P1 with Matt and Tommy - Reaction to Italian GP qualifying

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

WHAT a quali that was! Join us as we recap a crazy few sessions at Monza, with a surprise pole edging out the usual suspects... We've added extra P1 live shows in Australia next year! To grab your tickets for those or any of our shows this year in the UK, Ireland and North America, click here: tix.to/p1liveYou can listen to an extended version of every race review episode over on our Patreon! You'll also access to every P1 episode ad-free, early access to tickets & merch, and access to our Discord server where you can chat with us and other F1 fans! Click here to sign up now: http://patreon.com/mattp1tommyFollow us on socials! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. Qualifying is done and dusted. And I can't believe it. I'm not happy. Me neither. Tommy, I'm not happy. I don't want to talk about it. Oh, shut up.

I do. I do. Do you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. I mean, yeah. Smile on your face. You're absolutely loving life.

And it makes me sick to my stomach. But still, it was an amazing qualifying all the same if I take off. my entire Ferrari outfit, even though I'm not actually wearing it, but there is a Ferrari flag in the background, as you will see. What do we, how do we even digest what we just watched?

It was a great qualifying. It really was. It kept us guessing all the way to the end. I think that's the positive for everyone, even, you know, all the neutrals or whoever you support. Like, that is what Formula One needs more of because you want it to be between different teams

and keep us guessing right until the very end of qualifying and this season obviously promised so much that we'd get this a lot and it hasn't maybe delivered as much as we thought in terms of the fact that different teams being in the mix but boy was that a good session it certainly was let's get into Q1 where the bottom five were Hadjar stroll colapinto Ghazley and Lawson people on Patreon member rosy rangetsu comes in with the question Hajjar podium last week going out in Q1 this week. What happened?

Well, Hadjar spoke briefly, didn't he, after qualifying and said that there was some outlap shenanigans where him and Carlos Sines got into a little bit of a kerfuffle where Sines was, I think, both Williams, I think, went out on a really old set of tyres, which, to be fair, I think even I mentioned when we were doing the watch-long time, we were like, wow, the two Williams are just out there

right at the start of the session, just kind of circular, I come in, but no, it wasn't start the session. It was towards the end, but they were out there on old tyres. Anyway, yeah, Hajar was questioning the signs strategy and run plan. But he was not happy, not happy in the slightest, which is fair enough. Racing balls, both of them out in Q1. Yeah, it clearly was one of those sessions where if you didn't get everything right, you were going to fall foul of just how close it is around Monza,

that it was such tight margins. and if you outlapse a little bit messed up, he made a mistake as well, and he said that he hadn't made a mistake in quite a long time in qualifying. A bit of a flex there. I enjoyed that from Hadjard's a little bit. I haven't made a mistake for a while, but made one this time.

And yeah, out in 16th. Indeed, yeah. I mean, what happened to him? I think just the team in general, because obviously Lawson was dead last. I do think part of it, I know he's mentioning like mistakes, and I guess Lawson made a bit of mistake here,

but maybe not. as bad as the form suggests, but I do think racing balls were up against it this weekend. They haven't seemed particularly fast compared to what we've seen. And normally, and maybe that is just the nature of Monsa and how it's a very different circuit. And we know that the racing bulls, this is very stable, predictable, lovely car that works on many different circuits this year. And they've been able to get some great results. but maybe their car just is not suited to a very different track compared to others. Although it wouldn't have mattered anyway because Hadjar was taking a new power unit

and he said it doesn't even matter if he got pole because he'd be starting at the back. So it's going to literally be a racing bull's back row of the grid, which is something I did not expect when I put Liam Lawson as my good surprise. Other drivers to talk about Lance Stroll out in Q1 doing his usual thing where he'll just occasionally get, well, I say occasionally he's the Q1 record, older, isn't he, being knocked out in that session? And he extends his advantage at the top with this record. Who else? We've got Colopinto. Ahead of Gasly, yeah. Which, I mean, it's nothing to write home about when you're 18th and 19th. But for Franco, that's all he can do in a car that clearly

