Formula One is the highest level of professional car racing with single-seat race cars. Race weekends usually include practice and qualifying, and then the main race.
“Pecking order” just means who’s ahead of everyone else in speed and results. They’re saying the front teams looked similar to last year, but there were also some changes elsewhere.
A track is the specific race course. Different tracks make it easier or harder to pass and can affect how tires and brakes behave.
Term
scintillating action
“Scintillating action” is a descriptive phrase meaning exciting, eventful racing with lots of battles and overtakes. In this context, they’re arguing that Miami hasn’t historically produced that kind of on-track drama.
The pits are where the team works on the car during the race weekend. A pit stop is when they bring the car in to do things like tire changes, and the hosts are saying McLaren struggled with that on Sunday.
Reliability issues mean the car had problems that stopped it from running perfectly. They’re saying McLaren’s results were hurt at times because the car wasn’t always dependable.
A penalty is a punishment from the race officials for something that broke the rules. They’re saying it was close to costing points because a penalty might have been given.
Mercedes is a Formula 1 team and constructor. In this segment, the hosts are discussing Mercedes’ race starts and how those mistakes affect their ability to fight at the front.
Pace means how fast the cars are able to drive consistently. If the front runners are all similar in pace, then where you start and how you get through traffic can decide the result.
Qualifying is when teams race to set where they’ll start. If the starting order changes a little, the whole race can play out differently because it’s hard to pass once you’re stuck in traffic.
The start is how well a car gets going right after the race begins. If it’s slow or messy, you can lose places immediately and then spend the race trying to catch up.
The engine is the car’s power source. In F1, it matters for acceleration and overall speed, but teams also rely heavily on the rest of the car to make it work well.
“Technical” here means the car is complicated and depends on lots of systems working together. When something goes wrong, it can be hard to tell if it’s the driver’s fault or the car’s setup.
Regulation changes are new rules that change how the cars are allowed to work. Those changes can make it easier or harder to follow other cars and overtake.
They’re talking about passing that happens because the rules are designed to force more opportunities, not just because one car is simply faster. It can make the racing feel less “natural,” depending on how it plays out.
Overtaking means getting ahead of another car during the race. In F1, it’s not just about top speed—following another car can make it harder to stick to the road and pass.
Concept
pure F1
“Pure F1” here means racing that feels like it’s decided more by the cars and drivers, rather than by rules trying to force more passing. It’s basically a “less engineered” style of racing.
“Yo-yo racing” means the cars keep swapping places over and over—someone passes, then gets passed right away. It can feel silly if nobody can hold a position for long.
“Regs” means the rules. The point here is that one short race can’t prove whether the new rules are good or bad because every track and situation is different.
In this context, “energy” is about how the car manages its power during the race. The hosts are saying Miami might make that less of a constant concern, so the racing feels more free-flowing.
In F1, the battery is part of the hybrid system that stores energy. The team decides when to use that stored energy, and that can change how fast the car feels during different parts of a lap.
Tracks are split into sections for timing. Saying someone was slow in the first sector and faster later means their speed changed depending on which part of the track they were in.
Concept
optional thing
They’re talking about something in the rules or car setup that isn’t mandatory. Teams can choose to use it only when they think it’ll be useful for that particular race weekend.
They’re talking about the time gap between cars. If one car loses a couple seconds, it usually means it’s not keeping up or it made a move that cost time.
“Boost” here means the car getting an extra push of performance for a short time. Drivers try to use it at the right moment to help them catch and pass the car in front.
“Late on the brakes” describes braking later than usual to carry more speed into a corner. In racing, that can create an advantage for an attacking driver, but it also increases the risk of running wide or forcing contact if the timing is off.
Concept
squeezing
“Squeezing” here means trying to pass with very little room. The driver has to thread the needle between cars and the track limits.
“Wheelbanging” means two race cars are driving super close together at the start, sometimes touching wheels. It’s basically an intense, aggressive battle for position.
