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a land of hopes and dreams at the moment. If you're a certain Tom Bellingham or a neutral fan

that wants to see something absolutely ridiculous happen in this championship,

but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Hey Tommy, but we already have and I'm wearing a red belt up.

I know. Super September is, I was going to say, is over. It's not quite one day left,

but we'll be into October. Let's see if Max's challenge continues.

She'll say, when this goes out, it will be October, so that makes no sense whatsoever.

As of recording contextually, it is still September at the moment, which means our

predictions might well be something special. Now, before we get into everything, predictions for

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All right, Tommy, it is 45-43 to you in this predictions championship that nobody cares about

until I'm winning. And it is my time to go first. So what have I been cooking up this week?

Well, we head to a good surprise. I've thought about this long and hard. And my good surprise

is Fernando Alonso. I don't know if that's a little smoke, because he has to change it or

what? We'll find out shortly. I've gone for Fernando Alonso because it's not a fast track

in terms of low downforce. And that is what Aston Martin don't do very well at,

perhaps even Tommy has gone for Aston Martin, good surprise. I'm just trying to think

on my feet as to what you've gone for. I've gone for a Fernando Alonso, good surprise.

I don't feel like we've seen enough sort of, wow, what a great drive from Fernando Alonso

this year. Obviously, hindered by the car, hindered by a bit of bad luck as well.

But this week, it's time to get a point. Thank you.

So the reason I was slightly smoking is I've gone for Lance Stroll. And the reason I've gone

for Lance Stroll was because I was going to go for Fernando Alonso. And then mainly because

I think yeah, Aston on paper should be a lot better. Fernando is very good at that.

Singapore as well. But I went for Lance Stroll because it feels like an easier chance to get

points. Maybe. Because the bar is lower.

The bar is lower, isn't it, of course? Because people would still be surprised if he gets

points even if he doesn't necessarily beat Fernando Alonso. Whereas if he does beat Fernando Alonso,

you know, yeah, exactly. 100 points. No, no, you don't. No, you don't. Take that back.

Edit. A bit now. Right, let's go to a big flop.

Big flop. I've gone for Max Verstappen.

The dream's over. September's over. What are you doing?

I'm being realistic. Being realistic. Wow. It seems the real Max Verstappen fan here because

there's only one of us wearing Rebel merch. I want to believe. And I do hope that this is just like

you can get this bogey circuit out the way. Of course, you know, there'll be talk of him

running out a bit of races and things to be able to do this title challenge if it is indeed on.

But this Max Verstappen in Singapore, it's just an easy nightmare circuit for him.

Like he's always had bad luck, bad races there, some through his own, some through poor luck.

There's that insane stat that everyone always brings up at Singapore that Antonio Giovinazzi

has led more laps at Singapore than Max Verstappen. And I just don't think a bit like I mentioned

about Aston Martin doing well here. You look back to, say, something like Hungary and he was

struggling in Struggletown. So that's my logic. Interesting. Okay, Tommy.

And I've never wanted to be more wrong about it.

Straight out the blocks for this week after finishing the last race saying,

wow, and two percent of me now kind of believe that's that's that's positivity from Tommy. I tell

you that. Right. My big flop for this weekend, Williams. I feel like that's it. I've gone for

a double pointer as a reminder. If it comes in, it's a two-pointer. If it doesn't, obviously it's

zero. It's just got William Stinker in all over it. If they don't get a podium, then that's

a big flop locked in. I just I can't I can't see them doing particularly well. They'd have to do

probably worse than what they're able to do in a car that's pretty good this year.

So I'm sorry in advance, but the big flop I need to I need to look back now at the streak that

I'm on or at least however many points I've scored since since the flop powers came back.

And Williams, maybe you can help me to an extra two. Thank you so much.

Let's go to pole position. My pole position is Lando Norris. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It has to

I mean, it has to be that there's a sound like any time I say that I'm winning the world title.

So it's not going to happen now. So I wish I've not said that that particular phrase.

Lando was so so fast last year at Singapore nearly crashed it a couple of times whilst he was half

a minute down the road. As Tommy ferociously tries to think, do I go for pole position

Max Verstappen after flopping him? But for me, Lando is the safe bet. I think for pole position

this weekend, that's well gone for. So yeah, I had gone for Lando Norris.

So by the letter of the law, this is your first predictions podcast.

