P1 with Matt and Tommy - Reaction to Qatar GP sprint race

Episode Date: October 7, 2023

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Hello everybody and welcome back. Cast otherwise known as the Oscar P. Astri podcast, Oscar P1 Astri. Because my God, Tom Bellingham, we got some things to talk about. We sure have, that's why I'm wearing orange for McLaren, right? But yeah, what a sprint, by the way. We've been complaining a little, not complaining, but, you know, we've said many times that it does feel a little bit strange, to have that whole day for such a short race.

But what a short race, because this track, I think, is actually quite underrated with the action that it provides the sand on the track, the fact that it's an absolute tire killer. We saw some brilliant racing. I'd say we probably saw, if you watch a highlights package of that sprint, there's probably more action than most of the races this year. And also as well, we haven't even put this in our sort of sheets that we have, that we had a banging Qualley earlier today as well, where it was a front row lockout for McLaren,

which actually turns out to not be the optimum. You needed a first and third realistically because second was so bad with how dirty it was on that side of the grid. But Oscar Piastri, of course, getting pole position, beating Lando who made another mistake in Qualley, just wanted to touch on that, because of course, Oscar did a great job in there as well. But we then moved to the race itself,

and we were, I mean, we kind of thought it might have been quite interesting with the fact of there's this whole concern around tyres, but not just that. The teams actually went for different strategies, rather than the mediums, potentially even like the hards being used, because you never know if a team might be a little bit too cautious on that front.

But no, we had a mix of soft and medium, and my God, were the soft runners quick off the start. They sure were. Yeah, pretty wild that we've had all this talk earlier this morning about we might have tire blowouts. Oh, we might, and as of yet, we still don't know that, you know, might have mandatory pit stops in the race because the tyres aren't going to last. And then you do a sprint race and they're like, right, soft tires, let's do this. They'll always go for it. It was worth a gamble. It was very much worth a gamble at the start

because, boy, they were quick. Russell in particular, my days. Yeah, they were quick. I don't know if it was worth the gamble. They needed like two or three more. safety cars, which I mean, it's crazy to think they had a VSC. Did they have a VSC or two safety cars? Two safety cars at the start and still didn't work out. Still wasn't enough for a 19 lap race around a what, one minute 30, maybe just lower than that per lap, which is crazy. I think that sums up the craziness of, and this is a really odd thing in a 19 lap race, because normally we're here after a sprint complaining that there's no tire

strategy. They'll start on the same tires and there's no difference. But I think what sums up the craziness is that George Russell managed to lead that sprint. Hamilton started 12th and didn't look like his fight. And then they ended up on track together in fourth and fifth by the end of it. It was pretty wild, actually. It was ridiculously wild. What is it about sprints this year? Like we had one was it in Austria that was one of the best races we've had and then we have this one as well which there was so much action in 19 laps

and considering probably a third of this race was neutralised onto the safety car as well like how on earth do we have this much to talk about? It's crazy. But of course the massive thing before we dive into the nitty gritty of what happened in the Qatar Sprint is that Max Verstappen is a three-time champion of the world which you could tell Crofti had been told to say

that exact line for the sky. promos for the next year. Yeah. You knew he'd say it. But yeah, it's been, it's been strange, obviously, as a Max fan. It's not surprising that it's happened. What do you mean? Mate, honestly, if Paris had won, you know, just stuck and needed it.

But no, it was, it was always, it always, it was always going to happen, but from after about maybe the sixth race or something. And he's had an amazing season. But yeah, to see him, crown champion is, you know, it's awesome. And what, yeah, celebration. So happy for you. I know you're so happy. So happy for you, mate.

With your max cape on three years and a row. I had to do it. But, I mean, there's still, it's mad that there's still six races to go. Because he could still, like you say, end up with more wins than Vettel by the end of the year, which is mad. And by the time we get to that end of the season, we'll know just how good this season's been. But so far, my word, has he been unbelievable.

