P1 with Matt and Tommy - Reaction to Canadian GP qualifying

Episode Date: June 14, 2025

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy, Canadian Grand Prix edition. Qualifying, that is, of course. We've just had what we were hoping to be a banger. And it delivered, Tommy. Very much a banger. A fantastic circuit. Well, will we be saying that tomorrow? Let's find out.

But as of right now, another qualifying to pop in the backpack full of banger qualifiers we've had this year already. Definitely, because there's a lot of hype going into the qualifying that it might be between a few different teams and a few different cars, and that's exactly what we got. Maybe quite early on in Q1 were maybe going, oh, no, it looks like McLean are actually fine, but they were not, and they were challenged and neither are on the front row. So, yeah, very, very intriguing and exciting quality for sure. Now, before we get into everything Quali related, just to let you know, P1 Live, live, Tickets are still available. However, Amsterdam, both of the shows somehow are sold out. London is sold out and San Francisco is also gone. So get your tickets if you want to come see us either in November or December because of course in August is Amsterdam and that is sold out. So link will be in

the description and also in our Instagram bio. So go check it out. All right. Let's get into Q1. where the bottom five were Bortoletto, sign stroll, Lawson and Gassley. A strange old qualifying, Tommy. I think that's one way I would describe it, because it didn't really make much sense. And I feel as though Pirelli, with these step softer tyres, have created this kind of weird storm in qualifying. I think Q1, of course, is usually quite close anyway. But you've got the likes of signs, of course, who got held up.

we'll speak about that shortly. But Gasly and last, and maybe it's a case of that, and there's a lot of other variables like it's a really short circuit. So once again, a 10th here, 10th there can cost you massively. But it did feel like a qualifying session where they just kept circulating and kept doing laps. It did. It felt like Monaco almost where cars were just going round and around and around. And that's what we like to see in qualifying,

not these kind of stints where everyone waits in the pits. and then they go out and set a lap time altogether. And, yeah, Q1, they were just saying lap after lap. And it's now just a trend in Formula 1 that the whole field is so, so close, that, you know, particularly the kind of midfield, that a team that one week might be fighting for the points, the worst team going into the next race,

and it can just change so quickly based on, small mistake or blocking, which is, of course, another big problem that we saw in that session was people getting blocked and traffic. Question from M Crickers. Should they change the penalty around impeding as Isaac made the top 10 while Carlos was out in Q1? Isaac did a clear block. This, again, there's a lot of penalties in Formula 1 that I believe you open a can of

worms if you do it based on the consequence, based on just how much a sort of a front midfielder gets affected and knocked out in Q1. How big was that? How much did that affect him? Let's put a penalty. It just doesn't work that way, sadly. As much as I completely get it, and you're probably a Carlos fan, and you feel aggrieved and Carlos was absolutely fuming in the car, and I completely get that. But it has to be a set penalty for an infringement. Like, Isaac's, not out there intentionally blocking Carlos, the reason why this all happened was down to a miscommunication with the team. So he still deserves a penalty because the driver has to front the penalty, otherwise it just wouldn't really feel like one if it was a team fine or something.

So I'm not of the opinion that we should change these kind of penalties just purely because it would then never be fair and we'd always have arguments for why this was more severe than something else. It is what it is. I mean, even I feel like I'm pretty sure during that qualifying session the coverage sky that we have in the UK posed a similar question to James Vals and he even laughed it off and you know he's the one that's driver has been impeded here it can't you can't get into a mess of swapping positions because then you know like Bortoletto who finished ahead of science will be like well I was ahead and you just create a whole complete mess basically so unfortunately it is what it is and that's always the case with with formula one you know when a driver crashes with another driver and takes them out the race you can't reinstate them into the grand prix the only thing you can do is penalize the driver that's caused the incident so that's what they'll do so it's it's really unfortunate for science because he's been closer to alban and in

qualifying especially than I think his results have given credit for. And this was another incident that is just bad luck, basically. Certainly was. Question from P-1 Patreon member Ruben 7.0. When will Lance pull the retirement trigger and end the misery? Savage question has to be said. But also, it's something we've been asking for a while. But it's clear, well, it's not clear.

well, it's not clear, it's not clear to many. But I believe that he does enjoy doing and being a Formula One driver in his own very unique way. He's not the most jovial in media interviews because I can see he physically despises it and wants to kind of keep himself to himself. Like I've seen some quite cute, wholesome videos of him interacting with fans and things like that that show that he's not just completely cold on the outside. but I can see how he comes off the wrong way to a lot of people, including me. I don't enjoy the way he speaks to interviewers, for example.

