P1 with Matt and Tommy - Can Kimi Antonelli REALLY win the F1 World Championship?

Episode Date: May 15, 2026

With F1 about to resume, Kimi Antonelli leads the F1 world championship after a hugely impressive first four races. But can he actually win the world title in just his second season? Our brand new liv...e show 'Super Podding' is coming to the UK and Amsterdam this autumn! Get your tickets here: http:/tix.to/p1liveSign up to our Patreon for just $5 a month! You'll get access to every P1 episode ad-free, extended versions of every 2026 race review, early access to tickets & merch, and access to our Discord server where you can chat with us and other F1 fans! Click here to sign up now: http://patreon.com/mattp1tommyFollow us on socials! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok.P1 with Matt and Tommy is the world's biggest F1 podcast. Subscribe for new podcasts around every single race throughout the 2026 Formula 1 season! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:05 Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. We are still in person, which means we are still touring Australia. We have our final show literally this evening before we head back to the UK. It's been an awesome trip. I have obviously, we've missed our setups. It's very cozy, isn't it? It's very easy to jump on Formula One news and chat F1 when we're there. But it's also been great to be in person, Tommy, and doing all our shows.
Starting point is 00:00:29 It absolutely is. Yeah, we're currently in Perth, which is the further city away from any other city in the world. so we are very, very far from our bedrooms right now. But we're slightly closer to our time zone because it is in fact, just seven hours, isn't it, rather than nine? Right, so today we are going to explore Antonelli's actual chances of winning the world championship. And I think it's a very interesting topic because the first four rounds have been phenomenally impressive from Kimmy, especially the last three races.
Starting point is 00:00:58 Can't believe he's got the stat that no other driver holds, or record in fact, of having his first. three consecutive pole positions be all race wins like that and I think he matched was it center and schumacher or for the qualifying polls but no one had ever done that conversion for race wins yeah so yeah we've had that with the the pole positions and I think it was hackinen and I want to say Damon Hill off the top of my head that have like won the first three but no one have won those first three from pole position as well as soon as he got that first poll he's like right let's let's get some Vastap and dominance going and wow he's done an unbelievable job so Kimmy Antonelli 19 years old can he win the Formula World Championship in just his second Formula One season let's dive into
Starting point is 00:01:44 why we think he can win it to begin with Tommy yeah okay so well first of all I predicted him so of course you know I'm going to be smug about that because I can be after four races go on tell everyone your F1 fantasy ranking because you know I may as well tee you okay okay 38th out of two million players F on Fantasy, which is a great start. I'm 15,000. Not so great. Yeah. And yeah, Kimmy Antonelli, before testing, I predicted him.
Starting point is 00:02:14 And I'm sure a lot of people are going, well, of course, you know, it was a Mercedes driver. But I'm just going to go through the little poll we did of the fans and how many people actually thought Kimi Antoni was going to win the championship. And this was before testing? Before testing. Okay. So in January, we got a, you saw. our predictions that we made, our 2026 predictions. And 35% of the fans said that George Russell
Starting point is 00:02:40 would win the world championship. And 0.9% of fans thought Kimi Antonelli would win the world championship. So yeah, it was a long shot. And, you know, part of the reasons were kind of looking back to what Piastri managed to do. And if that car was really good, no one really thought Piastri was going to be able to do what he did. It was all about Lando Norris. And we're kind of seen a very similar story at the moment. Kimmy's obviously, you know, been hyped, particularly by Toto's, this generational talent. He's kind of born to race, it feels like. He's just, you know, his dad's a racer.
Starting point is 00:03:15 Kind of feels very similar to Max Verstappen of just like, you are a racing driver. You will be a racing driver. Like, just from the moment he was born, you know, destined to be in Formula One and a racing driver. And I think that's going to give him, you know, a huge opportunity because he's got the backing of Toto, of course, Toto. really wanted to get him into Formula One. He took a big risk, taking him into Formula One to replace Lewis Hamilton. And so far, you know, he's leading the World Championship. And, you know, if he does it, for Toto to find the new Lewis Hamilton to replace Lewis Hamilton.
