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It is a very dark day to be Tom Bellingham.

You don't have many dark days on this podcast,

so I'll try not to bask in that glory because I have said many times

that I pray if you're downfall and this is a moment in which it's definitely happened.

But at the same time, of course, from a wider championship perspective,

it is devastating for the entertainment level of this championship

because we've lost a soldier.

We have, absolutely.

If you love him or hate him,

Matt Sustappen provides the entertainment, doesn't he,

for a lot of Formula One in general.

So the fact that he was in this championship fight

and it was kind of keeping McLaren on their toes was such a fascinating thing.

But, you know, even you being the optimistic one can now surely admit it's done.

Well, we'll get into it. We'll get into it.

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OK, let's get into Q1,

which I know Tommy will not want to speak about in the slightest.

But the bottom five were Verstappen,

Ocon, Colla Pinto, Sonoda and Bortoletto.

So the big talking point has to be, of course,

Esteban Ocon wants to get.

I knew you were going to say that.

I literally knew.

We've got the same brain.

Yeah, because I did it last time as well.

It's Max Verstappen out in Q1 the first time in his entire career

where he has been knocked out in Q1 due to his own pure pace,

like putting a lap time on the board other times.

He's been out six times, I think in total,

and the others have been either due to no time set

or there's been a DNF due to engine problem or a crash.

So this is madness, to be honest with you.

He was on the back foot.

The first lap wasn't good enough.

We thought maybe he was just, I don't know, ramping up.

And of course, the track was evolving quite fast in Q1.

Of course, after the rain that we'd seen before the sprint

and then it finally drying out.

But of course, it's still being a green track.

So not a lot of grip down.

But he then sort of toodled around and he was,

he had a lap on the soft.

Then he was doing cool laps to then get ready

to essentially be last across the line

or at least as close as possible

because he knew that the track was evolving.

So he wanted to stay out there and be sure to have a lap

at the end, but it wasn't good enough.

He wasn't able to beat Nico Hülkenberg

to make it through to Q2,

which I don't think would be on anybody's predictions.

Just utterly crazy to see this happen.

It is, it is crazy.

Yeah, as you say, when he was kind of cruising round,

having, you know, not done a lap that was good enough

to get through, he was cruising around.

F1 were playing his radio messages where he was, you know,

you could tell he was panicked and saying,

you know, the car's not right, all this kind of stuff.

He obviously has been complaining about

all these kind of things many, many times this season.

But for him to go out in Q1, like you say,

the first time it's happened in his career

where he's just been literally slow.

And he's insane.

Like I just, I just don't understand this red bull

in the fact that neither does he and this is the problem

this year and why it's flopping and changing so much.

He'll win a race and well, he'll win like three

on the bounce or whatever and be looking great.

And he's had the most pole positions this year.

And then suddenly they are literally

the worst car on the grid.

I mean, Yuki Sonoda has literally qualified last

because Bortlatter wasn't racing and it's the closest

to the step and he's been probably all year in qualifying.

Yeah, that's not a good, good reading for Yuki Sonoda.

The first time since the Japanese Grand Prix

in 2006 that both red bulls have been out in Q1

and they were very much in red field.

20 years worth of qualifying

and this has not happened once to them.

It's an absolute disaster.

There's no way of sugarcoating this.

They made changes of course after the sprint

to help the ride height of or the ride in general,

sorry, of Max's car

because he was complaining lots about it bumping

and bouncing and jumping.

And he said that the ride had improved slightly

but he was having to underdrive the car

to basically keep it in a straight line

and you know that there's something majorly wrong

when Max struggles this much

and yeah, it is going to be the hardest race for Max.

I know that he won from last, from 17th last year

and he starts one position further forward

so championship back on.

No, I'm kidding.

But of course he's not anywhere near the same car.

It doesn't look like it's going to rain tomorrow.

It will be a pretty decent drive

if he even manages to score a handful of points.

Yeah, I completely agree.

Like it's going to be impossible I think for Max to do anything

like we saw last year.

Doesn't have the car underneath him.

He's really struggling with the pace

and as you say, like what has happened to this weather

that has been promised?

You know, we're having warnings of everyone stay inside

because it's going to be so wet

and then we had almost a dry sprint minus one wet curb

which obviously caught out a few drivers.

To be fair, the back straight was pretty wet.

