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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy.

Katar Grand Prix F1 driver ratings.

The penultimate time we will be grading every single driver from 0 to 10.

Your favorite series to probably disagree with us, but that's fine.

Healthy debate is gorgeous and lovely.

Leave a like if you enjoy this series, if you enjoy being a part of this community.

Tommy, how are you, sir?

I'm good.

I think this is going to be another enjoyable one because there are some grades I really,

really struggled with actually between a couple of grades here and there.

And I do enjoy those ones even though of course that's the most contentious ones.

It is.

It certainly is.

But that is the fun of driver ratings.

Oh yeah.

So yeah, we will get into your controversial ones as we go.

So why don't we begin, shall we?

No, let's not begin.

Let's say Manchester and Dublin.

There's a few more tickets left for our P1 live show.

If you want to go come to the show, there'll be a link in the description.

Only a few left and this season God knows what we're going to be talking about

come the end of Abu Dhabi.

Who are we going to talk about?

We'd love to have you there.

Lots of people are coming already.

If you've never been to a P1 live show before,

you're thinking about coming on your own.

A lot of people do and they make friends when they're there.

So it's all good fun.

Right, let's begin with Gabrielle Bortoletto.

Started the sprint in 13th, finished 11th.

Started the main race in 19th and finished 13th.

I am going for a whopping old grade of a 5 out of 10 for Gabrielle Bortoletto.

Quite an underwhelming weekend for Gabby.

Hülkenberg's teammate was showing what was potentially possible

until he was yeeted into...

We'll get into the race.

But he was out of the race and Bortoletto just not able to make much impression.

I think you will notice a trend of some drivers

not being able to make an impression because they didn't qualify very well

and therefore couldn't score any points.

Indeed, I've gone for a 5 for Bortoletto as well.

I think this is a what could have been with the fact that he had his Vegas penalty

because of course dropped him down 5 places, finished 13th,

had even higher up the order, made a good start and stuff.

He could have been fighting for those points but sadly for him,

it's not but better than kind of the form he's been on

with the last couple of races where he's had some big crashes and things.

Exactly, a non-headline worthy weekend is just fine for Bortoletto

and he can build from there.

The fans gave him a 5 as well.

Nika Hülkenberg started the sprint in 14th, finished 16th,

started the main race in 11th, did not finish.

I've gone for a 5 out of 10 for Nika Hülkenberg.

He obviously started the race quite well and was running in the points,

made a move around the outside.

It was on, I can understand why he went for it.

I still believe racing incident, certainly not Hülkenberg's fault at all

and yeah, but you risk that kind of,

it's always that risk versus reward, isn't it, in Formula 1

and how you make the move

and it's incredibly difficult to pass around Qatar.

I think I did, but yeah, I'm going for a 5 for Hülkenberg.

I'm going to go for a 6 out of 10 for Nika Hülkenberg.

Of course, didn't make it far into the race

but I really don't blame him at all.

Of course, I say it's a racing incident,

but Hülkenberg is well within his rights to swing it around the outside.

That's one of the only ways to overtake around Qatar.

And then Gasly sadly understeers into him ever so slightly

and wipes him out the race.

If that hadn't have happened, he'd be running in P9

and I firmly believe he would have come home

with some good points considering it's the most uneventful race ever

after the, well, to be fair, yeah, the safety car

that they caused made the race very uneventful.

Had their incident not happened,

well, we might have a new world champion already.

We do not know, although probably unlikely.

The fans gave Niko a 5 out of 10.

Alex Albon started sprinting 10th, finished 10th,

started the main race in 14th, finished 11th.

I'm going to go for a 6 out of 10 for Alex Albon.

Did not bring any points home this weekend.

A scruffy weekend in compare,

when you compare it to Carlos signs,

but I think anyone's weekend looks scruffy

in comparison to Carlos signs.

It's not an absolute disaster of a weekend,

like 10th and 11th are decent finishes.

He's just missed out on the points in both of them.

So, yeah, I think 6 reflects, like,

the grade we're about to give Carlos,

I think it's very obvious what he's going to get,

but I don't think that Alex should be downgraded

to a 4 or 3 because Carlos has put in a podium performance

because Alex, yeah, it's not gone well,

but it's not an absolute disaster.

You took the words right out of my mouth there.

I've gone for a 6 out of 10 for Alex Albon as well.

It's one of those weird situations where,

yeah, it could be quite easy to go,

oh, well, his teammate did this

and so therefore it's a 3 out of 10 or something.

But actually, on paper,

Williams went expected to do well around here.

He's not done absolutely awfully.

You know, it's not a great race,

which is why he's getting a 6,

but for me, and we'll get on to him very soon,

it's more that his teammate has excelled

rather than Alex Albon been absolutely awful.

OK, the fans gave Alex a 6 as well.

Carlos Sainz started the sprint

in 8th, finished 8th,

started the main race in 7th, finished 3rd.

I've gone for a 10 out of 10 for Carlos Sainz.

