes back and then they come back again and they come back again.
You want to see them battling for ages.
And that's something we've not had in Formula One because of DRS and because of like
Pirelli tires wearing out like crazy.
So you can't, well, you can, you're allowed to say it's a gimmick.
And yes, it is a gimmick and it's it's artificial.
But so is DRS, so is degrading tires.
We've had this so many times with Formula One and
you don't want to be naive and pretend it's not happening.
And some people don't want to do that.
But you can strip down every battle and overtake in Formula One history and go,
well, actually, because of this and sometimes you just need to like enjoy it for what it is.
And you're watching a seven time world champion and his teammate is one of the best drivers in Formula
One battling two Ferraris going wheel to wheel in every single corner.
Enjoy it.
Yeah, and that's the view that I've taken.
I would like to think as the season progresses, we will see refinements and we'll see things that,
you know, mean that we won't constantly be wondering about battery charge
every single corner of who's going to get back and who's going to do this and who's
going to do that.
And I think the commentary team will also learn to maybe not lean so much into
who's got what battery.
And to be honest with you, I think Formula One should just get rid of that battery
graphic because it's not factual information.
It's an estimate.
It's not it's not like we have a direct link to a car and know what their battery charges.
It's all based on estimates.
So again, I'm like, is that really where we want to go?
The overtake is fine.
I want to see when the overtake mode.
Yeah, exactly.
So they get rid of the battery graphic because that's obviously an estimate.
The teams don't know what each other are doing.
So they're kind of based on data.
They've obviously got some kind of like AI calculator or something going on with that.
Just probably measuring when there are boosts of speed that they don't expect and they're
going, OK, well, that must be some deployment and so on and so forth.
Because there was one moment where Leclerc did drop an enormous amount of speed when
Hamilton went through into turn one and his battery was depleted.
So it's obviously like.
According to estimates.
It's close enough.
Yes.
But anyway, back to the overarching question.
I am not underwhelmed.
I am, if anything, overwhelmed by what I've seen today because it was just brilliant
to watch.
And yeah, hopefully more racing like that.
Because may I remind you last year we had.
Nothing happened in the races.
How many races can you actually say were a banger last year?
Hardly any.
Well, they were non-worthy.
Australia was exciting because of the rain.
I'd much rather be talking about.
Is is Hamilton and Leclerc swapping positions 17 times?
Slightly too artificial.
Then our dirty as annoying, isn't it?
They can't do anything.
OK, next question.
Do you want to pet remember MG Piper?
Is it safe to say that the old Hamilton is back?
It seems that way.
Now, I do have a slight caveat in the fact of like this time last year.
He won the China Sprint and he looked great and he is phenomenal at China.
We all know that.
I think it is probably different to last year.
I think there's more reason to believe this year that yes, he is back.
Of course, he's had a year now at Ferrari.
He's been able to help the development of the car,
say what he likes, doesn't like and so on and so forth.
So for my sake and for I think Ferrari's sake in general,
I really hope Hamilton is back and everything I've seen so far this season
would suggest that in qualifying and in the race.
He has been a match, if not slightly faster than Charles Leclerc at times.
So sign me up.
That's what Ferrari need.
They need two drivers firing on all cylinders
to be able to capitalise on any Mercedes mistake.
Indeed, yeah.
It's great to see the old Hamilton back.
He's saying, it's funny that Verstappen said,
oh, if you like these, you don't know anything about racing
and Hamilton has come up and been like, this is the most fun I've ever had in a car.
And he was loving life and whether that's the fact that,
yeah, he's had a terrible time in last year's regulations.
He wasn't enjoying them at all.
And now he's come into this and he's able to not only just be more competitive,
but race and the cars are more nimble as well.
And it's obviously something that Hamilton likes.
And yes, we saw Hamilton much closer to Leclerc at the start of last season.
But that whole underlying worry of the fact that Hamilton just wasn't getting on with
those regulations and the ground effect cars was always there.
And that obviously got worse and worse during the season.
He does seem very much more back at it.
And yeah, it's looking very, very good for Hamilton.
I'm glad to see him back.
For sure.
A question from P1 Petri member, Zolls.
Should Ferrari manage the drivers more?
As much as it was pure cinema, this battling won't help them in the long run.
It won't, but how do you pick a number one between Leclerc and Hamilton?
