P1 with Matt and Tommy - Monaco GP Driver Ratings (and a HUGE announcement!)

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. It's Monaco Grand Prix F1 driver ratings. Yes, we do still need to talk about Monaco as much as some people may not want to. But look, we're going to have good energy. It was a very depressing race review podcast. But we're back. We've slept on it and we're enjoying Formula One once again. Let's see if that continues throughout this driver ratings.

And once we've read your comments. But Tommy, how are you, mate? I am all right. I'm still feeling a little bit sad about Monaco. And actually, no, no, don't worry. I just want to read one thing before we move on from the Depression, because this really made me laugh. It's a comment that someone wrote on our race review. And it's from Nadir.

It says, the five stages of Monaco. One, denial. No, Monaco is a great track, and there's actually no problem with it. Two, arguing. How dare you suggest Monaco should be off the calendar. It's special. It has to stay. Three, bargaining.

No, Monaco, Quali is great. Okay, the races are boring, but we'll force a mandatory two-stop. It will be fun. Four, depression. Yeah, Monaco races are boring, but how can we lose this track? We can't, can we afford it? It's too hard. Five, acceptance.

Monaco is not suitable for F1 anymore. That's you. It's me. That is literally me. I have had the five stages of Monaco throughout the last couple of years. My stages of Monaco have been very different, where I've been like, me, whatever, you know, we can move on from it to actually. actually becoming the defender of Monaco now and you're the one that's, you'll be back.

Give it till next year. You'll be, FP1, I'll be then, a lot of. It's like me and my Ferrari opium. True. You'll be straight back. Before we get into it, we have an exciting announcement. The P1 Live show is back and bigger than ever before.

A world tour. That's right, Tommy. We can call it a world tour. We're absolutely calling it a world tour. We're going to six different countries, so we have to name a world tour. It had to be done. It makes it sound like rock stars. So we've got to do it. Now, let's get into the dates. Amsterdam, August the 28th. Seattle, November the 4th. San Francisco, November the 5th. Denver, November the 10th. Dallas, November the 11th. Toronto, November the 13th.

Chicago, November the 14th. New York, November the 16th. Dublin, December the 10th. Manchester, December the 14th. Glasgow, December the 15th. And finishing in London. Now, we are calling this one the delusion tour with a fresh new format. We are going to be exploring what it's like to be a Formula One fan in 2025 with games, audience participation, and of course plenty of discussion around this season. It's going to be so fun! It's going to be so good. Got so many good ideas. We're going to have a lot of fun. Love seeing everyone and everyone gets involved. It's always such a good night. So cannot wait to go to new places as well. Very exciting. So where do you go? get the tickets. Well, if you are a Patreon member, Wednesday, 10am UK time, Patreon. Patreon.com

4 slash Matt P1 Tommy. There will be an announcement where you can buy tickets. Early access. And for general sale, it's Friday 10am UK time. Just check our socials. And we will do an announcement and put the link there. Can't wait to see you. Anyway, let's dive straight into these driver ratings and begin with Gabrielle Bortoletto. started the race in 16th, finished 14th. Now, Gabrielle Bortoletto, you know what? Didn't, I'm going to get... I'm already struggling, and it's the first driver. Six out of 10 for Gabriel Bortoletto, because one, we saw an overtake that Kimmy Antonelli did not enjoy.

So shoved him in the wall. I'm kidding. But then even after that, you know, Bortoletto was in the wall and still managed to beat his teammate in the end, with the aggressive strategy, obviously, with the lap one pitting, similar to Sonoda Gassley and Bearman. Three stops as well. Yeah, look, I don't mind it. So I've gone for a six out of ten for Borselaetto.

I've also gone for a six out of ten for Bortoletto. He was, like I say, he was racing the Mercedes at the start, what might have been. And I wouldn't blame him too much. I know some people said that maybe could have been a bit more aware of Antonelli, but you kind of don't expect that move, but I wouldn't put too much blame on him because it's just the nature of Monaco. The barrier kind of sticks out massively at that point. Antonelli had the right to go for the move, but the nature of Monaco means it's very hard to get two cars, particularly two giant Formula One cars around that corner, and he went straight in the wall. But then somehow managed

to recover thanks to him getting his pit stops in kind of early. And then as the chaos unfolded, he just moved his way up. He certainly did the fans, gave him a full. five out of ten. Nico Holcomberg, started the race in 13th, finished 16th. I have gone for a six as well for Nika Holkenberg. Good qualifying, despite the machinery he's got and kind of fell back during the race, didn't work for him in the lottery chaos of Monaco and being held up. But I don't think it's a kind of poor performance, and I think it's a bit better than

just straight down the middle, so gone for a six. I've also gone for a six because we are, you know, usually we do a little bit of a nod to qualifying. I think it's a sort of medium to large size nod this time because Monaco is qualifying for a lot of these drivers. Yeah, so six out of ten because 13th is a decent starting position and yeah, as you say, it's perfectly described that it is just, it was a lottery. It was whether or not you got caught behind the train or not, you know, Holkenberg. And this is exactly what Salber, I think, did correctly. They did two different strategies with their two drivers.

