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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the B1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Take a deep breath,
04:05
because, well, goodness me, I thought this was going to be a stinker of a podcast. I thought
04:11
we were going to have to talk about, I don't know, the first two laps and then say,
04:15
thanks, everybody, for listening. We'll see you in two weeks time for Baku. However,
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McLaren decided, you know what, Matt and Tommy, we'll give you a lovely little talking point
04:24
to throw in. Of course, we're Italian Grand Prix editioning today, Tommy,
04:28
and you, and I quote after the end of the watch along, said you are riled up.
04:33
I am, yeah, which is crazy, because Matt's just happened won the race by 20 seconds,
04:38
and I'm obviously absolutely buzzing about that, because I didn't know if we'd maybe see
04:43
another victory from Max this year based on McLaren's pace, but yeah, brilliantly won the race.
04:47
But my word, that end was so triggering to me. Yeah, I can't believe it.
04:56
We will get into all of that. Don't you worry. Before we do dive into that, of course,
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a big shout out to our P1 patrons who will be getting extra chat at the end of every single
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so go and check that all out. And we will see you in May, 2026. The tickets are flying off the
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shelves. We've had three shows sold out, so go and check them out. Right, let's not mess around,
05:26
shall we? Let's get straight to my most memorable moment. Sadly, nothing to do with Ferrari.
05:31
It has to be the McLaren chaos that happened at the end of the race. So I think for sort of
05:40
reminders for some people, perhaps a bit of information for some people, let's go through
05:45
the radio transcript that went on. So, of course, Lando was ahead of Oscar and it was
05:52
pretty much stalemate. Oscar had started to close in towards the end of their massively
05:57
long first stint, around three seconds, and we thought it would just be easy-peasy, right?
06:03
The McLarens, they would box Lando, then they would box Oscar, and it would just be a very
06:08
simple end to the race. However, that is not what happened. McLaren went, hey,
06:13
bombshell. Remember, let's do it again. Yeah, do you see how many people were
06:18
riled up after that one? Let's do it again. So let's go through a bit of the
06:22
team radio transcript first. So Will Joseph, Lando's race engineer, he said,
06:26
we'll box onto the soft this lap to Lando. Lando then said, do you want to box the other car first,
06:32
to which Will then said, yeah, we'll do that. We'll swap it around, which both myself and Tommy
06:36
understand that to be, we'll swap around the car that's coming in first, as opposed to
06:41
positions, if some people might think that. Yeah, because they wouldn't be thinking about
06:44
the fact that they'd be swapping. No, they wouldn't be swapping. Yeah.
06:46
That's how we understand it anyway. Will then said, stay out. Lando said,
06:50
only if he doesn't have the gap, otherwise I'll box first. So, of course, Lando,
06:55
offering the pit stop, then saying, oh, hold on, let me think about the undercut that you might get
06:59
with the soft tyres. And then Will said to him, there will be no undercut. Then, henceforth.
07:07
Freeze frame, there was an undercut. Yeah, there was an undercut. Oscar Piastri
07:12
then pits and has a 1.9 second pit stop. Lando has a slow pit stop. It was what,
07:19
5.9, something like that, really quite slow. And then Oscar gets ahead into P2. May I remind
07:28
you all, they are championship rivals. The only two championship rivals. Yeah, the constructors
07:34
is wrapped up with a lovely bow just on the top of it, ready for December. It is. So, it is a
07:40
driver's championship battle between the two of them. Oscar gets ahead and then we get the
07:47
police swap come out. So, the engineer of Oscar said, Oscar, this is a bit like Hungary last year.
07:53
We pitted in this order for team reasons. I don't really, the team reasons feels like a very,
08:00
very light Charlotte Clair's half a lap behind, let's just cover him off kind of vibe. I think
08:08
you know, Charlotte was quite close come the end, don't get me wrong. But again,
08:12
it's just, they're covering for covering's sake in my opinion. So, please let Lando pass
08:17
and you're free to race. Oscar says, I mean, we said that, I know he said, I mean,
08:21
there was a bit of a pause. We said that a slow pit stop was part of racing. So,
08:25
I don't really get what's changed here. But if we really want to do it, I'll do it.
08:30
We are up to speed. Look, Tommy, you are riled up and I just want to let you put on your
08:38
chef's apron and just really share your thoughts first and then we'll get into mine.
08:44
My first thoughts are, are we watching the Formula One World Championship or CBBs? Because
08:50
I am sick of this. CBBs is a child's television program, but they don't.
08:54
Yeah. Yeah, like what is, what am I watching where two world championship rivals are like,
09:02
after you, no, after you, let's swap because that's fair. Oh, wonderful. Sunshine and rainbows.
09:08
This is the elite level of motorsport and we've been having this conversation
09:13
that as this season, you know, there's been a lot of talk about, oh, this championship is
09:19
kind of or less than there's not much going on and we need it to get a bit more spicy.
09:23
And we're now eight races to go and it's actually the opposite where we were actually
09:27
making them swap. And as you said, they have wrapped up the championship and it's absolutely
09:36
ridiculous to, there's so many bits to this, but there's absolutely ridiculous
09:41
for this to even happen in the first place. But for them to allow the swap, for me,
09:47
you can talk about, you know, Lando deserved to be P2 like he did. He was a quicker driver,
09:55
is a quicker driver. I thought he actually was, he did a great move on max at the start to kind
10:02
of get ahead and put himself in that position. Of course, couldn't, didn't have the pace to
10:07
do it, but he had the pace to be ahead of Oscar Piastri. I deserved it. I think his decision to
10:13
suggest they swap in the first place is a bit of an insane one because
10:18
this shows that they're not, they don't see each other as championship rivals.
10:21
Shall we break it down to a segment? Let's go with that one first.
10:25
Yeah. Okay. So the first thing like why is Lando offering his championship rival,
10:31
the undercut? It's almost like there's question, Tommy, that you put in the
10:34
sheet. Shall we say that first? I know you're really excited.
10:37
Go on, you do that. Let's keep the structure. Let's keep everything, honestly.
10:41
We're very excited to talk about this because it is a big thing to, of course,
10:43
talk about in Formula One. P1 Patriot member Anastasia W says,
10:47
even though McLaren made the questionable call to swap the drivers,
10:51
why did Lando offer Oscar the undercut in the first place?
