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

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. Now, you will see, yes, we are in fact in our studios. Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, that's because we didn't go to track today. But we went to track yesterday with some amazing things that we have to talk to you about and you will see on social media. And then on Saturday and Sunday, we're also going to be a track. Sunday, main stage, 10.40 a.m. Please come and see us.

We would love to see there. The weather looks good. there is no excuse. We want to see you there because it makes our hearts are very full when we see some P1 fan, doesn't it, Tommy? It sure does. Yeah, can't wait for the stage. I'm already kind of more reassured knowing the weather because it's been terrible the last couple of years, but still you guys turned up in that terrible weather last time. So please do it again and some more. If you can make it, we'd very much appreciate it because, you know, the P1 fam are the best. They certainly are. Now, let's get into some quality action and begin with SQ1, where the bottom six were

Bearman, Ocon, Perez, Bottas, Alonzo and Stroll. But the biggest thing, Tommy, is not those six drivers. It's Isaac Hadger. He went, you know what? I know what to do in this number two, Red Bull now. And it's go fast and go quickly. It was a very surprising one. Of course, we had one practice session earlier today because it's only a sprint weekend,

meaning one practice which we all love to see the sort of unpredictability of how that weekend unfolds. And we didn't really know coming into qualifying, sprint qualifying, who necessarily was going to be fastest. But my goodness gracious me, Hadjar going fastest just through the form book, out the window, and we're going, wow, is Max Westapen really half a second off Hadjar these days? Yeah, they dropped a Trek dominance graphic with Hadjar and Max on their lap. and how job was quickest through every single straight. It was just the straight and all the corners was max.

Yeah, it was unusual as they're kind of deploying their energy and using it differently. And it's, I find it really weird. And we've had this conversation before and I still can't get my head around it. Just in Q1, whenever we have that first qualifying session, how it's so much closer and how you get random things. Because I know people don't go absolutely all in, until the kind of like final session

and that's when you absolutely go for it and it's the lap that matters for these top teams. But the midfielders do, but it always seems to be, you always do get these weird surprises that they never kind of translate when it gets to the kind of nitty gritty into Q3, does it? But Hajab, still an impressive job,

but unfortunately for him, didn't do it when it counted. Sadly not. Looking at other things from SQ1, of course, Astor Martin's still absolutely miles off. was 8-hundredths of a second away from getting my stroll out-qualifying Alonzo prediction in. So I'm hoping, you know, we've got another attempt at this. We'll go again tomorrow and we'll see if stroll can...

This was the warm-up. Stroll didn't want to do it in sprint quality just in case you were like, oh no, you actually, it's just the main quality that was going. So tomorrow, stroll is ready for that one, because those two, very close, but a second off the Cadillacs once again. But we're not expecting any overhauls here. We're not expecting anything crazy because Aston Martin have brought nothing. They're still bringing nothing because they're reworking the entire car.

So as much as you think, oh, surely they would have figured it out by now, they're probably spending a lot of their cost cap money into this one big old upgrade to try and haul them ahead of Cadillac. Yeah, just a completely new car because it's clear the car is absolutely woeful. I mean, last year, if you were one second off, you know, the whole field we were saying was kind of separated by like a second. And when Lance Stroll crossed the line, it came up and he was 1.8 seconds off just getting through to 16th that was. So they're just absolutely nowhere and they're just waiting and hoping that their upgrades,

they just go all in on this one completely new concept. Hope Adrian Nui, now he's not at the forefront, can just work away in his studio or whatever, which is what he does best, and hopefully try and salvage something from this absolute disaster of year. Yeah, the last thing he needs to do, I love Ted, but is to be talking to Ted Kravitz. Like, he needs to be doing other things that are much more important, like fixing the car. And that's what they are focused on. Question from people on picture, remember Edith is my middle name. Ocon, six tenths off Berman.