They didn't do a Mercedes and just stick with the same thing for both of them. So, yeah, they tried something. It didn't work out. But yes, it's a six for me. The fans gave him a five. Alex Albon, start the race in 10th, finished 9th. It's going to be an 8 out of 10 for Alex Albon. A decent qualifying.

So that put him in a great spot to be able. able to actually do something in the race and very much helped that Carlos Sines started directly behind him as well to pull off one of the strangest and probably the most anger sort of inducing thing for the fans was the fact that they were able to cook up. So not only, I was reading Tommy, not only did Carlos Sines have no stops, but Albon was also able to cook up stops with the help of his teammate as well. So they literally, they chefed up two stops between them. Four stops in total. So yeah, it was a perfectly executed strategy.

It was terrible to watch, as we know. But it was all they could really do. Of course, they still got outqualified by the likes of the racing balls, knock on, etc. But it's still a strong points finish from Albon, so it's an eight. I've gone for a seven for Alex Albon. I think there's, I think the Williams is a good car now and better than the RBs and the Hasses.

So to finish behind those is maybe a little bit disappointed. I think there was more to be had in qualifying. He looked really, really quick. And maybe a better qualifying lap could have been P6. Just because he didn't deliver you a podium, I can tell you're angry with him. I'm not angry with him. I just think he under, I think both Williams underdelivered, because I think they had a very quick car around Monaco.

And I look at the cars ahead of them, and I think they are the best of the midfield now. Still a good performance. Is it underdelivered or is it a good performance, Tommy? Because that's two completely different. That's a three out of ten. Is it a decent? a decent performance.

But I think there's definitely some left on the table there. There's definitely more. Like P10 in qualifying for Albon was not good enough. I don't think with how much pace I think he had could have got a lot more out of it. Fair enough, the fans gave Albon an eight. Carlos Seine started the race on 11th, finished 10th. I've gone for a seven for Carlos Sines as well. I think that not much to split between the.

Williams obviously they raced together the whole the whole race and did the the whole switch and that basically copy and paste what I said about album that I think there was more potential in the Williams than a P10 particularly when one of the drivers ahead of them retired which helped them get into the points as well so still decent from the Williams but I can't go higher than sevens for both of them I've gone for a seven out of ten for Carlin Carlos Sines. The reason I've changed, or it's been different between the two teammates, is that he was quite a bit slower than Albon in qualifying. I believe it was a 610th gap in Q2, which is pretty massive. And I think Albon, yeah, for sure, didn't qualify as well as he could

have in Q3. But Albon has been the quicker driver this weekend. So that's why it's close. I could have given them both the same grade, but I just want to sort of note that Albon was a bit quicker in qualifying. So it's a seven for me. The fans gave him a seven. Isaac Hadjar started the race in fifth, finished sixth. It's five out of ten. It's disgusting now. Should have done more. It's a ten. It's a ten for Hajar. I think this is arguably as much as the race was shocking and we don't actually get to see much from a perspective of overtake and sort of overtaking talent and things like that. I think this is one of the best performances from Hadjar to rock up to Monaco of all places. Yeah, look, we're talking about this. Started fifth,

finished sixth. He crashed twice in practice. And we're thinking this is going to be a weekend that could be quite difficult for him. Is he going to overpush, make mistakes? But when it came to the competitive sessions, he has got absolutely everything out of that car. And it's, it's massively impressive for Hadjar around one of the trickiest tracks on the calendar to perform like this as a rookie. So this is more obviously towards qualifying because in the race was anyone really pushing at any point. But in qualifying to get there as well, it's phenomenal. And despite the crashes, I didn't think I was going to be giving him a 10, but here we are. I've gone for a 10 for Hajar. Absolutely sensational performance this weekend.

He's kind of had a really great result coming and you just feel like it just needed to come together in the race. And thankfully, after a good qualifying, you can't overtake. So it certainly helped him. And of course, he had his teammate backing up the fields to help out. But it was all done in qualifying, absolutely sensational to start P5, qualify P6. And yeah, amazing from Hajar. He's now got more points than Sonoda and Lawson combined, which is quite an insane thing to think about this stage of the season and pray that he doesn't get promoted to Red Bull and ruin his career. Don't do it. Because he's very, very, very impressive and a great talent.

