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

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. It feels good. It feels good to say the intro. It feels good to say that competitive sessions have returned. We have things to talk about Tommy. I mean, we talk about it anyway, but it's usually sort of, you know, theories and who's going to be quickest. We're back from the summer break and we have something to analyze actual tangible results. And it's a sprint weekend.

so it is fast, ferocious and it's coming very, very quickly. It certainly is, yeah. And we saw an exciting qualifying session for sure, Sprint quality, you know, top four separate by a tenth. That's what we love to see in Formula One. We were worried this year that we might see a certain team run away with everything. But yeah, a tenth separating the top four, three different cars in there as well.

Very exciting indeed. I enjoyed the certain team like we're not allowed to say their name like if we say it out loud then we start dominating yeah, I've Voldavort yeah literally you said the neck

oh sorry I tried to not say his name sorry Harry you've ruined the whole podcast yeah oh my god Mike and anyway right let's get into SQ1

thick and fast with the podcast as well here we go then the bottom six Bermen signs stroll Bottas Perez and Alonzo question from people on Patreon member Jess. Is this Aston Martin's pace for the rest of

the season now? Oh, Aston Martin. I'm disappointed, let's put it that way, to see them down towards the bottom. Stroll is not usually where the sort of benchmark

is. It's usually for Fernando Alonzo, who had some issues with his straight line mode, had a massive lockup into term one, off into the gravel, he went. Clearly that he managing some issues with the car. So I cannot say right now categorically that they are still the second slowest team and that Hungary was a flash in the pan. I think that they may well have been, if I was to guess, amongst Hass and Williams, but I don't think that they had the leap forward

that we were potentially thinking of with this engine upgrade that they've brought, more tweaks to the car. yeah they've not looked as good as maybe point scoring that some people thought might happen so yeah yeah by the end of the season it was a bold prediction come on newie if you haven't seen that podcast just two seconds to find yeah just just a crazy race where 18 other cars don't finish and then maybe they will they'll get a podium but yeah a very disappointing sprint quality but i think we need to wait for tomorrow to see if they have a clean sense session just where they stack up over one lap because it's very hard to get a car that's been upgraded very, very heavily to be dialed in within one hour of a practice session for this

weekend. I think As Sam Martin kind of already were mentioning there's a lot of hype online about Honda bringing the new package and this means after a great race in Hungary or great if you want to call it great, but compared to how bad it's been, they're going to do a lot better. And finally, the one thing that's really held them back is, of course, their power and their engine, and that should be somewhat fixed. That certainly hasn't happened. I was convinced that Hungary was a flash in the pan

because of the fact that it's just a circuit that really suits them and doesn't have that kind of, you know, as much emphasis on the power. You mentioned about where Alonzo'd be, obviously, yeah, he had a problem. His lap time in FP1 was much, much better than what he did. So he wasn't going to be last had his straight mode been working. But I still think that it seemed like we're struggling here to make it out the basically the first part of the session which is a disaster for us in Martin because they were hoping that they'd turned a leaf after what happened at Hungary but not looking too great i mean

stroll was way behind science really there as a big gap there as well of a second which um not close not close at all but we know that lance troll has a stinker in him so so maybe it was just a poor qualifying from him and we'll see tomorrow when we get uh the full main we'll get another one Exactly. We get another one to see. To then fully assess. But yes, a disaster for them. And I did enjoy, not enjoy, but it was quite funny that I think they had a Honda spokesperson that printed out something on a piece of A4 paper to the media of like,

Ask Me Anything but Nothing to do with the Kilowwatt or the engine or something, because he didn't want to give up anything before the session start. Ask me anything, just not the thing that you want to hear from me. Exactly, yes. and they started to temper expectations very quickly, I think, yesterday. Yeah, it's just going to be marginal gains and all this sort of stuff. And it turns out to be, if anything, no gains at all right now. But let's see what tomorrow brings.