Is Ockon's time up? Or is Bearman beyond the Hasse's capabilities? I think it's a bit of both. I really don't want to say it. Esty bestie, like, I love him. Every single time I've ever met Esteban Ocon. he has been nothing but a delight. But this year in particular has been quite frankly poor

in comparison to Behrman who, of course at the start of the year when Hasse were competitive, he was able to be scoring points. He was, you know, one of the drivers that everybody was noticing. But for Ocon, there's still time. He can still get me that good surprise point

with a lovely little P-16 ahead of Behrman on Sunday. But right now it just does not have, it's quite simple, he just does not have the pace of of Berman. There was talk of course about the inconsistencies of parts between the two cars. I don't know if they've rectified it for Silverstone, but

you know, this is probably, again, with a team like Hasse, it's not as simple to rectify maybe as if you were a McLaren or a Red Bull or whatever. So from what I saw, it was kind of more like there's inconsistencies between the parts, not Berman's car is faster than knock-ons at the moment. So

I think you have to take the wording quite, you have to kind of read into it a little bit because I don't think it's as simple as Ocon's driving a slower car. Yeah, and even if there's a few parts different, it shouldn't be six-tenths. You know, that's an enormous gap that Berman is ahead

of Ocon and Hasse are so disappointing from from where they are. We've mentioned O'Con so many times on this podcast and I think we're both of agreement that we can't see him there next year who goes into that seat. That's why we're mentioning him, because we love him. We want to talk about him

but sadly it's all sad. And it's all It's always the same. It's almost like I feel like this every Q1 now is kind of like, wow, Ockon's very disappointed. And unfortunately for him, it is just happening again and again and again and again for Ockon. But the problem for Olly Behrman now is that Hasse of dropping off so much that he puts six tenths on O'Con and no longer he's maybe like 10th or something. He's only just finishing one place ahead of O'Con. And they're struggling. Maybe it's just a little bit specific because of the Ferrari P.U potentially. Who knows? Meanwhile, Hamilton on Paul.

Meanwhile, yeah, but their car is absolutely mighty isn't it? And we've seen teams in the past where the leading team

is so quick. But yeah, I just don't think it's, this question is basically a bit of both, like you say, because Ockon,

his time is up. I do think that is such a shame, but I really do think it is and Hass will be looking elsewhere and who do they put In that car, there's rumors of Yuki Sonoda, which is a, which is crazy, like a return.

Kamara and Fornaroli as well. Where's Solov? Solove is Red Bull. That's race symbols, isn't it? And that got kind of dismissed because there was, I think there was a lot of outrage when that whole rumor came in and he's got a contract and everyone's like, wait, but Lawson's doing really well and they kind of dismissed it. So, but as for, as for Hass, if Alcon's not beating Bearman as the team leader, they

might as well stick in, you know, new talent. Yeah, because I'm sure Olli would be able to grow into that role very quickly. And also it puts a lot more pressure on the rookies that go in across the season to really shine because it genuinely would be a job interview for potentially Oconc seat. So, yeah, we'll keep an eye on that one as it unfolds. Let's now go to Q2. Well, the bottom six in this session were Ghazdi, Bortoletto, Holcomberg, Colapinto, Sines and Albon. Interesting session, very close for George Russell and Lando Norris.

Yeah, George just seemed a little bit on the back foot in general today. It has to be said. Of course, Ansonelli very close to getting pole position or sprint pole position. I mean, while Russell down in fifth. We'll talk about that for the SQ3 segment. But Lando, you know, he had to make it through. Of course, there is a bit of a gap between the top four teams, then V-Carb and then the rest. But he was running a bit of damage, which I believe they were able to fix.

SQ3, but it was a big old part of what I assume was something to do with the diffuser or the brake duct, but I imagine that that Marshall would love to be able to take that piece home, because it was a very lovely piece that would look great on a, on a shelf, sort of dining room table or something, but yeah, Lando was able to just about scrape through, but it was close. It was like eight hundredths of a second, I think, between Gassley and 11th and Lando, who was 10th in that session. It's really close. It was Gassley for the second kind of qualifying session. in a row now so close to knocking out one of the big the big boys i guess if you want to call

them that as the the kind of top teams that we think are kind of untouchable and so close for for gazley to to knock lando out russell did improve his lap in the end but his first run was not enough um it was a long long way off and sat down intent that it puts the pressure on of course you've got to make it count you know slight slight mistake and he aborts his lap that it's we're there kind of losing our mind that Russell's potentially going out but he improved his lap made it through and it bumped Lando down and yeah another another kind of issue for Lando Norris to add to his little unwanted tally of things that have gone wrong this year for him indeed let's go to a question from pure picture member piper mz mimic X how promising of a

