P1 with Matt and Tommy - Our 2023 Emilia Romagna GP predictions

Episode Date: May 17, 2023

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everybody and welcome back to the P-1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. This part never features in our video form and yet Tommy without fail, will wave to the camera all the same. It's going to be in a good mood. Why not? You waving at me? Is it just like a personal wave? Okay, I shouldn't have told everyone that was a personal wave. He didn't want that to be disclosed. But welcome, everybody.

It is Emilia Romagna Grand Prix week, otherwise known as Imola and you may well have seen. We are out there. Oh, yes. We are not, well, we are out there, but we're also coming home before the race because we are committed to giving you content, all right? Because we love you and we don't want to disappear forever. Anyway, before we get into our predictions, let's share the five-star review, as we always do, from Chosostam in the USA. If you want yours to be read out, please leave us a five-star review and please let us know why, because it really does help us. Absolutely love this podcast. I commute almost every week.

to see my husband. Three hours each way. I save all the episodes every week so I can listen while I drive. Not only have you both increased my love for Formula One with jokes and explanations, but also kept me company through all those journeys. Keep up the amazing work. It's amazing because I now think that Choto Stam is now driving right now listening to us. So I hope you're having a wonderful drive. I hope it's sunny and that it's just a beautiful day. absolutely hope you have a wonderful time finishing your husband Tommy was like don't throw to me don't throw to me I don't have anything to say and that was it

just pause where you finish the sentence I'm like I have nothing to work I can see it on your face as well audio listeners you are the only people that get to hear this this will not make the final cut

on YouTube but it's beautiful all the same thanks Tommy for that it's almost as good as final thoughts anyway let's get into our predictions now shall we biggest good surprise.

All right, hear me out. Oh, God. He's had a terrible weekend last time out. My biggest good surprise is Charles Leclair. People are starting to doubt him. You see these quotes flying about, oh, he needs to stop crashing if he wants Ferrari to move forward, which I kind of agree with, but also, that's it.

Miami was a bad weekend. He's now going to come back to Imola and he's going to smash it. And everyone would go, why did we? ever doubt him. What's this age terribly? Your Charlotte Claire predictions never age terribly. Biggest good surprise

I have gone for Nico Holcomburg. You're such a fan boy. I'm not. You are. Australia would tell me that. I know, but look, there might be rain.

Is it? Yeah, potentially. Rain in the air? Yeah, every session, apparently. big time. So, yeah. I want to change everything. I want to change all of my predictions immediately.

Why Hulkacobo, though? Tell me why. Because, look, he's a good weather specialist until he bottles it. Yeah, I'm going to say Germany. Straight to mind of him bidding it in the wall. My crazy prediction actually was going to be that he leads the race at some point,

but maybe that's just me thinking that he leads the race and then just bottles it, which wouldn't be a good surprise. Have you learned anything about our predictions where if we do something crazy, i.e. Baku, and we get an absolute stinker. Like, you were going to put Holkenberg leads the race. Are you okay?

It's only been a week off. I know, but look, we've had a week off and the anticipation and the hope is back. So, look, it wouldn't be funny if we did Red Bull every stinkled thing. I don't think I've ever put a biggest good thing. surprise as Red Bull, mainly because they, how do they surprise us? Yeah, they've already hit the ceiling, right? They'd have to lap everyone, I think, for a good surprise.

Well, that's not a good surprise if you're talking about from a fan perspective. That's a terrible surprise. Surprise. Okay, we now move to biggest flop. All right, I learned. I learned from my mistakes last time that I cannot take on Fernando Alonzo. My powers are not ready. So I have gone for Logan Sargent.

And I'm now doubling down on this with the fact that it potentially is going to reign. Imola is an incredibly narrow track. I feel as well that Logan, very P20 last time out, you know, P20 merchant, as you've so rightly predicted at the start of the year, although he hasn't been P20 all the time, so fair play to him. But I feel maybe as a rookie, this sort of thing where he's getting outclassed by his teammate will start to make him think, well, I'm going to go for it. And that will be mistakes around a narrow place like Imala. Logan Sargent, I'm a lot. I'm I'm sorry. Oh, poor guy.

But yeah, it's a tough track, isn't it? We've seen it before. Rookie is struggling there. Biggest flop. I have gone for love a team flop. Alpha Romeo, the whole team. You're always flop a team. I know, but look, I'd feel bad to say bot us again.