And yeah, a nice moment to be crowned the champ, even if it was a bit strange for P2 in a sprint. Absolutely. Didn't win the race that he gets crowned world champion, which is kind of weird considering how many races he has won this year. Yeah, a quick word from me. Max Verstappen has been sensational this year

that it's all well and good having the best car, but to be able to deliver with it to the level of which he has has never been seen before in the level of the amount of wins that he's had in a row this year. He's broken that record. He's going to break many more records over the next few years. If he has

two more seasons like this where he wins, how many bases has he won this year? Oh, you put me on the spot. I want to say about 11, 12, something like that. It's more than that. isn't it? No, sorry, he won 10 in a row and then won the first two, and then one another.

So yeah, about 13, I think he's on 13. Okay, do your facts whilst I keep talking about how amazing Max Verstappen is. But either all, if he has two, maybe two and a half more seasons like this, and it's very, very likely that that could happen, at least for 24 and 25, and he's already knocking on the door of Michael Schumacher's 91 race wins, if he has a couple more seasons like that, which makes me feel physically sick as a Michael Schumacher Stan. But that being said, Max is, yeah, unbelievable. He's a complete, no one can question this 2023 world championship, which I'm sure doesn't bother him in the slightest. But yeah,

he's been utterly unbelievable and has taken dominance in Formula One to another level, in my opinion. He's the best that we've seen in a very long time when it comes to delivering at a high, like an almost perfect level week in, week out for as many weekends as we've seen this year. So well done, Max Verstappen. Have you changed? 13. Yeah, 13.

Perfect. All right, cool. So he will potentially finish with 19 then. Okay, that would be quite something, wouldn't it? Anyway, we will cross that bridge when it happens. At Rinjob, that sounds... Do you think it's fair that Max Verstappen gets prime position after the sprint, even though Oscar won the race?

Yes. I have wanted the world champion to have the front and center moment for many, many years. I know when they didn't do it, when it was kind of almost just like swept under the carpet, like, oh, you know, Michael Schia Maxwell champion or Lewis Hampton's world champion

and there wasn't really much of a song and dance made of it. Now, absolutely. You know, Oscar got his time, they spoke to him. It's a sprint at the end of the day. But either or, the world champion, if you're being crowned that race, that has to be number one prime slot, in my opinion. It doesn't matter even if Logan Sargent won the race.

It should all be about Max Verstappen and winning the world title. I'm glad you said it because obviously I agree. Unless Charles LeClaire won, in which case, you know, move over. Come on. Yeah, I'm glad you said that because, you know, obviously if I said it, a lot of people would just be like, well, of course you think that because you like Max. But at the end of the day, we've gone through one of the biggest complaints that I have in Formula One for many years is that the F1 Drivers Championship Trophy is hidden away at some posh gala event that the fans never got to see. And there's been many times in the past, think Lewis Hamilton, I think Hamilton won it actually

one year recently, but the one that comes to mind is obviously Brazil, 2008, where he won the title with a fifth place. I think Hamilton's won it before. I think he, maybe in Mexico where he was ninth or something and off the podium. And, you know, obviously he has the moment he's there celebrating, but it is nice to have that song and dance about it. And we all complained that when that wasn't the case. So now it is.

Yes, it's unfortunate because it's happened where there'll be a lot of people going, oh, well, Max has, you know, he's had all his celebrations. Why does he get to do this? And, you know, it's Oscar's first time celebrating P1. But at the end of the day, like you say, he is the world champion. That is the race. He's become world champion. that is the ultimate prize in this sport.

So of course they're going to take priority to it. Imagine if it was like, hmm, Max has had quite a lot of sell it. They did it on like a case by case basis. Do you deserve to be front and center winning the world title this year? Oh, you know,

we've got a race winner that's kind of unexpected. Of course, of course Max has to have that front and center position for winning the world title. I'm glad they did it because it looks great and that's what they're all there for is to win the world championship. So, I think that was all good in my eyes. So let's give Oscar Piastri his moment in the sun,

shall we? Race winner, sprint winner, but not Grand Prix winner, which we just have to keep reminding people. He is not a race winner. Is it a race winner? No, it's a sprint winner. No, you can say he's won a race. I think F1 said, didn't they?

I think they tweet, do you say they tweeted Oscar Piastri as a race winner? No, just said a winner. Okay, he's a winner. Maybe. He's a winner in Formula One, which he is. He's a winner in Formula One. But he's not a Grand Prix winner, which is confusing when you've got this new record.

