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

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

McLaren looked imperious once again and we feared there might not be much competition near the front... but how wrong we were! Let's get into a crazy sprint quali session out in Shanghai. You can listen to an extended version of every 2025 Race Review podcast over on our Patreon! You'll also get every P1 episode ad-free, early access to live tickets and merch, and access to our Discord server where you can chat with us and other F1 fans! Click here to sign up now!Follow 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 B1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. We are into the Chinese Grand Prix. We've had one practice session. Get rid of that. We don't care about that. We've got competitive sessions left, right and center this weekend. And it started with Friday sprint qualifying. And I'm hoping this is a trend in the 2025 season where we just have storyline after storyline after storyline because we had a few more, didn't we, Tommy?

We sure did. We went into this, if you watch our predictions, there are many things we got wrong, and one of them being McLaren would be absolutely miles ahead. And of course they look mighty, but this, well, look at that top three and the gaps between them. 0.08 between three different cars. This is 2025. So let's get into Q1, shall we? Get straight into it.

Duon, Gassley, Ocon, Holkenberg and Lawson with the bottom five. of course the big talking point has to be Liam Lawson, 20th on the grid, and it is, you cannot say it's anything other than a disaster of the start in that Red Bull seat. They did not hire Liam Lawson to be that far off Max Verstappen. I know they didn't hire him to beat him or match him, but they didn't hire him to finish last in qualifying. 32729 and Vastappen did a 31-916 so 8 tenths clear was max in Q1 I'm running out of words Tommy I really am in race two it's all well and good building something you know going to a new team and building

and learning but you cannot be qualifying last that that's too much of a headline to ignore I think if you're rebel it is is that is the headline fact that he is dead last, not the fact that if it had been 12th, 13th, maybe even 14th, yeah, it would have been a bit like, oh, Lawson's really struggling, but it wouldn't be this absolute kind of, this is so bad. And you think it couldn't have got any worse after what happened in Melbourne for him, goes into the very next kind of session, and here we are. He is dead last on the grid while his teammate is on the front row. Absolute disaster for him. him. First question, P1

Patreon member Giovanni de do you think it's too early to pass judgment on Lawson in that red ball seat? Look, I think there is an argument for drivers that are getting up to speed in a new team. But the problem is

one driver is second, the other driver is 20th. That is too big of a gap for anyone to ignore. Perez didn't do that. Perez had bad qualifying. Perez was knocked out in Q1. I don't ever remember him qualifying plum last.

Yes, we have problems with that red ball seat. Clearly, it's evident. It is, I would say categorical proof now that there's something wrong with that second red bull seat. But I don't think it is too early to pass judgment. Lawson himself said before the season it's his job to adapt to the car. And he hasn't been able to do that yet. he needs to show improvement quickly. Otherwise,

the chatter will be who's going in that seat next. Is Daniel Ricardo going to get a call? The more performances like this that happen? I should have. I should have, but I didn't. Maybe predicted that Daniel Ricardo would make a return in 2025. But this is the thing.

Where else do Red Bull go? If Lawson genuinely is last or trundling around at the back, can't get a sort of read of the car, what do Red Bull do? Now, yes, we are jumping to conclusions quite quickly here, but all we have to base it off is knocked out in Q1, spun out of the race in difficult conditions, don't get me wrong, and now dry conditions, SQ1 last. It can't be any worse. He could have got away.

this is the thing I think it is if we'd have said too early to pass judgment on Lawson I can't believe we're at this stage already that it is that you can pass judgment on him because it is an absolute

disaster that it's that it's this early on in the season the only way we could be talking about this even being a thing and judging him so early as if he'd had the worst start imaginable

and he has had the worst up imaginable. It is so poor. Clearly that decision to bring him in. I don't think you can even jump on the, oh, he's too inexperienced because look what Perez was doing. I know he wasn't qualifying dead last. But it's just an absolute disaster for them. And they need to find someone that can just be in that car