And equally, you just said that they're going to need two drivers to fight.
It's the lifelong conundrum of do you have a number one driver and their teammates rubbish
like Max Verstappen?
And you pick and choose the narrative based on when it works, don't you?
Because Verstappen...
You can say Max Verstappen and all of his teammates were rubbish.
No, no, it's in like non-competitive.
Yeah, let's not be savage to all of the Max Verstappen's teammates.
But you have a teammate that's not there at all.
And every time Max was winning races, it was always,
oh, where's the second driver who needs them?
But then equally, McLaren have two really strong drivers and it's like,
oh, you need to pick one because Max is coming to beat them.
So, yes, they'll have a headache and you could have the argument as a valid argument to say that
in based on the evidence so far, the Mercedes have taken one win each.
So they are taking points off each other, whether that will continue.
Ferrari need to, on paper, would be like, well, back one driver,
they're finishing third and when they get better, they're winning all the race.
And that's how you maximise the season.
But who would you pick?
Because you can't pick between them.
There's one point between them in the championship.
We've had two races in a sprint where they have just been glued together for most of the race
and at the finish again.
So, yeah, you can't pick between them.
I don't think Ferrari should.
No, and Ferrari won't probably as well.
They won't be, I mean, for many reasons, Ferrari just going to let them unfold and that might well
bite them in the butt at some point.
But they don't have a decision to make here because it's Hamilton and Leclerc.
Leclerc is Ferrari's golden boy and Lewis Hamilton is a seven-time champion of the world.
Neither of them are going to roll over for the other driver as we have seen today
and as we have seen every time they've ever gone wheel to wheel.
So that is just the problem that they will have, as you say.
But I don't think it is a massive problem at this stage.
If Ferrari were on the same pace as Mercedes today and they finished third and fourth,
you could argue, yes, maybe they should have worked together a bit more.
Because I guess there is a happy medium you can figure out here where
you can come to an agreement that the drivers will work together for the initial phase of the
race to try and get ahead of the Mercedes, try and cause them some problems,
and then they can fight a little bit later down the line.
But even that kind of agreement is probably quite hard to come to because a driver will then be
thinking, well, yeah, but I'm going to be on the back if I'm helping yada, yada, yada.
Yeah, they'll always be at the back of your mind, like, oh, he's just passed me.
Oh, I need to get back.
Are you sure he's not going to pull away now?
Yeah, yeah.
So no, I don't think they should manage the drivers more.
They're not able to challenge Mercedes at the moment and they're not losing any points in my
opinion. I saw some opinions saying that Ferrari could have got second and third today if they
hadn't fought. I don't think that's at all the case. Did you see how far Mercedes were clear?
Like, there's no way.
So they're 20 seconds up the road at the end, like, exactly.
But they certainly are great at the start of a stint for RER.
Wow, they are so quick, then they just get tire temp, but then of course,
quick tire temp means later down the line, maybe slightly more harsh on their tires and
perhaps where they're losing some of their time.
Question from Timor underscore Yasen.
Will Max retire by next week?
It's looking grim for Red Bull.
No, he's not retiring next week.
I know that we've mentioned about his quote saying that I don't know how anybody's finding it fun.
But no, he's not going to retire by next week.
He's not going to retire by the end of the season, in my opinion.
But he's not a happy boy.
He's being very vocal about these regulations.
What is quite striking is that some of the other drivers are starting to go,
watch, actually, these are quite fun, which doesn't help maybe what Max is trying to say,
because if all the drivers were still unanimous on these cars are absolutely terrible,
maybe changes would come quicker.
But I think they still will make refinements perhaps into Japan,
and we'll have to wait and see what's announced.
But it's a terrible start to the year for Max.
He had a crash in Australia qualifying.
He's had terrible starts in China both times, and then ended up DNFing.
You couldn't have much more of a terrible start if you tried.
No, it's been awful for Max.
He's said he hates these regulations, and while he's saying,
it's definitely making it worse that he's not competitive as well, for sure.
It has to be, because if you're not liking these rules, and you're constantly having
these problems at the start, you're racing alpines and hasses and things,
it's not where you want to be.
He's used to fighting at the front.
It is looking very grim for Red Bull, really, really grim.
Like this weekend has been absolutely atrocious for them.