And the back straight wet, yeah, yeah.

And then yeah, a completely dry qualifying.

It's been quite mad.

So much for the like, all the graphics

everyone was pasting a 95% chance of rain all weekend.

But Brazil has still delivered both in the sprint

and also qualifying for a lot of drama

and a lot of entertainment.

Yeah, some more entertaining than others

if you're a Max fan.

A question from Fergie's right ref.

Should Max change the engine, the setup and start from last?

It really does depend whether Red Bull are completely

in the dark as to why their car is clearly not working.

I think that there's a hundred percent

the right decision to take everything

that they need to for Max, put in a new engine,

change the setup to something

that might be a little bit better

even maybe just revert to what they had previously

where Max was complaining about the riotite

but at least he finished fourth in the sprint.

There needs to be radical changes

because whatever happened today

cannot happen again tomorrow.

So, and of course they're in part for me

so they can't change it unless

he decides to start from the pit lane.

But I think that they have to

if Max genuinely comes away from qualifying

and goes I cannot drive this car

then if they stay there and they start 16th

and they take that track position

over Ocon, Colobinto, Sonoda and Bortoletto

there's no guarantee that he'll move forward.

No, it's not like a situation here

where we saw before that they were trying to

I think in Mexico they were trying to set the car up

for race pace which sacrificed a bit of qualifying

because we all know that Max has been

very good at qualifying this year

and has been able to put it in pole positions

but here you know it doesn't even matter

if for some reason that car was very good

in race pace because he's 16th

and probably going to have a dry race

so he'll be able to pick off a few cars

you can overtake in Brazil

but we've seen how tricky it is in 2025

so he is best off just going for something

radically different, changing the engine

but I don't know what he can do from there really

to be perfectly honest

and that's not even me being pessimistic

like he'll get some points maybe

but he's not going to like fly through the field

based on like what we've seen from the other teams

Unlikely, very unlikely even coming from me

so I can only imagine how you feel in your brain

A question from underscore Vianne

should Max drive in one of the V-Carb cars

for the rest of the season?

They have 5th and 7th on the grid V-Carb

I think that just like makes it even more

painful to see because this red bull car

is so confusing clearly

that they've obviously gone down this very extreme route

to give Max what he wants

and when it works, boy does it work

and you know Max is phenomenal

he's won races this year by like 20 seconds

but when it's bad

it's not even just like a

okay we're going to slot into like a P4, 5 or 6

it's been like horrendously bad

and this is the worst it's been

you know to be both of them out

you kind of expect Yuki to struggle

but Max to be out

it's an absolute shocker

and yeah all the torque again will shift to

should he be in the V-Carb

because they've done really well

Just chuck him in now at this point

bless you Tommy

just chuck him in

like I know that they're fighting for second in the constructors

but they're not going to fight him at all

Do they even really want to be second in the constructors?

Yes, there's some cash involved in it

but surely fourth and a bit more wind tunnel time

is not the worst solution

it would just be great fun, wouldn't it at this point?

Max is not going to win the world championship now

unless we have the most insane Grand Prix tomorrow

which actually maybe champion is not fully off yet, Tommy

let's keep some positivity

but it is not looking that way, is it?

I know this is a jokey question from Dianne

but I would love to see it

and I think a lot of people would love to see it as well

Right, before we dive into the rest of the quality session

I think it's worth mentioning

and sort of a light round of applause for the attempt

that Salba made to fix Portoletto's car

because it was so close

we thought the delay of qualifying might have given

the 10 minutes that Gabby needed to get his car put together

but sadly wasn't able to get out for presenting GP qualifying

but it was close, wasn't it?