and do a solid job. because they didn't get Lawson in to, they don't need him to beat Max, like you say, but they also don't need him to be dead last, because the only way he's going to be able to influence World Championship is by blocking people and being a backmarker rather than actually kind of taking points off people at this rate. Now, I'm not saying, you know, round three, Red Bull are going to make any drastic decisions, but we get to the halfway stage. If it qualifies last again in the next race or even the next session,

generally could be five races. Tommy said that, not me. It's not out the question, though, is it? If he keeps qualifying last, I don't think it will happen personally, but they are cutthroat. They got maxed after five races. They weren't cutthroat with Perez,

but Perez brought a lot outside of obviously racing as well, that perhaps Lawson does not have the benefit of being able to sort of fall back on. And as well, you know, let's just kind of throw in Yuki Sonoda here and the fact that, Of course, Sonoda, once again, doing a decent job, qualified P8, doing a very, very, is such a, yeah, his CV is looking great right now.

But does he want it? Does he really want to just jump into that car and maybe have the same struggles as Lawson? Because that would just be insane, wouldn't it, if Sonoda. Snowda gets the call up. He's got five races to prove himself. Lawson goes back to the RB. And then Sonoda has the exact same struggles knocked out in maybe Q2. and I guess for Yuki's sake,

if this was something in the future that would happen, for Yuki's sake, he could do it without really losing too much because it is clearly a well-known issue now that Red Bull have a problem with that second car and just how it's built, right? So Yuki would almost have a free pass, just have a go and see if he can make it work.

True, and they always back themselves. I bet if you ask Yuki Snow did an interview now, do you want the Red Bull seat? Absolutely. Yeah, well, I'm in front of roommate. Yeah, the problem. Because even, you know, Pierre Gazley, I think it was that, it's kind of said in the past of, yeah, I'd take the seat back.

I'd be better now. And it's been a trend now of four drivers. And I think most people on the grid would still go, yeah, back myself. Because you kind of have to. But it's just an absolute disaster. Disaster there. But is it a disaster? if Max is kind of leading the driver's championship

and they finish fourth and the constructors are now anyway. I think they'll probably say that. Moving on, of course, another driver that's had a pretty shocking performance was Holcomburg, 19th on the grid, outqualified by Gabriel Bortoletto up in 14th in the Salber. Holcomburg's got to step it up. He's got to because this is not what we expect from him

and up against a rookie as well. Hulk may think going into 2026 Audi yeah I'm going to be the lead driver Not if he has a chill in 2025 And so I'm driving a dustbin It's fine don't worry about it Won't try that hard or whatever might happen

It's bizarre to see him so far down When he is seen as a bit of a qualifying specialist We saw so many great performances from him So down in 19th for him As I say out qualified by his rookie teammate Ockon also out qualified by his rookie teammate Olly Behrman And Ghazley out qualified by Duhin

Yes, I love to see that from Dewin. Just the fact that he's able to, I know it's, Deliver is probably a strong word, he was still knocked out in Q1, but that's more of the Alpine than it is anything else. From Dewin personally to beat Ghazly in a qualifying session, so early on, props to him.

Big props to do, and under that amount of pressure. You know, we talk about Lawson and potentially being dropped in five races or whatever, and that was the whole story around Jack Dewan. that he's got five races to prove himself. It's going to be almost impossible for him, pretty much impossible for him.

And so far, did a great job in Melbourne qualifying. Of course, kind of fell foul in the race, but so did many others. And then as out-qualified Gasly in this session, gutted for Alpine that, I think if you gave Jack doing a choice of points

and behind Gasly or kind of beating Gasly, but you're 16th, it'd take the points. But it's a big confidence booster. Alpine, way down the order, is a big surprise based on how we thought they were going to do this year. But a great job from doing. And you've got to say he is kind of resisting all that pressure because he could have so easily spiraled and kind of flopped based on all this.

Yeah, I think I disagree with you in terms of what he would choose more. I think that in the short term, yeah, it looks good to have points. but in the long term for his F1 career, if he's beating Gassley, even if it is in a tractor of a car, I think that looks better for him for prospects moving forward because that is a comparison between your teammate.