Let's go to a question, not a question, an actual statement about Olly Behrman. Let's very quickly talk about him. P-17 for Olly. And all of a sudden, Ocon, Ocon's a safe man. You know, we were saying he's going to, no, I'm kidding. But we have been saying that O'Conn's had a poor season again. But he's been turning it around ever so quietly. If he's starting to out-qualify Oli Behrman, having reasonable races,

then just maybe he may well keep his seat at the end of this season. But he's going to have to have a run of races where this is the trend. A couple of races are not going to change anything when it comes to contract negotiations. But Behrman disappointing in 17th. And then, of course, as well, Carlos Sines, both disappointing in 17th and 18th, signs having signed the contract with Williams to continue on with them. I don't know what it is about signing contracts and having stinkers of sessions almost immediately after. I feel like we've spoken about this many times with many drivers over the years.

Indeed, yeah. Happened with Charles, didn't it earlier in the season? And we mentioned it many a times that it feels like when it happens that the driver doesn't perform. but onto Olly Bearman, really disappointing from him because he's had such an amazing start of the season. The Hasse has been a confusing car this year and there's been a lot of chatter about whether Ocon's performances are completely down to his ability.

And if there's a bit of a difference between parts and things like that and he's obviously not been very happy with the car, maybe, you know, if Ocon does go on a decent run, there's a chance for him to save his seat, potentially, you know, because he's the one that I think is most under threat this year, particularly with how the first half of the season went. But if Ocon can find some form, you know, maybe Haas think it is better to stick and keep someone experienced in.

And we can have a lovely little silly season where literally no one changes. And it's exactly the same grid order as the previous year. Yeah, please, if you've seen the 2027 driver predictions, it was all a joke with my predictions, and I was never serious. Unlist. Unlist. I retract. I retract all. Unlisted. Unlist the video. Just a bit of fun. And it's turning out that there's no fun in Formula One anymore. Hamilton and the... What a great video that I've been. A 30-second video of us going, I don't think anything will change, actually. Maybe you've gone. Probably not actually anything. Right. Goodbye. Yeah. Bye, everyone.

Yeah, we're dare to dream. All right. That's what I'll say on that one. Let's now go to SQ2, where the bottom six were Lawson, Sonoda, Colopinto, Holkenberg, Ocon and Albon. P1, Patreon member Savage Monkey 3.0 asks, how would you rate Liam's and Yuki's performance for sprint qualifying? Both impressive for sure. I mean, I'd love to know what happened to Liam in SQ2. I'm sure we'll hear more from it. He was kind of unhappy on the radio, wasn't he saying what happened there, basically. But yeah, because he was ahead of Verstappen in the first part of the session and he seemed to basically just get straight into that car and look pretty comfortable and be in that kind of top top pack and near his teammate, the Red Bull hasn't looked

particularly great this weekend. It's very much like the fourth best car. But Yuki Sonoda is the biggest surprise for me. no disrespect to Liam Lawson, but we both had this opinion that Yuki Sonoda is jumping into a formula that he's never driven before. You know, it's a completely different sport this year to what it was last year. And Yuki Sanoda was in Greece or something, I think he was. And they said, no, come back. We might actually need you to drive.

You know, he's not had a preparation. He didn't think he was going to be jumping in midseason, even though there was that joke, of course, where he joked that he was going to win the champion. chip. But Yuki's very, very impressive. I think if you'd have said that Yuki Sonoda would be 9,000ths of a second off Liam Lawson, and even just all the way up in 12th, I think we both predicted him, I think we said that getting into Q2 would be a massive achievement. Not really, it wasn't far off getting into SQ3. So who knows, like with a bit more, you know, We're going to have another qualifying session tomorrow. We're going to have the sprint race.

It's very exciting to see what he could do. And I'm really impressed at how quickly he's adapted and got into that car. I didn't expect him to be Limblad, but the fact that he's up there and fighting in the midfield, we know that racing balls is quick. But yeah, very impressed. As I might. I think firstly, let's start with Liam Lawson from my side.

I think that he deserves absolutely no flak for qualifying 11th, for not getting into Q3, at SQ3, because he's jumping into a Red Bull that is very different characteristically. We know that. We've known it for many years.