And I will admit that it's probably the rookie that I knew the least about and I think had the least hype going into the season. And we were unsure, you know, maybe wrongly kind of felt like he was just the next line to red. I think that's probably doing, if I'm being completely honest. Sorry, sorry, yeah, I forgot about doing. Even Bortoletto as well probably had less hype, I'd say, than Hadjar, just purely from I think more because Bortoleto won the championship, so I knew more about what he could do, whereas Hadjar, yeah, he was in that title fight, but maybe some thought it was just kind of like, well, he's the next Red Bull in line.

I don't think many people expected him to impress as much as he has done. So, yeah, really impressed with Hadjar. Lovely stuff, the fans gave Isaac a 10. Lawson, start the race 9th, finished 8th. Oh, I have gone for a 9. I'll go for a 9 for Lawson. It's very close to an 8 and a 9, left some on the table in qualifying.

But I'll go for a 9 because he played the team game, even though it wasn't pretty, and delivered good points for... No, I'm not, I'm going for an 8 because he finished by a knock on. Eight, it's an 8 for Lawson. I was going to say. My guy, Tommy, feeling generous today. I have also gone for an 8 out of 10 for Lawson,

starting four places behind his teammate. I think it was three places back in qualifying, wasn't it? Because Hamilton got his three-place grid penalty. But Lawson then played the team game, but sadly for him, you know, he's in that situation. Now, he's the second driver in that particular race, and he had to slot in and do the blocking. So you couldn't really see the full potential,

and could you, for many of the drivers, not really. but yeah I don't think I can give them any higher than an eight so I'm not going to the fans. Do you think it's crazy, sorry, do I think it's crazy that Lawson didn't end up like 17th after what he did during the race by the way? I thought it was going to be just completely sacrificed your entire race

but it still somehow worked to get into eight because you can't pass at Monaco. What teams? Yeah, Williams. Williams from right behind doing one minute 45s lapping Spar Frankishamps by the looks of things. Yeah, right.

So I think Williams essentially gave Lawson this PA because without that I think he would have struggled. But either or he managed to make it work and Williams were a helping hand. So yes, the fans gave him an eight. Ollie Behrman started the race from 20th after getting a 10 place grid penalty and then finished the race in 12th. I am going to give Oliver Behrman a 7 out of 10. I like the fact he went aggressive.

I feel slightly sort of sorry for him that he got the penalty. I still think it was worthy. I still think it was deserving. It was just kind of wrong place, wrong time, and reacting probably two seconds too late, which gave him that grid penalty. But even then, he didn't qualify particularly well. But to gain positions around Monaco,

you got to say, well done, sir, because everyone else we are judging on qualifying because they've been stuck in traffic. But to finish 12th, I know he didn't score any points, but I think that, and he said it himself, that he thinks they did the maximum they could from where they started.

So I'm giving them a seven. I have gone four. You were going to go for a six, but you've heard my... No, I'm actually between a five and six. I don't agree with your argument at all, actually. Oh, okay. All right, cook me then.

Please, no, put me on the barbecue. I'll go for a six. Interestingly, an interesting note about Olly Bearman was that he was actually up on knock on in Q1, but would have knocked him out. And obviously because he had the penalty, he bailed out, which was a good choice from Hasse, of course,

because where Ockon ended up qualifying, imagine, would have eliminated him and thought about the team there, which is very good. I personally am a bit more critical of the penalty because I think he took the law into his own hands and was like, well, I'm going to speed round then and race back to the pits and then argue it afterwards.

he is it is kind of a close run thing slightly but I'm not I'm not as sympathetic as you and yeah I like that he went aggressive don't get me wrong I wish more drivers have done it and it's maybe a bit of a lesson to Mercedes that maybe if you've gone a bit more aggressive and done something crazy because those were the drivers that actually moved up but it's still a six for Olly Beeman. Okay dokey the fans gave Olly a six of as well. Esteban Ocon, started to race in eighth, finish seventh.

It's a 10 for Occon. Another fantastic performance in a Haas that only ever seems to finish eighth or last this season. And Ocon, correct me if I'm wrong, is sitting very pretty in the championship standings at the moment. Yes, he is ninth, which is quite insane to think that are look woeful in a good amount of the races. But he picks up big points.

When he has a good performance, it seems to be like a P8 or a really good result. I think China was quite similar. So yeah, very, very impressive result for Ocon, a circuit that he does very well at. And he was, of course, fortunate that he was in that front pack, so was avoiding the power. of the

Lawson and the Williams trains and everything, but that was all thanks to a great qualifying, so he deserves his plaudits. You make your own fortune, especially around Monaco. Especially when you qualify well. Exactly. So Ocon right up there.

