P1 with Matt and Tommy - F1 Testing 2026 – Day 3

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. It is the final day of the first week, second week, however you want to see it. The first week in Bahrain is the end of it. Day three, done and dusted. Three more days of testing to go until we look forward to the first race of the season. So much beefing, Tommy. The teams are going at each other. The drivers are going at each other.

it is we haven't even turned a singular competitive lap yet and this feels like it's bubbling along. Drive to Survive already got three episodes written I've heard because there's been so much going on already and lots to recap once again on this third day. Absolutely. I was thinking the very same thing that there's going to have to be about eight preseason Drive to Survive episodes because my word they are just going absolutely crazy. There's quotes flying around. They're all throwing shade at the rules. The regulations, each other is wild. It is absolutely wild. But for this podcast, we are going to talk about a Mercedes-1-2,

because that is what happened. Antonelli, Tommy's champion prediction, topping the times with the fastest lap we have seen, I believe, the entire week ahead of George Russell and then Lewis Hamilton in. third, then Piastri and Vastappen, rounding out the top five. Let's get into the questions. Patreon member Justin asks,

on a scale from one to ten, how heavily is Mercedes downplaying their true pace? I can't keep up with this. I can't because it is, there's so many rumours flying around. There are teams talking to media about other teams and trying to give away either just complete and utter fabricated lies to put pressure on other teams, or maybe it's the truth, we don't know.

The thing is, Mercedes may well not be having any sandbags at all, and it could well be Vastappen, and what we were speaking at the start of the week, about the efficiency of the Red Bull engine and this, that and the other. You've got Lando Norris saying yesterday, that Ferrari are quicker than them. You've got Red Bull and Pierre Wachet saying that Red Bull fourth fastest. You have Mercedes saying that Red Bull are clear. I can't keep up with it. And

if you're expecting answers, you're not going to get them in this podcast because nobody has the answers, not even the teams, because they don't know how fast the other teams are. They don't. The only thing we maybe do know is the Aston are really slow. The Asterner really slow. I would be absolutely unbelievably amazed if the top four is not. some order, Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren, and Red Bull. That seems quite sure. Maybe Hass are going to be best the rest. I think that's a given, though, right?

That's a given. Yeah, true. But in a new rule, you think that maybe like that might have been unusual. There was also maybe my fears more than others, but I know a lot of people were saying it, that when we went to 2014 and it was an engine regulation, it was literally like just based on what engine you had. So the fact that you've got, yes, they are the four kind of powerhouses of Formula One, but they've kind of got different engines between them.

You know, like there's a Mercedes, there's a Ferrari there, there's the Red Bull Power train Ford thing. So there's difference there and it looks like it's very hopefully close. Like we're going to go into a lot of negatives about the new rules. In terms of a positive, I think it's great that we're still trying to guess and no team is ever going to say, yeah, we're miles clear, we're the best. And you're exactly right. Every single quote from these top four teams is just throwing kind of the tag of favorites to someone else.

It's literally like hot potato, like pass it on to the next person. One day it's McLaren saying, no, it's Ferrari. Then Mercedes is saying, oh, actually it's Red Bull. Max Verstappen came out and said, said, oh, we'll sit like when Mercedes turned the power up. I mean, if they turn the power up, they'll want to today. They're going to be very nice indeed. But no one wants to admit their favourites.

And I like the fact that we don't know yet. I think it's great. Yeah, it's great for the conversation. It's great for the excitement, for sure. I would say the only team out of that top four potentially that aren't getting involved to anything is Ferrari. Ferrari are going about their way without throwing any slander to anybody. the drivers, I mean, Hamilton's obviously been quite outspoken about the rules themselves,

but in terms of favourites and this, that and the other, they're just going about their way very quietly. And I am more than happy to move in silence if I'm the glorious red team. So fingers crossed for them. They just stay out of the business. Keep doing 138 laps like Hamilton did today. I know he stopped at the end of the test, but it was only 10 minutes to go. Doesn't matter.

doesn't matter at all. In fact, I heard on the grapevine, the grapevine being something I agree myself, that Ferrari were just trying to delay the final sort of few minutes of proceedings, stop the fastest laps coming in, and it's beautiful work from Hamilton and Ferrari. There was genuine rumours, I think, from the commentary, at least, that they may have run out of fuel.

