P1 with Matt and Tommy - Our 2026 Chinese GP predictions

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. If you're listening on audio, it is dog season right now on the P1 podcast. Bruno's on my lap. Frank is on Tommy's. And as a four, we're all going to put our predictions in. No, sadly not. No dog predictions content just yet. But the Chinese Grand Prix is here.

The second round of the season. we've spoken a lot about Formula One and the current state of it Bruno feels very strongly about it How does Frank feel? Frank is buzzing about the new season He loves it Oh really? It was one of those

One of those sort of left field Yeah yeah Just like he's like yeah 120 overtakes That's what I want He loves that he's a big fan of the The timing tower now Just having one decimal place That's his biggest takeaway from the season

mate i saw a reel that was about it and it had quarter of a million likes of people being like triggered by it and i am one of those people tommy on the other hand he not tommy's going to be campaigning for just seconds like just nine 10 11 seconds whatever like i get it i get why they've done that of all the things to complain about i'm not complaining about a decimal place let's not let's not trigger the audience immediately off the bat and straight into China. So a few things to talk about first and foremost. Let's try and speak. It's the first sprint weekend of 2026, the second race, and we're straight into sprints in a new set of regulations. Surely nothing can go wrong there, Tommy. I mean, are you excited that we have one practice

session and lots of competitive sessions? I think the good thing about the regulations, despite all the complaining, is that the unpredictability of it at this stage, yeah, while they're still working everything out, makes it unpredictable and unknown. So to then go into a session, a weekend, where there's even less practice and even longer straight for super clipping, will they even make it to that corner without running out of speed? We'll find out. No, I can tell you for a fact. I can, I would put every penny I own on the fact that they will be running out of energy before the hair pit. I'm I think it's going to be another one of those that we had for turn 9 in Australia.

Where on the straight will the speedmaster hit the top speed, as we've now seen from a graphic? Yeah, yeah. For context, F1 posted a speed master thing. Is it speed master? Is that what actually was? Yeah, speed master. Yeah, yeah. And I think they're doing it for the whole year of who has hit the highest.

Yeah. Who has hit the highest speed on the straight. And unsurprisingly, that was before. was it Colapinto? It was Colapinto just before the super clipping, yeah. And then they fade out the audio, put the graphic in, and they're just,

it's, of the strategy, for the strategy of the content, I've got to say, they're just double downing on exactly what they've gone for and they're not listening to anything that the fans are saying currently,

as if you've missed it, we did an extra video over on P1 Extra, shock, an extra video on P1 Extra, where we spoke about, The F1 social media team or whoever it is, an agency that helps F1, have been silencing the fans in terms of hiding lots of replies over on Twitter or X. So yeah, go and check that out if you haven't seen it already.

And now there are some bits of news to talk about before we get into our predictions. First and foremost, unsurprisingly, I would say, but then also kind of surprisingly to see it actually be a proper statement from McLaren. and it's the fact that they are very unhappy about Mercedes essentially giving them an engine, a brand new one of course for this year and gone, good luck. Obviously they've given some instructions, but they haven't given potentially all the information that they need to essentially get the power and the efficiency and everything else that we've seen from Mercedes

and transferring that over to McLaren and other customer teams. Yeah, I'm unsure about this one, Because it's not Mercedes job to tell McLaren how to use the engine, essentially. I think... Is it not? I don't know. No, I don't think it is. I'm very unaware of the terms and conditions of a customer engine. I don't think it's public information, but I think you can look at something.

I think one thing you can look at is how James Vowles has gone about this. Who's James Vowse? All I know is Daddy Vowse. Daddy Vowse. Sorry, Daddy Vowx. Lock in. has gone about this and he's had obviously the same opinion where he's gone, wow, Mercedes are really utilizing their engine incredibly well. This is how you use it.

And he has basically come out and said, I reckon, you know, we can find three tenths or something. Now we know how to best utilize it. That's a much more balanced approach than McLaren who kind of, yeah, the way Stella came out was seemingly quite annoyed by it. It wasn't a very much like, oh, we didn't know that what we could do with this engine. Now we'll learn. It seemed very much like we're not happy about this.