We have rules where if one of us goes for a certain prediction, the other one has to

change it on the fly to make it quite otherwise it'd be very boring. And I will say that for

next season, we are revamping the predictions format again. So that we've taken on your feedback

of certain things being quite easy to maybe predict. I say easy, we scores are a lot of

time. But we are going to refresh it a little bit next year as well as a teaser.

We will. We'll have a think. So I appreciate you stalling there because I'm deciding between

two drivers and I will go for the boring answer and go for Oscar Piastri.

Who was the other one out of interest? Charlotte Clair.

Sorry. Okay. Yeah. Now go for Oscar Piastri. I do think McLaren are going to be absolutely

rapid. It should be a McLaren track one suited to them. And yeah, I'll go for Piastri because

I do think he's going to get worse than last time. And I don't think he's going to continue

his form where my word like what a bad race he had last time.

Can it be counted as form? I guess if you have the phrase you're only as good as your

last race then absolutely. Then if he makes land too, we're on track with it.

Yeah, then that's a good surprise locked in. Surprise neither of us went for good surprise.

I can't believe no one for that was absolutely. But wow, what are we doing here?

We're veterans of this series. What are we doing? Okay, interesting Oscar Piastri,

even though you wanted to go for land though. Third position in the race, Tommy.

I have gone for George Russell. The forgotten man maybe a driver that often gets

maybe forgotten about and missed off our prediction in the top three, but has got a lot of

podiums this year. And yeah, I think he'll go well around here. It's still a very hot race even

though it's obviously running cooler, cooler conditions, but still very hot. But now I

think Russell will have a good race around it. Okay, third position. I have not gone for

GR. I've gone for OP Oscar Piastri. I just, in my head, I just really struggle to put

three drivers in the top three. It's really difficult because on paper, one thing should happen

and both McLaren should definitely be in the top three. But then the reality is you've

got the Georges that turn up quite a lot. You've got the Charlotte Clairs that turn up

with a Ferrari occasionally. But for me, I'm going to Oscar Piastri. I think P3, to be honest,

I think he would take a P3 after what we had at last time out in Azerbaijan. That was the biggest

stinker I can remember from a championship leader. So for Oscar to just settle the boat,

even if he loses a few points to Lando, he just needs to get back into the flow of things,

which I think he will. But if we're looking back at last year's form as well, I think

Lando may well be the McLaren to beat. Second position. I'll take it all back, Lando Norris.

Lando is getting second, which to be fair, McLaren to beat was the sentence I used, which doesn't

mean he is the other McLaren. So I've gone for Lando Norris P2 because I'm all aboard. I'm all

aboard. I'm all aboard something crazy. I just want it. I need it. I don't know which

one. Yeah, who are you about to find out? I think McLaren will have the fastest car this weekend,

but that's not to say that mistakes won't creep in or qualifying or be massive,

even though I think that Lando should in theory take pole position. But I've thought that many

times and sadly I've not scored as many points as when I've back Lando. So I've gone for P2.

LN. P2 I have gone for Oscar Piastri. And yeah, and this was an interesting one because

we'll get onto it later, but because of what you've predicted so far, I thought this might be another

one of those kind of chess moves that make you go, oh no, now I can't do this. But as we've seen,

you're on the different train at the moment. So yeah, I've gone for Oscar Piastri. As I

mentioned earlier, he'll bounce back from and yeah, get back into the kind of,

he's still got a healthy lead, not obviously an enormous lead. But you know, a solid P2

is kind of all he needs really, isn't it? To just kind of stay kind of going for that

championship charge and regain his confidence after last time.

LN. Absolutely. Now I'm running my own race, Tommy, in this predictions. I'm not thinking

about you, you know, you're Mark Webber in this situation. I'm Fernando Alonso and I

don't need a Sebastian Vell. You know, that's a good reference, but that, you know, I'm just

thinking about, you know, just where my vibes are right now. Where are your vibes, Tommy, for P1?

My vibes are with Lando Norris. I really do think Lando will be incredibly strong here. He was

last year, the McLaren, arguably even faster now. I know he's had not even a bad run that

the last race, of course, he got a lot of criticism for and I think, you know, deserved from the drive

he had also had some bad luck. But this track should suit him massively. He has been good at

these kind of circuits. You know, you're one at Hungary, you're one at Monaco. So yeah, I think

Lando is a sensible choice. But I've said that a lot this year. And, you know,

Nico Holkenberg's got a podium and so has Carlos Sainz and lots of crazy things happen.

So you never know enough one. Exactly. Okay, first position. Give me a second.