sign is this for Williams I don't think they're going to be jumping around high fiving and cheering 15th and 16th on the grid. I was going to say, what have I missed? I think it's they've beaten Hass. They've beaten a Hass. Getting both, you know, into SQ2, the bars low, I guess you could argue that maybe. Is it a sign that they've now got ahead of Hass,

but then they're expected to, they've got upgrades, but you do wonder, with this whole like midfield battle and how everyone's got different power units and things, that you see kind of situations where it chops and changes apart from Audi of course that always love to just be around that 11th or 12th position no matter where everyone else is. So no, I don't think they're going to be particularly happy. Yes, they've made a step up to be ahead of Hass and they've bought some upgrades but they're in for the long run I think for Williams that

they need to, you know, turn it around and it's going to be a long process, I think, this year for them. I would love to be positive about Williams. You know, we were very lucky to be able to chat to Alex not that long ago in London, but considering they've brought an upgrade package that they are actually talking about, and to only have gone past Hass, I don't think you can call that a success. I'm looking at the times. And Signs was seven-tenths of a second behind Gasly, and Albon wasn't able to really put a great lap on the board. He was half a second or so behind Carlos. But like 15th and 16th,

this is the Williams team that were getting podiums last year with some mega Carlos drives. This is not the step forward, I think, that they would have hoped. And I think similar to Spain, you can also call Silverstone a track where you can't hide. And Williams are a serious step behind still. You know, you've got the V-carbs,

who are technically in the midfield, and Williams need to be beating them in order to score scraps of points. And Lawson was able to do a 28-9. Limblow was able to do a 29-3. Of course, these are on the soft tyres, so there would have been a step there. But you have to say they were,

at minimum, eight-tenths behind on pure pace. And that's with Carlos probably putting in a great lap, if you then compare to Alex being quite a bit further behind. So, yeah, they're still a big old leap behind. And it's sad to see, but I just don't think it's going to be a quick turnaround for them. Same for the other teams that are struggling as well, as we've mentioned before with Aston Martin

who are even, they're not even in the rearview mirror. You can't even see them. So, yeah, sad times for Williams, not the leap and jump and game that they were hoping for. Let's now go to Q3, SQ3 in fact, where the top 10, Hamilton, Antonelli, Vestapp and Leclair, Russell, Norris, Piastri, Hadjar, Lawson and Lindblad. Wow, wow, wow.

Silverstone, the store. Stories continue to be written. Hamilton fastest, marginally by Antonelli, who put in a great lap at the end when Mercedes looked reasonably on the back foot. Let's go to a question from P1PITR, remember Eddie Jay. Is Ferrari developing the car around Lewis now? Were they ever kind of going in Charles' direction?

I don't think so, but it's a question that if they are, then it's the right decision because Hamilton's driving superbly he's so much more confident I think you don't want to I don't want this question to be seen as like oh it's because of that it's more the case of like

Hamilton is so confident in that car now and as we kind of said well as I said you obviously wouldn't be wouldn't be saying it but in Barcelona after Barcelona like LeClau's on a really bad runner form Hamilton is flying at the moment. He's so confident.

He's won multiple World Championship, so many races. They need to give Lewis what he wants in this championship now. They don't need to go down the Red Bull route, potentially of just completely sacrificing Leclair and making it undriveable for him. But it's quite clear that they need to be pushing for Lewis at the moment because he's driving superbly well.

that is an unbelievable lap from Hamilton even with a little mistake in the final sector as well he's put it on pole again and wow the hype is building up with Hamilton and Ferrari now because I thought this was a track that Mercedes would be mighty

and Ferrari in Hamilton's hands have found something and particularly in that final sector where the hangar straight that's been Ferrari's weakness is potentially their power unit Hamilton even said himself didn't he have oh these he kind of made a thing about when and he was joined by Antonia max he was kind of like these guys power unit so quick yeah he said let's go in the order of power unit oh the amount of power that you have and then obviously him and ollie bearman were speaking last and also as well yeah in the um their post quality

interview he basically wants to let everybody know that Ferrari have the least amount of power but it didn't seem like they were lacking all too much, especially with what we've seen in this first qualifying session of the weekend. Back to the question about Ferrari developing the car, and the now part is more the thing I want to go to. Lewis has been trying to put his DNA in the car from day one, especially for this brand new set of regulations. And, you know, yes, I'm a Charlotte Clare fan,