So I think that can be confused with the actual enjoyment, perhaps, of him in the car. But again, out P-18, I don't think he's going to retire. I think this is just kind of like a Sunday gig for him. You know what I mean? Just like, what are you doing at the weekend, Lance? I'm going to just go drive a fast car for the week. weekend. I don't think he's going to go anytime soon personally. No, he won't. And I've said this before, that you don't quit when you're about to go into a new regulation change with Adrian Nui that your father has bought you.

So why he'd decide to do that now when next year is their big chance? Daddy's bought a very fast car next year. Exactly. It's his Christmas and birthday present for the next few years. years all rolled into one. And that is, you know, almost like the end final boss of Project Lance Strull as well. Let's get you Adrian Newey and see if you can do well then. And we'll find out. But he's not going to retire now, even if, you know, his teammate in his 40s is P6 on the grid when, when Lance can't make it out of Q1.

somehow managed to just pop in a little bit of Fernando Alonzo propaganda. I absolutely love to see it and I'm not surprised at all. Of course, mentioning the other drivers out in the bottom five, Gasley, that was a shocker. I can't believe that he's starting last with Colopinto up in P12, who may well be, as of recording, we're not confirmed, but, well, it will be that he'll definitely start ahead of Sonoda, but he may well even start in the top 10 with HADGR getting a penalty for impeding.

but yeah, Gassley, a mystifying one for him really to be last, again, like it was a tenth or two and he might well have made it through, but something that I was expecting to see from Colopinto just purely because of how much he was struggling in practice,

how much he's been struggling in the last few races. He spun at turn two in exactly the same place in both FP1 and FP2 yesterday, but he did a phenomenal job. And it's Gassley the one that we're talking about right now. Yeah, I've not, I've not seen anything about what, what happened to Gasly, because, yeah, Colapinto put four tents on him, which is an absolutely sensational performance. I do wonder if Gasly has maybe been impeded or made a mistake or something, but I don't know.

But you have to give props to Colopinto for a fantastic job. And yeah, really disappointing from Ghazley to be P20 and also you know another person that's really struggled there is Liam Lawson who yeah it's not not going well for him at all is it and more pressure on him because of this Linblad

situation of course as well I don't ever pause the podcast I've got to do it right now because I've just seen Charlerc's talking so I'm going to listen to what he has to say so I can reflect on this you just really want to listen to yeah you did you stayed on that scrub tire from Q1

all the way to mid Q2, you sexy man. What the hell happened in Q3? Yeah, Lawson, again, it's another driver. It's weird, isn't it? I look at the, I go, Gasly, that's a massive shock. For Lawson, it's just been a kind of consistent, hasn't it? Where since the demotion from Red Bull, we've not really seen that same Lawson from before

where you would think now, now that he's got more of an understanding of the tires, got a bit more time in Formula One. You'd expect him to at least be at the level. wasn't he, but not... But nothing stand out, nothing headline worthy like when he popped in out of nowhere

and out qualified Vastappan at Singapore and all this sort of stuff. Like the hype has very much died down and you do wonder how much of that that Red Bull turmoil has affected him and his confidence because it is very clear and is well documented

that the Racing Bulls car is a decent, very good baseline car to get very solid performances out of as Hadjar is showing. So, yeah, a poor one from him, and he's got a lot of work to do to get anywhere near the points tomorrow. Okay, to Q2 we go now with Sonoda, Colopinto, Holcombberg, Behrman and Ocon, the five dropping out from this session.

