P1 with Matt and Tommy - Reaction to United States GP qualifying

Episode Date: October 18, 2025

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Wow, wow, wow. What a crazy day it has been in the world of Formula One. In our lives as well, Tommy, it's been a busy old one, fighting jet lag and just doing a lot of talking, a lot of words happening. and we're doing some more words, the podcast. Our favourite part of any day is chatting some more Formula One, and we've got a lot to discuss from Austin. We certainly do. Yeah, we've been chatting all day.

Obviously, it had the sprint watch-long. Then we did the sprint podcast, and we went straight to do a live show in downtown Austin, then back to do the watch-long for qualifying. And now we're doing another podcast, a lot of waffling about F-1. And just the sessions that we've had today are just insane. I can't believe the day we've had.

And the funniest thing as well, getting a taxi back from the event to here to do the podcast. What do we talk about in the car? Oh, wait, Formula One. Yeah. So even at the time when we didn't have to talk about Formula One, we still did. Because, my God, the excitement levels are building to an astronomical level. And I just cannot wait to discuss everything that's happening qualifying. So let's get into it and start with Q1.

The bottom five were Bortoletto, Ocon, Stroll, Albon and Hajar. let's get straight to the question because of course it's going to be about Isaac. Joe Formula 6P asks, did Hadjar crash on purpose so he doesn't go to Red Bull? Wow, we're really, we're hitting with the hard, stone cold questions, aren't we? Yeah, the tinfoil hats are on. No, I don't think Hadjar crashed on purpose because you can see, once again, whenever Hadjar makes a mistake or crashes, he is literally beating the life out of that steering wheel. So he clearly didn't want to make that mistake.

he holds himself in a very high regard and he wants to perform every single time and that's why he's most likely going to get the Red Bull seat next year that's what we both believe but it was just a mistake right like watching the onboard is nothing insane from like a wow he really should have done something differently this the car got light at a very fast point of the track and it was a mistake don't get me wrong it's a driver error but it wasn't like something so utterly unforgivable that you're questioning you know how did he manage that Yeah, these cars are on a knife edge, of course, you know, incredibly high speed going into the S's.

I think it was Colopinto had a big moment as well. He managed to obviously keep it on track. But, yeah, Hadjar lost the back end. Yeah, not the best one for Hadjar. I'm sure, yeah, he'll, not the greatest start for him, but next year, potentially he could be driving a very pointy Red Bull. Good practice. To be fair, though, as well, racing balls have not looked great this weekend, have they?

They've looked off the pace. Maybe Hajar trying to sort of gain a bit more out of the car that he couldn't find. But either or it's a massive mistake from him. He's starting last and it's pretty much, well, unless we get the sprint start all over again. I think it's the baked bean livery. It's pretty much curtains, yeah. The bait bean livery, which I quite like, because I love baked beans, to be honest with you. So, so, yeah, Hadjar crashed out P20.

another big scalp was of course Alex Albon who extended track limits on his last lap didn't need to, didn't need to push as hard as perhaps he was. Turn 15, I think it was, if my memory serves me correctly, where he lost the lap. And there were at least two or three other occasions on that lap where we were watching going, that was close, that was within millimeters of going off the track as well.

Well, yeah, we were actually on board with, well, I say on board, off board with Alex, but him on the screen. And as he went through that final sector, we had two very kind of close moments, didn't we, where we were watching on TV going, that looks very, very marginal track limits. But then it was actually another corner

that we didn't even see on the live coverage that he actually went off. And yet, Cota is a mistake for sure. And, you know, he's paid the price for it, starting down in 19th. But that final sector of Cota always looks like such a struggle for the drivers of basically managing that risk versus reward because it does look genuinely so hard to stay on the track

that it's an incredibly difficult kind of set of final corners. Yeah, the penultimate corner is quite literally blind. You're genuinely just chucking the car in and hoping it sticks. Hamilton last year, if we don't forget, lost it on lap three and was in the gravel at that exact corner. So, yeah, disappointing qualifying is for Albon and Hajar, Lance Stroll doing Lance Drol things in 18th and carrying a grid penalty anyway.

after his disaster with Esteban Ocon. Let's go to Q2, where the five drivers out in this session were Holkenberg, Lawson, Sonoda, Ghazley and Colapinto. Surprisingly, not something either of us probably expected to talk about, is the fact that we were surprised that Holcomberg didn't make it into Q3. But of course, made it into SQ3, had a P4 for the sprint, which was very quickly undone. Not his fault, may I add. Oh, maybe, maybe a little bit. Actually, I did say that we would talk about it a little bit just to discuss that.