And to be honest, I kind of side on the McLaren argument here, because if I purchase a product, I expect to get the instruction manual, you know, or, you know, you don't want a basic instruction manual. You want the full, this is how it works. And I don't know, that's kind of how I feel. because of course there's millions and millions of pounds being transferred here. And I don't know. Maybe they didn't buy the manual. Maybe they didn't add the optional extra payment to come with a manual and an instruction booklet.

Maybe. Yeah, maybe they were like, we can figure it out. I'm one of those people who just open. Ah, I just doing the instructions. Oh, yeah. I am. I just wing it. Yeah.

And then take a long time to sort out whatever it might be. So McLaren not happy at all. I can imagine, although I've not seen other statements from the other customer teams of Mercedes. that they are also not too happy because McLaren are the best performing after Mercedes and then there's a long way back to the other ones. Another piece of maybe potentially big news, although it's not actually happened yet,

is that Formula One could already be changing the 2026 rules. I do love the quotes that are coming out about how they've had an ace up their sleeves this entire time. And we need to, you know, don't worry, guys. Don't worry. We're sort of super clipping out immediately. Maybe. That is one way that they might try and fix superclipping.

There are plenty of routes, apparently, they can go down, whether it's changing the way the energy is deployed. It could be trying to actually harness more energy out of the internal combustion engine as well. And the teams appear to be in unanimous agreement that they need a little bit more data before this happens. So China, there are no. No change is coming.

Not a singular change. And even less practice and data. Yes. And then we go to Japan where these rules may well be implemented. That's the idea. That's the plan, isn't it? And then we have potentially, although Kimmy Antenelli and Isaac Hajar have stirred the pot in terms of what's actually going on with Saudi and Bahrain, potentially.

But it looks as though that may well be cancelled, which will give Formula 1 and the teams a much bigger window to potentially fix all these problems. Yeah, I think the sentiment from Formula One was they didn't want to do knee-jerk reactions after testing immediately and change everything. They kind of got away with one. I know obviously most people are unhappy, but they did kind of get away with it in the fact that we had the leader swapping positions and things like that.

They could kind of cover it. Obviously, the overtake graphics and things didn't do much. to change people's mind and just made people even more annoyed. But for the most part, I think things like the starts and how I think Franco Colapinto's amazing reactions potentially saved them from a big discussion point because had Colapinto launched over the back of Liam Lawson and gone into the fence or something or had a horrendous crash, this was a big concern about the race starts and why they'd put in these new practice starts and things.

because they were worried that the speed difference and we almost had a big, big moment with Colapinto and I think they got away with one there so they're going to change that so maybe Ferrari's rocket starts you'd hope that they still have them but it might be a case of them trying to tidy that all up well we say tidy it all up

it was one driver that had a bit of lack of power It's not as if we had five or six drivers that were struggling to get off the line. So I know that I might be talking about this from a Ferrari, please don't take away our advantage perspective. But I wouldn't say it was an absolute disaster, the start. Yes, there were differences in getaways, but that is the thing we kind of want to watch, right? I think of all the safety concerns that the bigger one for me is the difference in speed

between someone who has used their battery and someone that hasn't. I think Lando was quite vocal saying, 40, 50 kilometres an hour difference and it could well just turn into an airplane crash if you're not careful. So for me, that's where the problems really lie. Again, people would be like

Ferrari fan, you or blah, blah, blah. But I didn't see the starts as a massive disaster that needs changing immediately. Particularly, well, they did that crazy start anyway, so with the whole fifth light going on for 0.001

of the second, which made me think that They even wanted chaos. They wanted chaos. Every race of the season, please. I don't even want to see the fifth red light next time. I just want to see four lights and it goes out. Another thing, which kind of ties in, I guess, with the silencing of the fans that F1 were doing is the fact that we were questioning on the main race podcast.