To be having graphics appear that's comparing them to alpine,
who were the joke F2 car last year, and alpine being ahead, it's a disaster.
It's all compounded by the fact that he's unhappy, and he's uncompetitive,
and they're having reliability, and they're having poor starts.
It's just a complete disaster, and I think he will stay with his opinion on it,
and I don't know what's going to save him from changing that opinion.
They're too far down with these rules.
I don't think even subtle changes are going to make him suddenly love them,
so then he will have to make a decision of, do I even want to be here,
and do I just want to go do Le Mans and spend time with my family?
We'll see.
That's true. It's probably the first time he's properly considering it, I'd imagine,
over the next season or two of, what do I do? Do I change team? Do I leave? Do I just stick with it?
It's tough, but Red Bull is so far behind that you can't imagine that they're going to be competing
right at the front for a considerable amount of races.
It'd be a shame. It'd be a massive shame, as I've said before.
Question from IamThunderFrog.
Did Ocon deserve the 10-second penalty? Should it have been softer, harsher,
or was it Colla Pinto's fault?
No way on earth was it Colla Pinto's fault. You could see Ocon was losing the car.
Yes, Colla Pinto comes across, but Ocon was losing the car already,
and he came on the radio himself and said it's his fault.
100% Ocon's fault. This is what they give now. They give 10-second penalties.
They are normally a bit harsher with those collisions.
It's a shame because Colla Pinto was having a really strong race as well, looking very good,
much more competitive. I did not have him being P2 at one point on my bingo card.
One thing, actually, while we're talking about this, that's worth mentioning.
Something really bizarre, interesting, whatever word you want to use of these new regulations,
is in years gone by, Colla Pinto and Ocon, when they stayed out under that safety car,
would be an absolute sitting duck to a car that's a second and a half quicker in qualifying and on
fresher tyres. But the nature of what was happening, like Colla Pinto was there,
it took a long time for people like George and the Ferraris and things to get past,
and that was a big surprise. But shout out to Colla Pinto. I think he had a really strong race,
and probably silenced quite a lot of critics with his drive.
Yeah, he was having a strong race, but I think the strategy was not going to work in his favour
in the slightest, and it would have been a point or two. He still scored a point, which was impressive,
he would have got science without the contact. Back to the question of did Ocon deserve the
penalty, I'm actually disappointed that it wasn't an Ocon and Go for him, because I just
loved the graphic. Ocon and Go. Yeah, because it was Colla Pinto and Go. Well, no, it's whatever
driver it is, coming to me locking. No, I thought they would just call it Colla Pinto and Go penalty.
No, I think it should vary, depending on what driver actually gets to stop and go.
But no, I think the 10 second penalty was absolutely deserved.
On first look, I was like, oh, I think Colla Pinto might have shut the door here,
but then when you run the onboard of Ocon, he's sideways. He's not under control of his car,
and even if he had been in control of his car, he was not far enough alongside
for it to be his corner. Clearly, he was just very eager to clear Colla Pinto when he was on
fresh mediums, so that he can get on with his race and start trying to catch up the other
drivers that were on a one stop. But it was a silly mistake for Ocon. And again, we're sat here,
and I'm like, he was literally running in like eighth and doing a brilliant job, had a great
start again, after a disappointing qualifying with the Bortoletto yellow flags and quali.
Now we're sat here, and he's finished 14th, and he's not scored points again. Meanwhile,
Behrman's finished fifth. And Behrman had the issue with Hadjar as well, and still absolutely.
Yeah, so it's tough. Bad times for Ocon at the moment. It really is.
Okay, next question. Conman 81. How long can Haas keep a hold of Oliver Behrman?
Ollie, phenomenal job today. P5 after avoiding very narrowly the Hadjar spinning car around the
right hander before the back straight. That this question is interesting, because yes,
Ollie Behrman is continuing on a great run of form from last year, and doing perhaps even better
now. But my question for this question is where does he go? Because Ferrari, Hamilton, which would
have been potentially the option if Lewis was really struggling this year again, going into next
year. But Hamilton appears to be firing on pretty much all cylinders, so is Leclerc. So there's
no room at the Ferrari in, in my opinion. Mercedes, they're locked in unless Max Verstappen
wants to come and play, and then George Russell probably has to leave. Then you have Red Bull
that appeared to be slower than Haas right now, and why would Ollie Behrman go anywhere near
Red Bull considering everything we've seen over the last God knows how many seasons?