struggles around here. Yeah, definitely. Gasly is, of course, although we had some news before today that Gazley has extended his contract with Alpine. He's locked in there till 2028. which as we discussed on the watch along is kind of tells you everything about where else would Gassley go really. And I know Alpina maybe not the most exciting team and a place that you'd really kind of fight to be. But when other teams are locked in with different drivers and new talent comes through and all this kind of stuff, maybe it's more the fact that Gassley is just trying to kind of bed himself in that team. And hoping for next year that when they get a Mercedes power unit, they'll be a lot quicker. because, yeah, they are very much, you know, the worst, the worst team this year that's

reflected in the Constructors' Championship. But, yeah, a small positive for Franco Colopinto is that he outqualified Gasly. So maybe a confidence boost going into the final races because, of course, he's a driver that's been under quite a lot of pressure. Indeed he has. Let's move now to Q2, where the five drivers out in this session were Bearman, Holkenberg, Signs, Albon and Ocon. P.1, Patreon, comes in with the question, what happened to the Williams pace consistently quick in all practice sessions only to get knocked out? Indeed. Yeah, although that being said, not all practice sessions, because of course they were the stars of Friday, really, science being P3 in both sessions.

I think you believe Ferrari were the stars of practice on Friday. Okay, if you say, say. They were, they went for glory runs, clearly. Yeah, true, but I guess in terms of a surprise, Carlos Sainz being up there and third in both sessions was the biggest surprise of the lot, really. And you go to look at kind of FP3, which, of course, is the most representative with qualifying.

An album was down in 10th, and Carlos was actually 13th anyway. So maybe it was at the first. first kind of warning signs that maybe they weren't as quick as we thought but yeah they they really weren't um all that were they that we kind of have seen in uh williams normally go really well here they've had a car that's normally this is the track that suits them them so much but not today and of course still very close in that in that pack it was only a little bit here and there i know the drivers um i'm sure we'll will hear from them uh after qualifying and

I know that they weren't particularly happy with certain procedures, which is, I guess, a standard thing when you get knocked out in the session. But yeah, based on what they did on Friday, it's a really disappointing result for Williams to be 13th and 14th. Yeah, massively disappointing. They might be, the only time they'll be ruining the fact that they're not just good at Monza every year is the fact that they then go to Monza and they're not that great. But then they had such a strong start of the year,

you know, accumulated a lot of points, especially with Albon. But yeah, I think they're going to be very, they're going to be very stuck to get any further forward, really, because just how close it is makes me sort of concerned for the race where, if we get Monsors from a few years that we've seen in the last few, very skinny rear wings, which means DRS isn't that powerful. And if we're unlucky enough to not get a headwind into term one, which does help overtaking in races, then how does signs an Albon who are potentially 300 slower than Holcomberg ahead and things like that? The pace is very similar across a lot of the midfield cars, and it does make me slightly concerned that we're going to have just a massive train of cars

once again. And 13th and 14th for Williams is going to be a very tough one to bounce back from. So let's go to another thing actually, the happening Q2, it's nothing to do with those five drivers, but it was Lando Norris. On the back foot, it has to be said. for a lot of qualifying. A Q3 will reflect on as well shortly. But Lando had to put a lap in. There was four tenths separating the top ten come the end of the session, or just under, actually.

And Lando needed to put a lap in. And if it wasn't for the final sector, we could have easily seen Lando not make it through because it was so close indeed. Of course, he put the lap together in the end. But it was very much a last lap Lando, but not in a good sense, a lot of these times in quality today.

