P1 with Matt and Tommy - Reaction to Belgian GP sprint qualifying

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

Sprint weekend is upon us! And it's already thrown up loads for us to talk about. How concerned are we with Kimi Antonelli's form? What happened to Lewis Hamilton? Plus, did Haas just crack qualifying?! It's all set up for a very exciting sprint – Tommy even wants more laps... You can listen to an extended version of every Race Review this season over on our Patreon! You'll also access to every P1 episode ad-free, early access to tickets & merch, and access to our Discord server where you can chat with us and other F1 fans! Click here to sign up now: http://patreon.com/mattp1tommyFollow us on socials! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. Oh yeah, we're back. Finally, we're in our wonderful little office setups, aren't we at home, Tommy? We are live streaming again. It's back to normal. You know, the British Grand Prix was an amazing time for us to be there. But it now feels like we're back, well, we are quite literally at home. And we're ready to discuss Sprint Quali today, of course.

Only one practice session, so you're going to be happy. Indeed. And yeah, it felt like quite a long break, didn't it, after Silverstone, to say that we've got a summer break coming up. But yeah, sprint qualifying. A very exciting session has to be said, particularly the middle part which we'll get into. But yeah, crazy session. Now, before we dive into all of the competitive action, we have some P1 Live show shoutouts to mention the fact that the tickets are available for certain places. Not long till our first show in the Netherlands, of course, at the end of August. And there's no tickets available for. that, I'm really sorry, but there are still tickets available in Canada, America, the UK and Ireland, so grab them while you can, although there are only a few venues, I think, that are still available, so go check it and come see me and Tommy in the flesh. SQ1! Let's dive into it,

the bottom five, Albon, Holkenberg, Hamilton, Colapino, and Antonelli. That is not a bottom five, I think many of us expected to be talking about Tommy. Of course, I think we're just, just have to fully dive into P20, first and foremost, Kimmy Antonelli. Question from J 81975-4273. Big old username of numbers there. With Kimmy's recent slump in performances, could he be the one Max replaces instead of George? So Antonelli has been on a bit of a poor streak of late.

I think he has even vocally said. He's not been particularly happy with his season at times. Some things out of his control, but something's very much in his control. Austria being a particular low light, of course. This is sprint quality. It's sprint. There's not a huge amount of weight on these particular sessions,

if we're being honest, both from a driver and team perspective. Of course, there are points available, and Mercedes are locked in the battle with Ferrari for second in the constructors. However, I'm not going to say this is the turning point. This is the straw that broke the camel's back for Antonelli. but it is a slightly concerning run of form, you know, the fact that he made those mistakes, damaged the floor by the looks of things,

and, you know, it kind of puts the team on a little bit of back foot for the whole weekend, not just, you know, for this session. Dizzy had an absolute shocker of a qualifying session because, of course, it also hindered his teammate, who we'll talk about later, because it damaged, well, George believes, damaged his floor as well from all the gravel that he chucked onto the track. And yeah, Kimmy, he started the season,

really strongly. He obviously wasn't beating George Russell and having an amazing start to the season. But it kind of feels like the form at the moment is the kind of form that I thought we'd see at the very start of the season and the form he had at the start of the season

was where he was more solid and you look at his results. At the start of the season he was fourth, sixth, sixth, sixth, sixth. And you kind of think, that's enough for Mercedes. It's a learning year. But ever since, Since the retirement in Imola, which wasn't his fault, Monaco was a disaster, crashed in qualifying,

Spain, another retirement, not his fault. Canada, he had that amazing thing, and we're talking again about how great he'd be. Then, of course, the Austria crash came, biggest low of the season. Another DNF, you know, he's not the last one, two, three, four, five, six, yeah, five of the last six races, basically retired from.

Shocking, and you don't see that anymore, really. do you? And then to have the qualifying mishap again. Yeah, it's not looking good. I mean, to answer this person's question, I think it seems, Toto seems very confident now that they're going to stick with the two drivers for the season, sorry, for next season. So he was more than likely.

