P1 with Matt and Tommy - US GP Sprint Race and Qualifying review

Episode Date: October 20, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:05 Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 podcast with Madden Tommy. You are live from our Austin Kitchen because it's the only place that looks remotely okay in terms of lighting. This house has no lights, it feels like. But that's not what we're here to talk about, Tommy. We're doing an overall encompassing podcast today because we were at the track so we couldn't do a sprint one and then a qualifying one. Yeah, I can't believe you didn't make a joke about cooking in some sense. Oh, yeah. We could get some spices there.
Starting point is 00:00:35 cooking like you did earlier in the sprint right wow that's incredible that's top ban to that is it yeah well we've started off terribly so let's see how it goes so of course we are in austin um and we were there weren't me it was a very hot day although apparently it's cool in texas this is a cool weather someone told me it was cold they're like it's good to be here this time of year because it's colder i'm like oh wow this is like the hottest i've ever been i was dying after about two hours. But yeah, let's start off with the sprint, because that was the first thing we saw today. And what a sprint it was. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's always a little bit difficult, isn't it, to get a full grasp when you're at a race of exactly what's going on, especially when
Starting point is 00:01:17 the screen you're watching freezes, and then the other side of the screen then unfreezing was Lando being overtaken into turn one. But apart from that, I thought it was... And no track commentary. And no track commentary whatsoever. I know that I have been quite... critical of track commentary in the past, but I'd rather know. So they'd say that off, they literally just switched it off and went, how'd you like us now? But it was definitely worse with nothing happening in terms of, you know, being told what's going on at other parts of the track. Yeah, very weird to essentially, yeah, be watching from the stands. And you get all that great racing, everyone cheering, and then it is basically silent until the
Starting point is 00:01:53 cars come back round because there's no track comedy, you could still, fortunately, see a screen. but yes absolutely loved the sprint from you know I actually spoke to to my parents as well to see if they got because they're watching from home because like you say it's always you always get that little bit of bias at the track and you enjoy it more but apparently it was awesome
Starting point is 00:02:14 and yeah it really was so much overtaking and kind of fun's in a good place isn't it so much action lots to talk about let's start with the first question from p1 patron member alan enderpe did Ferrari fire the wrong driver I had to put it in as the first question Yeah, yeah Because everyone sent it as well
Starting point is 00:02:35 Is your burner account Alan Ender pay That's what I want to know Because you've asked me this so many times And once again, signs does a fantastic job Shal did a decent job And it's did Ferrari fire the wrong driver No, and I will continue to say no But what I will say was that Carlos was phenomenal
Starting point is 00:02:53 Today in the sprint He drove like, you see, sort of should in the sprint, right? He just sent it. He went for it hard at the beginning. He got past Shah, which, I mean, that battle in itself was brilliant to watch, side-by-side action. And the beauty of what Cota brings to racing really came out between those two in particular, where there are so many corners where you can just fight and fight and keep going. And as well, they didn't come together. Again, still, the two Ferrari drivers, very close, but they both know how to race will to will. They do. Yeah, it's very true. It's another moment of, you know,
Starting point is 00:03:33 there's only five races, sorry, six races, if you include this one tomorrow, with them as teammates. And when they first got announced to teammates, well, they'll definitely crash at some point. They've produced some of the best wheel to race, wheel to wheel racing between teammates. I think we've seen from a teammate pairing. It's hard but fair. It's always exciting. And, yeah, Cota delivered again with the wheel to wheel. racing. The fact that it's, you've got like a long DRS straight and that's not actually where a lot of the overtaking happens. It's the dive bombs and it's been shortened, but it's the dive bombs into the very slow technical, like part of the circuit, which normally is quite, I don't normally
Starting point is 00:04:13 like on a lot of circuits, but this one allows you to essentially make a very light late lunge and then the other person gets to switch back. It's just, it's just awesome and those two put on an amazing show. They certainly did and Coloss didn't end there either. It managed to get Lando on the final lap, which I think was more on Lando just snatching a break and making a mistake as opposed to signs doing anything particularly fancy, or that was on Shal a little bit later on. I did it on Carlos
Starting point is 00:04:37 as well. Really? Yeah, yeah. Was the investigation on Shal though? I think it was both. Both? Just general erratic driving. Fair, well he got away with it, did Lando. This is what I mean about, so what was actually investigating? What actually happened? But again, Carlos getting through on Lando. It was surprising just in general to see the Ferraris
Starting point is 00:04:55 be that close in race pace to the McLaren's. I know Max was a little bit further ahead, but had that battling not gone on, it kind of gives me a little bit of hope for Ferrari tomorrow and also for maybe for Lando, if he's not getting involved in too many tussles. I think he made a couple of mistakes out there as well, did Lando. But we'll get on to him.