Starting point is 00:03:49 And then for Kimi to do a Lewis Hamilton and win in the second season would be an unbelievable story. Toto backing, of course, in Kimmy's junior careers and things, a career's career, but Toto backing in Mercedes Formula One team. That's the question, right? That's what's up in the air is how far will Toto go to try and get Kimmy over the line to win the World Championship? Because it's all well and good Toto backing him in the junior karting days, but that's not going to help him in this season.
Starting point is 00:04:16 But that is, I guess, a question further down the line. We had that last year with Oscar and Lando. Are they going to have to favour one of them with Max Verstappen on a charge? These are all sort of unknowns at the moment. And for me, you know, there are many, reasons why Kimmy Anthony can win around his talent, around his skill,
Starting point is 00:04:32 around what he's already shown as a 19 year old, to think that his first outing in a Formula One car ended in the wall and the amount of question marks, criticism that came of him. And now already in the second year
Starting point is 00:04:46 of his Formula One career, he's able to put together race wins. And it's not even, I would argue it's probably the hardest race wins he's had to put together already this season because he's fallen like a stone.
Starting point is 00:04:59 In most of the races, I think you've been saying Tommy in the live shows, he's dropped 20 positions in those first six, I guess, races, including sprints and not gained any. Of course, he's had pole a few times. But he could have easily crumbled. Yes, I will say Japan was lucky. Japan was fortunate for him because without that safety car, Oscar Piastri was going to probably win the race. But apart from that, you know, he's been able to have that presence of mind to be able to fight George Russell at times and to beat. the drivers that have able to get him off the line,
Starting point is 00:05:32 which is not an easy feat. It's not like, oh, just because you're in a Mercedes means you're going to win the race. It's not that easy. Yeah, I think we could have easily seen Kimmy Antonelli, you know, when he crashed and almost misqualifying, you're crushing an FP3 in Australia, it was a kind of, oh, no moment.
Starting point is 00:05:48 This is, can Kimmy challenge George for the World Championship? And I think the answer then was maybe not. He's not ready. And for him to, even after the first, first race. If you'd have said three races later, Kimi Anznelli would be leading the championship, he'd won three on the bounce from pole position, George wouldn't have got a podium in the last two. I think people would think you're insane because the turnaround that he's managed to do from that kind of FP3 crash. And so far, nothing's really phased him. Of course, the main thing here
Starting point is 00:06:20 is that it's very, very early in the season still. It is indeed. Another, we kind of mentioned about the Toto backing. Tommy, should we talk about the instills? post, Instagram post, of course, controversy that Mercedes went ahead and thought that'll be a good idea to upload? I, so for context, basically Kimmy Antonelli visited the factory, which is very normal thing to do. You see drivers visiting the factory all the time on their own. They don't always go with their teammate. But the problem that Mercedes had was they have this tagline, which we've questioned before
Starting point is 00:06:55 about this tagline because they used it a lot when Lewis Hamilton was leaving the team. team and we said it kind of undermines what Lewis is doing when you kind of celebrating what Lewis Hamilton has done. And the tagline is every dream needs a team. And to post that picture of Kimmy on his own with all the team like, yay, he's leading the championship. I think it's not that deep, but I also understand why if you're a George Russell Stan, for example, you're seeing that there's already, talk about, you know, Toto, you know, Kimmy being Toto's boy and all this, starting to feel a little bit like, okay, is this another, you know, Oscar Piastri moment, or is this, you know, someone that's not getting the backing of their team, basically? Because, yeah, you look at that, and I understand why it's kind of riled up George Russell fans, but I personally don't think it's
Starting point is 00:07:51 that deep. It's just a bad post with a tagline they've already used before. I agree it's not that deep. I don't think it's a case of Mercedes. is trying to send a message to the fans being like, this is Kimmy Antonoli's World Championship, deal with it. But I also do question the sort of strategy behind that post because everyone is so sensitive and hyper aware of these kind of things after papaya rules last year
Starting point is 00:08:17 and the whole McLaren ordeal. No surprise that the fans have gone, really? What? Sir George isn't it? They could have phrased it and sort of shaped that content in a very different way. Kimmy Antinelli is visiting the factory. he's world championship leader.
