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Matt and Tommy dive into the dramatic and unpredictable qualifying session at the Italian GP, highlighting surprises like Hadja's early exit and Williams' disappointing pace despite strong practice runs. They discuss tire strategies, team dynamics, and the intense battle among McLaren drivers, especially the toe tactics and championship implications. The hosts critique the TV direction for missing key moments and anticipate an aggressive, chaotic race start with close battles expected, particularly involving Verstappen and the McLarens. The episode blends detailed analysis with fan questions, offering insights into setups, driver performances, and race strategies at Monza.
Topics:
italian gp qualifying
monza circuit challenges
racing point and williams performance
mclaren driver dynamics
qualifying tire strategies
tv broadcast critique
race start predictions
driver mistakes and pressure
team tactics and toeing
championship implications
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Qualifying is done and dusted, and I can't believe it. I'm not happy.
Me neither. Tommy, I'm not happy. I don't want to talk about it. Oh, shut up.
I do. Just do you. Yeah. Wow. I mean, smile on your face. You're absolutely loving life,
and it makes me sick to my stomach. But still, it was an amazing qualifying all the same if I
take off my entire Ferrari outfit, even though I'm not actually wearing it, but there is
a Ferrari flag in the background, as you will see. How do we even digest what we just watched?
It was a great qualifying. It really was. It kept us guessing all the way to the end. I think
that's the positive for everyone, even all the neutrals or whoever you support. That is what
Formula One needs more of because you want it to be between different teams and keep us
guessing right until the very end of qualifying. This season, obviously, promised so much that we'd
get this a lot, and it hasn't maybe delivered as much as we thought in terms of the fact that
different teams being in the mix. But boy, was that a good session.
It certainly was. Let's get into Q1, where the bottom five were Hadja, Stroll, Colopinto,
Gasly and Lawson. People on Patreon remember Rosie Rangetsu comes in with a question. Hadja,
podium last week to going out in Q1 this week. What happened? Well, Hadja spoke briefly,
didn't he, after qualifying and said that there was some Outlap shenanigans where him and Carlos
Sines got into a little bit of a kerfuffle, where Sines was, I think, both Williams, I think,
went out on a really old set of tyres, which to be fair, I think even I mentioned when we were doing
the Watch Long, Tommy, I was like, wow, the two Williams are just out there right at the start
of the session, just kind of circular. I'll come in, but no, it wasn't the start of the session.
It was towards the end, but they were out there on old tyres. Anyway, Hadja was questioning
the Sines strategy and run plan, but he was not happy. Not happy in the slightest,
which is fair enough. Racing balls, both of them out in Q1. It clearly was one of those
sessions where if you didn't get everything right, you were going to full foul of just how
close it is around Monza, that it was such tight margins. If your Outlaps a little bit messed up,
he made a mistake as well, and he said that he had made a mistake in quite a long time
in qualifying. A bit of a flex there. Enjoyed that from Hadja. Just a little bit.
Had made a mistake for a while, but made one this time. Out in 16th.
Indeed. Yeah. I mean, what happened to him? I think just the team in general,
because obviously Lawson was dead last. I do think part of it, I know he's mentioning
mistakes, and I guess Lawson made a bit of a mistake here, but maybe not as bad as the
form suggests, but I do think racing balls were up against it this weekend. They haven't
seemed particularly fast compared to what we've seen. Normally, and maybe that is just the
nature of Monza and how it's a very different circuit. We know that the racing balls,
this is very stable, predictable, lovely car that works on many different circuits this year,
and they've been able to get some great results, but maybe their car just is not suited to a
very different track compared to others. Although it wouldn't have mattered anyway,
because Hadja has taken a new power unit, and he said it doesn't even matter if he got
pole because he'd be starting at the back. So it's going to literally be a racing balls
back row of the grid, which is something I did not expect when I put Liam Lawson as my
good surprise. Other drivers to talk about, Lance Stroll out in Q1, doing his usual thing,
where he'll just occasionally get, well, I say occasionally he's the Q1 record holder,
isn't he? He's knocked out in that session, and he extends his advantage at the top
with this record. Who else? We've got Colin Pinto out for Frank Gasly, which,
I mean, it's nothing to write home about when you're 18th and 19th, but for Franco,
that's all he can do in a car that clearly struggles around here.