It was looking like they actually may have been able to pull it off

It was very close

the Porsche Super Cup tried their best to delay things a little bit for Gabby

but sadly for him didn't work out

and so is your shame because he's been very impressive this season

and obviously the Brazilian fans are very happy

to have a Brazilian driver back on the grid

and he'll be starting the race in the last

Or maybe not if Max starts from the pit lane, true

and finally the mystery of Ocon in qualifying continues

while Ollie Berman was having questions

as to whether he was getting pole position

Q2, let's head to that now with the five drivers out

were Albon, Alonso, Hamilton, Stroll and Sines

Lewis Hamilton of course the big talking point from this one

13th in the end for Lewis

while Charles Leclerc at one point was on provisional pole in Q3

the Hamilton struggles continue

I think we were both of what we were in our predictions

absolutely in the boat of if there is going to be a breakthrough

performance for Hamilton

especially after the momentum

he's sort of been picking up a little bit

of course Max couldn't go his way

but just in terms of improvements within the car

the confidence and being closer to Charles

we thought it would all come to a head

and this would be it

Brazil will be the performance that we know he can deliver

but 13th just not good enough

you could see in that last sector in particular

just wrestling the car just constantly

sort of counter steering around the final corner

course had that spin as well in free practice one

don't forget and just generally

Ferrari have looked a little bit out of sorts

of course sharper in a brilliant performance

but Hamilton not the first time he's been out in Q2

of course SQ2 as well

he was knocked out indeed but I think was was worse

for Hamilton here is is the fact that it is so far behind

Charles you know we've had moments where Hamilton's

gone out in Q2 and it's not to excuse it

but when Charles may be qualified 8th or 9th

and then Hamilton squeaked squeaked through in like

11 12 something is a lot smaller

but for Charles to be up in 3rd Hamilton down

in 13th and a track that he loves and has done

so well in the past

I think that's what makes it even tougher for him

certainly as a Hamilton

I'm sure I haven't seen the post-Quality interview

but I'm imagining he will be very gutted

with that performance as well as of course

Lance Stroll in 14th but quite close to Alonso

he well I was I was getting a bit nervous

when Alonso didn't improve

because obviously there's this record now

it's well in the 30s

I'm sure it's like 34 35 in a row

that Alonso has outqualified Stroll consecutively

now and I thought Stroll might improve

but you didn't get many improveers at the end of that session

no and I think the big talking point from Q2

was not necessarily the bottom five

but Ollie Bearman being fastest

and we genuinely were questioning

whether this was some insane breakthrough

where my flop curse has had a generational

incorrectness about it

even after last time when when you predicted him

and he was fourth if he was going to go

even best so yeah

I'm a get pole now Matt cheers for that

but yeah it was a stunning performance from him in Q2

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Let's head to the final quality session

Q3 with the top 10 for tomorrow's race

Norris, Antonelli, Leclerc, Piastri, Hajar, Russell, Lawson,

Bearman, Gasly and Hülkenberg

Let's get into the first question from this segment

P1Patreon member Frankie

Is Lando proving to everyone that he is truly championship material?