You kind of basically said it's 100%, but I don't want to say 100% just in case, but he was kind of alluding to the fact that they are going to keep them. B.A. can't not mention that Kimmy's form really has been poor recently. And hopefully for him, you can bounce back in a major qualifying session because at least it's just the sprint. I suppose this question doesn't necessarily say next year. It just says would Max replace Kimmy rather than George? Because what we've seen as well as of recording is that Amos, which are usually a very reputable source when it comes to news. and they've mentioned around how Max will probably be staying for 2026,

and then Red Bull will allow him to leave should things be bad, then for the next season in 27. This gives, and I think maybe even for you, Tommy, he said not even 1%, you know, we had that whole chat about it. There definitely wouldn't be Kimmy that would be replaced. Surely your percentage goes up ever so slightly when there's an extra season to either show Kimmy's potential or show that Kimmy doesn't have as high a ceiling,

as perhaps Mercedes and Toto 1. Yeah, I would say that that's a fair comment that, of course, I was talking about 2026, but if we go into next season and Kimmy's form, he hasn't picked up this kind of slump. We've seen drivers spiral in the past, and it's now about how Kimmy Antonelli picks himself up from it and see if he can return to that form that got him, you know, sprint pole in Miami or that brilliant podium in Canada. got it in him. He just needs to kind of showcase that again because, yeah, he's on a really, really bad run of form. And if that continues, yeah, when we get into another season gone by,

if that's still not improved, then maybe more questions had to be asked about where he stands in comparison to George. Exactly. And especially as well, we'll have the whole conversation. I know we're getting slightly ahead of ourselves here. But 2026, Mercedes is potentially the fastest team on the grid. George wins the World Championship. Then who's leaving. Exactly. Does George get slightly more special treatment then? You would think so, being a world champion. But anyway, that is, that's further in the future. We've still got more things to talk about. This is SQ1 that we're discussing right now. Six minutes into SQ1, we've basically gone, what if George wins the World Championship next year? Always on topic.

Well, look, that was the question. It was, it was. Kind of. Next question for people on pitch. Remember, AMG Piper. Should we be worried about Hamilton? Charles is in fourth and Lewis is out in Q1 or is it just a difficult car? Should we? Literally, we've come off the back of a British Grand Prix where Hamilton and I will put my hands up completely chefed Charles LeClair in terms of pace

and dealing with those conditions and making the right strategic calls. Yes, we've had a little spin here. Hamilton looked dejected after. Now, the interview he had, I don't like watching those Lewis Hamilton interviews where he's so down in the dumps about it. It's just, you know, you don't want to see.

that from Hamilton of all people. It's not a case of being worried. For me, like watching it on board, it felt more than just a Hamilton mistake. It sounded like more than a Hamilton mistake. Anthony Davidson, I think, was sort of diving into like what it kind of sounded like from the gearbox and the locking at the rear. Lewis maybe doesn't feel that way and perhaps, you know, has kind of put it on himself. But look, this is Sprint Quali. We've set time and time again. let's not let's not say this isn't the weekend the weekend is not done he's at eight points yes Hamilton would have been in that top eight had he had a uninterrupted okay session but instead yeah he's going to have to write this one off I think just get to the end of the sprint it's 12 lap or 15 lap

sorry so not a lot you can do for him what 18th on the grid but I'm not worried about Hamilton as such I think it's a bit harsh to say that always getting old always he isn't going it anymore. I think it's Hamilton's high expectation and how many championships he's won, how he went through his whole career winning in every season pretty much up until we got up to 22, that means that when he has these bad moments and has slumps and not used to seeing him spin off and crashing and making errors and things either. So it almost highlights it even more and then he's more under pressure because for all the talk of like Hamilton, people saying, Hamilton's washed, he's finished, he's too old now, this Ferrari move is a disaster.