Sunoda, of course, having that 10-place grid penalty for a red flag infringement in practice, which is silly. But, you know, that's just the way, sadly it goes. We saw it with Bearman as well, didn't we? For a red flag infringement in Monaco. But yeah, Sonoda, of course,

we'll be starting at the back of the grid. In terms of his pace, it's not bad. Nothing special. But nothing special, but if it had got P11, you'd have gone, it's a bit better. But it's still. It's okay.

And that is the expectation of the second Red Bull driver now, isn't it? That kind of almost getting into QU. three is almost good. Yeah, so I guess when you compare it, I guess, more fairly, right? So you've got Max, of course, you know, Red Bull, difficult car to drive. We all know that. He was half a second clear of Sonoda in Q2,

and that was the difference between second and 11th. You then got George Russell, who did an 115-70 in Q2. Kimmy Antonelli did an 11-9-74, and yet still obviously made it through. And that's a four-tenth gap. There's like a 10th gap between those two teammates. And yet we don't speak at all about, obviously, Kimmy Antonelli and how he's doing because it kind of, he's able to slot into Q3 appearances where in other cars it would look more drastic. But that being said, it's obviously not what Yuki wants. Of course, for this weekend as well, he's got the upgrades.

He's got the same car as Max. That's what's been said. So there isn't any of that. But of course, that all stemmed from him crashing an immolome. as to why he didn't have them. So, yeah, disappointing for Yuki. How do you feel, mate, Tommy? You know, like, where do you sit right now as a Yuki stand?

Like, you've said this. You've always wanted for Yuki to do well. Where do you kind of see it going from here for him? It's painful to watch and it's difficult that him even being in like your P-13, 14, 15th, if he qualified there, it's almost like a non. story now because it's just so predictable that it's going to happen. P11, you'd almost say, is actually pretty decent, I think. But again, he's got that penalty, which is going to be gutting, because, you know,

qualifying has been his biggest, it's been where it's really gone wrong for him. I know he's not been that great in the races either, but you kind of would hope from 11th that he might be able to score a point or two, and that would be kind of enough, I think, to kind of take a bit of pressure off. but he's going to be starting at the back. And, you know, it's going to be really, really hard to score points from last. Certainly is. Colopinto we've already touched upon.

A fantastic job from him. Really good. A difficult practice to pop up in P12. Phenomenberg, again, like I know he had an insane result in Spain. But I think that Salber is kind of definitely more towards where Holkenberg is putting it. perhaps even Nico outperforming the car of us, so slightly today. And then Bearman and Ocon, the Hasse, just not able to really do much with this Hasse, are they in qualifying at least?

Bearman looked scruffy throughout the entirety of qualifying. So I'm actually surprised that Ockon wasn't able to beat him in the end. Berman was three-tenths clear of O'Con. Yeah, it felt like every time we were riding on board with Olli, he was sideways or fighting some kind of overstim. Yeah, Hasse are just such a weird anomaly this year. and Berman, I think his team principal has even come out and said that you can see how great Olly Berman can be. He just needs to hook it all up and make it happen. And unfortunately for him

again, it didn't quite happen because, yeah, it's not quite there. A question from P1 on Patreon member, Captain Obs 3,420. Is Colopinto finally getting to grips with that Alpine? Genuinely a great session from him. It's hard to tell. I don't think think we can absolutely jump on the Colapinto hype train right now. But it reminds me of Imala, for example, where he was doing really well and then crashed. This was a session where I was just praying that he wasn't going to make that kind of mistake. Because you could tell he was on the ragged edge. Every time he went through past the Wall of Champions, he was flirting with the wall.

And he was really pushing. We'll need to see, obviously, a few more sessions like this. but it's a really positive thing for Franco, just purely because he never had any running in this Alpine. He has just been dropped into this seat and said drive fast, and these are the kind of performances that Flavio will want to see because he said he's not afraid to get rid of anyone, and we know that he's savage, he's cutthroat.