And then McLaren, Piazza and Norris, I don't see that changing anytime soon. Neither of those
drivers are doing badly. The team can't even get the car out at the moment, but I wouldn't
consider Piazza and Norris under threat of losing their seat. So I think Ollie is genuinely going
to be stuck, stuck in a, I don't know, K-way in the fourth, fifth fastest car, depending on where
Red Bull are each weekend. And that's not a bad place to be. Like, there's no rush for Ollie.
He's a young driver. If he can continue with Haas for maybe a year or two more, then opportunities
might open up. My only concern is, and I hope, I don't think it'd be the case because I think
he's an amazing talent, is you kind of, with Formula One, it's all about like peeking at the
right time and having that hype around you. And I hope that, because it does seem like Ollie
Bearman is destined for Ferrari when Hamilton chooses to hang up his gloves. But based on what
we've seen from Hamilton so far, his loving life, he's looking much more competitive again. And you
think he's going to want a few more years at Ferrari. So if Ollie has to wait, you kind of
hope that he can continue putting in these amazing performances and, you know, has a
competitive Haas to show his talents, which is exactly what he's doing at the moment.
Because we've seen in Formula One that drivers can sometimes have their moment and then when it's
their time to potentially move up, maybe their car isn't competitive and they're having a bad
season. And some other driver in the midfield is absolutely lighting, like got a decent car and
doing amazing things. And there's no questioning Bearman's sound at all. What he's doing is
absolutely phenomenal. But so much of Formula One is right place, right time. And I hope for
Bearman, he isn't the right place at the right time. Because, yeah, what he's doing at the
moment is amazing. And every team will be looking, looking at that. And you're looking up and down
the grid. We don't know how that performance is going to change at the top. But it does feel like
Ferrari is kind of the only opening for him. And it's going to rely on essentially, when Lewis
decides that he doesn't doesn't want to rate anymore. But if Hamilton is in a good mind frame,
I could see him going for another five years. Because why not?
Well, yeah, exactly. This is what I mean now. I couldn't at the end of last year.
No. But now it's so funny how it flips. This is what I mean.
He used to say Italy's 50.
Exactly. F1 is a crazy sport and how it just can flip. And people hear that,
you know, there's drivers that are so unbelievably hyped and then they go back to not being hyped
and then hyped again. And I just hope for Bearman, yeah, he continues this amazing form because
my word, like what a special talent he is and what he's done so far is incredible to be on the
back foot after had just spin and to come through to fifth. Amazing job.
Question from Joe Formula 6P. Will we ever have a race where all 22 cars start?
It's not looking good, is it? And what's, I don't know if it's concerning for Mercedes. There's
three of those four cars that Mercedes powered that haven't started the race. McLaren seems
like Norris saying he had a power unit issue. The McLaren thing is the biggest shock here.
An absolute disaster. I mean, Piastri joked that it's not been long, sorry, it's ages ago
that he's been able to watch two Grand Prix in a row, which is kind of him laughing at his own
pain here. And I think he's the first driver potentially in history to have like two DNSs in
a row. The fact that it's a double McLaren not even starting the race is an absolute disaster
for them. And yeah, just when we thought that they showed a little bit more pace in qualifying and
only yesterday I was like, actually back McLaren to be more competitive to Mercedes by the end of
the season. And then the very next race, they're not even starting the race. So yeah, a disaster
in terms of this was a bit more of the reliability that we thought we might see in these regs.
For sure. We had four DNSs. We had Piastri, Norris, Portoletto and Albon all not start the race.
We had 18 cars on the grid. That's absolutely ridiculous compared to what we were expecting.
But then on the flip side of that, yes, it's the new regs. I wasn't expecting, I was expecting
more DNFs than DNSs because that's what we had today. We had more DNSs than DNFs with seven
not finishing the race in the end. But yeah, these rules are so complex that it seems as though a
car can just be fired up and they go, oh, God, that doesn't look great. What's that? What's that
we're seeing on the telemetry? What's this error message? Yeah. Oh, God, control or delete.
Restart. That's not working. Okay. So yes, we will see a race where all 22 cars start. I think
the question is, will we ever see a race where 22 cars finish this year? I don't think so. I think
we will have a DNF in every single race between now and the end of the season.
