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

It's your favorite time of any post-race week.

It's driver ratings. I cannot wait for this one.

And more so than usual, actually, because may I tee up that, you know,

Tommy likes getting a little bit sassy on your driver ratings.

He speaks his truth no matter what people say at him.

But Tommy, what are you bringing to this episode that you haven't done before?

I'm bringing to the episode that I've had one hour sleep.

So that's fun. Yeah.

Unfortunately, I had a trip to the hospital yesterday, all good, thankfully.

But yes, I went to bed at 6 a.m. and got up at 7.

So now I can't wait to grade some drivers.

It's going to be good for sure.

Now, another sort of difficulty, I suppose, on top of the fact

you haven't had any sleep, Tommy, is that we saw none of the race.

You know, when you actually think of the Formula One TV direction,

which I think quite fairly has got criticism out of this one,

you have to really go into the depths of the Internet

to find certain overtakes and things like that.

Yeah. It's going to be an interesting one to grade Carla Science

when I saw more of his girlfriend than his overtakes.

But we'll see. We'll get into it.

Right. Let's start where we always begin with Gabriel Bortoletto.

Started the race in 14th, finished 17th.

I am going to give Gabriel Bortoletto a 5 out of 10.

Now, I believe he was a little bit unlucky

with the fact that he picked up damage at the start.

I think that kind of forced him into a pretty terrible strategy

as well by pitting very early, lap 14.

He came in for a front-wing change

and then had to basically eke out the rest of the race from there.

So I'm not going to really downgrade him for that

and the fact that he finished 17th.

It wasn't the worst place to start,

but then I guess his qualifier wasn't great.

It's a 5. It's not great, but it's not horrendous.

Yeah. I've gone for a 5 as well for Bortoletto.

Disappointing race really, Sal,

but really not been with it since the summer break.

They had that amazing and particularly Bortoletto,

that great run of form,

but not a particularly great race from him.

But maybe not as bad as some believe.

No, no.

When you're forced into an early pit stop round Singapore

when everybody who did well stayed out till lap 300 on the media.

Yeah, exactly.

It tells you everything you need to know.

The fans gave Gabrielle a 4.

Nico Holkenberg started the race in 11th, finished 20th.

I've gone for a 3 out of 10 for Nico Holkenberg.

Maybe this is a sign to keep qualifying badly

because as soon as he qualified well, he had a really poor race.

Yeah, he finally got his qualifying sorted

and then didn't go to plan.

Of course, probably the only driver

to have a proper major moment as well.

Although I will thank him because it put

to any doubt Matt's prediction of the LF lags.

So as much as I want to give him a 10, I'm not.

So three for Nico Holkenberg. Disappointing one.

It was disappointing.

My prediction for him was that top 10.

Was it a Patreon? I think it was.

To get a point for Holkenberg, which looked promising after qualifying.

P11.

But yeah, a massively notable error from him

careering down the runoff.

Almost collected a car as he spun round.

The front wing damage, I think, again,

he was a little bit unlucky with that one.

The error was basically the nail in the coffin

for any potential points on the table.

Although again, I think Salba didn't help him

with the strategy of pitting him quite early.

And then he base, well, yeah, he just got stuck

behind everybody that had stayed out

and it just felt like the wrong strategy call.

But that being said, it is still a three.

The fans gave him a three as well.

Alex Albon started the race from the pit lane

after being disqualified and qualifying

and finished in 14th.

I have gone for a six out of 10 for Alex Albon.

It was okay.

Made some progress.

Still quite a way off the points.

Did a similar strategy to signs.

I think William's got it absolutely right

to stay out there.

Definitely helped by some other cars

that were going insanely slowly

to keep the pack all together.

But yeah, for Albon, he'll look at signs

and go, yeah, actually, maybe there were some points

on the table, but it's not a horrendous grade

from finishing 14th because he started from the pit lane.

Indeed.

I've gone for a six as well for Alex Albon.

Pit lane starts p14, nothing crazy,

but certainly not a terrible race.

But of course, similar strategy,

very almost identical to his teammate

and his teammate obviously made better use of it.

So that's why it's a six.

The fans gave him a six as well.

Carlos Sainz started the race in 18th finished 10th.

I have gone for an eight out of 10 for Carlos Sainz.

Disqualified, qualifying, started p18, of course,

and got those points.

Made all those brilliant overtakes

that I absolutely loved seeing on Twitter,

on Tuesday instead of the main feed during the Grand Prix

when nothing was happening.

But Carlos, yeah, amazing to get points,

but I can't give him a nine,

and this kind of will go based on kind of other grades

that we'll see later on,

which I normally base my kind of grades on,

but still a fantastic performance from Sainz

and what to turn around.