Shakara.

Brilliant sprint to get the points.

He's had good pace all weekend.

It wasn't a flash in the pan, obviously.

Helped by McLaren and the fact that

he got a great start as well.

Then passed Antonelli in the pit stops

due to the whole kerfuffle of Antonelli

having a bit of a slow pit stop and things.

The fact that he's got a podium again,

my word, I'm very excited

to see the final driver ratings

at the end of the season,

because I'm pretty sure at the mid-season

Carlos was about 16th.

He's on a roll of 10s and things

seemingly all the time at the moment.

I think he's going to be one of the

biggest movers in our

Drive Ratings Championship,

and of course the main championship

of Formula 1 as well, which is less important

as we know in our Drive Ratings.

But brilliant from Carlos again,

what a drive, his pace.

I think the most impressive thing is

it was his pace when he got there.

He obviously, you know,

he was very quick, then got into

that position and it wasn't like he was

hanging on for dear life. I think the only

reason he was hanging on for dear life was

his car was falling apart.

Exactly, yeah. I've gone for a 10 out of 10

unsurprisingly as well for Carlos.

It was not lucky.

This podium was not lucky.

The start was all his doing,

getting past Hadjan, of course Russell

making that mistake and Carlos

in advantage. He made these positions

up by driving really well

and then kept the podium

because his pace was unbelievable.

This was not a roll the dice,

go on drives, go on wet situation.

So one of the

strongest performances

from anybody this season.

It has to be. Carlos

so good to see him

thriving now at Williams

and this is,

there's not many drivers that can

probably do what Carlos just did

this weekend and he's proving

to everybody that he

and we've been saying this from the start

he didn't deserve to lose his Ferrari seat

and anyone that didn't,

anyone that did think he deserved to go

are probably now eating their words.

So well done Carlos. The fans

gave him a 10 as well.

Isaac Hadjar started the sprint in 11th,

finished 9th, started

the main race in 6th, did not

finish.

I'm going to go for an 8 out of 10

for Hadjar. I think it was a very

strong weekend especially in the main race.

Obviously what could have been from

sprint qualifying if he hadn't had his lap time

deleted but a phenomenal

qualifying for the main race and was

running in such a strong P6

until

his car decided to disintegrate

on itself and cause him a puncture.

I mean how unlucky does he need to be

whether there's you know curb riding and things like that

but you wouldn't expect one of the wheel winglet things

to just fall off if you've been riding the curbs

a little bit too hard. It's no higher than that

because of course you know the likes of Carlos

Sainz has showed that there was a lot

on the table for someone that really

did maximise everything

but I think an 8 out of 10 reflects

despite him DNF-ing that he was on

for a very strong result.