I will take that right now. I haven't seen confirmation of why Hamilton stopped just yet, because we're recording straight after, but if it is due to the fuel, that's perfect. We're winning it all. Now, as we said at the start, lots of comments, beef being thrown about, flown about, and something we didn't speak about yesterday, but we'll talk about now, were Lando's comments about Max Verstappen.

And of course, Max was speaking about how is anti-racing these new cars and not happy at all. Lando was, of course, asked about this and poking the drivers for quotes. And Lando essentially said, well, not essentially, this is a quote that, He said a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it. If he wants to retire, he can retire. Formula One changes all the time. We get paid a stupid amount of money to drives. You can't really complain at the end of the day. Any driver can go and find something else to do. It's not like he has to be here or any driver has to be here, but it's a challenge. Solando, yeah, bit back, said, you know what? I enjoyed myself. I don't enjoy his comment about the fact that, you know, you get paid a stupid amount of money to drives. You can't really complain. I think that that is a dangerous precedent to, to set. and it shouldn't be the way Formula One is, where if the sport is going in a direction that a driver doesn't like, then they should be able to voice that. And Max clearly doesn't like the idea of the energy recharging

and how you have to go driving. And as we've said as well, Alonzo, all of these sort of more veteran drivers are not happy with the way in which Formula One is moving. So for me, it doesn't matter how much you get paid, I would like to know when Max is feeling upset about it. and or it doesn't feel like it's a very fun car to drive. You're allowed to have your own opinion.

If Lando likes it, that's all good. But I would also like to know when Max doesn't like it. Yeah, definitely. You should be allowed to have your opinion about it. I think in terms of how you take this quote, it's obviously Lando like being cheeky, obviously. He's not legitimately being like Mac should retire. Obviously, all the kind of tabloid newspapers will lead with the headline,

Landon Norris, Max has happened should retire if he doesn't like it, go away, which is not, he's more just kind of like being like, well, I like it. So if you don't, then it's almost like a passing cheeky comment. It reads worse than when he actually says it. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, definitely. But you're right that, you know, Max has got every right to kind of voice his concerns. Max is one of those drivers that has always voiced his concern.

He's very much the hardcore. old school Formula One fan. He's like the voice of the old school Formula One fans. You know, if Max Othampton was in charge, we'd have V12 engines. We'd be racing at, you know, the old Hockenheim again and stuff, the way he does things. Max is the one that will complain about, you know, Las Vegas saying it's all gimmicks and these kind of things and drive to survive and things that he doesn't like about new Formula One and he's very old school in that sense. so yeah he's he's kind of max has had that voice of a lot of fans that have said you know I don't this is not my Formula One that I don't want to and I do get the fact that yes

formula one evolves but you can also be in a situation where you say I don't like the direction it's going because I totally understand that because it's not this doesn't feel like what Formula One is meant to be where it's all about battery saving and stuff like that that is the most uninteresting like kind of thing formula one's meant to be like this glamorous exciting amazing sport and if all we're seeing is four different ways to charge the battery that's not that's not kind of elite motorsport is it no and i don't want to see overtaking done i mean we've spoken about dRS passes it's going to be 10 times worse if the only thing we're watching are passes where someone has more battery than the other one and it's nothing to do with skill

nothing to do without breaking. It's just literally just in a slipstream, off they go, because they've got more, more energy. There are ways in which it could be interesting with defending and thinking about when you do deploy your energy, but it feels like there's a lot of talk about battery, and this is not Formula One, and they're supposed to be different in that sense.