So this will definitely just settle the boat ever so slightly for Franco. Yeah, he's been thrown near. into that car without much, you know, he went into a triple header, which I think are three very difficult races, two especially in Imler and Monaco that punished mistakes. So now to go into this weekend and deliver a great qualifying performance under a lot of pressure because, you know, I really backed Colapinto to do well, but I thought I'd be sat here today after what we saw in a practice talking about my word, he is really struggling and under a lot of pressure, because Briatore has even said, you know, I'm not impressed and we might even get rid of him as well.

So for him to deliver this performance when he, you know, it was something that we mentioned with Dewin, wasn't it? Of Dewin had that pressure on and now it looks like Colapinto has as well and he's delivered something great here. So yeah, fingers crossed he has a good race as well because, yeah, he has struggled a bit in the races for sure. So yeah, it could well be in the top 10 once Hajar's penalty hits as well. So very impressive. Yeah, so crucial to convert that now into a solid race. Doesn't even have to be points. No, no, it doesn't.

11th, 12th, something like that will be a really good result for him. Okay, here we go. Q3 and the top 10 were Russell Vestappan, Piastri, Antonelli, Hamilton, Alonzo, Norris, LeCler, Hajar, and Albon. what a quality session this was. I can't believe that is the grid that we have tomorrow. I'm so excited to see how this will unfold. George Russell just spawning out of nowhere with the only driver to get into the one minute tens

on the medium tires. It just absolutely hooked up for him. Max to be in P2 is just, I mean you could tell in the post-Qailly interviews, or at least when they're on the grid, he was pretty happy with that. He's very happy that he's on the front row of the grid because he knows these opportunities are...

Oh, he wasn't after he heard Russell's comments. Have you seen that? I've seen about the post-qualie press conference. Did he say about George as well then? So Russell obviously made that comment, didn't he, and saying, well, I've got less penalty points than him. And Vestappen has said in the post-qualie presser, I don't need to hear it again.

It's really pissing me off. You speak about it on Thursday. It's such a waste of time. It's childish. It's really annoying. So I will clarify here that this isn't because of what George said. This is because of the journalists saying this. This is not a direct reaction to what George Russell said on the grid.

But yes, he's obviously getting fed up with all the journalists asking him about the penalty point situation. Which you do understand why they're going to, you know. Of course they're going to bring it up. Yeah. Like it's a massive story. And I don't know what they're expecting to get from Max. If you keep prodding the bear, of course, he's going to go, yeah, actually, I'm going to just send it to the side of Russell and take some time at home, to be honest.

Yeah, like I don't know what they're expecting to get as insight out of Max. And maybe they are just trying to prod him and get a silly quote like this where he gets a little bit annoyed. but yeah, of course he wasn't happy with that, but I think he was happy with the fact that he is second on the grid. P1 Patreon member, anything but Ruben, Max versus George, who is coming out on top? Hard, this is hard, isn't it? It will depend on the weather,

not in terms of whether we dry or wet, but whether it will be 0.1 degrees over the working window of what Mercedes are able to cope with with their cold-loving car. I think I think it's silly to not include Oscar Piastri in this conversation as well

I don't think it's a two two horse race by any stretch of the imagination but if we are picking between the two I think Max I think Max will perhaps have the better race car tomorrow interesting yeah I mean I kind of saw this question as maybe like a turn one

one thing but maybe it's the race short run down in it George's got in effect. Yeah, I think for turn one, I'd be absolutely amazed if Max can manage to get into the lead at turn one because it's such a short run. It's not going to happen. But in the race, he'll obviously give it everything. It's so, I know who said this at the start of the show, but it is set up so perfectly with George Russell, who's probably got maybe the least likely car to win out of the top three. then Max, he's like his biggest rival

and they love to get a bit racy together and bang wheels and things and it's always going to go for it even with his penalty points situation and then Oscar Piastri who's... They're not going to bang wheels, do they? No, I was going to say, when did that happen? And then Oscar Piastri who's in,

well, even is it the best car this weekend, but who has kind of dominated the championship, it has to be said, in P3. so yeah it's going to be a fascinating race even though it's so hard to overtake I think it could still provide such exciting action because you've basically got the top three in the exact order you'd want them to be in for a good race you do but I think you also bring up a good point about whether McLaur and are even the fastest package this weekend it doesn't look to be the case at least over one lap how it will translate

into tomorrow we'll have to wait and see but it's not an absolute given that Oscar Piastri can just undercut and clear one or two of them, it's very much game on, I think, for tomorrow. And as you say, yeah, having George, though, has literally nothing to lose. And to be honest, might well think, hey, well, if my Merck can start doing these kind of performances, I could mount a little championship challenged in the second half of the year. Don't forget, he has pulled in a hell of a lot of points this year, just from being consistent and spawning out of nowhere and getting podiums.