And I would say really impressive, actually, because Lawson would have had the scars from being in that Red Bull team previously. He would have had the pressure

that he would have put on himself after those couple of races before he then got moved back to the second team. To then get in the car, be faster than Max in that first session.

Yes, he missed a bit of time in that second session and therefore didn't make it through. But I would say for Lawson, but a brilliant job, an absolutely brilliant job. This is better than I anticipated, just purely because he's learning. It's one hour of practice before we get straight into sprint qualifying. So for Liam Lawson, I think he's done a brilliant job

and can sort of close the book on what went on last year and he can really look forward now to the rest of the weekend and just generally, I think, wherever his career takes him. And then as for Yuki Sanoda, I am flawed by the fact that he is P12 in the sprint qualifying session. I was convinced no disrespect to him, no disrespect to his talent. I just thought that how do you get up to speed in a completely different car within an hour? He's not driven these 2026 cars. He would have been on the simulator.

He would have been learning how to do all the energy deployment recharge, etc., etc. But we know that it's not just that. Like the ground effect's gone. we've got a whole new different sport, as you said, Tommy. So for Sanota to be 12th, 9,000s of a second behind Lawson, he was a few tenths behind Limblad in the end, but nothing to really sort of go, oh, mate, you've completely lost it.

And for Yuki, if he builds on this and just gets quicker and quicker throughout the weekend, which I think he will do, then perhaps he's like, guys, someone, I don't want to go to IndyCar, I want to stay in Formula One, please sign me. If anyone would have said that Sonoda would have been two places behind Limblad on the grid out of Loft, out of Loft. I don't think anyone thought that was going to happen.

And again, like, it's no disrespect to Sonoda. We want to, you know, we've seen the talents of Sonoda when he was in VCarb originally, and then, of course, went into Red Bull and the poison chalice, and it all went wrong from there. But, yeah, great performance. And hilariously, we've got a situation where old rivals, Sonoda and Lawson are together on the grid, Limblad and Lawsner together on the grid. So all that talk of, I think I said it, when we initially did the podcast about how does injury and the changes, that, oh, at least V-Carb can have a nice little relax because their drivers aren't close each other on the grid.

not only are the drivers close to each other on the grid, but also their old driver, Liam Lawson, who's subbing in, we're going to have Lawson and Limblad starting the race next to each other again. So maybe we do get the wheel-to-wheel contact and them racing each other when they're in different teams. Yeah, no team orders this time. Lawson and Blasen, I'm in a different team, my guy. I'm sorry, I'm going through.

What? I can't hear. What are you talking about? Fascinating to see Limblad, Lawson and Snowder altogether. It really does. That is. That is cinema, that is. Yeah, it does spell out potential carnage. But I will be keeping an eye on that as much as I will the front of the grid, to be honest, when the lights go out tomorrow.

So very exciting indeed. Other things to mention, Colopinto, a little bit disappointing compared to Gazley with that massively upgraded Alpine package that they've brought this weekend. And then Albon, out qualifying signs, which I think on a positive note, I think for Alex, that's a really important thing for him. Although Carlos had a very scruffy weekend so far. went off in free practice one, didn't he? And then also a poor first qualifying as well. Let's now head to the final qualifying part. SQ3, where the top 10 were Russell, Norris, Lecler, Piastri, Antonelli, Vestappen, Hamilton,

Gassley, Bortoletto and Lindblad. And just like that, we're getting into the first knee-jerk question from P1 Patreon member Georgina. George Championship back on? All right, come up. There's eight points. There's eight points up for grabs in this sprint race tomorrow. What I will say, really impressive for George to bounce back.

It's been Antonelli making the mistakes, which we've not really seen so far this year, apart from FP3 in Australia, and maybe a couple more moments. But we've not seen an Antonelli that's going off in practice, going off in qualifying, having spins. And, yeah, it's been a bit of a scruffy one for George's teammate. But if we're going to focus on George himself, did everything he needed to do, starts from sprint pole. If he can just get a few points on Antonelli, it's a bit of a gain. It's not going to change the championship picture. But I think it changes the momentum ever so slightly if George can say, well, look, I'm an engaged man now.

