P1 with Matt and Tommy - Checking on our 2023 season predictions

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

We check on our season-long predictions and find that some have aged *beautifully* and some... really have not. Still, plenty of races to go! You can grab our new merch here!Follow us on socials! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello everybody and welcome back to the P-1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. Today, we are going to reflect on our Mystic Meg attempts from the start of the year where we said things like who will be the biggest good surprise, who will lose their race seat, who's going to be the biggest meme on the grid and so on and so forth. Of course, we will reflect at the end of the year, but we thought it's the summer break. It's a good time to see where we are. Are we on our way to a gorgeous, wonderful point? A point that will hit a lot harder than your Tom Belling and Max Verstapp and pole position predictions,

which, you know, that's just points that you're trying to secure every week. Whereas these points, the pre-season ones, I feel like they have more weight. They do. I don't know if we're going to add them on. Or maybe they should be more weighted. Maybe they should be more weighted. I think that we should add them on. Or more weighted, yes.

Yeah, because we did these. This was one of our first ever P1 videos and podcasts. that we actually did. And we did this before any testing as well. So, you know, we didn't get to look at the times from testing and go, oh, I think these, we just went in and just went, I think this is going to happen. Plucked it from the air.

It was purely based, a bit like some of our predictions each week, on vibes. And there was a little bit of, I suppose, wheel knowledge thrown in, a little bit of dashing of wheel knowledge to see if we could potentially get some things right. And yeah, I think. because though, well, there's a few things that I regret saying, but there's also some that I think are great. So I think we should dive into it, Tommy, don't we?

Let's do it. Okay, so the first one, biggest good surprise of the season, right? And I went for Oscar Piastri, for audio listeners sitting back smugly right now. I backed Oscar Pastery because he had the track record. He had everything leading into four. Formula One that would suggest that he could be another Lando Norris, another Charles

LeCler, another George Russell. And look, it was a slow start to the season. But it wasn't just a slow start to the season for him. It was for McLaren as a whole. So, you know, we kept saying after loads of race reviews, it just, it isn't clicking just yet for Oscar, but it will eventually. He didn't have the car underneath him. Landau was, of course, scoring a few points here and there and proving why Lando is so

highly rated. Oscar was not too far off, but far enough off to not score points and not really get any sort of headlines. Yeah, exactly. This one was a bit of a, some would say a risk. Obviously, you backed him, but there was that whole narrative over the fact that, you know, is Lando a teammate killer like Verstappen was? And could anyone come into that McLaren? Because when he was alongside Daniel Riccardo, of course, there was a lot of talk of, yes, there was the Daniel Ricardo's wash, but a lot of people obviously thought they just Landos the Golden Boy, you know, Zach Brown loves him, are they just favouring him so much that no one else can get in that team alongside him and do well? And that's not been the case

because Oscar, yeah, particularly the last few races, he is almost like the man of the moment where everyone has, you can argue, it's been the biggest good surprise because in the last two races people have gone, oh wow, Oscar Piazzi is really good. And so yeah, it's been really good for him. So what you're telling me, Tommy, is I could almost lock in my points now. Is that what you're saying? Because it's such a large surprise.

It is, but also you just need to beware because we have recorded a podcast with him and we know what happens as soon as we do a podcast with someone. So if he has a bad race and Sam vote, we apologize to Oscar in advance. Yeah, Esteban Okon felt the wrath of our curse, didn't he? and as did who else have we cursed the Ferrari drivers had a bit of a mare after we did

stuff with them it's happened a few times hasn't it? Yeah so I mean I think it's pretty much every time so far that we've had a Formula One driver on so apologies for that let's fingers cross right now the Oscar Piastra season does not go down the toilet

because of our interview with him which of course is coming very soon don't worry about that we are in the works of putting together a couple of different videos and a podcast as well. So look forward to that. But yeah, I think I'm on a very good role right now, Tommy, with Oscar Piastri. People doubted him.