Yeah, definitely. Gasly is, of course, although we had some news before today that Gasly has
extended his contract with Alpine. He's locked in there till 2028, which, as we discussed on
the watch along, tells you everything about where else would Gasly go, really. And I know
Alpine are maybe not the most exciting team and a place that you'd really fight to be,
but when other teams are locked in with different drivers and new talent comes through and all this
kind of stuff, maybe it's more the fact that Gasly is just trying to kind of bet himself in that team
and hoping for next year that when they get a Mercedes power unit, they'll be a lot quicker,
because yeah, they are very much the worst team this year that was reflected in the
Constructors' Championship. But a small positive for Franco Colopinto is that he outqualified Gasly,
so maybe a confidence boost going into the final races, because, of course,
he's a driver that's been under quite a lot of pressure.
Indeed he has. Let's move now to Q2, where the five drivers out in this session were
Bearman, Hülkenberg, Sainz, Albon and Ocon. P1P, remember Lumixion comes in with a question,
what happened to the Williams pace? Consistently quick in all practice sessions only to get knocked out.
Indeed. Yeah, although that being said, not all practice sessions, because of course,
they were the stars of Friday, really, Sainz being P3 in both sessions.
I think you believe Ferrari were the stars of practice on Friday?
Okay, if you say so. They were. They were for glory runs, clearly.
Yeah, true. But I guess in terms of a surprise, Carlos Sainz being up there in third in both
sessions was the biggest surprise of the lot, really. And you go to look at FB3, which,
of course, is the most representative with qualifying. And Albon was down in tenth,
and Carlos was actually thirteenth anyway. So maybe it was the first kind of warning signs
that maybe they weren't as quick as we thought. But yeah, they really weren't all that worthy that
we kind of have seen in Williams normally go really well here. They've had a car that's normally,
this is the track that suits them so much. But not today, and of course, still very close in
that pack. It was only a little bit here and there. I know the drivers, I'm sure, will
hear from them after qualifying. And I know that they weren't particularly happy with certain
procedures, which is, I guess, a standard thing when you get knocked out in the session.
But yeah, based on what they did on Friday, it's a really disappointing result for Williams to be
thirteenth and fourteenth. Yeah, massively disappointing. They might be, the only
time they'll be ruined the fact that they're not just good at Monza every year is the fact
that they then go to Monza and they're not that great. But then they had such a strong start to
the year, you know, accumulated a lot of points, especially with Albonne. But yeah, I think they're
going to be very, they're going to be very stuck to get any further forward, really, because
just how close it is makes me sort of concerned for the race where if we get Monza's from
a few years that we've seen in the last few, very skinny rear wings, which means DRS isn't
that powerful. And if we're unlucky enough to not get a headwind into turn one, which does help
overtaking in races, then how does Sine's and Albonne, who are potentially three hundred slower
than Holkenberg ahead and things like that, like the pace is very similar across a lot of the
midfield cars. And it does, it does make me slightly concerned that we're going to have just a
massive train of cars once again. And thirteenth and fourteenth for Williams is going
to be a very tough one to bounce back from. So let's go to another thing actually that happened
in Q2. There's nothing to do with those five drivers, but it was Lando Norris. On the back
foot, it has to be said for a lot of qualifying. Q3 will reflect on as well shortly. But Lando
had to put a lap in. There was four tenths separating the top 10 come the end of the
session, or just under actually. And Lando needed to put a lap in. And if it wasn't for
the final sector, we could have easily seen Lando not make it through because it was so close indeed,
of course, he put the lap together in the end. But it was very much a last lap Lando, but not
in a good sense. A lot of these times in quality today. No, and you look at how many mistakes
we've seen throughout the weekend so far, where people are just putting one little wheel
into the gravel and it's costing them time massively. It only would have taken that
from Lando to go out of the session and would have been a huge shock. And then I think we were
saying in the watch along that that really would be curtains for his championship challenge if
he was starting the race down potentially in the middle of the pack at Monza, which
is so hard to pass at. But instead, of course, he did manage to get through.
And it was a damage limitation. And then he ended up actually doing a very good run in the end,
because he also struggled in Q3, which we'll talk about later. But not the best qualifying
session from Lando, but all the matters really at the end is the result. And thankfully for
him, he got that in the end. Exactly. Oliver Bearman did a pretty good job, 11th in the
Haas, the head of Ocon again, whose qualifying struggles continue for sure. Haas just in general
very, very up and down this year, as we know in qualifying, mainly down, to be honest with you,
in qualifying and ups in the race. But Bearman in 11th, I'm pretty happy to see for him,
he can maybe do something with the Haas being very good with the strategy this year.