For sure

Yeah, this was the question that we've asked on this podcast

We've said

you know, when the times get tough

when there's pressure on his shoulders at this point in the season

can he deliver

and can he deliver well

and quite frankly

it was a phenomenal lap from Lando

to take pole position

when he had messed up that first lap

locked up into turn one

and he could have easily sacrificed a little bit of time

put himself on the back foot

and maybe started third or fourth tomorrow

but instead

he pulled it all together

and still was nearly 4 tenths clear of Piastri

his teammate that

you'd say that half a season ago

you'd be like, wow

that's an insane gap between the two of them

but it's becoming more normal now

Lando is delivering

so unbelievably well

I said it on the watch along

but this was a lap

and a performance that you go

yes, he is world championship ready now

I think it helps

his confidence that Max has just

you know, him and Red Bull have just disintegrated

his championship challenge has gone

so there's an element of pressure gone there

and for Oscar as well

who's scrambling around

trying to find the pace he had for most of this season

but that's

you can't take anything away from Lando

because he's clearly got

the confidence in the car

that he didn't have in that first half of the season

and he's delivering to a level now that

I mean, he's literally topped every single session

in a Brazilian Grand Prix sprint weekend

where in the sprint it was slippery

he could easily have been Piastri in that situation

careering towards the wall

he wasn't

he could have easily made a poor

qualifying performance after that first

mistaken Q3

and he didn't

and he's on pole position

so

you have to say pretty

not flawless

because we just spoke about a mistake in Q3

but very close to it

very close to it

but I think

what you mentioned about the mistaken

in Q3

maybe he has gone by and we've

I think fairly criticized Lando in the past

for the mistakes that he's made under pressure

and he himself has admitted

that he's one of these drivers

that does really struggle with the pressure

and you do wonder

in previous seasons

had

you know

Lando had that moment

where he did mess up his first lap

and because at that point

it's

insane to think that Lando was

looking like

if we'd had some kind of red flag

Lando's 10th

and Oscar Piastri is on pole position

and it's another flip of the

you know the championship

but instead

Lando just delivers

an amazing lap to put four tenths on his teammate

hooks it all up

and his confidence is just sky high at the moment

not just as he won

you know the sprint

the sprint and had like this perfect weekend so far

he also you know got pole position

and won so comfortably in Mexico last time

so he's on this amazing run now

and yeah you

it's not over but you really wouldn't

bet against Lando now like he's looking

so so comfortable and I think

something you've just mentioned

the

the pressure

of having Max Verstappen in a title fight

has got to be completely different

no disrespect to Oscar Piastri

and then having your teammate Oscar Piastri

who himself is obviously struggling quite a lot

I said to the next question about Oscar himself

P1Patreon member Flyeunz

what does Piastri need to do

if he wants to bring the challenge

to Lando?

He needs to find something desperately

any anything

I think what what is

really concerning is the gap again

between them

because

had he just slotted into P2

it gives an opportunity

for a turn one dive bomb

and when he's in the lead

it's a we know how hard it is to overtake in 2025

so even if he doesn't have the pace of Lando

he could still probably win the race

you know even if Lando is quicker

and that's a trend that we've seen a lot this year

with the two McLarens

one of them is behind and quicker

but it's not always easy to pass

when there's not a huge advantage

so he really needed to get

you know P2 on the grid

to be able to go for it

it's not the

you know you'd think

he's going to just be hoping that he can

based on Lando's pace

get through to P2

and kind of

damage limitation a bit

but

I do

you know he needs to be beating Lando very very soon

if he's going to have any opportunity

because

he's just not

he's just not at the moment is he at all

he's not fourth isn't good enough

and

we

said coming into this Brazilian Grand Prix that

a second and a second is fine

but he's crashed out of the sprint

and now he starts fourth

which yes is not absolute disaster territory

it's not starting sixteenth

like some

uh... sorry mate

I just take the opportunities when I can

yeah they're rare

really apologize

yeah they're very rare

so I missed actually the first time he's gone out in Q1

what he needs to do

I mean second place again has to be the aim

I don't think he beats Lando tomorrow

doesn't seem like it's going to be a difficult

uh... in terms of conditions wise race for Lando

he'll have to negotiate Kimi Antonelli once again

make sure Kimi doesn't do anything down the inside into turn one but

Oscar

it just again it's

he's too far away for me to have any confidence they can turn this around

quick time

it's not like we have

half a season to go and this is just crept in

it's crept in at the absolute worst time for Oscar Piastri

we've looked at his previous seasons and this this part of the calendar has never

been nice to him anyway

uh... and that trend is is continuing

uh... it really is so

what Oscar needs to do is find the pace he's not got the pace

so he needs to find it in himself

to pick himself up after the sprint

and finish second tomorrow to have any hope

that Lando might have something go wrong

or his car might have some kind of problems because

right now that's what he has to kind of almost

he needs to hope for Lando to

to mess up and at the moment it's just not looking like he's going to

no not at all

okay let's move on to the man starting in second position P1PT remember sky

Sarah

what are the chances Kimi overtakes Lando and gets his first race win

the chances are low he's on the dirty side of the grid

uh... I don't think the sprint race is particularly a good example

of a like for like just purely because it was slippery and uh...