But I'm seeing some massive similarities after watching FormulaE for the last few seasons. So that was Landau's comments, and then Russell, today essentially was agreeing with Lando. Unsurprisingly, you know, George and Max, they're not the best of friends. But George said, as with anything in life,

you can't tick every single box and there's more at stake. When these regulations came into play, there was obviously a huge push on EVs from the EU, and that was a big part for the likes of Audi to come in, so that's got to be a consideration. And I think nobody can argue that Formula One is in an amazing place currently. Of course, we want the best cars, the fastest cars, the best racing. But I don't know how you please everybody.

as Lando said, we're privileged to be in this position, and in all honesty, I just want to win. I guess for a driver who's won quite a bit recently, you do just want to have the best car and the most fun cars to drive. So, yeah, Vastappen is welcome to go to the Nord Schleifer, I guess. Bruton. Yeah. It's unsurprising. But it's not as if Max has come out of these comments out of the blue. Oh my God, everyone else loves the cars. And Max has said this, no, Max has said this since 2023, I think, when the rules were first announced.

and he has maintained that opinion throughout. So it's not like this should come as a surprise to any of the drivers. No, definitely not. I mean, George Russell, his quotes there, no surprise he's kind of going in on Max Lestappen. Also, no surprise that he is kind of siding with the new rules because, yeah, he does give the vibe of like the teacher's favourite, doesn't he? and I mean, I mean, that quote, you can see why people call him PR 63 when he's saying there's a huge push on EVs from the EU.

I was like, come on, George. Like, talk about like a press release quote. Yeah. You can imagine like them sitting down, like the Mercedes, like debris or whatever. Right, okay, George, so a few lines. You don't have to say it word for word, but a few lines are, there's a huge push on EVs from the EU. and he's like, okay, cool, got it. Yeah, yeah, literally this could be from a Mercedes CEO

and not a Formula One driver. Oh, dear. So the quotes keep on coming. They certainly do. Question from Jerry 6445-885-835. What do you think about the race starts in these regulations, taking 10 seconds to get a full battery? This is insane.

We heard about this and saw like some rumbles on social media. You saw, of course, a lot of drivers doing practice starts at the end of the pit lane. And you said this on the watch along. When you first saw that clip, and I thought the same, I genuinely thought the audio was dubbed with something else. Because they are revving so much, it sounds like the engine is about to explode. They are revving for so long, and then basically they drive away. But it takes so long for these cars to basically charge up that we're now seeing a situation where they are, you know, there's torque that they're going to need 10. full seconds to basically be ready to start the race.

Now there's two sides to this, of course. One, that's an incredibly long time. But you've also got to think that... It is when the race... Oh, I guess it. I missed the pun. Yeah, and the fact that they are doing these kind of race starts and they count down the lights,

people that are getting to the end, and if you're kind of like last on the grid, you're not going to have enough time to be able to charge this. And this is something that they were kind of talking about. They may even try and delay the start lights. Now Ferrari basically were like, no, we don't want to do that. And they blocked this rule,

whether that was a while ago, to be fair, whether they now changed their mind after seeing that practice start that we saw at the end. Because my word, that was chaotic. I can only hope that they were deliberately, going at different times and it wasn't half the grid stalling or not being able to start properly because it was very very messy indeed particularly a certain colapinto who spun off went into the almost went into the wall then joined then started then his car broke as soon as he started yes that was

a close call for colopinto i'm not i'm not convinced that any of them stalled i think they were just doing their own start procedures uh you know there's no rule for them to have to go when the lights go out but that made for quite a tense little moment where some of the drivers did get away straight away and had to do a bit of avoiding action but I'm not a fan if this is the case whether it would become normal after a while potentially you know that of course you watch the formation lap

and then you're just going to see them all sit on the grid and does the 10 seconds start when the last car's on the grid and then they all rev for 10 seconds and then the lights come on it's, I don't know, obviously we're still waiting for confirmation on what they're going to do with the starts. And I think they're probably scratching their heads at the moment as to what would be the best avenue for this. Because I'm trying to sort of envisage it in my head. Like, is it that deep if they all get on the line, all get to the grid, and then they rev for 10 seconds?