But I just think they're going to be just rubbish around here. I just got a feeling. And, yeah. You never make it easy for yourself, do you? You always go a whole team, which means a little show Guan YuP 11, and that is off the cards. Oh, no, terrible. I don't know why I do this. I've been thinking about this a lot, actually, that my worldly prediction about Alonzo finishing seventh in the title,

all I could have said was just Alonzo has a great season, is like punches above his weight, really good. I had to put a number on it, didn't I, to ruin it? One idiot. Keep it up, mate, because it means I might win. Okay, we now go to poll position. Charlotte. feeling a little bit salty this weekend. Not going to lie to you,

feel like, again, ties in with the good surprise. I've really gone tunnel vision here for one driver. And if Shaula Claire doesn't have a good weekend, I am screwed. But Ferrari are bringing upgrades. And I am looking forward to that turning around this season

and for them to be competitive and a bit of rain. Charlotte Clare, he likes a bit of quali. Look, Don't ask any more questions as to why it's vibes. But look, everyone, everyone asked why at Baku and look what happened. Double pole. Pole.

I don't know why I said it like that. Pole. And I got two points for that. So screw you. I want to be boring for pole position, but I'm going to do something different. So I'm going to say, pole position, Fernando Alonso, is potentially going to be wet. What are you stirring up there, big boy? Well, here's my thinking.

I think it's either going to be. My, my heart says Fernando Alonzo. My head says just happen by a second. But I've gone for my heart. I've gone for Fernando. Let Canada, Canada Quali last year, Fernando Alonzo in an Alpine, not particularly great car. Put it on the front row.

Now he's in an Aston Martin. Better car, having a great season. Upgrades are coming. their first upgrades us to Martin. Look, I'm expecting big things, so come on Fernando. Okay. I mean, I will happily take no points in order to see a Fernando Alonzo poll position and to see you react to a Fernando Alonzo pole position on the Saturday for our Twitch watchalongs.

Sign me up. That will be... Yeah, that would be Peggy 18. I will. Okay, well, moving swiftly on then to our top three. In third position, I have gone from. for Fernando Alonso. Just no other reason, but

now that you've told me that there's rain on the way, I am literally changing my top three on the fly. And Fernando Alonzo is going to finish P3. Yeah. Mr. Consistency. Okay, for P3, I have gone for

I'm changing it again. No, I'm not. Lewis Hamilton. P3, Lewis Hamilton. Okay. Okay. Any reasons why? Just, you just... Yeah, I think this track might suit them a little better. Don't have to worry about straight line speed as much.

And yeah, a bit of rain in the air, Hamilton normally excels. So let's go Lewis for P3. OK-dokey. In second position, I have gone for Lewis Hamilton. Once again, that was a very quick change, now knowing that it's potentially going to rain this weekend. I don't know why I'm starting to rustle up a crazy race, what is wrong with me,

but it's Lewis Hamilton P2. Well done. So P2, I've gone for Max Verstappen. You're wrestling up? I'm wrestling up a Max of Stappan win because every time I don't predict him first, he wins. Every time I predict him first, he doesn't win. So, yeah, Max victory.

Here we come. But I'm going for P2. Max has happened. Okay. And first place, the winner of the Amelia Romagna Grand Prix is Charlotte. Just sign me up. I just need it. I need it to just shut up social media that he's a wash driver because he's had a few crashes.

And yeah, he is having a bad run of form. That doesn't make him not championship worthy. It doesn't make him a not a good driver. and if we've got some rain in the air, little red ball. Oh, no. Oh, God, they're in the gravel. Lecler leads.

You know what I mean? I can see it now. While we're just to extend to this podcast a little bit while we're on that subject, I think it's absolutely ridiculous that people are suggesting that LeCleur should be like binned off and stuff. And just saying that that's somehow not, you know, not right.

Like, it's just ridiculous. That man has carried Ferrari. He's carried Ferrari. You'd rather be in Charles' position. Like, I say there's so many times, but obviously, you know, as a Max fan for a very long time, he supported him his whole career. He went through the very same thing. Everyone doubted Max.

He went through a stage much, much worse than Leclair, has to be said. Crashed about seven times in a row, I think it was at the start of 2018. And look at him now. Now he's got the car to deliver. And I'd argue that when Lecler had the car to deliver, he did deliver. The start, he wasn't crashing at the start of 2022, was he?

No. And he should have had another five wins under his belt at the very least last year. Because his car broke down when like Baku and Spain and all that kind of stuff. Silverstone and Hungary.

Don't want to talk about it. So yeah, I just wanted to throw that out there. Thank you. I enjoyed that. Keep it up. So my P1 is Fernando Alonso.

Shut the front door. Come on. Make it happen. Yeah, why not? Let's go, Fernando. P1. Wet weather. Red Bulls,

this is going to backfire, but surely Red Bull's domination has to end at some point. And Imala is surely one of those tracks where, like, you know, rainy session, mistakes, something. Why not?