I have seen your comments and I actually take on board the fact that maybe how we described it, from my perspective anyway, was that it was more Holcombberg's fault than we should have. As we mentioned, we've had an insanely busy day. After seeing the aerial shot, I think Piastri is pinched in far too hard. And so I put definitely more blame on Holcomberg. On Piastry. Sorry. I'm so tired. More blame on Oscar Piastri.

Holkenberg, you know, when you watch his on board, you think, okay, maybe he's gone a little bit deep on the brakes. That's why I had that initial opinion, but totally get where people have come from with that one, and I stand corrected with that. I don't think he's completely blameless, but yeah, watching the replays definitely more on Piastri. After that initial thing, we're like, oh, Piastri, like made a big direction change that we kind of said in the pod. The more I'm looking at that, and we'll get into this later as we talk about a certain Oscar Piastri, it's kind of getting worse every time I look at it for what post you did

but I don't think there should have been any consequences and I stick by that it was a racing incident and yeah they didn't they didn't need to give it out any penalties there and it's a crazy turn one isn't it and if you want any more of our sprint review then go and check out the podcast because we did an additional one which we weren't planning to do but then both the McLaren's were outing on lap one

who were like God we better talk about that in a specific podcast So yeah, Holkenberg out in Q2, P11 for him. There's a question moving over to the Red Ball camp now. P1, Patreon member, a good Karen. Lawson ahead of Sonoda again and Sonoda over seven tenths off max. How is it not clear yet for Red Bull who should be in the racing balls next year? This is, it's not as clean cut. I believe that it will be Lawson unless they decide to promote someone.

but I do think Lawson would be a good yardstick. Maybe it's a little bit unfair to say that it's clearly like Lawson is miles better because I think we've had this discussion and you can even flip it the other way around and say Lawson didn't get a fair shot when Sonoda was doing really well in the V-Carb and Lawson looked like a really bad driver. So we know that it's very hard to judge just how kind of, you know, what their real performance is. but they don't have to rush it at Red Bull.

You know, they're still got time to decide, but I personally think it will be Lawson alongside Arvid Lindblad personally. Yep, it seems that way, as we've mentioned, time and time again, I think Yuki's in a very troublesome position where he genuinely just can't show what the pace he has as a particular driver. It just doesn't work, the style of which he has to drive that Red Bull.

It just is not for him. but there are there's talent waiting in the wings now and this is the problem for Yuki where he needs to have shown enough to go I still deserve a seat in this Red Bull camp and I just can't see it happening and it's a sad thing

because I think we all love Yuki as a personality but that is it at CESUSA a head of Sonoda Gazley worth mentioning of course P14 which in the end was actually wild because he was looking like he might get somewhere near getting through to Q3

but in the end only one position ahead of Colapinto, which for Alpine, two cars in Q2 is phenomenal, and it did need agile crashing in Q1, but Alpine, progress. And Albon, because Colapinto was, of course, out. Yes. And then got reinstated.

Tommy, let's not look into it too much. Alpine are great. And it's their first double Q2 appearance since Austria, I saw them raving about on Twitter, which shows kind of how far they've fallen that's celebrating since when? Since Austria. Since Austria.

Wow. Yeah, it's not gone well for Alpine for it to be that long since both cars got into even Q2. Yeah, that's insane. They're now celebrating that. Like how far they've fallen as a team. Yeah, 100%. Oh, that Drive to Survive episode going to hit hard. Let's go to Q3.

We're the top 10. Tommy, try not to get too excited. Vestappan, Norris, LeCler, Russell, Hamilton, Piastri, Antonelli, Bearman, Sines, and Alonzo. absolutely dominant display from Max Verstappen, nearly three tenths clear, didn't even do a second run. He didn't manage to get over the line in time. Can you imagine if it not got pole?

Yeah, which I know you were very concerned about on the watch along. We were both thinking, oh, could this have cost him pole? But the lap he put down in that first run was mighty. Were we watching 2023? Had we gone into some kind of TARDIS time capsule thing?

because that's what it felt like. That lap was just utterly brilliant. It did feel like 2023 again because Max was just so clear and so dominant. And you kind of thought, you know, McLaren was such a weird one all session. They were both struggling, obviously, one driver more so who would talk about in a bit. But even at the start, Lander had a huge moment in Q1 where, you know, managed to save it going through the corner. thinking like what on earth is going on with McLaren here have they struggled with you know repairing that repairing that car and going straight into a qualifying session and not having time to

you know have a practice session or something like that I don't know but they weren't looking anyone as quick as they normally do but Max just looked absolutely unbelievable and yeah it's it's insane to see him get pulled by such a comfortable margin and to have to have to have again the the championship and what makes it so fascinating we've said it before is having the guy in third is in the best form and the guy in first is the worst form of the three and now arguably even worse form so yeah this title has just gone from being like oh mcclaren can you please stop making it boring to oh my word i am so hyped and i'm sure a lot of people you know even if you're not supporting matches happen in this.