Starting point is 00:08:31 All this stuff can be celebrated in a way that doesn't look like a team photo without George. That's what it was at the end of the day. So I get it. If you're a fan of George Russell, you'd think, what's going on? Like, you know, why are you making it seem like it's a team post when it's not? Because there's only one of the drivers there. Yeah, they're so desperate to use that slogan probably for their, you know, that they've used this before and it's part of their tagline for their team
Starting point is 00:08:54 and almost like a marketing buzz thing. But there's a time and a place for it. and it's probably a little bit tone-deaf to use at this moment, I think. Yeah, you can't say team and then not have half the drivers there. You know, I know it's only two, but it's still, George is a big part of the team. So I think we've touched upon why we think he can win it, a brilliant driver. But why will he not win the World Championship? If we get to the end of 2026 and George Russell or another driver, maybe from McLaren or even Ferrari,
Starting point is 00:09:24 become world champion this year, what would be the reasons for it? And I think for me, when I think about Kimi Antonelli, we don't know what he can put together fully. In a whole season, can he be consistent enough when the pressure ramps up? We've seen it so many times where drivers, you know, they are a little bit more relaxed at the start of a season because you just think, well, there's loads of races to go. But when you get to that final few races, the final half of the season even, it starts to ramp up. That's why Lando was so incredibly impressive last year because he stepped up when it mattered, and that was what caused him to win the World Championship, because he was able to beat Oscar Piastri in the final part of the season when it really mattered.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Of course, Max was mounting a huge comeback as well, but Lando got it over the line. For Kimmy, you know, he has to look over his shoulder. Of course, his teammate, George Russell, who I firmly believe is going to mount a comeback. It's just a matter of when, not if. and then it's how does Kimmy deal with that mentally to be like I was leading the world championship maybe he loses the lead of the world championship if we then enter McLaren in as well
Starting point is 00:10:33 it's going to be a lot for him to think about and that's a lot to put on the shoulders of a 19 year old with one season and a bit experience yeah Kimmy is doing unbelievably unbelievably well and you don't want to take anything away from what he's done because it's absolutely unbelievable the three wins from three pole positions you can't discredit that in any way.
Starting point is 00:10:56 But it's a very different ballgame when you get later in the season and that World Championship is within touching distance. We saw a very similar situation with Piastri last year where the pressure mounts, particularly after, you know, I think it was Zandvort, people saying, well, that's it, Oscars won the championship. It's done. And you get into those final races.
Starting point is 00:11:16 You know, you mentioned Lando and getting it over the line, but even that wasn't easy. and he's an experienced driver that's been in Formula One for a long time and you've experienced driver but inexperienced in a championship fight Exactly yeah And that's something we'll see how Russell deals with
Starting point is 00:11:34 But I do think he's in a better position You know Russell With the experience that he's had in Formula One But even the experienced drivers like You know Nico Rosberg and Jensen Button You know even their championship campaigns You know they just got it over the line There was a lot of pressure at the end
Starting point is 00:11:51 and they were kind of seasoned veterans at that point. So it's going to be, I do think Russell is being completely underrated with everything that's going on so far. He's had some poor luck. Kimmy has been the better driver. I don't think you can deny that. But Russell has had some bad luck as well. And, you know, even in Japan, the Miami thing is concerning, but it is one race. And I think we need to wait until we see a normal race.