I'm hoping based on Baku and this race,

this is the turning point now

where Sainz is comfortable in that car

and he's really starting to show the driver

that we all know he is.

Okey-dokey.

I am going to give Carlos Sainz a nine

because I think it was close between an eight and a nine,

but I am going to give him his plaudits.

I believe that...

Oh, sorry, no, I meant to go,

oh my God, one great difference.

How dare you?

That is a massively polarizing opinion, isn't it?

An eight versus a nine.

I reckon if we'd seen all of them live,

maybe we would have felt slightly better

and slightly more strongly towards Carlos's grade,

but I still think it is a nine out of ten

to make that much progress around Singapore.

Again, I think the strategy did...

They nailed it, Williams,

but I think Sainz's pace was also really, really good

and it's not easy to still make overtakes.

So yeah, to score a point from that position,

I think definitely deserves a high grade,

so it's a well done to Carlos.

The fans gave him an eight out of ten.

Isaac Hadjar started the race in eighth, finished 11th.

I'm going to give Hadjar a seven out of ten.

Now you might go, wow, seven out of ten for an 11th, mate.

You score points.

Guy was, and I'm going to use a very old reference here,

like Fred Flintstone, he was literally using his feet

to go round the Singapore Grand Prix circuit.

You could visibly see how slow he was in a straight line.

How he is still finished 11th

is an absolute miracle, to be honest with you,

so I'm going to give him a seven

because he definitely does deserve the plaudits there

for somehow not finishing last, so it's a well done, Isaac.

I've gone for an eight out of ten for Isaac Hadjar.

I think, as you've said, he was driving around

a lot of the time with half an engine.

It felt like Daniel Ricciardo at Monaco

all those years back,

but of course you can overtake at Singapore

even if it's very difficult.

I think it's very fitting.

I know this didn't happen through the whole race,

but we saw on one of the only moments

we saw an overtake live,

where we actually saw Fernando Alonso go past him

and it really did look like he was driving an F2 car.

Hero of the race as well, let's not forget.

Fernando Alonso, exactly.

I think Hadjar, I know it's if, but some maybes,

but had he had a working car,

I think he's comfortably up there

with challenging Alonso for best of the rest.

I think it seems incredibly high to give an eight

for an 11 out of 10, but his car wasn't working.

And I think for him to have even almost be in the points

is a really impressive thing.

So yeah, gotta applaud him.

The fans, they don't care, six out of ten for Isaac Hadjar.

Liam Lawson started the race in 12th, finished 15th.

I have gone for a four out of ten for Liam Lawson.

I think a disappointing race weekend.

Two crashes, of course, I know it's practice,

but dense confidence going into the weekend

had to repair his car.

And you look what Isaac Hadjar could achieve

in that racing balls.

And obviously, Liam Lawson's car was working

during the Grand Prix.

And yeah, he,

Liam has shown that he can be on Hadjar's level now.

He's had, you know, he had a brilliant,

brilliant performance last time out in Baku.

But this was a really messy weekend,

a time when, you know, the pressure is on

about whether he keeps his seat.

So yeah, a disappointing weekend for Lawson.

This one very difficult to grade

because of the two crashes in free practice,

which you have to downgrade

is costing the team.

I've gone for a five out of ten for Lawson.

Without the crashes, it would have been

a slightly higher grade potentially.

He was, he was doing all right in that race.

He was ahead of signs.

He was going the long strategy on the mediums.

And then there was like a one or two lap window

between Lawson pitting and signs pitting

and signs was able to come out

in pretty cleanish air to go and attack,

whereas Lawson got very much stuck in the train

of Stroll, Albon.

So I think a little bit of luck

and Lawson was maybe in with a shout of scoring

an outside point in P10.

So I've gone for a five because that didn't happen

and obviously those crashes as well didn't help.

But it could well have been

a little bit different for Lawson.

I will change to a five then.

This is what Drive Rains all about.

You've convinced me with that little bit of

knowledge about the pit window.

So yeah, fair enough, I will go.

Obviously I've given Hadja quite a high grade as well in an eight.

So yeah, I'll change it to a five.

OK, I love this.

It's like a little auction or something going on here.

The fans also gave Liam Lawson a five out of 10.

Sorry, we're getting one hour of sleep, Tommy,

just for a quick second.

How you can give Hadja one grade higher

than Lawson though, that is pretty deft.

Oh, you haven't got the fans?

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

That one hour sleep.

Oh, Tommy is going to come for you.

Bearman.