Yeah. Not really. I think it's a very, I think we're kind of blowing this out of proportion. Yeah, yeah. I think at the end of the day, like it is what it is. Like, if it happens, it's fine. I think, I think the main thing is what everyone was a little bit like, whoa. There was already a lot of talk about the start procedure.

And then to see that whole situation, I think it's probably like brought even more concerns. Whether it's the case, Formula One, it always seems to happen where they seem to get away with these things. because I've seen a lot of people watch that practice start and go, oh my word, Australia is going to be absolutely crazy. This is going to be insane. And you just know that they'll probably all just be absolutely fine, won't they? They'll just pull away fine,

and it won't be this big, crazy, dramatic thing where all the cars are breaking down by turn one and not charged properly. Yes, my understanding of the reason why they're taking 10 seconds to get a full battery on the grid is that they can do it, but it's only when the clutch is in. So essentially when they're not going around and doing the formation lap. So that's the reason. It's not like they could do it on the lap.

Maybe they'll find a way to do it. I don't know. But I think that is the reason. Yeah, they can't do the like charging while they're going and doing the formation lap. It has to be stopped. Even though there's four different ways of charging the battery. Oh, God. Including overloading the throttle.

Yorn. I know. Honestly. Right. Next question. P.1PITCH. Remember, Forza, Monza. Have the FIA in Formula 1 misplaced their priorities?

It often feels as though innovation and regulation have taken precedence over pure racing and track development. Drivers now seem more focused on managing the complexities of their cars rather than concentrating on the racing itself. I am of the opinion that as of right this second, yes, it is concerning. I would like to give this set of regulations a little bit of time. All the teams are scrambling around. around at the moment.

You know, they're concerned about whether it's Mercedes and having their compression thing, compression trick outlawed. There's a lot of stress, a lot of pressure. It's a massive change in the regulations. So I want to see some racing first before I actually give an opinion on this. It does feel as though, yes, Formula One, you know, they're very business-minded. They are a business. They want to make as much money as possible.

They want the biggest brands involved, Audi, who of course have come in. due to the high push of the devs as George Russell. Yeah, from the EU, of course. So Formula One are always going to be usually business-minded. How can we make the most money? The FIA, I would like to think, are more, how do we make the best racing, then they come together as two minds.

And usually it's not really the best outcome. But yeah, I would just say, let's pause. Let's let testing happen. Let's see if Australia is an absolute S-show. and then we can go Tommy ranting. Yeah, I want to be positive. I said at the start of the show, like the positives are the fact that we're still kind of going into this.

We don't, doesn't feel like we know who's going to be fastest yet. I think there's a level, isn't there, of like good chaos that we would enjoy. The things that I like are the fact that, you know, if drivers are complaining, oh, there's no grip and, oh, it's difficult to drive. part of me is like, well, good, because that's what we kind of want in Formula One. And we've already seen things in the past that have been controversial, like traction controlism is one where, you know, that got introduced. And everyone was saying, oh, this is ridiculous. It's taking away the skill of the drivers, things like that.

And then they banned it. And then there was a new thing. And people have been saying like this all the time, you know, the famous Abu Dhabi Press conference question of the less butter. more too complicated. My concern is the complications of the rules. They are so complex the way we're starting testing and there's page after page after page of graphics telling us how things are doing.

And it is so important to be able to communicate to the fans and the new, fans new and old because I've been watching Formula One since 1996, showing my age. And it's confusing the hell out of me. It is proper, it's giving me vibes of when you start a new board game and someone gets the manual out and you're like 10 pages and you're like, I don't know what is going on here.