They thought, no, Lando Norris, look what he did to Daniel Ricardo. He's going to do it to another Australian. And it hasn't been the case, has it? There hasn't, I don't think there's been many races where Oscar Piastri has been absolutely slammed by Norris in a level playing field. Because, of course, Lando got those,

those upgrades earlier. Austria being a big example of Piastri having a bit of a stinker, Norris, of course, having a worldly, but then we just saw what that did to the car when we got to Silverstone and they both had the upgrades. And it was not a rocket ship

because that term is saved for Red Bull. But a, what would you call it? An F2 rocket ship. Yeah, yeah, sure. Go with that. A rocket ship. Yeah. Yeah, it was, yeah,

Oscar's done a really good job. And it's looking like, yeah, you're on for a point here. Maybe. Yeah, perfect. Okay, good. Tommy is in agreement. That's good to hear. Let's now go to your biggest good surprise, Tommy.

Go on then. So my biggest good surprise, I went for Nico Holcombberg. Now, this one is difficult because Hasse are terrible. But I did say, you know, my thinking behind it was there were a lot of people that were thinking, why has Holkenberg come back? And the logic behind it, to be fair, was it was the people going, why have they got rid of Mick Schumacher and play some with Holkenberg? Now, I would argue that Holkenberg, while he's maybe not scored loads of points, I mean, he scored a good amount of points to say that house is absolutely awful. Like, he's got some points on the board. He's annihilated

Magnuson, I think particularly recently. And he's having a good season despite, I think if you take the car out of it and how he's actually performing, he's doing a very good job. And it makes you wonder how good Nico Holkenberg could have been last year when, you know, the has looked very quick at the start of the season. And Magnuson was putting it like P5 and this kind of thing. So Holcomburg hasn't had that. but then he has had this miraculous qualifying

when we don't have to worry about the Hasse tireware and Holcomburg's qualifying has been exceptional. Of course, the stat we say in every single podcast, pretty much that he's now equal on the same Q3 appearances as Sergio Perez in that Red Bull rocket ship, which is very impressive. More reflection, I think, on Perez than anything.

Yeah, but I guess... I don't know off the top of my head how many times Magnuson's been in Q3 but I'm going to say like twice if that not a lot no yeah yeah I'd have to say it's it's a weird one to kind of measure because of the fact of

that Hasse just falling away in every race but as you say he's kind of he's hamstrung by that it's not much he can really do by that Hasse's race pace that is being offered to him so yeah qualifying has been sensational from Niko

and you know there were moments where you potentially thought, is this the podium, Australia? You know, that was, that he was robbed, wasn't he, of getting potentially a fourth place? You almost keeled over and died when that, when that happened. I thought it was happening. I really did think it was happening. You really did. Your whole life flashed before you and it was great to watch.

His whole career. Literally, all the crashes, all the mistakes. But I would have to say, as of right now, it has been a good surprise because of some of those outstanding qualifying performance. It's not like he's scraped into Q3. I mean, he has sometimes and then obviously qualified 9th or 10th. But he's also had those moments, you know, qualifying second, but then getting that penalty.

And at so many different occasions where he's genuinely wowed us and shown that he's still got it. And he's still that very consistent driver that the team should be looking out for. Yeah. It's just a shame that Hask can't deliver him a car to actually score any more points than that. nine currently this season and KMAG has two.

Yeah, so he's definitely put one over on KMAG definitely. Certainly has. Let's now go to Biggest Flop. Now, we can both talk about this because we both went for the same person. Pierre Gazley. I don't think this is coming in, Tommy. It's not coming in. It's not bearing fruits.

He is 13 points behind Ocon in the standings right now. So if Ocon goes on a little spree, Ghazley doesn't, we might well be arguing with each other to score half a point. And then I'm sure we'll both give each other half a point because it's benefiting both of us. But it's weird because I think there has been moments where Gazley's been off the pace of Ocon and you could argue that it was reasonably floppy, but there has also been times of pretty decent driving from Ghazly. Let's not forget the Belgian GP sprint we've just had. Moments like this showing us that Ghazly still has got it, he's kind of settling into that Alpine team.