Started the race in ninth, finished ninth.

Oliver Bearman receives...

Gosh, it's a difficult one.

It's a difficult one.

Is it nine out of ten?

Oh, gosh, it's a nine out of ten

for Ollie Bearman.

Close to a ten as you can tell

by my deliberation and weird squeaky noises

that I made.

A brilliant weekend from Ollie.

Don't think I can quite give him

the perfect ten score, but still brilliant

and qualifying, made it to Q3.

Completely, it has to be said,

I hate to say it because I love Estee Bestie,

but trounced Ocon in qualifying

and then just delivered a really solid race from there.

Of course, had that contact into turn one as well,

where his race could have absolutely been curtains,

but he was fine and settled into his own race,

finished on his own, and a couple of points for Haas.

So, nine out of ten.

Yeah, I've gone for a nine out of ten

for Ollie Bearman as well.

Absolutely brilliant drive.

I will say that I think it was actually

his best drive of the year.

Just brilliant all weekend.

But I can't give him a ten

when we've seen, you know,

Carla Sainz, Nika Holkenberg,

had to get podiums this year,

not saying that Ollie Bearman needs to be a podium,

but it is a ninth place,

but it's still a very, very good grade

and it's a very good nine

because, you know, he has, like you say,

trounced his very experienced teammate

and, yeah, really starting to see

some great stuff from Ollie Bearman.

I think he was really, really impressive this weekend.

Hell yeah.

The fans gave Ollie a nine out of ten.

Esteban Ocon started the race

and 17th finished 18th.

I've gone for a four out of ten

for Esteban Ocon.

Yeah, disappointing one.

You know, when you see what

Ollie Bearman was able to do in that car,

you do wonder how much,

you know, without sounding like

Lewis Hamilton in 2022,

how much like Ocon is like

experimenting with all these

easy strategies and set ups and things.

But yeah, he just can't seem to get,

whether that's the case or he just can't get

qualifying right at the moment.

But yeah, disappointing race for Ocon,

of course, the more experienced driver

and, yeah, just didn't work out for him.

We talk about crazy strategies.

That was probably the least crazy strategy

of all in this Grand Prix.

Pissing on lap 30 for mediums and being like,

cool, I'm done.

That had an Ocon crazy strategy

and all over it from P17

and they didn't do it.

Didn't do it.

Yeah, Esteban needs to pick up his qualifying

for sure.

I have gone for a four out of ten

for Esteban Ocon.

His teammate showed what was possible

in the car this weekend

and I'd like to see, you know,

Esteban mount some kind of charge again

because he has had a few,

a couple great results this year.

It's come more from the race

than it has qualifying,

but it would make it a lot easier

if he could start a little bit higher

as we saw with Oli this weekend.

The fans gave him a three.

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Franko Colopinto started the race in 16th,

finished 16th.

I am going for a 6 out of 10

for Franko Colopinto.

He, of course, beat his teammate once again,

which is going very much under the radar

at the moment.

He was running in a pretty good sort of 12th, 13th position

towards the end of the race,

but then fell away with pretty large degradation

for that wheelie bin that he's driving.

So I'm going to give him his credit there

that, again, he beats Pierre Gasly,

that I know Pierre obviously started from the pit lane

and had qualifying issues.

But once again, Franko, I think,

does deserve these kind of comments.

So I've gone for a 6.

I have gone for a 7 out of 10

for Franko Colopinto.

I know some people will be like,

oh my God, how can you give a 7

for finishing 16th?

They've already written that at least six times.

They've already commented.

And I will explain my working,

not that people will listen.

They've already made the comments.

But remember, we're biased and they're not.

Exactly.

So yeah, Alpine,

worst car on the grid now.

They're way full.

They're miles behind in the Constructors' Championship.

Even Pierre Gasly,

who we all know is a great driver,

struggling massively

and Franko has out-qualified him again.

Four from five now.

I know he had the issue.

But he was ahead of him before.

And yeah, it makes a great start

up into 13th.

And yeah,

I was convinced that when he pitted

for mediums very early,

I was like, well, why the earth

have they gone for a two-stop?

It's a struggle with tire-deck there.

That's a crazy strategy.

And he's going to just have, you know,

finish easily dead last.

But instead, you know,

16th, there's nothing to write home about.

But he's beaten two Salbers,

a Hass and his teammate.

And, you know,

how I do my grades

is I think about that final table

where it tells you everyone,

you know, and what their point score is and stuff.

And we've discussed this

if you would

prefer as to maybe next year try something like that

where we grade drivers from

1 to 20, and we can give a bit more

of a kind of grading system like that.