No, and you look at how many mistakes we've seen throughout the weekend so far where people are just putting one little wheel into the gravel and it's costing them time massively. It only would have taken that from Lando to kind of go out of the session and would have been a huge shock. And then I think we were saying in the watchalong that that really would be curtains for his championship challenge if he was starting the race down potentially in the middle of the pack at Monza, which. is so hard to pass that. But instead, of course, he did manage to get through. And, yeah, it was a damage limitation. And then, yeah, he ended up actually doing a very good run in the end because he also struggled it in Q3, which we'll talk about later.

But, yeah, not the best kind of qualifying session from Lando, but all that matters really at the end is the result. And thankfully for him, he got that in the end. Exactly. Oliver Berman did a pretty good job. 11th in the Hasse, ahead of Ocon again, whose qualifying struggles continue for sure. Hasse just in general, very up and down this year, as we know in qualifying, mainly down,

to be honest with you, in qualifying and ups in the race. But Bermann in 11th, I'm pretty happy to see for him. He can maybe do something with the Hasse being very good with the strategy this year. Perhaps they'll pull out a blinder with that one. Holkenberg outqualified by Borteletta. So again, Tommy at one point thought Gabby might be getting pole position with how he was going. And Holcomberg, to be honest with you, he was showing pace at times, you know, purple sector ones. And there were, I guess, if you've ever played sort of iraicing or simulator games, you get an optimal lap.

It felt like Holcomberg just wasn't putting his optimal lap together and he'd just have really fast sectors occasionally. And knocked out in Q2, Hulk was a star of qualifying last year. year and he's just not been able to put it together a lot of times this year. I do wonder if that Holkenberg kind of not putting it together is more the fact that his car setup was maybe a little bit crazy because he went for an extreme setup and kind of going being really quick on the straits which might help him tomorrow. So of course he, I think at one point I remember seeing it that he'd set like a purple sector quite late on in the session and then and then didn't really do anything for the rest of the

lap. So of course, he's going to be very quick down the straits, but then struggle when you get through like Ascari and the kind of slower corners. So didn't work out for Holkenberg. That is a fascinating kind of thing about Monza, isn't it? And how they basically change their setup and how they decide to kind of do it differently because some people put a lot more wing on the car, which puts you vulnerable, of course, in the race, like Lando is a great example of that. I don't know about that, though. I feel like, Monza is one of those where almost everybody just runs skinny wings. I feel like this year in particular, we've had a difference in set up,

which is not something we've seen that much around Monza. It's always tended to be a low down force. You know, you have the tracks like Spa, for example, where, you know, you can go between the higher downforce, which is what McLaren did or the lower, like, you know, Max and so on, so forth. I remember Sebastian Vettel gambling one year and going for quite high downforce at Monza it worked out he got pole position but it has been years since yeah we've seen that and normally people just go for skinny wing as possible try and get a slip stream and then you're basically

because I mean qualifying is so important at Monza this is before 2025 when it's so difficult to overtake anyway so yeah you you want the best position possible in qualifying here in Holcomberg did not did not work for him it did not landau 20th in the speed trap at one point during qualifying, which is absolutely ridiculous to see. And of course, on the front row of the grid after Q3. Speaking of, let's head to Q3, where the top 10, where Vestapp and Norris Piaastri, LeCler, Hamilton, of course, has that five-place.

Grid penalty, Russell, Antonelli, Bortoletto, Alonzo and Sonoda. First question in this segment comes in from P1 Patreon member, Captain OBS 3-420. What's with the atrocious TV direction again? We completely missed Max's poll app. along with Landoes and Oscars so that they can show the two Ferraris

setting yellow sectors everywhere. Usually I'd agree with this but I need to see those Ferraris. I don't care how slow they're going they could have put in a purple last sector. No, I'm kidding. Now it was poor because we didn't even see Max over the line.

Tommy, it was such a ferocious end to that. You were saying that they cut to a pit garage or something? They did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They basically showed. Yeah, it's female. How are you cutting to a pit garage

when it's the end of Q3 and people are like literally a flurry of laps. It's chaotic. You're trying to see whether you've got your mini-sector somewhere that you take a look at another. You're trying to figure out who's coming next and they're like, off-track. That's what we want. Yeah, I can forgive them for maybe picking the wrong car in a session where it's incredibly close.