Starting point is 00:12:21 Formula One, we're so quick to jump on these narratives of like, you're only as good as your last race. Right now, people are like, oh, Russell's washed. Kimmy Antenella's amazing. But say we get to Canada and George just dominates both races, wins the sprint. Everyone will just be saying, oh, George is winning the championship easily. So George is definitely not out of this. And, you know, he's the one that's got that experience of delivering a consistent season like you did last year. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:12:50 I think that George Russell's having the sort of Lando experience right now after Lando in Zandvo in 2025 where he lost a huge amount of points. Everyone was saying it's Oscar Piaastrius to lose now. And of course Lando ended up winning the World Championship. All it takes is one Kimmy Antonelli mistake. One crash into the wall. George Russell wins and all of a sudden George is leading the World Championship. And the whole tone shifts.
Starting point is 00:13:13 And that's where that big question mark is for me with Antonelli. I still think he has a mistake in him. And as for George, you know, we're saying that Kimmy was a better driver and I think he has been over the four races, but it's also not been a level playing field to some degree. I think George did a great job in China, for example, where he was able to bounce back from that qualifying issue. Japan, however much you want to take from what Mercedes and George said around, he was basically locked into a setup that he couldn't do anything about. So therefore he was pretty much hamstrung. Miami, yes, absolutely needs to be put in the bin and incinerated. that performance was from George and just how he could not get on top of whatever Miami is for him,
Starting point is 00:13:54 whether it was a grass court or a clay court, whatever, go and look up the Toto Wolf comments, if that makes no sense to you. But I still think that, you know, we're heading to Canada now. Canada's the next one where George was phenomenal. He won the race last year. And I still, yeah, I really do believe that this is going to be so much closer than people expect. George is not washed by any stretch of the imagination. And you can't even disdemean. discount McLaren as well because they showed some brilliant pace in Miami and should have probably won both races. But there's again another upgrade question mark to be answered as well of how much further will Mercedes be down the road when we get to Canada.
Starting point is 00:14:34 So let's now head to some results of a poll that we put out where we basically asked you who's going to score more points, George Russell or Kimmy Antonelli. Well, we have 25,000 votes and 72% of you say Kimmy Antonelli is going to score more points this year, which is an overwhelming amount of support. That's insane. When, if you're going to put me on the spot right now, I would have voted George Russell. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:04 Interesting. Yeah, I think Kimmy can do it, but it being an overwhelming landslide on Kimi really does kind of back up what I said earlier about the fact that you're only as good as your last race in Formula One and people thinking that George is kind of of it because that is an insane flip that way you know we were talking about what we saw with with uh george russell and when i went through those kind of results at the start of the season and
Starting point is 00:15:29 how he was completely overwhelming the championship favorite favorite and kimmie was just absolutely nowhere and uh now kimi antonelli's won three races and suddenly yeah kimi antoni's winning the world championship i i don't think it's that close i i can see antonelli winning the championship i think he's got what it takes to do it but I'm not 72% sure that he's winning the World Championship. I think it's still like a 50-50 chance. Okay, but if you have to choose, Tommy, put you on the spot.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Who are you voting for? Kimmy. I think Kimmy can do it. I actually do think of your World Championship. I know, exactly. Which you only did because you didn't want to be boring and choose George Russell. Exactly. We have to remember that, everybody, before we start saying Tommy's the Oracle.