Yeah, fully deserving. I've gone for a 10 as well. For Ocon, I don't think he could have done a huge amount more to have put that HASS in a place that I don't particularly rank the HASS in a similar realm as the racing balls. I think they are slightly behind.

But yeah, just a brilliant race sort of navigated the Monaco mandatory two stop well and scored some brilliant points. So I've also gone for a 10. The fans have gone for a 9. They're not happy in the slightest about a key 3 performance.

And a P7 is wild. Maybe it's because Hadjar finished ahead of him, but I disagree. Franco Colapinto started the race. race in 18th, finished 13th. Hmm. I like it when they gain positions from where they started around Monaco.

So I'm going for a six for Franco. A very anonymous race. Started on the hard tires, pitted on lap 13, then again on lap 26. He reckons that he switched a little bit too early and was very much in it to help Pierre, but Pierre was out after mounting Sonoda.

So, yeah, it's a slightly better than five out of ten for me, so that's why I've gone. for a six. I've gone for a five for Franco Colopinto. It's not a bad result considering. I think he I think

his result flatters the pace that he had. But then of course it's Monaco. How's he showing the pace slowly? Well exactly. I meant more throughout the weekend, obviously. He looked slow and he was struggling a lot and I think Franco is looking forward

to getting on a more normal track now because to be thrown in to Imler and Monaco I think he'll just count in his luck that he avoided an incident and a crash unlike his teammate imagined if that had been Colapinto

and actually he almost got speared into by Gersley as well in that incident but thankfully avoided it but just straight down the middle nothing special but equally not bad I think that's just where the Alpine pace

was The fans gave Franco a five Pierre Gasley started the race in 17th did not finish. I've gone for a two out of ten for Pierre Gasley as your eyes light up. Qualified, not very well. And he's the only driver that crashed out the race. I've got to put some blame on him for that

because of course slammed into the back of Sonoda. No other driver crashed out of the Monaco Grand Prix apart from Ghazley. so I have to grade him very heavily on that one. Interesting. Okay, so I have gone for a four out of ten for Pierre Gazley. Yeah, poor qualifying, but the Alpine were literally nowhere. So I'm not going to be too harsh on that side of things. And then when it comes to the Sonoda crash, like, yeah, it definitely is more so Gasly's fault.

He said after the race, he didn't expect Yuki to move in the breaking out the tunnel. he made a mistake and the corner before he was very close and every lap he was breaking on the right and the lap where they crashed

he started breaking on the left and then went back over to the normal line so Ghazley felt he was slightly aggrieved I think after that one I'm going to obviously not give him a five due to it

but yeah a four out of ten because I don't think it was an absolute like that is a horrendous move from you Ghazley why have you done it it's just sadly we've seen many crashes

there at Monaco over the years to add to it as well I think, well, I think this also might reflect the next rating you're about to give. But I think there's a lot of confusion that Gazley's brakes failed and he went into the back of Sonoda, but he was saying his brakes weren't working because he had no tire because he literally didn't have a front of his car. Yeah, how do you sit on that incident then, Tommy? Because obviously you've given him a two. So do you fully blame Gazley?

Yeah, it's his fault. And when I look at the grades and the results at the end, how is he not like? one of if not the worst driver because he crushed out the Monaco Grand Prix and it was three out of ten all right okay all right Tommy stop get off my back you know what I'm saying like Gazzini and Sonoda right now yeah okay three out of ten I think's fairer so amend my grade to a three at the fans they'd given a five they'd give a five to Pierre Gasley yeah they're like great performance let's give them the same the way he navigated back to the pits with no breaks was impressive naughty and he got a rep to I very naughty yeah I'm not surprised I'm surprised He didn't get more, to be honest, for that, because it was rather dangerous, the fact he had no breaks.

Moving on now to Lance Stroll. Started the race in 19th, was penalised one position for causing a collision with Charles LeClerc in practice, then another three for impeding during qualifying. Lancy Boy, what are we going to go with here? I'm going with a three out of ten for Lance Stroll because, well, he caused a crash in practice. by being quite literally blind. And then impeding and qualifying was his fault. Also being blind.

Yep. And then in the race, may I say he produced the best overtake of the Grand Prix on a salber out the tunnel. Well done, Lance. However, you were battling the salber whilst your teammate is, of course, all the way up in the points before his engine got cooked. So it's a very poor weekend for Lance. plenty of things to downgrade him on and yeah that's welcome for a three i have gone for a three i have

gone for a three i'll go for a three just because of that worldly move um it's between a literally it's between a two and a three um because no it's a two it's a two i'm sorry uh now i look now i look at it, you know, you're qualifying really poorly anyway when, you know, Fernando Alonso has qualified six, you've qualified 19th, and that's, you're lucky your 19th, because you've also got four places worth of penalties for two separate incidents. You've crushed into someone in practice. The move is absolutely incredible. So, well done, you've not got a one. But it was really poor from Lance to qualify that low down. He can't be qualifying that low in Monaco, but then, you know, had he qualified a whopping 15th,

he also would have been 19th. But yeah, it's a poor weekend from Lance and let down by qualifying, which has been his Achilles heel this whole career, of course. What you mean, Tommy? He's a great qualifier. He had that one pole at Turkey. Oh, yes, of course. Sorry, I just wanted to remind you, because I know there's someone right in that comment right now. The one in a hundred.