10:56
Well, it's insane for him to do it. I don't know why he did. He shouldn't have.
11:00
To be fair to him, he does then ask the question to be fair to him of only if I'm not going to lose
11:07
a position. So he realises quite quickly and goes, only if I'm not going to lose a position.
11:12
And the team reassures him that he won't. But in the watch line, and I'm sure everyone
11:19
thinking at home, we said it before, we'd even seen this play out. What if it's a slow stop?
11:25
Because that opens a really tricky situation. And lo and behold, it was a slow stop for the car.
11:33
And I don't actually think, I think it would have been maybe a bit close had they just
11:40
not done the slow stop for Lando. But I think he probably would have stayed ahead
11:44
potentially in that situation. So yeah, to answer that question, I don't know why he offered
11:52
that. That's a bit crazy to me. But I understand from his point of view that he did basically say,
11:58
oh, well, he's almost had too much trust in his team there, I think.
12:04
So there's more to this as well, from what I can see that I'm sort of questioning. And
12:09
so Lando, you can kind of read this a few ways, can't you? Like Lando saying,
12:15
why don't you box the other car first? That can be seen as him almost being like,
12:19
well, don't want to have Oscar in a... This is how I initially saw it was like,
12:23
oh, don't let Oscar be attacked by whoever's behind. I'm like, bro, you're fighting each other in the
12:27
world championship. You want Oscar to have the worst strategy possible to retire.
12:32
Exactly. You need to gain points. However, I think it's more the case that Lando
12:36
wanted to go as long as possible. If there is a freak VSC that comes out, he gains a lot
12:42
of time and wins the rest. He wouldn't even have won at that point. If it was a VSC,
12:48
he would have got a cheap stop. But Max was so quick in that final stint on those hard tires that
12:53
even then it would have been difficult. But I don't buy that. I think it's not worth the risk.
12:59
Lando staying out for an extra lap, a one-minute 20 amount of time, hoping for a VSC
13:06
and then putting yourself at risk to the championship rival that you have in your team
13:12
of Oscar Piastri. So I don't buy that as a good strategy call in the slightest to stay out and
13:16
allow Oscar to have the undercut. Even if there's been this whole, yes, he will not get the undercut.
13:21
Fine. But it wasn't, it isn't just like the soft tires were slightly quicker. There was a slow stop.
13:27
You put yourself in that vulnerable position and I am so shocked that Lando put himself into
13:34
that position anyway. And then we had the scenario play out and as we've obviously gone
13:41
through and then Oscar is put in a difficult position. We all get flashbacks to Hungary 2024 again,
13:48
which we all didn't want to go back to on the radio. Like I said, this is a bit like Hungary
13:52
last year. Oh, what the absolute carnage and just mismanagement that that was. I just utterly
14:00
bizarre to be honest with you. There's no need for them to be in that situation again.
14:03
Absolutely crazy. No, absolutely not. So Oscar's put in that position.
14:10
And for me, and Oscar quite rightly says you had a slow pit stop. That's part of racing.
14:18
That's not just a normal undercut. Norris had a difficult pit stop and Piastri got through.
14:26
That is racing. And I think this is where, and I think a lot of people perhaps are finding
14:31
it hard to get fully invested into this championship fight is because of this nicely,
14:36
nicely fairness BS that we're currently watching. But then there's a really interesting
14:42
point and a question I'm going to come in now with from Alex Splicit, who says,
14:47
why did McLaren swap the cars today and not in Silverstone when Oscar got the penalty?
14:54
Because I believe that McLaren felt it was unfair that the Oscar
14:57
got the penalty in Silverstone. Lando benefited from it. And yet there was no such conversation,
15:05
really. Oscar even suggested it, right? Oscar even said, if you think it's unfair,
15:09
swap the cars and then we can race. But they didn't.
15:12
Yeah, I do, I personally think that that example, I get it. I get that the fact that,
15:21
and I do, I said at the time that I appreciate that Oscar actually called their bluff on that one
15:26
with McLaren when they said, you've got a really unfair penalty. And he said, well,
15:30
let me back through then. And they said, no. But I do think personally, this is just my opinion,
15:38
that those incidents are different. Because it was Oscar's fault, that one,
15:45
whereas it wasn't Lando's fault that they had the pit stop. But what I have a problem with
15:51
is, I think a better example here is, and I guess this is very extreme because they obviously would
15:58
have lost the race win. But like, if they're going for the championship, and we're kind of
16:04
making it perfectly fair in every situation, and this is part of racing, why didn't Oscar pull
16:11
over at Zandvoort and stop? Because Lando's had a car failure. It's literally the same logic.
16:16
I don't know, of course, that would mean they'd lose the win. But this is the can of worms that
16:20
McLaren have now opened with this. I think Oscar is well within his right to have this
16:27
conversation of saying a slow pit stop is part of racing. It is part of racing.
16:31
You're, it's part of racing, that is. I know it is unlucky for Lando,
16:39
but it's Formula One. Like, you can't manipulate a championship to be absolutely
16:44
perfect here and there. And I actually think they do more damage doing this,
16:49
because they just get loads of questions on them about this. And as we go into the season,
16:54
there'll be more and more and more and more and more. Like, it opens a massive can of worms,
16:59
in my opinion. As well, I reckon Mark Webber will have steam coming out of his ears after
17:06
Oscar being told to give that position. It's unfair. It's unfair on him.
17:09
And I reckon Mark would have aware that Oscar after this and say, look,
17:13
I wouldn't have given that position back mate. But, and on that, I actually think that Oscar did
17:20
the right thing to let it go because he needs that. He doesn't want to create the kind of
17:26
bad tension in the team for the sake of a few points. And I know that could be the crucial
17:32
moment in the championship. This is more unfair that they even asked him to do that in the
17:36
first place. I think there's, you know, the people will go, oh, Lando wouldn't have.
17:40
I think Lando would have. I personally think Lando would have.
17:42
Yeah, I think both of them have done it in the past.
17:45
Yeah. He has done it in the past.
17:46
They're both ingrained into this team philosophy.