It means you should do everything you can to earn as many points as possible. When the championship is tight, small mistakes can cost you the title.
Term
championship rival
Your championship rival is the other driver you’re most directly competing against for the season title. If one of you gains or loses points, it can flip who’s ahead.
A point swing means the points gap changes a lot because of something that happened in the race. In a tight season, that can quickly change who’s leading.
“Fine margins” refers to how outcomes in racing are often decided by very small differences—like braking distance, tire grip, or timing. In sprint formats, those small errors can translate into large position or points losses.
“Wheel-to-wheel” means two cars are racing side-by-side at the same time. It’s tricky because you’re competing directly and there’s little room for error.
“Strategy” means planning how to race, not just driving fast. It can include when to attack, when to defend, and how to manage things like tires and extra power.
The midfield is the pack of teams and drivers that are neither fighting for the front nor stuck at the back. When the hosts say someone is “in the midfield,” they mean they’re competing in the middle of the results rather than challenging for podiums.
“Tire related” means the tires probably weren’t working the way they should. In racing, tires can lose grip or get too hot, and that can make a car suddenly feel slower.
Race craft is how good a driver is at running the race, not just driving fast. It’s things like knowing when to pass, when to defend, and how to handle tires over time.
Topic
watch alongs
A watch along is when people watch the race together at the same time, usually with some kind of chat or commentary. It’s a social way to follow the action.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Blue One Podcast with Matt and Tommy.
It is currently 2.53 in the morning, hence why the intro has a slight less bit of energy
than usual because I really don't want to get kicked out of this place in Adelaide.
And this one is obviously the worst session of the bunch.
So there's not much I can really say if someone knocks on my door at 2.53 in the morning to
turn me to shut up.
So here we are, the sprint race is done at Miami.
It's a F1 racing back on our screens and it's a delightful sight.
You know, I miss Formula One cars so much.
I miss the racing, the excitement of qualifying.
Of course, we have another qualifying coming up later today.
There'll be a podcast for that as well.
So it's a keep an eye out for that.
But Tommy, we've watched 19 laps of Miami.
How would you summarize your feelings in four words?
Is this 2025 again?
OK, perfect.
That's really good for me actually.
Yeah, nice.
My brain trying to work something out of this time.
Four words as I was saying it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, very much, you know, the takeaway from that was it was different to the other sprint.
There'll be a lot of discussions of whether it was better or worse.
Sure, probably a lot of the latter and, yeah, seeing not just the pecking order,
but a few different kind of themes up and down the grid felt very similar
to last year actually with the changes that have been made,
whether it is the changes or of course a track
that has never really provided scintillating action anyway.
Has it? Let's be honest.
No, and to be honest with you, as Miami goes, it probably was
well, it definitely wasn't the worst Miami race we've seen around there.
We saw some actions like exactly.
But you know what's not low?
The amount of energy they have available to them this weekend
because it is a really rich.
Oh, baby. Right.
Let's get into some questions to dive through a lot of the big talking points.
First one from P1Patreon member Longo1996.
Could this be the resurgence of McLaren again?
Or will any other team respond?
Well, I want to is is a pretty good way of going about
mounting some kind of comeback.
It is crazy to me that the team that did not roll out the pits for Sunday
and could not make either of their cars work are now finishing one, two
in a sprint, only two race weekends further on from that.
So, I mean, the turnaround is absolutely phenomenal from McLaren.
But it's not like it's come out of nowhere.
I genuinely believe if you are a McLaren fan, you have a lot to look forward to
because they have steadily moved forward.
Piastri could have easily won Japan, as we've said, and they have looked
quick when they've been able to just hook it together.
They've had some reliability issues on Norris's side.
And, you know, it's it's easy to jump and to conclusions and say
after the first three weekends, I am McLaren, you know, they're just too far behind.
But but they're not, you know, it's a twenty two race season.