He just is feeling good. You knew he'd say something about it on the radio. And of course, of course he did. Immediately talking about the ring. He's a very good fiancé already. And he's only just become one. points there. Exactly. Is this the point where I say I'm also a fiance and you know I love my anyway. That's right. I just thought I'd try and be as good as George Russell when I thought you

would say if I was a Formula One driver I would guarantee to be on pole position because yeah that's what you're going to say because I need to talk about the ring exactly so but for George phenomenal performance interested to see does that carry over into tomorrow because I feel my gut feeling is that Lando left a bit on the table today. Yeah we'll we'll talk about Lando shortly because there's a question coming up that I definitely want to dive into. But as for George Russell, he, yeah, he needs some momentum, definitely. The fact that he's had this season where when we did our mid-season drive ratings, we were talking about the fact that he has had really strong moments.

It's easy to think that he's been totally awful since Australia, which is not the case. He had that moment where he was. strong in Barcelona. Then his form dropped off again. Canada, he was good and Austria. But he needs now to have, this needs to not be a flash in the pan, basically,

of, oh, Russell's found something for Zamvort and Zamvort only, and we get into the next race, and suddenly he's struggling and he's got a problem again, or he's not happy with the car, or he's worried that something's not working. So, yeah, he needs to go on a better run, I don't want to jump to conclusions and say that Russell's back. And the disappointing thing and why, I guess, the drivers aren't the biggest fans of the sprint

and maybe sometimes we aren't either, is it such a shame to hear what should be a really exciting special thing? And their first reaction is, well, you know, the big points are tomorrow. And it's like you've just had a qualifying, massive qualifying session. And of course he's going to be thinking that because him, in first and Antonelli 5th for Grand Prix Sunday especially at a track like Zambo where it's hard

to pass, that's big points that he can take out of Antonelli in the championship but here it's only going to be a handful. But for Russell yeah, it's all about just seeing if he can deliver because Antonelli's been strong pretty much every single weekend

whereas Russell keeps like flip-flopping from having these moments like this where he can take a pole position here and there I have a good race. But then he goes into the next one and something's gone wrong. Exactly. So, well on to George Russell.

Let's now go on to a question from P1 on pitch, remember F1 sushi. If Lando had not gone out first, could we have seen a faster time from him? Possibly, Pohl? Yeah, certainly. I find it very odd that Lando was first out of the, I think of anyone, actually, not even just the top runners. first out on track, whether that's a call that we've seen before where, you know, it's San Vort where if someone goes off, they're going off and there's going to be at the very

least yellow flags, maybe a double yellow, even a red flag, so the thinking maybe is getting a lap in first. But Faro did that in the last race. It didn't work out for them, didn't they in Hungary? And we were having this same conversation of why are you doing that? The best track conditions are at the end and you look at that tiny little gap you know 0.04 away you've got to think slightly better track conditions piastri went out at the end and didn't actually piaustri didn't look like he was going to be as close as he was but found something at the end so you've got to think had lander been out later there was certainly an opportunity for him to take pole so it felt like another, yet another

odd decision from McLaren because Ferrari, the one that get all the memes, but I certainly don't think McLaren covered themselves in glory with their strategy a lot of the time. No, yeah, it's difficult, isn't it? Because as you say, Zanvort is a track

that you're not getting a single waved yellow if someone's gone off. You're getting double-waved yellow or red flag. It's not going to be an Austria situation like we saw before. So they've gone for the safer option, which as you say, you know, they've split the cars in the sense of Lando wanting to go maybe a bit earlier, or perhaps it was a collective decision, whatever it was.