And it's not the disaster, I think, we both sort of saw on the horizon. Of course, there was that whole discussion around Ocon and Gassley, did they get on? Is it going to be a harmonious relationship and so on? We've not seen anything in terms of anything fractures between them. And I would say that Ocon has been better, but not by a margin in which we could argue that it's been floppy for Gassley probably. Exactly. You know, going back to the Holkenberg thing, Holkenberg has done a very good job. over Magnuson and there's a substantial gap there

whereas I don't think that is the case between Ocon and Gasly. That's what I was thinking, you know, that I'm sure you were the same that Gassley would maybe struggle for points and getting up to speed with Alpine and Ocon would be bagging points, you know, Ocon consistency, was it his classic nickname

back when it was at Fourth India and racing point. But, no, they've been pretty similar. I think off the top of my head their level in qualifying in terms of like you know who's been ahead of who they are indeed yep

6-6 I think 6-6 yeah and then of course yeah there's not a bit a huge amount to separate them in the race so I don't think they get this one I mean they tend to have quite similar races whether that be they're kind of 8th and 9th

or if they DNF they both DNF together. They do. Hand in hand, right? It's interesting though. When you look at that teammate dynamic and Ghazli had a lot of hype on his shoulders a few years ago

when Alpha Tauri actually had a car that could, you know, be towards the front of the field in qualifying especially. And I think in my opinion, Gasly going to that team and not even really being on the same level as Ocon currently, a little bit further back, is showing that

Esty Besti is a very talented driver and I won't hear anyone say anything otherwise. People seem to forget that Ocon and Alonzo were very closely matched throughout a lot of their teammate rivalry over the course of the season. They were teammates and an Ocon outperforming Gassley. It shouldn't be understated either. No. Ocon's done a very good job, but I just don't think enough to warrant Gassley being a flop.

Absolutely not. I thought I'd just share the love for Esty Best. I don't think he gets enough. We now move to who loses their race seat. Tommy, why don't you go first? What did you predict for that one? I'll go first before the smugness. And I was very boring and said no one.

Wrong. It wasn't. Yeah, it was very wrong. That prediction right there was a Max Verstappen pole position prediction if I've ever seen it. That was a I want to point to the end of the year. Of course no one's losing their race seat.

not. Should we move to what I predicted? Not that anyone doesn't know because I've already said, shouted from the hilltops a hundred times, but I went for Nick DeVries to be replaced by Daniel Ricardo. Now, I don't care how this tops up

at the end of the season with all these different segments. I am getting 100 points for that because it is the most specific prediction that one, that Nick DeVries would lose his race seat at all, because there was hype, There was, oh my God, he got score points in his first race for Williams. And there was also, of course, he's, you know, if Nick DeVries is going to get replaced.

It's not going to be Daniel Ricardo, is it? It's going to be Liam Lawson. It's going to be a Yuma Owassa. But Danny Rick, like the undertaker out of the coffin, I think it is, in WWE, just absolutely out of nowhere, back in Formula One. And so this is the only prediction we can really say at this point is locked. well, you know, world champion probably we can lock in as well that we predicted later on.

I've got another one later on. But yeah, it's interesting that, yeah, we move on from biggest flop. And it's fair to say that Nick DeVries was the biggest flop of the season. There was a lot of talk around the start of the season. Would he live up to that hype? And both like me included, did say, you know, as well as you that, you know, that Williams' performance actually not as incredible. It was still a very impressive performance and something that, you know, should be commended.

But maybe it kind of masked, maybe look better than it was, the fact that he was in, on a track that he'd done some testing and driven other cars at, his teammate was Nicholas Latifie, when Latifi was in the worst form and like of his career basically. And the Williams was so well suited to that track. And he basically deservedly so. Like, you know, did it did a good job. The car doesn't drive itself. But maybe, you know, the overhyping of it.