It's going to become more normal, of course. Russell got his first win as a, and then obviously end up winning the Grand Prix anyway, which was strange. But yeah, this is a new thing we're going to have to get used to, but it's still an incredible achievement. Of course, a lot of the narrative will be. Oh, he's got that win before Lando, of course. And can you believe that in our predictions,

we had a whole debate about, and I think one of the predictions, which we'll get into tomorrow, was Oscar gets his first win. So what a shout. What a shout that is. I forgot about that. Let me, while you're having your chat,

let me find out who that is, and we need to give them a shout-up, because fair play. That's unbelievable. And I'm pretty sure I was like, oh, so Oscar gets his first podium. And then, oh, all of a sudden, you all won't be asked you to win. And then it was like, oh, God, you've actually done it. So well done. We'll find out who that is.

But yeah, Oscar was brilliant. You know, not only did he have to manage the whole start with George Russell and the soft-tire run as being really quick, but also just to make sure that he didn't lose his head in that moment. to be able to take those medium tires as long as they did. He had a safety car restart to deal with as well, which it wasn't the best, but he managed to keep P1 going into term one.

And then he had Max Verstappen hunting him down with three, four laps to go. So he had plenty to deal with, did Oscar, but a beautiful drive. Unbelievable. He was in the right position. He didn't make any mistakes. And this is what happens. You don't have to be on paper the fastest teammate in a team compared to obviously Lando Norris, who we all think is slightly quicker and this, that and the other.

But Lando ends up finishing P3, eight seconds behind his teammate, who's won the sprint. So nothing could be taken away from Oscar. I think it's going to be very difficult for him to replicate that tomorrow. But he is a sprint winner issue, and he should really enjoy it as well. And he takes everything in his stride. And that is why he could easily be entering very quickly this sort of Russell, LeCleur, Norris, conversation. And if not, now, why not now? Because Piastri is proving himself weekend after weekend. Yes, it's a phenomenal drive. I think he mentioned in our podcast, didn't he,

about it's a very different feeling when you've got Maxis's happened behind you and you're running P1 and he stayed there. It was kept his call. You know, like you say, didn't kind of get flustered the fact that it could have quite easily sort of got very annoyed that, oh, you know, has McLaren throwing it away here because the soft runners are flying past me and now I'm under pressure. But what a, what a mature drive. I know it's a very shortened race. But my God, when he gets his sort of tire wear issues sorted, because his raw speed is unbelievable.

You know, again, you know, he set the fastest lap in in Quali earlier today as well. So a very bright talent. I mean, to think that the start of the season, we were all wondering, has he made the right move to go to McLaren? Should he have stayed at Alpine? And he's now here winning a sprint, which is wild to think about, particularly after that first race, when I think. I think didn't he, it wasn't the McLarenlai absolutely useless and he just retired straight away.

And we're all going, oh God, Oscar must be wishing he went to Alpine now. And he's now a race winner, not a Grand Prix winner, but a race winner. And well done, Oscar. And well done to Tamsin Riddle, who made that prediction of Oscar gets his first win. What a shout. Sensational. Sensational. Well done, Tamsin.

A question from Justicus. With Piastri out qualifying Norris, more often than not in recent, recent races and now getting his first race win before him, how long is it until Piastri is McLaren's number one? All right, let's not get ahead of ourselves here, everybody. I think that McLaren might have a slightly more difficult conversation when it comes to Piastri and Norris if Oscar continues on this run of form continues to be on Lando's pace or at least being in a better position. Because I can understand why Oscar would just move. move out the way in the start of his McLaren career, he doesn't want to start ruffling too many

feathers. But as the seasons go on, if we get into next year and Oscar continues to close that gap, especially in the race pace, then Oscar's going to start going, no, I'm not going to let Lando through because, you know, he will start getting more confident. He'll realize, actually, I can say no to these things, because all the other drivers tend to say no. And I don't think they will ever label Piastri as McLaren's number one, unless Lando leaves for Red Bull in a couple of years or whatever's starting to be rumoured. But yeah, I wouldn't get too ahead of ourselves right now. It is a sprint, but it has been very good for Oscar's reputation so far.