I am going to go for

an 8 out of 10

and this one, no I'm not

going to because it's very close to a 9

for me very very close to a 9

I think the reason

yeah like he was going to finish 6

basically is the reason

that you know the result

doesn't reflect it. I think the reason I'm going for an

8 or a few factors

he lost places at the start

from you know his initial position

and then

equally the sprint

I think he had amazing pace

all weekend and didn't quite maximise it

but I still think

from Hadja we are just seeing

what a special talent he is

and I can't believe that

surely the most underrated

driver going into the season

didn't really know a whole lot about him

how he'd do

obviously finished 2nd in Formula 2 last year

but the expectation was incredibly low

and I think he's consistently

putting in absolutely fantastic drives

and this was another one I'm very unlucky

not to get points

very unlucky indeed

the fans gave him a 7

very harsh

Liam Lawson started the sprint

in 16th finished 14th

started the main race in 12th finished 9th

I've gone for

a 6 out of 10

for Liam Lawson

may seem a bit harsh the fact that he's

P9 you know

6 out of 10 but it has to be lower than his

teammate I don't think he was

near his teammates pace at all in the sprint

equally in qualifying he couldn't get near him

yeah both sessions

and there was of course

a good slice of fortune for him

that he inherited

P9 one due to

a house mistake from Oli Bearman and two

his own teammate

of course with his car

falling apart at the end

but still a decent drive from Lawson

so I've gone for a 6

I've gone for a 6 out of 10 for Lawson as well

plenty left to be desired

I think from this weekend for Lawson

of course the sprint was just

qualifying in general just wasn't great for him

when you compare it to Hajar

just hasn't been feeling

one with the car and

yes he improved and yes he scored points

but I echo your sentiments Tommy

that he was fortunate that other cars

went off in front of him

to gain some positions

but not a disaster still some points on the board

and that's why it's a 6 out of 10

the fans gave him a 6 as well

Oli Bearman started the sprint in 12th

finished 12th started the main race in 13th

did not finish

I am going to go for a 6 out of 10

for Oli Bearman I believe

I don't believe I know

he was running in 10th place until

Hass decided they don't know how

to do pit stops and

kind of ruined any chance

of him scoring a point

because he was very much in the mix there

that's kind of

my main basis as to why it's not a bog standard

5 considering it was 12th 12th

and then a DNF in the main race

but yeah I think

he at least deserves a little nod

for what he was achieving

he gained a position off the line

and by lap 10 he was running in 10th

so it's a shame

that his next pit stop went so

badly and we saw his

emotional reaction

to that with the onboard

of him coming out the pits and smashing his steering wheel

so he knew that there was a point on the

cards

I've gone for a 7 for Oli Bearman

I think a points finish was absolutely on

definitely on you know it was

line of stern and until that pit

stop mess up of course he was getting

p10 and I've got to think

had he finished p10 on the road

I would be giving him a 7 and it's certainly not

his fault at all so

yeah I'll go for a 7 for Bearman

here the fans give him a 5

I've gone for a 4 out of 10

for a spin knock on another weekend

to forget

he just seems

at the start of the season he scored so

many points and was doing

yeah kind of

was getting some big scores and things

but it doesn't seem to be happening as much

at all really now Oli Bearman

looks comfortably quicker than him

really at this stage of the season

and he's really struggling

and yeah

of course got a penalty at the start as well

for rolling

forward and yeah

it's just not going well for Ocon right now

I've also gone for a 4 out of 10

for Estaban

it's sad to see of course he bounced back

in Vegas and beat Oli Bearman there

didn't score points but at least beat his

teammate and this is again

kind of I don't know how you can say

it's anything other than underwhelming

for Ocon I don't really

understand why

he's lacking pace

in comparison to Oli is it the fact that

Oli's just improving race by race

maybe that's more to the point but either

or it's a slightly concerning

season so far for Ocon I say so far

there's more than one race left but

I'd love to see him

get back to the form that we know he can do

and he's shown some amazing performances this year

but just it's only been a handful

if that that we've seen massive

point scores at the beginning of the

year so hoping

he has a good race in Abu Dhabi the fans

gave him a 4 as well

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Franco Colopinto started

the sprint in the pit lane

finished the sprint in 20th

started the main race from the pit

lane and finished 14th

I am going to go for

four out of ten Franco

Colopinto deliberate whether it was a

three or a four as I say we're

so better yeah definitely not better

not not a good weekend at all

from Franco

he said he didn't feel comfortable this weekend

of course did did okay

in the race but like realistically he's beaten

Ocon who is getting penalty

on top of penalty has was like

I'm going to touch the car oh wait you were

serving a penalty and then he had to get another

penalty and then he beat his teammate who of

course was running in the points until

everything went wrong with him and

Nico Holkenberg so

I know I still expect the Alpine to be

one of the worst cars and Gasly was doing

but still four out of ten

yeah I've gone for a four out of

ten for Colopinto as well

sadly for him

he's had quite a good

run where we were sort of

basically saying that

I think it's overstated

that you know people saying that he's

awful and which is completely not true

and and kind of looking

really slow and and no better

than doing and things I think unfortunately

for Franco this is one of those races that

like adds to that narrative that's going to get

people like back on that that kind of

you know opinion

because yeah he was just

slow this weekend we know he can do

better and

and he just did not look

anywhere near the pace of his teammate

obviously there's a lot of

we've joked a few times on the watch along

that it seems like the second they sign Colopinto

Gasly put his foot down and just

started doing really good things

in that Alpine but Colopinto

yeah he's had a rough few races and this is

another one

certainly is the fans gave him a four

out of ten Pierre Gasly

started the sprint from the pit lane finished

eighteenth started the main race ninth