Just from a neutral perspective, this is the best thing that could have ever happened to this title, to throw another curb ball into the mix to make McLaren sweat more and not have this whole lovey-dovey, let's go to the championship together holding hands. And it's, yeah, it's amazing to watch. And it's made these final races now so exciting. And yeah, it's amazing.

Yeah, it'd be interesting to hear some of you listening that might have a neutral perspective, because as two Max Verstappan fans, you know, it's hard to see past the lion that is Max. But no, I echoed. It's not what he said when you were going absolutely crazy at Charlotte-Clair P2 in the watchalong. Yeah, well, you know, it ended up P3 in the end, didn't it? But Charles driving a tractor and he's just doing goat things. But back to Max yet, he's just creating this excitement now where I genuinely think we're getting to a shift of people like me who believed from 75 points.

People like you that will fully believe when it's 25 points, but we're actually getting to a realistic championship challenge now. With this grid, say, and I think it's very fair to say, it finishes the way it starts, which I think for Piastri you would expect progress, but let's say there isn't. Let's say there isn't. For Stapen 25 points, Piastri finishes sixth, that is eight points.

That's a 17-point swing, 38 points with five races to go. of course Norris is in there as well I think Lando even becomes potentially the favourite if we get to see this kind of form for the rest of the year there's so many storylines it's flipping constantly

Lando has a poor qualifying again we're like oh my God maybe it's Max now but this is what we want this is what we love this is why I love Formula One so much because the expectations of where I was at this Formula One Championship I've said it many times on the podcast this year where I've struggled to get so emotionally invested

because it's felt like, you know, we've questioned McLaren's antics and their nicey, nicely stuff and fairness stuff. It's not what I watch Formula One for. But now they can't chill out and do all of this BS because Max Verstappen is genuinely somewhere in their rear window just waving at the back. I'll have another 10 points, maybe 15 points, an 8-point swing at the sprint. It's coming. Yeah.

And another fascinating thing which we actually spoke about in the car on the way back is how fascinating and we'll talk about Oscar Piastri next. But if they do finish where they started, Lando takes a big chunk out of Oscar, even if he finishes second. And the gap is small enough that my theory from literally a few hours ago saying, this could be great for Piastri because they're going to have to back, you know, one of their horses, they probably won't when, if there's only 10, 15 points between them. And the gap is much, yeah, can they really do that? So, it literally, if you could pick a grid,

if you're like a neutron, pick a grid for the most exciting possible scenario for this world championship, that is it. Sign me up. I'm ready for it. Question from P1, Patreon member T. Williams 12. Has the pressure gotten to Oscar? It's struggle town. I feel as though, and I think it's fair to say,

that Baku is doing more damage to Oscar and potentially his confidence like this. And it might well be nothing to do with that and it could well be just the fact that he struggles in the last few races of the season. I think last year when you look at the results, like it wasn't the best batch of circuits for Oscar. And it is his third season as well.

I remind you, he's got, he's learning a lot. Yeah, there's a lot to go on, but he is human. I think everyone has spoken about how he's been ice cold and this, that, and he has. but we also said with a few races before now saying but it will change the pressure changes everything becomes so much more meaningful when we're five six races out from the end of the championship when you still have other rivals within a shot and i genuinely believe that oscar may just

be second guessing a little bit after bacchu it wasn't as big of a point swing in bacch as it could have been, but how does that not dent your confidence as a human being, like Baku? Because it was one of, if not the worst weekend for a championship leader that I can ever remember. And it's not going to win him a championship. If he genuinely is two, three-tenths now off Lando, which there isn't enough evidence to suggest that that is now the norm. But if it does become the norm for the next five races, he won't win the championship. It's as simple as that. It feels a very long time ago now, that Lando Norris got that DNF in Zanvort and we were talking about is that it is the championship over has Oscar won it? And how many times did we say guys it's not over there's plenty of races to go and now Max is challenging.

