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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Beyond Podcast
01:40
with Matt and Tommy.
01:42
Azerbaijan has arrived.
01:45
I have arrived in my Ferrari top.
01:47
Tommy, you have arrived in your Red Bull Leads.
01:50
Is that a Leads team thing?
01:51
No, it's just Red Bull.
01:53
I was getting confused with your football jerseys
01:54
and your actual Red Bull stuff, but here we are.
01:58
It's practice, it's done and dusted.
02:00
And we've got a few things.
02:02
It was actually quite a chaotic Friday practice.
02:07
Yeah, there's a lot of incidents,
02:09
lots of going down run-off areas and things,
02:11
bit of track damage and all sorts
02:14
and some more papaya incidents,
02:18
but not actually that controversial.
02:20
But still, not a good day for McLaren, which is unusual.
02:23
Not controversial, but meme-worthy, that is for sure.
02:26
Right, let's get straight into free practice one,
02:29
where the top three were Norris Piatri and Leclerc.
02:33
So the big talking point, at least for 25 or so minutes
02:37
during free practice one, was that there was a damaged curb,
02:40
which caused a pretty long delay,
02:42
shock, Baku having problems with their circuit,
02:45
not the first nor last time, we will probably ever see that.
02:48
But it was a weird one, wasn't it?
02:50
Because you had a few cars, I think signs was the last one
02:52
that we saw go over it.
02:54
And it was this kind of rubbery strip thing
02:56
that a marshal tried to pull out of the ground
02:59
and really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
03:03
and realized that that probably isn't the bodge job
03:05
that we need to be doing in Formula One
03:08
if a curb is literally coming out from its seams.
03:12
This is why, as well, that I clarified
03:15
when we were talking about my red flag prediction,
03:18
I even clarified, I was like, it has to be caused by a crash
03:21
because Baku love like a,
03:24
Baku, they love like a truck crashing into a bridge
03:28
or like the advertising barrier falling down
03:31
or something like that.
03:32
And this is exactly what caused the delay,
03:34
but it actually worked quite well in Oscar Piastri's favor
03:38
because otherwise, he'd have lost quite a lot of track time.
03:43
Yes, so he had a pretty big issue, actually,
03:46
Ted Kravitz was saying in the pit lane,
03:48
he's done and dusted, he's not gonna get any track time.
03:50
Thankfully for Oscar's sake, he was able to get out
03:53
pretty much at the time when they all got back out again.
03:56
Yeah, so Oscar really didn't lose much time,
03:59
which was good for him.
04:02
But yeah, just a lot of mistakes out there,
04:04
a lot of brushings of the wall.
04:05
We spoke about your red flag prediction.
04:08
I can't believe we have not locked in zero points for you
04:12
after these two practice sessions that we've seen
04:15
because there were so many glances of the wall.
04:18
There was even one where one of the McLean's
04:20
will get into it, was crabbing.
04:21
So you are lucky, sir, but I don't think it's over.
04:24
I really don't, we've still got Saturday and Sunday.
04:28
Yeah, it shows that this is a circuit that punishes.
04:33
We've seen that in the past and there's a reason
04:36
why it was a crazy prediction in the first place
04:38
is because we do see a lot of people making mistakes here.
04:41
It's very rare that we see the Baku,
04:45
even the practice sessions without incident
04:47
because there's nowhere to go that once you go off,
04:49
you're either going into the wall
04:51
or bailing into the runoff,
04:53
which we saw a lot of people make
04:56
that kind of judgment where they decide
04:59
right at the last minute,
05:00
and actually if I take this corner,
05:02
I'm going to go into the wall,
05:03
so I'll just bail down the runoff
05:04
for quite a few drivers did that, didn't it?
05:06
Your goat did as well, that's at one point, didn't it?
05:09
Probably worth mentioning as well
05:10
before we get into more practice shenanigans
05:12
that the C6 tie is here, Pirelli have brought,
05:17
the softest of soft tires for this weekend,
05:20
which combined with I think the track
05:22
just generally being grippier as well,
05:25
we're seeing a lot faster lap times
05:27
than what we saw if you compare it to last year
05:30
at this point in the weekend.
05:31
I think it's three seconds quicker than what we had seen.
05:34
So there's going to be a lot of chats in there
05:37
about this new soft tire once again around a circuit
05:41
that I don't think it's the highest of degradation
05:44
of tracks, but with that step softer,
05:47
I'm hoping that there will be maybe slightly
05:50
more variation in the strategy,
05:51
perhaps a two stop, ooh, maybe.