Perhaps they'll pull out a blinder with that one. Holkenberg outqualified by Bortoletto
again. Tommy at one point thought Gabby might be getting pole position with how he was going.
And Holkenberg, to be honest with you, he was showing pace at times, purple sector ones. And
there were, I guess, if you've ever played sort of iRacing or simulator games, you get an
optimal lap. It felt like Holkenberg just wasn't putting his optimal lap together, and he'd
just have really fast sectors occasionally. And knocked out in Q2, Holk was a star of
qualifying last year. And he's just not been able to put it together a lot of times this year.
I do wonder if that Holkenberg kind of not putting it together is more the fact that
his car setup was maybe a little bit crazy, because he went for an extreme setup in kind of
going, being really quick on the straights, which might help him tomorrow. So of course,
I think at one point, I remember seeing it, that he'd set like a purple sector quite
late on in the session and then didn't really do anything for the rest of the lap.
So of course, he's going to be very quick down the straights, but then struggle when you get through
like a scurry and the kind of slower corners. So didn't work out for Holkenberg. That is a fascinating
kind of thing about Monser, isn't it? And how they basically change their setup and how they
decide to kind of do it differently. Because some people put a lot more wing on the car,
which puts you vulnerable, of course, in the race, like Lando is a great example of that.
I don't know about that though. I feel like Monser is one of those where almost everybody just
runs skinny wings. I feel like this year in particular, we've had a difference in setup,
which is not something we've seen that much around Monser. It's always tended to be a low
downforce. You have the tracks like Spa, for example, where you can go between the higher
downforce, which is what McLaren did, or the lower like Max and so on and so forth. So
I remember Sebastian Vettel gambling one year and going for quite high downforce at Monser. It
worked out he got pole position, but it has been years since. Yeah, we've seen that and normally
people just go for skinny wing as possible, try and get a slipstream. And then you're basically,
because I mean, qualifying is so important at Monser. This is before 2025 when it's
so difficult to overtake anyway. So yeah, you want the best position possible in
qualifying here in Hülkenberg did not work for him. It did not, Lando, 20th in the speed
trap at one point during qualifying, which is absolutely ridiculous to see. And of course,
on the front row of the grid after Q3. Speaking of, let's head to Q3 where the top 10,
where Verstappen, Norris Piastri, Leclerc, Hamilton, of course, has that five-place
grip penalty, Russell, Antonelli, Bortoletto, Alonzo and Sonoda. First question in this
segment comes in from P1 Patreon member CaptainObs3420. What's with the atrocious TV direction again?
We completely missed Max's pole lap along with Lando's and Oskars so that they can show the two
Ferraris setting yellow sectors everywhere. Usually I'd agree with this, but I need to
see those Ferraris. I don't care how slow they're going. They could have been in a purple
last sector. Now, I'm kidding. Now, it was poor because we didn't even see Max over the line.
Tommy, it was such a ferocious end to that. You were saying that they cut to a pit garage or
something? They did. Yeah, they basically showed. Yeah, it's human. How are you cutting to a pit
garage when it's the end of Q3 and people are like literally a flurry of laps. It's chaotic.
You're trying to see whether you've got your mini-sectors somewhere that you take a look at
another. You're trying to figure out who's coming next and they're like, off track. That's
what we want. Yeah, I can forgive them for maybe picking the wrong car in a session where it's
incredibly close. You don't know who's going to get it. I understand them going for their usual
tactic of showing the people that are at the front that probably might challenge for pole and
then you just watch them all across the line. That is completely inexcusable to cut after
someone's gone provisional pole, provisional pole, that's the key here, to a garage shot of
celebrities clapping and some of them not even looking that interesting. It's not interesting
remotely. Fine, should I replay later if that is indeed the pole lap of the cheering and
clapping and stuff. But live sport, we want to watch live sport. Heaven forbid, we want to
watch the actual racing action. Max was still on a lap and they weren't showing it and they
cut back in a panic when he'd already basically crossed the line and gone fastest and we're
basically seeing him slow down and it misses that excitement of pole position when you're
not watching the car go across the line. It's almost as if, because I might be wrong,
I don't think Max had actually set any purple sectors, but he was close.