But if I look at other drivers,

I'm going into a massive tangent here,

but I'm explaining my 7,

if I look at other drivers like Alex Albin, right,

he's finished 14th in a Williams,

which is a decent car,

and he's finished behind his teammate

and Colin Pinto has finished 16th

in the worst car on the grade and finished ahead of his teammate.

So it's a 7.

One hour Tommy

is really diving into the law of this

F1 driver ratings.

OK, perfect. The fans don't care, mate.

They literally don't care.

Honestly, that could have been an email,

mate. Honestly, to be honest with you,

because the fans gave him a 5.

Pierre Gasly started the race

from the pit lane after having quality issues

and finished 19th.

I've gone for a 5 out of 10

for Pierre Gasly.

It's hard to grade

someone based on

how it's, is it like woeful

or is it just the fact that their car is

the worst and I think it's

the latter that their car is terrible,

of course.

Unlucky in qualifying

to not, you know, be able

to finish his lap and have that issue

but I'll be, you know,

just in struggle town anyway.

So yeah,

it's not great,

but I've gone for a 5 for Gasly

either way.

I've gone for a 5 as well, starting from the pit lane,

obviously puts you on the back foot

and he finished, I know,

a few positions behind Collopinto, 16th versus

19th, but he was right behind Ocon

and Bortoletto at the, at the end of the race

and four seconds off Collopinto

around a track that we know is very difficult

to overtake in the worst car on the grid.

So yeah, that's a 5 from me.

The fans gave him a 3.

They reckon that Pierre Gasly

should make that steering wheel steer

in qualifying and

they don't like the fact that Pierre Gasly didn't fix it

on the fly.

Lance Stroll, started the race in 15th,

finished 13th.

Lance Stroll is going to receive

a whopping

5 out of 10. Thank you, Lance.

Very much, just down the

middle

one of the shortest interviews I've

ever heard from him after qualifying

and

he was basically just clinging on

to hope for a safety car in the middle of the race

and that never happened.

So 13th, when your teammate

has very comfortably finished 8th,

maybe even very

I did get, sorry, Hamilton

finished 7th in the end, didn't he? But 8th on the road,

it's, yeah, it's just another kind of

meh, on to the next one for Lance.

I've gone for

a 6 out of 10 for Lance Stroll.

I think it was,

yeah, not the greatest weekend, but

I think Aston Martin really

failed to deliver the car that I

expected them to have

around here. They didn't look too great.

That was a pretty good car, no?

It wasn't great. No, I wouldn't say it was great.

Alonzo literally finished best of the rest by a country mile.

Yeah, but he qualified 10th

is what I mean. It's still a

6, I'm not giving him a 10.

I know, it wasn't the grade I was questioning

about Aston Martin not delivering a car,

which I think

I don't think they were like comfortably

best of the rest like I thought they were going to be.

I think they were very much in the pack.

Yeah, of course he is. We'll get on to him later.

But, yeah,

Lance 13th

probably, you know, like

not quite in the point

it's not absolutely

woeful, but it's also

not, not better than a 6.

So, I've gone for a 6.

35 seconds off his teammate, crazy.

Right, the fans gave him a

5.

Fernando Alonzo started the race in 10th

finished 7th. We'll just let Tommy

we'll just let Tommy go now. Right, just everybody

sit back, relax and enjoy the fanboy.

10, done.

Well, that's not going to look great on the

editing, is it? That's not going to look great, is it?

Come on. Okay.

Look, Fernando Alonzo

a mega, mega drive.

I expected

Aston Martin to be 10. Say the number again because the

answer is going to be fuming with you. That was like

there we go. That's it. Give us

some energy, Tommy. It's an 11. It's a 12.

It's a 15.

Yeah, Fernando

brilliant drive.

I very much expected

him to challenge

or be best of the

rest because the Aston Martin was best of the

rest. I don't think they were. He did very

well when I don't think the Aston had

particularly great pace in qualifying to

get into the top 10 in qualifying.

So, to

then basically make his way

to, you know,

the front of that best of the rest

then have that horrendously

slow pit stop which should have just completely

ruined any chances of being able

to get points really.

And, you know, Fernando Alonzo

being Fernando Alonzo just

does Fernando things and just drives

past everyone, drops

absolute hilarious team radio messages

and

yeah, brilliant, brilliant drive

and

I said this to you

and maybe this will get into

Hamilton later, but

in a championship fight

that's been far too friendly

I'm glad to see

Hamilton Alonzo still beefing after 18 years.

That's the sport I love.

Over 7th place.

Yeah, that's the sport I love.

Yeah, we love to see it.

