P1 with Matt and Tommy - Reaction to Spanish GP qualifying

Episode Date: May 31, 2025

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. Spanish Grand Prix qualifying edition. Goodness gracious me, we've got a lot to talk about. And before we get into all of that, I don't know why we're going really serious with the start of this podcast. Let's get, let's get cozy again. But before we dive into all things, Barcelona, Circuit de Barcelona, Catalonia, need to, of course, shout out the P1 Live Show delusion tour tickets that are now on general sale right now. If you wanted a ticket in Amsterdam, I'm really sorry, but they are sold out.

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I think we know what we're going to talk about here, Tommy. Yes. Of course it's the fact that Holkenberg, P16, a really shocking performance from Niko Holkenberg. No, it is of course Yuki Sanoda. People on Patreon member Thimmer. Let's go straight into the question. How long will Sonoda get in the Red Bull seat

before something has to change? I change my mind every hour as to what's going to happen because we kind of came into this weekend and we said, Red Bull, they might swap him out. You know, they don't have much to lose with trying drivers that might be able to figure out how to drive this car.

Yuki Sonoda is not a bad driver. He's shown that in that racing balls when he had the opportunity at V-Carb. And then he was, of course, promoted to Red Bull. And he's had moments of okay. I think that's the only way I can really put it. There's not been like a standout Yuki Sonoda has arrived, apart from perhaps

when he's got within a tenth of Max in practice. And we've gone, maybe this is the weekend. But he is last on the grid. And this is kind of these tracks, right, that will catch out a Yuki Snow that perhaps is struggling in comparison to Max. Because just how close qualifying was. It was, he did a 13-3,

and it was just over, well, it was two-tenths to Holcomberg, which actually in the grand scheme, of Spain is pretty big. So it was a disappointing performance. But in terms of the question about the seat, Hajar, in my mind, is destined to have a go. It's just when will that be? Will it be 26?

Will it be this year? It's hard to tell at the moment. I think, yeah, I can't believe we are in this situation again because Lawson, of course, P20, those first few races, we said they have to change something, they got Yuki Sanoda in, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think his best performance,

even though he didn't kind of really get the result, was kind of maybe Bahrain or something, really early on, and if not his first race, I think it was actually. And he did all right there, and you kind of thought, okay, he's got potential, now he makes the improvement,

and we're now nine races in, and we've got the same second Red Bull driver in P20 that we were seeing at the start of the year. It's absolutely insane. In terms of the question, I personally think Red Bull will just stick with him now. They just focus on Max and the driver's championship completely 100%, and they know that that a second seat now is a curse.

And I think Hadjar, I think if they're sensible, Hadjar is good enough. I know it's Red Bull, but I think they should see a special talent in Hadjar and know that it's not the right time to put him in. And we have this discussion on the watch-along. I think if Hadja has a great season, next year, this could age terribly,

but might not be so bad because we're having a complete regulation change and we know how much that car has kind of gone in the direction of how Max likes it, and that's what's made it so difficult to drive for every other drive that's gone in that car, because we've seen, you know, Sergio Perez,

Lawson, and now Yuki Sanoda, just be absolutely dreadful compared to Max in it. So I think Hadjar, if you've got, I think, sensible-wise, you don't put him in until next year and then see what he can do.

My counterpoint to that, Tommy, is, you know, the fact that we're saying the regulation change is coming in next year, perhaps the car will be easier to drive. what's to say then Yuki doesn't deserve the shot to try and drive an easier Red Bull. Why does Hajar, just because there's a slight bit of momentum with him

because he's in an easier car to drive, why does he deserve that opportunity, considering what Yuki has done to get this opportunity at Red Bull? Because Formula One isn't fair and it's all about being in the right place, the right time, sadly. But no, but I think it's different with Red Bull

because they literally have data that they compare because they own both teams. So it's not as if it's a wishy-washy, or he's doing well in the Aston or whatever. So from my perspective and from like if I'm trying to think of what Red Bull might be wondering is of course they want a safeguard for the future. They want a driver that they can absolutely trust in from 26 and beyond. And I guess a way of potentially doing that is to have a like for like comparison of Yuki and Isaac in that same car. I'm not saying it's potentially the correct decision, but how do they make an informed one if they don't know if Hagear would be in exactly the same situation as Sonoda?

because Sonoda is a talent and we've hyped him up. You've hyped him up. You're a Yuki fan boy. But to see him down here just does not make sense. So yeah, it's a difficult situation. I can't believe we are ringing the blooming alarm for the Red Bullse second seat once again. P20 again. The thing, we're right back to square one now, aren't we?