the conditions can can vary Lando was convinced that he had the worst

spot on the grid but I'm not so sure about that he got a pretty good launch

and it did very well

the chances are low as much as we have seen moves into turn one at Brazil

it's such a short run

down there it is reasonably wide you can try around the outside or down the

inside and

and kind of go side by side for the first couple of corners in the center

S's but

realistically

it's unlikely I think Kimi showed some good pace

uh... in in the sprint but again we don't have that like for like evidence

because they were never on the same tire

they were on opposite strategies

uh... but but Kimi's been really quick this weekend and as much as you look at

the

on paper and you are Kimi Antonelli P2 that's kind of

out of position in comparison to you think George Russell would maybe be

there but he's down in sixth

but Kimi is there on pure speed he's not there through luck and he's

probably

the closest challenger to Lando

that we could hope for so as much as it feels do you kind of see what I mean

it kind of feels out of place

but it's not and Kimi has been very quick and

I think that the chances are low but they're not impossible

yeah definitely I think this

you know being a two-part question what the chances Kimi overtakes Lando

and gets his first race win if you take it as two questions I think I'm

more confident that he could

potentially overtake Lando

going into turn one I don't think it would be easy

I do think it's a long shot but we have seen people

pass

into turn one

depending you know Lando has sort of starts out a lot better now

so it's that's not going to be

as much of a problem for him

but we have seen second place take the lead more than a few times into

Lagos

but in terms of like getting his first race win

the only way I see that is if you know Lando Norris's engine goes

kaput again or something because Kimi is looking

like very very quick

but Lando just looks unstoppable so it's going to be very hard for Kimi

to win but

I mean even if he just banks like a P2 or a P3

I think you know Toto is going to be

beaming at seeing how well Kimi Antonelli has done this weekend he's been really really impressive

he certainly has

next question Craig Tilley 95

how is Kimi proving to be so good at his first time in into Lagos

so true it's it's amazing what what he's managing to do

whether it's a circuit that just suits his driving style because

if you look at Kimi Antonelli this this season the

a lot of the time you talk about Formula 2 drivers and you go oh well this is a track they know

so they'll have much more confidence

Kimi's best races have been Miami and into Lagos so far

but sprint weekend sprint both sprint weekends which again is another thing

that they say

should be in theory more difficult for the rookies because they have less time to dial in

less time to you know do their their set ups and dial into the weekend

and the fact that that Kimi has been

absolutely rapid at these two sprint weekends

and that on tracks he's never driven for is really impressive and I

don't know the answer

no it's a it's a big question mark I'm wondering whether that weird food

preservative or whatever is is a band or not I think someone said that it he is

it is not banned here so yeah so there you go there's there's the answer

look at George Russell has been a massive kind of

question mark for me really like Kimi Antonelli has been delivering

massively and and perhaps it's more just the fact of George having a pretty

poor weekend

and the Merc is actually right up there as one of the fastest cars because

we've seen it before George has had a win at Brazil and I think Mercedes have

always been reasonably competitive here in the last few years so it's I think

half of one and half a dozen the other whatever the the phrase is but I just

feel as though yeah George is having a lackluster weekend and Kimi is really

just proving that that he's able to just hit the ground running with a

sprint weekend it's Mercedes are very similar to Ferrari where they just

don't really know what's going on and neither do the fans as to why

they're sometimes pretty quick there was the cold conditions usually work well

in their favor but it's mad to think George was on on mediums in that on that

last Q3 lap trying to desperately find some kind of pace but but well done to

Kimi finally well not finally but finally in terms of the top three

Charlotte Clair just need to mention him because absolutely worth

mentioning P3 I mean where did that come from then you know sprint

quali was was a disaster for for at least for my standards and for Ferrari

standards I would say but this was yeah great like provisional pole was was fast

throughout most of qualifying it was yeah just again just a complete and

utter bizarre thing to try and understand but I guess with with sprint

weekends teams are constantly learning and don't forget as well that after

the sprint race they can change the setup they can change things to hone

it in for essentially the main 25 point part of the weekend and so perhaps

Charlotte Claire found something and that's what's happened there yeah it's

very much and also as well he was saying about it the engines in the sprint

not doing what they expected to do they were saying that there was

something around that there was losing both him and Hamilton time I know

that Hamilton's obviously out in Q2 but perhaps there was a fix that

Ferrari found there as well yeah it's strange the the form how much you know

we've had different drivers doing well obviously like we'll get on to Ali

Bearman in a bit he kind of came out of nowhere like up near the front the

Ferraris weren't there in the first qualifying session we had this this

weekend on Friday and now now they're performing it well in the close case

a lot better and it was an absolutely insane and to that to that

qualifying and you know as there was always that moment where you knew if

Lando hooked it up he'd be on pole but the fact that we were looking at you

know Leclerc, Piastri, Bearman, Antonelli it kept all like changing between them

and was incredibly close and yeah shall put in another another very good lap

to be P3 when probably you know shouldn't be there with with what

machinery's got underneath them no definitely shouldn't be there Tommy

there's there's no doubt in my mind that was a phenomenal qualifying lap from

Charlotte Claire not a fanboy and all that good stuff question for people in

picture memory crazy Casper 3-1-1-2 what happened to Ali in Q3 I think it's I'm

not even going to criticize him he was four hundredths of a second from

starting fifth on the grid less than the tenth from starting fourth so for

Ali I'm questioning the Haas strategy a little bit of sending him out first both

times in Q3 the run plan felt very much very safe it felt like just just put it

like sixth mate and we'll be really happy with that we want to score points

tomorrow don't want to risk a yellow flag don't want to risk a red flag at

the end of qualifying but at the same time I would have liked to have seen

at least one of those laps be a little bit more on the aggressive side

of the run plan but that didn't happen and I feel as though that second and

final lap that we saw from Oli was perhaps a little bit of over-driving but at the