17:48
But yeah, they are both ingrained into it. And Oscar Piastri has chosen to keep the peace there.
17:54
But it is absolutely not fair to ask the world championship leader going for his first world
18:02
championship to make way for his teammate, who is his only other championship rival,
18:09
because he had a slow pit stop. There's so many moments. There's so many moments this season.
18:15
Championships are won by tiny little things here and there. Oscar, we had this conversation when
18:20
Lando had the breakdown. Oscar's had bad luck as well. He's had misfortune. The kind of them
18:25
going off him and Lando into the gravel, we kind of said like that's so unlucky that he lost
18:30
the car. And it's kind of, it's an unlucky moment and equally, you know, strategies and
18:35
things like that. And moments, you can't, as we go into this championship now, it's just,
18:42
this is just going to cause so much chaos because McLaren will get so much heat on them for every
18:48
single moment they play now. Oscar has a mechanical failure. Everyone will be shouting,
18:54
why isn't Lando stopping? Oscar has a slow pit stop. Why isn't Lando now letting him back
18:59
through? There'd be so many moments like this for the rest of the season.
19:03
I just want to say on this as well, there is no criticism towards Lando here in the slightest.
19:09
No, he deserved to be here. The only thing I questioned obviously was the fact that he even
19:13
offered the fact for Oscar to pit, but in terms of like the booing he had on the podium, that was
19:18
completely unfair and not on him. Like it's a McLaren thing. This is a McLaren decision
19:23
similar to Hungary last year. It's a McLaren outrage that is currently happening here and
19:27
a questioning of their decision. I'd have criticism, Lando didn't say anything as far as I'm
19:37
aware and can see from all the radio transcripts. It's not like Lando was begging on the radio.
19:42
It wasn't. He didn't ask for it. McLaren took that decision themselves and I don't think they
19:48
should have. Regardless of which way around it was, you do not swap cars from a slow pit stop.
19:54
A slow pit stop, as Oscar Piastri says, is part of racing and there will be so many other incidents
19:59
where stuff like this happens. I want to explore the fact that you think that Oscar made the
20:05
right decision a little bit more. Put Max Verstappen in that situation. Your boy alongside...
20:11
No, no, no, but no. I'm saying, let's imagine Max your boy and then he's fighting a teammate
20:17
for the world championship. Max lets someone through. Are you saying that that's the
20:21
right decision to keep the peace? No, because it's Max's team. He'll say F off, whereas Oscar
20:27
Piastri... I'm just thinking what benefit does Oscar get from keeping the peace here over a few
20:33
points, which I think he could absolutely have argued. I think he could have as well.
20:39
Okay, the only thing I think Oscar could have done is complain more, to get more heat on
20:45
McLaren without and potentially then do it, and then it whips up a narrative of like McLaren
20:53
a favouring lander and all this kind of stuff, which would work in his favour, I think. But
20:58
I don't think that it was worth him causing absolute chaos in that team and getting bad
21:05
blood with his own team when it is three points. I know those three points are massive.
21:09
That's a six point swing. It's not three points, is it?
21:12
Yeah, yeah, true. But I personally understand why Oscar did that. I understand why Mark Webber
21:19
will be fuming about it. I think this is more on McLaren even saying that in the first place.
21:25
They should never have been having this conversation. I think it's less fair than having
21:34
the pit stop because it is part of racing. It's more fair to unfair to let Oscar give that place
21:41
back than it is the slow stop in the first place, because unfortunately that's always been part of
21:47
Formula One. We've seen world championships decided by mechanical failures and things between
21:54
teammates and stuff, and no team has ever interjected and gone, you know what,
21:59
Nico Rosberg, Hamilton actually retired in the last few races. Can you just slow down,
22:02
please, and maybe just retire from the next race? Obviously, this is an extreme example you're
22:06
using, Tommy, and something that is never going to happen because there's like fairness that
22:10
McLaren can fix, and then fairness that McLaren can't fix, which is a DNF, and that's where obviously
22:15
the line is drawn, but then it's a very grey area as to how much fairness they can hand out.
22:21
I'm not saying as well that there isn't benefits to Oscar giving the position back.
22:25
I think from a fairness point of view, cool. You know, you've kept the piece,
22:28
but as a tangible benefit, you have a six-point swing in the championship,
22:32
and you're a little bit more comfortable with eight races to go. So I think there's definitely
22:35
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Let's go to another question because we are just popping off about this, but hey, Monza was pretty
28:59
rubbish up until this point. People on Patreon remember Grim. Do you think McLaren is just
29:04
going to manage this championship to death so that they have a controversial free double championship?
29:10
I hope not because this is the thing now with it. And as I mentioned, this has opened
29:16
the floodgates now that puts pressure on McLaren to do this for literally everything.
29:22
Because I thought about this scenario. I know we've compared things like,
29:27
we've compared Silverstone, haven't we, in the Oscar Piazzaree penalty, which may be different
29:31
things. Are you telling me that in Abu Dhabi, this is a hypothetical scenario,
29:37
we get to Abu Dhabi, their level on points, Oscar Piazzaree is winning the race and they
29:41
have a slow pit stop and Oscar Piazzaree loses the lead to Lando. They are telling Lando,
29:47
please let Oscar through to win the world championship. No, they're not. And people
29:52
will go, that's ridiculous to do it in the final race, but all these moments matter. Yeah,
29:57
where do you draw the line? There's only a few races to go now. So it's absolutely ludicrous
30:02
to start, like they're manipulating the result more by doing this than they are having
30:10
slow pit stops and things which are part of racing. Because of course, they're not
30:14
doing that on purpose, the slow pit stop. Of course, they're not because, I mean,
30:17
it's proof because they've even swapped the positions back to show that we didn't mean it,
30:21
Lando, we actually want you to be ahead because this is unfair and we made the mistake.
30:30
But no way in that situation in Abu Dhabi, if this happens, they are allowing it the other
30:36
way around. It's stupid. It's absolutely stupid in my opinion. And they're going to get,
30:46
if they get into a mess over this in these final few races, it's completely deserved because
30:51
you shouldn't be doing it. Yeah, they've gone down a very dangerous route.