We are. You're wondering Perez, would he have done a better job? Probably. Probably, yeah. More experience in the team. Yeah, he did have some stinkers. But P20, it's just, it's such a headline that, of course, it has to be spoken about. Question, moving away now from Red Bull.

P1PH remember, Raitis, why do signs keep having moments like this in comparison to Albon? P18 for Carlos is a shocker. He has had some pretty poor qualifiers, but in terms of the head-to-head, it's 5-4 to Albon now. So like from a on paper perspective, it's not that bad, especially when you think that Carlos has come into the team and is learning a completely different philosophy of car. And Albon is doing a brilliant job as well. Both can exist where Albon's doing brilliantly and signs is having moments where perhaps he's struggling. I'm just going to put it down to, I mean, the fact that he has had great performances sort of settles the debate of whether or not he. can do it at Williams because I think he can.

It's just going to take a bit more time to perhaps get that consistency that he's searching for. Yeah, Carlos, the difference is just two tenths in Q1. And those fine margins between teammates can be the massive difference between, you know, a P11 for Alex and Carlos all the way down in P18. And while Carlos is trying to, you know, get confidence in that car and we've seen this weekend that Barcelona is just not a track that Williams like are really struggling there and they did last year.

Not their kind of track, but I think you're right in the fact that Carlos really isn't that far away. He's just been the one, unfortunately, that's been on the wrong end of the kind of headline moments where we kind of maybe expected so much of him, so it's a shock to see him down in 18. Yeah, you can easily be on the wrong end of, this kind of qualifying session where it is so close and it's such a quick lap that there aren't

as many places to make up the time. Just for context, like Lando's two-tenths behind Oscar Piastri in his second. So two-tenths, it's a tiny gap. But when you're in that midfield pack, look what happens. Two-tenth is everything. It can be everything, yeah. Exactly. But yeah, McLaren, we'll get onto them and the technical directive, which changed everything.

But before we do that, another thing, of course, we need to mention in Q1 is Franco Colopinto, who will start 19th tomorrow. I don't know if there's any investigations by the fact that he was blocking the pit lane, but he had a mechanical issue, so I don't think that would be fair for him to get any kind of penalty. And also for anyone to potentially criticize him, he was doing a decent job, actually, in Q1. I think he was running in around 11th until he had that problem. He was very much, yeah, in the Ghazley realm of pace. and then was just in the pits and couldn't move.

Because we see this sometimes, don't we, where drivers will just wait for the other driver to go out, get a nice healthy gap of 10 to 15 seconds, a little bit of a queue, and then we're sat there going, wait, is Colopinto, is he cooking here? Is he going to sit here for two more minutes? Do you have Fernando Alonso, Hungary. Yeah, Alonzo Hungary.

Hamilton fans don't listen to that one. But no, it turned out that he had a problem and couldn't pull away, sadly for him. But it was a bizarre situation, but I don't think 19th tells the story of what Franco's qualifying could have been. Absolutely is getting for him because Gassley is all the way up in P8 and it's not guaranteed that Colapinto would be up there as well. But certainly would be doing a lot better than the 19th based on a great first run and then didn't get to go out again. Because, yeah, we've not been able to see what he can do really, you know, to. two difficult kind of first races for him where it's Imler and Monaco, which aren't the

easiest tracks, and then it's also got to a more normal circuit, if you like, and then not even been able to kind of compete in qualifying, which is a big shame. Q1 doesn't usually have so many storylines, but I think another thing to mention is Ocon, who continues this trend of like, banger and then a stinker, and then a banger and then a stinker. In qualifying, you know, P-17 after such an amazing Monaco, he loves to just a random and poor qualifying this year Ocon. You know, whilst his teammate got through to Q2 and then ran the old tyres for some reason

on his final run, I think the team were potentially thinking about some fresh softs for the race. But yeah, a mystifying performance for Ocon as well as Holkenberg, who got outqualified by his rookie teammate. It was the rise of the rookies. It was, yeah, yeah, getting for O'Con after a brilliant performance, but Haas didn't really look like they kind of look like a team that could well be last with the Salba's,

but this time it seems that Salba have a little bit more pace, particularly in one of their rookie drivers, which we'll talk about later because he made it into Q2. What a beautiful segue. Q2 we go, where the bottom five knocked out in this one were Albon, Bortoletto, Lawson, Stroll and Bairman. I think you have to talk about Bortoletto here. Phenominal job from him.