Don't look. You're not allowed to look, Tommy. Okay. The reveal will be like

the Mexico podium. My first position and for audio, this is not going to work, but you'll

have to watch it on YouTube as well. When can I look? You can look now. I'm here. I'm here.

Right. In first position. No, it's fine. I'm not wearing anything. I thought you were going

to change the Ferrari shirt. In first position, I have gone for

Max. Yes, I've gone for Max Verstappen. I was grabbing the car, Tommy,

not an outfit to change in front of you. This is an older car. My daughter is obsessed with

that song and has a little Max Verstappen toy that I bought back from our Netherlands show.

And that just gave me the vibe, like, because she is just singing that song all the time at the

moment. Maybe that's the good fortune he needs. And she has the Max Verstappen top, if we don't

forget. And you have been trying to summon the onesie powers. And well, technically,

it's got 100% ratio again because he won the Nurbegring race. Get it signed, Tommy,

pray we're inside it now. I've gone for Max Verstappen. This has zero logic to it.

This is purely just, I just want to, you know, Charlotte Clair is not fighting for the World

Championship. We all know whereup. My allegiance is really lie as I sit here with a red ball top

on with a red ball model car in front of me. So I just, I'm a fan of just sporting moments.

And if Max can genuinely mount a championship charge, then sign me up and make everything

so much more interesting. Yeah. And me gloating in the post race podcast about

scoring a point backing your boy around a track he's never won at. Wow. That would feed generations.

So yeah, sign me up.

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Let's go to one crazy prediction. My one crazy prediction is there will not be

a singular yellow flag during the entirety of the Singapore Grand Prix.

Okay. And the reason I've gone for this is because I'd forgotten to write it in the sheet

and therefore I just made it up on the spot. And that is what I am going for.

That would suggest we've had a rather boring Sunday race. We'll be live on YouTube and Twitch,

so come and join us anyway. Matt, people want to tell me. Sorry, I just thought I'd segue

that in. But yes, I've gone for that because it's the literal segment is called Crazy.

And I think that's obscene. To be honest with you, I think I deserve two points.

It is quite obscene. I kind of need it to happen for mine as well.

So my one crazy prediction is, and sorry for the pessimism here, the first non-McLaren

is over 30 seconds off the lead. Oh, so even worse in terms of the competition than last

year where Max finished 20 seconds behind. Yeah, yeah. So 30 seconds off.

Obviously a very long race. Well, everybody should still tune in to the race and all

the post-race content that Tommy made. Of course. It's going to be, I'm hyped for it.

I hope I completely jinx the whole thing like I did with the red flags last time.

I love how our crazy predictions are very much pointing towards a certain level of

entertainment. Let's see if it does not go that way. Let's go to our Patreon prediction

where one of you, if you're part of the P1 Patreon, can submit a prediction and it

be part of our selection. Tommy, who have you gone for?

I have gone for Alec and it is Bortelate in the points. No way. Return to form.

No. Okay, it's fine. You carry on. You do your explanation and I'll get to mine.

Okay. My explanation is that I think he's going to have a good race here.

When was the last time he had points? Do you remember?

I think it was Hungary?

No, Monza. Even worse two races.

Hold on. Sorry. With our Patreon predictions, it's similar-ish to crazy predictions.

It needs to be crazy. Okay. I can change it.

So, Belgium scored two points, Hungary scored eight, Netherlands zero, Italy four, Azerbaijan zero.

So he has scored more times than not in the last five races.

That is absolutely ridiculous.

Tommy, whilst you figure out another Patreon prediction,

I'm going to go with mine and tell you why it's funny.

Because I went for Jensen's listening.

Incredible Hulk returns to the points.

And he's not been in the points since he scored a podium at Silverstone, which...

No way.

Yeah.

Has he actually not scored a point?

Not even a point.

Not?

Not scored a point in Silverstone.

Oh my God.

I was joking that he's just disappeared off the face of the earth.

No, no, he literally did.

His podium, but he literally has.

He's just given up.

So that's what I've gone for, which I think is a very fair prediction to put in the Patreon one.

Tommy's now going to submit one himself on a burner account that says

the five red lights will go out.

So let's see what Tommy will try and score a point on as I continue for the second time

this podcast to fill the gap whilst Tommy is scrolling.

This goes against my predictions, but I want it to happen.

And I was thinking about putting this driver in.

This is from Jack Lewis.

Hamilton gets his first Ferrari podium in honor of Roscoe.

Yeah.

Let's make that happen.

Big love.

That would be an amazing thing.

Of course, if you've missed it, I'm sure you haven't.

Hamilton's beloved dog Roscoe passed away.