And if they can start to do this with also other teams getting in the mix
and to nearly picking up a penalty at the end to cost him some points,
Mercedes start tripping over themselves either through mistakes or
or, you know, racing each other.
Yeah, there is a big opportunity for McLaren to be able to bounce back.
I will say that, you know, that the sprint.
Is a bit of a window of, you know, looking ahead to what the race will look like.
But I also think, you know, when I was looking at the pace that was
being put down by pretty much the top seven, it just made me think
how important qualifying is once again, because if we had a slightly
different order in qualifying, I think we get a completely different result.
Definitely. And, you know, we we we saw again, the Mercedes having a
abysmal start, Antonelli dropping dropping down the order from the start,
which we'll get into.
But onto McLaren, I completely regret now saying that, you know,
the championships over for them already being too far behind in this terrible
start they had to the season where they basically scored barely any points
while Mercedes are just romping away with what one twos consistently.
And now with Mercedes, you know, we need to wait a little bit
because we've only had one sprint qualifying and one sprint.
So it's easy to jump to conclusions.
But if we get into the next race as well in three weeks time, fun.
But if we get into the next race as well and again, Mercedes are struggling
with their starts, not as quick as McLaren and as we've as we've seen
anyway this season, like struggling to get through through the pack.
McLaren have a great opportunity to catch up with a lot of races still to go.
And the fact that, yeah, they've done it before where a Mercedes engine in the back,
they've beaten them with their car.
They did it last last year comfortably.
And, yeah, they could could probably do it again.
And they have that luxury of amazing starts we saw in in Japan even having
that discussion of would Piastri have won the race.
Well, now if they can actually qualify better than Mercedes anyway,
with their starts compared to Mercedes, they're they're looking
much, much better position than Mercedes.
So, yeah, what a turnaround from McLaren to think that only two races ago,
we were here going, what an absolute stinker of a start.
Like neither of them have even, you know,
Piastri had two DNSs to start the year, Landau's having all these problems
and a clean week weekend for them.
And they finish one to quite comfortably, really.
Indeed, I think we will say just on the Mercedes start, it was more on
Antonelli this time, Russell had a decent one and actually got ahead of Verstappen.
I think it was at the beginning of the race.
So, you know, there is a good start in that Mercedes.
But Antonelli, you know, he's had one good start, I think the entire year,
which is something I'm surprised to see that they haven't been able to
figure out what's going on there.
Or if it is just a case of Antonelli feeling the pressure, that's the problem.
Again, you know, this is the slight annoyance with these new cars
is because they're so technical, they're so difficult.
We don't know exactly what's driver error.
And, you know, because Norris got so much heat for being a terrible starter.
And yet Antonelli has had horrendous starts this year.
And he kind of gets that free pass of, wow, it's the new cars, right?
And that kind of feels unfair to me that he's not getting the same criticism
that Lando would got when, you know, the cars were more predictable, let's say.
So, let's go to another question from Dylan Mar Four.
Have the red changes made racing even worse or is it just the track?
I love this, the amount of questions that were like, oh, this is bad.
We should go back and it's funny how we had this discussion
before these regulation changes came in and we saw the new rules.
And it wasn't perfect, but we had this whole debate of,
would you rather see lots of passing even though it's artificial?
Or is it more, do you want it more pure and there'll be less passing
or maybe even no passing and it's really hard to overtake
and it's a bit more like 2025, but it feels like pure F1.
And it does feel like it's gone more into that.
They can overtake and they can make moves,
but it's certainly nowhere near what it was before
where people were breezing past on the straight,
which I think is good in that initial phase.
It is maybe a bit of a shame that we don't want yo-yo racing
where it's extreme kind of, you can't even pass
because you'll just get re-passed, that is a bit silly,
but we didn't really see all too much of the whole situation
where it was like immediately at the next corner,
the next cars going past and having no power and things.