Starting point is 00:16:13 Let's now get to a question or a few questions from our wonderful patrons. Firstly, we have one from Lex Wakeman. If Kimmy goes on to win this year's title, what does that mean for Russell? Does he stay on to try and win it next year with Mercedes, or does he leave and try and win with another team? I think this is very, very simple. George stays, unless there is a whole Max Verstappan wave once again
Starting point is 00:16:38 whether he wants to go and play in the Silver Arrows and George is ousted out. That's the only way I see George Russell not being there, next year. I firmly believe that from George's perspective, there's no reason for him to leave. Even if he loses the World Championship, even if we see a small seasoning of Toto Wolf favoritism to Kimmy Antonelli, Mercedes have the fastest car. I firmly believe they'll have the fastest car come the end of the year as well. And so that is a title winning car. And George would be silly to go anywhere else. Agreed on the fact that, yeah, you'd be insane to leave. Even if Kimmy does
Starting point is 00:17:14 win the world championship this year. I think if he does, George still needs to stay and see how it goes for another year. Yes, if Kimi Antinelli and Mercedes are really strong for the next three or four years and Kimi Antoneli keeps winning the world championship against George, then George maybe thinks he needs to move on,
Starting point is 00:17:32 particularly if we get a situation. We don't know yet how the teammate position is going to stay because when you had Hamilton and Bottas, you absolutely knew that Lewis Hamilton would get the backing, it would be him. We don't know how that's going to play out yet. Do we see a situation where if, you know, the McLaren drivers are coming in close,
Starting point is 00:17:54 that they don't want to back Russell and to give Antonelli a chance, but then equally if it flips the other way and Russell isn't getting a chance, maybe he does need to think, I need to kind of move on and kind of get out of here because he's been there with Mercedes, you know, this was meant to be his championship
Starting point is 00:18:13 without, you know, sounding disrespectful to Kimmy, but I think so many people thought it was going to be his championship and this is his big opportunity to do it. If he doesn't do it, I think he still needs to stay. If there's a few championships, you know, that he ends up losing, then maybe he does think about moving, but I think it all comes down to how much backing he's going to get from his team. And also how much, or how far Mercedes are down the road
Starting point is 00:18:39 because even if he loses two or three championships to Kimmy on the bounce and still has a possibility of staying in that second seat. Surely you would stay in the place you're going to get the fastest car. You still back yourself, wouldn't you? Exactly, yeah. So let's go to another question from S. Mitchell 8. How much longer can Kimmy and George evade each other in regards to wheel to wheel racing and would they avoid coming together?
Starting point is 00:19:01 Well, we saw a little taste of them kind of being together on track for the first time in Miami and boy, did they give each other a lot of space. that screamed Toto Wolf in their ear and maybe before the race or just before the season and how they're allowed to race each other. It felt like there was something in their contract that was going to cost them a lot of money if they came together. 100%. They gave each other such a wide berth.
Starting point is 00:19:24 They didn't bother racing at all. That's not going to happen if there's three rounds to go and it's still 20 points or 10 points between them for the World Championship. So I think that if this happens, they're going to have a collision at some point. point. I'm sorry. I'll put myself on record and say it's going to happen because the two of them have, you know, contact in them and I could see it definitely happening. Me too, for sure, especially if they are quite closely matched. And again, the McLaren situation is a bit unknown as to whether or not they actually have a car to challenge. But if it very much is a Kimmy versus George World
Starting point is 00:20:05 Championship battle, then yeah, Mercedes are going to have to allow them to fight. they can't, as much as Toto would want to back Kimmy and say, look, George, you're number two driving my guy. You're going to have to sit back and just let Kimmy enjoy the show. That's just not the way it's going to go and George will not allow that. So yeah, I firmly believe, I think George is a great will-to-wheel racer as much as much as much as he has a bit of a reputation for crashing or whatever. I don't think that's the case personally. I think he is a really good wheel-to-wheel racer.
Starting point is 00:20:32 Kimmy, incredibly fast. Haven't seen as much. Of course, it's only his second season as to what the limits are for his. will-to-wheel racing, but I can't wait to find out. That's the beauty of F1. He loves a dive bomb. Yeah, let's see these two battle on track. Let's go to a question from P1 Patreon member Lossie Dogg.