05:55
But then again, we've got rain in the air as well
05:57
potentially for tomorrow.
05:59
It looks like there's more chance on Saturday than Sunday
06:01
that we could get a little bit of a sprinkling
06:03
for qualifying, but yeah, it's interesting to see
06:07
just how much faster they're going at the moment.
06:10
Let's head to free practice two.
06:19
Okay, I'll take it all back with me.
06:20
You're like rain off Saturday and Sunday now.
06:24
Take the FP2 result.
06:26
Absolutely, I think I saw about 30% chance of rain.
06:30
Red flag conditions now, that's what we need.
06:32
Free practice two to be the result,
06:34
but it's Hamilton, Leclerc and Russell, the top three.
06:38
A very crazy session, it has to be said.
06:41
You had Lando Norris going in the wall first and foremost,
06:44
probably the biggest point of conversation here
06:47
is that yep, just lost the back end slightly,
06:49
slapped the wall with his left rear and that was it.
06:53
So sort of suspension has collapsed slightly
06:55
and he's crabbing along the,
06:57
well, crabbing across literally the entire rest of the lap.
07:01
So not the best for Lando, he said after practice
07:04
that it would have been nice to get
07:05
some high fuel running in.
07:07
And of course, you need that data, need that knowledge,
07:10
not the end of the world for him,
07:11
but if you compare say, most drivers getting
07:14
in the low 20 laps completed and Lando only did seven.
07:18
Well yeah, what a change of fortune
07:21
five minutes into FP1, we were discussing,
07:24
oh, this is bad for Piastri,
07:26
he's not gonna have much running compared to his teammate.
07:29
And actually, he's ended up with more,
07:33
fair bit more than Lando in the end,
07:36
because of course Lando only managing seven laps,
07:38
Oscar managing 22 in that session.
07:42
And of course, Oscar getting the kind of good fortune
07:47
for him in terms of being able
07:50
to not miss too much time in FP1.
07:54
So yeah, it's not our deal for Lando,
07:56
I'd be amazed if they are 10th and 12th,
08:00
I'll be amazed if they're even 3rd and 4th, 4th or 5th.
08:05
But it gives the others a chance
08:07
and it certainly keeps people guessing into qualifying,
08:11
which is what we wanna see more of, isn't it?
08:13
Yeah, I think collectively,
08:14
just McLaren in general lacking obviously
08:16
a little bit of data, Piastri was slightly
08:18
on the back foot as we mentioned in FP1,
08:21
and he missed out on maybe three or four laps
08:22
compared to the rest of the competition.
08:25
And then Lando missing, let's say 15 or so laps
08:28
compared to again the drivers around him.
08:30
That's just data generally that McLaren will be missing
08:33
compared to the other teams.
08:36
I will say that when we look at that order,
08:38
you've got Hamilton, Leclerc, Russell, Antonelli, and Bearman,
08:41
I would love to get just completely into delusional land
08:46
that Ferrari are gonna challenge for pole
08:50
But I really don't think this is at all representative
08:54
of what we're gonna see tomorrow and Sunday.
08:56
Russell had to bail out of a lap.
08:58
You've obviously got Norris who had,
09:00
he made that mistake, don't get me wrong,
09:01
but he was looking lightning quick up until that point,
09:04
at least in FP1, he was looking very good.
09:07
And then Oscar, can you really think
09:08
that he's a second off what Hamilton's put down?
09:11
So I genuinely, I'd love to get flag around me.
09:15
I'm trying desperately to-
09:18
You put the brochure on, but not the flag yet.
09:20
Yeah, I'm actually switching my brain on for once,
09:22
rather than just getting carried away.
09:23
Then the flag will be on, if they top FP3 as well.
09:25
Oh yeah, if we top FP3, then it's game over.
09:27
That's pole secured.
09:30
But it just, it's hard to believe just yet.
09:33
And mainly as well, because I know
09:34
that I've predicted Charle-Claire to be big flop.
09:38
So I know something's gonna go wrong at some point.
09:40
So that's, again, another reason
09:42
to just hold fire ever so slightly.
09:47
Did McLaren tell Oscar to hit the wall in free practice too?
09:51
No, they didn't. Obviously a nod to the meme.
09:56
Obviously not, but of course, everyone was gonna jump on that.
10:00
As soon as that happened, the timing was hilarious,
10:05
The fact that it was immediate
10:07
as soon as Lando had his incident,
10:09
Oscar straight out on his lap.