30:56
Very dangerous. For sure. I hope they maybe understand the error of their ways at some
31:02
point. Well, they didn't because they didn't learn from Enhangria and now they're doing it
31:05
for a literal championship. Maybe this time, Dummy. Maybe this time. I really hope they don't manage
31:11
much more. I know that they've obviously done this. It's not like it wasn't just a slow stop.
31:15
There was the whole conversation before. But if you put yourself in Oscar Piastri's shoes,
31:18
he's not agreed to this. I know that there's the team rules and the driver ahead has to get
31:24
their preferential strategy. But when that all unfolds and there's a slow pit stop involved,
31:29
has Oscar really agreed to this? Clearly not by the team radio that we heard from him.
31:34
Just before he let him through. Because then just one more thing like if,
31:40
yeah, so say they had done the normal, say they'd just done it the way where Lando had pitted first
31:46
and Oscar pitted second and Lando still had his really slow pit stop and Oscar came ahead,
31:52
would they swap it back then? Or is this situation because of the fact that they promised
31:57
Lando there wouldn't be an undercut and there was? Because it wasn't an undercut,
32:00
it was the mistake. But like that is... It's a team mistake.
32:06
It's a team mistake, but it's part of racing as well.
32:08
What team mistakes go in the box of we will let the drivers swap and what team mistakes won't?
32:13
And it's just... Yeah, it's a mess. I can't remember the last time. I don't know if you've
32:18
ever seen this. Have we ever seen this in Formula One where a team tries to manage it this much
32:22
in like a let's try and keep both drivers happy? Yeah, I don't think so. I've never seen it
32:28
like this before. We've had number ones and number twos, but this is two number ones going up against
32:32
each other and it's just quite bizarre to watch. Let's go to another question. P1 Patriot member
32:37
Alan Enderpay, at what point will Oscar and Lando stop playing nice and start to get a bit more
32:43
aggressive with their championship battle? I don't know if we'll ever see it if I'm being
32:48
completely honest with you. They are just both very nice guys. Too nice. Yeah, they're
32:55
very nice with each other. They haven't had a big controversial incident with each other to maybe
33:00
stir the pot slightly. Of course, Lando in Montreal immediately apologized.
33:06
But at some point, I want to see as a Formula One fan, like... Spice.
33:11
They're there to just... It's spice, but it's also just it looking like they both really
33:16
want to win the world championship and they'll do anything to win it. Like the
33:21
Verstappens and the Hamilton's, the tenacity, the cutthroatness that they have and that's
33:26
the reason why they have a huge amount of championships. That's what makes a champion.
33:31
I think we obviously see that more with Oscar in some ways this year and how he's been
33:36
pretty ruthless. But even last year when he wasn't in the championship fight at Monza last
33:40
year, we've seen that ruthless side of him. I want to see more of that because then you
33:46
get more invested in it. But I'm struggling to... I'm obviously interested to see who wins
33:50
the world championship. Don't get me wrong. I love Formula One. I want to see who wins,
33:53
but it doesn't feel the same. It doesn't feel the same and people may confuse what we want here.
34:03
And some people would. I don't want to see Lando and Oscar start having a boxing match in the
34:08
cooldown room. No. But what I don't want to see is when we've had this contentious
34:13
incident between the two of them and they're there in the cooldown room going,
34:17
oh, that was a nice overtake, mate. Oh, yeah. Yours too. Oh, my God. This is so funny.
34:23
Because this is what we've said so many times that this could be the only chance
34:28
he's to ever get of winning a world championship. They've got a long career ahead of them,
34:31
but you never know. And I want them to want it so much to the point where... And they do.
34:38
And they're doing it in their own way. They're doing it in a very different way to...
34:42
They don't show it in the same way that we used to see.
34:45
I'm not here saying they don't want to win the world championship. Of course they do.
34:49
But I think from just the way I've grown up watching Formula One and things and
34:56
Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton were great friends and they were team mates. And as soon as
35:02
the world championship were on the line, they were throwing caps at each other. We had,
35:06
I'm not slowing down for Nico, things like that. And yeah, it got messy and some people say it's
35:12
a shame to see two friends kind of fall out over a championship. But from my side, I'm watching
35:22
the literal creme de la creme of motorsport, what these kids dream of their entire lives.
35:28
And only 20 people get to do this. And it's the very top of that. It's the top of the billions,
35:35
like, sorry, millions and millions of people that are doing karting and trying to get into
35:38
Formula One. And this is like the absolute pinnacle of it. And I personally, myself,
35:44
want to see them showing that they want this so bad and they'll absolutely do everything.
35:52
And some people will say, well, you know, not everyone is kind of going to be unsporting and
35:58
stuff and, you know, fair play to them for doing it the way they want to. But I personally
36:03
would like to see a bit more kind of as it's kind of really ramped up now. I want to see
36:10
more from it. I want to see them riled up and kind of have those moments where they are.
36:14
Yeah. And I think, to be honest with you, this maybe even comes more down to McLaren
36:19
and the way that they're trying to manage them both having their toys and being happy.
36:24
Because without McLaren stepping in, of course, Lando would then be questioning it maybe a
36:28
little bit and things like that. But instead, you know, McLaren jumping and be like,
36:30
guys, are we okay? We're both happy? Like we're both fine?
36:34
Yeah. I mean, for all my complaining about McLaren and how they've messed up this situation,
36:39
they've got an incredible PR team to have two world championship
36:43
rivals, basically being in the cool damn room, being like, oh, it's all right, mate. Yeah,
36:48
well done. Good drive. Jolly good. Because not, obviously, not other people haven't been
36:54
able to do that in the past. McLaren themselves are like a center of prost, right?
36:58
Yeah. But look, this dynamic might change the urgency of a world championship right on, you know,
37:04
as we get to the last five races, three races, I'm sure it could unfold. But right now, yeah.
37:08
And we saw a glimpse of that of like, for me, I was actually very pleased to see Lando for,
37:17
like, obviously, it's on my favorite driver, Max, but go for that move on Max. Because
37:23
we said this, like, you need to go for it. Like, you need to win this race,
37:28
especially when of the start, which feels ages ago, and it's the shortest race.