but I'm not bitter about this because it makes complete sense, as you've said Tommy Hamilton is the most decorated Formula One driver ever he's got all the records not all of them but he has a lot of the main records and Ferrari should listen to him

because they haven't won a championship in a very very long time Charlotte Claire he's in his own little struggles right now but as for Lewis Hamilton I think he likes the new regulations anyway they suit his driving style

so much more than the ground effect era and then also having had that year under his belt in Ferrari. This is what we wanted to see. Formula One is better when Hamilton's at the front. And this is, the work that he's put in is clearly being displayed now. So Ferrari have always been listening to Lewis. They wouldn't have signed him if they didn't want his expertise in how to push a car forward and to give him a car that he's happy with. And it makes perfect sense. Question from people on pitch. Remember, AMG Piper. are Ferrari the fastest car now?

Oh, we love a knee-jerk question. We really do. I don't think so. I think that was a special Lewis Hamilton performance around a track that he is phenomenal around. No one comes close to him around Silverstone. That's why he's won, what, nine times around here. So I still believe Mercedes and Kimmy Antonelli,

especially in race trim. I'm convinced that we're going to see. probably an Antonelli victory in the sprint, but let's see. I think it's not going to be an easy feat for Kimmy to get passed, although he should have slightly more power, so it might leave Hamilton slightly stricken. It's such a weird thing.

I've come into Silverstone thinking that Ferrari are going to be terrible. They're going to be so slow down the straits, but they're not struggling that much in the straight line in comparison to what we were expecting. So I don't think they're the fastest car. they have shown great, they kind of shifted from the last sector being the fastest in FP1 to then the middle sector.

So maybe, I don't know if they've changed a little bit more of their sort of deployment or how they go about all of that side of things. But it's tough, but I don't think I can crown them the fastest car. I really can't. No, definitely not. We need to see Ferrari be consistent across all tracks

before we start saying that they're fastest. Mercedes have done that everywhere this season and that's why they've won every single race apart from one of course. And again though, on a track that Barcelona, of course, Hamilton, very close to pole and then ended up winning the race with the corners. And even we mentioned that we thought Ferrari were best at low speed corners and things. Lots of high speed corners here again like Barcelona and medium speed corners. that it's just showing again that Ferrari have built an unbelievable car. Their power unit is not there, but their chassis is the class of the field, I think.

I think they have, maybe it's the best car, but it's not the best power unit. And I think some tracks, they're losing a lot from the fact that they don't have the best power unit, especially in this battery and deployment era of Formula One, and that's where Mercedes can gain so much time. but I think around here a mix of lots of corners. Hamilton is always amazing around here.

And yeah, it's just worked for them here. Hamilton always delivers his A game. It's quite interesting, actually, that Hamilton and Antonelli, obviously, those two have both put almost exactly the same time on their two teammates because Leclair and Russell are very close, but they're a long way back. So I think it's showing that Hamilton and Antonelli

are two people very confident in their car at the moment, and LeCler and Russell are struggling in their cars at the moment. Absolutely, yeah. I think in particular Hamilton, the difference of just him and Silverstone is what made the sprint pole happen today. There's no doubt about that. Question from P.1Pet, remember, Lummixion,

what does LeCleur need to do in order to get back in form? Hamilton making him look like a rookie as of late. Thanks, Limassion. Thanks so much, Limasson. What a lovely, lovely question. Can't really think of a worse track for LeClaude to come now after his form, where not only is Hamilton so good, but LeClair has never been good at and not one of his best circuits.

So it's going to amplify it even more in his struggles. You know, I'm not here to give advice to Charles LeClauroy's won many races, and I'm not from the one-driver. and he's not listening as well. But what I would say is, you know, he needs to not overdrive the car like he did in things like Barcelona and try and be almost too desperate to match Lewis Hamilton and panic because it will spiral and get a lot worse.

And LeClaire's been, you know, a driver that has been very crash happy in his career. So he needs to just not, it's difficult. because it's the big talking point this year is how much Hamilton's improved. And I think it's a mix of Hamilton driving amazingly well, but also Lecler just losing all confidence at the moment. And he needs to get that back, but I think it would be a slow burn for him to get back.