You don't know who's going to get it. So I understand them going for their usual tactic of showing the people that are at the front that probably might. challenge for poll and then you just watch them all across the line. But that is completely inexcusable to cut after someone's gone provisional poll, provisional poll, that's the key here, to a garage shot of celebrities clapping and some of them not even looking that interesting. It's not, it's not interesting remotely. And fine, sure I replay later of the, if that is indeed the poll app of the cheering and clapping and stuff. But,

live sport, we want to watch live sport. And heaven forbid, we want to watch the actual racing action. And, yeah, Max was still on a lap and they weren't showing it. And they cut back in a panic when he'd already basically crossed the line and gone fastest. And we're basically seeing him slow down. And it misses that excitement of pole position when you're not watching the car go across the line. It's almost as if, because I might be wrong, I don't think Max had actually set any purpose. sectors, but he still went fastest.

But he was close. But he was close. Yeah, no, the thing is right. It's almost as if they are looking for purple sectors, didn't see one with Max and went, we can go for a crowd shot, Max saying get a poll. Which I'm not, I'm not saying is excusable. It's not. But I think that's maybe where they've kind of fall down.

It's back to the wheel knowledge thing, isn't it, that we always mention about battles and going, look at it. Like we can see on the timing tower, someone's one tenth apart about to get onto the part of the track where you're actually able to overtake and would IRS and they don't show it. And this is the argument we have there where we go, TV director, have you watched Formula One? Like, this, it just kind of takes that. And if that is the case where they've just gone, our Max is down, he's not going to do it. No, show the cars. Show them crossing the line. Like, that's what we want to see. And that's what we're kind of paying to see as well.

Yeah. Well, I'm pleased to announce everybody that's watching and listening that there will be a boxing match live between Tom Bellingham and the F1 TV race director within the broadcast centre at Formula 1. Yeah, for missing Max's poll. Tickets are now available as well as obviously the P1 live show in Australia. So if you want to go and see that, Tommy will be throwing hands. So that'll be great to watch. Next question comes in from P1 Patreon member Speedy.

Max win conversion chance. Yeah, I mean, he does have a chance. I know McLaren are mighty. I guess Max is going to be quite happy that the guy behind him is 20th in the speed traps that makes it quite quite good for him. Of course, he'll have DRS, and it will be tricky for Max to win, but it is also hard to overtake. And I'm very, I think the most fascinating thing with this grid is how the others play it,

because you've got Lando, who of course is on the back foot after what happened at Zanvort, needs to win but not take too much risk. You know, he's, he's of course, he needs to start eking into Piastri's lead and taking big inroads and, of course, him finishing winning the race, going for a move on Max and Oscar finishing third is a great result for him and takes a big chunk out of that. But he can't be too risky that he's trying to do something and Max, they collide or whatever and then Oscar wins the race and it's 25 points and then it really would be like pretty much championship done. So yeah, I think Max has got got a chance just because you do think

Oscar's probably not going to risk very much from from P3 when Lando's P2. Lando will be slightly cautious as well even though he knows that he does have a win but probably think more about it in the pit stop. So I think Max does have a have a chance to win definitely and as we've said on this podcast a few times today that it's very hard to pass at Monza and in 2025. Yeah, I think he's got a really good chance of winning tomorrow. I think it works in his favour as much as on paper you go, oh, there's two drivers of the same team behind me. Surely they'll just throw different strategies to try at least get one ahead. But the thing is they're both locked in a championship battle, as much as some people think it's over, it's not.

which I guess in some ways means that McLaren won't be as flexible perhaps with the strategy they can't give Oscar or they shouldn't if their rules are anything to go by shouldn't give Oscar a preferential strategy to win the race from third

because Lando would want that one whatever that might be so what I'm seeing is yeah look Max's great great opportunity to win the two McLarens are going to be kerfuffling Chaleklaire comes through and finishes fourth

so I think that Max he's got a great chance He's got a great chance for sure. And as you say, really, really hard to overtake at Monza, which is sad to say out loud. Max knows as well. He's going to get his elbows out at the start. If McLaren even has a sniff of him, he's going to, he's got nothing to lose. Like he's not in the championship fight.