For me, Fernando Alonzo gets a 10 out of 10

as well.

Yeah, as I say, I kind of disagree

with the level of which

Aston Martin and the car that they had underneath them

they've already shown that the high downforce tracks

where they definitely

can perform much better, their efficiency

in low downforce tracks just

shocking as we've seen

at places like Baku and Monza.

That being said Alonzo

should he have still finished 8th or 7th

obviously after Hamilton's penalty

with that 9.2 second pit stop, I thought it was done.

You know, of course I good surprised him this weekend

and when I saw that

he's going to struggle to get a point now

but he just flew through the field

not that we saw any of it

but we saw the replays

on Monday morning

and that was great

but a brilliant drive from Alonzo

and I sincerely hope that

he gets back towards the front

we got that snippet as you say

of the team radio, I need more of that

I need just...

and then Hamilton going on Instagram afterwards

and dropping a really modern

one film, The Grey Reference

that no one else had in the UK

that was about 40

but I saw it

and I was like that is absolutely amazing

10 out of 10 for me

the fans gave him a 9

they think he should have got out of the car

and fit the wheels quickly

Tommy, don't call our listeners

come on, take that back

I know you've had one hour of sleep

I'm going to look at the grade

and I'll tell you who's pathetic

and I'll credit the people

that gave me 10

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moving on to Kimmy Antonelli

started the race in fourth, finished fifth

I'm going to lock in

a 7 out of 10 for Kimmy Antonelli

ah goodness gracious me

I know that we're celebrating

and 7 is like a good grade

well done, you showed some pace

showed some potential

I honestly think he could have

finished second this weekend

but he overdrove

overdrived

the car in qualifying

and that just

essentially put him on a massive back foot

I liked the move he put on Leclerre after he knew Leclerre

had brake issues

I obviously like it because he went past Charles Leclerre

but you know what I mean

but to finish 35 seconds

I think it was at the end

off your teammate

when he had looked so good

in practice and on the rut

it just looked like he was there

George said himself that Kimmy was literally faster

than him at the start of the weekend

so it's one of those

where you go good enough

learn from it

but there is a ceiling there

far away than what we're actually seeing right now

from Kimmy Antonelli so that's welcome for a 7

Yeah definitely

I've gone for a 7 for Antonelli as well

I think he would have

absolutely bitten your hand off for a P5

a few races ago when it was in that massive slump

and you think P5

should be a fantastic result

this is exactly what he should be doing

but unfortunately for him

he did look so quick in the practice sessions

and even you know

the Q1 and things like that

okay he legitimately could be

right up there

in qualifying here

and even after starting

fourth

loses a place at the start

and then he found himself battling

the red wheelie bins

so

yeah not good for Antonelli

to be fair wheelie bins don't have brakes either

that's good to say

but Antonelli

yeah just

it's weird to

be like quite a low grade

for

well I'd say low grade 7

same as Colin Pinto beat his teammate

so you know just more context on that one

Tommy stop giving context out of the grades

stop it

but

you sound like the comment section

yeah it's

disappointing for Kimmy

because it's a what might have been

is still a positive because he's had

two good results now

back to back and that is

he just needed that confidence but he didn't he really

he did he did you know

you look at the drivers he's beaten

both Ferraris who both did not

have brakes

and then you look and you go ah you know it's

it is a 7 but

when Russell said comfortably one yeah

like I think it's but obviously

he's a rookie so you take these things into account

the fans gave him a 7 as well

George Russell

start of the race and first finish first

it's a 10

for George Russell a brilliant drive

faultless

fantastic two qualifying laps

yes we're seeing

quite a lot of

races this year where

maybe a good majority

of the work is done on a Saturday

to win these races but

can't take it away from him to

to still deliver in very

difficult conditions

you know he looked absolutely

ruined at the end there

really long race no

respite because apparently we don't have

safety cars at Singapore anymore

and yeah

a fantastic drive

from George give him

his contract

well he's going to have one isn't he one way or another

give him the length of contract that he

deserves of course I've gone for a 10

out of 10 for George

he just

when the car is there

these are the kind of performances that George puts in

and it is

scary to see in some ways I'm like oh no

another driver that could definitely

win a world championship before my favourite driver

but look it's

you can't take anything away from him

qualifying was sensational

two laps within seven thousands

of each other and then

looked completely and utterly unbeatable

in the race as well

Max did get close but George didn't make

any mistakes he lost four almost

four kilograms of weight

by the end of the race

and you could tell that that race

was tougher for someone

like George who I can absolutely

relate to of not particularly liking

the heat and you know to still

not have that lapse of concentration

which can so easily happen we saw

it last year with Lando who's very close to

crashing from the lead I think being in

the lead is probably the most difficult one as well

because you're not chasing anybody there's

the mental strength I guess

to just stay within

your own brain

and just being concentrate for 62 laps

it's a phenomenal job from George

the fans gave him a

10 as well

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Yuki Sonoda started the race