And that's just the beauty. Some people might not say beauty.
Or we're complaining that the cars are too bulletproof, weren't we? But we didn't want this.
We don't want people not starting. No, no, no. It's funny, you mentioned control or delete. Did
you see that during Russell's problem that they did actually turn it off and on and it didn't work,
and then they turned it off and on again and it did work? That's crazy. Of course,
talking about the qualifying. The qualifying issue. Now, speaking of problems as well,
Fernando Alonso, should we talk about him slightly? You might have seen a social clip we did about it,
but clips surfacing on boards of Alonso, essentially going down the straight and taking
his hands off the wheel to kind of, when you get like pins and needles in your hand,
you're trying to just shake it off sort of thing. And that's what he was doing. He wasn't
just doing it. Oh, why? My mum's ringing me and it's Mother's Day. Let's get my mum's thoughts
on the Alonso incident. Hi, Mum. I'm recording the podcast. Anything that you would like to add?
Happy Mother's Day. Thank you. Did you hear my shout out? Were you watching the
Watch Along where I said, Happy Mother's Day, Mum, I love you lots? Probably not. No, no, no.
Cool, cool, cool. All right, good. Probably a bit too early for me. Yeah, it's a shame that
Lando didn't start. It was a shame. It was. We're actually talking about that just now.
Great segue. Wow. Anything you want to say? Is there any sort of press? I know I'm seeing you
in half. Well, I'm leaving in half an hour to see you. Are you good? I'm good. Thank you.
Okay, can I call you back after then? Okay. All right. All right. Love you. Bye.
I thought she was ringing to go out about predictions, which we'll get into later.
Yeah, she's just sensed it. She's like, Oh my God, they're going to be talking about my predictions
soon. But anyway, back to Alonso, hands off the wheel, not just down the back straight,
but also just in the shorter straights as well. And I'm sorry, I'm sat here and I'm going,
how is that car allowed to race? I'm genuinely questioning it because it's clearly
harming Alonso in some way. Of course, he retired because he couldn't handle it anymore.
That was no pun intended. That's literally what we and I'm just saying like, geez, man,
this is not good for Aston Martin and clearly no progress has been made from one weekend to another.
It's, yeah, it's horrendous that the fact that he's, I know it's only race two,
and we expected it, but you thought maybe they'd get on top of the vibrations. It's almost less
embarrassing that they just retire from the race with a mechanical failure, rather than Alonso
just pulling into the pits going, my hands hurt, which just sounds pathetic. But I mean, it must
be absolutely killer for Fernando Alonso of all people to basically concede from a race. The guy
drove on two wheels and a McLaren back to, in back who wants to get back to the pits.
So, yeah, it continues to be absolutely gutting for Aston Martin and Alonso, the fact that,
yeah, can't, can't finish a race at the moment just from the vibrations of the car, not even
reliable. It is just a joke. You know, he was, you can tell he's frustrated, sarcastically waving
to Perez when he comes past him as well. I mean, at least he's providing us with some entertainment,
but yeah, if you haven't seen it, Alonso waved Perez. He must be getting GP2 engine flashbacks
times 10 right now. We're probably getting some unbelievable team radios, but nothing is being
played to us. And it's, it's really quite sad. It does feel like the narrative of the race is,
is missing slightly when we don't get as many team radios, because yes, they might well be
complaining, but that's what we want to listen to. We want to listen to what the drivers are going
through. And we're not really getting that picture of it at the moment. No, we're not. And I don't
mind them complaining about stuff. It's not, it seems a bit silly for them to, I, the, yeah, even,
even if it's the radios, obviously, they're not going to play if people are being slanderous about
the cars. But problems are part of Formula One. And we need to be hearing about them for the context.
It doesn't, doesn't mean that, yeah, it's just a silly way to like protect the regulations,
isn't it? Protect the regulations. And yet every other time the drivers have been criticising the
sport, they've played it in the past, but it's like, it's so fragile. Yeah, it's part of Formula One,
like cars will break down. Like that is just what we kind of has been happening in Formula One
beforehand. Like you can't hide that. It's really, really odd.
Indeed. And now let's head to Biggest Winner, where we essentially crown a driver or team,
the biggest winner of the Grand Prix weekend. For me, it is undoubtedly Ollie Bearman.