and finished sixteenth

I've gone for a five out of

ten for Pierre Gasly

a brilliant qualifying

and really should have been

some rare points for Alpine

I say it's a racing incident

I do lay more blame on

Pierre Gasly I don't think it's a penalty

there's that moment

where kind of with Gasly you're kind of like

look you're still running in the points here

you don't need to do anything

crazy or stupid

and yeah it's not

penalty worthy

but of course like washes wide really

races hard to try and stay ahead which of course

it's got every right to do but they collide

and there goes

any points possible for Gasly

which is a shame after an absolutely

fantastic qualifying

to be up there in P9

absolutely I've gone for a six out of

ten for Pierre Gasly

racing incident by the rulebook

yes but I also agree that

he had more of a part to play

in order to make sure that that didn't happen

Gasly try to

defend his position of course he's going to try and do that

in an Alpine that doesn't have many opportunities

to score points

but I think the six out of ten reflects that

he was doing a phenomenal job

to be up there anyway

and yeah it's not like

I think he deserves a penalty or anything like that

so yeah I think six out of ten

reflects my thoughts quite well

the fans gave him a five

Lance Stroll started the sprint from the pit lane

finished the sprint in 19th

started the main race in 18th

did not finish

hmm

how savage

am I going to go

for a two out of ten for Lance Stroll

I don't have any words

and neither does he to be fair so why should I give words

about his performance when he doesn't give words about

his performance and says two words and then

just goes to the next weekend so there you go

two out of ten over to you Tommy

I've gone for a two out of ten for Lance Stroll as well

basically yeah I don't

think Aston Martin are a particularly

good package

it seems like quite a

confusing car it's very up and down

and it has been this season

and

yeah

that's when you're like one of

if not the worst qualifier in terms of

like a long term driver of all time in my

opinion like it's the part of

this game that is so so poor like the qualifying

it always puts you in like

a terrible position and then

basically like the sprint was a throw away

because he was never going to score points so he basically

tried to pit and do

different to learn for the main race

and then equally tried something different again

in the main race because he knew

that he'd qualified to

far down so I'm not going to give him

like a one or a zero

which is easy to jump on when it's Lance Stroll

he's got it in him but it wasn't this weekend

no exactly

as funny as well before we get on to Fernando

you mentioned about the car being confusing did you see

what he said about the car

and the fact it's basically like a spirit

it's like a possessed car

absolutely hilarious

what Alonso was saying about the car

I mean you say it's not a great package

but we're about to talk about Fernando's results

and that included a spin as well

Lance Stroll the fans gave him a

one out of ten

Fernando Alonso started the sprint

in fourth finished seventh

started the main race in eighth finished seventh

I've gone

for an eight out of ten for Fernando Alonso

the fan boy in me

really wanted to give him a nine

I can tell

two p sevens you got to say

you know it is getting everything out of that Aston Martin

but I think it would have been a nine

had he not spun and it cost him that position

to Hadjah of course he inherited it back anyway

because of Hadjah's errors

but of course this is driver ratings not results

ratings

as we all need to be aware

and yeah the sprint

qualifying in particular

was a real highlight to put that car up in fourth

incredible

from him

one of his best tracks

and yeah a really really good weekend

I wish it could have been a nine

but yeah that

what a spin though what a spin the way he spun round

and carried on

for sure

I've also gone for an eight out of ten for Fernando

and I was so ready to shoot you down when you were said a nine

I just felt like there was a Tom Bellingham

nine out of ten for Fernando coming every day of the week

let's not forget as well

that spin let George Russell through as well

who was stuck in that train

so it was a technical two position loss

of course as you say Hadjah getting that

problem means Alonzo got one of those positions back

but apart from that

a great weekend

actually take it all back

he deserves a two for his pace at the start

that DRS train helping the McLarens

there you not hurt Max when the champion

you should be fusing

by the fact that yeah he basically

opened up this massive gap

that the McLarens could pit into

on lap 25

so yeah apart from that

a pretty strong weekend

just a shame about that mistake

that lost him a couple of positions

the fans gave him an eight

out of ten as well

Kimi Antonelli started the sprint in seventh

finished sixth started the main race in fifth

finished fifth

I am going to

lock in a seven

out of ten for Kimi Antonelli

a good weekend

nothing too special of course he beat

George in the main race I think

I would say George was

absolutely not on his best form

either on the Sunday

after making that mistake and losing a few positions

on lap one

but yeah Antonelli had a very strong race

couldn't make any

impression on Carlos but I think that is just the nature

of this track you have to be

an insane amount quicker

to get a chance to overtake

but yeah I think seven

is pretty

alright Mercedes weren't

at least apart from George in the sprint

weren't really looking

like they could challenge McLaren

and Max over the course

of a full race distance so

yeah a seven

I have gone for an eight out of ten

for Kimi Antonelli I think it was a great race

from him such a shame about the error

not just from

the fact that he has made an error

and lost a position but also the

shameful abuse

that he is getting and I am glad to see

Red Bull release a statement

I just want to cover that off that

basically saying that

what we said was wrong

because it was I think formula one

has a part to play for playing that

radio message out there as well to a point

and yeah

Antonelli

very impressive that

he has managed to beat Russell again

I think had Mercedes

I am unsure

about the pit stop

because from

watching it back it almost looks like

they are over cautious with

an unsafe release and they are kind of letting everyone

go and rather than it being a slow pit

stop and had that not been the case

he wouldn't have lost a position to

Carlos and who knows

it might have been an even better result

of course he fell away at the end but

a good result from Kimi nonetheless