He's going to, he wants to take the victory. You've got to treat him like a rear end of a donkey. Yeah, for sure. Just looked up the weather. Absolutely nothing doing on the weather. It's going to be a pure battle out there. But no, I think Max is probably the favorite to win tomorrow in some ways. It just depends.

The dirty air, how well will that McLaren deal with it in that middle sector that they have a huge advantage with? They'll have to be basically pushing Max for Ascari if they want a chance to get past. So, yeah, if that happens, then they'll sail by. But a lot of unknowns about the tires, of course, and will that Red Bull be good on heavy fuel? We will see. Next question, just for fun, F1. Why are the McLaren's giving each other toes? The constructors is locked.

It should be every man for himself. I think people are reading into this quite heavily because it's not just a case of two drivers in the same team giving each other a toe. The only person that is kind of screwed is the person that goes out at the front of the pack. Everyone else is towing each other. I know Piastri is giving Norris a toe and things like that.

But of course, McLaren, I'd imagine, are still trying to keep things relatively fair. They swap whoever gives tow to whoever. But the thing is they just try and play place their two cars in the pack and therefore everybody gets a tow. I get what some people are saying that it doesn't make much sense, but also they're all gaining from that. So it's not as big as some people think. And I think that's kind of all I have to say on that matter. Yeah, if Piastri was the lead car that basically first out the pit lane, I think this argument

you go, well, that's completely unfair on Piastri that he's towing Lando a lot. long, but it's factored in that Piastri will get a tow from another car and that's exactly, of course, what they did. So, yeah, it was, of course, very close and people may look at the margin between the two of them and go, oh, that's because Norris had a toe, but then, of course, Piastri had a toe from the car in front of him to a point as well. And, yeah, they kind of had even gaps across the whole field. It's only really if you are the front car that is the one.

that got screwed, which was, of course, Yuki Sunoda. Indeed. So that tells you everything you need to know, really. Next question. People on Patreon member Blackson. Should George have gambled on the mediums? In hindsight, yes, because of course he was looking very good, wasn't he, in Q1? He topped the session.

He, of course, came on the radio wanting it. It's one of those things, isn't it, where once we get that radio message and he says, I wanted the mediums. As soon as he's not on pole or qualifies in P6, of course we're going to jump on it and go, oh, well, if he'd add the mediums, it'd have been way quicker. But, you know, teams have their data and they don't like to listen to their drivers a lot of the time. They just like to go by what they think is quickest. And George wanted to gamble would have been fun to see it because, of course, we like to see that in Formula One

and would have been interesting to see what he could do on the medium, hires and now you look at it and go well if he'd gone on the mediums and even if it hadn't worked it had been probably seventh behind and beaten you kind of the salber the Aston and UK so yeah it's it's one of those things in hindsight that would have maybe been better to do and I'm sure he'll probably be quite annoyed about it and look through the data of course and and say that maybe maybe his team are now going through that data going look this is why we didn't didn't do it. Well, yeah, and one of the reasons why they didn't is probably because they need a medium race tire that's brand new, the tire allocation, you don't have an unlimited amount of

medium tires, which is usually a race tire. I cannot imagine we're going to see soft tires for the race tomorrow. And don't forget, he's already used a brand new set of mediums in quality already. And I don't think you can just take out another medium set when you think about the allocation is used in practice as well. And you need to save a new set. I think there's four, I think it's four new mediums you get for a Grand Prix weekend. I might be wrong, but it's not a lot. You get a lot of softs, but then not as many medium and hards. So it's probably that.