I'm overwhelmed. Let's just play snakes and ladders instead because this is far too complicated. And at the moment, yeah, there's just too much going on. So if we get great racing and passing and a bit of chaos, then I'm all for it. It's just how that is communicated because I personally am fine with all this stuff if we're not talking about batteries every freaking lap and going, they're doing this, they're doing that because that is going to get incredibly boring. Like, please let's talk about the racing.

Yeah, for sure. And I think from a positive angle, it's not as if Formula One cars up until this point have been turn it on and drive it. They have been spaceships all the time, especially since the hybrid engines have come in. Drivers have had to manage a lot in the car. Yes, I think it has taken another step. But it's not as if this is completely unknown territory and we don't know what's going on here. So they're going to have to do that. Broadcast teams, the journalists, everybody in the sport are going to,

I'm going to have to somehow break this down for the casual. But realistically, it is down to the broadcast because you'd say the casuals are going to tune in, watch the race and leave. They won't watch maybe the pre-show. They may not watch the after show. They're going to be watching the race. So the graphics are so important. I watch the feature with Ted Kravitz and Andrew Shavlin and just talking about this,

that and boost and yada, yada, yada. And it's obviously not been decided yet, but Andrew Shavlin was, who's a very, very important engineer at Mercedes. He was essentially said it depends how much information we have to give and that's got to be decided. I'm sorry, I need to round about it. How is it not decided? The first Grand Prix is less than a month away. These regulations have been around for ages. They've been in the pipeline for so long. Surely by now they should be, they should know what they're doing. That concerns me greatly that we're going to get into the first race and they still don't know whether we should see on the screen

whether they're pressing the overtake button or not and they can't decide. It should be decided long ago. They know that this is coming up. This is like, you know, doing your homework at the last minute. It's crazy. I'm also wondering what it's going to be like to watch it at a track. And I would say the circuit experience in general has been poor,

like just generally, right? 2025 yet last year and we're lucky to go to a race or two a year. I still, every single time I come away from it, feel like I've not watched the race. Whether that's due to

the grandstand offering you know, of course they sell little headsets. But realistically, people have paid five, six hundred a quid to go there anyway. Why are people having to pay extra to get these things? Anyway, that's a completely separate topic. But the reason why I was saying it is because

how am I going to know if someone's got overtake mode when I'm watching at a track? And this was something that Ted and Andrew was speaking again. I'm coming back to that feature, but I found it quite interesting. And Ted had this idea of, why don't we have the lights where the hazard lights are on the thing? Why doesn't that turn a different colour when they go bushmen?

That's Formula E! We're turning into Formula E with attack mode and everything else. We're going to have diversion soon. It's a little, what they called, like a the attack joke joker

yeah it's crazy it is you're so right in that and this is the thing that I can't believe they've not

decided yet and they need to take a leaf out of like IndyCar's book here because when these regulations

got announced I was all for this because I think the Indy car push to pass system is a great idea

in theory because you can use it to attack and defend the thing I didn't like about DRS

it was definitely necessary but you could only do it a certain part and the other car that's basically defending is defenseless. Indy car had a great system with their push to pass in years gone by where they told you exactly how long they had left, they put it on the timing tower and you can see every time they're pressing it. Simple as that. And we're here with kind of less than what, like three weeks to go and they're going, how are we going to display all this information about these new regulations shouldn't be happening? Not even how, but what are we going to show? What are the teams going to agree to give us? Yeah, what do we show? What do we not show? Because things need to be shown,

not just like if you're in the, because I saw someone in our watch-along set, and I might have missed this, but they were testing basically like an activation indicator of whenever someone's within a second, like to show on the leaderboard or whatever. So there's that. But for me, if we're going to talk about the battery so, so much, we need to have, and again I'm going to say it, a formula E style percentage of battery remaining per lap. Otherwise, we're not going to know, like that is a really crucial part, I would say. Otherwise, we are going to just see motorway passes and not understand what it's happening. But like we won't see it coming. And, you know, the interval, the timing interval, which is like almost 70% of a race you're watching the timing