So yeah, it's a difficult one and I think with all these things,
and you can argue this is probably done in the first place
because there's only been three races,
but you need to not jump to conclusions
because every track is different, every scenario is different.
You can have weird qualifying that make a race great.
There's so many scenarios of why racing is good,
so you can't really judge the regs on one sprint race.
You can't, but we will because it's the only bit of evidence we've got.
And I think there's a lot of things that I've been critical about
with Formula One, the FIA and how they've gone about these new cars
and regs, but I will say that this was the least amount of time
I've thought about the energy when watching the race
because it was much less prominent.
And it has to be said that we don't know whether it's
because it's an energy-rich track
or because of the changes they've made
or if it's just a little bit of both that this has happened.
But the racing we saw, there were overtakes and they weren't re-passed.
So I'm kind of sat here thinking,
yes, that was more like Formula One than I've seen this year
because we were seeing overtakes actually be valuable
and that's something that we've all been sort of longing for.
I will say that if you are someone that was hating yo-yo racing,
saying, oh my God, I hate this, and then now watching this and going,
oh my God, why is there not more overtakes?
It's kind of like, well, which one do you want right now?
Everyone's not for you, maybe.
We've already said that this Miami was nowhere near the worst we've ever seen.
And yes, Lando dominated from the front.
We didn't really see much overtaking action,
but realistically, that was very much more the Formula One I'm used to seeing.
So in that sense-
Particularly in a sprint where you don't have pit stops and stuff, right?
Yeah, well, exactly.
But we still saw overtaking.
We still saw drivers hustling for position.
And yeah, there were moments again where I think the biggest point
where we were thinking about the battery
was the marked difference between Piastri and Leclerc
and where they would gain and where they would lose over the course of a lap
because it was Leclerc was very slow in the first sector,
but then quicker in the second and third.
But apart from that, honestly, I have to be reasonably positive with what I've seen,
but it just depends whether this will be a consistent.
Because I saw something somewhere that what they've brought in is an optional thing.
It's not that they're going to do this in every single race weekend.
It's whether or not they think they're going to need it.
So make of that what you will.
So let's go to another question from P1PitryMemberthimmer.
Why on earth would Hamilton not take the position immediately,
staying in the toe of the Mercedes as more of a possible defense to Verstappen?
This is, I mean, honestly, I think Hamilton would react completely differently to every
single other driver on the circuit.
But because it was Verstappen letting him through,
he's like the dog with the birthday cake remembering 2021 Saudi Arabia.
And he's overthought it.
He really has because they were in the fight with the Mercedes.
And then after Hamilton was thinking Verstappen's playing games here,
he's trying to slingshot out the corner.
It's almost like he forgot he was racing for like P5, P6,
and he wasn't out in front 30 seconds clear with Verstappen back in 2021,
because they lost two and a half, three seconds to the Mercedes.
And then it was game over.
It was done.
So I found it very bizarre that he was just trying to slow down,
trying to sort of think about what Verstappen's trying to do.
Because that cost them a potential to, well, I say them,
I think more so Lewis, who fell off at the end as well.
I don't know.
I think it was just very strange race craft from Hamilton
and something that I firmly back he would only do with Verstappen.
Oh, 100% because, yeah, he overthought it massively.
Max was clearly trying to let him through.
And there was also the kind of detection point,
whatever you want to call it now, obviously not DRS.
Overtake mode point.
Yeah, so this is the thing with that,
that they kind of saw that moment happening and then thought,
oh, am I going to get the boost?
Am I not?
And I completely agree in the fact that any other driver
had probably just gone through and just put his foot down.
But immediately probably thinks, okay,
what games is Verstappen playing here and overthought it?
And they lost a heap of time.
I mean, Hamilton didn't have the pace any way
that I think Max would have got him anyway.
And obviously did get him.
And I don't think it would have helped Hamilton
stay with the Mercedes because he was really struggling.
But this is the thing.