Oh, I didn't really hear much team radio, did we? That's because there was a lot of complaining going on by the drivers. surprisingly we didn't hear any of that did we in the main race broadcast but even something fun like Charlotte Claire saying that was like a mushroom in Marriaca they didn't want

that almost comical look of the new rules that years gone by they love to jump on anything slightly humorous don't they to jump on it but this just shows how protected they are over these new rules that even something

slightly joking about it that's not even slanderous. They're just kind of saying, wow, this is like Mario Kart showed that they didn't want to show it. They feel so sensitive to all of this at the moment that they're so eager to try and maintain their reputation. But I think by doing that,

it's kind of going in the other direction. And it screams that they know it's not right. You don't go that in on pretending everything's fine if you think it's genuinely fine. I saw, like, because obviously I mentioned about the hiding of the replies thing at the top of the show and obviously the podcast we did the other day. But I literally saw that there was someone that had message saying, still hiding the replies, and that was hidden. Well, they were hiding replies again on that Colapinto one, the super speedmaster, whatever it's called. Guys, stop, please.

Yeah, it's just embarrassing. Let people talk. Anyway, let's now move on to predictions. for the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix and start with a good surprise Tommy you are going first

remember as the regulation state we are alternating each week I went first in Australia is now your turn so who are you locking in for good surprise please oh wow do we not want to go through the score and I thought we were going to oh god yeah oh god oh no yes

oh yes absolutely because the score is 3-2 supposedly but my God, you all came in your millions to argue that LeClaire was a good surprise. So I put a poll up on YouTube and it was quite close. I think it was more on the no side. But then you posted...

Oh, it was no. Okay, fair enough. It was yes initially. Then it was no. Then you posted a little graphic on Instagram. And my God. It was more comments of people being like how, which I still do not believe...

I mean, look, we can... argument will always be that it's called a good surprise, not a good result. And Charlotte Claire finishing in basically exactly the position, I think, the majority of people would have said he'd finish in, is not a good surprise. You talk, as Bruno is getting a little bit angstyy right now. I'm happy to lock it in, and I will go a good surprise, George Russell, and we'll continue that trend for the rest of the year if you want. Wow.

Very competitive this year, because you lost last year, isn't it? I know exactly. I don't want to, I just feel like a good surprise. It has to be like a surprising result. Sorry, how is going from fourth to the first and fighting a dominating Mercedes

as your microphone goes flying? Frank just whacked it. Frank, silence Tommy, will you? Frank's on your side. He's a big. Yes, Frank. He knows. P1 with Matt and Frank from here on in.

He went from fourth to first, fought the Mercedes. Yes. he inevitably lost to them, not by a huge margin. The VS, you're taking in a, like, you speak about before, you know,

not taking into account a driver's race, it's not just as simple as what's on paper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would say... What was the YouTube result? Because there wasn't a poll on Instagram. I don't want to load it. I don't want to load it, but let me load it.

Okay, all right, here we go. So we go to the P1, what did I put it on the race review, I think it was. Here we go. A live reality. Let's go to the comments. Pause that, right. So I put a yes and a no comment somewhere.

Why is it not coming up immediately? I'm surprised. Can you view our comments, maybe? Yeah, hold on. Everything's playing in my ears. Tommy stopped talking to me twice. Right. Okay, so does Matt deserve good surprise point?

And I said, vote below with a thumbs up, which I don't think people understood, because so many people just replied to it rather than just liking the two messages I put. So actually, this is very interesting. So no was 458 upvotes and yes was 371. However, Lucas Haar 9205 has helped me here and said, I had to scroll so far to find the yes

it seems rigged against Matt. Even though you did it yourself. Well, that's your own incompetence really. Sorry, what do you mean incompetence? I messaged yes and no at the same time and YouTube has screwed me which is absolutely ridiculous if I look at the Instagram

the top comment with 485 likes How is LeCleur not a good surprise He got P3 308 up votes Yeah LeCleur was definitely a good surprise Wait how was LeCleur not a good surprise 221 votes Was it surprising

I guess I think there's enough deliberation here That I deserve the point Okay. Well, we'll give you a provisional point and it will go to the World. Provisional point. The World Motorsport Council. Well, I love the fact that the current World Motorsport Council is you that just decides whether or not. It was just, I was just putting it out there. You made the graphic. Did you or did you not discuss with me before that graphic went out as to whether I got the point?