They are a rocket ship in a straight line, fastest in the speed traps. And he was dropping nice little purple sector ones at points, which just threw me back to that the slowest car being fastest in the first sector, Nicholas Latifie Hungarian Grand Prix kind of style. You know what I mean? Yeah, what a time that was to be alive. But Bortoletto, P12, missed out by, well, he was about just over a tent behind Albon in P11. But I don't think you could ask any more of Bortoletto.

It did look like he might well flirt with getting into Qteleto. Q3, but P12, there's been upgrades brought for Salber. Holkenberg was excited about the prospect of upgrades coming into Spain, and they have taken a step forward. They have. I think Bortoleto deserves a huge amount of credit, because it's maybe unfairly been slandered as Frank's going nuts. Sorry, if you can say that in the background.

Frank is a big Hulk fan. Yeah, he's a big Holcombberg fan, clearly. But Bortoletto has done a really solid job. this year and I think it's kind of gone under the radar because he's driving the worst car on the grid. You know, you can only compare him to his teammate really in a car like that. And I think he's done a very solid job against a driver that is so well kind of known for his great qualifying. So I think the fact that Bortoletto has come in as a rookie. And I think people are maybe unfairly just kind of dismissing him going, oh, well, he's got no points.

He's not very good. I saw a lot of people saying when doing got replace. Well, get rid of Bortoletto as well. He's rubbish. he's definitely not. He's been doing a great job with what the machinery he has. And I think he's, it's not forget he's a rookie F3 and F2 champion just like Oscar Piastri was. So there's definitely talent there. Yeah, he's not stolen headlines week in, week out, has he? But he has had moments where you went, oh, hold on. Yes, please. And of course, he's still learning. And yeah, these are the

kind of performances that make teams and fans take notice. Apart from that, I think we got Lawson P13, stroll in a very mediocre 14th position. Bermann, as I mentioned, with those soft tire, that weird old tire run at the end, which meant he got nowhere near the other four. And then Albon, I was going to say William's struggles. It is kind of a struggle for the fact that neither of them made Q3 after I think four back-to-back points finish,

double points finishes for the team. So let's head to the big one. Q3. The top 10, Piastri, Norris, Fistap and Russell, Hamilton, Antonelli, Lecler, Gazley, Hadjar, and Aloys. And I think the biggest thing I have to talk about is that Oscar Piastri on poll by the biggest margin of the year. And if you tuned into our predictions, that is cash money for me, locking in, as I said that it would be the biggest poll margin.

We didn't think it was going to be, though, did we? After the first run, where it was 17,000ths of a second separating the top two drivers. But once again, McLaren looking great and they won two, which is not something we see all that often this year. No. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I probably will be because I'm thinking right on the fly. Yeah, I can tell. It feels like Australia was the only time we had them there. I think so as well, yeah.

It certainly doesn't feel, even if that's not the case, it certainly doesn't feel like we've gone into a qualifying since Australia, where it has been pretty much a foregone conclusion of which McLaren's getting poll. You know, it's still a fantastic battle between the two of them, but it didn't feel like we could see a surprise like Max has done before or an Antonelli or you know it's been incredibly close where some people have kind of snuck in and challenged Hamilton or whatever um but this this very much felt like it was just from pretty much the start of qualifying which McLaren is getting pulled so um technical director and we felt working well speaking of P1 patreon member pgostick one so the technical directive didn't work, right?