Starting point is 00:05:16 Ferrari, they looked rather solid in race pace, considering they've brought no upgrades. I think it's very close. You know, I think it's very exciting for the main race. Normally we say that it's a bit of a spoiler, which it can be. But if anything, I think it just shows that no one is there to get away. One thing that, you know, being back at a track, now we're in this kind of period where Formula One is just so damn good even more than it normally is amazing. It was noticeable just like how close the pack was, lap after lap after lap,
Starting point is 00:05:52 between different teams, different cars, and that is such a good place to be to have, you know, Max wasn't absolutely shooting off into the distance. You had the two Ferraris battling McLaren as well. I know they didn't actually catch Max or able to put them under pressure, but it wasn't, you know, disappearing off into the sunset like we have seen with some other dominant cars in the past. So yeah, it was really good and it makes for an exciting rest of the season, really, because they're really close.
Starting point is 00:06:22 You do wonder as well, I know that we sort of applauded the Ferrari battle, but at the same time, I know it's a sprint and I think that's maybe why we put less of a big, or making less of a thing of it because it was literally just one or two points different,
Starting point is 00:06:39 but you do wonder if the Ferraris actually worked together whether, I think they would have got, both of them got through Orlando quite easily by the looks of things. And then you even wonder how close they could have got to Max because at the end of the bit, signs finish 3.8 seconds behind Vastappen. So that's where I'm getting my serious delirium from slightly that things might turn out good tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:06:59 But we shall see. Next question, N33 underscore Emma. Did Matt's heart stop when Charles almost hit Lando? I mean, yes, it did. Not necessarily, because again, it's a sprint. It's not a huge amount on the line. It was for P3. So obviously on one side, I'm like, Charles, please don't smash the car.
Starting point is 00:07:20 but also for the championship, if Charles smashes into the back of Lando and neither of them finish, that's a much bigger swing in terms of the championship standings between Max and Lando. So it was so close. What I will say is that the investigation
Starting point is 00:07:34 that went on around this erratic driving or brake checking or whatever, you know, all this sort of stuff, I saw absolutely nothing wrong with what Lando did. He sort of, he was covering the inside, but maybe not as aggressively as, it wasn't the most obvious thing he was going to cover the inside,
Starting point is 00:07:49 but then he did. and it wasn't, in my opinion, it wasn't too erratic that it was a swipe and Charle had to get out of it. I think it was more the case that Charles just didn't expect him at Lando to cover the inside. And perhaps that goes back to when Charles left the door open for Carlos. And that's how Carlos managed to do two dive bombs on him earlier in the sprint. Interesting, because I do not agree. Interesting. I think that Lando's driving, while in a weird way, I think it is good that he didn't get a pen,
Starting point is 00:08:20 because lots of other drivers do it but I think his driving was kind of basically like what max did to him in Austria like the way he's very and the way he like was positioning his car particularly with the charlaclair incident he knew you know he braked and moved over under braking and I think it in a way I think it's what landau has to do because I think I've been critical of him for maybe being a bit soft with his wheel to wheel racing and he needs to start fighting people harder, which is what he's doing, definitely puts you in a risky position. His move was basically a, you know, if he's risking being crashed into the back of, but if he doesn't, he's definitely keeping the position because he's like, you know, moving
Starting point is 00:09:12 and basically just completely stopping. He anticipates that Charles going to go there because everyone was dive bombing into that corner and he didn't have a great exit. But I think if that, yeah, I completely forgot Max did actually get a penalty. I thought it was very similar to driving that Max does and gets away with sometimes. So yeah, I think it was a very, very aggressive move. We're going to watch it live back right now. So we're watching Charles right in the rear diffuser of Landau. Yeah, yeah. He's moving over to the left and basically breaking so early to stop him from. He's, but he's He's cracked early, but that's that's, that's, that's, he's not, like, there is a movement
Starting point is 00:09:52 there, but that's, I think that's also, Charle anticipating that Landau's going to go a different way, and that's why we've had such a dramatic reaction. I'm not saying that Charles at fault here at all. No, I don't, I think, Charles is zero percent fault. Like, I don't think Charles, I think it's a miracle that Shell actually doesn't crash into the back of him. I think it's all on, uh, Lando. If they crashed, it's, it's, it's fault, 100% in my opinion.