despite the error

and very impressive that

he has managed to beat George Russell

again

Absolutely yeah I think the reason

I went for a 7 rather than an 8 that I didn't mention

was the sprint as well where he picked up a penalty

which would have put him ahead of Yuki

Sonoda had he not got that 5 second

penalty for track

limits and I completely

echo your thoughts on the abuse

I mentioned it in best reactions if you have watched that

it is completely

utterly unacceptable

we try and lay blame on F1

or Red Bull whatever the main blame

is on the people that feel actually confident

to go and do this abuse

to send this stuff to him like

are you actually insane

it's just so horrible

to see that he's racing

his heart out he's a rookie

19 years old

being given all of this because of something

that was

if anybody has even a brain cell

he made a mistake

had a slightly

he had a poor line into that left hander

because he got a bit of a wobble on

that's literally all it was

ridiculous to think that Mercedes actually want

McLaren to win the Drivers World Championship as well

as we've said previously on the main race

podcast so our final

thoughts on that and on Kimmy

is leave him alone

okay the fans gave Kimmy Antonelli

a 7 out of 10

George Russell started the sprint in second

started the main race in fourth finish sixth

I've gone for a

7 out of 10 for George Russell

it's close between a 7 and 8

I think his sprint was absolutely fantastic

in his result there

I do think there was more on the table

from what he had as a package

you know showing what he could do in the sprint

for him to qualify

higher in the

the main quali

obviously fourth is still a good result

but then he dropped back behind Antonelli

two seconds behind his rookie teammate

I know a lot of that is of course

well most of that is because he's stuck in a train

and it's a double stack

but then you know he lost out to him at the start

so yeah I've gone

for a 7 for George Russell

I've gone for a 7 as well

I couldn't really decide

between grades between Kimmy and George

because I think they both had two very differing weekends

George having a phenomenal sprint

and then a sort of poor lap

one in the main Sunday which cost him

massively

so yeah I've gone for a 7 as well

for George

good but nothing to write home about

sadly for him

and yeah had he not made that mistake

on lap 1

we could well be seeing Lando finishing

another place further back

because I fully expect George to have been right there

with Antonelli

should he have

and I know his spots and maybes

but yeah it cost George a lot

on this one the fans gave George

a 7 out of 10

Yuki Sonoda

started the sprint in 5th, finished 5th

started the main race in 15th

finished 10th

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This one's difficult, isn't it?

Yeah, really difficult.

This one is difficult.

Look, I'm gonna give him a seven.

I'm gonna give you a key of seven.

I had six written down,

but I just feel so horrible to say a six after the sprint

was literally his best drive of his entire reddible career

in terms of actually being in the main team.

Yep, the Saturday qualifying didn't go to plan,

but he still managed to score a point

with all the chaos around him.

It's by no means an insane, amazing weekend.

It looked like it might have been after the sprint.

It tailed off.

I'm just gonna give him a seven,

even though I feel like deep down with my brain,

it would be a six, but you can have my seven.

I have gone for my head and gone

for a six out of 10 for Yuki Sonoda.

An absolutely brilliant sprint.

It's not even gonna be an F1 next year, mate.

Just give him a seven, be nice.

Well, like we need to do the ratings.

So the average grade is correct at the end of the year.

Yeah, no, I'll go for a six.

It was a fantastic sprint.

Really, really good from him.

The qualifying and the race result, of course,

got kind of fortunate that Antonelli got a penalty as well,

which meant that it didn't kind of sour the fact

that he got that track limits penalty.

And then the problem is the big points

are handed out on race day

and he had an awful, awful qualifying.

And yeah, couldn't,

only basically inherited one point

when his teammates won the race.

It was a really, really good sprint from him,

but yeah, just so disappointing

what he managed to achieve in the main race

because that is where the big points are handed out.

And you know, there was opportunities there

with the McLaren's strategy fumbling,

Hadja having a problem, Alonzo spinning off,

Ferrari being useless, all that kind of stuff.

All right, don't need to,

could have left the Ferrari coming out there.

They're coming very shortly, mate.

The fans gave Yuki a seven out of 10.

Max Verstappen started the sprint in sixth, finished fourth,

started the main race in third, finished first.

I have gone for a nine out of 10 for Max Verstappen.

I believe this one is a nine.

You know, we had the,

is it a nine, is it a 10 in Brazil?

I think for me, this one's even more

easily a nine out of 10.

He qualified poorly in the sprint.

And while it's only the sprint, as we say, you know,

not every point is as extreme.

Everything matters for Max in this world championship

and he had to deliver every single opportunity.

He made a mistake.

Of course, fortunately for him,

he was able to get those two positions back.

One of them, of course, being his teammate

who didn't make it too difficult for him.

So he finished fourth.

And then the main race,

I know he's in a car that couldn't have challenged

for the win, but it's a gift by McLaren.

Like that was Oscar Piazzari's race all day long,

had it been the case.

And yeah, he, I do think he,

maybe this is delusional that he would have been a Norris

with just the fact that he was ahead

and it was so hard to pass.

And he had good pace,

but I can't give him a like perfect 10 weekend

because I don't think he was perfect all weekend.

Yeah, I've also gone for a nine out of 10.

I thought we're gonna go for the opposite of Brazil.

I'm the one.

Yeah, I mean, I can't give him a 10 for here.

I didn't give him a nine elsewhere

when there were more arguably 10 performances for some people.

But yeah, it wasn't a perfect weekend for Max.

As you say, you know, the sprint was pretty,

like when he qualified sixth,

you were saying it's over

for the 500th time this season.

You were saying it was over.

Do you remember that?

Do you remember that, Tommy?

Well, it is over now.

I've come back around to it now.

It is over, he's not winning it, but.

Oh my God.

Live a little, Tom Bellinger, my beg.

Oh well, don't worry.

Just dreaming is free, as Carlos Sainz loves to say.