in 13th finished 12th

I've gone for a

oh dear

I think it might have to

be a 4 out of 10

it's a 4 out of 10 for Yuki Sonoda

I was going to give him a 5 but it's

it's like pity grades

I'll give him a 5 because he's in the red bull

or give him a 6 because he's in the red bull

but it is a 4 out of 10 performance

he got lapped didn't he by his teammate

he was so far behind

qualifying again just nowhere near max

he had a terrible start as well

and just put himself

massively on the back foot

so I'll go for a 4

sad to see

and again like Baku

a little bit of a flash in the pan

but also we kind of said didn't we

when we saw Baku of like

it wasn't as good as the result

would suggest and clearly his struggles

have doubled

tripled as he

head to Marina Bay

I've gone for a 4 as well for Yuki Sonoda

I know

the bingo of

he's in the second red bull

which always makes it

difficult to rate

but he's been in that car

for a long time now

I appreciate

it's

everyone's been struggling in it

but he actually

qualifying 13th

if he makes a great start

moves up a couple of positions

he's on for a point and it's looking like a completely different race

but he dropped all the way down

to 16

didn't he even qualify 30

he qualified 15th because the two Williams

so he even got like a good

boost up the grid from that

and then drop those positions

immediately with a poor start

so yeah

not good from Yuki

at all and really disappointing

because we all hoped that

Baku might be the thing that

changed but doesn't look like it

unfortunately

Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen started the race in second finish