He's 16 points behind Charlerc in the championship. And in terms of like percentage of points, they're one of the, it's not a million miles off. You know, he's pretty close to say he's the new guy in the team. And this is the kind of thing that if this happens and he's still continues to kind of be off the pace of Charlerler and making errors next season, say if, Ferrari can finally deliver a great car and that can challenge for at least, at the very least race wins. That's when I think it's time to worry. Until then, you're witnessing, of course, you know, same with Wichelle, drivers that are

trying to overdrive because they are basically trying to extract everything and they're used to winning. They're used to being at the front. So, yeah, it feels very much like everything Hamilton does at the moment is like, oh my God. And I don't think it's like as extremely bad of a season as people are making out personally. And it's not even, I know you say about the high expectations, it's not that surprising. Hamilton had difficulties at Mercedes as well when he was leaving there. Russell was doing better than him at times. And yeah, he does have these moments for sure.

And this is one that is, I think he said he's never done that mistake in his entire career. So read into that what you. will, but I'm not ringing the alarm bells just yet. Next question. P-1-Patryor member, Captain Obs 3-4-20. What happened to Holkenberg's Quali pace? He received the flop. No context, P-W.

It's as simple as that. No context. If you didn't watch the predictions, I flopped him. And Holkenberg, 17th, he got your teammate, Bortoletto. I think he was fifth in Q2, wasn't he, or something ridiculous? Yeah, it was, yeah. And ended up 10th, which maybe is slightly... on the disappointing side,

considering the pace he was showing in those first two sessions. But look, I'm not surprised to see this, because Holcomberg has not beaten comprehensively Bortoletto the entire year. He's not. Like, he's had moments,

Hulkenberg's had moments like this this season. Silverstone was a perfect storm of him doing everything right, driving brilliantly, and it came together. And also, when did he start? He's not done that week and week out.

Yeah, it's qualifying. So actually, yeah. this is what he wants to do but it is to answer to this question nothing's changed

with Holcombberg's qualifying pace Borteletta is actually now 7-6 ahead of Holkenberg in the qualifying head to head you know it's kind of gone under the under the radar I think but Holkenberg's this season has been brilliant in the races

where that experience showed in the last race other races you look at Spain I'm pretty sure he started like 19th or something when he finished fifth. So he's not really had these amazing, brilliant qualifying performances this year. It's the race where his experience showed. So I don't think it's all that surprising. It's just the nature of the midfield and how close it is.

And one week, you know, Bortoletto's teammate, having a put in a good lap together can see the difference and equally can swap back the next week. Let's go to SQ2, where the five drivers out of this session were Lawson, Sonoda, Russell, Alonzo and Stroll. And I think this question perfectly summarises how we all felt after it from P1Petri member Trish. What was that crazy SQ2? It was utterly bizarre, wasn't it? You had Piastri putting a lap that was light years ahead of everyone else down and then having corner cut the top of, just after O'Rouge, actually, at the top of

Radion. Go on Tommy, say the line. Very good. I know you're not going to. Radion. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think I'm going to say the whole line. That would have been fun. But, and it all turned on its head after that,

because he had to go for another lap, which is not ideal, around such a long lap like spa. And he couldn't put in a particularly good lap time. He finished 10th in SQ2, DiPiastri, right on the cusp of being knocked out. You had other drivers who were going out slightly later on a fresh set of mediums,

track evolution kicking. in and putting in some goated performances, it has to be said. You wonder how much Piastri's lap, that lap that he did was thinking, I can't be a millimeter off. Yeah, and it was probably leaving some margin, right? It was leaving some margin, maybe similar to what like a Q1 lap would be for the front runners, where they don't need to risk as much. But I reckon with hindsight, he maybe would have pushed slightly harder than what he did

for that. But absolute carnage. And the fact that you had Russell in 13th, both. the Aston Martins who were considered to be Q3 candidates or SQ3 candidates with their upgrades, it was a pretty chaotic session. And despite there only being technically one front runner in that five, it was sad to say that Sonoda is not one of those considering he's in a Red Bull. It maybe doesn't say the whole chaos of it if you just look at the bottom line.