10:12
The fact that he was the first driver
10:15
to then hit the wall after Lando
10:17
just bought all the kind of memes back from Monza going,
10:20
oh, let's keep it fair.
10:22
Oscar, you have to crash now as well.
10:25
But thankfully for Oscar, didn't cause anything too much.
10:29
But yeah, difficult day for McLaren still.
10:34
Even though they are gonna be up there
10:37
no doubt fighting for pole position
10:39
and it's not complete curtains for them.
10:42
I don't think it's a situation like a,
10:46
do I say Montreal where they were really struggling
10:49
and they obviously weren't even on the podium there.
10:52
I'd be amazed if that happened again.
10:53
But yeah, still difficult for McLaren.
10:58
And I mean, I'd personally take that order
11:02
from FB2 into qualifying.
11:04
I'd love to see that, like what a grid that would be.
11:07
That would be sensational, wouldn't it?
11:09
Hamilton versus Leclerc for the win
11:11
to get Ferrari's first win of the season.
11:14
And Hamilton trying to literally get his first podium
11:16
of the season and potentially right at the front.
11:19
No, stop it, Tommy.
11:21
Why would you even start making me believe and dream?
11:25
Also, another thing to mention as we've been saying
11:27
McLaren struggling and having a lot of problems.
11:31
Another one being that as of recording right now
11:33
Piastri has been summoned to the stewards
11:35
for a yellow flag infringement.
11:38
Tommy, do you have more on the ground?
11:41
No, because they've not really talked about it.
11:44
I don't even see it.
11:46
No, they didn't show it, they didn't show it.
11:47
Which makes me think it's a nothing incident.
11:49
I mean, this is gonna age badly when he gets,
11:51
you know, he has to start from the back of the grid
11:54
by the time this podcast goes out.
11:56
But normally with these things, you know,
12:00
they don't tend to do too much.
12:02
If it's a red flag, absolutely.
12:06
Ollie Berman, of course, fell foul to that
12:08
where he had that red flag incident in Monaco
12:11
and it still meant that he had a grid drop.
12:15
And yeah, if it's a yellow flag infringement,
12:17
unless it's something horrendously dangerous,
12:21
I'd be amazed if he had any kind of like penalty
12:24
or anything, mainly just because I feel like
12:26
if it had been something like really major,
12:28
of course, he is, you know, the championship leader
12:30
that this would be being posted all over socials
12:33
and everything, and oh my God, like this is crucial,
12:36
like this could be a big, big moment.
12:38
But as, yeah, as of recording,
12:40
we've not really seen anything from that.
12:42
It was just a kind of throwaway comment in practice.
12:47
Yes, I am just having a quick scour through
12:49
to make sure that he hasn't just got a 10 place penalty
12:53
for the race, but now I'm not seeing anything just yet.
12:57
Question from P1Patreon member Breeze3.
12:59
How much is Matt regretting
13:01
and or celebrating flopping Leclerc?
13:03
It's Friday, says the man who's also been excited
13:08
by Friday's many, many occasions.
13:12
I, as I said, I don't think it's representative.
13:14
I don't think we can get too excited right now.
13:16
Ferrari, yes, they've topped free practice too, one too.
13:21
That's all they can sort of be asked to do,
13:24
but they're not one and a half seconds down the road
13:26
when I can genuinely feel confident that they will,
13:29
you know, they've got a step on the opposition.
13:32
They brought a small upgrade this weekend,
13:34
but nothing to write home about.
13:36
So now, I still think McLaren are fastest.
13:38
Tommy, I do, I'm sorry.
13:40
I know everyone wants me to get excited
13:41
just to be let down when they watch the watch along.
13:44
Oh, let's tune him to Matt, he's crying now.
13:47
So I'm trying to main,
13:48
just trying to sort of balance out that mental health.
13:51
Yes, I don't think for a second
13:53
that Ferrari gonna be half second clear of the field,
13:55
but you do think this kind of circuit would suit Ferrari.
14:00
It's interesting what Hamilton said about,
14:03
you know, going into the end of the session,
14:07
he was kind of saying that they tried something
14:09
a little bit unusual and it works.
14:13
So maybe for the first time in what feels like forever,
14:16
Lewis Hamilton kind of got a setup
14:19
that he felt happy with and comfortable with
14:22
knowing Ferrari, they'll probably change the entire thing
14:25
for qualifying and he'll be, you know, struggling
14:28
and they'll question why they changed it.
14:30
But yeah, so far, they do look confident.