second

it's a 9 out of 10 for Max Verstappen

it's a very high 9

maybe again

you know him

it seems like him and

George are these

two drivers that they almost like

they can deliver like a really really good weekend

but because they're in like cars that

can win you feel like they only get

10s when they win

so yeah and I do think

that

had he put the perfect lap together

I'm not saying

I don't think the Red Bull was like

clear but I think you know

pole could have been possible

with a really really good lap

not with Lando Norris there mate

well exactly very true

but yeah

he did very very well to hold on

to second it looked like

very early on

that I think it would be like almost like a minor

miracle him finishing second it looked

like it was going to be full-threaten all over it

and the two McLarens would just be inevitable

but

instead he held on

and eroded

the championship lead again

it's funny as well isn't it

before I get into my grade

I wonder how our

obviously after the main race podcast it's our

initial thoughts isn't it after the race

you know you think it's maybe not enough

you know it's not enough of a

dent in Oscar's lead and things like that

had Max won the race

and Oscar finished second and he gained

a singular point more

I reckon you'd be there like

championships on

so weird that sort of mentality

isn't it because then you also

have the argument of like

I find it ridiculous that everyone keeps

sharing

the thing of like how Max

can win it's always like well if Max wins

every race and I was always like well Max isn't

going to win every race but if he had won

three in a row you'd be like well

maybe but second

championship off okay my grade

for Max Verstappen I am really torn

between a nine and a ten I really am

I can see arguments for both

God it's tough look I'm going to have to go for

a nine

but it's a very high nine I think that it's

again it's a brilliant weekend

for Max to hold off

I don't know the entire race

at Singapore it's hard to pass

but he still put himself in that position

with a brilliant qualifying

question mark of course over that second lap

wouldn't he have got pole wouldn't he have got pole

you know there's people flying around

telemetry screenshots and things that you're like

people can very easily

just make just share it and be like

well Max would have got pole look at this

it's yeah it would have been close

but I'm going to go for a nine

it's still a brilliant weekend

it's just yeah George Russell's won the race

and maybe the

not absolutely everything was got out of this weekend

but it's so close right I could easily

give him a ten and people would probably

question that as well so the fans gave him

a nine

Lewis Hamilton started the race and sixth finished

eighth

I am going to go for

a seven out of ten for Lewis Hamilton

yes he finished

eighth but he had no breaks

and was going to finish sixth

although may well

actually no fifth to be fair with Antonelli

and the soft tyre choice was

was a very good choice from Ferrari

and from Hamilton I guess it was sort of

it helped with the fact that he had such

a massive gap behind him that he could do

something a little bit different

but then sadly of course his breaks went

which I do not think he is

at fault for I don't think he's at fault

for corner cutting either I think everybody

every single driver in that same position

was going to do the same thing no one's going to

pull over me like alright race done one lap

from the end so yeah

I've gone for a seven for Hamilton he was looking

good this weekend in comparison to Leclerre

I was concerned

and quite rightly

concerned I think Hamilton was very much on the pace of

Charles this weekend so seven

yeah I've gone for a seven as well for

Lewis Hamilton Ferrari are

so difficult to

grade this year because

they are in this kind of

no man's land now where they're looking

like the the fourth

best car but they're ahead of the

midfield and they're just

spending the entire race just hoping

the car doesn't disintegrate so

yeah I think Hamilton

looked

all weekend

like he had

you know he was on Charles's level

and sometimes better than him as well so

if he

continues if he continues

what he did here

you know all those questions about

oh has Hamilton got it anymore he's washed

all this kind of stuff it goes completely out of the window

because I think he

he looked much stronger this year but it's still not

not you know the

this year or this race sorry this race

sorry I know that I just

to make sure

Tom Bellingham says Hamilton looks strong this year

yeah yeah well we'll find out

in the overall ratings at the end won't we

we will and yes

there we go

OK the fans

yeah I know I can tell we're nearly at the end mate

well done you're doing great

Hamilton the fans gave him

a 7 out of 10

Charles Leclerc started the race and 7th

finished 6th

I've gone for a 7 as well for Charles Leclerc

I

it was it was kind of

maybe this is

this is Charles because you expect so much more

from him that you're like

starting 7th and finishing 6th

it's not great for Vishal

and I was tempted

by a 6 but then I watched

the video of him basically

lifting and coasting the entire Grand Prix

and it's just not

it's just not fair

is it for Ferrari

and this is me the non Ferrari fan

saying this

you know

you want to see them battling they've got two fantastic

drivers

and you don't want to see

and it must be so

demoralising to just

start a race and know that it's immediately

like right we're doing this we're lifting

and coasting it can't be fun

at all

so yeah it's a 7 for Charles

I've also gone for a 7 out of 10 for Charles Leclerc

how do you grade

two drivers one with which their brakes exploded

and the other one was having to lift and coast

the entire race it's not like they're even being

unleashed to show their full potential

if I was a Ferrari fan

I'd be absolutely devastated

to watch the drivers

struggle out there but obviously with Max my boy

he's out there doing really well

I joke it's full blown

full blown depression at this

stage I've lost all hope

all delusion has gone

down the toilet for

Ferrari this year they've got no new parts

nothing's coming to the car for the rest of the year

they are stuck with their

brand new philosophy for 2025

which

Tommy you were absolutely correct at the start

of the year congratulations Ferrari have been a flop

I mean that has aged so well

yeah yeah and not like I said

with my chest that Ferrari would be

constructed champions

in fact it was McLaren with six races

to go but it's a 7 out of 10

still because I think Charles Leclerc

did a pretty good job for what he had

to manage

and that's all I really have to say on the matter

it is just sad to watch

the fans gave him a 7 as well

Oscar Piastri

started the race in third

finished fourth

well this will not be controversial in the slightest

this

I might just not grade

I think that's probably easier I'll just say he had a race

McLaren very good

to keep it fair

Piastri and Norris not applicable

okay so Oscar Piastri

I am going to give him

a 7 out of 10

because

yes he qualified just ahead of his teammate Lando

third and fifth respectively