interval, the battery is probably going to be the thing that you then watch just as much as the interval. So, but then how do you fit all of that on a screen? Yeah, let's just say, right, if they don't show any of the battery percentages and all they do is like, well, when you're within one second, it's overtake mode, I will lose my absolute mind on the race review podcast for Australia. So look forward to that because I want the full picture of the racing and please figure it out. Okay, next question. We are popping off. Scott Fauna asks, if these regulations turn out to be a disaster, what does F1 do? Five years is a long time to deal with a regulation set that everyone hates. This is the concern, isn't it? Because all this talk and worry, I said before that Formula One has a habit

of having these huge controversy controversies and things and getting away with it. However, this one is a bigger problem if it doesn't work, because we've had things in the past where we've spoken and had things like this, where it's very controversial, the drivers are spoken out, they say they don't like something. Elimination qualifying is a great example. And with all these things going on, and we get to, if we get to Melbourne, and the first race the season, and like you say,

they're not showing us enough information. The drivers don't understand the cars. They're not able to start them properly. The overtaking is poor, and it's all a bit of a mess and farcical. We had that with elimination qualifying, but that was just a rule that they could just go, try it again, didn't work,

let's go back to the old qualifying. They have spent so much money, the teams have spent so much money, They've been, they've got loads and loads of personnel. They've been developing these engines for absolutely ages. They can't just go, you know what, we should have on V10s and sustainable fuels. Let's just do that. They can't do that.

They can't even do that in like four years' time, never mind, you know, doing it in a mid-season or after a few races. They kind of have to go with it. And that is the concern, isn't it? that if it is really bad, they're kind of stuck with it. The only thing they could do, maybe a stretch is push the new regulations early, but how much realistically can you do? And then, you know, you have that problem again where we've done all this stuff for the EVs from the EU to help Audi come in.

They're going to say, well, no, like, I don't, we don't want, Audi aren't going to stay if you go back to V10 engines with sustainable fuels, are they? So like they're in a bit of a mess with it, really. They're just going to have to stick with it. They're going to have to stick with it. And there are so many reasons why Formula One wouldn't shorten this, as much as I'd love to say, like, oh, they could do it in three years. You know, when you actually think about it, Formula One are a very proud company.

They make a decision and you have to deal with it. And I think, yes, if this turns out to be a disaster, that then we're going to have to put out many mini fires as a sport to figure out how to make it, how to make it better. But right now, there's obviously so much emphasis on the engine, the battery,

that's what we know. How do you fix that if, and you were saying this earlier, Tommy, on the watch along, like Charler-Claire also saying about overtaking. I don't know if you have the quote to hand or if you can go and find that as well. that it could well be pretty impossible to overtake

and it's purely reliant on the engine. How do you fix that? You can't just be like, right, guys, add some more aero, no problem, all good. Let's go back to the aero from previous years and have the engines the same. They're too far gone. It's a scary thought to think if we do genuinely get to that stage where, where Formula One is a really bad position. And this is the thing that I'm willing to give these regulations a chance,

like you say, like, we want it to work. Like, we want to enjoy Formula One. Max Verstappen wants to enjoy driving in Formula One. Like, the complaining is for certain reasons. And it concerns me greatly today that we had a quote from Charlotte Clare saying, the exact quote was, I can confirm what my colleagues have said. Currently, I find it extremely difficult

to even attempt an overtaking move. I'm sorry, but... This is testing as well. This is testing. What? And attempt an overtaking move when seemingly we might even have like a four second field spread.

I actually know. I know why. I get it. Because Ferrari have obviously built a car that's going to be at the front, so they've not built a car that's very good to follow. We've seen it many, many times

in Formula One. Once again, my goats, that's great from Fred. I now understand everything. Copium, opium. Speaking of Ferrari, let's get into the question if we have to. From 7 Francis B7. Most important question from testing, why did Matt say the Ferrari is bulletproof with another day left to go?