You know, but anyway, back to his performance

and not the championship.

We'll get onto that, I'm sure, in a few days' time.

Yeah, like he was finishing second,

I agree, most likely in that race.

We saw further down the field.

It was just a train.

No one could really make moves.

So if you finish a second

where McLaren don't give him the race,

I think he drove very well

when he was out in clean air, for sure.

His pace was great.

He did what he needed to do,

but McLaren did absolutely

wrap a lovely Christmas present with his name on it.

So yeah, I think a nine is absolutely fair.

It's close to a 10,

but it's not a 10 in my eyes, either.

The fans, they disagree.

Gave him a 10 out of 10.

Some very questionable grades

from the fans, this is what people are saying.

It was comfortable 10 as well.

It was 60% of people gave him a 10.

60%, all right, look forward to the comments.

Right, let's go to Lewis Hamilton.

Started the sprint from the pit lane,

finished the sprint in 17th.

Started the main race in 17th.

Finished 12th.

I have gone for a three out of 10 for Lewis Hamilton.

Ah, yes, the Ferrari car is bad.

We all know that.

The Ferrari car is bad, but,

and it's a comprehensive but,

Charles Leclerc is beating him

in every competitive session with the same car.

There's no, oh, Charles getting this

and Lewis isn't getting that.

It's, this is the only comparison that we can judge it on.

This is the only way we get any idea

of where the benchmark, where the baseline is

for Ferrari and, yep,

Charles had a pretty scruffy weekend as well at times,

but Hamilton was just nowhere in qualifying.

How are you getting knocked out in Q1,

both sprint and main quality sessions?

Madness.

Of course, the reason it's the three and no lower

is because he did make some good progress

at the start of the race

and then was unlucky with the double stack,

which lost him a couple of positions in the main race,

but there was never points up for grabs.

Like he was never in the points,

was never looking like he'd be in the points

and part of that is due to the track,

but the main crux and the main point of our grades

are qualifying a lot of the time

and his qualifying was dreadful.

So three out of 10.

I have gone for,

oh, this is very difficult.

Between a two and a three,

I think I've got to go for a two.

I think two Q1 exits for a seven-time world champion

in a Ferrari, yes, it's not a very good Ferrari,

is inexcusable, particularly as his teammate

got into Q3 both times.

And as we know this year, it is a qualifying championship

and if you're qualifying right at the back,

you've got absolutely no hope.

And it was, yes, of course,

he made some progress and then had to double stack,

but of course, as mentioned with Russell,

that's kind of the price you pay

when you are slower than your teammate in qualifying.

And qualifying, I just can't believe we're in a situation

where Hamilton is getting knocked out in Q1

and I listened to the pod you did with Alex

and he hit the nail on the head of like,

how will we in a situation where it's not a surprise

that he's out in Q1?

Lewis Hamilton in the Ferrari and it's like,

oh, okay, it's barely even a story anymore,

like what the hell?

Yeah, crazy.

Utterly crazy, and I hope for his sake,

it turns around very swiftly indeed.

The fans gave Lewis a two out of 10.

Charles Leclerc started the sprint in ninth,

finished 13th, started the main race in 10th,

finished eighth.

I've gone for a six out of 10 for Charles.

Again, a very difficult grade

because how much do you put on the fact

that he's delivered in a car

that his world champion and statistical goate teammate

has been able to do nothing in,

but equally, maybe it's the expectation of Ferrari,

even though clearly it was a terrible car this weekend,

but he did have it, he had highs in terms of getting through

to Q3, which I can't believe that's a high now,

but it is based on how bad that car

did seem this weekend.

But also, there were moments where

went off from wide, had spins and things like that.

Of course, a very tricky car underneath him.

That's why I've gone for a six out of 10.

My God, like Ferrari, please.

You know, I want my-

You're saying Ferrari, please.

Well, I want my flop point,

but I also, I need you for Abu Dhabi, please.

Like, can't have you finishing eighth and 18th

or whatever, like 18th and 12th.

I somehow don't think that they will be there

in Abu Dhabi if that's the performance they put down in Qatar.

You know, Abu Dhabi has become a more,

a more sort of fast and ferocious circuit

with medium to high speed corners now.

So no chance for Ariane helping you in the slightest.

My guy really apologised for that one in advance.

I've also gone for a six out of 10 for Charle-Claire.

It might feel like quite a high grade

considering the expectation of what we,

you know, think that Charle-Claire should be able

to do, but yeah, double Q3 appearance.

We'll take that.

Massive spin, really glad he didn't hit the wall.

Scruffy sprint, but overall,

I genuinely think the Ferrari was,

well, I mean, as we said,

Hamilton's getting knocked out in Q1 both sessions.

Seventh or eighth fastest team.

I can't believe I'm saying this, it's ridiculous.

So I think Charle has actually, you know,

done a pretty good job considering.

And yeah, six out of 10 is what I'm giving him.

The fans gave him a six as well.

Oscar Piatri started sprinting first, finished first,

started the main race in first, finished second.