14:34
We know how good Charles is around here.
14:37
He can definitely challenge for pole position,
14:40
but I mean, if he does get pole,
14:44
if he does get pole,
14:44
you will not be regretting it one bit.
14:46
In fact, you'll probably be going here.
14:48
I already said, I don't care if the flop point goes,
14:51
if it means that Charles Leclerc win,
14:53
not a pole position.
14:54
Yeah, you don't want poles anymore, you just,
14:56
I want to win, thank you.
14:59
Another question about Ferrari, of course, slosh 4,000.
15:02
Do you think Ferrari will keep this momentum?
15:04
I think, again, you said about Hamilton as well.
15:07
That's an important thing to bring into this.
15:08
That's the one learning I'd say from this
15:11
is that Hamilton has looked on the pace of Leclerc,
15:14
which is something we've not seen that much this season.
15:18
I'm actually just reading something
15:20
about the Piastri instance.
15:21
I've seen some more.
15:23
So no, so there's no,
15:25
so he has gone to the stewards as of recording.
15:28
So I've now seen what the incident actually is.
15:30
So basically, Gazzly had gone off at turn one.
15:35
If you've watched the F2 crash,
15:38
you'll have seen the crazy rejoin that happened there
15:43
where, you know, the driver goes off at turn one.
15:46
They obviously yellow flagged it.
15:49
And yeah, Piastri basically continues
15:51
with quite a lot of speed through the yellow flag.
15:56
So maybe this isn't over.
15:59
Tommy, I need to see that.
16:00
You can't say maybe this isn't over
16:02
after saying categorically
16:03
that there will be no penalty from practice.
16:05
Where are you seeing this?
16:07
I need to do a live reaction right now.
16:10
I can't find a video.
16:11
I've just got screenshots.
16:14
That's really useful isn't it?
16:17
As you said, the championship leader
16:19
and we haven't got a replay of it.
16:22
Let me see if we can find a...
16:23
We're probably looking at some parents
16:25
in the pick garage instead.
16:28
Okay, so yeah, Gazzli's there and he's gone through.
16:32
So has he set a green sector or something?
16:35
Is that what the issue is?
16:36
I guess the issue is that he's not slowed down.
16:40
Yeah, so Gazzli, yeah, is coming back.
16:42
So he's, yeah, Piastri has a responsibility
16:45
to slow down for sure.
16:47
It just depends on how much he slowed down.
16:50
Because drivers can get away with marginal
16:53
sort of slowing downs.
16:55
I mean, as I mentioned about normally,
16:57
it's the red flag is the worst one.
16:59
But of course, you know, Lewis Hamilton,
17:01
even though that was a quite unique incident
17:03
at Zandvoort got his kind of grid dropped, didn't he?
17:06
And that was yellow flags,
17:08
although that was a very unusual situation.
17:10
The fact that it was kind of waved yellows
17:13
around the final corner.
17:15
Yeah, and double waved yellows, was it single wet?
17:17
I'm sure they'll absolutely not
17:20
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17:22
when Oscar Piastri gets a 10 second penalty for it.
17:25
10 second penalty, that's impressive,
17:26
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Worth mentioning Antonelli and Bearman.
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I know we said about Bearman being in P5,
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but both of our good surprises,
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fourth and fifth, looking pretty strong.
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I'd say Bearman, of course, more so
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because he's in a hash.
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Antonelli, yes, he was 900s or so off Russell,
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but Russell I think was gonna get right up
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in sort of the Lewis Hamilton times,
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So yeah, Bearman looking good.
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Bearman is looking good,
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although this is the situation that we've got here.
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Yeah, as long as he doesn't crash,
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he'll have any kind of incident
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because of course the penalty points.
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He, of course, on the medium tyre,
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which we're in a very unusual situation again
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where it's looking like the medium,
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maybe quicker again than the soft tyre,
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which we've had this before,
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haven't we over Pirelli's new soft tyre
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that ends up being no quicker
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and actually worse?
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So whether we end up with another situation,
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was it Imola where they were running the mediums
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in basically the final shootout of qualifying
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to try and gain some lap time?
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Who knows, but Bearman, yeah, doing a very impressive lap,
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but I also think that shows that the medium tyre
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is gonna be a very quick tyre
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that we may even see during qualifying.
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And the question people on Patreon member BadgerSprite,
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what's going on with the C6 tyres?
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Now, I guess the issue that,
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I mean, Pirelli have many issues
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when it comes to trying to make the perfect tyre
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but of course they've taken a step softer,
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which is something we both celebrated,
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try something different,
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going for something that might force a two stop.