I don't think we'll see it suddenly just completely turn around. He just needs to find a way, a bit like kind of we've said this with George Russell as well, of find a way to get his driving style working with these cars because clearly Lewis Hamilton, his driving style and the way he goes about is racing is working absolutely perfectly with Ferrari right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is my answer to this question?

My answer is that, firstly, there is not a track that I would have picked to be worse for LeCleur to try and bounce back against Hamilton. So that's great. Two P-14s in the last two years for Charleu Kler at Silverstone. Of course, both of them rain affected, but still. This is such a pivotal moment in Shao LeClau's career, I feel, where it really is. It's the first time, at least that I can remember,

where he is being consistently beaten and seems pretty mystified by it. Yeah, there were times where Carlos was great, Got a few victories under his belt. But I don't recall a moment where Charlotte Clare has been in Ferrari and just been weekend after weekend getting beaten and him making mistakes, crashing, pushing the car too hard. So it's about how he kind of just goes back to the drawing board here

and thinks, what do I need to do here? Because clearly driving harder does not work. I like the fact that he's just put in a lap. There's three tenths behind Hamilton. And sometimes you've just got to accept that you are slow. than that your teammate. And around here, I don't think Charles came into Silverstone thinking,

I can beat Lewis as much as all Formula One drivers are delusional. He just needs a clean weekend. Honestly, let Hamilton clean sweep this one. Perfect. Just finish in third or fourth. Get it done. Take the points and leave.

It genuinely is that bad right now in the LeCler camp, I find, where he just needs consistent performances and builds on it. If he crashes again and again, confidence is going to be in the bin and as much as I'm praying for a miracle turnaround, I'm like, yeah, surely it's going to happen. It's going to happen. One of these weekends, he's going to wake up and it's going to be

back to the Charlotte Claire, we all know, especially on Saturdays, right? The start of this season, he was saying that he can't extract the same out of the car because it's a completely different driving experience. He's not able to take the car to the limit because it's a completely different scenario in front of him than he's used to when we had flat out Formula One. So, just Yeah, keep it out the barrier. Score some points. And we don't need to talk about it anymore. Question.

Harshed NAR 21495. Why is George in a rocket ship struggling so bad? Similar to Charlotte Claire, I think it's a bit of driving style, maybe a bit of confidence, or that you would think around Silverstone. Russell's put some good qualifying performances around here in the past when Mercedes weren't deemed a rocket ship. So, I don't know, it's a hard one.

There could be so many factors to this because it's a sprint race, sprint weekend, which means only one practice session to dial in the car. You're either dialed in or you're not. And if you look at the season so far, Antonelli's been dialed in almost the entire way through, has been quicker than George for the majority, whereas George, not so much. And to be honest with you, look, it was so close between third all the way down to 8th, would we be talking about this if George had qualified 400s quicker and be starting

third behind Kimmy Antonelli? I don't think so. I would argue. Yes, we'd talk about the gap. The gap. Yeah, it's still a lot. That's a lot in a qualifying session. It is a lot, but also it's a one-lap shootout. We haven't had a normal qualifying session here. And I think when we get to the main qualifying, let's see what the gaps are there, because I just think it's quite hard to judge when it's over one lap, where you could just make a small error, and the gaps are normal. I'd say that if Russell hadn't struggled the whole session and looked nowhere near Antonelli, I think pretty much the whole session.

So we'll see if he can obviously bounce back and he is in a good position to still get good points in the sprint. And of course, the sprint doesn't really matter too much in the context of the championship because the point gap is so little. so even if Antonelli wins and Russell gets a third or something, he's losing a couple of points. Yes, I do think that, yeah, he'll obviously be hoping that he turns it around in the main qualifying, which is what matters, but so far, Antonelli has looked so much quicker than Russell in that session. And, yeah, Russell's just not found the confidence. You do wonder if his struggles this season, a bit like LeCler, a kind of exaggeration.