37:33
When Oscar was down in P4 and actually behind Charle-Claire, we were saying, like, this could
37:38
be massive for the championship, because Lando, you know, you need to beat Max here and get
37:42
this massive result. So they are showing it in that sense. But, yeah, just a bit more popcorn
37:48
would be lovely with them. Okay, all right. We've unleashed a big segment which didn't exist until
37:55
a few laps before the end of the race. Tommy, let's go to your most memorable moment.
38:00
It is Max the Stappen's victory. Of course it is. Of course it is. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
38:07
when it wasn't Charle-Claire's P4. Max the Stappen. Just cheap shots every
38:11
time, isn't it? It's ridiculous. Yeah, an amazing win from Max. I'll be honest. I thought when he
38:19
had to give that place back to Lando at the start that that was game over and Lando would
38:24
potentially check out. But of course, got the lead back. I know you very much thought that
38:28
wasn't going to be the case. Yeah, I was like pessimistic, Tommy, again. Yeah, but that being
38:33
said, so many races we've seen Max. It's insane to think that Max has been on pole
38:40
the most this year. A joint with Oscar Piazza. He's got five poles. Oscar's got five poles,
38:45
Lando's got four poles. But he can't, he's very often, more often than not, he's not able to
38:50
deliver in the race because of how good that McLaren is. And yeah, I thought it would be the
38:55
same, particularly when he lost the lead. But he had incredible pace and it never really looked
39:01
in doubt until the situation at the end where of course McLaren, which they joked
39:06
about in the cooldown room, were preying for some kind of VSC in every single incident. And when
39:11
Ollie Berman and Carlos Sainz collided, my heart was in my mouth thinking, right,
39:16
this is where he loses the lead. And I think Max even joked about that himself.
39:20
But yeah, it was an incredible victory, has to be said, like dominant to dominate
39:26
this year against McLaren, even though it's a very difficult circuit. It's very impressive.
39:31
Yeah, it was a sensational victory from Verstappen this time.
39:35
Yeah, I just thought that when obviously lost the lead that the speed differences would allow
39:41
Max to have another opportunity. And lo and behold, yep, he got close and did a great
39:46
move into turn one. As we said, Lando did a brilliant move at the start to get ahead.
39:51
But yeah, Max was just utterly unstoppable. I was watching his times and he was relentlessly
39:57
consistent. If not just chipping another 10th off, another 10th off, another 10th off, there was no
40:02
mistakes. He put nearly 20 seconds on the McLarens, the McLarens that have been dominating this
40:08
season. Yeah, it's a low downforce track. It's not doesn't play into McLaren's strengths. But
40:12
at the same time, it should not be understated what an incredible victory this was. This is
40:18
almost, you know, driver ratings 11 out of 10. You know, again, we're bringing this up
40:22
because it's such a, we both wrote him off coming into this.
40:26
No, but he's got the best car by a mile.
40:29
Yeah. And those teammates were literally 13th and fighting for Jen, literally fighting for last.
40:34
Yeah, it was at one minute and 20 seconds. But yeah, you saw him at the end.
40:39
You saw him at the end. Yeah. But no, phenomenal from Max. And we'll go to a question now from
40:44
P1Patreon member Pickle Nick. Should Red Bull feel confident going into Baku after this result?
40:53
I think slightly confident that you look at Baku. Yes, there are definitely more braking zones
40:58
and 90 degree corners. But there's also a solid amount of straights and Red Bull clearly very
41:03
efficient in the lower downforce tracks as we saw with Monza. I'm not sure that Max will have the
41:09
same edge. I think he will be around the McLarens, perhaps even Charlotte Glaw. No,
41:17
but I'm not going to talk about Ferrari right now. I think that Max will feel
41:21
more confident going into Baku, I think, with this. I still have the tendency to believe that
41:28
McLaren will be very, very strong around Baku. They are different tracks as much as a massively
41:35
long straight. You know, I'm kind of talking and taking myself, talking myself out of Max
41:39
being in contention to win. I think McLaren have to be the favourites again,
41:44
but we won't see the same for Stappen as we saw in Hungary, for example, a massively high
41:48
downforce track where he struggled massively. Yeah, I agree. I don't personally think,
41:54
as much as I'd love to be like, yeah, Red Bull are back. Championship back on. Max is going to
41:59
win all these races now. It was a circuit that while McLaren still finished second and third,
42:07
on paper, it's the kind of weaker track for McLaren because they're
42:11
absolutely rapid and can just, you know, they've got unbelievable downforce in their car and have been
42:17
able to, you know, fly around these corners and be really quick, whereas Mons is not that kind of
42:23
circuit, is it? And a very different circuit. So it was more that Max got that brilliant
42:29
pole position, nailed the setup of his car, which we know with Red Bull is very much on a
42:37
fine tune where he goes into Fridays calling it the worst car he's ever driven. And then
42:42
Saturday, it's either the worst car he's ever driven on Saturday or he gets pole position,
42:47
which seems to be the trend this year. But yeah, I don't think I'm not going to sit here and
42:55
say that, and that this is maybe pessimistic me speaking again, but like, there might be another
43:01
chance for him to win a Grand Prix, but I do think that it's an outlier rather than a fact that
43:08
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Let's move to a question from P1P on Patreon member dap177.
45:13
What happened to Charles speeding in the pit lane?
45:15
Well, he didn't. He must have not, unless it's another situation like 2019 where they just
45:22
didn't want to give a penalty to Charlotte Monter. No, you were very nervous, weren't you?
45:29
I was convinced. You had your head in your hands, you were like, this is it.
45:33
I can't believe it wasn't even investigated.
45:35
Sorry, when you watch the replay, it looks like he's going quicker as he's locking up
45:40
over the speed limit line to when he then is rolling down the pits.
45:44
For me, I'm like, that's an absolute slam dunk. Has he somehow gone over a bit where the sensor hasn't
45:51
kind of triggered it? I do wonder if the locker, delete, delete.