So it's not over by any stretch for George if he can win this race. And who knows? We don't know. That's the beauty of this. We thought McLaren, we're going to wrap up every single race weekend from the beginning of the season, didn't we? And look where we are now.

But yeah, it's going to be awesome to watch. P1PAT remember Jim Clark is my goat. Will Russell try to trick Max into getting a penalty? Let we've joked about this, but no, he's not going to try. George will not be thinking about how do I bait Matt? Max into getting a penalty point because the problem is, if Max gets a penalty point for something that George has been involved in, George's car is probably not going to be in 100% condition come the end of it. So obviously he's going to want to try and win the race and not bait Max

into some kind of rage dive bomb. So no, I do not think George will be doing anything of the sort and I think that is case closed. Don't get me wrong. Any slight thing on the radio, I'm sure George will be on the radio making the questions, but every driver does that. They're all a bunch of kind of snitches, aren't they? That's just to get an advantage for themselves. Yeah, exactly. Every single driver does it. Max does it.

Every single driver does. So, but you're right. George's got a great chance to win a Grand Prix in his first Grand Prix in a while. So he doesn't need to be playing games with Max Stape. You need to just focus on his own race and try and win it. Last time he won was, was it Vegas? Yes.

Yeah, yeah, end of last year. So. All right. Ready. Next question. P1PATRRMB sheep. Do Mercedes have the pace tomorrow to win the race? I think so. Yeah, we spoke about the weather. I think that will play an important part. It's pretty good for him as well. The Antonelli's in fourth. It stops the progress of Norris. And of course, Charles LeCler coming through to potentially win the race with the great race pace that the Ferrari has. I'm sorry, being serious.

Half. Did you see that first sector though? Did you see that first sector though? Yeah. Well, we'll talk about that. Well, yeah, we'll get on to that. I'm really sorry. I just had to bring him up. But I do genuinely believe that George can win the race tomorrow. I think Kimmy will struggle. I mean, he was four-tenths of a second again behind George in Q3 as well as Q2. How far was he behind in Q1? A couple of tenths. So, like, Kimmy's doing a decent enough job, but I don't think he's going to be able to help his teammate in any way, unless he does some bizarre strategy, starts on the hards and then goes really long.

But I don't see it. I think Mercedes, do they have the pace to win? Maybe, but I also just think that it doesn't really matter because it's going to be so hard to pass a track like Montreal that as long as he gets into turn one, and we've seen that a lot this year, he's got a fantastic chance to do it, even if he does have a slight disadvantage over Max or the McLaren's or the Ferraris,

he still got an amazing opportunity to win. So he can absolutely win the race tomorrow. Game on. Let's see if he can do it. P1PH remember AMG Piper. Could these bad qualifying performances ultimately be Lando's downfall and cost him the championship?

Yes. There's no doubt about it. Lando starting seventh tomorrow is it's not good enough if he wants to win the world championship, for sure not. I've backed him this weekend and I was confident

with me backing him this weekend up until Q3. He looked awesome in practice but when the pressure's built up sadly he said it himself in the post-quality interview which to be fair he didn't seem as down in the dumps as I've seen him previously

which I think is good for him that perhaps he's feeling in a slightly better headspace about it all but he just simply said I make too many mistakes and if you want to win a world champion that is so closely contested, like it is this year, you can't be starting seventh. If it was a formula where you can overtakes really easily, then perhaps we wouldn't speak

with so much gravity about these kind of performances. But it is a qualifying championship a lot of the time. It's the dirty air championship, whatever you want to call it. And Lando down in seventh, it's not even like he's fourth or fifth on the grid. He's going to have to dispose of Alonzo, Hamilton and Antonelli, before he even can start thinking about the top three, which, including. his teammate and championship rival. Who are probably going to race off, aren't they?