on a track like this where you know it's about well it's about bravery but is it is it now with the new regulations because there was some questionable corners watching watching that and how they kind of fly through the the quick corners now fly fly decelerate through the quick corners now yes there you but it does feel very similar to Leclair and brussellor and brussell is just not as confident in these new cars yet and we'll see if he turns it around but he clearly is not as confident as Antonelli and that's why Antonelli in pretty much

every Grand Prix this year minus the first one I'd probably say has been quicker than him even if he's not always finished ahead shall we talk a little bit about what we saw with the cars around Silverstone because I know I know I know I know I know I know

annoyed to talk about it but also I'm annoyed seeing it. I'm annoyed seeing the onboards of maggots and Becketts and qualifying where, yeah, the direction changes, it was all right. They still look relatively quick, but when you compare it to what it used to be,

which was like, can you risk it? How much are you willing to risk into maggots and beckett's? It just hasn't become that anymore. It's, let's recharge the battery as we then deploy downhanger straight. That's what that corner has become. It's the most, in my opinion, probably the most legendary set of corners on the entire calendar.

And we're not seeing that. I know we saw Oscar spin in FP1 because he got on the curb a little bit, a little bit too hard on the left and then spun. But it's not as if we're seeing the, and it's similar to, I guess, Australia and a lot of the racetracks. We're not seeing the drivers. sent like there's more in my opinion there's more to do with the car performance nowadays and how good the car is and maybe how well you've set the car up as opposed to who has just sent it and put in a phenomenal lap i just i don't get that same feeling

when i watch a poll out now qualifying and uh they did say i think it was max's quote saying he laughed in the simulator when he when you saw this this track and i think Hamilton himself even said it's not going to be the same. For me, the surprise of watching it was actually them through Abbey and Farm Curve, so like the first corner, the quick right-hander and then into the left. That looks pathetic.

It has to be said. That was a corner that I remember maybe in like 2010s where the Red Bull with Sebastian Vettel could take it flat and sometimes even with like DROS open and stuff and it was like the unbelievable speed of going through through that corner and looking like they're completely on the edge and the car sparking and they're just throwing it into that into that section but it's not the same and it is all about just charging for the Wellington Strait and then and then seeing how much you gain down the

straights and you know I don't want to you know looking at when we we mentioned about Hajar and his first lap in in pole in Q1 and how he actually went fastest all his comparison to Max was he was quicker on the straight and that does feel like that is the way to drive these cars and but it could also be just deployment issues right yeah and also that, but it does seem like that sacrificing corners for power down the straight, and that's not

what we want to see as Formula One fans because the drivers are the heroes, and that's what we want to see them flying into corners and feeling like they're wrestling the cars. Now, we're not saying there's no skill in driving these cars, like Formula One changes and adapts all the time. Tommy could be on pole. The chef good, as Fernando Lanzé said.

He just said he could drive. But it's definitely a different way of driving and sadly not one that I'm enjoying as much in qualifying trim. Absolutely not. It's a shame for a track like this. We've almost forgotten about it just because we've had such a good run of races and it's not been as bad at some circuits and maybe it's through a bit of clever camera work as well and stuff. But here it's such a famous track. It's so legendary for those high speed corners and the bravery and excitement. And, yeah, we're not seeing that in these cars, certainly not.

Certainly not indeed. Let's go to a question from people on Patreon member Thimmer. Hadjar was showing real promise during Q1 and Q2. What happened in Q3 to him, Tommy? I don't know. I've not spoken to him. But he was, of course, looking like he had the measure of a Stapenor a lot closer. He was still pretty close to Max in the end.

It's just unfortunately for him he was in that run of everyone being three tenths off, and he was on the wrong end of it. And yeah, he lost a tenth to Max, which sometimes puts him right behind Max, but this time has put four cars in between them. So yeah, it's disappointing for Hadjar because looking like we would see a really, really strong result, and instead he's back in eight, which of course only gets you a point tomorrow. but with what we've seen

I do one day if he'll move forward in the race because the Red Bull has looked quite good and he's looked quite confident so he'd probably be fancying his chances to maybe get the McLaren's if it all being well and the Red Bull's looking good yeah I mean Hadjar I think honestly

just put the lap of his life in Q1 to be honest with you I'm just looking at his sort of development through the session Of course, we'd have two mediums from Q1 and Q2 and then Q3 softs. In 294 in Q1, then a 292 in Q2 and a 288 in Q3. So it's kind of like 2 tenths and then four tenths. But then you look at the steps for Hamilton, for example, he improved by half a second from Q1 to Q2

and then a further four tenths for Q3. Antonelli improved by nine tenths of a second from Q1 to Q2 and then another half a second to Q3. So it just felt like, and perhaps what we were talking about with Q1. won some of the other drivers not really risking it as much, just making sure they get through, they just got to beat Hasse, Cadillac and Aston