45:55
Yeah, maybe him locking up, because obviously as he's locking up, he's unable to scrub as much
46:00
speed off. He must have been lower than that. There's a very weird situation. It's an odd
46:10
pit lane. You're going in incredibly quick. We saw a very interesting moment with Fernando Alonso
46:17
and Bortoletto, where Bortoletto was very cautious going into the pits and Alonso actually managed
46:24
to overtake him in the pits, thanks to just attacking that pit exit. Maybe Charlotte was
46:30
just fortunate that it looked worse on TV than it was. You assume that it was all in order,
46:38
but then in my opinion, the stewards did make some very interesting calls today.
46:44
Yeah, I think with this one, all jokes aside, Char must have not been speeding. I reckon it was
46:49
very close indeed. Any data to suggest that he was speeding and any other team sees that.
46:53
And he will, because all the other teams would know and stuff.
46:55
Yeah, and then it would be up in arms. So he must have just not sped, which is pretty good.
47:02
That is a W for Monzer and Ferrari fans. Next question.
47:07
Why lo does he knew? Pirelli needs to go. Medium should not be able to do 52 out of 53 laps.
47:15
It's embarrassing. Happy 500 races, Pirelli. Yeah, I know. Happy 500 races. That was not
47:24
my opinion. It was why lo's, but it's such, I know it must be such a difficult job for Pirelli
47:31
to create a safe tire, one that degrades, but doesn't degrade too much and degrade.
47:36
I think maybe even the cars as well. Let's blame the cars a little bit. I don't know how
47:41
we will blame the cars, because I don't know the physics too well. And it does change from race
47:45
to race. I think we definitely could have tried the C4, C5, C6, which we have been testing a few
47:51
races this year, the C6 tire. Perhaps there's a reason that they didn't go down that route,
47:55
like in Parabolica, even though I swear it was called Curve Alberetto these days,
47:59
but then everybody in commentary was just saying Parabolica or something.
48:02
I don't know what's happened there. I don't know.
48:04
They were like, no, we'll go back to Parabolica. But maybe that's too high a speed corner for a C6
48:09
tire. I'm not sure where they're going with the logic of not trying the softer tire at more
48:14
tracks, because there must be a, well, we don't want to risk it. And if we do and someone has
48:19
a high speed crash because a C6 tire has a blowout, then all of a sudden we're questioning
48:23
why did Pirelli bring the softest tires to Monza? So it's hard and it's just really
48:31
annoying. It's really annoying to see drivers go the entire race around Monza, but what are you
48:36
expecting? It's Monza. Yeah, it's very true. Like, I think Pirelli have been scarred by
48:43
years gone by in 2013 at Silverstone when the tires were blowing up. And, you know,
48:48
you've got to think that while it's tough, because I also am of the opinion that Pirelli
48:55
need to bring back basically softer tires and tires that maybe explode a little bit again
49:03
and stuff like that, because it makes it more entertaining. But also at the end of the day,
49:09
you know, Pirelli are there to advertise that they are a tire company. And as much as we love it
49:18
and want to see degrading tires when you are... The brand don't... The brand don't want to be
49:23
associated with tires that fall off a cliff and explode and, you know, because it's not good
49:29
for them. So they got brought in to basically do this job of, you know, allowing tire deck and
49:38
stuff. And unfortunately, they're playing it too safe now because of what's kind of gone
49:44
in years gone by. I am very much of the opinion that tires are the answer. We saw that in 2012,
49:51
2011, when they first got announced, 2013, that you need that kind of offset in
49:59
tire delta and things like that to allow overtaking that even when the cars are incredibly difficult
50:04
to pass. You've got dirty air, things like that. When you've got different tire life,
50:10
that's when you get kind of good racing. And we saw that even at a track like Zandvoort,
50:15
where it's difficult to pass that soon as they kind of throw a curveball in the mix
50:19
and people on different tires. That's when you saw a bit more overtaking and craziness.
50:23
So I just think... I personally just think the answer is just to do this like
50:28
softer tires and allow them to maybe do a mandatory two-stop wear and not, I know,
50:36
scarred from Monaco and all this, but let them use all three compounds because it
50:40
shouldn't be a case of like, we've been off the soft.
50:43
Yeah, you want that split of tires. And I was going to say, look, it's easy to say,
50:48
oh, we need an offset of tire, but there'll always be a strategy that works the best.
50:53
And most of the time, the teams will go down that route. You know,
50:56
want to start on the medium and finish on the hards. So forcing a two-stop
51:01
is that the route to go down? As you say, Monaco was a disaster, but that's because you
51:05
can't overtake around there. At least with an offset around Monza, you can. So,
51:11
yeah, I don't know. I still blame the cars mainly because it wouldn't matter if a Pirelli
51:15
medium lasted 52 out of 53 laps. If everyone was overtaking, it just wouldn't matter.
51:20
So that's the next thing, though, if the cars can't overtake is that,
51:23
okay, we need really degrading tires.
51:24
The tires, I think, are the solution, personally, but
51:28
yeah, there's no doubt that these cars are pretty horrible, but then equally Monza,
51:34
Monza's going to Monza.
51:36
Monza is going to Monza. Yeah, what did we expect? And to be fair, we had an idea,
51:39
didn't we? I can't remember when it was, of like, if we want to have more slipstream
51:44
and more overtakes around Monza, then everyone needs to run a certain amount of downforce.
51:47
Well, you could regulate. How do you measure that?
51:49
Yeah, exactly. You could regulate the fact that they're not allowed to use skinny wings anymore.
51:53
And I understand that would annoy a lot of people because people are like,
51:56
this is part of Formula One that you have different setups and it's a formula.
52:01
So like, that's what it should be. Because I know that even when they were
52:05
messing around with the cars to make better racing, which did work in 2022,
52:11
but certainly not now, there's a lot of complaints that it was kind of like,
52:16
well, we don't want Formula One to be a spec series, but then equally when a team's
52:21
40 seconds up the road, we're all complaining. So, you know, that's just the way it goes.
52:27
I've swallowed a drink the wrong way down, so I'm currently trying to clear it out my lungs
52:32
as we head to the next thing we're going to talk about, which is some racing incidents.
52:36
First and foremost, we'll talk about bearman versus signs, which
52:39
both of them were sent pirouetting around. We listened to commentary, we both watched
52:45
it on Sky, don't we, Tommy? And I think they were suggesting that it was a racing incident.