No, you did not, sir. This is absolutely rigged in the favour of the belly. Okay, okay, fine. Good, good surprise. You can have the driver that finished where he should have. Right, you need to stop that right now. We're going to get very sassy indeed. But I'm enjoying these arguments. So, okay, so in that, in fact, that is three all. Okay, three all. Fine. Which you should be very happy with. We like Michael Massey. It's very happy. I look forward to your dad having to go at me again, being like, oh, Matt always gets the cheap points. But there was a lot of people on my side. So, okay. Let's know.

go finally to a good surprise Tommy who are you locking in I am locking in Lewis Hamilton I was I was unsure I was between two drivers one of them was Max Stauffin but now I've gone for Lewis Hamilton Ferrari bringing the Macarena wing and Hamilton showed last time out that he is much more comfortable in that Ferrari Seemed to enjoy himself a lot more. He was on the back of Leclair at the end. And, yeah, I think Hamilton has always gone strong in China anyway. It's been one of his better races.

Obviously won the sprint there last year. And, yeah, going for Lewis Hamilton as the good surprise, a good surprise, as it were. Yes, it's unsurprising you've gone for that. That seems to be something that could happen. Yeah, it's unsurprising that you've gone for that as your, as your, selection because it's a good one to go for. I did contemplate that. However, I did not go for it because I went for Estabana Ocon. Oh my word, he also was on my list of almost going on.

It's absolutely like clockwork. You look at the previous results. You look at last week's last year. Last year, amazing. Last week, you know, left a little bit on the table. Haslitt reasonably strong. Esteban Ockon, please do what you did last year again this year. I'll take the point. That's as simple as that. I think O'Conn. needs to get down and into the roots of why he feels like Olly Berman's car is different to his. That was a standout quote that has definitely stayed with me

when he mentioned that and the issues between the two cars are different and things like that. So hopefully he gets on top of that and gets a good result in for both himself and for me. Let's now head to a big flop. Bruno is very invested in this one.

So my big flop is Gabriel Bortoletto. Oh, a little engine failure or something. Yeah, I mean, he's off the back of a good result, and I think Audi are fragile. Their car is prone to some problems, and I don't think it's necessarily going to be the Bortoletto is just going to be bad. I don't think that at all.

I think he's on the rise, but that Audi can be, you know, a little bit cheeky when it comes to reliability. That's why I've gone for Bortoletto. Just back to a good surprise quickly, I'm proud of you for not going for Oscar Piaastria because I thought we were going to have the whole, well, if he makes the start of the race.

If he gets round to the grid, if he crashes on the formation lap, that's still further than last one. I'm sorry, that's sorry. That was too far. I know we have a lot of Australian listeners. I'm really sorry. Big flop, I've gone for George Russell.

Wow. Do I believe it? No, am I going for it? Yes. You're flopping Russell. Yeah, I'm playing the percentage game here. What percentage is that, my guy? The percentage is, if he's second, no, no, I'm joking.

But just more the fact that I'm just seeing, you know, what the big flop power is. We've done piastri. Let's flopping around and see what sticks. Of course, it's a sprint weekend. So we now go to Sprint Pole. Sprint pole. I've gone for George Russell mate

Tom Hedge Betts Bellingham this year what is going on well like just own your predictions my guy stop playing the game for playing the strategy yeah look

uh 2026 is a game of chess a high speed game of chess as everyone keeps mentioning I literally thought you were reading something that was so strange so yeah I go for George Russell

I think look my big flop prediction is more on a problem or an issue or something. You could get both. Yeah, exactly. You can get both. But I do think Mercedes is going to be rapid this weekend, maybe even quicker than Australia. Okay.

So if you are new to predictions, if we have submitted in terms of what we've written down the same prediction, then we have to change it. In this case, I don't need to change it. because I've got for someone different. My spread poll is Kimmy Antonelli. That was a rogue. Did I put that down thinking that you'd have gone for George Russell and therefore I'd have to change it?