Upgrades for us to mind. Come on. are we doing? You've gone for an Alonzo Vastappan, what was it? Hamilton. Hamilton. I've gone for Hamilton Vastappen. Sorry, Alonzo winning Vestappen second, Hamilton third. Let's not do it third to first. That is incredibly confusing. Sorry, that's how I'm reading on the sheet. That's fine. Yeah, we should probably change that, to be honest. And I've gone for LeCler Hamilton Alonzo. So are you seeing, are you foreseeing Red Bull being a bit mistakey or do you feel like they're going to have some problems with the car? No. What are we wrestling up here?

I'm wrestling up like just wet, a bit of wet chaos and it's all about the tie changes at the right time because, you know, my head saying that if it's wet, Vastappen's going to win the race by like three laps because he's just, do you know what I mean? It's just happening the wet. I've just realized what I've done. Mate, we're filming with LeClaire and I've just predicted him to do well in everything. I've predicted him as first poll position and biggest good surprise. What am I doing? What are you doing?

Did we not learn anything from the Ocon interview that he nearly got disqualified after we spoke to him? And every interview from our previous, yeah. It always happens. So it's a brave strategy. It is a very brave strategy. Let's see if it pays off. Let's see if it pays off.

Maybe you're too close to the, it's too close to the weekend. Technically it's similar. I don't know. Well, Frank's dusting himself off after that comment. Okay, and finally, one crazy prediction. Frank will come on the podcast. Okay, there you go. One point, lovely.

I have gone for George Russell crashes. Oh. If we think back, Rainy Imala goes off the racing line slightly, dips a wheel, crashes with Bottas, has a little Netflix moment. It's happened before. Will it happen again with Bottas? Probably not. But Russell's going to have a crash.

Interesting. Triggered by Bottas. Who's going to be 20th according to my predictions. Yeah, maybe he's laughing. My one crazy prediction, as Frank is trying to rip my headphones off, is an Aston Martin front row lachal. What are you smoking? Look, I just go in full yellow.

You're on some good stuff. That's not even full yolo. this is a different dimension. I've not learned from Baku. I'm pretending the Red Bull doesn't exist. Front row lockout. So wet race, Fernando Alonzo and Lance Stroll, two wet weather masterclasses.

Look, they're bringing upgrades. And, you know, if this is the Aston Martin into the season and Lawrence Stroll is spending $3 billion per upgrade, like what is the upgrade going to be like? It's going to make them a rocket ship. Here we go. Astor Martin, Choochoo. If this comes true, right, I am so convinced it will not come true.

I've already got one tattoo that I am waiting to sort out for Shao LeCler from a previous time. I will also get a tattoo of something, i.e. maybe even like Lance Stroll's number or something, not his phone number, his race number, on me somewhere, because I am so convinced this is absolute tripe that it's not coming true. So there you go. I'm putting another tattoo on the line to now have two. I don't know what I'm doing because I'm now going to be watching qualifying with beta breath. But there you go. You'll be by the end of the season, like covered in tattoos.

Or, Matt, what is that on your body? We won't because Red Bull will win every race. Yeah, now I don't know which one I want. A tattoo, but an amazing race. But either or, that is it. Tommy needs some fresh air because of these predictions. I feel like he maybe hasn't got out the house. enough.

You went to the farm earlier. Was there some fumes? I don't know. But either or, Tommy, that is, I can't quite believe what you've done. I can't wait for you to also make your top five quality prediction based on what you've said on this podcast so that everyone on social media that maybe hasn't listened to the podcast can use these terms of what have you been smoking, yada, yada, yada, it'll be good to watch. Or what the reality of it will probably be that we get to FP1 and Verstappen and I'm

as top the session by three seconds and then we just do our usual order and I bottle it. No, no, no, no, no, we've committed now. We've committed. We have to say, Charlie Claire, P1 for me and Paul position. Anyway, that is it. Tell me what your final thoughts?

My final thoughts are, one, Emma, please be good because rain. Sorry, pause. Two final thoughts? Yes, two. God, you are on something. And two, I'm just,

super buzzing for this thing we're doing in Imola. We'll have done it by now when this is released, which is exciting. And yeah, I can't wait for you all to see it. And yes, it is very much a bucket list thing for the both of us. So very excited. More me. You don't start pretending you a Ferrari fan now. Absolutely not.

You can get in the bin. Everyone's a Ferrari fan, as Sebastian Bell once said. There you go. But I am more so. So that is it. Thank you so much. My final thoughts are, yes, we are in Amela. Can't wait to show you what we're going to be getting up to there.

It is full of amazing stuff that we can't believe we're doing. And it's all thanks to you that watch and listen to our podcast and our videos. So thank you so much. We can't wait to show you what comes from it. And fingers crossed, we haven't jinxed the Amelia Romagna Grand Prix so hard that it is going to be Red Bullwapping everyone. But that is potentially what we've just done. So well done, Tommy. Well done me.

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