And I hope, yeah, I hope that Hamilton can have an amazing result

because we all have pets or a lot of us have pets.

We know what it's like to lose something so dear to us.

So yeah, fingers crossed for Hamilton.

That would be quite the...

I mean, yeah, that would be pretty emotional, I think.

That'd be a great story, wouldn't it?

And what's not so great is you scoring a point off the back of it,

but that's...

We'll allow it for that one.

Yeah, we'll allow it.

Okay, let's head to the family top three.

I feel like next year this needs a jingle or something.

I feel like it's almost like family fortune.

Yeah, yeah.

You know what I mean?

What?

Your family predicting?

Yeah, something like that.

Maybe not as bad as that, but family top three.

It's currently eight seven to the Boring Bellingham's.

It's very close indeed.

I am going to be calling my father.

Okay.

So let's see what my dad is cooking up this week.

It better be good.

Hello, Matt.

Hi, Dad.

How are you?

He knows.

He knew it was kind.

Look at this.

Everyone wonders where the presenter jeans come from.

There we go.

It's there.

Okay, Dad, right.

Talk to me.

P3 for Singapore.

P3 Lando Norris.

Okay.

All right.

Second place.

Oscar Piaz III.

I feel like my dad's on a bit of a hype train here.

Well, P1.

P1, Max Verstappen.

That's hilarious.

So both me and you have gone for P1, Max Verstappen.

Tommy is willing to sacrifice the points

in the predictions champion.

I will.

I actually will.

Why, Dad?

Do you just feel?

I mean, you've said this before that Max is unstoppable.

You think he's going to win the championship, Mike?

I don't.

I really don't.

No way.

He's just on such a roll.

He is on a roll,

but he's going to a place he's never won before.

I don't.

Yeah, but that is a first for everything.

All right.

Cool.

He's going to do it.

He's going to do it, apparently.

Thank you, Dad.

Appreciate it.

We need the points.

Yeah, please.

Please score me some.

Thank you so much.

All right.

See you soon.

Love you.

Bye.

Love you.

Bye.

All right.

Okay.

So that's crazy.

That's annoying because I kind of hope they're on it.

Yeah, so I kind of...

Well, I hope you're right because obviously I want it for Mike.

Yeah, Max wins and you'll be like...

First I'll join them and then I'm like,

Oh, no, the prediction.

Oh, no.

Oh, no, anyway.

Yeah.

True.

Right.

There's one person more competitive.

I'm going to give my wife a call.

Oh.

I know how much she loves doing this segment.

Yeah, absolutely.

Dredding the phone.

Yeah, she is.

Hello, you're right.

Get it close to the mic.

Here we go.

Are you ready?

So we're basically...

Our lead is being eroded quite massively,

so I need good predictions.

Don't think that's allowed.

Okay, no pressure then.

Cool.

Yeah, right.

P3.

I'm Oscar.

Are you for Oscar?

Same as me.

P2.

Max.

Oh, okay.

And P1.

Landé.

Okay, interesting.

So we've got the same as your dad's prediction,

but a different order.

All right.

Thanks for...

Thank you.

Oh, I thought I'd done the same again

because I think last time I predicted

it was literally identical.

It may well have been.

It was the same as that.

Oh, yeah, you did.

You did the blocking.

Well, we could block all the way to the finish,

but I appreciate it.

She's just listening.

All right.

Love you.

Bye.

Wow, she's...

I've never...

She loves...

Shit.

Honestly, she sounded exhausted by the end of that phone call.

Yeah.

She's like, stop calling me.

I'm downstairs.

Leave me alone.

That's brilliant.

Thank you, Katie, for getting involved.

Once again, I'll tell Tommy to not call you again.

I was going to say, I could just bring her in the rain,

but she'd take that even more.

Oh, no, yeah, that'd be her answer.

I mean, Ellie's literally downstairs as well.

I could literally just get her to come in,

but she's like, no, no, I need to be sure.

I'm ready for the P1 podcast appearance.

Right, that is it.

Thank you, everybody, for tuning in to our predictions.

We will find out how washed or amazing they have been.

We will be live on Twitch and YouTube,

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Tommy, if you want to come and watch along with us

for the conclusion of this F1 season,

Tommy, what are your final thoughts?

Just you saying the conclusion of this F1 season,

it's really sunk in how like, you know,

we're getting to the business end of the championship.

We are.

And I'm hyped for it.

The business end of the predictions championship,

more importantly.

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

Exactly.

Sign me up.

Right.

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