Yeah, I think we need to maybe calm down a little bit because, yeah, just because he's won the sprint doesn't mean that he's suddenly, you know, miles better than Lando Norris and And And Norris needs to kind of think about, you know, start to panic. Of course, the narrative was always going to be, which, again, wild that we mentioned in the predictions that like, can you imagine if he gets that first win and it happened the very next race, essentially, because it's still a race. And yeah, I don't think Norris has too much to worry about the moment. he's been had a very very good season

Landis of course has got the most points other than the Stappan since Austria I think it is of anyone so he's having an amazing season but Piastri is improving and as a rookie I think it's just it's not just it's frightening for everyone really that that his his pace because it showed that he is a very special talent. And boy Alpine, what have you done?

You could have had a lineup of Piastri and Piastri. No, you don't. So have a think about that one. Yeah, they might be kicking themselves a little bit for sure. But yeah, Piastri can be so happy with himself. And we shall see how they'll be. that develops over the next few days, and races even. I think that Piestri, he's got that raw speed in qualifying.

We're seeing that now. Lando has been forced into some errors this weekend. I've seen a few people chatting about, is Lando pushing a bit too hard now? Because Piastri has really picked it up. I think there might be an element of that. I think if we're just looking at Qatar, it's not as if Lando's the only one that's made mistakes this weekend.

It's been mistake riddled up and down the field with track limits and so on and so forth. So I don't think we can really say that Lando's being pushed to make these massive mistakes. He's on the limit clearly and he has to be, he's not trying to just beat Piastri either. He's trying to get poll. And he said several times in the media that he should have been on poll for Friday and Saturday, but he didn't deliver on either of them and even said himself, ah, shoulda woulda, coulda, and it is true. But with all of this sort of hyping up of McLaren, hyping up of Piastri, all I can think about is how much they've thrown the opportunity of such an amazing result tomorrow. They might still get a great result. We don't know.

But Lando being down in 10th, Piastri and 6th, they could have easily got a second and third, I think, tomorrow. I'm glad you've said it because I was like, I don't want to burst your bubble on my down pants, but my word did they bottle yesterday. And it does show that, you know, in the race, it was a very short race, but Piastri has beaten Verstappen,

and they beat him in qualifying. So the opportunity is there, and you've got to think this. This is a dream McLaren track, really, with the way the track layout is. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, the live reaction. Here we go.

As if. Charles LeCler, five second time penalty for exceeding track limits. Albon promoted to seventh, Alonzo and to P8. Good stuff. Right. Should we talk? Should we get on to that or? Yeah, let's get it out of the way.

Yeah, good. Fantastic. Was it four times on the final lap? What was he doing? Four times on the final lap, Charlotte LeCler exceeded track limits and beat Albon by four thousandths of a second over the line. But he now goes to five second time penalty

and therefore doesn't get a point. But I'm fine. I'm literally dead inside after this year for Ferrari, really. I mean, Carlos Stein's obviously getting that win, but Charlotte Ler has really had a mediocre season. He's had some moments. But anyway, I don't want to talk about it. Well, where were we?

Let's move on. This perfectly sum up the P1 venture in one moment where I'm sat here Max has happened three-time champion the world of my cape on

you're like oh, Charles got a penalty, wonderful. Dropping him out of the points in a sprint. Yeah. Yeah,

that really does some things up, doesn't it? But you do wonder what Charles was doing on that last lap and maybe you should have just let Alburn go

because it's cost him all of one point. So it's not going to, it's not going to be the end of the world again. because it doesn't, it's not like it carries over. It would have been two points. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, no, anyway. Oh, no anyway. You know, like, it's easy for you to say. I mean, can you not just share some of the points? True, I guess he isn't. No, I guess he isn't. It is in a battle, isn't he, with, with science, I guess, for that number one spot in the title.

And also as well, Ferrari are fighting Mercedes for P2 in the Constructors' standings, let's not forget as well. So there are points still that need to be made. and yes, fun. Question from P1, Patreon Discord user. R Sport. Do you think the soft runners expected multiple safety cars and that played into their decision

to start on that? Compound seemed like a reasonable gamble except for the limited info on fuel runs from first practice or one practice. I think that there must have been an element of gambling for sure, just purely because everything this weekend has pointed towards is tireware, the tires aren't going to love. last and therefore, you know, don't risk it.