Maybe there's 10% of me that thought that. But Kimmy, very strong last week. There's a lot of question marks as to whether George was even remotely pushing. And we'll probably find that out if Antonelli starts on the front row of the grid and actually is there come the end of lap one. Like how far will they push each other? That's when we'll see the true pace of the Mercedes, I think. When the race win is up for grabs between the two teammates,

then they will push each other along. But I think Kimmy Antonelli's sprint pole. He, of course, had his first ever sprint pole in Miami. So I think he could do it again. So that's why I've gone for Kimmy. Sprint winner! I'm locking in. Kimmy Antonelli.

Kimmy Antonelli is getting his first dub, as they call it on the streets. A W, that is. if he gets sprint pole I think although I would love to see a little Charleclair from P3 being able to hold on for 15 laps

which is very possible I just feel as though the Mercedes will come out on top especially if there's George and Kimmy at the front fighting perhaps where to be fair it might be both Ferraris but you have to bet on

the Mercedes over the Ferrari at this stage so I've gone for a double Kimmy poll and win for the sprint so my sprint winner was Kim Yantonelli So I'll change it to George Russell Oh wow Wow this is

Part of the Antonelli was maybe Kind of foreshadowing That I thought you might pick Russell But I was I've been annoying about a Ferrari Just after what we saw With the fact that they make those electric starts And you can kind of stick with each other If they're battling from what we saw

And of course in the sprint Ferrari don't need to make a decision on their pit stops, which always helps. But I'm not going for them despite the Macarena wing and how well they did last time out. So yeah, go for us. That's something we've not even mentioned that they are indeed supposedly going to be bringing the Macarena wing to China.

Ferrari are bringing... For context for anyone that didn't watch testing. Yeah, well, if they didn't watch testing, tough. But yeah, essentially, you would have seen it on social media, I'm sure the 270 degree reverse flip rear wing which basically opens it up for less drag. They'll of course run it in practice and hopefully it doesn't malfunction and then we win it all.

That's the ideal situation here. Right. Poll position for the main race. I've gone for George Russell. Backing, I just said George for pretty much everything. Big flop, sprint pole. Winner and pole position at the moment is George. Russell. Yeah, I think they are going to be mighty. I think that main straight, we saw what happened in Australia with how well George could

power down those long straits. And there's a big old straight in China, which I think will benefit Mercedes. They've always been, and it's always been one of the better circuits anyway, back in the day, remember Nika Rosberg getting his first win there and she'll be doing well before the retirement, which was heartbreaking. Don't you dare bring up ever again. How dare you. That requires permission to talk about that. Thank you.

So yeah, come for Russell. Jeez, Bruno's decided to change entire position there as I am now getting into my pole position, which is, it was George Russell. So now I need to change, and now I'm in two minds. I'm in logic mind and I'm in banter mind. But then also hope and delirium and, dreaming because we've just spoken about the macarena wing and I'm like my god maybe Ferrari will

win it all so my pole position I can't be losing ground to Tommy I need to put my best foot forward here Kimmy Antonelli yeah all right Kimmy Antonelli is getting pole position and look we've spoken um to be fair on YouTube you may not have seen this but over on our audio longer episodes we we spoke about at the top of the show about um changes of rules potentially after after Japan perhaps we will have to bring it in as well if Mercedes are going to be 8 tenths clear every single qualifying session for the rest of the year where we're not allowed to utter their name in these predictions episodes.

Yeah, yeah, potentially. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, I don't know. But we'll see. Gone for Kimmy Antonelli because why not? There you go. I genuinely don't think, and I'd love to be wrong, anyone's getting close on a Saturday to Mercedes.

So there you go. Well, George said, actually, that Ferrari bottled qualifying he kind of alluded to. And I love the fact as well. LaClea was trying not to bite there, wasn't he? You'd never see Charlotte Claire bite at anything, but I could tell he was like. He was angry. He was so close to just say like F you basically.