So this one is the most comprehensive 10 out of 10

in the world.

I thought you were gonna say this was difficult then, my God.

This is one of the easiest 10s I've ever given.

And I am about to pop the F off at the fan rating.

Say it now, say it now.

The fans gave Oscar a nine.

Rageous.

How are you blaming him?

Maybe there are some people that blame him

for not coming into the pits,

but God forbid Oscar trusts his team

to tell him to come into the pits.

He doesn't know that maybe the lap cat, I don't know.

Anyway, I'm not putting any blame on Oscar for not pitting

and he drove a perfect weekend.

Minus the strategy, I put one tiny foot wrong,

which could have ended terribly

when he hit the gravel strip.

Same place as where Lando did.

So far that phenomenal weekend from Oscar.

He deserved to have the entire clean sweep

of quali and races and he didn't get it

and it was all down to McLaren, 10 out of 10.

I really thought you were gonna say,

oh, this is close, because it's definitely not.

It's the easiest 10 of the whole lot, faultless weekend.

You can't blame him for the McLaren error

of him just following the orders

of basically telling him to stay out

and abide by the strategy that his team wanted.

He was faultless all weekend, brilliant.

He's been on such a poor run of form as well

that you kind of questioned,

will he ever even beat Lando again?

Well, he didn't just beat him.

He absolutely was comprehensively faster than him

all weekend, he was absolutely brilliant.

Even with the error, he finished,

what, was it like seven seconds off?

Yeah, eight seconds off the lead.

When he basically lost an entire pit stop,

he was unbelievable.

He was driving like he'd just gone off in Australia.

That was the level of demon that Oscar Piatri

was putting down on the track.

And he flew away from Lando when they were

in that situation of we both need to now push.

Brilliant, qualified first.

Yes, McLaren had the best car this weekend

and it should have been an easy one too for them both.

Because it's just their track.

And Oscar Piatri loves this track.

But my God, it was an absolutely exceptional drive

from him and gutting for him.

Yeah, really, really getting for him obviously

with the situation that he found himself in

because it's obviously cost him big points

and a good shot of going for the championship.

Yep, it's cost him dearly.

And I would love to have been a fly on the wall

in that debrief because I feel like

there would have been some very strong words

out of the Oscar Piatri camp.

I've now got a theory which I'm gonna

shamelessly tease another podcast

because we're gonna record like a bonus episode

that go on YouTube and some bonus episodes

about basically the three title contenders.

And there's something I didn't say in the podcast

about Oscar Piatri and like a theory

or like an interesting thing

I wanna throw into the mix for Oscar Piatri.

So look forward to that one when we record this.

You've teased me.

I don't even know what you're gonna say.

No, you don't, I know.

That's ridiculous.

I'm absolutely, I'm flipping a coffee table right now

if I'm listening along.

Well, you just have to listen.

Oh my God, an absolute cliffhanger

from Tom Bellingham there.

Disgraceful scenes.

Look forward to the theory.

It better be good now, mate.

You can't hype it up, it might be good.

So anyway, the fans, as I said earlier,

and I'll say it again just to repeat,

gave Oscar a nine out of 10.

What are you doing?

Tell me, tell me, relax.

They're allowed to shoot us,

but not the other way around.

This is not how it works.

Lando Norris, started sprinting third, finished third,

started the main race in second, finished fourth.

Oh, it's another difficult grade.

I'm gonna go for a seven.

It's between a seven and an eight.

I don't, maybe I'll change my mind

when I convince myself

because I'm like seven,

maybe it's too harsh,

but I do think it wasn't the greatest weekend from Lando.

And of course, there'll be people shouting now going,

it wasn't his fault.

It wasn't his fault.

Of course it wasn't his fault

that they did the situation.

But what I'm seeing here

is McLaren were comfortably the fastest package

all weekend.

We saw that in the hands of Oscar Piastri.

The very least Lando should be finishing second

on the road in everything.

In the sprint, he made some errors

and got pipped by George Russell,

which when he finished third in the sprint.

Of course, now you can argue

he's in championship conservation mode

and all he of course had to do was finish third

in all the remaining like competitive sessions

of the sprint on the two races to do that.

Then in the main race, of course,

I understand why he didn't do anything too crazy

at the start.

Doesn't really matter too much

if he loses a position to Max.

But I think his pace was nowhere near Oscars

when it mattered.

And I think it was one McLaren amazing pit stop

away from him basically appearing.

If he didn't have the same pit stop as Oscar had before

he's in that McLaren train with Alonzo.

And who knows if he'd come out behind Russell

who knows where he would have finished

would have been easy to pass.

I don't know.

It's all if, but some maybes.

But Norris for me, he's been on this amazing run

and I think it's credit to him

because he's been absolutely brilliant since then.

But for me, this was his worst race since Baku.

And that's no discredit because his ceiling

has been really high

because he's been driving so well.