same time his teammate Esteban Occom was 17 the fact that Oli Berman even

took it to Q3 and had us wondering whether he was going to be in the top

five was was a brilliant job from him but yeah just perhaps a little bit on

the over-driving side in that final lap you do wonder if the the

excitement of like him maybe knowing after in that first run what an amazing

kind of opportunity this is to get a really really good result it may be his

soft pole in third place after the first run exactly so like he was probably

pushing it maybe you get to start to think like oh if I could be later on

the brakes here or do this you know I've got an amazing opportunity to do

it and what the what surprises me about this is you mentioned about the run

plans and yeah they played it very safe but you can argue that you know there

are any couple of positions above tenth anyway as if it's gone all wrong so

yeah not not the right opportunity for for Haas because I think it could have

been so much better for them a little bit on Berman side as well for over

driving but we're just seeing what a special talent is now and there'll

be moments where things don't go his way of course we since the since we

recorded the sprint we've found out that he's got another penalty point which

haven't spoken about yet but with the loss and incident I don't know if you

want to go further into that but very strange that they kind of both ended

up with penalties in that situation yeah so Ollie lost the penalty points

thankfully for him so he's on 9 out of 12 at the moment Ollie got the

penalty point for the squeeze on Lawson prior to the corner in the sprint which

the stewards didn't deemed to be unfair and so gave him that but then Lawson was

then penalized for the actual corner so that was they deemed him to be at fault

because of the racing rules yeah exactly for the racing rules and they

couldn't deem whether he was fully alongside Ollie Berman from all of the

different you know the angles that they have which I found is crazy because it was

a perfectly legitimate overtake he Ollie had lost so much momentum going into that

corner of course Liam Lawson was going to go for it it just yeah it's just

these racing rules isn't it unfortunately like the way it's written they always

have to go with what the rulebook says and not common sense of like it's a

racing incident Liam Lawson had every right to go for that corner and go for

that move yeah and they've just they've just banged wheels or whatever say yeah

so Ollie Berman on nine penalty points Liam Lawson's on eight as well so worth

keeping an eye on those for the next few Grand Prix weekends but back to the

qualifying and a final few thoughts first and foremost Pierre Gasly P9 in the

Alpine and of course got a point in the sprint which we forgot to mention in

our haste of trying to get the podcast out in time so Pierre Gasly is

having an absolutely amazing weekend and I love the the sort of joke that you

told me that maybe you'd read online about the fact that he's sort of been

withholding his pace until Colopinto signed a contract and now he is just

just a ridiculous fast again yeah yeah Gasly has been absolutely amazing this

weekend so far if he manages to bag some more points you know he's in the

talk of one of the the drivers of the weekend for sure and we'll be getting

a tasty little grade in driver ratings which I'm sure you're all looking

forward to and Gasly is he's been good around here obviously got the podium

last year and we know that Alpine has struggled so much this year to get

anything and you this is the thing up and down the grid you know these

drivers are very competent drivers Gasly's won a Grand Prix and they just

hasn't had the machinery but for whatever reason is working for him this

weekend he's doing an incredible job certainly is Nico Holkenberg also made

Q3 so a shout-out to him but yeah Pierre Gasly what a what a performance so

far and then also the V-Carbs you know fifth and seventh for Hajar and

Lawson tomorrow which once again you know they kind of came out of

nowhere and stole a little bit of the thunder that Oli Berman had had had

through Q2 and beyond but yeah great from Hajar great from Lawson and the

rookies really shone in a in a weekend where you would think maybe they

wouldn't considering it's Brazil yeah indeed slightly nerdy observation that

I've just seen looking at the qualifying result is normally you get

at least some 2x2s not a single teammate pairing next to each other on the

entire grid which is quite cool there you go Tommy facts for you

enjoyed that one right that is it thank you everybody for tuning in to another

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