So that's what people will go off. They don't go off. How many points have you scored? True, but if Alpina Brutal and Colapinto brings a huge amount of money and we know what Briatore's like, if Dewan scores no points, it's just the headline of he's scored no points.

Yeah, I'm thinking more... He kind of forgotten under that he's beaten Gassley. Yeah, that's fair. I think I was thinking more about his prospects for the future. Yeah. Alpine that we think is inevitably going to decide to go before Pinto. It keeps doing this. My word, you know, I guess it's one of the most hyped men of the end of last season. Exactly. He comes in as a rookie. We'll kind of be going, okay, fair play.

He does need to perform in the race, though, before we get too excited about doing. Because, yes, of course he crashed out in lap one in Australia. Off to Q2 we go. Alonzo Baerman signs, Bortoletto and Hadjar are the bottom five in this session. and we're going to just dive straight into a question that I'm going to enjoy Tommy's answer to P1 Patreon member, you want to have the drink, is Alonzo on the decline? Beaten by Stroll in this

qualifying session, Tommy. Of course, Stroll, the number one driver when it comes to, you know, championship points, you can't dispute it for this year. How do you respond? Obviously, being a Fernando Alonzo, Stan, about him being on the decline?

Yeah, Alonzo, you know, you can't say he's on decline based on being what half a tenth behind his teammate and spinning off from like ridiculous gravel that was on the track that shouldn't have been there exactly and he was he was plenty ahead of stroll in the race going into an australia this is a bit of an over-exaggeration to kind of be saying he's finished already when look he's he was I think the most disappointing thing is the fact that he was running so quick I think it was Q1 when he went second at one point and we're going, oh my word, does Adrian new he just turned this into a rocket ship in literally one race?

This is insane. And Aston do look all right, but he's not that far off his teammate. It's not complete disaster in my opinion. Of course, you know, I would say that, but I don't think it's... Yeah, you're coping a little bit there, bro. Coping a little bit. I don't think it's this, oh, my word, because it's literally the second race. Yeah, stroll beat him in Q2 by seven hundreds of a second.

So we can't quite say there's like that hard. And straw's doing a good job as well. You need to give some credit to stroll as well. It's not just the, you do have a good race in Australia. Yeah, both things can exist at the same time. So Alonzo being washed and also stroll doing well. Not that one. Next question at Shuk Joaquin.

Is Olli Behrman the goat? Oh, we love it. We love these knee-jerk reaction questions of Alonzo, Should he be retiring all the way to, Olly Beerman is he a 10-time world champion in the making? Oliver Behrman, a great performance in qualifying, P-12, and this is more the performance I expected from him. I think it's clear that we've got a bit of work to do in the Olly camp when it comes to wet conditions, but that will come with experience. Some drivers learn quicker than others, but in the dry, that is a great performance from Olli,

to beat Ocon so comprehensively in Q1 by four tenths of a second, and then improving his time by three tenths and finishing 12th with a 31-9. Of course, it's a sprint, very unlikely to finish in the top eight, but it's a confidence builder for sure, and I think that will settle him quite nicely going into main qualifying tomorrow. And yeah, I'm hopeful to see him build from here. You mentioned about him kind of having struggles in the web, but let's not forget, you know,

he had an absolute shocker in Melbourne, even in the dry sessions where he crashed and then he beached it. So for him to actually bounce back from what is an absolute disastrous debut, you know, we've spoken about the likes of Lawson and how other drivers in the past that once you get on a bad run of form, you can easily just kind of gets worse and worse and worse and you can't kind of build your confidence back.

for him to put in a performance like that straight away is an absolute kind of dream return it's an amazing performance to be up in P12, don't think the hash should be there based on his experienced teammate as well and to do it when he had such a poor kind of first weekend showing that he can put those kind of bad moments behind him

and just get on with it so it's very impressive from Berman absolutely and the storylines continue Carlos Sines definitely worth mentioning down in 13th and I think it's fair to say down when his teammate Alex Albon qualifying P9 just on the fringes of the points just outside of.