Double points finish this weekend. Ansonnelli, of course, gets a shout out.
Yeah, doubtably. He's in a serious rocket ship that bloke. He did phenomenally well,
Ansonnelli. But I'm going to give it to someone slightly different. And that's Bearman, because
I feel as though Bearman maybe still has some things to prove. Ansonnelli maybe as well.
I'm talking myself out of it now. But I'm going to go with Bearman because I know
you're going to go for Ansonnelli and let's not be the same.
I'll actually put a one in there for Haas as well. Sorry, not Haas. Alpine. Alpine is, yeah,
they've had a double points finish. They've kind of shown a lot more of the potential
of what we thought, because had it been a normal race and they double stacked the Alpine tier,
they were running fifth and sixth at the start, looking very, very good indeed. And Alpine kind
of showing a lot more. But yeah, I'll go for Ansonnelli. Another one that I don't want to talk
about, but we're going to have to because we've not mentioned him yet, is Valtteri Bottas in 13th
might well be, annoyingly, this race of attrition that we said they might win. Who might win the
world championship based on a 13th place? Between Bottas and Perez. Yeah, between our
championship. Yeah. I'm not conceding, but like that could be it. It's not out the possibilities.
In fact, it's a very high possibility that that could be Bottas locked in to 21st in the
championship with that position. Huge, huge for the championship in the head between Matt and
Tommy and Bottas and Perez. I was also, what was I going to mention? Oh, yeah, to be fair,
you know, you say about Alpine as a good surprise. Ruma has it. Simon Collup into a still fighting
on the cooldown lap. Oh, dear. That was for those of you that don't know, Crofty was,
yeah, commentating the two drivers potentially fighting when in fact they had finished the
race because they were doing that in lap. Yeah. Yeah. Another quick honorable mention,
which to be fair, very close to probably winning biggest winner was Liam Lawson who
finished 7th in both the sprint and the main race weekend. And after Limblad took all of the
Australia highlights, it has to be said, you know, Limblad, Limblad's amazing, blah, blah, blah.
It was Lawson this weekend that delivered phenomenally well across the whole season
and some great points for racing balls again for the entire weekend.
Definitely a really, really solid job for Lawson. I was, I do think that Lawson's season
last year is like underplayed when you look at the pace between him and Hadjar.
You know, he did pick up his pace and we've seen what Lawson can do, you know, previously
when he's had the opportunity and I think racing balls is a much better team for him. And
yeah, Limblad stole the headlines this time. But they showed that they've still got a very
competitive car and Lawson delivered in both races, which is very impressive. Another person,
Carlos Sainz got a point in the absolutely awful Williams, which deserves a big shout out because
I did not see them getting a point or two when we saw them basically being knocked out in both
qualifying sessions in Q1 and SQ1. So shout out to Williams as well and Carlos Sainz for the
really, really good drive. Let's go to Biggest Loser, where for me... Easy, McLaren. Yeah,
McLaren didn't even start. That is a disaster for them. Yeah, it categorically is an honorable
mention for Ocon. And Max as well, just a complete disaster of a whole weekend. No pace,
terrible starts, unreliability, hates the regulations. Yeah, it's Max or the McLaren.
The top three in the championship last year, Max had the best race of all of them in a retirement.
Yeah, sad times. Oh dear, you didn't laugh, you'll cry. Indeed. Right, let's now reflect on our
predictions that we did on the run up to this F1 weekend. And I think just for the starters right
here, right now, I am going to relinquish the point for good surprise of Charles Leclerc yesterday,
yesterday last week, because I don't want this hanging over me for the entire season,
because I know for a fact if it gets close, it will be a tainted championship, because half of you
will say that it wasn't deserving, although some of you did come to my support. So look, yeah,
I know. I know, look at me being sportsman-like. Look at me regret it halfway through the season
when I need the point. But right now, with that amendment, it is three, two to Tommy.
So a good surprise. I had locked in Esteban Ocon, which was going well. And then Ocon went,
you know what, Colin Pinto, you're getting yeeted, my friend. So yeah, no points.
I went for Lewis Hamilton, which of course, first podium for Ferrari.
Yeah, third on the grid and finished third in the second fastest car. Is that really?
Yeah, yeah, crazy. Bolt.