No, it's so true because it all just kind of happened at the end where you kind of blinked thinking, you know, oh, okay, the session time is up. And then all of a sudden, Norris was in the bottom five before he, of course, set his lap. Piastri's set a banker that's not quite good enough, even though McLaren and ultimately were, like, light years ahead of Piastri, light years ahead of everyone. And then, yeah, you had people crossing the line. And it's like, oh, you know, out of nowhere, Ocon's popped into like P4, or Bortoletto. is now fifth, by the way. Gassley's done an amazing lap.

And all these midfielders that can just extract a little more and put in a lap because you heard it, didn't you? On the radio, it was Gassley and Bortoletto. We heard their radio afterwards, basically like shouting at their engineers like, boy, that was a good lap. Like, they can feel it and they go, tell me we're through because that felt amazing.

And yeah, it was, that is the beauty of this amazing midfield pack now that you string a great lap together you can be rewarded basically exactly you know you look at the times by the way and like oscar piastri did a 41 7 in q1 he did a 42 1 in q2 so clearly that second lap you pretty much just trying to get something on the board but usually you know you take a step up rather than the step back that's why it was so close for him and then going on to the softs he went 1.6 seconds quicker than q2 to q3 i know i know you that there is a step difference, but not that much. And obviously, going to the softs, it's just one compound different.

But the absolute just rocket ship that that McLaren has, you don't usually see maybe five, six tenths of a second move up. That is absolutely outrageous. You say one compound. It's also two steps, isn't it? No, that's between the hards and mediums. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Well, sorry. It's okay. It's all chaotic the sprint weekend. It is chaos. But yeah, it was an amazing session in SQ2, wasn't it? How, just how good it was. These are the kind of sessions that you love to see in Formula One where it can just change so much.

And there's kind of more than any other race this year. And it's a long lap. So maybe that's got something to do with it. But it seems like there's so much time to be had for just nailing a great lap or taking a risk through a certain corner or, you know, pinching track limits a little further and things like that. It's amazing the amount of time that people were finding and how much it kept changing. It's interesting because I kind of see sparse slightly differently in the fact that it's an amazing circuit. Don't get me wrong. It's

incredible to watch the cars around here. And I think from what we can see from the results, it matches what I think in the fact that this track rewards more than others perhaps just a balance in the car that some teams have McLaren being obviously one of them where they're able to sacrifice straight line speed to be fast in the middle sector but they're actually not that slow in the first or last because given one or two corners they'll make up some time as well so yes track limits is quite close but it does feel like McLaren were just able to lean on the fact that they have an incredible car. And we've not seen a performance like this this year, have we?

As much as we've said, McLaren are clear, McLaren are clear. It's always been close in qualifying. This was another level. True. But to counter that with the whole like car thing, you've also got like a weird situation where you had eight constructors in the top 10. and some of the gaps like Piastri put six-tenths on his teammate for Stepan standard or is clear.

Ocon was three-tenths clear of Berman. So it did reward people that did kind of give it that big. Yeah, I'm not saying the cards drive themselves. No, no, of course not. That's a fair point. That's a very fair point. Let's move to SQ3. And the top ten were Piusw, Vestri, Vestappen, Norris, LeCler,

Ocon, signs, Bermen, Gazley, Hadjar, and N. Bortoletto. Let's get into the first question on this segment from P1Pitch. Remember, has K. Does this show that nothing affects Oscar mentally and he can bounce back from anything? This is quite easily, in my opinion, one of the strongest traits that Oscar has as a driver is his metronomic consistency. Yes, he made that small error at the top of Radion, like marginal.