But we kind of maybe saw a little bit

of the lander that we saw at the start

of the season with a few mistakes here and there

and not being able to keep the pace with Piastri.

He's finished how far behind Piastri.

Like 15 odd seconds.

So yeah, not as fine as we get.

Not the most comparable thing though

when you think of where he came out.

But that's on him as well.

He was stuck behind Piastri.

So like if he'd stuck to his gearbox

he would have been fine.

Did you watch Qatar?

How easy was it to run behind someone's gearbox?

No, but he dropped quite a way behind him.

He did, he dropped I think four or five seconds in the end.

I've gone for an eight out of 10 for Lando Norris.

I can't give a three point swing

between Oscar and Lando personally.

I don't think it was a disaster of a weekend for Lando.

The places where I've downgraded him

was sprint qualifying,

where of course a qualifying third

and made that mistake, didn't he,

on this final flying lap,

which he bailed out of,

which I think was the right decision

but he still made a mistake

and therefore didn't even start on the front row,

then had to settle into a very boring

sprint race and finish third.

And then in the main race, again,

this is a McLaren fumble.

Without that, Lando finishes third.

Yes, Max beat him off the line

off the cleaner side of the grid

and that was that, right?

You know, I do downgrade him for the fact

that Lando wasn't able to keep P2.

And then the pace was, yeah,

slightly slower than Oscar.

Wasn't catastrophically slower than Oscar.

It was just, it was slow enough

that he couldn't get the buffer that Oscar could.

But again, I still blame McLaren for that.

That's not Lando's fault that he's having

to build this ridiculous buffer

because of McLaren deciding not to pit him.

Is there more, and this is more of a question,

I don't know where I sit on this,

is there more blame put on Lando to be like,

screw it, I'm coming in, what the hell,

why would I stay out when the safety car came out?

I don't know.

Perhaps, and probably more likely, is that they,

and I think Zach Brown kind of alluded to it,

that they decided before the race

what they were gonna do.

And they don't think on the fly,

they just decide, pre-race,

and then just let it pan out,

which to me screams fairness again.

But I'm gonna go for an eight out of 10 for Lando.

I think, yeah, the two-point difference

is kind of where I sit between the two drivers.

The fans gave Lando a seven.

Finally, who is our P-1?

For me, my P-1 is undoubtedly Oscar Piatri.

Yes, Carlos had a phenomenal race

and is a very strong, honorable mention.

But Oscar Piatri, it should have been 33 points to him.

He should have been 12 points behind Lando

going into Abu Dhabi.

Instead, McLaren, we know what McLaren did.

We're not gonna say it anymore.

Don't need to go into any more detail.

But I think Oscar put down

probably his strongest weekend of his entire career

and he doesn't get the rewards for it much.

Of course, he has gained some,

but he hasn't gained what he should have gained.

Indeed, yeah, it's easily Oscar Piatri.

He was just faultless this weekend

and yeah, an amazing weekend from him

and didn't get the result he deserved,

which is a real shame.

But of course, still has an opportunity

going into that final round, of course.

An opportunity, but he needs some craziness to help him

and we are a matter of days away

from the start of this Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend.

Of course, Oscar will start a few hours later

because he won't be even participating in FP-1.

So let's hope that doesn't affect him all too much.

That is it.

Thank you everybody for watching and listening as always.

Our Qatar review, all of our content is done and dusted.

One race weekend to go.

Tommy, final thoughts.

Final thoughts, as I mentioned,

we're gonna do some like a special episode.

We're gonna do our usual streaming and things as well.

Like it's gonna be such an exciting weekend.

I also wanna just like,

you know, it's all pointless as you say

because kind of trying to tell people what not to do,

it's not my position to say it.

But what I will say is,

regardless of who you support as a Formula One fan,

just soak up and enjoy the fact

that we're getting three drivers going into the final race

because this is once in a blue moon stuff rarely ever

happens.

Blue moons happen every four years or?

Well, 10 years, 15 years.

Yeah, it's nearly impossible that we see three drivers

going into final race.

So like, enjoy it as much as you can

because we literally could be like 20, 30 years before

we're here again.

Yeah, because Charlotte Claire's gonna be a sort of

10 time champion of the world by that point.

What I will say, it's quite funny

that of all the people,

Tommy is the one who will not enjoy a single lap

of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

You literally sent me a reel

about two hours ago of a guy watching a football match

with a duvet or whatever it was,

a sheet over the screen and then peering through

to see what was happening ever so often.

That is you.

That will be you throughout the entirety

of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend.

And if that's the way you enjoy Formula One

when your driver is fighting for the world championship,

then fair enough, I'll watch it all

and don't worry, I'll be able to review what happens.

Tommy won't be able to talk

and that's just the beauty of it.

So enjoy it if you can, if you can.

Don't worry about it.

Don't enjoy it.

It's up to you.

It's your life.

All right.

Thanks everybody.

Lots of love.

See you soon.

Goodbye.

For the final weekend of the year.

Goodbye.

Go get your Manchester and Dublin tickets

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