Sorry, I thought I'd throw that one in there. Well done Hamilton. A big flop. I went for
Bortoletto and he didn't start. So that's a floppy one.
Yeah, that could be some points farming with just picking Audi, which one's going to blow up this week.
Yeah, I went for George Russell. Audi have literally not had a car start both races so far.
Yeah, crazy. I went for George Russell. We are not at the point of the season where I can claim
him finishing second. If I was about to fight you. No, no, no. I wouldn't go for it. When we are
18 races in, he's won all of them, but this one, I'll get the point back. But yeah, we'll see.
Sprint pole. I went for Kimmy Antonelli, which was wrong.
I went for Russell, which was correct. Well done. So happy for you. Sprint winner.
I went for Kimmy Antonelli, which was wrong. I have a Russell, which was correct.
Hey, look at you. You're a Russell points farmer. I'm sure you don't have that point back.
Pole position. I went for Kimmy Antonelli, which was indeed correct.
Indeed. I went for Russell, which was wrong. Okay, so I get a point. They didn't put it in
the sheet. There you go. Oh, sorry. Just fine. Don't worry about it. Just trying to
miss points out for me there. In third position, annoyingly, I went for Charlotte Clair.
I went for Lewis Hamilton, which was correct. It was indeed. In second place,
I went for Kimmy Antonelli, which was wrong. I went for George Russell. I can't believe that
with the tactics, your tactic. Yeah, crazy. And I didn't even basically just concede.
I even said I'm doing this tactically because I think Russell's going to win.
I would have got the two-pointer if I'd just done it. Wouldn't I?
And in first position, I went for George Russell, which was obviously wrong.
I went for Max Verstappen, which was... That's the minus point. That's a minus point.
That is straight up. And then P what? So with the random number generator, which was P6,
if you're new to the series or haven't listened to the podcast this season,
this is a new part where we have to randomly guess very quickly in our predictions episode
a number that's generated. And P6 was what came up. I went for Oscar Piastri and Tommy, you went for...
Lando Norris. Norris, who both did not start. Now...
They did not. I know what's coming. Listen up, everybody. If you want to
back me for the fact that P6 is higher on the DNS start.
It's a DNS. I know. But then also you could argue that Norris started P6 and would have
started P6. I assume... Yeah, how does it... I think it's... I assume it's because...
What would it be? What is the order of the DNS? Because who was chosen to be out first?
Is it because Norris was in the pits first? Or what if we just go by the sprint?
Well, no, because then that's probably... The way I can see in your face probably means that
you're correct. So, no, it's just no point for either of us.
Piastri finished P6. Right.
They didn't actually.
Yeah, that's two points for me. Come on, talk to me. Come on.
That's fair. We had a race. No.
P1. That's fair. P1 for the Grand Prix. I'm going to change the entire rules.
Sorry. Have we ever said that P1 is for the Grand Prix or have we just said for the race?
Because... What? I'm...
Literally P1.
I am merely asking the question. Let's see.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Probably no points.
I feel like this is what...
I sacrificed one point to get two.
Yeah, literally.
I tried to get good favours, then you'd be like,
yes, actually, just go for the sprint.
No points, sadly. I mean, look, you're just a Russell farmer and you're not going to give
me any points. Crazy.
Russell farmer.
You're literally going to just... Yeah, you're just... You're not aura farming.
You're Russell farming points.
Russell.
Yeah, Russell, Russell, Russell, Russell, Russell.
One crazy prediction.
Ah, really glad I went for this.
All of the top four teams will feature across the sprint and main race podiums.
That did not happen.
And I went for a non-merc on the front row in either quali, which didn't also do that.
Oh, yeah, that didn't happen.
Even with Russell, even with Russell with this problem.
Oh, God, yeah.
I'm really glad Russell got up and running because he may well have even struggled to
finish P2 potentially, and then you would have got flop and that prediction.
Yeah, yeah.
And then it'd be championship over and I can't be bothered to even...
Can't be bothered.
Okay, so let's go to our Patreon prediction then.
So I locked in...
Which one?
Yours was F1 Sushi because you had to change it because I was first,
and then you wanted to go for the same one, which, by the way, was correct.
So, Gohan, what was yours that you had to change it to?
I don't want to talk about it anymore.
I thought that was it.
I thought the bleeding was over.
I thought that was the amount that I was going to be behind.