But you just don't see mistakes from Petschran. Piaastri, rarely. You just don't. You look across the whole season we've just seen. The one thing he's able to do is to show up to perform at a very high level and go, all right, Lando, what can you do? I think this particular session was even better where he was rapid as well and clear of everybody. And to combine the two, we see the result of him just being light years ahead of everybody else. And this will be such a big confidence booster for Oscar, who's of course off the back of Lando winning the last two races. Of course, Oscar was in another universe,

would have easily won the British Grand Prix, had safety cars not come out and things like that. But for Norris, you know, we know that he's a lightning fast driver, but can make mistakes and can sometimes get in his own head. This is such an important session, in my opinion, for Oscar to reclaim a bit of that. Yeah, I've still got this, mate.

Don't you worry? I'll still be here. And to turn up with only one practice session to be this far clear was remarkable. It's an unbelievable lap and I think it needs to be applauded what Oscar's done with that lap because, you know, years gone by Lewis Hamilton or Max Stappen putting six-tenths on their teammate and producing a lap like that would be applauded.

And yes, the McLaren is very good and I think, you know, we'll get on to this, but I think Lando is quite fortunate that the car is that good that he could still slot into P2 by being six-tenths. off, which is a massive margin. You just have to applaud Piaastri for putting in that lap because it was to do that when you've had the slight error in, and by error, you know, like a millimeter of your wheel was off radion and you ended up getting your lap time deleted. But maybe, you know, you look at Norris's time, maybe he's thought about

that and left some time on the table thinking it's a one lap qualifying of course it was as well with the way it turned out and for piastri to just deliver a lap that good with one chance is like a big statement kind of i'm not going to let lander get the momentum here um yeah off the back of literally the last session where he did track limits and to put on a different tire where the grip levels are different and to nail a lap like that, it is, that's got to be one of the quality laps of the season by quite some margin.

So, yeah, fair play to Oscar. Whether he wants to be in the lead at spa. True, with a low drag Max for Stappen behind you. I think he'll be having a few nightmares about that. Actually, no, he won't. Oscar doesn't care. The next question, people on page, remember Longo, 1996, could Max potentially win the sprint race

and the Grand Prix? No, maybe tomorrow, no, sorry, Sunday. I think Sunday put some changeable conditions in there. The thing is right, we could see, because of course you can change your car after the sprint race. So will we see a Max Verstappen red bull car that has a lot more downforce on it when we go into qualifying for the main race and then the main race itself? Because the weather looks different for Sunday. I haven't checked as of right now whether they, but rain is in the air and rain was in the air when I last looked. So that would be quite fascinating to see

where Max's pace will be if he has to load on the downforce into qualifying, that main qualifying. But I don't think you can discount him for that. I think they've definitely had their medicine after the British Grand Prix of risking it for the chocolate biscuit and it not working. I think it's spa. If there's rain on the radar that says 60, 70% chance of rain, you prepare for rain. So Max can win that one.

I don't think he wins the sprint by any stretch. I think Oscar Piastri will walk it tomorrow. Wow, interesting, because, yeah, I think it all relies on the rain, and if it doesn't rain, I think Max does have a great chance, and maybe it's complete delusion, but he's going, he's starting second at Spa. He's got absolutely nothing to lose while Oscar Piastri has everything to lose, because he's in that championship battle with Max. And Max will no doubt be thinking about that run, Upro Rouge and Radion and that long straight with, his, how quick he's been through that first sector and think if I get ahead, then, you know, if it's a dry race, it doesn't matter that McLaren are miles clear in the middle sector. You can't pass in the middle sector.

So I think... They'll be right on... If Max does get through, in my opinion, which absolutely could happen on lap one, slipstream is still a thing, DRS is still a thing, and Oscar can negate the fact that he's not as quick on as Max on the Straits, because he'll be right up his chuff. I wish I'd used a better phrase. True. I guess we have seen in the past, and this is something that Christian Horner mentioned in Austria,

McLaren for some reason just don't have dirty air. Like their car, like Oscar in Lando in Austria, was up behind Lando Norris for the entire race so close. And while everyone else would have gone, oh, there's too much dirty air, we need to back off for two seconds. He spent basically like the entire race battling. So they do have that advantage and maybe it is delusioned. But I do think Max will go for it. And if he takes the lead, you never know in this short sprint. He's got an opportunity.