And yeah, he's got into the car alongside Sonoda and Nick DeVries just didn't do anything. But I think, yeah, the most impressive thing for me about that prediction. is the Ricardo bit because I was one of these people that thought, no way with Daniel Ricardo, because we go back to the start of preseason, and this was when we were hearing stories that, you know, Ricardo never even approached someone like Hasse or whatever, because there was talk of like,

where will Ricardo go? And obviously, it ended up going nowhere for the start of the season, other than Red Bull Reserve. So a lot of people, me included, thought, well, he's never going to take a downgrade and go to potentially one of the worst teams on the grid. Even more embarrassingly, you know, the team that's the junior team that he started his F1 career with left the main Red Bull team, had a couple of all right, like Renault was all right, fairly decent but not spectacular. McLaren was dreadful and then he's wound his way back up in the worse a Red Bull team. It doesn't look great for him, but he is back and it's a fair play. It's a very good, very good prediction.

It's the best prediction ever, isn't it? I mean, come on. What's a better prediction? Oh, well, I've got one. How many points? Oh, okay. Wow, or later. Okay, interesting.

Wow, teaser. Actually, no, yeah, I know exactly which one it is. To be fair, yeah, we can get a little poll and a little bit of vote. See what people think. But yeah, it's great for Ricardo to be back, of course. We love them to bits. fingers crossed he can actually be good because I'd hate for his F1 career to end in a sad way where he's gone back to his old employer and then been beaten by potentially Yuki

Sonoda but he's had moments of hope and promise already so let's see how it unfolds for him when we get into the second half of the season. We now go to a new race winner and we were both boring and that's because to be honest we could have asked for a winner other than Red Bull and we might have actually had some hope there. Still said no one. But no, not even a new race winner. Neither of us said we would get one. And my God, were we on to something?

That is... Imagine if we'd have gone, will anyone else win a race other than Red Bull? We would have gone, oh, shut up, come on. By the half-buy point, at least there's going to be one crazy race. It's going to be a bit of unpredictability. There's going to be a bit of unreliability. But no, they've won everything.

They sure have. What's interesting, though, is this one, a new race winner, obviously, being someone that's never won the race before, not just someone other than Red Bull, which you might think is a new race winner now. But no, we were talking like, you know, maiden victory. Alando. Yeah, exactly. And we were, I think our logic, we said this in the video.

You can go back and watch it was, you know, Charles has won, Carlos has won, Russell's one. Like, so where is it coming from? McLaren, we didn't think they were going to be any good. and they started appallingly. So we were on to something there, but you could argue now that we made this prediction again and say who would be the new race winner,

it actually looks more likely that it would be a McLaren than the start of the season, because now it looks like if Red Bull somehow miraculously didn't win and that two of them had a problem, maybe McLaren would be there to pick up the pieces. And of course, either McLaren driver would be a new race winner. Absolutely. It's amazing how quickly it all changed. But we are still on for a point for that one,

as much as I would happily accept no points for that particular segment. If we saw Orlando or an Oscar victory, that would be quite, or a Logan Sergeant victory. Anything like that, we would absolutely take. We now go to Biggest meme on the grid. I locked in very confidently, Fernando Alonzo. and I think there's no way anyone's catching him halfway through this season.

The man has a TikTok. The man has so many screenshots of his face going around that he's clear. I think it's not the reason I thought it was going to be Fernando Alonzo being the biggest meme on the grid. I did not have that he would have his own TikTok account as part of that, but I'll take it. You did.

What's quite funny is you go back on the original video that we're referring to and ordered by newest comments and I remember reading it back, a couple of months back going, Matt's prediction of Alonzo being the biggest meme on the grid has come in, but not for the reason you said,

because you were saying that, and a lot of us said that he's going into, is it going to be another disastrous career choice, is going against Lance Stroll, you know, the son of the owner, is it all going to go wrong for Fernando? And I think you said, like, you know, he's going to get frustrated and start doing,

sassy radio messages. But no, instead it's him hitting the gritty down the pit lane on TikTok. Who would have saw that coming? Yeah, and he's got an incredible car underneath him, or at least did have in the first batch of races. But yeah, it doesn't matter because I didn't stipulate.