But I don't know. I don't feel as strongly about this one necessarily because it's not as if I listen to Lando's post-Sprint quality chat. And he wasn't really saying anything about his placement. It was more the fact that it was the step from the medium to the softs, having to do it over in literally one lap, and then saying that maybe there was a little bit more grip in the tire than he thought. And this is the massive challenge for all the drivers is the fact that they're going from the mediums to the softs. They get one sort of warm-up lap,

which we were riding on board with Lando, weren't we? And we were quite surprised just how much he was attacking that first sector in particular, probably just to try and figure out what kind of grip levels there are on this new tire. So yeah, I think it's fine. For Lando starting P2 is not ideal

because, of course, it's on the dirty side of the grid. Charlotte Claire starting on the good side. Come on, here we go. It's a shame for I don't have the same race start advantages at the start of the year because I'll be going, Charlotte Claire P1 into term one every single day of the week. And it's the thinnest track

and a very short run to turn one. And they would still find a way to take the leader and not win. But back to Lando, I think it was a really good qualifying session for him to basically get the advantage back over Oscar in that final session because Oscar was the one that was looking rapid in the lead-up to SQ3, but it was Lando that was able to put that lap on the board

to get him a couple of places ahead of his teammate. So overall, I think it's really positive signs for Lando and McLaren fans in general that they've still got the speed as we now head to Zambort. And maybe just maybe, just championship back on for everybody. We'll see. Next question.

People on picture, remember Sky Sierra. Did Kimmy going into the gravel in the beginning contribute to the disappointing result in sprint quality? Does he have a chance tomorrow to come back? I mean, undoubtedly, if you're making more than one mistake, which is what we've seen so far from Kimmy this weekend, is going to play on your confidence ever so slightly. And I think Karin Chandok did a bit of an analysis of his lap versus George

and basically came to the conclusion that, yeah, there maybe was just a little bit of a lack of confidence throughout the lap. And to be honest, as long as Antonelli is not in the wall and score some points in the sprint race tomorrow, that's fine. That's damage limitation from a mediocre qualifying, starting P5 for Antonelli tomorrow, just score three points, fine, George gets eight, whoop-de-do, the gap is still over 50 points.

But if Antonelli is out in SQ2 or makes a massive error, then it's an eight-point swing, and maybe we're talking about it a little bit more, because that's more than the gap you would have between first and second in the main race. So for Antonelli, maybe lacking a little bit of confidence, perhaps a little bit rusty after the summer break. You know, who knows?

And Kimmy, so when he went in the gravel immediately, it was kind of like, oh, my word, this could, you know, what's happened to Antonelli? But of course, they're so clear that his second run easily got him through into the session. There was never any jeopardy there. But it has put him on the back foot, you know, the fact that he's a long way off Russell, you know, that over-2-10th gap is kind of what we saw last.

year and equally is kind of what we've been seeing Antonelli putting on Brussels a lot of the time this year. So I think for Antonelli there's that relief that it's happened in a sprint race where potentially, you know, even if he finishes where he does and it's exactly the same order and no one is able to pass, he's only losing a handful of points. Whereas the hope for Antonelli as he goes into the qualifying session that matters more and big points on the table, that's where he needs to make sure that it doesn't happen again where there's going to be three cars between him and his teammate and Russell scores big points while Antonelli's struggling

yeah so I mean we're yet to see aren't we with Kimmy this this is always the big talk of how well he's done this season but we said the same with Oscar Piastri and as you get later into the season that summer break and as you get towards the end the pressure is just completely different to when you're in the middle of the season and enjoying yourself and winning a lot of races because as it winds down that's when the thoughts are going to get into your head like i can win the world championship there this this definitely could happen indeed i also wanted to quickly add that um the part of the track the

place where antonelli lost the time was unsurprisingly the last sector that's where george put almost two tents on him. And that's, of course, where we saw a big mistake for him at the start of sprint qualifying. So you think maybe just a little bit in his head thinking I'm not going to attack this like crazy. Potentially, yeah. I mean, you know, you think about it. It's that sort of stadium section, that left hander, which is very tricky. And then you've just got the right hander.