And then this driver starting on the softs. And despite two safety cars, Russell was still a sitting duck. If they had no safety cars, the soft runners would have been absolutely screwed. I genuinely think the likes of Holkenberg before he gets yeated out into non-existence by Ockon turning into him. Could have got a really good result, a bit like how we saw in Austria as well in the sprint, wasn't it, with Holcomberg? Yeah, yeah. So those medium choice, the medium choice was definitely the, right one. But the gamble

paid off because there was a couple of crazy incidents. Yeah, it did. It was, like I say, it was such a wild race and the fact that, yeah, Russell was leading and then you think, oh, they've played an absolute blind to here because he's, because you also

have that advantage on the safety car restarts. I mean, just a kind of props to Russell, his safety car restart was absolutely sensational where he went so early and caught piastri completely by surprise because we normally see drivers because they don't want to get slip streamed wait till the very last minute and then floor it down the main

straight but russell played a blinder there but yeah it didn't work out for the soft runners in the end and they fell back to the point where uh Alex alban somehow has made it into the points which if you'd said that at the start of the sprint I'd have said what are you? smoking as people do in our predictions. What are you cooking, eh? It is interesting. Yeah, Alex Albon, now scoring two points for Williams. That is an unbelievable performance from Alex, especially considering how bad the Williams has looked this entire weekend around a track that I don't think was supposed to really suit

them. So, massively good job from Alex. And yeah, you do wonder, I mean, with George Russell, I think, was it lap 12 of 19, behind the safety car and he's pleading for the team to pit him and put on new tires. That just shows how little faith he had in those tires going the distance towards the end. And I'm pretty sure he's quite glad he didn't pit because he finished fourth. Yeah. And I don't think you would have finished fourth had he pit.

We've seen that before in the past, haven't we? Our drivers are just desperate at that stage and not really thinking properly. One that comes to mind is kind of like Hamilton when he was leading up Monaco and his ties would end. He's like, no, we're going to have to pit. It's like, no, because if you pit, you lose, like, it's just not a good idea. but in their head the mentality is like, you know, my tires have absolutely screwed, helped me. So you can see why he said it, but it was never going to work. Certainly wasn't.

Next question is around the crash. And 61th says, who was at fault? Ocon, Checo, Hulk or the Sand? I think the Sand had a part to play in everything that we saw in the sprint, to be honest with you. So big shout out to the Sand. for making a crazy sprint. More sound. When I check the weather forecast,

I'm going to be looking for sandstorms now to see if we get an interesting race. But for me, definitely Ocon. It's difficult. It's not like Ocon deserves to have a race ban or anything. It's just more that the nature of the racing. I don't think O'Con necessarily expected Checo to be on the right-hand side,

which of course, if Checo is not there, then Hulk will naturally move. to the right, but instead he gets sandwiched and then it's a crash between all three of them. But I definitely think Ocon was the one at fault and what caused the incident. Yeah, it's more on Ocon, especially if you watch, there's an angle where it kind of, you're watching behind the cars and you can see that Holcomberg doesn't change direction at all. And O'Conn is moving over, expecting Holcomberg to kind of be bullied out the way. And of course, O'Con didn't know that Perez is there.

Perez, you know, I don't think you can blame him too much for that one. Of course, he's putting his car in a slightly dangerous place because he's seen two cars and he kind of relies on Ocon seeing him or not moving over. But he did move over and that was, yeah, I mean, strange to think that that was the actual moment where Max was crowned champion essentially because. Checo was out the race, but of course, that was never really... That was massive for the championship, Tommy. Perez out, Crockley was like, oh my God, this is it!

Max Verstappen is the champion! It's a shame for Hulk, though, because it looked like he might get some rare house points. Yeah, and they need them. They sure do need them. K-Mag's done absolutely nothing this weekend to help the Hask calls, finishing in a whopping 14th place in the sprint. Other incidents to talk about as well has to be firstly Liam Lawson,

just completely losing it on his own in the first. Was it the first lap of the sprint? Yeah, it was. Lap one. Yeah, so he obviously, sorry in advance. All the podcast listeners out there will know that I put him as big as flop and he spun out on the first lap of the sprint

and didn't make it out of Q1. Sorry, but I just had vibes. And the vibes were true. Yeah. And then the second one was, of course, Logan Sargent. Your biggest surprise. It's my biggest surprise. And it was surprising how he went off quite, quite as a strange place.