The thing is right, it's almost as if they are looking for purple sectors, didn't see one with Max
and went, we can go for a crowd shot, Max saying get a pole, which I'm not saying is excusable,
it's not, but I think that's maybe where they've fallen down. It's back to the wheel
knowledge thing, isn't it, that we always mention about battles and going, we can see on the
timing tower someone's one-tenth apart about to get onto the part of the track where you're
actually able to overtake him with DRS and they don't show it. This is the argument we have there
where we go, TV director, have you watched Formula One? This just takes that and if that
is the case where they've just gone, Max is down, he's not going to do it. No, show the cars,
show them crossing the line, that's what we want to see and that's what we're paying to see
as well. Yeah, well I'm pleased to announce everybody that's watching and listening that
there will be a boxing match live between Tom Bellingham and the F1 TV race director within the
broadcast centre of Formula One. Yeah, for missing Max's pole. Tickets are now available as well as
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throwing hands, so that'll be great to watch. Next question comes in from P1 Patreon member
MaxWinConversionChance. Yeah, I mean he does have a chance, I know McLaren are
mighty. I guess Max is going to be quite happy that the guy behind him is 20th in the speed
traps that makes it quite good for him. Of course he'll have DRS and it will be tricky for Max
to win, but it is also hard to overtake and I'm very, I think the most fascinating thing
with this grid is how the others play it because you've got Lando, who of course is on the back foot
after what happened at Zanvoort, needs to win but not take too much risk. He needs to start
eking into Piastri's lead and taking big inroads and of course him finishing, winning the race,
going for a move on Max and Oscar finishing third is a great result for him and takes a
big chunk out of that, but he can't be too risky that he's trying to do something and Max,
though they collide or whatever and then Oscar wins the race and it's 25 points and then it really
would be like pretty much championship done. So yeah, I think Max has got a chance just because
you do think Oscar's probably not going to risk very much from P3 when Lando's P2.
Lando will be slightly cautious as well even though he knows that he does have a win but
probably think more about it in the pit stops. So I think Max does have a chance to win definitely
and as we've said on this podcast a few times today that it's very hard to pass at Monza and in 2025.
Yeah, I think he's got a really good chance of winning tomorrow. I think it works in his
favour as much as on paper you go, oh there's two drivers of the same team behind me, surely
they'll just throw different strategies to try at least get one ahead but the thing is they're
both locked in a championship battle as much as some people think it's over, it's not, which I guess in
some ways means that McLaren won't be as flexible perhaps with the strategy. They can't give Oscar,
well they shouldn't if their rules or anything to go by, shouldn't give Oscar a preferential
strategy to win the race from third because Lando would want that one, whatever that might be.
So what I'm seeing is yeah, look Max, great, great opportunity to win
the two McLarens, they're going to be kefuffling, Charles Leclerc comes through
and finishes fourth. So I think that Max, he's got a great chance, he's got a great chance for sure
and as you say really, really hard to overtake at Monza, which is sad to say out loud.
Max knows as well he's going to get his elbows out of the start if McLaren even has a sniff
of him, he's going to, he's got nothing to lose, like he's not in the championship
fight, he's going to wants to take the victory. You've got to treat him like a rear end of
a donkey. Yeah, for sure. Just looked up the weather, absolutely nothing doing on the weather.
It's going to be a pure battle out there. But no, I think Max is probably
the favorite to win tomorrow in some ways. It just depends. The dirty air, how well will that
McLaren deal with it in that middle sector that they have a huge advantage with, they'll have to
be basically pushing Max through a Scari if they want a chance to get past. So yeah, if that
happens, then they'll sell by. But a lot of unknowns about the tyres, of course, and will
that Red Bull be good on heavy fuel, we will see.
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Next question, just for fun, F1. Why are the McLarens giving each other toes? The
constructors is locked. It should be every man for himself. Okay, I think people are
reading into this quite heavily because it's not just a case of two drivers in the same team giving
each other toe. The only person that is kind of screwed is the person that goes out at the front
of the pack. Everyone else is towing each other. I know Piastri is giving Norris a toe and things
like that, but of course McLaren, I'd imagine they're still trying to keep things relatively
fair. They swap whoever gives toe to whoever, but the thing is they just try and place their
two cars in the pack and therefore everybody gets a toe. I get what some people are saying,
that it doesn't make much sense, but also they're all gaining from that. So it's not as big as
some people think and I think that's kind of all I have to say on that. If Piastri was
the lead car that basically first out the pit lane, I think this argument you go,
well that's completely unfair on Piastri that he's towing Lando along, but it's factored in that
Piastri will get a toe from another car and that's exactly of course what they did. So
yeah, it was of course very close and people may look at the margin between the two of them and
go, oh that's because Norris had a toe, but then of course Piastri had a toe from the car in
front of him to a point as well and yeah, they kind of had even gaps across the whole field.