Those three compared to Antonelli Hamilton-Lon-Lon-T. He's going to have to hope for some crazy lap one where he gains a few positions and then perhaps he can mount a challenge from there. But it is going to have to require some pretty good luck. Yeah. You say Lando was good in qualifying. He was, sorry, good in practice.

He was also good in qualifying. You know, who's fastest in Q1, second fastest, I believe, in Q2. and again he gets to Q3 and it's another mistake on his lap and how many times have we said that this year I can't remember a kind of season where it's so kind of consistent mistakes kind of in qualifying all the time and it is qualifying and that's what's hurting Lando his race pace isn't bad and we've seen him kind of once he's shuffled kind of out the way of the other drivers that he's kind of qualified behind he's not a million miles off piastri and he looks like maybe if he'd started better

he might be able to challenge him we're still kind of yet to see it but i feel like he could but this this just it's just happening again and again and again and yeah you thought monaco might be the the turning point but or even this this race i remember the whole of qualifying they were saying, you know, Oscar is so good at these high speed tracks, which we've seen him win at so much this year, and Lando's better at the kind of Monaco's, and this is a bit more similar to that. And Oscars had a really, really poor qualifying, where, you know, I didn't even put my top five in that graphic that we do. Practice, you mean? Sorry, a really poor practice, yeah. I was going to say, if he's had a poor qualifying.

What's Lando had? But, but yeah, he's, and then you get into qualifying, and Oscar's the one in third, and Lando's had a, had a shocker. So, yeah, really disappointing from, from Lando, and it will absolutely cost him the championship if it keeps happening. Yeah, you touched upon Oscar there. And this is, you know, as much as we're talking about Lando and what's costing him the championship,

you also have to give plaudits to Oscar, who has been struggling, as you say, the entirety of this weekend. He looked dreadful in practice and he's been able to somehow muster up a P3 and this is exactly what, yeah, and this will be what wins him championships.

This is exactly the mentality that a champion has is being able to drag a result when feeling pretty rubbish with the car. He was buzzing in that, when he was on the grid as well, chatting away because he knew that this weekend was looking pretty rubbish. So, yeah, a great job from Oscar at Han. to be said, considering the difficulties that he had.

Question, people on Patreon member, Jess, did Landau's engineer get in his head to keep mentioning the breaking points? I don't really, there's been so many questionable Lando Team Radio's over the years. This one, once again, talking about the breaking references, don't press too hard on the brakes. I don't know and a lot of us don't know what exactly their process is of what information Lando wants and doesn't want

but it seems quite elementary it seems quite basic the things that he's being reminded of I said it in the watch along like it's a Formula One game where you're learning a tutorial and they're saying remember to break for that corner I'm lucky mate remember to break into term one

it's it felt like that didn't it really weird It felt like the information he's being given was almost an attempt at resetting his brain, but not giving him any actual tangible information. I might be missing it. Of course, we get fed just snippets, don't we, of team radios. But I don't know. It was just a strange one to have been fed to us where we just question, why is that even being said? It's a strange one, but I can't, you know, the question saying,

did it get in his head. You can't really use that as an excuse for your engineer giving you information. No. And, yeah, even, you know, we've had engineers that you have amazing relationships. Sometimes you have bad relationships, but it's not an excuse, even if he's not vibing with his engineer or things like that at the moment. It's not an excuse for going off and kind of put. putting himself on the back foot and under pressure

because the second lap wasn't great either. He was actually slower than he was in QT. Yeah, completely agree. Question, but by a piece is, do you agree with Shal that Hadjar was at fault for his last lap?

Or was his anger misplaced? Look, I'm a Shal. You can see what I'm wearing. I'll defend Shal LeClaire to the absolute ends of the earth. And I do think he's actually got a point. I do. It's not that it's not Hadjar's fault. It's not penalty worthy, but his cars there in a pretty important part of the lap where you don't want anything to really unsettle the car.