It's probably the team just going, look, you can have to find fresh softs. Because you've got to think of the long game, you've got to think of the Sunday. But then George's argument, it'll probably be, look, it'll only be a couple of laps on the mediums. You know, it'll be an outlap, a fast lap and an in-lap, and I could be third, second, first. I don't know. It's hard to say. George being, I can't know what I need he said, Charles. George, George being fastest in Q1, wasn't he, on the mediums?

Yeah. That's not to say it would have translated to an 187, because I think it was a 194 he did on the mediums, like how much more could he have eeked out of a tire that is not as soft? But yeah, I'm sure. Like, I'm looking at the lap times now. Max did a 194, and George did a 194 in that Q1. And obviously Max ended up doing an 1870. and finding, you know, the seven tenths of lap time,

George only found three tenths, less than three tenths. So maybe that would be his argument of... And he didn't even improve on that final run. No, exactly. That George lap time was his first flying lap. So I think he will be obviously very critical of his team because he went and used a brand new set and didn't even manage to improve.

So, yeah, not great for George. I expect a little bit more after, especially the first couple of sessions of Kuali. But it will be P5 on the grid off. Antonelli would be happy with it, though, to be... Antonelli, yeah. That close to Russell after every conversation we had yesterday, like this is exactly what Mercedes want from him.

So, fingers cross, he has a good race. Next question, Fergus right, ref. Why didn't Ferrari ask Lewis to give Shal a toe? I just don't think it's worth that much. They're all running in a sort of distant toe anyway. Hamilton would have, as much as I joked about it when we were watching the qualifying with you guys, it would require Hamilton to sacrifice one of his runs to give Shal maybe a tenth. If you think about how low the downforce is on the Ferrari in particular,

they're quick as it is. I don't know. For me, yes, Charles would have beat an Oscar with a perfect toe, but Hamilton said it himself that it's also runs a risk as well, trying to give a slipstream to a car in a perfect way. You know, you might play the F1 game. I think, oh, it's easy. Just look in your mirror.

It's not as easy when you're in an actual Formula One car in a qualifying session where you don't have a little mini map to look at where all the other cars are. So I'm not too angry about Ferrari and then sacrificing one of Hamilton's laps to give Charl a toe, but had it given him a pole in an alternate reality, then maybe I'd be slightly more angry. Well, he got a toe based on, you know, like, the conversation we had about why aren't the McLaren's towing each other and we said,

you know, well, Oscar Piastri got a toe from the car in front, Charlotte Clare got a toe. Yeah, but I think the thing is a heavy toe, a Hamilton lifting off, and then Charles gets right up his diffuser and then completely bails out. That's the question. Well, yeah, okay, if they're going for that and I don't think it's fair to completely sacrifice Hamilton's lap for that. I know he's got the penalty and some would argue that, you know,

he's going to struggle from from where he is but that was never going to happen and you know lecler did get a toe from sonoda of course not the optimal toe um but it's still a toe it's not like charl was the first car in front if that had been the case then yeah it does look really stupid that they didn't have hamilton in front and then i'm sure you'd hope that fray would then have that conversation if leclair was the one basically uh in in no man's land with without getting a tow at all but He did get the toe from Yuki to a point, but it didn't. It just didn't come together for him in that final run when, of course, the first run, oh my word, like we were back in 2022, Charlotte Glor versus Mike's just happen for Paul.