And you would imagine they're on very similar energy deployment plans. So perhaps, yeah, perhaps just a bit of a lack of confidence and just making sure that he puts a lap on the board. As a lap in, because it was essentially a one lap quality, wasn't it? So if he goes off and goes into gravel again or messes it up, then, as you were kind of talking about earlier with the situation, that it's an eight-point swing. That's big then, isn't it? But here it's not as extreme. Exactly. And next question, people on pitch, remember Anna Bjerk?

Should Red Bull have put Lindblad in the car, given that he was the second fastest Red Bull driver? Yes, speaking of knee-jerk reactions, no. Liam was the right person to put in the car. He's the more experienced driver that's having a great season. Limblad equally, I don't think there's any point putting Limblad in because it just doesn't make sense that the part Limblad is in his career either. And what does it achieve even if Limblad comes in and does well? I think they've learnt their lessons from previous

and now it's under new management, this whole Red Bull Junior program and everything and don't want to rush someone like Limblad who may well end up in that Red Bull team eventually but they don't need to be completely knee-jerk and put him in immediately. And the second fastest Red Bull driver is not telling the whole story of that session at all.

You know, at the end of the day, he's one place ahead of Lawson on the grid who's jumped into a completely different car. So you can't really take Lawson's P-11 as like this bad result and oh, he's only the third best Red Bull driver. One thing I do want to mention, because it's mentioned on commentary again, and I think it's absolutely ridiculous that with the performance of Yuki Sonoda and what Liam Lawson did, they were talking in commentary

yet again like they did last year about what if Max Verstappen was in the V-Carb? And as the biggest Max Lestappen Stan who thinks he's the best Formula One driver one of the best Formula One drivers ever seen in the sport,

I think it's ridiculous to say that because the V-car, I'm sorry, is not better than the Red Bull. And you look at the end result as well and Max has put six tenths on the V-Carb. It's a ridiculous conversation to be having. It's kind of disrespectful to everyone else

in the Red Bull program. And putting MaxaSappan in the V-Carb is not suddenly going to, you know, be qualifying forth. He's just not, it's deluded, even from, you know, someone, me saying that as a big Max-a-Sapen stand. It's a conversation that just needs to go away, basically. It would be fun to watch.

it's a silly thing that fans can talk about, but to actually deliver it as a thing that should happen or would be good to happen is just fueling a ridiculous narrative that's never going to happen. And as you say, of all the qualifying sessions to mention it, the one where Limblad is over six tenths behind Max

is just a moot point. There's no point going into it. So, yeah, and I also agree that, yes, Max will do a good job in the V-Car, but he's also not going to stick it on pole. But he would in a has. Next one. I'll say that quite.

I know. I'll keep bringing that up. P1 picture member Longo, 1996. How would you rate Gabby's performance in sprint qualifying? Decent, yeah, P9 for Bortoletto. 5,000ths of a second behind Gassley in 8th. Audi, you think they're locked in a battle with V-Car, but of course V-carb slightly on the back foot with Yuki being in the car

and getting to grips with that. Limblad, 10th and a half behind Bortoletto. Alpine have taken maybe a step forward again into this fight for fifth fastest in Formula One. But yeah, Bortoletto, when you compare him to his teammate, Holkenberg, absolutely destroying him this weekend so far. Nico just looking like he's making some mistakes out there. But as for Gabby, he's on a good run of form at the moment.

He certainly is, yeah, to be that close to best of the rest. Gassley deserves credit, you know, taken a step forward now when Alpine had kind of dropped back. They've bought the upgrades and Gassley's kind of returned to his position. His rightful place. His rightful place that he believes, you know, in the to be best of the rest. But as for Bortletto, I think he's like the proper definition, because people always get it wrong and don't understand the definition of it, of an underrated driver

because he doesn't get any hype. He's not really talked about. And I think he's doing a really, really good job against Nika Holcomburg, a very experienced driver, making Holcomburg look pretty average for a lot of the season. And, yeah, Bors Letters are doing a really strong job in what is only a second season in Formula One, of course.

last year his points tally did not tell he did not tell the whole story of how he did alongside nico hulkemberg and he's having a strong season again so yeah impressive from him and it's going to be you know a driver that the Audi are very happy to to have on board I think so he's doing a really solid job absolutely and I am noticing that there is no question about charler-so I'm just going to say charlerc what a brilliant lap put a pretty significant margin on hamilton who I think had a bit of a scruffy one for his standards down in seventh. And this was an opportunity for the driver that is closest to Kimmy Antonelli in the championship. May I all remind you all, 50 points behind is Lewis Hamilton.