I just locked in with meme, and he has been very memeworthy. What about you, Tommy? So I went for Logan Sargent. Now, before you get into, this, I will not have your stupid TikTok trend feeding into him being a meme on the grid. Because I now understand why you started this stupid TikTok. Oh, can I make Logan Sergeant World Champion?

It's because you're trying to feed this into a point. For those that don't know what I'm talking about, Tommy has a TikTok. On his personal TikTok, he uses this F1 filter where it randomizes a driver and a car and then versus against another driver in a car. And a best of, what is it, 16, best of 32, whatever it is? 16. 16. And essentially, Tommy's challenge is to make Logan Sergeant world champion.

But the difficulty is he gets beaten by basically any other driver that has a slightly better car than him. So now I understand why you've started this and you're on day 55 today. Holy mother of God. Yes, it's a big regret. But no, I genuinely didn't do that to start this. But it is funny because I do think, yeah, he's not been. Again, the reason I will say, you know, I mentioned that he's, I thought it was going to be P20 all the time. And then...

When actually, he is comfortably in P-19. Exactly. Although, if Daniel Riccardo gets a point and he doesn't, he'll drop down to P20 in the title. You are praying, aren't you for that? You are absolutely. No, I want him to get a point. But to be fair, you know, my prediction was not anything, you know, harsh. It was my thinking was, I thought, Willie.

were going to be dreadful. And, you know, it's not, I'm not wrong that Logan Sargent hasn't been on Alburn's pace. It's not been anywhere near Albin, really. And Alburn's been putting in some brilliant performances. But the Williams has been better. And it's not. And I'm very glad this is wrong because I like Williams a lot. I think there, it's very weird when I started watching Formula One that they were the champions.

And now they're like this lovable underdog. but they're doing really well and they've gone from being this clearly the worst car on the grid to actually maybe even the seventh best car now so Williams aren't miles off the pace and that means that Logan isn't finishing P20 like I thought he would but if I want to do some kind of pathetic half point I think maybe the biggest meme is the fact that we've somehow coined Logi

and Logie Bear, which, sorry about that. It just stuck after one race, didn't it? It was Ted Kravitz, I feel like, in testing. I think he said Logi Sarge or something. The F1 on Twitter account called him Logi Sarge. And I was like, hold on, what's this? That's the worst name ever. And then I was like, I love it.

And then we used it for every podcast sense. And then we were like, now it's Logie Bear. It's Logan. I don't know why. Sorry, Logan, for changing your name completely. I will say on your point about Albon, smashing or, you know, finishing miles ahead of Logan, he has had moments where he hasn't been that far off.

And I don't think if you're comparing Albon to Latifie, for example, Sargent is a lot closer to Alex than that. And he's not done too bad. Look at Spa. I think he finished about seven seconds off Alex. So, but the problem is when the midfield is so tight, Logan might finish four or five places behind Albon, but it's not actually that far away,

but then he doesn't get any points, which is a shame. But I think there is a point on the horizon. And if I was to, yeah, to predict something, I think Logan will score a point at some point this year because he has been close at times. Right. I don't want to talk about this next one. It's world champion.

Him me out. I went for, and mathematically still possible. The truth is on. I think Max would, no, actually I don't, it probably isn't mathematically possible now, which is absolutely depressing. for Charles LeCler, who I said as world champion, because he even win the world championship

if Max didn't turn up for the rest of the year. Yeah, he could, yeah, definitely. How many points behind is he? Well, there's only been half a season, so technically... Stappen 314, Charlotte Clare 99. So he's 250 points behind. All right, cool, championship back on. We just need to win the next nine in a row,

as Frank feels really strongly about that, as I do as well. So I went for Charles LeClaire world champion. Do I regret it? No. Because I was living in a land of hope and dreams, and it was a good time. It was a good time to not know what was coming.

And then when Bahrain DNF happened and how far Red Bull were clear, I realized a world of hurt was on the way. And from there on, expectations have been through the floor, and it's been a good time because I don't think, anything is going to happen in terms of wins. And a podium is basically a world championship trophy. So we take those victories now as Ferrari fans. Will I be back next year with the same prediction?