52:49
Are they seem to convince that it was science? They're almost going like, oh,
52:54
we're there investigating science for his penalty, but I actually think they made
52:58
the right call on this call. Yeah, they were both being investigated,
53:00
weren't they? And for me, it's a bearman penalty every day of the week.
53:06
He wasn't enough alongside to go for that move on signs, and it's a pretty daring move anyway,
53:12
isn't it, for Oli to chuck it down the inside there? Was it science overtaking? I need to
53:18
check this. I'm pretty sure it was science overtaking bearman, but bearman just didn't
53:22
back out. Or was it the other way around? I thought it was science. So, signs was ahead
53:25
of bearman. Signs was ahead of bearman going to the next corner. Signs overtook bearman yet,
53:31
but then signs is then the lead car. Yeah, it's definitely the lead car, yeah, yeah.
53:35
Yeah, so for me and for the stewards, it's a bearman overtake. In fact, I think I've got the
53:42
FIA document right here where it says, car 87 causing a collision. So, the stewards reviewed
53:48
video and in-car video evidence. Car 55 attempted to overtake car 87 on the outside
53:52
into turn four and had its front axle, a head of the front axle of car 87 at the apex,
53:57
therefore earning the right to the racing line. The driver of car 87 defended the position on the
54:02
inside instead of giving up the position and caused the collision. The stewards determined that
54:06
basically Oli bearman is predominantly at fault and therefore the standard penalty for such
54:10
incidents is applied. Yeah, so that's how I saw it as well. That was a fair one. In my opinion,
54:17
I think they made the right choice there. But then for me, I've watched this back.
54:25
The S-Span Ocon one is an absolute joke. That's a penalty. I don't think that's a penalty at all.
54:31
And obviously, of course, we'll mention Charlotte Clair at Monza and I know it's a very different,
54:39
you know, because it was years ago. And just because that was potentially wrong
54:43
in some people's eyes, not maths of course. It's incorrect, but I think Ocon's very
54:52
unlucky there personally. He's squeezed him, but... I mean, by the letter of the law though,
54:58
like, Stroll is entitled to, as they're breaking into that next chicane, Stroll is easily halfway
55:06
alongside. He's entitled to some room there and his right front tyre is on the dirt outside of
55:12
the white line. So what can the stewards do there? Call that a racing incident, but why?
55:18
But he's not halfway alongside until he's breaking later and going for that gap.
55:26
So I personally think it's tough on Ocon. I guess where they've maybe measured it though,
55:32
because they don't measure at the apex. And I guess when Lance's sideways is the closest thing to
55:37
them being at the apex. But then this is where the inconsistency lies, because then you go back
55:42
and watch the Lawson and Sonoda incident and Sonoda is squeezing Lawson and not letting him have any
55:49
room. And they both go off and Lawson has to give the place back to Sonoda. So like,
55:57
how is that not Yuki's fault based on what happened to Ocon? Like, this is where the
56:02
consistencies kind of annoy people, I guess, because I'm watching that and Yuki Sonoda has
56:09
squeezed Lawson as much as he has, you know, as much as kind of Ocon has. And Ocon's got a penalty.
56:18
But Sonoda didn't stay on the track. Both of them cut the chicane.
56:23
Yeah. So why would then, yeah, but then why would Sonoda have to be allowed to be let through
56:30
again? Because Lawson's, yeah, Lawson's overtaking Sonoda. And Sonoda, one has squeezed him and two
56:40
not stayed on the track himself. So how is that, how is that deemed that Sonoda has to let Lawson,
56:47
sorry, Lawson has to let Sonoda back through. That's completely unfair on Lawson in my opinion.
56:51
But I'm watching, watching it once again. Yeah. So Sonoda does allow the space just about
56:57
they both then cut the corner. I think the stewards will deem that as Lawson has not completed
57:03
the move and therefore he has cut the corner in order to be ahead of Sonoda. So I can see why
57:08
they've, they've called that decision because Lawson has not completed the move. Yes, you
57:11
could argue that there's been a squeeze and a tire bash. But has he left racing room,
57:17
I guess, maybe, but he's not entitled Lawson is at the point of the apex Lawson is not
57:22
entitled to go around the outside of Sonoda there into the first part of the second chicane.
57:27
So that's why you see then why is Stroll allowed to do that?
57:32
Because Stroll is a much more alongside if you actually do the freeze frame. I know that
57:37
probably part of that is because he's out of control. But I'm just I'm not saying I agree
57:42
with the racing rules. But this is where this is where who'd want to be a steward because
57:47
yeah, because it is it's debatable, right? It is. It's absolutely debatable. But they are
57:51
different incidents. I think comparing them as like for like is not is not fair because Stroll
57:56
was pushed off the off the track. But yeah, plenty of incidents there. Let's now go to
58:02
biggest winner driver or team. So someone we crown to say congratulations. You have you
58:08
have won P1 biggest winner of the weekend. Max Verstappen is an absolute shout for this
58:14
one. He's won by 20 seconds or just just under against the against the McLarens.
58:22
Alex Albin somehow getting seventh based on where he qualified is a big winner. And he's now
58:28
ahead of Antonelli in the championship, which is what a season Alex Albin is having.
58:32
What a season Alex Albin is having. That's crazy.
58:37
That's absolutely crazy that he's ahead of Antonelli. Maybe he says more about Kimmy's
58:41
season so far. I think both. Yeah. Yeah. I mean Albin's having a I can't believe he's
58:46
finished seventh. That is such a great result for him. Yeah. But I'm going for Max Verstappen
58:50
biggest winner. Yeah, it's got to be Max to beat. I'm a McLaren nowadays is incredibly tough.
58:56
Never mind to beat them by 20 seconds. Quite insane. And biggest loser driver or team.
59:03
Let's see. I think that I mean Holkenberg not even getting to race is quite sad.
59:08
They put into the pits with the hydraulics issue before the race even begun.
59:12
How do you even like that must be so gutting to be like, oh right, I don't get to race for
59:16
another two weeks now. Cheers. Who else can we throw in there? I think Carlos is going to be
59:21
fuming about his result because he looked like he was ahead of Albin. And it's not
59:29
gone right for him had the collisions and things as well. And just missing out on points.