Yeah, yeah. Genuinely, it felt that way. So, yeah, there you go. Right, let's move to the top three for the Sunday race in third position. I am locking in. Charlotte, Claire. Okay. Another podium.

Another P1 at the. start, drops down to third, and this is what we'll see every single race weekend till the end. Thank you. P3, I've gone for Lewis Hamilton. First podium for Ferrari, I think, could very much be on this weekend. I think, as I've said, good surprise. I think he's looking, I think he was very impressive, I think, in that first race. looked at Lewis Hamilton

of old as he carved through the field and was much I'd say much closer to Claire very close to Leclair particularly at the end so yeah P3 Lewis in P2 Tommy who have you gone for P2

I'm going to go for Kimmy Antonelli and lock in a P2 for Kimmy Antonelli I don't think he's I was I'm in ignoring about going for Kimmy Antonelli

Antonelli for the win. We've seen people get their debut wins in China before and things. And I do think what Kimmy did in Melbourne was very impressive. There's a few signs that, you know, you still got a bit of an experience. But yeah, I'm going to go for Antonelli in P2. Okay. All right. Do I do something funny here?

Do I do something funny? I think I might. In P2, I'm going to go for Lewis Hamilton. So second place, Lewis Hamilton. lock it in, which means I can then go to P1, where I can do silly things, because I was going to get for Kimmy Anthony P2, but I can't obviously do that because you've already done that.

Lewis Hamilton, I think, makes perfect sense for a potential great result. Love to see him get his first Ferrari podium. And therefore, in first place, I'm going to lock in George Russell. Okay. Who are you going to go for first place, Tommy, that isn't a Mercedes driver? There's no reasoning why you've put George Russell in first. place. He's in a Mercedes.

He's in a Mercedes. He dominated the first race very easily. Yeah. Well, I guess he didn't dominate easily, but he could have. If he pressed the pedal harder. If he'd pressed his boost button more, I don't know. P1. I have gone for Max Verstappen.

Do I think Moises Stappen is going to win the race? No. Did I put it in because I knew you'd pick George Russell? Yes. Oh, so you hadn't even tried to get away with it. Yeah, I was thinking I could put Ante Tenelli first, George second, but then it's a, you know, it could potentially be a no points, but it also could be two points or it could be one point. You don't know. So it's a kind of tactical play.

I do think the Stappen is going to do something. I think we could see him on the podium. I was very close to putting him on the podium. So you would back Max for Stappen over Charle to win China? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You think Max will be quicker than Charles? I think he could surprise. Obviously, I think a lot of people probably thought I was going to go for Charlotte Claire, but no, I'm going to go for Max and just go for an absolute stab in the dark banter prediction.

And if it comes in, it would be unbelievable. So I can't wait for Charlotte, Claire to win the Grand Prix. I mean, I'll happily take no points if that's the case. Right, let's now move to our brand new segment for this year. P-wot! What? where essentially, if you missed the first predictions episode, we will pick, well, a random number generator will pick between 4 and 22,

and we have to guess on the spot. We don't know what the number is. Tommy's loading up right now. I'm loading the number generator right now. Shall I go for it? And whatever position it is, we need to say immediately. And it'll be you first, Tommy. You have to react to the PWT first because I did the PWT last time.

Oh, yeah, I do actually, don't I? So press it and say the number. Generate. P6 That's high up again Go on Okay P6

I am going to go for Landon Norris Okay P6 I'm going to go for Oscar Piastri Similar Similar idea then Yeah

Yeah MacLaren Yeah they'll probably be around that area So Yeah Yeah Who's P6 last race

Max So yeah So yeah Okay We've gone for Similar Similar vibes McLaren

Not really Not really spoken About them Other than You know Are they are they going to now find some time now they know what Mercedes did? I'd be amazed if they found, you know, a full minute.

But maybe they're a bit closer. We can hope. Yeah, different track. So I'm really interested to see if the form book changes at all as we go to a different circuit with. Now we've had like a race where we've watched everything pan out, like how much they've actually learned from it. Yeah, fine tuning all of the differences for this year. Right, we now move to one crazy prediction.