I'm really surprised that Hamilton did that
because it just seemed a bit unnecessary.
But I think it is all down to the fact there's history.
There's history there.
And actually, I've just read that because we don't get any
radio anymore, which is a massive shame in modern Formula One.
But Max's radio was, why isn't he overtaking?
Come on, man.
Oh my God, effing, effing.
So yeah, he was very...
Fair reaction because obviously Max,
he went for a move that was very late on the brakes,
wasn't able to do his standard like squeezing
and also staying on the track at the same time.
So he absolutely did need to give that position back.
But I can understand the frustration of like,
what are you doing?
Just go, yeah, okay.
I've chosen to let you through at a point
where I will get overtake mode, but just go through.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, very, very weird.
Like it is on Max that made that kind of obviously move
in the first place, of course, that set that situation up.
But yeah, the frustration then of basically any other situation.
And it's not those two and probably any other pairing on the grid
for any selection of other drivers.
If that was the situation of one car like in the other past,
they just go by and they continue racing.
But there's so much history there.
It certainly is.
And I look forward to seeing much more.
And also, to be fair, we're talking about them.
We haven't even mentioned lap one.
How have they not both gone careering into the barrier?
Because they were genuinely wheelbanging
for two corners at the start.
It was phenomenal to watch.
And it was like neither of them wanted to give an inch.
So yeah, that was absolutely brilliant to see those two.
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Let's go to another question from P1Patreon member,
one cup of chocolate.
Is Kimmy's penalty showing his lack of experience?
I think a little bit.
I'm amazed that, again, we don't hear the team radio.
This is not an excuse for Kimmy,
but I'm sure you'd hope that his team would be begging,
like, you know, be really careful with track limits.
You're in a decent position.
Of course, not where they want to be in fourth,
but he had the measure of Russell again,
which was maybe a surprise that he dropped back
and could so easily pass Russell.
I mean, yeah, Russell got him and then,
yeah, managed to get past and then just kind of pull away.
But the lack of experience is these moments
in the championship, particularly as the other,
the chasing pack and our catching,
you need to maximise every point.
You know, we've seen so many championships
even last year, you know, decided by two points.
So this is every literally everything counts
and you can look back on these moments and think,
if that was different, if that was different,
this would have changed things.
And it's just such an unnecessary penalty.
You know, as far as I'm aware,
no one else got a track limit penalty in that race.
So for you to be the championship leader
and throw away two positions and valuable points
and maybe even if the kind of how it's gone
at the start of the season,
your championship rival too as well to have that point swing.
And these are the moments that are going to be so crucial
because Antonelli needs to absolutely maximise
this kind of Russell blip
where he doesn't seem to have an answer
for Antonelli at the moment.
Yeah, I completely agree.
I think it was lap 16, turn 11 that Antonelli picked up
his final warning.
So that's the point where he was very comfortable in P4.
He had no chance of catching the top three.
So I will put that down to a little bit of,
it's not necessarily lack of experience.
I mean, it's kind of linked with it,
but it's just carelessness really.
It's pushing too hard.
It's pushing too hard for very little gain.
And I mean, commentary said it was a four point swing,
but my brain is saying that's three,
surely because he loses two positions and Russell gains one.
And it's a sprint.
So it's eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
Am I completely tripping because it's three?
It's two points, but it's a four point swing
because it's like as they lose this two and Russell gains two.
Why does Russell gain two?
He gains one position.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, it's not a complete switch.
Even Tommy, Tommy's the same as commentary.
Unbelievable.
No, no, that's what you mean.
Yeah, yeah, it's because of course it's a sprint.
So I think it's a three point swing.
Sorry, yeah, because it was max as well, wasn't it?
Yeah, of course.
Yes, yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
So I mean, it's a three point swing,
which as you say, yeah, it can come down to fine margins.