Carlos, yeah, it's, to say I'm surprised would be an understatement to see where he's put that car. And more so in comparison to Alex Albon, I think both of us came into this season expecting quite confidently for Carlos signs to enter the team and do very, very well. but Albon has stepped up to the plate and done a fantastic job so far and maybe Carlos slightly surprised

coming into this. But then when you look back to the junior careers, Alex Albon was the the driver in karting that all the young up and comers looked up to and he was the benchmark and the standard. So is it, I don't think it's probably surprising and we've seen it before in interviews that Albon is quick

because the other drivers do think so from sort of their earlier parts of their career. So Albon very quickly hushing the critics, us being two of them, of perhaps where his performances have been over the last few seasons. But now we've got a comparable teammate. There is no, you can't really deny

that Albon's doing a great job. There's nothing you can say against him at this point. Yeah, he really is. We both kind of, I think I gave it a nine out of ten and you're 8 out of 10 of Carlos Sainz beating album this year, but Albin's done an amazing job so far. I have literally just seen literally 30 seconds ago, a quote from Carlos Sainz that said his seat came out of place during the session,

which probably doesn't help matters, but that's not to take away what Albon has done, because, you know, yeah, maybe Carlos Sines has had a problem. They were very close, or incredibly close, incredibly close in in Q1. But that being said, that doesn't take anything away from Alex Albin doing a fantastic job when a lot of people, including myself, thought he wouldn't, you know, maybe be able to deliver and is it just the fact that his teammate has been poor that he's put in

his great performances. But no, maybe he has been, you know, and clearly has been doing a fantastic job. So fair play to Alex. but yeah, a shocking start to Carlos is Williams career because he looks like he's got the speed just having these problems at the moment whether they're sometimes his fault, sometimes he aren't his fault. So are you going to apologise to Albon

completely yet? Are you as well? No, but you said nine, I said eight, so I require less. Oh, sorry, as drive ratings, we know at the one point is like absolutely gospel. It is the be-all and end all, my friend. But no, we are both sorry, Albon, and keep it up. because it's great to see. Let's go to Q3.

We're the top 10. We're Hamilton Vastappen, Piaastri, LeCler, Russell, Norris, Antonelli, Sonoda, Albonne, and Stroll. First question, P1on Patreon member, Boerlumpur. Hamilton flop is the greatest thing Matt did. Thanks for the jinx. So if you didn't tune in to our predictions, a podcast that we put out every Wednesday, I predicted as my big flop, Lewis Hamilton. Now, it wasn't necessarily to Lewis as a driver.

It was more just the fact that I didn't believe in a particularly strong performance from Ferrari in the next race. But then as soon as I did that, I think I saw a quote of Fred saying something along the lines of that Ferrari are going to be, haven't shown their true form and this, that and the other. And I'm like, oh my God, championship back on. What have I done? And you fast forward to today and Hamilton is on sprint pole in the Ferrari. Yeah, you're welcome. That's what I'm going to say to all Team LH fans out there.

because usually the flop is a curse, but maybe this year my flop is just not, not, just such a strange word, isn't it? I'm trying to square a good sentence. But yes, maybe it's not working as well this year. Certainly not because you gave Antonelli your big flop. Oh my God, that word every single time. Yeah, so it's almost kind of having reverse jinxing powers this year, it seems.

but what a job from from lewis hamilton of course he he got um he got pole for for mcclaren in his debut year of mcclaren he got pole and his debut year at mercedes at the chinese grand prix as well and uh he has done it with a sprint pole again he loves the chinese grand prix um and yeah it's done an amazing amazing job to to put it p1 and i just didn't not not not see it happening. Even when in the kind of early parts of qualifying, he looked like he was delivering a good performance. It really did feel like McLaren was still going to maybe even walk it after what happened in Q2. But no, Hamilton pulled it out the bag. And yeah, he's got an amazing kind of fan base and normally runs well there. So what a place

to do it. He just kind of hoping that he can do it in the main race as well, because that's obviously where the big points are delivered. Indeed. It was a phenomenal job from Hamilton. It was a really cool moment to see him get his first, not full pole position, but sprint pole with Ferrari. But we're going to get onto this next question, and I think this is a big talking point because I don't think any of us expected a Ferrari on pole or a red ball to be the closest challenger. Question from P1 Patriot member Alan Enderpe. Are McLaren not severe? as we originally thought.