Look, I don't think, well, everyone was, yeah, McLaren, McLaren are going to be nerved. They are going to be slower. They are not slower. And I think if, you know, if you're a McLaren team member, you are sleeping very smugly tonight when everybody was saying that they were, even Red Bull, right, they said, as long as we get, within a victory, by Spain, we're in the hunt. And McLaren have not been nerved in the slightest. And it's amazing to see that they are first and second as well in qualifying,

which has tended to be the one where they've struggled a little bit. It's been a bit closer. What I will also say is that it genuinely feels like it's not been anywhere near as big as perhaps some people were saying. And in the Friday practice pod, five millimeters, is that really going to change that much? it's not even put any other teams into the sort of fray. Like Ferrari, they haven't been using flexi wings hardly at all.

Perhaps they will gain. Have they? Insert bleep here. Fifth and seventh and half a second off pole. Yeah, cheers. So realistically, the technical directive did work because what it was doing was changing the flexi wings. If you're talking about the technical directive working

in terms of bringing McLaren closer, it didn't. And it maybe has even done the opposite as well because, you know, we've never seen McLaren this clear in qualifying. It's normally, you know, we'll get to the race,

we'll see what can happen in the race because the trend this year has been everyone is very close in qualifying, but McLaren have the edge in the race. This time McLaren were able to stretch their legs in qualifying. Maybe just some blind hope you of optimism here

that maybe in the race it's a little bit different, but they are looking so, so quick. It's kind of looking very kind of what we saw in the very first race of the season in Australia, where they were, you know, three tenths clear of, well, actually four tenths, almost clear of third from that pole position. So, yeah, McLaren, very, very, very, very quick indeed, and that they'll be laughing at the other teams that were kind of calling the fact that they were going to get paid back, I'm sure.

Yeah, what I will also say is that it almost feels as though McLaren actually just perfected what they needed to do, which they haven't done, you know, all the way through this year. There have been mistakes on final flying laps and things like that. We didn't necessarily saw that. See, that we saw Lando a little bit scruffy, I would say, with his lap. But it did feel like a qualifying that was a lot cleaner just generally from both McLaren drivers.

and this is what I think we all expected almost every single qualifying session throughout the year. So it's hard to tell how much is technical directive, how much is just them delivering to a top level. Next question, P1Petra member Alan Enderpey. Will this McLaren dominance bore fans? It has, I think if they never see each other on track,

it has the possibility to, for sure. Because I think we all want a storyline of Piastri versus Norris, who is better. Let's see some wheel to wheel action. Let's see some headline stuff, right? And the fact is there's always something to stop them usually qualifying and they're not starting together and therefore we don't get to see action on track.

We now have them first and second. It kind of feels like if this season goes the way we all expect, it'll be a Hamilton versus Rosberg, 2016 scenario, whatever it might be, like just absolutely head to head going at it. But we haven't really had that. It's been very much, as you said, Tommy in the watch along, I think it was. It's felt like both McLaren drivers versus Max Verstappen are not against each other at the moment.

At various moments of the season. Yeah. It's been one McLaren driver winning, then Max getting a solid P2 and the other driver may be losing a bit at a few points. So perhaps this is where we build the storyline a little bit more. I liked the little Oscar Pistri diving out of the way of Lando immediately to stop him getting the toe.

That's the sort of stuff that just build storylines, little bits of gamesmanship. That's what we love to see, and I want to see a lot more of it. We need a lot more than that for it to be a great championship fight. At the moment, the points-wise, yes, it's fantastic that they're very close, but we need a bit more. You know, I don't want to see them, and some people may say they will, and McLaren fans probably do, but you don't want to see the two championship rivals going to the press conference and be able to Pally with each other

and feel like it's like, yeah, let's go for the constructors. We're doing a great job for the team. They're going for the driver's championship and let's not forget. Rossberg and Hamilton were great friends. And as it gets later into the season, we're probably going to see more drivers be a bit more ruthless

and know that they have to do everything to win the championship against their teammate. And there was a very brief moment, like you say about Oscar Piastri diving out the way to not give Lando a slipstream, maybe that's the very, very, very, very small appetiser to a bit more

a bit more of something about the McLarence because I want to see them fighting not just an Oscar versus Max race and then a Lando versus Max race and then as the season goes on that keeps happening and the McLaren's a really close game for the title give us some wheelbanging, please,

and maybe turn one. That's what we need. Turn one wheelbanging. Max will be going around. the outside of the pair of them, mate. And then they'll have to try and beat the Red Bull. But yeah, and it's funny as well that that whole toe thing came from Lando actually trying to get a little distant slipstream from its teammate as he was starting

his lap. So it's that sort of stuff that we love to talk about and we want a lot more of. And even Zach Brown wants it. You know, he constantly says, yeah, let's let them race wheel to wheel. It's great. And this, that and the other. I think he might regret that if they continuously go wheel to wheel across the rest of the season. But we will see.