It's only really if you are the front car that is the one that got screwed, which was of course
Yuki Senoda. Indeed. So that tells you everything you need to know really.
Next question, people on Patreon member Blackson, should George have gambled on the mediums?
In hindsight, yes, because of course he was looking very good, wasn't he? In Q1,
he topped the session. He of course came on the radio wanting it. It's one of those things,
isn't it, where once we get that radio message and he says, I wanted the mediums as soon as he's
not on pole or qualifies in P6, of course we're going to jump on it and go, oh well if he'd
had the mediums it would have been way quicker, but you know, teams have their data and they
don't like to listen to their drivers a lot of the time. They just like to go buy what they
think is quickest and George wanted to gamble, would have been fun to see it because of course
we like to see that in Formula 1 and would have been interesting to see what he could do on the
medium tyres. And now you look at it and go, well if he'd gone on the mediums and even if it
hadn't worked, it'd have been probably seventh behind and beaten, you kind of the Sauber,
the Aston and Yuki. So yeah, it's one of those things in hindsight that would have
maybe been better to do and I'm sure he'll probably be quite annoyed about it and look through
the data of course and say that maybe his team are now going through that data going,
look this is why we didn't do it. Well yeah, and one of the reasons why they didn't is
probably because they need a medium race tyre that's brand new, the tyre allocation,
you don't have an unlimited amount of medium tyres which is usually a race tyre,
I cannot imagine we're going to see soft tyres for the race tomorrow and don't forget he's already
used a brand new set of mediums in Quali already and I don't think he can just take out another medium
set when you think about the allocation he's used in practice as well and you need to save a new
set. I think there's four, I think it's four new mediums you get for a Grand Prix weekend,
I might be wrong but it's not a lot, you get a lot of softs but then not as many mediums
and hards. So it's probably that, it's probably the team just going, look you can have
far more softs because you've got to think of the long game, you've got to think of the Sunday
but then George's argument will probably be look it'll only be a couple of laps on the mediums,
you know it'll be an out lap, a fast lap and an in lap and I could be third, second, first.
I don't know, it's hard to say like George being fastest in Q1 wasn't he on the mediums,
that's not to say it would have translated to an 18-7 because I think it was a 19-4 he did
on the mediums, like how much more could he have eked out of a tyre that is not as soft.
It's tough, I'm looking at the lap times now. Max did a 19-4 and George did a 19-4 in that
Q1 and obviously Max ended up doing an 18-7 and finding you know the seven tenths of lap time.
George only found three tenths, less than three tenths so maybe that would be his argument of...
And he didn't even improve on that final run.
No exactly.
That George lap time was his first flying lap so I think he will be obviously
very critical of his team because he went and used a brand new set and didn't even manage
to improve so yeah not great for George, I expected a little bit more after especially
the first couple of sessions of Quali but it'll be P5 on the grid after...
Antonelli will be happy with it though, to be that close to Russell after every conversation
we had yesterday like this is exactly what Mercedes want from him so fingers crossed he has a good race.
Next question, Fergie's right ref, why didn't Ferrari ask Lewis to give Charles a toe?
I just don't think it's worth that much, they're all running in a sort of distant
toe anyway. Hamilton would have as much as I joked about it when we were watching the qualifying
with you guys, it would require Hamilton to sacrifice one of his runs to give Charles
maybe a tenth if you think about how low the downforce is on the Ferrari in particular
like they are they're quick as it is I don't know for me yes Charles would have
beaten Oscar with a perfect toe but Hamilton said it himself that it also runs a risk as well
trying to give a slipstream to a car in a perfect way you know you might play the F1 game think
that's easy just looking at your mirrors and it's not as easy when you're in an actual
Formula 1 car in a qualifying session where you don't have a little mini map to look at
where all the other cars are so I'm not too angry about Ferrari and then sacrificing one of
Hamilton's laps to give Charles a toe but had it given him a in pole in an alternate reality
that maybe I'd be slightly more angry well he got we got a toe based on you know like the the
conversation we had about why and the McLaren's towing each other and we said you know well Oscar
Piastri got a toe from the car in front shall a clerk got a toe if I think the thing is a
heavy toe a Hamilton lifting off and then Charles gets right up and then completely
bales out that's the question well yeah okay if they're going for for that and I don't think it's
fair to completely sacrifice Hamilton's lap for for that I know he's got got the penalty and
someone would argue that that you know he's going to struggle from from where he is but
that was never going to happen and you know Leclerc did get a toe from Sonoda of course
not the optimal toe but it's still a toe it's not like Charles was the first car in front if that
had been the case then yeah it does look really stupid that they didn't have Hamilton in front
and then I'm sure you'd hope that Ferrari would then have that conversation if if Leclerc was the
one basically in in no man's land with without getting a toe at all but he did get the the
toe from from Yuki to a point but it didn't it just didn't come together for him in that in
that final run when of course the the first the first the first run oh my word like we were
we were back in 2022, Charles Leclerc versus Matt just happened for the glory days the absolute glory
days I knew immediately after I saw that Ferrari bounce over the second part of yeah he said it
came I was like it's over it's done we've lost time and lo and behold we had and yeah it was
a lap that I'm sure Charles was not happy with and final question comes in from P1
Petri member medium speed corner can we expect a chaotic race start tomorrow?