This is a tough one to measure right now. I still, categorically, wholeheartedly believe McLaren of the fastest package. We saw that in glimpses across this qualifying session. We saw it last time out in Australia. Now, Norris has said the car's difficult to drive. There are mistakes in it. I think also

we're also seeing the exact evidence of it's not easy to dominate in the fastest car because you have to turn up week in, week out, which is what Max Verstappen has done so brilliantly over the last few years, it almost seems a given to fans around the world that if you have the fastest car,

you should be winning and topping every single session. I think George Russell became Max's biggest fan recently, saying that Max, you know, always turned up in the fastest car and delivered in every Q3 and etc, etc. We saw mistakes from Lando snatching the brake into the hairpin, ruining his final lap. He starts sixth. That car is not half a second off pole. That car, in my opinion, is three-tenths clear of Hamilton if the lap's put together. But they didn't. And even Oscar obviously left some time on the table, but for him it's not as much of a disaster in P3. What I will say is my final point on this is that This won't matter that much if McLaren lock out a 1-2 in the main qualifying.

Norris can easily gain a few positions in the sprint if he's aggressive. Oscar can still win the sprint from third. If they manage that and also do a great qualifying tomorrow, we won't talk about this. Teams are still getting used to their car. Drivers are still getting used to their new packages, but they can't do what we saw a bit last year, which was too many mistakes and open. opening the door for other teams and drivers.

Yeah, I think McLaren should have got pole, absolutely. You look at SQ2 and Lando was fastest, he did a 31-1, and it was actually, you know, a couple of tents slower in SQ3, which isn't normally the way where, you know, Lewis Hamilton found half a second, for example. Max found over half a second seven tenths going into, you know, there was time to be had in that final kind of run and you've got a thing think with the pace that Lando showed and Piastri as well.

The McLaren should have got pole position and a front row lockout, but they didn't. And it's worrying for McLaren. They are fortunate, like you say, that it's the session that doesn't matter as much because, you know, if we are to believe there's a championship fight on them with, let's say, max based on the first race, even though it is a, a stretch, it's only going to be like a couple of points when you finish a few places down, but in a main race, that's a big chunk of points. So it's kind of good for them that it's happened now.

But after Norris's brilliant drive in Australia, where quite rightly we were praising him, despite what some haters were saying, that he drove an amazing job. And did an amazing job in that race and kind of thought, okay, it's throwing everything at him. He had a lot of pressure going into the season as the championship, favourite and we go into kind of the second qualifying or albeit sprint qualifying of the year and he's made a mistake that's kind of put him down down the order. It's how he bounces back from that and make sure it doesn't kind of become a trend like it maybe did at some points last year. Just thank you, McLaren. You got the fastest car, but you're also like, here's some entertainment

for you guys. So I do really appreciate it. I'd much rather that than them locking out half a second clear and qualifying. So we get stories like Hamilton on pole. And of course, Hamilton on pole, you've got Charlercler, who is deemed one of the best, if not the best one lap qualifiers on the grid. And to put two tents on him, even as a Charlecler fan, hurts, yes, but I can also appreciate it as, where's, where's this problem over one lap that Hamilton had in Mercedes, that he couldn't do? Yeah, we thought it's going to be watching. He couldn't qualify anymore. All of a sudden he's on sprint pole, two races in. So you've got to applaud the man, a brilliant performance once again.

But Charlotte Clare's going to bounce back and win the spins. Don't worry about that. And you've got to think as well that you mentioned thank you McLaren for this season. But my word, this is the season we were kind of promised before we thought, oh, no, McLaren are half the second clear of the field. Having three teams, Ferrari Red Bull and McLaren 0.08 apart. More of this, please. All of it.