he was very close about half a tenth I think between the two of them

Oscar then

the move

the move happens

Lando slightly out of control

gets budged wide

but I'm judging the 7

slightly on more just the rest of the race

he looked like he just wasn't able

to get close to make an overtake

Lando was on the back of Max

for 30 odd laps

and you think about the amount of time you lose

sitting behind a car in dirty air that close

so I'm kind of judging it on

potential pace it's very difficult around Singapore

isn't it to kind of really get a gauge

but fourth for the championship leader

in a McLaren that I absolutely

am convinced was still the fastest car

this weekend especially in racetrack

just purely from what we saw with Lando

and how close he was behind Max

but for Oscar it was a

incident settler

but it was nothing more than that after Baku

I've gone

four

this is so

this is so so difficult

because it depends if you look at the Norris

Piassari thing and go well he was barged off the track

and things like that

but the stewards deemed it a racing incident

it was a racing incident like Oscar did

get passed by Lando

so yeah what were you going to give Tommy a story

I'll go for an eight out of ten

I'm on the fence between

a seven and an eight and it kind of

the context

appears when you go into the next grade

but yeah

for Piassari

you're right it's more it's like

a decent confidence boost

I said this in the main podcast there are still

little worrying

signs that Piassari is

not maybe on the best form

he's not an absolutely horrendous form

other than Baku

but this is

a few times I think it's

three of the last

four now Norris

has beaten him so

yeah

he of course is

right to be

aggrieved by the turn one incident

because it was very aggressive

it wasn't very papyrus at all

and

we've said this so many times the two things

can coexist that you think it's a racing incident

but you also think Piassari is well

within his right because

he was probably super

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt

at the start as well that he was probably

more cautious because it's

land out and he thinks well nothing crazy

is going to happen here because we have this

papaya rules thing where we have to give

each other so much space and it's all got to

be lovely and fair and stuff so for

them him to get barged out the way

he's probably like well yeah like

he's miffed but he didn't

and I did expect more from him

to kind of catch up

of course he had the slow pit stop

again from

McLaren at this time it was his turn

but yeah

it's a low eight

two seconds behind Lando

exactly yeah

should they have swapped is that racing

is that part of racing now

is that papaya rules or not I don't know

obviously we're joking

the fans gave Oscar Piastri a

10 out of 10

Lando Norris started the race

in fifth finished third

I've gone for an 8 out of 10

for Lando Norris as well

again

for me Lando is kind of

a higher 8

but not enough of a difference between

the two of them

to give a difference in grade

this is just my opinion

to give a difference in grade between the two

this is your opinion to me

I know that it's different to everyone else

and not every single person

has the same one because

the series is incredibly boring

but

I actually will

say

forever that

I am glad

Lando finally got his elbows out

yes it was clumsy

and a bit messy

but I want to see some championship fight from him

and we did see that and yes

I think it was borderline

and

I can see why Oscar's annoyed

but he's going for the championship

he made an aggressive move

but I can't give him

a whole grade higher than Oscar

because

for me Oscar

was quicker in qualifying

and they were very close at the end

of the race so

it's a close but 8

okay

I have gone for an 8 out of 10

so I have gone for the dreaded one point difference

because that is

massive in driver ratings

but it's more like a 7.8 for Oscar

and an 8.1 for Lando

I think Lando was slightly better

especially in the race this weekend

he didn't deliver in qualifying

but he had a fantastic start

and undid any qualifying woes

within the first three corners

yes his move was clumsy

but it was a racing instant

racing sometimes they touch

they touch Martin

and I genuinely think that

Lando did the right thing

to just send one

he has to

he's behind in the championship

and I will also lord the fact that he

went for something

again

I do completely agree with Lando here

that when he's kind of saying

there was a lot of room on the inside

it's not like he's absolutely

something completely ridiculous

you know

Canada he held his hands up because

it was a ridiculous move to go for

and he went for a gap that wasn't there

and crashed but this

the door was open to go for it

and yes he got caught out

by Max and

made the collision but you absolutely

see why

in that situation he would go for it

because he's trying to win a world championship

and it would make absolutely no sense for me to sit here

and believe Lando went for that move when we have criticised him

so much

for not going for a move

being Max Verstappen

you know and every argument

I've seen about this is like

if that was Max

everyone would be saying like it's penalty

it's dirty driving

and maybe some people would

because people will always say that on Twitter

but I also think a lot of people would go

this is why Max is Max

while Oscar

Lando are maybe a bit more cautious

Max budges

everyone out the way and

makes the move and stuff

and Lando finally does

something like that and then gets just as much

criticism so

I'm glad

for this championship that

that has happened because

it's going to make it much more interesting

as a you know to watch it

yeah hopefully Lando has

subsequently deleted

the Empire rules in one fell swoop

with that move on lap one

and then we can all just go back to the room

Oscar Piassci will have from his brain I'm sure

8 out of 10 from me

the fans gave Lando an 8

as well

so who is our P1

for me my P1

is George Russell

a perfect weekend

it has to be a 10

from me and not much more to say

from it I look forward to George Russell winning Las Vegas

that'll be the next time Mercedes turn up

and yeah George

is my P1

indeed easily George Russell even though

Fernando Alonso was brilliant and also got a 10

George Russell was just

perfect

what a weekend

from him

what a weekend not

Friday because Friday was terrible

but who cares about Friday not me

yeah he's definitely

managed to delete any Friday happenings

with a ridiculously dominant weekend

from Saturday onwards right that is it

thank you everybody for tuning in to this F1

driver ratings for the Singapore Grand Prix

next time will be Austin

looking forward to that one Tommy

what are your final thoughts

yeah so I don't care about Friday I will

next time because it's a sprint

and we all know how

fun that makes driver ratings

and subjective and more difficult

so we love to see yeah so tune into that

one can't wait for it see

you in the comment section a little bit

and yeah lots of love have a

lovely off week and we will see you soon

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