Martin. Yeah, and so... And Hac Jascon, watch this. Yeah, like, you know what, I'm going to top the timings. It might be everything I have, but I'm going to top the timings all the same. So I think it's, as much as it was quite a headline thing, we saw come the end where the true pace was, but he was

really close to Vestappen, and that's a great thing for him. And to be within, what is it, a tenth of a second? I think the average across the entire season before this weekend was like two tenths, and that's exactly what Red Bull signed up for with that second seat in comparison to Max. Let's go to a question from P-on pitch, remember, a good Karen. Can we now safely establish that Liam Lawson is the king of F1.5, more than four tenths up on his own teammate and well ahead of the Alpines?

Liam Lawson continues to go from strength to strength, in my opinion. He put in some great laps not just in Q3, but all the way through qualifying. He looked like he had very much the sort of advantage over Limblad, who have been quite close at times this season, but it just seemed as though he had at least three tenths on him throughout the qualifying session. I think it was four tenths in the end in Q3. I think he was six-tenths clear in Q1, three-tenths clear in Q2.

So Lawson and Racing Bulls, they have gelled beautifully in this brand-new 2006 era of regulations and car. And we talk about the top four and then the rest of the teams. Racing balls are in a comfortable position now. I really see it. Audi are the only ones really nipping at their hills and Pierre Gasly. But in race trim, it just feels like they, especially when we looked last time out in Austria, that they had it covered.

They were just basically racing each other. So, yeah, for Lawson, what a great season he's having. You know, that whole rumor around, oh, they've already signed someone else and then that being squashed. I'm kind of sat there going, well, who are they going to replace? Because Lawson does not deserve to be replaced at all. No, and Limblad's only just started his career and is doing fine. Yeah, and he's doing great. Limbland's doing great as a rookie. So he sat there going, there shouldn't be any rumours around racing balls changing their drivers, because Lawson has genuinely been one of the drivers of the season and continues to be so. So yeah, Lawson, I'm not going to give him the

crown of F1.5, I think it's a bit harsh to Limblad, but he's certainly doing a phenomenal job so far this I think at the moment Liam Lawson certainly has that crown I think it was Pierre Gasley at the start of the season who was just getting P7s for fun

but it does look like Alpine's advantage that they had at the start of the season has completely they were up there which seems insane to think now because they're going out

in Q1 but we've seen Gazley's just kind of hanging on a little bit to that top of the midfield and he's had a good run there but now it seems like racing balls have made a step forward and Lawson who was already delivering very strong results at the start of the season before racing balls have made this jump

is now just delivering week in week out and I think the fact that Lawson and what I'm and Lindblad both of them I think what what's great for racing bulls is this is now and it's very early days because we've only seen one competitive session at Silverstone but they will take a lot of satisfaction in the fact that we've gone from the racing balls looking like the class of the midfield in Austria and now looking like the class of the midfield at Silverstone, which are two very different circuits. And that's something we saw with that racing balls last year that Lawson and Hadra did an amazing job in of they were just always very consistently quick at every track. And if they can continue that, they're going to score a huge amount of points this

this year because at the moment, Lawson is 10th. So yeah, behind Gasly, looking for that best of the rest spot. But I mean, if that continues, I mean, his last four races have been seventh, sixth, eighth, and ninth. So he's just bagging points all the time. Car looks reliable, looks quick everywhere. And Lawson's driving maybe even the best he has done of his career so far. Yeah, it's going very, very nicely for them. And I wouldn't put it past Lawson, potentially even finishing ahead of Gasly in that championship fight by the end of it

if they continue this. But form can change, as we've seen. You know, we were probably three races in. You'd be like, Olly Behrman. Yeah, he's going to get ninth. Yeah, no, pretty, yeah, easy. And look how that's fallen off so far. I mean, Ollie Bearman's results,

yeah, seventh and fifth and eighth at the start of the year. And then his last year, retired 17th and 14th. So it's changing a lot in the midfield. And a lot of people scoring points and big points, so. Apart from Aston Martin. And Holkenberg. And Holkenberg as well, yeah, for sure. Right, that is it.

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