And especially if Mercedes do continue to have a car,
at least for the majority of the season,
to be the fastest, these moments are something
that you might look back on because yeah,
it's a small error in the grand scheme of things,
but with a big penalty.
So shame for Kimmy because as you say,
he was looking really, really good
and has looked good this weekend.
And I think had he kept better position at the start,
I think he would have been able to take it
to the McLarens and Charles Leclerc.
But alas, that was not the case.
Question from P1P.
Remember JT1, will we see a Mercedes collision in the race
with neither driver backing down
and more wheel banging in the sprint?
Surely it's inevitable now.
I didn't see like too much of like the sass
and the tenacity between the two of them.
I feel like if we're talking about wheel banging,
it's for Stappen versus Hamilton
that was where I was really questioning it.
The two Mercedes feel like they have
more than enough respect for each other at the moment.
What was it?
The move that Russell put on Antonelli,
I felt was like almost a come through mate.
Yeah, don't worry about it.
Yeah, Antonelli, his driving compared to Leclerc.
I mean, Leclerc had a savage radio about Antonelli.
He seems so bad at wheel to wheel,
which is quite the comment to make.
Yeah, but with Russell,
it did feel like he was giving him more space on the track,
albeit he did get him back later on.
So perhaps there was an element of strategy as well there,
they're thinking about the deployment of the battery
and so on and so forth.
I know, sorry, trigger words and all that,
but that is part of the strategic racing that we're seeing.
So yeah, it is definitely a different Kimmy Antonelli
that we saw between the Ferrari and his own teammate.
Definitely.
I kind of felt the opposite to this,
that I thought Kimmy was very polite with Russell
and maybe it's just a case of like the McLarens
last year that we'll see them and we'll constantly be going,
oh, they're the championship rivals,
surely they're going to come together at some point
and maybe they are quite respectful,
but maybe it's going to take later in the year
where everything is on the line for them to push the limits
a bit more because I guess neither of them want to be
the bad guy and start that feud this early on,
particularly with the chasing pack now as well.
So maybe it's just a case of just by Antonelli
doing something quite bad with the whole track limits
and maybe pushing it with the McLare at the start,
maybe in his head thinking that the last thing I need
when I'm leading the world championship
and having such a great start to the season
is colliding with Russell and having all these headlines
and everything like that.
Especially in the sprint, I guess, right?
Exactly, exactly.
There's less points on the line.
But then we can't really criticise him too much
because he did get him back and he was faster.
So, but yeah, I disagree that the collision is imminent
currently anyway.
Next question, Ives GWM, is it 2025 all over again?
McLaren dominates, Hamilton loses touch with the top six
and the Stappen team mate nowhere to be seen.
It is, it did feel very 2025 that race
and one of the biggest takeaways from that
was just how far Hatchel was off and again,
it's only one sprint race, but again, in qualifying.
I'm losing my voice this time in the morning.
But my word, yeah, it felt very 2025 seeing
the Stappen's team mate, you know,
20 seconds or whatever it was off him in the...
22 seconds, yeah.
22 seconds, okay, in the sprint.
And the fact that, you know, Mack is up there racing
the Mercedes and you've got Haja who's struggling
to get past and racing the Alps in the midfield.
It felt, in that sense, very, very similar.
And as the season progresses,
of course, there's been a lot of changes in that team
in terms of maybe they're not going to be so savage.
Now, home at Marco is not there
and it's a very different red bull to what it was.
But they equally can't be, maybe the fact that the Stappen
isn't going for the championship this year at this stage.
And obviously seems unlikely, but you never know.
Haja being off the pace isn't maybe too much of a headline
at the moment, but it is certainly one to watch.
For sure, yeah.
There are a lot of comparisons to 2025 and for Haja,
the entire weekend he's been off the pace of Max by quite a mile.
You know, there was a quote coming out around him questioning
how he's that far behind.
He doesn't know, you know, he's a good...
He basically said, you know, I'm a great driver
or something similar to that.