59:34
Yeah, he's going to be raging about that one. But I think
59:40
maybe Alpine. I don't know. Just like just I know there are 10s in the constructors.
59:45
I know they're already 10s, but that was that was such a case of like, wow, Alpine are just the
59:49
worst car that they are. They are. But they also came into this weekend saying that their car
59:55
wasn't going to be great. I'm really glad I went for Collopinto points for my
59:59
Patreon prediction. Really good. Oh, it's difficult. Absolutely. Yeah,
00:04
Sonoda nearly got lapped by by Max around. That's not going to help his kind of, oh,
00:09
he might stay at Red Bull, which I don't think you will in being 13th.
00:15
Or maybe Alonzo. Actually, why am I talking about Alonzo?
00:20
Alonzo, of course. You already got points and got ahead of strong in the championship.
00:23
All right, let's lock in Fernando Alonzo. All right.
00:26
It's okay. Your favorite driver literally won the race. So yeah, cry me a river.
00:30
Let's now reflect on our prediction, shall we, that we made on Wednesday to see how we did.
00:34
It's currently 41-40 to Mr. Bellingham at a good surprise. I'm really glad I went for
00:40
Liam Lawson, who finished 14th in the end. So that is a zero pointer.
00:45
Indeed. And Carla Sainz also had a bad race. P11 thought, I thought I was on to this
00:51
when he was third in both practice sessions on the Friday. I was like, lock it in now, but no.
00:58
Alas, not a big flop. I went for Mercedes and sadly, they didn't really, well, not sadly for them,
01:04
but sadly for me, I don't get a point because Russell was fifth, Antonelli was eighth.
01:08
And I went for Lance Stroll and he finished dead last.
01:12
Well done, Tommy. Take the point. Hope you're happy. Let's go to pole position.
01:17
I went for Oscar Piastri, which did not come true because Max Verstappen
01:20
did some incredible things. And I went for Lando Norris, which he was very close, but of course,
01:26
didn't get it. Now to our top three. In third position, I went for Charles Leclerc, new.
01:34
And I went for Lewis Hamilton. No. God, we are cooking this week. In second place,
01:40
thankfully for the two to the swap, I get Lando Norris P2. It's a big, big change in
01:47
the championship for this one, actually. Because I went for Oscar Piastri. Now there's two things on
01:52
this. McLaren favouritism for Matt Gallagher. Yeah, I see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not only am I fuming
01:57
about just the situation in general because yeah, it's just ridiculous as I've mentioned in the
02:01
first half an hour of this podcast. Second, that the fact that it's screwed me. And third,
02:08
my top five that we do on Instagram would have been bang on if that's where they were.
02:12
And my heart goes out to you. I mean, not that you would have got any points for that,
02:17
because that's just a banter. True, but it's just shafted me in everywhere.
02:21
So you went for second Piastri. Haha. No points. And then in first place,
02:25
I went for Oscar Piastri, which was not correct. All right, for Lando Norris,
02:29
you finished ahead of his teammate, but didn't of course get the win. So no points for your
02:33
top three. One point for me. We now go to one crazy prediction. I went for one of the top
02:38
seven in the championship out in Q1. That did not happen. Can you imagine if
02:44
Albin had gone out in Q1, that would have actually come in because then he's now moved into the top
02:49
seven. But no, he did not. And Williams, double points I went for. And that was half a second
02:56
off from being right. That's that. Yeah, that's gosh. Wow. Yeah, that would have been
03:01
amazing if that would have happened that way. But no, no points for either of us. Very close
03:06
indeed. Patreon prediction. JP Falcon XR6 represented me and said Colopinto in the points,
03:12
and that was not even close. And also it wasn't close was Patrick. Strahlak qualifies Alonzo,
03:18
which he hasn't, he hasn't all year, which is quite mad. And it continues on. And it continues on.
03:24
So that is one point each. So it's the same. So we're still very close. Yeah, but one point
03:29
each. One point each from all those predictions about Formula One. That's crazy from us.
03:33
He's a lock-in for Baku. Previous 50 minutes of this. Yeah, exactly. We know nothing.
03:38
We know nothing. Family top three. It's currently eight six, I believe. It's eight five,
03:43
and I'm pretty sure it's eight six to the Bellingham's because we're closed in. How dare you
03:46
try and rig the results there? First and foremost, my girlfriend went for third place
03:51
Oscar Piastri. Beautiful. That's worked out perfectly once again, because that wouldn't
03:59
have been third. No, Tommy. My dad went for Alex Alban. Which at one point during Friday practice,
04:06
I thought, my God, he's actually cooked here. In second place, Ellie went for Leclerc,
04:12
which sadly did not happen. My dad went for Max Verstappen, which I remember thinking,
04:17
Max at Monsignet, I don't see. Yeah, it was one too low. It was too low.
04:22
And then finally, my girlfriend Ellie went for Lando Norris P1, and it did not happen.
04:28
My dad went for Piastri P1. So we are literally eight seven. The Bellingham's at one point
04:33
ahead in the constructors. I'm one point ahead in the main one. That's crazy.
04:36
This is going down to the wire, everybody. At least there's one aura championship going
04:42
on in Formula 1A. Yeah, we love this championship. That's it. We're done.
04:48
Thank you so much, everybody, but we're not done. If you're a P1 patron,
04:51
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05:08
Tommy, what are your final thoughts? Final thoughts are, thank you, McLaren,
05:14
for giving us stuff to talk about. And actually, well, thank you, McLaren,
05:19
because they're going to give us plenty to talk about for the rest of the year.
05:23
Because I don't think we've seen the last of, basically, that decision. That decision is
05:30
going to rumble on forever now. We'll go into Baku. We'll be talking about it again. And every
05:36
single play in this world championship is going to basically be under the microscope now. So
05:44
as long as it's fair, Tommy. 100% fair in every single way.
05:49
Yes, exactly. Right. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in, watching, listening. It's been an absolute
05:54
pleasure. We'll be back, of course, in a couple of weeks' time for Baku. Plenty of race review
05:58
content coming next week. And we've also got another Alex Albon juicy bit of content coming
06:04
out for you, I think, next week. So look forward to that. We will see you very soon.
06:08
Lots of love. Take care. Bye.
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