And now somehow Max is. And this is what I said, you know, when we did our live shows and the fact that none of us would have possibly predicted it because, you know, even when we're in the Netherlands, no one was saying, oh, Max is a Max. Not even you. Not even me. You know, it's deadly silo and we said. who thinks Max can do it because he was nowhere and it's changed so much and back to Oscar is it pressure is he just on a bad run of form I don't know but this is not the way I expected it to go with Oscar at all his biggest kind of the biggest thing for him was and his biggest strong point that we had so many times was the fact that he's ended up in you know being the ice man. He's a cool customer. And I think when we were predicting who's going to win the championship, the things we said so many times were Oscar's cool and calm head is going to do in wonders as

they go into those final races and nothing phases him. And we saw how Lando struggled with that pressure at the end of last year. But Oscar seems to be struggling more. Whether, whether, I said before this session after what happened in the sprint, sprint qualifying, he was a long way off Lando. Then he has this move which now I look back even more. I think it's not enough for a penalty or anything crazy, but it is a misjudgment to cut in. And thankfully for him, he also took out Lando because that's saved some of the pressure off. And I think we said before, you know, in the qualifying watch along, we need a big, Oscar needs like a big result now. He needs, he needs even if it's like second behind Max and ahead of Lando just to show, look,

It's fine. I can finish second or third for the rest of this championship or whatever. Can't anymore. Kind of. He can't finish third anymore, mate. Not to Lando Normax. Yeah. But be there. So for him to be sixth, you know, he needed got beaten by Olly Berman. He was just over half a tenth away from starting eighth. It's wild. I can't believe this is happening. I mean, we'll see what happens. How is he going to play it in the race because he's now he's now not only he's behind his rivals in qualifying but he's now in that pack in that danger zone and he's going into a corner which he's already

crashed at the previous day that's going to be playing in his mind as well yeah it's going to be fascinating tomorrow how how this plays out certainly is he has to play it as safe as he possibly can genuinely he just take the outside line and just run off into the runoff and come back on. Yeah, run off and just give some positions back or whatever and just stay stay. Stay P6, yeah. Stay out of trouble.

Next question. Poo on Patreon member, AMG Piper. If Max wins this championship, is it pure brilliance from Max or the ultimate bottle job from McLaren? It's both. It's both. If Max wins this championship,

it's easily the greatest comeback in the history of Formula One. He's already, got the record for that in 2022 on Charlerclair and it was 40. No one asked. But it was that, but also

like as much I'd love to race you, that was early in the season. He was 90 something points behind halfway through the season. It should have been over. No way could he possibly do it. So if he did do it,

all credit to Max, it's the greatest comeback. And I'd argue one of the, maybe even the greatest championship we've ever seen in Formula One. Because he should, he should, McLaren have dominated the season. He should not, he should not be winning the championship. No, no chance. You go way back to the start of the season.

And, you know, he's, it's the fourth fastest car, Red Bull are nowhere, his teammates qualifying 20th, how are they going to even challenge for wins, never mind a championship. But also, it can coexist the same thing. that this would be the biggest fumble by McLaren in the history of Formula One, because this should be the easiest championship. I mean, how McLaren almost lost the constructors last year, they should never have done, they should have won the driver's title,

but this would be an absolute another level if one of their drivers didn't win the championship. It would be the ultimate, like AMG Piper said here, it would be the ultimate bottle dress. job. Hars words from Tommy, the jet-lacked man. How would I weigh it up? It depends how the next five races, six races go. Obviously six races, including this weekend. If it's a case of Max winning Lando and Oscar finished second and third for the rest of the season, Max wins by a couple of points. I'm putting that more down to Max brilliance than I am, McLaren bottling it. It's not as if we've,

of course, Oscar had that disaster in Baku, and I still personally believe that McLaren have the edge over a Red Bull car with Max in it, but Max is making up that two, three-tenths. I genuinely think Max is the best driver on the grid. There's no denying that even with my funny. I'm a Max was a Dhaban fan. I do genuinely think that he has pace on everyone at the moment in his career.

He's in his prime. It's hard because calling it a bottle job from McLaren, I don't want to undervalue what Max is doing at the moment and Red Bull as well. done a phenomenal job with Max to build him and upgrade a car that was a dog to something where he genuinely feels comfortable in. And Lauren Mecky's, you know, he's an engineer, him going to the helm of the team. Is it coincidence that they've just figured it out and started to make progress? I don't think so. They're so easily could have sacked off the championship.