And you just, at this point, I lost it a little bit on Twitch. And I was like, just keep it on the track. I know it's difficult. It doesn't matter if you finish 10 seconds behind Albon or 15. Just stop binning it. Stop DNFing. and they might keep you. Yeah.

I know it's easier said than done and Formula One cars are very difficult to drive, especially around Qatar. But not everyone out, I know there was a few DNS, but three of them was because of a big old crash, and two of them were Sergeant and Lawson losing it on their own, basically.

So it's inexperience and perhaps a little bit of too much aggression. Exactly. He doesn't need to beat Alex. You know, we said, Yesterday did we not after his qualifying performance. And, you know, he was a tenth off Alex in Q1. And you go, keeps doing this and not spinning off. He keeps his seat.

Because the team have come out on social and being like, you know, we know what he needs to do to keep his seat. We still have faith in him. We're back in him. And then he throws it away in a kind of, I'll say pointless sprint. But his teammate got even more points. So, yeah, it's not looking good for Logan at all. We kind of joked about wave by by to the seat,

but you do wonder that that could be the moment. He did look, it did look a little bit like, ah, that that is the moment from his body language. But we'll see. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah. He needs to bounce back tomorrow, just have a clean race and then to win Austin.

That would be the ideal, I think. But yeah, it's not looking good for Logan Sargent. And would you, because I know we rated how high of a chance Logan was to keep his seat, would you put him down a point after this sprint? Yeah, I think he's losing a point one incident at a time. So another minus one for that. Oh dear. It's not looking great for him.

Elle's in the chat for Logan. But anyway, that is that, that is the, the sprint talked about, I think. Let me just quickly cast my eye over everything. Hamilton, by the way, Hamilton had a great recovery drive. I'll say that. Yes, definitely. He also sold Carlos Sines, an absolute dummy and a half.

Did you see it? On the last lap, he was right behind Carlos, looked to go for the move. Carlos thought he was going to go deep. Carlos himself went deep, and then Hamilton said, thank you very much, I'm going up the inside. Obviously, slightly different tire performance at that point, but Hamilton still were Still a great result for him. Alonso not getting any points was quite surprising,

considering how reasonably good he's been looking this weekend. And probably a bit sad for Bottas as well. But that's just Alfao, isn't it? Bottas did a great quali. And it will be the same tomorrow as well. Yeah. And Hamilton, of course, not by much, but has closed that gap to P2 in the title as well with that,

which is wild to think, and also very Lewis Hamilton, and that, you know, he's qualified 12th and still got a very good result. He, that guy, he knows how to get the best out of any situation and just bag, bag the points, doesn't he? He certainly does. Very good drive. I think it's unfortunate.

One person I would say is unfortunate is maybe Bottas at a good race. And let's have a little mention of stroll that near the end, when he put on the, some fresh softs and we're like, Stroll could have an absolute worldy here and then didn't make up a single place. Well, they were eight lap hold softs, I will say for all the Lance Stroll fans out there that will say it wasn't fresh.

They weren't, but they were definitely fresher than everyone in front of him, and he made no progress. But still, he finished the race. Congratulations, moving swiftly on. P13, big result for him. And that is it. Thank you, everybody, for watching and listening to this wonderful sprint review for the Qatar Grand Prix.

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and that is the final shoutout I'm going to do. Tommy, what are your final thoughts? My final thoughts are, you mentioned USA 2005, let's hope that doesn't happen tomorrow. Well, they're going to make a decision, aren't they? That's something we probably haven't even mentioned. They're going to make a decision

which I'm not sure has happened yet at time of recording around the data from the tyres and to basically whether or not they're going to mandate that old drivers have to pit three times tomorrow. That is what is potentially ahead of us, which actually could make for a rather exciting race. So sign me up. Hopefully they do have to do that.

Bring back that 2012-per-Era. Absolutely. Bring it on. Right, thank you, everybody. See you soon. Bye-bye. Bye.