As the car gets slower, of course, there's less downforce. And then if you have someone disturbing the air in front of you as well, it's going to make you lose a bit of grip. Hadjar, of course, is just to doodling around getting ready for his lap or he's just finished his lap. I can't remember exactly where he wasn't in the sort of grand scheme of things. But I think it makes sense as to why Shal made that mistake for sure. absolutely flying in the first sector. Purple first sector, the fastest of anybody, even after all the laps were finished.

I'm just thinking about what could have been. What could have been? The dream was alive. I don't think he would have got pole, but I think he could have even nabbed a P2 or a P3 at that rate. But back to the question, I'm not going to hold it against Isaac.

He's already got probably an impeding penalty coming. But it's just, it's unfortunate. This is what happens in qualifying. there's plenty of times where drivers have complained about just someone being a little bit slow 200 meters ahead and some drivers saying they know exactly what they're doing I don't think hadjar is trying to affect a Ferrari driver of charlera carrae yeah the the fight's not particularly between them no exactly it's not it's it's one of those incidents that I do believe it would have affected chal um we know how sensitive cars are in in dirty air and people may laugh at it and go, oh, it's actually, you know, it's just an excuse because

he's made a mistake. But you watch the races now and so many times people are dropping back by a second and a half, two seconds to get even more sometimes, yeah, to get clean air. So when you're pushing on a qualifying lap, you don't want to be anywhere near another car and it will affect it. That being said, you know, it's definitely not penalty worthy of the previous one that Hachar will get a penalty for. I would be amazed if he didn't. But that one is that weird situation where it's not Hajar's fault where it's deserving of a penalty, but it will definitely have affected Charlotte Clare pushing into that corner and not having the same grip that he did before because had he um you know that first sector was the thing that was

helping yeah but we could have so easily seen which would have been absolute dreamland the the four different teams in the top four separated by the tiniest margin i i've genuinely do think he probably could have got got a p2 maybe maybe there i saw that purple first sector and if you are watching on our watchalongs you would have heard the shriek uh And then another shriek quickly after as he was then sideways. Fun times, but it's not over until it's over. And the Ferrari race pace, goodness gracious. It's just a shame they have so many cars to go past to show off this race pace.

But again, it's going to be fascinating to see just how much LeCler can get through. And it's not even as if he's got a slow car in front of him because he's got Lando. Maybe Lando. So if you just follow Lando through those two, yeah, lovely, beautiful stuff. Right, that is it. That's our quality recap done. That was a big one. You can tell it was an enjoyable qualifying session. Very excited for tomorrow. Tommy, what your final thoughts? Just Montreal, you are a banger of a circuit and that was such an exciting quality. I loved all the practice sessions as well and watching drives on the absolute limit. And yeah, it was incredible to watch. And yeah, if I could pretty much, other than, you know, if you had to be. pick the grid yourself, you'd have maybe put Lando and Oscar together so we could

find the CM race because that's looking unlikely, but you can't have it all. And my word, it's set up so beautifully for tomorrow. So I can't wait for the watch along and things and make sure you're there because it's going to be a good one. Hell, yeah, you couldn't have said it better. I couldn't have said it better myself. I love how I literally messed up that phrase. OK-dokey.

We'll see you tomorrow, everybody. It's quite late, isn't it's 10. It's 10. It's 11 at this. It was time for bed. thank you everybody we'll see you very soon see you tomorrow on the watch along and for the podcast and everything else in between lots of love take care bye

my sure is to set your alarms if you're in a part of the world where the race is very early in if you are in Australia I guess

is that right what are you laughing at I have just scene. So if anyone knows and it has followed me and Matt for a long time, that can't be real. I just want to check that this is actually real before. I think this is actually real. So I will ask it to be cut if this isn't real, but I generally think it is real.

In the LeMont 24 hours, Jack Aitken got blocked by a perjo and on the radio said, I hate my perjo rental car and I hate this Peugeot buddy. He's killing us right now. That is one of the funniest radios I've ever seen. Just savage. Well, there you go. Ranting at a Peugee rental car at Le Mans. There you go.

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