We've got all focused on 2026. We're nearly 100 points behind at the summer break. What's the point? And they've pushed more and what an insane thing to think that how much, you know we we saw that graphic at the start we're watching on F1 TV and they showed a graphic at the start of how many points people had scored since the summer break Max was clear and now we go into qualifying and I you know pessimistic me in the the sprint podcast was saying this could all change in age badly if Max is fourth

and it's a McLaren 1-2 well it's not a McLaren 1-2 it's Max is absolutely clear on Paul position. Yes, Lando's second, but Oscar Piastri is sixth. So, yeah, wild. But yeah, I don't fully weigh it to Max's brilliance. There is a smidge and a bottle job for sure from McLaren. A large slice of cake, but not the whole cake. Anyway, right, I'm jet-lagged. Moving on to the next question, Mr. Bear 15. Where in the world did the Ferraris come from? Well, look, I've never doubted them. They sometimes just figure it out. Charlotte-Clair P-3 on the grid. Hamilton, I think's fifth, is that, is that right? I think I'm pretty sure. I don't really know where they came from.

They had no idea what they were doing after practice one. And, you know, they scraped through SQ1. They scraped through SQ2. Shall literally spun in qualifying today and then managed to put on another set of tyres and chuck it third. So it is just such a lottery with Ferrari at the moment. I don't personally see them holding third and fifth when we get to the race. I've, I've, I've, believe in a realistic viewpoint that Piastri comes through at the very least. So I don't, I don't have any answers. I really don't because literally yesterday I'm like, oh my God, I'm so done with I was in probably one of my lowest points after watching them in sprint qualifying in particular. And today I'm, I'm fist pumping that Charlotte Clare's third. Yeah, and genuinely really close to P2,

really close to front row, which how on earth did Charlotte almost get a front row? How on earth did Charlotte almost get a front row start after how bad things were yesterday. And yeah, they came through in the sprint, of course, as well. Thanks to the misfortune of others at the start made it through the carnage and bagged some points. So yeah, what a crazy turnaround from basically, yeah, like you say, your lowest moment and as saying, like, what an absolute joke Ferrari are on Friday. And here we are on Saturday, then somehow delivering a fairly decent performance. Yeah, next year's our year, for sure. Let's go to the next question. Craig Tilley 95.

Everyone is talking about Vastappan's renewed championship charge, but is tomorrow actually Lando's chance to regain the initiative in his championship hopes? I said it yesterday, can't write off Lando. All the talk is of like, is Piastri bottling it? Is Max going to win the title? It's not really been any talk on Lando. And I wonder if, I know it's a bit of a cliche, but like, is that really good for it?

him because we know last year he didn't enjoy the constant questions of like why aren't you winning the title mcclaren are really good you should be winning the title and he you know he's making mistakes and it wasn't working for him and yeah he's still 22 points behind but this is going to be a really interesting grid and i'm really fascinated to see how lando plays this tomorrow because i don't think he should really and people go of course you'd say that as a max fan but arguably if piastri is it's such a tough balance isn't it because piastri probably will come through the pack so norris does need to capitalize but in a weird way

if he does take this title and piastri is maybe dropping off in form a little bit max is still fairly long way behind and lando's chipping away at the lead maybe his approach that sometimes you know we've criticized him saying he's not taking enough risk he's not you know it's not capitalizing on these moments like a Baku for example maybe maybe it will work out for him it's an insane thing to say you just it's almost like until we get to the end of the year we do not know what approach and all and how all these moments and we'll look back on so many moments and go oh if if this had happened different you always do when when the championship is going to be so close and the way this championship is going it could well

finish maybe like five, ten points between all three of this rate, the way it's going, because, yeah, you just don't know. So Lando, what does he do? Does he just try and think about a second place, which maybe is not the most interesting thing, but he knows Oscar's down and he can erode his lead quite a lot. Maybe that's the approach to go for. I personally believe that Lando has to capitalize on any opportunity he has in this championship, and this is one. I think that the the caution will be lap one term one. It'll be scarred from yesterday. Sorry, today.

I forget with my days with his sprint. Yeah. But I think Lando will, of course, be mindful of lap one term one. He needs to get out of it facing the right way with all four wheels because he can score more points than Piastri. For Stappen, I think, is going to be probably the, his level of aggression is going to be in probably another stratosphere. Who do what he did?

he'll do what he did in the sprint where he goes straight over to cover the inside and he's like absolutely no way you're coming past and i think lando and i think this is the right approach he shouldn't get criticism if he doesn't go for that move because if lando goes for some stupid move on vestaepern and they collide that's a bigger opportunity wasted and we and you know pester could come through maybe not win maybe even win based on the fact that you know his two main rivals are out and the cars ahead of him maybe aren't as good. And then we'd be saying, yeah, maybe the title, title is over. So there's so many variables and changing all the time.