Just this for the rest of the season. Thank you. Next question, P1, Patreon member Rebecca. did Matt have to sacrifice his utilities for the championship to be back on. Now, for context, there was a big old fire near Heathrow, which is where I live. And if you were watching the live stream, the watch along, you would have seen a very crazy little setup going on. And batteries were going. And it was just, it was a tough time.

But you're welcome. You know, I put myself in that situation to just create Ferrari on top. And if that's what I have to do for the rest of the season, you will be finding me in Tommy's bedroom because I won't have any electricity for the rest of the year. That's a wild sentence also as well. So fingers crossed, though, we have no more problems this weekend and beyond

and that we can go back to our normal live streaming for the rest of the weekend. Do not forget, we'll be live if you're from the UK at 2am or 215 a. m or something like that. When does it start? It starts at 3. Oh, it starts at 3.

Oh, it's a bit of a line. Let me just triple check that. Yeah, let me just show that one real quick. When does the sprint? I'm pretty sure it was. Yeah, three. Yeah, Sprint's three. Yeah.

So I got a line. We're fine. So, you know, set your alarms for that one. It's funny on that because my, uh, I was talking to my mom and dad and they were saying that, oh, probably won't get up for the sprint. You know, it's a sprint race. And, uh, literally, uh, the second the check had flag dropped, uh, in qualifying. My mom messaged me and said, I'm getting up for the sprint.

So I love that. Yeah. I love that. Can't be missed with that grid, can it? No, it cannot be missed. Set your alarm. It's going to be a quick one, 30, 40 minutes, then you're back to sleep.

You can join me and Tommy live on Twitch or YouTube. You can see us deliriously trying to get through it without one waking up our entire neighbourhood and two, maybe falling asleep if it's a stinker. Next question, M Shagie underscore. Is Lewis now the number one Ferrari driver? Now this is, of course, coming from the, Can we swap the cars, please?

Lecler said, swap the cars now. And his team radio engineer said, yes, please. And Lecler said, yeah, I'll do it, but we've never done that. I'm a bit in the bleep as well. So I don't know exactly what LeClaire is referring to with being in the bleep as well. He might well have clarified in his post-quality chats,

but I think we're reading a little bit too far into this personally. They are both going to be number ones. I'm fully accepting of that. By no means suggesting that Lewis will ever be a number two in this situation. but I also don't think LeClau is going to be a number two either. But I think what is going to be testing of this year for Charles LeClau and his mentality is being able to say no and not allowing Ferrari to, or even Lewis to start planting the roots in the team of, you know, it's about him.

And that's, you know, that's fair enough. If you're Hamilton, you've won seven world titles, you're going to a dream team that he's always wanted to be to. Be at, he's going to want to put as much in his favour as possible. but Charles going to have to dig deep and say no, which I don't think is particularly in his personality. He's a very nice guy. We've seen that many times.

At some point, he's just going to have to go, absolutely not, not a chance. Because put Max in that situation, I know we use that example a lot, put Max in that situation of doing anything to favour anyone other than himself, he will say no. Indeed, yeah, exactly.

I think it was probably Charles taken back by it. Obviously it would get read into quite a lot. lot because it's so early in the season and Hamilton's then got pole position and there was talk of whether LeCler can, you know, how is it going to play out with the number one driver situation of LeCler, the golden boy at Ferrari and the kind of always been the kind of lead driver there and then Lewis Hamilton coming in is not going to be a number two driver. I have just seen that someone saying that they were listening to the kind of radios during

the session said that basically, and this is pretty standard in Formula One that the teams swap who is the lead car each session so it's fair and Lewis Hamilton was his turn to lead and they put them out in the wrong order so they asked Lewis if you want to swap back and he said yes and then they just swap them back

so it's probably not that deep really not that deep surprisingly not many things that are quotes taken out of context are that deep Question from P1 Patreon member Ted from the Discord. Max and Lewis turn one. How do you think this will go? Well, I don't think it'll be that crazy.