The glory days, the absolute glory days. I knew immediately after I saw that Ferrari bounce over the second part of the first chicane. I was like, it's over, it's done. We've lost time. and lo and behold we had and yeah it was a lap that I'm sure Shal was not happy with and final question comes in from P1Pitch remember

Medium Speed Corner Can we expect a chaotic race start tomorrow? Yes I think so because people are going to know that that kind of it's a very heavy braking zone into term one positioning your car perfectly is the best way to go I think the three at the front Max is going to get his elbows out

but then as I said earlier I don't think Norris would do anything stupid to try and do something crazy to overtake Max and equally Oscar's got the championship to think about so he's not going to do anything too crazy either. Charler-Claire probably will people like Charlerc will think, well, absolutely like this is my best chance to get a McLaren and maybe he goes for it into turn one and knows that if he if he's fighting the McLarens, the McLaren's are going to not dive out of the way but think better of it when they've got a championship to win. So yeah, I think there's definitely some

intrigue at the start because that is the place where it's going to be the easiest to make the passes because as soon as you settle into that rhythm and the DRS trains happen, that's when it becomes really, really difficult. I see it slightly differently with the McLaren's. I think that with Lando, he has to get past Max. He has to. Lap 1 is his best opportunity. He's slow A. F on the straights. So if he gets half an opportunity, he has to send it. I know it's something we don't tend to see with Lando as much against Max in particular. We've watched many times and gone, please, just go for the move.

You're in a faster car. But at the same time, lap one, he must know that that is his best opportunity. With Oscar, damage limitation at this stage, we've already spoken about it. It's a question that's been constantly spoken about this weekend. Oscar says when you're in the car, you don't think of that. Like you're just, you're just dialed in and you're trying to do the best, best you can. So I'm not sure if we're going to see a particularly calm and composed couple of McLarence, which I don't want to see that.

I want to see them go wheel to wheel. So let's not repeat of last, last year. As much as I would love to just, yeah, give in and agree and believe in your scenario where Charles will be the most aggressive and take the lead into term one. Not the lead. I think, no, I'm kidding. But, yeah, I just think it's going to be aggressive no matter. to what, and Max is going to defend that lead, like his life depends on it.

So I'm ready for it. I don't know if we're going to have a clean lap one, if I'm being completely honest with you. I think it will be pretty, pretty antsy, pretty aggressive. And that's what we want to see. We do. Some aggressive overtaking and some action. So I can't wait for it, Tommy. It's going to be awesome.

We're going to be live on Twitch and YouTube. Matt P1, Tommy, if you haven't watched along before, if you're brand new and you're scared to come and watch along with us, don't be. come and join. We have people, new people join the chat every single time. If you're worried how to sync up, we will tell you everything when we're there. Tommy, what are your final thoughts? My final thoughts are I just basically put on while you're chatting there, the highlights of last year to check where the pole position was, because I couldn't remember if it was inside or outside, and it is on the outside racing line. So Max is probably going to move over. But then, yeah,

it just reminded me of that move that Oscar Piazari did last year. And let's, see some more of that between the McLaren's. I don't think they will, but it'd be amazing to see them fight, fight Max as well. Please be, please be a good race, please be a good race, because you never know with the Italian Grand Prix. It's a bit of a hit and miss, isn't it? Usually a miss of recent times. Well, that being said, yeah. A slow car and out of the front, that's when it's the best because it's tension. You need, you need that crazy kind of opportunity to kind of make. it a two-stop and a one-stop, which is obviously what made it good last year.

But I'm not sure what the optimum strategy is, but I'm sure it would be a one-stop. Yeah, it'll be a one-stop. Sharclough showed that last year. So unless we get random safety cars, of course, it might change it up. What I want to see is actually Esteban Okon from 15th on the grid, doing exactly the same move as he did in FP3 on Max Verstappen into turn two, round the outside and taking the lead of the race. Now, if you haven't seen that move, straight line turn one.

Because the beef, the beef has been reignited between Max and Estabat. In a random FP3. In a random FP3. Absolutely love it. Right. Thank you everybody. We'll see you very soon. Lots of love to get bye.

Goodbye. It's a very matter of fact for a man that has his favourite driver on pole. Diculous. Couldn't let me have this one. No, absolutely not. No. Literally Italian Grand Prix, you selfish. Human.

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