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