Probably. But let's see. Yeah, I think this one, your Ricardo won, is definitely your standout, brilliant one. And then this one is the polar opposite. But we never could have... Did I really believe it? or was I living in hope?

Probably. Oh, here comes Frank. Frank, what do you think? Well, who was your world champion prediction at the start of the year? It was Logan Sargent, wasn't it, on Twitch? Of course it was. He yawned. He actually said it, didn't he, in English.

Yeah, he did. Bless him. His little pitter, patter of, as you've gone completely out of focus as well. It's chaos. Frank walks in the room and everything starts breaking. It's because the camera focused on him because they know who the real star is. That's true.

Yeah, so. Yeah, with Charler-Clauer, I mean, it was bold. I think you also even said that in your head, you're thinking that Mercedes will be back and Hamilton will be champion, but I'm going for Charle-Claire for the Hopium. And here we are. No one has won a race apart from Red Bull.

It was quite easy to fall down that rabbit hole slightly because, of course, if you think to the end of last year, Russell picked up that victory at Brazil, Mercedes looked like they genuinely were taking steps forward towards the end of the year and you think, all right, off-season comes, they're probably going to take another step forward, they're going to learn this no-sidepot approach even better,

and they're going to come out firing. They did not. Red Bull were like, good joke, let's turn up the engine to maybe 75% for 2023. And yes, still not over the fact that they were lifting through O'Rouge either. Indeed. So, yeah, I went for Maxus Dapen. However, I couldn't, possibly imagined that it would be, you know, potentially coming in so insanely easily,

you know, him winning all but two of the races and those two races he finished an appalling second place in both of them. Shock is honestly, she should be fired. So, yeah, Max is just like completely dominating and you wouldn't, well, you'd be crazy. to bet against it. But I was going to say, but Stranger Things have happened in Formula One. I think if Max didn't win the title,

it would be the strangest thing to ever happen in Formula One. If Max just happened didn't win the title, he's been abducted. Yeah. He has been thrown in the back of a van and Perez, then all he has to do is win the races. Actually, no, he'd still probably win. Let's think about that,

because I think Max, how far clear is he? He is 125 points ahead of Perez. that is five victories. A victory's in a row, yeah. Yeah. That's Perez got that in his locker, five a row. Hmm. Well, I was going to be like, we'll find out, but we won't

because hopefully Max doesn't get abducted however much we want. Let's hope he voluntarily decides to sim race and just stays at home with his championship trophy on his fridge and lets us all have a bit of fun. But well done, Tommy, for that prediction. It wasn't a dead set. I'm not even going to have a go at you for saying world champion, because, of course, he won 22 quite easily.

Don't get me wrong. But it wasn't like it was a guarantee that Red Bull would take another massive stride forward and everyone else just wouldn't. So, yeah, well done, Tommy. You're so, so clever. Finally, our one crazy prediction for the season, and mine's already in the bin.

I went for Fernando Alonzo, will 23 and O stroll in Qualley, which was looking very good up until Spain when he went off. and then got out qualified. Then I was like, yeah, but, you know, T's and Cs, maybe we say without damage, blah, blah, blah, and then he got outqualified again and can't be bothered anymore. So that's annoying, but hey-ho.

I thought this one, yeah, did look very good at the start of the season, particularly with how, you know, Lance wasn't having a good start to the season. And we know, like, Alonzo's, I think, your logic as well, you know, Alonzo's done it before. I think he's the only person that's ever whitewashed their teammate in qualifying twice, which is quite the achievement. And obviously, Stroll qualifying is not Lance Stroll's best asset in Formula One. No, it's not.