So, yeah, it's a blip in what has been a reasonably good start
to the year for Haja in terms of his comparisons to Max,
but it is hard to know, as we've said many, many times,
in those first few races to really match up with car issues
and how the drivers are extracting the most out of it.
And I think Max did a brilliant job
and has done a great job so far.
This weekend for Haja not to beat Gasly in the sprint is...
That's the problem, right?
That's where eventually questions will start to come up.
If he can't score points ahead of other midfield teams,
then that's when the problems start to come in.
But for now, you know, it's a sprint race.
He can have an off weekend.
It's not that bad.
Like, he's very early into his Red Bull main seat career.
And then as for Hamilton, yeah, he was 15 seconds off Charlotte Clair
come the end of that race.
Very bizarre to see the drop off.
Must have been tire related, you'd have to imagine,
or perhaps managing some issues.
But whatever it was, if it wasn't issue related,
then it's a poor sprint from Hamilton.
The race craft we mentioned, but also pace wise,
he's looked off against Charles.
So, yeah, it's an interesting setup for the rest of the weekend.
I'm really excited to see how qualifying goes down
because I don't think it is just a foregone conclusion
that McLaren will lock it out and drive away on Sunday
or Monday morning for us.
So, yeah, I'm looking forward to it, right?
It's slightly more F1 than I've seen so far this year.
And that has not changed my mind entirely
about what I'm watching, but a glimmer of positivity and hope.
Especially if we get a case where,
particularly in qualifying that we saw recently,
where it isn't just 2x2 all the time,
and you've got Leclerc at the front,
Max has now come into play a bit more,
Mercedes-Arms, I had McLaren are now in it.
This is what we were kind of hoping after testing
that you have those top four teams a lot closer.
And maybe the dream is that that just changes from track to track
and it's close between them and people on their day
can put in great results.
So, yeah, fingers crossed.
I think there are definitely positives to take.
I know a lot of people maybe will watch that sprint and go,
oh, yeah, not much happened.
Let's throw the regs in the beer now.
It's terrible, but I think there's a lot of positives from that.
And this weekend so far, just from the fact
that Formula One is looking much more competitive and closer,
that we can have a good championship battle
and make it a lot more exciting.
And let's not forget,
Miami is one of the worst tracks on the calendar.
Yeah, and also that's also just remind ourselves of that
when we're not getting five million passes across the weekend.
Right, that is it.
We'll be live later on,
whether this podcast goes out before qualifying.
I hope it will.
So, we'll be live for qualifying,
of course, the race as well.
Thank you for joining us.
If you have been on the watch alongs,
remember the super potting tour has now been launched
for the UK, and we'll be having the tickets go out very soon.
So, keep an eye for that.
And Australia, we'll see you soon,
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So, if you haven't got your tickets, please do.
Tell me final thoughts, please.
Final thoughts are on Australia,
really looking forward to the tour.
And also, I will just echo again,
Australian fans and everyone that has difficult times there,
watch Formula One.
You are troopers, and I respect you,
and I stand up and salute you,
your dedication to Formula One.
You can't say I stand up and salute you
and be sat down holding a podcast, Mike,
you know what I'm saying?
But there you go.
I can't stand up, I've got pajamas on.
Thank you, everybody.
We will see you literally later on today
for the main qualifying podcast.
Bye.
Goodbye.
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About this episode
McLaren’s Miami sprint result sparked a big reaction, with the hosts treating the one-two as evidence of a rapid turnaround after a disastrous previous weekend. They also liked that the race felt more like real Formula One, with overtakes actually mattering, while debating how much of that came from the track versus regulation changes. Hamilton’s battle with Verstappen, Antonelli’s penalty, and the wider gaps between teams all fed into a broader discussion about competitiveness and qualifying.
As far as Miami races go, that wasn’t a bad one - and one team’s dominant 1-2 highlighted just how close this season could still prove to be.
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