The fans gave large stroll a three. Fernando Alonzo started the race in sixth and did not finish. I have gone for a nine for Fernando Alonso. He's on for an amazing result. Qualifying six when your teammate is 19th. You know, he's put an amazing performance in qualifying. He was running well at the front. You know, and he would have bagged.

some very, very delicious points, which is... Delicious. Yeah, but instead, he's not allowed any, as we have seen this year, and the memes continue about him being terrible, even though it's not the case. And yeah, just gutted for him because he was on for a very good result there and drove a fantastic race again and even better qualifying. And that's where the race is done, really, isn't it? It's where it's won or lost.

as I'd well know as a Charlotte Clare fan. I have gone for a nine as well for Fernando. I think you heard it after qualifying. He loves this place and he was so delighted with where he'd put the car. And he was, as you say, absolutely on for a hall of points. At one point I was quite sort of shocked by his team radio when they told him to push and it genuinely sounded like he was sort of screaming down the microphone about how he can't. push and it was quite a strange team radio but it was actually more aggrieved then than he was

when he actually retired which was interesting but look this is this is alonzo's career at the moment sadly but it's obviously promising from your side tommy being a massive fan of him that that he's able to put in these performances even now you know this car is rubbish but he's able to show around a driver's track just how much performance he still has as the oldest man on the grid. The fans gave him an eight. Kimmy Antonelli started the race in 15th, finished 18th. It's going to be a three out of ten for Kimmy Antonelli because we crashed in qualifying and then did the worst strategy of all time, which of course is partly Mercedes fault, but also come on guys, Russell as well. What are we doing here? Corner cut 40 laps earlier.

We're maybe on for something. But now a really poor weekend just. for Mercedes as a whole, but Kimmy, as soon as he heard that Tom Bellingham had predicted him to win, he decided, you know what, I will finish literally last. And he's the first driver to finish a race three laps down since Mazurpin. That's quite the achievement. Three laps down, Tommy. Lord. But yeah, it's a three out of ten.

I've gone for a two out of ten for Kimmy Antonelli. Wow. your two is my three this weekend it seems I don't think he had great pace anyway he looked like he was struggling the Mercedes did not look good around here has to be said

but George you know he he delivered when he could and his car wasn't breaking down and shared there was pace in that car and I think he would have done a lot better in qualifying George but when you crash in qualifying I think he's in a weird way fortunate that he'd actually made it through.

But even before as he'd crashed, he was four-tenths off George struggling massively. And then you crash in Monaco, you're going to have a very, very bad weekend. And yet they didn't. I think the three laps down is exaggerated because Mercedes just decided not to pit at all. And then they used Antonelli to get Russell a gap. So after all the pain, he then drove really slowly once more to get Russell the gap for his teammate to finish 11th. It was just... Yeah, now you decide to play the team game when it's too late and why they didn't split the strategy again.

I will just think it's just so ridiculous. But hey-ho, yeah, poor weekend from Antonelli and he will not be being predicted for the win ever again. Ever again, okay. The fans gave Antonelli a three. George Russell started the race in 14th, finished 11th. Oh, probably the most difficult driver, I'd say, on the whole grid, because I'm going to go for a six out of ten. Don't give me those eyes, you're making me question everything.

My brother, you've been slandering Mercedes's entire weekend. Sorry, does George do the strategy? We can do. He's driving. It's a six out of ten for George. It was between a six And He's really difficult Because he's 14th on the grid

Because his car broke down You know He was he was fifth in in Q1 Let's not pretend that George qualified 14th He was Well he did But it wasn't his fault basically I know

But you also can't grade on Ifs butts and Mabes You've got to go with absolutes You know what I'm saying Yeah but you can't You can't give a drive You can't penalise the driver because his car broke down compared to his teammate the crash in the wall. But six leans to like kind of good when reality is his race was literally stuck behind a car for the entirety of it and his qualifying was, you couldn't see it.