But weirdly, it's another situation of Silverstone of an insane thing to say because it's Max Verstappen, but he'll be praying it's dry. He will. I'm looking at the weather forecast right now on the Met Office. So between 11, 2 and 5pm is what I'm looking at. 80 and 70% chance of precipitation. But it's not going to be heavy from what I can see. It's light showers which sign me up.

They also said it was going to rain today and didn't. Yeah, that is true. But this is a pretty sort of recent forecast. Yeah, yeah. We never know. It keeps us guessing just as long as it's not too much. And it keeps the team's guessing as well as to what sort of, and that's a gamble that they're going to take anyways.

What set up do we put on the car tomorrow? ahead of Sunday when they don't know if it's not an absolute guarantee one way or the other. So that could be fun to watch. Next question. P1 Patreon member, C.C. Hollister. Hask cooking. Where's that has that haste pace come from? Well, they finally figured out qualifying, at least for today.

So they could easily challenge the McLarence by how good they've been in races so far this year. But yeah, it's a case of, you know, it was cool to chat to Olly Berman and Esteban a little bit as well. when we were at Goodwood. And it just sounded like they had limitations in the car that they weren't able to extract that pure performance on a Saturday and on qualifying days. And they spiked to us,

we gave them the tips. And then they just rocked up and five. I said, Ollie, just take the apex a bit better. It's okay, fair enough. But maybe the fact that there was only one practice session has helped them. They've gone for a really low down force set up. They were lightning quick in that first sector.

I think they were purple. anything. So they went for that kind of set up on the con and it's and it's worked really well for them. So I'm really happy to see them up there because I reckon they could stay there as well tomorrow. They can. This has been Hass's problem is that they qualify incredibly poorly and then make their way up during the races. But if they can qualify well, you know, the midfield is going to be incredibly close. I think I think the sprint is going to be really exciting. I wish there were more than 15 laps to be honest. You know, you've got,

much of the tap is going to try everything. Yeah. True. But you try every, like, this happens going to try everything at the front with the McLaren's. We'll see what Charleston do. All three of them come together,

Charlotte Clare wins the sprint. Yeah, that's what you're dreaming of. And then... The sprint, we don't care about sprint wins. Yeah, true. We'll go to that for Sunday. And then you look at the rest behind them, of course, you know,

wrestles out the mix, so's Hamilton, Antonelli, who are in quick cars and you're going to have the best of the rest and good results. You're going to have that being fought by like Ocon, Science, Bem and Gassley Hadjaub Bottoleto. So yeah, it's going to be a really good one. Can't wait. One of those drivers, Carlos Sines, I think we have to mention him who has had a nice qualifying. Finally, something has come together where Carlos, you know, his car's not blowing up.

And he had a problem, didn't he immediately into free practice one where we thought, he just thought, when is he getting any of that? William's good surprise, Ema. Yeah, cool. Because Carlos came out of the pits and almost immediately had a problem with his car, but they managed to fix it. And P6 is teammate down in 16th. So that's annoying from my biggest good surprise shouts and arguments. Welcome to picking a team where one of them is the go to the other is terrible.

It's worth the two points if it comes in, but usually it doesn't come in. But no, a brilliant job from Carlos, and I hope he can score some solid points tomorrow. Yeah, me too, because... the year he's had and the points tally he's got does not reflect what he's been doing in that car. He's been incredibly unlucky. He has looked, you know, on pace with Albin. It's not like Albin has like absolutely cooked him in every session, been miles ahead.