Why take the risk? You know what, Francis? Many thanks for your question. You can shove it where the sun don't shine as far as I'm concerned. Yes, Lewis Hamilton did stop. 10 minutes to go. doesn't matter. Do you want me to make your day?

It doesn't matter. Make my day, Tommy. Who has said Ferrari as fastest now? Come on. It was only fuel. Confirmed by Fred and Canal Plus. It was no reliability issues. Fred would never say anything other than it being fuel.

He's heard it in the commentary and gone, oh yeah, no, let's say it was fuel. Yeah, yeah. But no, look, if Ferrari say that, I am taking that as gospel for sure. so only fuel that is a as long as they're putting enough fuel in that's fine

yeah that is a little bit concerning that they didn't see that coming in testing but apart from that I say it again bulletproof okay well yeah

they we're got three days to go let's find out 138 laps for Hamilton we haven't spoken about the laps we've been too busy ranting about Formula 1 let's give you a quick rundown of Matt's mental maths

but Mercedes did 127 laps Hamilton, sorry Ferrari 138 McLaren 153 with Piastri Vastappan and Hajar were out and that is 114 laps for Red Bull Hass they dropped 138 laps again

Hasse have been dropping in mileage on mileage on mileage we love to see it Colapinto did 137 plus nearly in the wall for the formation lap but still huge amounts of laps for Alpine. For

Audi they did 101 for Williams they did a lot of laps they did a hundred and thirty nine laps for Vicarb Lawson did 119 for Aston Martin 69 so that might well be the only team that did under three figures

because Cadillac no until I like Calat did 99 so I haven't done my mental maths until the last one and then realised I need to needed to be corrected. But yes, so Astor Martin, again, the lowest mileage. And may I remind you the only team running Honda, Honda compared to the likes of Mercedes and Ferrari,

I can only see them being in a world of trouble with the amount of data they have. Yeah, 100%. Can I just say, by the way, if indeed that was all correct, fair play with it, that mental maths because that would have taken me, that'd take me another half an hour to work out. I do like mental maths. Yeah, you're good at that.

And then someone will fact check and they were all wrong. But that's from a screenshot that I've seen that was hopefully at the end of the session. So yes, a lot of laps done for most of the teams. We only had one red flag, I believe, which was Bottas at the start in the first hour of testing today. That is my understanding of the only red flag. Of course, we don't get to watch seven of the eight hours. But next week we do, little background chilling, have it on all day. So that's confirmed.

that we're getting all of it. We see it all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alex Jay said it in commentary. Alex, Jake said it in commentary. Okay, perfect. And if Alex was wrong, he now needs to live stream from his phone for eight hours a day.

I apologize. So we'll watch. Yeah. So there you go. Tommy, final thoughts? That was, uh, wow, quite the, the rant and discussion point. Uh, yeah, as we said, uh, quite a,

quite a long dive into the rules. But at the end of the day, like, like Max, like, Fernando, like Lewis Hamilton, we are passionate about Formula One and we want it to be as good as possible. So, you know, we're willing to give it a chance. And please, please be good, Formula One. I hope we look back on this podcast in particular and go, what are we worried about? Yeah, oh, stop worrying Matt and Tommy. When McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull crossing the line four wide on the final lap, we're going,

wow, they've cooked here with this amazing regulation set. Yeah, I can't believe we... Douted Formula One for a second. He went out and he came out and said that at Red Bullar half a second to maybe a second a lap clear at the moment. George was right. The push for EVs in the EU was what Formula One needed. Imagine we come back to this podcast and go,

wow, we weren't even half informed as to the problems. How bad it's going to be, yeah. Right, let's not think about that. Thank you, everybody for tuning in. Enjoyed that podcast. I hope you did too. We'll see you next week for some more pods, of course, live streams as well for some of the watchalong for the testing. We'll let you know what we end up doing on social.

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