How I see that as a similar to a deal. His qualifying was when he had a car that worked, he was fifth and then his car broke down. And then he finished 11th. So you're putting him as a hypothetical fifth then in qualifying. Is that what is in your brain? Is that what it's saying? There's absolutely no way George is not being in that kind of top, at least. and he's ahead of Lawson and then it's a completely different race

for him and you know he still finished 11th anyway which is close to a point so it's not a bad weekend for George I think it's really unfair to give him like a four or something or or no or something like that or even a five I'm giving him a five I know I know you would oh dear I love how heated this gets for driver ratings it's literally one one point difference but now I think it's a it's a Boggs standard five for George. Like qualifying didn't work out the way he wanted.

I'm not going to downgrade him for the fact that he couldn't get a lap in, but also I can't say that he's going to be somewhere that he wasn't. So that's why I'm going down the middle of the road as a five. And then, you know, for the race, I'm a little bit disappointed from, you know, to see that there wasn't at least an attempt at something different, realizing quite early on when Lawson was doing the ridiculous, slow strategy that was forced upon them, that there wasn't a try,

you know, try it's something different, at least for one of the drivers. But, you know, it depends whether you see that's a Mercedes thing or a driver's thing or both. But yeah, I think it's just, it's an anonymous weekend, isn't he hasn't scored a point? So I can't give him any more than the five. And that's what I'm going to do is give him a five.

The fans give him a five as well. Yuki Sanoda started the race in 12th, finished 17th. I have gone thought, Oh, God, this driver ratings is really, really fun, isn't it? I am going to go for a... Because, I mean, he got yeated, didn't he? Which, hmm, is it a five?

Is it a five? No, it's a four. It's a four out of ten for Sonoda. I'm really sorry. It's a four out of ten. We... I'm getting a bit sad now. to see Sonoda being in these positions

because I fully back the fact that he's doing Hajar performances if he's in that racing ball. And he was at the start of the year in those two races. Exactly. And now he's been promoted into a drive that he can't even get into Q3 and then had a poor race. Of course he then got

absolutely yeated by Gasly as well which can't have helped. But yeah, it's just again a kind of underwhelming weekend from Sonoda. So, yeah, That's why I've gone for a four because his teammate is of course right up there once again. Yeah, I've gone for a four as well for you, QSaneda. Disappointing weekend again, all came undone really in qualifying, where he missed out on making Q3. It's one of his better tracks, but we know he's struggling for confidence in that Red Bull.

You know, drivers will never want to admit it, but imagine what, you know, he's good around Monaco and probably looking at that RB, right now going, I reckon I could have been about sixth in that race, but alas not. And yeah, of course, he was another one that the result is more just him staying out and hoping for the best, you know, the drivers that were stuck in that train and then had nothing to do and then pitted at the end. They were just kind of praying for like a red flag or something to save them by that point when it was so late.

I love that drivers like George Russell said after the race that, you know, he literally said at one point, screw it and wanted to just enjoy Monaco. So that's why he caught a cut. I'm surprised there weren't other drivers like Sonoda and the Red Bull that just went, I'm sick of this. How do I get in some clean air to actually just enjoy my job? The race was already farcical enough. But had George done that on the first few laps, other people would have done it 100% because

they made that the cars blocking were so slow that George made an entire drive-thru-up. So if you'd done that on the very first few laps, you know, why not just send it over that on lap one, make up like six positions, get into six, and then, you know, you would have scored points. It doesn't matter because everyone was about four miles behind. Yeah, I think if everybody started doing it, then the Williams would have gone, okay, I think we need to speed up guys, because people are literally cutting the corners and getting a drive-thru worth of time. been doing it, wouldn't it? That's one way to fix it. There you go. We fixed Monaco. Just allow corner cutting. Allow everyone to cheat. Yeah, there you go. Okay, so the fans gave Yuki Sonoda a four as well.

Max for Stappen, started the race and fourth finish fourth. I've gone for an eight out of ten for Max of Stappen. It's one of those weekends where I'm not surprised that he's kind of where he is. He's not over-delivered with his car like we've. seen in previous Grand Prix it was always going to be a struggle to beat the McLaren's around here in a car kind of unsuited to this track it feels like of course it's it's the norm now and it's barely even worth mentioning that you know long way ahead of your teammate but how much do you take that into account anymore because of how it's gone in the last few years but

yeah he was basically praying for that red flag for him him in the hope that it would have allowed him to win the race. So he had nothing to lose. Thankfully, he could have fallen in that gap. The only kind of real positive for him was he ended up, you know, ahead of, head of Hamilton, mainly due to Hamilton's penalty, which obviously helped him get into that fourth spot because I think the Red Bull was slower than the McLaren and the Ferraris this weekend. I have gone for an eight out of ten as well for Max Verstappen. it was a pretty good weekend for Max all considering. I know that you came into it, Tommy, being like,

be lucky to finish top 10. Yeah, Red Bull are watched if they're finished. But thankfully, Aliam Wilson blocked the entire field. So you were fine. Exactly. You know, Max tried everything he could. I like the strategic role of the dice to stay out right till the end. Perhaps there's a red flag, that sort of stuff.