My one crazy prediction for this weekend is all of the top four teams will feature across the sprint and main race podiums. So at one point or another, yeah, it's crazy. The segment is called crazy. So I thought, let's go crazy everybody. So yeah, we will see at some point, a McLaren, a Red Bull, a Ferrari, and a Mercedes driver across those six spots. I'm regretting it immediately.

But there you go. That's what I've gone for. Okay, my one crazy prediction is a non-Messadies makes the front row in either the sprint or main quality. So they've got eight-tenths to find. I'll allow it. I'll allow it that it's kind of crazy. Although Kimmy Antonelli very nearly made that come true in Australia. It's true.

Yeah, it's less crazy than... Cadillac getting a point, but... Okay, I'll let it slide. I'm going to regret it immediately when Sheldlerl when it pops at P2. Patreon prediction. So if you're part of the P1 on Patreon, you get lots of benefits,

add free listening, early access to P1 live tickets, access to our Discord, and this is where you can get involved with the Patreon prediction. You submit it every week when Tommy messages in there, and we pick one to represent us.

So Tommy, over to you. I've gone for Illaria's prediction, which is Hamilton. gets his first Grand Prix podium with Ferrari and I've locked it in first choice Oh my God. You'd gone for it as well then. Yep.

Elaria, I really like that prediction and now I need to pick another one. I need to find another. Because usually you go, I've picked this user so then I'd make sure I avoid it but then the one time you don't tell me that it happens. That's great.

that is let's go with right we're just going to go all in on the one crazy prediction and then locking it in with the patron as well mine is from F1 sushi piastri gets a podium

nice either in either in either yeah okay yeah we're not just doing it for one so there you go and then it actually had in brackets Tommy you need to pick this for jinxing him well there you go I've picked it instead

so there you go Right, family top three time now. And I forgot about this till about five minutes prior to recording. So I rang my mum and was like, Mom, can you do this? And she said yes. And oh, no, I was supposed to ring her before 25 past 12. It is 20 to 1. So let's see if she picks up.

I'm really sorry. Please pick up, Mum, even if it's from the car. Yeah. Hello? Hello? Hi, mum. sorry I really forgot to bring you earlier, but are you free to do quick predictions? Yes, my prediction is for China.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, you just became me. I need to say that part and then you say the drivers. So, family top three, it's currently won all. So we need to score some good points. And it's a sprint weekend, not that that matters, because this is for the main race. In third place, Mum, who have you gone for? I have gone for La Clare. Okay, Charlotte B3.

That's also what I went for. In P2. George Russell. Okay, George P2. And in P1, Mum? Is Antonelli? Oh, my word. Clued up on Formula 1.

I didn't even know you knew who Antonelli was until this very moment. Someone's in a reason for a lot. You've been watching Drive to Survive. You've been watching Drive to Survive. We absolutely love that. Mum, great predictions. That's slightly different to mine. I just went for George and Kimmy the other way around.

and actually no I didn't because that's what I was going to go for instead I had Lewis and P2. Anyway, that's what I was going to go for but the other way around. Basically, what I'm saying is I'm glad that you've gone for two Mercedes drivers, keep it up every time I ring you for the rest of the season. That's what you say. All right, thanks, ma'am. Love you. Bye.

Okay, I have also realized that I'm really hoping someone is in because my mum and dad, I've used Katie last week. My mom and dad are in Portugal. Yeah, well, they've still got a phone. They've still got a phone. Okay, let's see. Oh, hang on. It's going through the...

Okay. Please, ma'am. Please answer. Oh, no. Does she know this at all about this? Hello? Hello? I can hear you.

You're right. Yeah, I'm good, thank you. How are you? I'm good. Thank you for answering. Sorry, I didn't message. I realized... Oh, no.

Family prediction. So I hope you've got them locked in. I have. Okay. Let's hear him. P3. Okay. Okay.

So this is Daisy. Wait, wait, wait. We're not using Daisy, are we? Who's Daisy? Oh, my word. We, we, mum, it's one all. We can't field a two-year-old, a three-year-old already, sorry. Oh, I know, but she wanted to do it for Uncle Tom, so.