I don't even remember saying this.
F1 Sushi, Piastri gets a podium.
Yeah.
Podium in what?
Podium.
Jesus.
Yeah, reverse flip the whole grid.
I think to be fair, it was either for the sprint or the race and that didn't happen.
Yeah, it was actually, now I remember.
And I went for Ilaria, Hamilton first podium for Ferrari.
You're a Hamilton farmer.
You're a Hamilton farmer.
Hamilton and Russell.
Yeah, you're farming both Russell and that wasn't ridiculous.
So, how many points have you scored?
No one cares?
So, I scored 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Good.
Good, good, good.
And you scored 2.
1, 2.
2.
Bortoletto flop and pole for Kimmy.
Indeed.
So, it is now.
Christ.
8, 4.
8, 4.
Give me the point back.
Give me that Charlotte Claude Australia point back to the media.
I knew you were going to say that.
Okay, let's go to the family top three where is one all and wow, maybe I'll get my mom back
on the phone for a second because this is almost generational.
I know, I can't believe it.
So close.
Just go, just run through the top three.
Yeah, because so, rather than back and forth.
My mom, you want me to do what?
Rather than us going flip-flopping between the two if your mom's on the phone.
Okay, so just wanted to let you know that I'm still on the podcast.
I will be leaving shortly for a lovely roast dinner to celebrate Mother's Day.
But mum, your prediction, hey?
So in third place, you went for Charlotte Claude.
In second place, you went for George Russell.
And in first place, you went for Kimmy Antonelli.
You scored us two out of three points.
And almost it was three of three if LeClaude beat in Hamilton.
If LeClaude hadn't locked up, you would have got a clean sweep for the Gallagher's.
Oh my God, that would have been generational.
I'm so clever.
So clever.
I'm fielding you every week.
I'm so clever.
That's probably one of the biggest points the Gallagher's have ever scored
the entirety of this series.
So really?
Yeah, I love that.
We're leading as well now because you're up against a three-year-old.
Thanks, mum.
I'll actually call you back shortly for logistics.
So I love you.
Bye.
Wow, okay.
So I can't believe she's got two points there and almost a three-pointer.
So yeah, two points to the Gallagher's for that one.
I've always said that the family top three is where the real money
is.
The math versus Tommy, who cares?
Maybe this is the season where you win by 50 points and we have to nerf it.
So my niece, Daisy, who is three, predicted Lawson P3 didn't come in.
Russell P2.
So she got one right, which is...
Oh, mental.
I don't think...
Yeah, she's got a point.
And Hamilton first, which...
Yeah, she got two.
Hamilton was leading.
So there we go.
So it is two for you.
So you're now on three and I'm on...
Sorry, the Bellingham's are now on two.
The Gallagher's lead for what I can only say is probably the first time in this entire series.
I don't remember the last time I said the Gallagher's are winning.
Yes, we were up against the three-year-old, but the three-year-old scored a point.
So I would say this is still very fair.
I don't have a child to field in the Gallagher's.
We don't have a family.
So we do have a family, but the small family.
I don't think Grace has actually scored a point yet.
So I'm going to be having words with her and make sure of it.
I think you should have a stern word with her, for sure.
Okay, thank you, everybody, for tuning in.
That was a good fun podcast.
Feeling good after that race.
If Suzuka produces us a banger, which is notoriously not the easiest track to overtake,
then you know what?
Yeah.
Bring us 100% battery.
I want formulary.
But no, obviously joking.
I love the way we're just like our thought of the rules is that all this entertainment
is just simply because of a battery.
I mean, it's not far off, mate.
But then, to be fair, they do also seem like they can maybe follow a little bit better this year.
And Ocon and Adrian Nui were wrong leading into the season.
For now.
For now, yes, for sure.
Until they ruin everything.
Yeah, let's remember 2022 when we had the most generational battles
between Verstappen and Leclerc, and then they couldn't follow.
And then the dirtier hit.
For sure.
Tommy, final thoughts, please.
Final thoughts while we're talking about mums.
Happy Mother's Day to all the mums out there.
My mum, your mum, my wife is a mum.
All the mums.
I thought you're going to list every mum.
Then that would have been a long...
A good day of your long podcast.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Happy Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day indeed.
Thank you, everybody.
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Bye.
Goodbye.
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