Starting point is 00:20:52 George has constantly been lauded as a world champion in waiting for the last few years. Does this put more pressure on him than Kimmy? This is a difficult one. I think they both have levels of pressure, maybe slightly different ones. everybody as you kind of said earlier to expected George to maybe romp away with this title so that is an expectation but then on for Kimmy's side it's more about the fact of him being in that position
Starting point is 00:21:21 and then all the eyeballs shift to you so I don't think it's very much oh this person has so much more pressure than the other because Kimmy's not seen as some kind of like you know bus driver he's a very talented kid 19 years old so if George was to lose to him, it's not like it's the most insane thing like, oh my God, George, you fumbled the bag because Kimmy is a,
Starting point is 00:21:43 is a talent that is still growing. So for me, I think they both have very different kinds of pressure, but still pressure. So it's not easier for either of them, I don't think. It's an interesting discussion, this and a kind of take that we talk about the pressure of Antonelli and how he's,
Starting point is 00:22:00 you know, a young kid, it's only a second season. And you almost kind of ignore the pressure on George Russell that this is his chance. And you mentioned Lando and how that was his big chance. He made some mistakes that year. And I kind of mentioned
Starting point is 00:22:16 the Niko Rosbergs and Jensen Buttons and things. Like it's a different, just no matter how experience you are, it's completely different to be in a world championship battle for the first time. And I think a lot of drivers will back that up from, you know,
Starting point is 00:22:31 it's such a different ball game to, you know, we lauded George's, consistency last year, but he was driving against, you know, he wasn't in a world championship winning car and he was driving against Kimmy Antinelli who was learning the ropes and, you know, absolutely, you know, he's just very consistent and Kimmy Anthony Lee wasn't. When it's a world championship on the line, he has that pressure of everyone just thinking, particularly at the start of the season, well done, George won the championship. And that is, that is a pressure because
Starting point is 00:23:02 people in a weird way kind of didn't give Kimmy a chance and I wonder if that's kind of helped him at this stage. I also... Sorry, were you going to say? No, I was going to say whether that is the case later on in the season but at this stage
Starting point is 00:23:16 maybe it is less pressure on Kimmy because there is no expectation around him to kind of at the start of the season to win the championship and everyone thought it was George's. I think it's tough for both drivers if I don't know how we quantify levels of pressure for either of them.
Starting point is 00:23:32 wondering whether you know because of course when we look at Kimmy versus George last year it was the end of a set of regulations this brand new set of regs we spoke about this you know on the run up to this season we wondered oh would this would this kind of help the the drivers with less experience because they've got less to unlearn when we go to these brand new cars in 2026 so I do wonder if yeah this is this has helped Kimmy to be able to mount a championship challenge because there's so much going on in these cars that's so different and well we've heard from max exactly what those cars are kind of like formerly on steroids and so on and so forth but i do wonder if that's something that has has worked in kimmy's favor yeah definitely we we saw the fact that
Starting point is 00:24:18 it's a reset and i think that has helped kimmy george obviously had a lot of years in that regulation set and of course george was very strong in that kind of a ground effect era of course his you know, biggest accolade has been the fact that he's beaten Lewis Hamilton two of the three years that he was there against him. Can we actually talk about that? Because that in itself started to do the rounds, didn't it? Yeah,
Starting point is 00:24:42 around his comments. Yeah, George Russell was saying that had he been in Formula One five years sooner, then it's not word for word what I'm saying. But essentially he kind of hinted at the fact he could well have had a couple of world championships in him. Which is true. Which is absolutely true. You know, I saw it doing the round. rounds, people discussing it.
Starting point is 00:25:03 And I did not see the same sort of, some people calling it arrogant or arrogance that George just thought that he would be able to beat Hamilton in equal machinery at Mercedes. I was like, well, but that happened. That literally happened. He beat Hamilton twice when he was at Mercedes. I did not see, George did not come at that saying I should be a two-time world champion if I joined five years earlier. It was more a case of like, yeah, it might well have happened.