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But the problem is the step
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between the C6 and the C5 is so marginal,
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that's why we are seeing
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the mediums potentially used over the softs
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in qualifying as well,
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because the softs just can't hang on for an entire lap
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without there being a little bit of performance loss,
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and then that's where the mediums come in
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as a more sort of well-rounded tyre
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that they can rely on and to push on.
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So again, I know how difficult a job Pirelli have
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but it does feel like it's too small of a gap
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that it doesn't really,
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it almost sort of whittles you down
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to just two compounds of the medium and the hard
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when we then go to racing on Sunday.
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Which is exactly why I will keep harping on
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about this rule that they need
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where they have to use all three compounds,
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because then it completely eradicates that,
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because if they're going,
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if their whole kind of thing
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to make things more entertaining
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is to bring a new tyre into the mix
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and then the teams aren't even going to bother using it,
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and it's just basically pointless.
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There's no point in them even doing it,
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it's just a complete waste,
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whereas if they had to use it,
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even if it would be a little bit almost comical and silly
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and they might have to,
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some people may go for,
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I'm thinking Haas because they've loved that this year,
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Pitt literally do one lap on it,
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Pitt get the mediums on and go long,
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and then you go for the hards later.
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You know, that would be an interesting thing to see
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and it creates new strategies and things,
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but alas, you know,
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if we have this set rule
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where they can just bin off
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a complete compound of tyres realistically,
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then it doesn't really matter what Pirelli bring
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and they can make all this effort going,
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oh yeah, we're going to get softer tyres,
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it's going to be really exciting.
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We might get a two-stop
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because the teams will just go,
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well, actually no thanks, we're not going to use them.
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Hmm, let's see how that one unfolds.
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Fingers crossed we get a two-stop.
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Every time we get predicted a two-stop strategy,
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somehow they will leak out a one, as we all know.
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P1 Patriot member Captain Ofs3420,
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is it an inevitability that at least one person's final
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quality run will get compromised by a yellow flag?
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I mean, they normally do go a bit more extreme,
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don't they, in the practice sessions
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because they know that they can push it
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maybe a little harder,
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but it does show that you're going to have to,
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I don't think you can kind of rest on your laurels
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like in other circuits where you maybe go
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right at the end of the session
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and you could risk doing maybe potentially one lap.
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We saw Lando last year get caught out
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with something like that, didn't we,
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where he got caught out by a yellow flag,
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missed the cut in practice,
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that's right, in qualifying,
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and he didn't end up going through, so.
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He missed the cut in practice, that's crazy.
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How do you manage that?
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Is the 107% rule in qualifying, what I say in fact?
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Yeah, maybe, but yeah, this is the thing with this
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is that drivers are going to have to make sure
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they do get bankers in and things
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because so it can easily happen.
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You're not going to want to go into the final run
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with not having a lap time set
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because it could be absolute curtains
27:30
if we get a yellow or a red flag
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because then you've basically not going to set a lap time
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at all and it could cost you big,
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which we've seen in the past year.
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Yeah, I don't think it necessarily is just Q3
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where we're obviously thinking that poll will be set,
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but I think Q1 will be full of probably mistakes
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going down the runoff and things like that
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because at the end of the day,
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quality is when the drivers will risk the most.
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This is obviously where as well,
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they won't potentially turn out of some corners
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where they've had a minor lock up
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in order to try and set a lap time.
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So that's where we'll see potentially more yellow flags.
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That's the beauty of Baku.
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It's great to watch in qualifying.
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You have to risk it to gain lap time at certain places
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where it's rising over a little hill
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or if it's into the castle section,
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it's do you have the minerals
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that there are so many places where things can go wrong
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that maybe not necessarily is the final quality run
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but I just think it's going to be something
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that will keep us on our toes throughout Saturday.
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Teed up beautifully.
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Ready for the weekend ahead of us
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for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
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We'll be live on Twitch and YouTube.
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As always, we'd love to see you there.
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Tommy, what are your final thoughts?
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Final thoughts, I was really hoping
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that we'd get our lovely live reaction to some news
28:47
because Oscar Piester will be speaking
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to the stewards right this second
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because he is literally in there
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but alas, we don't know at the moment.
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So will it be crucial for the championship
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we're about to find out?
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We are about to if we continue the podcast
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for another 15 minutes, but no, we will react.
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Of course, we may even make a social video
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if things do change, but until then, we'll see you very soon.
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