Science has just had some poor luck and that's not to take anything away from Albin. He's had an amazing season and been mightily impressive. But I do think science has been incredibly unlucky. So it'd be nice. for him to get some points on the board and be rewarded because we know he's a quick driver. Certainly is. Question from people on pitch. Remember, Dan, should sprint races be held at shorter tracks so we don't have stupid sessions like SQ3? I mean, it wasn't that stupid. We went like that this is,

this is like 2025 brains in terms of our attention spans. The fact we couldn't sit there for three and a half minutes waiting for a car to come out. I'm going to sound like a right boomer now, but tell me, tell me you didn't watch F1 in the 2000s or 1998 without telling me when the reason they changed the qualifying format in the first place was because it was an hour. Everyone would sit in the pit lane for the first 40 minutes until the track got good and then go out. And that's exactly what happened in a miniature version for the sprint. Yeah. So I don't think we should, let's see how Spar delivers this weekend. I don't think we're going to judge it on the fact that we had to wait three and a half minutes

to go out for SQ3. But I guess the overall sort of question, the overarching question of just sprint races, should they be held at tracks like spa? I think I am more of the opinion of the Austrians of this world, the Brazil's. I think that it leans better for sprint races to beat that. I don't know if it's because in my brain,

I'm like, well, there's more laps. There's more laps. It feels more frantic when they're like flying around and they're doing short laps. to maybe do a random pit stop or I don't know there's something that definitely works in my head to do with sprint races I just can't exactly pinpoint why it is yeah I agree spard just to me doesn't feel like a sprint track but of course we'll all be loving it because the one thing that we always say about sprints and and when we have a boring one is the fact that it's just the

first part of the the grand prix without any of the interesting strategy and a time tire stop or someone doing something different. So if we did get a sprinkling of rain halfway through, we'd all be loving it as far because then we'd see, I think it was that one, I want to say, Austria 23, where it rained halfway through the sprint and Holcomberg in a house got fifth or something and it was really exciting. So something like that again would be cool, you know,

like Ockon and Sainz battling out for the win because they've risked it or something. I love the scenarios that you bring up there, like literally the most glorious, you know, just F1 fans dream. But it was a bit, it was a bit, it does seem a bit silly to basically have that time where we're all just sat around waiting for the cars to go out. But on the flip side, I've always been advocating for one lap, a one lap qualifying in SQ3. to make it a bit different anyway and that's basically what we got. Exactly. One lap on different tyres

to what they've been running in SQ1 and SQ2 and we got a pretty chaotic grid where the top 10 were separated by 1.6 seconds which is unheard of in 2025 Formula 1. So there you go, that is it.

God, we talked a long time considering it's literally a sprint and we didn't even reflect on FP1 because why would we? Tommy, what are your final thoughts, sir? My final thoughts I'll be checking the weather forecast every second tomorrow to see what it's going to be. But I think that's going to be the most intriguing thing of going into a sprint where there'll be people that want to score big points.

And it gives a chance for the midfielders, of course, with a lot of those top teams being out of it. But also there's a qualifying session to come up as well. So they can't be too naughty, but they're Formula One drivers and they'll absolutely go for it, no doubt. I was going to say, the fact that we've had this discussion when sprint races were first introduced. No, I think they would actually be a little bit more sensible. No, they won't. No, they won't. Seven wide intercom. They don't care about how many wheels they rip off.

They're just there to try and score points. And I look forward to watching it. Right, that is it. Thank you, everybody. We'll see you very soon. We'll be live on Twitch and YouTube, as always, for every competitive session. So we will see you there if you want to come join us for our watch-along. And that is it.

See you soon. Lots of love. Get your P1 live show tickets. And goodbye. Goodbye. And we've got a tour t-shirt if you're coming already. Yeah, my chore is for you to buy a P1 Live Show tour t-shirt if you haven't already. It's a good chore.

It's a very good chore. It's a household chore because you're wearing it in your house, maybe. It's a Tommy inspired one because Tommy loves rock. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you have bought a P1 live show tour t-shirt and you're doing a chore, please send in your picture pictures because we need to see that. All right. Bye.

Goodbye. You just waved instead. definitely only going to be audio. That's crazy for me. Say it every time. They know. Well, they can hear the waft of your hand over the microphone. That just looks weird a-f. Now, you hit that. You hit your mic. P1 is a stack production and part of the ACAST creator network.