P1Petra member Captain Obs 3, 420. Will McLaren make sure that we don't get a Spain 2016 Mercedes teammate crash, or will they be completely free to race? Well, as I just said, they will be completely free to race. Whether that is a case of that's how McLaren go racing, or they have no control over their drivers, we will never know. But what we like to see as fans, right, is that they can race. And I would love to see them race.

And from a spectacle, sign me up. And I love how when we spoke about this, I think when it was Hungary last year and, you know, this whole Oscar Lando situation. And we spoke about it from a championship winning side of things. It made more sense for Lando to have won that race if they were trying to catch Max. So I think if you're listening and, you know,

you hear us talk about this sort of stuff for the rest of the season, don't get confused that, yes, we love wheel to wheel racing. We want to see it. We loved Monsa. We loved Oscar going around the outside of Lando. It's awesome to watch. But if McLaren want to win a driver's world championship, you stick that hat on and you go,

is that the wisest thing to do? But it kind of doesn't matter now because they are clear. At this stage it doesn't. At this stage it doesn't. Yeah. Because of course they can't pick a driver at this point and that is something that Matt Susser Steppen will just be praying continues throughout the whole season and they don't get too far ahead that he can capitalize on the fact that McLaren will basically

find it impossible to pick and commit between one of the drivers if this continues. but if they continue like they have today and it carries on throughout the year, they're not going to be troubled, so it will be a case of a straight shoot between the two of them for the championship if they have the pace that they've had today every single Grand Prix.

And then, you know, the gloves can come off and that's what I'm excited to see where, you know, McLaren are a very, yeah, we're all Pally team and let's fight together for the Constructors' Championship and for the good of racing, and they really want to be liked. But I can't wait to see how that's going to go

when you're going to have two drivers that have the chance to become world champions, the biggest thing you can achieve in motorsport. And there's also going to be a shift, isn't there, as well, in the championship. This is what is considered early stages of the championship, when we get to six, seven races out, there will be a slight bit more desperation.

There will be a slight bit more, I need to go for this move and things like that. And I'm massively intrigued to see how it goes. Yeah, I completely agree with you, Tommy, and worth clarifying, I want them to race. It's more about when we get to a few races out, can McLaren make a choice,

or will they be too close? Or do they even need to at this right? This is the tantalizing part of Formula One, and we love it. The next question, Pee on Patreon member, Frank Zilla, is pole position actually? beneficial for Oscar.

We've seen in the past that poll in Spain is vulnerable to slipstream. So does that hand Lando and Max the upper hand? No, it doesn't, I don't think it does. I think pole position will always be the best place to start from for most races. Even spa will like, oh, Spar going to, and then first place sometimes still leads. It very much is a, if Oscar can get an eight out of ten or higher start, he's going to be probably okay. But I think what we saw last year, for example, was Max got.

a brilliant start, got alongside Lando, and then you had George in the slipstream with a pair of them swinging around the outside. So if pole can get a very solid start, then it's hard to beat them. If they can cover the inside. But the problem is, you've got a Max for Stappen that, as we saw in Imala, will go for a move no matter what. And I think this, in particular, this race will be another example of that, whether we will see the max of he goes 1% over what he needs to do, and that causes a massive crash, or we get a beautiful Imala move like we saw. It's going to be touch and go,

but I know for a fact that Max will understand he has to get ahead of at least one of the McLaren's because the understanding is they are going to be clear in race pace. He knows that this is the opportunity at turn one because it's a qualifying championship, as he said so many times, and Max has had races where he gets into the first corner first, Suzuki and Imola and it's very hard to pass them now

Suzuki you put Max third on the grid in Suzuki and Imola or or sorry third into the first corner I don't think for a second he's winning the Grand Prix it's so important to get into the lead and Max will know that it's his best chance Max will be praying that the dream scenario for Max is Lando pops into Oscar's slipstream they take they go to the inside, try and fight each other, and then as they're fighting, Max can just do his own thing, take the racing line, swing around the outside. That is exactly the dream for Max.