Yes I think I think so because people are going to know that that kind of it's a it's a very heavy
braking zone into turn one positioning your car perfectly is the best way to go I think the
three at the front Max is going to get his elbows out but then as I said earlier I don't think
Norris would do anything stupid to try and do something crazy to overtake Max and equally
Oscar's got the championship to to think about so he's not going to do anything too crazy either
Charles Leclerc probably will people like Charles Leclerc will think well absolutely like this is
my best best chance to get a McLaren and maybe he goes for it into turn one and knows that the
if he if he's fighting the McLarens the McLarens are going to not dive out of the way but
think better of it when they've got a championship to win so yeah I think there's there's
definitely some intrigue at the start because that is the that is the place where it's going to be
the easiest to make the passes because as soon as you settle into that rhythm and the DRS trains
happen that's when it becomes really really difficult. I see it slightly differently with
the McLarens I think that with Lando he has to get past Max like he has to lap one is his
best opportunities slow AF on the straights so if he gets half an opportunity he has to send
it I know it's something we don't tend to see with Lando as much against Max in particular
we've watched many times and gone please just go for the move you're in a faster car but at the same
time lap one he must know that that is his best opportunity with Oscar damage limitation at this
stage we've already spoken about it is a question that's been constantly spoken about this weekend
Oscar says when you're in the car you don't think of that like you're just you're just
dialed in and you're trying to do the best best you can so I'm not sure if we're going to see
a particularly calm and composed couple of McLarens which I don't want to see that I want to see
them go wheel to wheel so let's have a repeat of last last year as much as I would love to just
yeah give in and agree and believe in your scenario where char will be the most aggressive
and take the lead into turn one I I think now I just meant more yeah but yeah he I just
think it's going to be aggressive no matter what and Max is going to defend that lead
like his life depends on it so I'm ready for it I don't know if we're going to have a clean lap
one if I'm being completely honest with you I think it will be pretty pretty antsy pretty
pretty aggressive and that's what we want to see we do aggressive overtaking and some
some action so I can't wait for it Tommy it's going to be awesome we're going to be live
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we're there Tommy what are your final thoughts my final thoughts are I just basically put on
while you're chatting there the the highlights of last year to check where the pole position
was because I couldn't remember if it was inside or outside and it is on the outside
racing line so max is probably going to move over but then yeah it just reminded me of that
that move that Oscar Piastri did last year and let's see some more of that between the McLaren so
I don't think they will but it'd be amazing to see them them fight fight max as well please be
please be a good race please be a good race because you you never know what you're telling
Grand Prix it's a it's a bit of a like hit and miss isn't it usually a miss of recent times
well that being said yeah a slow car and out the front that's when it's the best because
it's tension you need you need that crazy kind of opportunity to to kind of make it a two-stop
and a one-stop which is obviously what made it good last year but I'm not sure what the
optimum strategy is but I'm sure it'll be a one-stop yeah it'll be a one-stop show
I showed that last year so unless we get random safety cars of course it might
change it up what I want to see is actually Esteban Ocon from 15th on the grid doing exactly the
same move as he did in fp3 on Max Verstappen into into turn two round the outside and taking the
lead of the race now if you haven't seen that move straight line turn one because the beef the
beef has been reignited between Max and Esteban in a random fp3 in a random fp3 absolutely love
it right thank you everybody we'll see you very soon lots of love to get by
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god ridiculous couldn't let me have this one no absolutely not no it's actually Italian
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