Starting point is 00:25:30 I felt like tone and just generally understanding that he wasn't being what some people were suggesting him to be. It never, yeah, agreed. It never gets written properly. It never comes across the way it's being said when you just take the context of, you know, someone making an Instagram graphic and saying, George Russell says if he was in five years earlier, he had won two championships. There's so much more context to that that he gave in that interview. And he's right in saying because, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:00 he said exactly that, that five years ago before he joined, Mercedes were winning everything. They were so dominant, you know, that Hamilton was winning the championship easily, just beating Bottas. And, you know, that's not to discredit Lewis Hamilton, but George beat Lewis Hamilton in a couple of years that he was against him. So, like, he was just kind of saying that, but he wasn't, it wasn't an arrogant way of being like, yeah, I'd be a two-time world champion, which people will take quotes and then like put them down on a graphic and it looks way worse than it was. So yeah, I agree. I think it's taken out of context and people making it sound like he's being arrogant, which I don't think it was. Yeah, much bigger than it actually was. So we back you, George.
Starting point is 00:26:46 Who knows what would have happened if you joined five years earlier. And finally, question from P1 pitch. Remember, Mike 5 track. If another driver, for example, Lando or Oscar, gets into the title fight, Do you think Kimmy has it in him to hold off more than just George? I really hope that a McLaren gets in the title fight because we saw last year that the Lando and Oscar battling last year, we spoke so many times about, oh, all Oscar has, you know, it's a very different title fight when we're talking about Lando and Oscar, and they don't have to fight Max Verstappen. It's a very different title that they're just focusing on each other.
Starting point is 00:27:22 But then Max did arrive on the scene. And I think that is going to be fascinating if Lando. or Oscar or even both of them join that championship fight. Anyone else? Yeah, why not? Get them all in. No, no, not, can't think of anyone else actually.
Starting point is 00:27:37 Max, maybe Max. Oh, sorry, you're Mitchell. Yeah, and I think that that is going to be such a fascinating thing because then we do see a case of do Mercedes need to back someone and the pressure gets even more. You know, we'll see what the lead that either of them have at that stage
Starting point is 00:27:56 when or if McLaren do manage to catch up. And that is the thing that's, I think, potentially going to make this title fight, and I really hope happens even more spicy, is a McLaren getting into the mix or even both of them? Because that's going to make it. And Ferrari. Yes, thanks, Tommy. Sorry, I know you were going to say that.
Starting point is 00:28:13 I just thought I'd cut in just to make sure you did definitely say that. There's a well-known team at developing. Oh, shut up for once in your life. But don't. You're a podcast. You're a podcast. You're on a podcast. You're on a podcast.
Starting point is 00:28:21 You absolutely do want it because it adds so many different narratives. elements to the season. I just love seeing it, right? The Max last year, the comeback was just unbelievable. I don't think we'll see a 104 point deficit be eaten into as much as what Max did last year. But yeah, if you do have Alando and Oscar causing problems, getting that whole Mercedes internal discussion going of do we back a driver, we can then chat about it.
Starting point is 00:28:47 And there's just so many more conversations to be had when there are two different teams fighting. When it's two drivers from the same team, it's like, oh, you know, they can. kind of manage it the way they want to and then who do they back and then you you get that scenario where we even saw some people thought we saw a little bit that's in china i don't know how deep it was and whether it's going to this but kimmy covering george at the start and things like that and when we get a situation where if it is just them too they will start fighting each other not thinking about anyone else but if someone else is in the mix that's exactly what happens where you bring someone else into play when they're just focusing on each other um because
Starting point is 00:29:26 is this exactly what happened last year and we could see a repeat. Absolutely. All right, that is it. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in to this random hotel lobby that we're recording this podcast. Had a random person come behind us and go to the toilet. We absolutely love to see that. There's loads of other toilets in this destination, but no problem. Also, if you were the random, I imagine, viewers or coming to the P1 live show that were literally on the stairs over there waving at us earlier, hi, thanks for getting involved because that was quite funny.
Starting point is 00:29:51 But anyway, we'll see you soon. Tommy, final thoughts, please? Final thoughts? bring on some more racing because it feels like a long gap again and I want to see how this spicy championship battle continues because I think Kimmy's making it a really exciting one that I didn't expect so yeah, bring it on. Hell yeah, let's do it. See you soon.
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