To be behind him is a devastating, not devastating. It's a sprint race, right? But it was an opportunity to get to sort of just eke into that advantage ever so slightly. But Hamilton down in seventh is going to be a very tough sprint race from there. and then as for Charles LeCler half a tenth off pole looks like we could have a very exciting qualifying tomorrow

I personally think that we're going to see a completely different order when we have full qualifying because it just felt as though with that one shot qualifying it is just a little bit all up in the air you could easily argue three or four drivers had the pace to be able to deliver sprint pole today

but it went to George because George did the best job so yeah just wanted to do a little note on Charlotte Claire doing a very good job. Disappointing for Hamilton, a shame for him because I want to see him get closer to Antonelli and to ask the question. But yeah, it's not worked out today. You've heard to mention it.

It's a great lap from Charlotte Claire. And this is the thing that we kind of felt like we'd lost a little bit this year of great Charlotte Claire qualifying laps. He himself was kind of questioning it, wasn't he, about like our qualifying is not the same this year? year maybe like my best trait can't can't be seen but I think here you know he he was battling for for pole position with a lot of other drivers and I think it's right to say

yeah that the many of those drivers could have got pole position I think the top four all had a really good shot of pole position it was it was that close and it was all that kind of risk versus reward whereas when you go into the session tomorrow the fact that you've got two opportunities means you can like send it a little bit a bit more but as we were talking about antonelli he's obviously left a bit on the table thinking you don't want to spin off had a had a spin earlier went into the gravel tomorrow we'll probably see bank a lap and then full send which could well easily mix up the order and equally when it's that close only a tenth separating the top floor top floor the top floor the top floor and it's the that

that is the tiniest little mistakes or just little moments here and there that can put you first or fourth, which is huge. Exactly. So that's why qualifying tomorrow will be really exciting. The sprint race as well. I'm looking forward to see if we get any rain. How aggressive are people going to be as well? I think that's a really fascinating element to the sprint because we dismiss it of like, oh,

it doesn't matter, but this is a big opportunity for George. obviously to take a few points out of Antonelli. So he has to be fairly aggressive. Maybe someone like Charlotte Claire, maybe more like got nothing to lose. Yeah, it's going to be good. It's going to be interesting to watch. I'm doing a very quick weather check.

And it looks like... I mean, we could get a wet sprint race. We really could. There is a chance of that, not for qualifying. Qualifying looks like it's going to be very much dry. A wet sprint would be very interesting. I will happily take that wrong prediction about no rain to see it because I want to, I want to see some rain. The reason that's pessimistic is it just seems to happen.

It happened again in FP1 where we were, yeah, it's absolutely chucking it down at Sandvoort. Loads and loads of rain as soon as they go out. I think we need the dries now, straight away. It's dry, yeah. So we'll see, we'll see what happens. But thank you everybody for tuning in. It's been a pleasure. Great to be back.

Lots of Formula One races coming your way over the next few months. And we'll be live tomorrow and on Sunday. So we'd love to see you there for our watch along over on YouTube and Twitch. Tommy, final thoughts? Final thoughts? I'm disappointed that Red Bull are just nowhere in what's going to be the final San Vort. I hope they can turn it around. And we can see Max maybe fighting at the front and giving some of the home.

something to cheer about but they just really do look nowhere at the moment do they and it is looking very much like it's uh Mercedes McLaren and Ferrari absolutely we'll see you very soon thanks guys take care lots of love bye bye p1 is a stack production and part of the a cast creative network