Wow, okay. My mum's throwing the predictions here and making my niece, sharing my niece's predictions. so... Well, I think that's quite good. Okay, we'll go with it. Let's get into them. Let's hear them. Okay, so in third place, we've gone for Lawson.

He said they were good. Wait, wait, what planet is this good? Okay, wow. And next, we've gone for Russell. Okay. Because something to do with pops, but I'm not sure what. Okay, fair enough. Because her favorite color is yellow, she's gone for Hamilton to win the race.

So I don't think that's too bad. Okay. It's not too bad. I mean, thanks. It's started bad. I mean, you've been like, we're using a three-year-old that's going to pick Lawson. But it's fine. We can catch up later.

Of course, it can. All right. Thank you. All right. All right. Speak soon. Bye. Wow.

Amazing. Amazing. I was like, you can call me. I was like, okay. I'll call you expecting her to do the predictions. What's annoying is, well, my mum loves picking Charlotte Claire and a Ferrari last year when they were terrible. Now she's like, so I've got Daisy to do it.

She's gone for Lawson. Thanks. Thanks very much. Well, thank you indeed. Thank you to Daisy for that P3 for Lawson. If Lawson does indeed get P3, this will be the greatest. Do we need, like, you know how, like, Formula One is all about, like, engine freezes and competitiveness and stuff? Do we need to get the Gallagher's to field, you know, like some young family members or something at some point to balance it out?

I mean, I'll be honest, we have no young family members. That's what I was thinking. I was like, give me and Ellie about five years. Okay. Got some toddlers in the family, yeah. Yeah, no, I don't have any, I mean, Bruno's the only young family member that I have. I have a very small family, mate, very, very, very small. Yeah, okay. We've got, yeah, I was not expecting that. That means that we might be waiting a while for Grace's Colapinto prediction based on that, but we'll find out. We'll see. You never know. I mean, even last week, my wife got all three right in the wrong order, so you never know. A George Russell P2.

Well, no, not completely in the wrong order. She still scored one point. Yeah, she did. But what I'm saying is like, you never know, like a little George Russell P2. Yeah, I know. My mum could still be in a three-year-old. Oh, wait. Your mum went for George Russell P2. Oh, no. Huge for my mum. Okay, Lawson, it's all on you, mate.

Come on. She saw the three-year-old prediction coming in. She was like, I'm going to cover that off one right. Cover it off. I'm shaking. Right, there you go. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in to the predictions for the Chinese Grand Prix. Looking forward to the sprint weekend.

A lot of chaos, I'm sure, is coming our way and probably some rants as well. So look forward to all of that and more. Bruno needs his lunch. She's literally pacing around the room like no tomorrow. Aren't you, your silly little sausage? You're going to come say goodbye really quickly. Come on. Come here.

You want sausages. You want sausages? Booneys, yeah? Okay. All right. Here he is. Why are you standing so weird? There we go.

Say bye-bye, Boonies. Yorn if Charlotte Claire will win China. Yorn if... Oh. You booked it. You booted the microphone. There you go. That's fine.

Thank you, everybody. Tommy. Final thoughts, please? Final thoughts are I'm really excited for the sprint weekend because I don't know what's going to happen I think it's going to be absolute carnage and chaos again so yeah

I'm looking forward to all the the podcast and watchalongs and everything because there's going to be a lot of them this weekend make sure you say good things about Formula One otherwise your post will be hidden by Formula One okay that's my final thought going on this weekend make sure you're a big fan of the Speedmaster and that's the most important thing

Yeah, yeah. That's what I look for in a Grand Prix. Maybe the, could we have like the drive that went the slowest round the corner as well? Who's super clipped the most during the race? Turtle Master. Right, there you go. Thank you everybody. We'll see you soon.

And looking forward to the live streams as always and everything else. Bye. Bruno, do you want sausages? Oh my God. Bye. Bye. P1 is a stack production and part of the A-Car. created network.