Yeah, Strull's a weird one to measure, because I don't think he's actually been that bad the last few races, but the problem is he wasn't taking any sort of advantage of when the car was unbelievable. at the start of the year. But yet, that's my prediction out the window. Tommy, yours was also to do with Alonzo. It sure was. Now, I, in my head, for some bizarre reason,

have been gutted about this prediction for the last few months, thinking that I said Alonzo will finish seventh. And the reality is my prediction was Alonzo will finish best of the rest. Now, best of the rest is after Redmond. Well, he is one point ahead of Lewis Hamilton So I was wondering whether you were going to go Oh no, technically the top three teams were Red Bull

Mercedes Ferrari So you know It was we could definitely get into the nitty gritty Of what best of the rest means Are you locking in that he finishes third in the championship? No, what I'm saying is This is an absolute worldly of a prediction now Because I made this before we had

any testing, you know, we had, this with, you know, your, your prediction and it wasn't, it wasn't a bold prediction to say that Alonso be the biggest meme on the grid because he's had catastrophic changes in team before. And for whatever reason, it got closer and closer to him moving to Aston Martin and I just felt something, you know, felt the vibe, something in my bones, it was like, this time it's going to work out. It's weird because there's a clip that's been shared around where we both absolutely slammed him going to Astor Martin. What changed?

Why did the vibes change? Well, straight after, like when that happened, when Alonzo went to Aston Martin, Astor Martin were, I think they were ninth in the constructors. Alpine were doing pretty well. And it was kind of like, oh, what's he doing? but the more it went on, the more you heard about Alpine, I don't know. And then Aston Martin maybe got a little bit better. I mean, don't get me wrong.

I said best of the rest. I was thinking that would be seventh. But I mean, third, like, insane that he's there. I am less and less confident he will finish there with how Aston Martin seemed to be dropping off a bit. But, I mean, what a start to the season Alonzo's had. Yeah, absolutely. Don't worry. I'm not going to get, I'm not going to at the end of the same.

season go, well, actually, he finished better than best of the rest. You will not get a point. That is a sensational prediction, one with which the vibes were really true. So well done, Tommy, for that one. But let's see. If Aston fall off a cliff, Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren will get their act together for the second half of the year. Lando Norris could be knocking on the door. I mean, he is 80 points behind Fernando Alonzo right now. So let's see if he can catch him in the second half the year. If Aston fall off a cliff, I will be going back on my word and saying, no, I predicted him seventh. Yeah, but Lando might be the one to relegate him to eighth. Yeah, true. That's the thing. But let's see. That's actually saying that Ferrari will score points. So let's, I don't actually

have a clue. And that's the beauty of that fight for the second place in the constructors, in the championship, in the drivers, or not second, third, I suppose, in the drivers. It changes every single week. So we really don't know what's coming. So it's going to be an interesting second half. And that's what we have

to focus on everybody. We have to shift our perspective to the battle between Alonzo and Hamilton. It's one point for the best of the rest championship trophy. Yeah.

And will I be able to be as smug as Matt is with his Ricardo prediction? No, I don't think you'll ever be able to. I think you'll ever be able to, mate. That was a world. It was a worldly.

But well done. Look at both of us. Hey, we did some wheel. We absolutely did. It is quite funny that you say it a lot in these predictions that a broken clock is right twice a day. That is the phrase, isn't it? Yeah. And yeah, we've made some bold predictions. There have been some absolutely unbelievable ones. Some of age badly. But that is the beauty of predictions, isn't it? Exactly. And I would say I've been right

more than a broken clock in these particular predictions with the Piastri and then the Nick DeVries and then the Alonso being the memes. I'd argue the only ones that are really, like, genuinely bad, sorry, is your Charlotte Claire one. No. Ghazly one. I don't think that's really bad. Not really bad, but, like, it's not coming.

It really bad would be him beating Ock on. Yeah, he's not. Yeah, yeah. Probably the only bad one is Charlotte Clare champion, sorry. Shut up. Right, on that note, we will leave it there. Thank you, everybody, for watching and listening. what are your final thoughts?

My final thoughts are, come on Aston Martin, come on Lawrence, drop another 400 billion for the next half of the season so I can get this P3 locked in. Still incredibly desperate to see Alonzo's 33rd win.

Please make it happen. We will pray to the gods that be that this will happen just because I want to see it. I want to see that. of Tom Bellingham, the energy will be something to behold. So thank you everybody. Hope you having a wonderful summer break.

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