But it's still beneficial to be on pole. I believe I read something that Barcelona wins from pole is more than Monaco in the last 20, 30 years or something. So it's still very crucial to be on pole, even if you are vulnerable into turn one, because if you're on pole, you've got a very quick race car underneath you as well, and that's obviously the best thing for the Grand Prix.

And of course, you know, even Lando in the post-race interviews kind of made that comment, didn't he, of, well, we've got the best car now. And kind of loved... Cheeky little smirk. That's definitely a little bit of... Are you trying to peg us back,

are you? Technical directive kind of joke in there, I think. Yep. And he has the best car. Question from Justin Pack. Why didn't Charles go out for a second run in Q3? Another Ferrari strategy blunder? Well, he had no fresh, soft tires left, so it meant that he could not go for another run in Q3.

I, you know, with the benefit of hindsight, would have liked to have maybe seen Shal go out at the end of qualifying to go for a lap. I understand that perhaps they just wanted to get a lap on the board, but, you know, seventh on the grid, outqualified by Antonelli, by his teammate Hamilton who did a decent job. P5 was absolutely on the cards if LeClair went out at the end rather than doing a lap at the start of the session.

So it seemed like a very weird, safe strategy from Ferrari that got absolutely nothing to protect in the constructors or the drivers. So why would you not send him out at the end? Maybe there's an unknown reason here, but a questionable decision, in my opinion, to send him out so early. It's true. You'd understand it

maybe at other tracks like Monaco or something, for example, where you run the risk of a red flag or something spoiling your lap at the end or traffic. Very, very strange to do an early banker because Fernando Alonzo did the same way he put a brilliant lap in quite early on,

his only lap. But then, of course, the conditions improve. That's why they all, rush to go out at the end and get the best of the track because the track rubbers up and grips up and there's more time in the bag and Fernando's dropped all the way to 10th despite looking like oh my god what a heroic lap he's done yeah he went P5 we're like oh my god lots of B5 he was waving to the crowd and cheering and he ended up ninth so it was all the flurry of laps at the end that really helped a lot of the drivers improve so yeah the little waving to the crowd was

was awesome to see with Fernando. And he did that final lap with, I think, five minutes left in Q3 and had the track to himself. And he probably went for it. So it's, yeah, it was a nice moment. So yeah, weird one from Charlotte Clare and Ferrari. Also worth mentioning that Max and George did exactly the same lap time. Probably worth saying that.

George, I think, did a brilliant job once again. I think he was questioning Mercedes in that first running Q3 about being too conservative. And we know that. George is very quick to criticize things that he doesn't believe are correct and he likes to be everything neat and perfect as he is Mr. Saturday and fantastic a qualifying. I've not had that one in a long time.

I know, but I think he'll be kicking himself that he's not starting third because one thousandth of a second than he would have done. And of course, very crucial that you put yourself on the dirty side of the grid between saying exactly the same time. And who's on the clean side in third position and probably get a good start and try something

on the outside? Oh yeah, Max first happen. Bring it on. Bring it on. That's going to be good, isn't it? Yeah, Max leading into term one. That's, that, that's what you need for the Grand Prix. I can't believe, you know, rewind to this time last year, Max is winning every single Grand Prix. Oh, it's so boring. And now we're kind of praying for Max to get involved. But then also at the same time, please just give us a close between the McLarence. But don't, maybe give us two different races. One where Max starts and wins, not it's not wins but takes the lead at the start and then another one when we see the McLarence

could take the lead at the start and the McLarence could battle in P2 and P3 and start wheel banging that's fine yeah god you really want a bit of wheelbanging don't you Tommy just a tiny just a tiny bit just a little something to add a little starter a little starter for the yeah just a little all he forced me off kind of thing yeah yeah nothing too crazy right that is it Tommy what your final thoughts please get your tickets to the P1 live show while you can because um to whisper it this time perfect you didn't and uh yeah they are selling very fast. So make sure you grab them before they go.

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