I just, I just think, yeah, Max is in a really weirdly good position that he can just be super aggressive. And it's just like he's got nothing to lose, has he? Can you tell Tommy's excited? He's gone through about 70 different scenarios in the last five minutes. I just can't wait for tomorrow. I'm like, hurry at. Philando, I just going back to my point quickly.

I think that if he has a car that's fast enough to be right on the back of Max, he'll go for a move. He's not going to do a George Russell from the sprint, no chance. I don't think he has that in his locker to just absolutely send it from six-tenths back and just risk it for the chocolate biscuit. And I don't think he should do that either. I genuinely don't. But also at the same time, I don't think he can just sit on his laurels, if that's the right word. You know, just accept a three-point gain on PSRI potentially. If he's got a chance to win, he has to go for it.

Yeah, because you can't bet on the fact that Oscar is going to be off the pace for the rest of the season. That isn't unknown at the moment. So Landau has to go for it, but in a cautious way, which we know that's probably how he's going to do it anyway. So we need to remind ourselves in the main race podcast to not have a go at him if he doesn't go for a move. But then if he's a second lap quicker, then maybe he should. Okay, cool. And finally, we need to mention Ollie Bearman. P1, Patreon, Edith is my middle name.

Ollie Beerman, what a lap. That's it. That's the, it's not even a question. It's a statement. I agree. Berman, my number two driver, no number three, sorry, I forgot about Max. My number three driver of, because you have about five, Tommy, so I'm adding to my roster. But great lap from Olly, Berman, you know, his teammates struggling again in Kuali, Esteban, Ocon.

He's got a good amount of points as O'Con, but that's from like a few standout moments this year. But Berman is sort of consistently, and as well with all the pressure on his shoulders of these penalty points. Yeah, he could, he literally could get banned at any moment. It's almost like he's thriving with this, with this pressure on his shoulder. shoulders. It's great to see for Beerman. He's learning a lot. And I'm very happy to see that he's got through the Q3 and starting in a solid position tomorrow. How many times did we say in every driver ratings for the first maybe six, seven, eight, nine, ten races of, Ollie Beerman is something special. He just needs to get his weekends together and he could really start showing something. And a bit like

Carlos Seitz in a way, he's found his mojo now. And I think he's delivering a lot more consistent. consistently. And I think even just what we've seen this year, you look at the championship and as it is now doesn't really reflect what a special talent bearman is. And I think he's really going to go further. It's weird because of the odd appearances he made. Sometimes he doesn't almost feel like a rookie because we saw him last year a few times. And he kind of need to forget that this is his first full season. And yeah, he's doing a really good job. And this is one of his best performances.

And also, you know, had an amazing performance last time out as well. Exactly. Ollie Behrman, Hyped Train, Chu, Chu, too. Also worth mentioning as a closing thought, Carlos Sines in Q3 again. And Fernando Alonzo, I mean, his Instagram story was pretty hilarious of just like him realizing he has no luck in Formula One. And he's on recharge for 2026 when I'm like, bro, you've got six races to go. Like, it's not.

It's not time to say goodbye just yet. But that's it. Right. Qualley is wrapped up, done and dusted. Thank you, everybody, for getting involved in the watchalongs, for turning up if you came to the AT&T garage. That was a lot of fun doing that live event. We will be at the track tomorrow, so there will be no watch-along, sadly, but we will be back, don't you worry,

with a juicy podcast, and we won't let you down with any more watch-alongs, I'm sure, for the rest of the year, unless we get, like, you know, starting on the grid in Abu Dhabi, and we get to wave the flag or something. But yes, it's been a lot of fun in Austin. Tommy, what are your final thoughts? Final thoughts are, yeah, I hope we have loads of things to talk about again tomorrow because it's been an absolutely insane day that, you know,

like an insane qualifying session, a mad sprint, and it's just really spiced up. This championship is what this season really needed going into. these final races because we kind of got into our head a few races ago that this isn't going to be the title that we think it is. Well, now it is. Now, boy, is it going to be, you know, something special, I think now. So cannot wait. My closing thought, as I've said several times already now, and I'll say it again, Max Verstappen is winning it all. Thanks for listening. See you soon. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

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