You know, they did everything they could to try and get a better result, but realistically fourth in quali was about as good as he could get. So yeah, it's an 8 out of 10. It's a good amount of points

but it's nothing special from Max. The fans gave him an 8 as well. Lewis Hamilton started the race in 7th, finished 5th. This one is quite hard.

Very hard. Yes, very, very difficult. Look, I'm going to go straight out with it. It's a six out. out of ten for Lewis Hamilton. He was penalised for three positions for impeding qualifying. I don't put any fault to him for that.

I really don't because it was a team comms error. And then he has a difficult opening phase of the race, sort of first 15 laps or something. He lost, I think, 12 seconds in comparison to LeCleur's race time then. But the reason I've gone for a six is that he was slow. He was really slow in clean air. for the majority of the race. You know, the gap was 45 seconds come the end.

And when you think that Lando was holding back and Hamilton came out on fresh tires, and he kind of had just the whole of Monaco to himself after that initial difficult phase. And he was left mystified after the race as well. And Natalie Pinkham asked, can you explain that 45 second gap between you and those at the front? And he went, nope.

and was really short with his answers. So I don't think I can give him a seven or above because he was behind Charlene qualifying and then the race was even worse. So a bit of a mystifying weekend for Hamilton. I've gone for a six out of ten. I totally agree. I think on paper you look at a P5 and go,

oh yeah, well, seven surely or something around that. I think a seven is incredibly generous for someone that's finished 50. seconds behind their teammate. And not due to really the fact of traffic. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So the penalty, of course, yeah, not his fault. Did have a tough weekend, though.

Crashed in FP3. He was three-tenths off LeCler in qualifying, which of course is a big gap compared to teammates, even if his teammate, of course, is an absolute Monaco specialist. putting it lightly. And yeah, to be that far off your teammate, I can't give them a seven for being 50 seconds behind.

Absolutely no way. So yeah, still good points of the team and stuff, but I think it's one to forget for Hamilton personally. Absolutely, the fans gave him a seven. Charlotte Clare started the race in second, finish second. I've gone for a nine out of ten for Charlotte Claire. It is maybe he's a little bit of a victim of his own brilliance at Monaco here because P2 is still a fantastic result.

And like I say, maybe it's a victim of how good he is at Monaco. Not that you expect him to win, but I think he could have won the race. Had he done a little bit better in qualifying. He still gave it everything and we know how good the McLaren's are. but it's not enough for a 10 for me, but it's still an exceptional performance from, from Leclair when the car's not been as good as it has been, but they kind of turned up here looking quick,

and it was so very close to, you know, another Monaco win, but alas, didn't quite happen, and mainly it all kind of came down to it in qualifying. I have gone for a 10, because the guy has literally taken it to the McLaren's, and had he won, obviously it's a 10 as well, and he was so close to the win, but it's Monaco and you can't get through.

And Lando had obviously quite a bit in the locker as well at the end, which he showed. But the fact that Ferrari, you know, you'd look at where they were in the last few races, nowhere near McLaren. And I have to take that into account as well, not the fact of, oh, well, he won last year. So he did a phenomenal job this weekend.

Yes, he didn't manage to get pole position, but I will also say that I think Landon, excelled as well. So to be the only driver to get into the 109s to deliver a phenomenal lap in the McLaren. That's another story.

But for Charles, he didn't put really a foot wrong and took that Ferrari to new heights. So yes, I am going to fanboy for this one. You know, sometimes, you know, I am a little bit critical because I want to see more from the Ferrari drivers.

But at this, I can't really downgrade him. So I'm going to lock in a 10 out of 10 for Charles. The fans gave him a nine. Whatever. Oscar Piastri, started the race in third, finished third. I've gone for an eight out of ten for Oscar Piastri for this weekend, yet missing out in qualifying.

And that was really the big drawback for Oscar. The fact that he obviously got outqualified by a Ferrari as well meant that he was even slightly more on the back foot. Because he couldn't do something a little bit cheeky against Norris. Would have been interesting to see Norris versus Piastri in that scenario. whether Piastri could have performed some kind of overcut with the McLaren that I still believe was the fastest package around here but it's still a podium for the championship leader

and yeah it's just kind of an eight performance it just is so there you go lock it in yeah absolutely I've gone for an eight out of ten for Oscar Piastri it is an eight out of ten performance written all over it really he is you look what his teammates done we'll get on to him but yeah really good from from Lans and Oscar just wasn't quite there, of course, exceptionally close in qualifying. So some might say, oh, it's a bit harsh because it's the tiniest margin.