But then whenever I say that, things might pop off. It's an interesting term one, isn't it? It's very long. You can easily try and swoop it around the outside to then get the inside. However, if you then look back to what Lando Norris attempted in the sprint last year, was it not? where he attempted to go around the outside and got on the right the, just the,

off the racing line and found himself going wide, lost a handful of positions. So, I'm in so many minds about how Max is going to play this. On one side, he knows that this is a different championship fight

where we could have plenty of teams having a good opportunity of winning races. he knows full well that McLaren are the fastest package. He's got one of the McLaren's right behind him. He's got Lando in sixth. Does he just think, right, I've got to beat the McLaren's in this situation? It's only the second race. Hamilton may well turn out to be a title contender,

like my mum predicted before the start of the season. So Max will go for the win. Don't get me wrong. I also don't think he's going to go too crazy if he's still ahead of the McLaren's because that I believe is where everyone's full focus are on in terms of who's going to be the championship favorites. Yeah, half of my brain is going,

it's Max Verstappen is always, like, he always goes for it, even with any kind of context. And you've also got the added fact that it is Lewis Hamilton. And while some would believe, it's very early, too early to say, how this championship is going to go, that maybe, you know, is Vastappen looking at the McLaren's is championship rival, probably yes, more than Lewis Hamilton? It's still Lewis Hamilton who he's had history with and he's going to want to put one over on him.

And that is just the way Max drives and always has driven, that he doesn't care who it is, who the context is. He almost wants to scare everyone into racing him. And that has worked in his advantage because we've seen that when he had a great car and even sometimes, you know, people do just jump out the way and think that it's not worth it. So he had an advantage there. It's something Ereton Sen, Senni used to do. But the other part of my brain is kind of thinking, surely in a sprint weekend, he's just got to bag these points here that McLaren are a bit further down the order. And he just needs to keep himself scoring lots of points.

He did that brilliantly in Australia. Keep himself there. And if Red Bull can somehow turn the deficit around or McLaren, you know, make the odd mistake here and there, he can be the one to capitalize because he can never write him out, as we've mentioned. Yeah, I'm fascinated to see how this unfolds. For me, the favourite going into the sprint is still Oscar Piastri from third.

It has to be because that McLaren is very, very quick. And Oscar's going to want to gain a few points on Landau because he lost so many in Australia due to that mistake. So sign me up is all I'm going to say. Sign me up. Cannot wait. Now, that's pretty much it. We're done.

We're dusted. Thank you so much, everybody, for tuning in and watching along, whether you were on Twitch or if you're just over here listening of course we will be here across the entirety of the season Tommy what are your final thoughts my final thoughts

are that RIP Eddie Jordan who we sadly lost recently and he's an amazing character in Formula One many people probably think that well know him from his maybe punditry in recent years

but he was an amazing team owner as well that they kind of punched above his way kind of growing up watching Formula One in that kind of late 90s, early 2000s, the Jordan cars were always that team that him with a shoestring budget being able to race kind of powerhouses of like Ferrari and McLaren that were spending millions and millions compared to him working in essentially like a shed in Silverstone was unbelievable. And just an amazing character, Formula One, who would be very sadly missed. and me and you were so lucky to be able to go on their podcast,

I think it was last year, to be able to chat to him, and it was a really great experience, and we could kind of see why so many people loved him and what a character he was. Yeah, for sure. I echo your thoughts there, Tommy. It was really sad news to hear of Eddie Jordan's passing.

But yeah, it was a really cool thing to be able to have talked to him, even for a brief moment on his on his podcast and just kind of see that character of say an opinion and he would be like no no i don't i don't think that's right i think that's complete rubbish i'm sorry eddie uh but he he lived and breathed the sport you could tell and um that's why among many other things why he was he was loved so dearly so yeah rip eddie jordan so that is it thank you everybody we'll see you very soon tomorrow in fact for sprint race round up and sprint quality uh sorry, main quality roundup, and then we've got the race on Sunday. Lots of excitement. This championship is going down to the wire.

Okay, no, it's literally the second race now. What's going on? Come on. We're back. We're so back. Hamilton and Ferrari on pole. Yes, please. Bye.

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