But his teammate showed that it could have been on pole and he could have won the race. Had it gone your way and it just didn't for Oscar. And maybe a little bit of a scruffy weekend also as well. I had a few moments kind of tapping the barrier a few times and things. That's Monaco, baby. Come on. It is Monaco. It is Monaco.

and I'm not downgrading him for that. It's just an observation that, yeah, the first time we've kind of since Australia really seen that Oscars kind of not been on the level that Lando has. You know, Oscar's been the one that's been delivering normally, and this is kind of what we saw in Monaco. But still decent performance, still leads the championship, of course, but it's an eight, definitely.

I can see the Monaco McLaren debrief already. they've said, hold on, we've seen this video. Tom Bellingham has observed that you've scraped the wool. Could you not do that next time? Thank you very much, Oscar Pastery. Yes, the fans gave him. You said that, he did crash in like a practice session as well, didn't he? And it probably all adds to your kind of mental kind of, you know,

when you're leaving, not tents, but like the smallest margins because it's probably in your head somewhere that you think, you know, I don't want to crash at this corner again. Of course. I mean, Oscar crashed the minute that Leclair went fastest. I mean, these mental pressures is big when you got the likes of LeClergo round. But yeah, I think eight is very fair. And the fans agree because they went for an eight as well.

Lando Norris, started the race and first finish first. What could it be, Tommy? Drum roll, please. It is a 10 out of 10 for Lando, of course. It has to be sensational performance in qualifying an incredible lap. And then it was, I wouldn't say, well, kind of was plain sailing because he just delivered a spot on race, just made it into turn 1 first, led away,

didn't kind of get under pressure of when Max was kind of holding him up a little bit and getting his own head or anything like that, just withheld the pressure. I know it's basically impossible to overtake at Monaco, but it's still a 10 because it's qualifying with sensational, and what a place to do it as well. You know, Lando has been a bit disappointing in the last few races, but he's now only three points behind after that.

And this was the kind of weekend where it's kind of the Lando that we kind of knew before that he has got pace. And he's made the odd mistake in qualifying. And of course, you do that here, you could be way down the order. But instead, he puts in an absolutely incredible. incredible qualifying lap, you know, it's a, you watch the onboard of it. It is so good to watch. And to put, put that kind of gap, I know it's only a 10th, but we don't see that in Formula 1 really now, because it is so close. It was, it was a superb lap and that's what won in the race. And yeah,

good to see Lando back at the top because we want this, we want this title fine. It's looking very tasty at the top. So for Lando, I have gone for obviously a 10 out of 10. it was perfection. Pole, the win, managed it just like you need to do a Monaco. How can you downgrade him? You can't. He had a lot of pressure on him. Didn't make it the easiest.

Didn't that one term one, did he with that very large lockup? And you, for a split second, went, uh-oh, please slow the car down. But he did. He managed it. And yeah, that was the only very small, tiny, minute thing where you go, oh, that was a bit of mistake. But that was it. Lando was brilliant this weekend.

and he's won Monaco and he's right back in the championship hunt. And people can now start to be like, oh, okay, we have got a championship fight because Oscar had the momentum, obviously, with those wins. And Lando had been clawing a little bit of points here and there. And this is a big statement, I'd say, for Lando. As we head to Spain, could we see a championship lead change? We will see.

The fans gave him a 10 as well. So that is it. Who is our P1? Who was the most perfect, them all. That's the question that I am now trying to decide on. I am going to give my 10 out of 10 P1 to Lando. It's going to be Lando. Yeah, I don't really need to explain why. I think it was a brilliant bounce back to the form that we know he can produce and is such an important weekend, pressure on his shoulders and he delivered perfectly.

I'll be honest, I was going to basically do the opposite of what you're saying because I find it really difficult to choose between Lando and Isaac Hajar. They were both really, really good for very different reasons. Hajar, obviously a rookie, is done absolutely brilliantly. And I think Lando, because he really needed that performance and he's been under a lot of pressure. So just to be different. And for a bit of fun, I'll go for Isaac Hajar because it's equally as good as Lando. day this weekend and yeah what an impressive rookie has been he's been amazing there you go thank you everybody for tuning in to this driver ratings we will see you literally next week for the next

driver ratings episode because it's the Spanish Grand Prix this week technically yeah well no the rating oh sorry next next drive rating yeah come on bro I see what you mean I thought you meant see them as I hope we're doing predictions Tommy's hosting the next driver ratings episode by the looks at things, come on. Right. Tommy, what are your final thoughts? Oh, thank God. Monaco's over.

Well, there you go. Ending it on a high. Well, everybody remember this when we get into the predictions for the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix when Tommy is going. Can't wait for this one.

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