Starting point is 00:10:17 If Charles hits the back of Lando there, Lando's got himself to blame because he's basically... Yeah, Lando's caused that situation. I don't think it's penalty-worthy. I think that he's covering the inside line, but if they do come together, you put more fault on Lando's. Anyway, that was interesting. Wow, look at me and Tommy.
Starting point is 00:10:37 Disagreeing. Unbelievable. What else to sort of mention, I guess another thing was George Russell being in the sprint. He was right up there fighting and then fell like a stone, just like you said previously. see on the podcast that they could start P1 and P20 and come together at the end.
Starting point is 00:10:53 That's basically what happened. Russell just fell like a stone. Yeah, watching it. It did look like, it did look towards the end of the race like Hamilton was going to catch him again and potentially even overtake him. But he managed to hold on. But, yeah, disappointing. I mean, it's classic Mercedes, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:11:13 They were so quick looking so close to getting sprint pole yesterday. then looked nowhere today. And then Hamilton, I think, said he had something broken on his car in the sprint, which was then fixed for qualifying, but maybe not. It was a fixed. And he finished P6. And then both the Hasses, by the way, oh my goodness me, P7 and P8 scoring double points in a sprint is ridiculous. And I think the final things, we don't want to make this podcast 12 hours long, because we still got to talk about main qualifying, was the small little battle that we saw between Perez and Sonoda. And I felt like Yuki was definitely trying to send a message there.
Starting point is 00:11:47 He was, not that Christian Horner would have been looking, but yeah, Yuki definitely was driving like it was, look at me, I'm racing the other Red Bull and doing a fantastic job against him. And Yuki drove incredibly well. So, yeah, there was also some more incidents between Alonzo and Lawson as well, and those two were kind of getting annoyed at each other, which even led into qualifying, which was quite crazy. Right, let's move on to qualifying then, shall we? And begin with Q1, where the bottom five were Albon, Colopinto, Bottas, Hamilton and Joe. Well, let's start with the first question on this segment. Chucky 44410, what's happening with Lewis Hamilton? I mean, 19th.
Starting point is 00:12:43 19th is ridiculous. I think that Hamilton was, I mean, standard. When Hamilton has a terrible session, of course, he's going to be quite short. with the interviewer. He was incredibly short, I think, after this one, looking forward to next week already. But to be knocked out in Q1, out-qualified by Bottas, he thought that the car was fixed going into qualifying.
Starting point is 00:13:04 It was a scruffy lap. Let's put it, we have to, when you look at what happened, he locked up into turn 12, ram wide. I think he got that lap time deleted. And then the other lap that he had wasn't good enough for anywhere near the top 15. So it was just, it was a scruffy qualifying session for Hamilton as well.
Starting point is 00:13:21 It was incredibly scruffy. I mean, Hamilton's not had a great time of it at qualifying. He said it himself many times that this is the lowest of the low. You know, being outqualified by a stake is basically the ultimate insult, really, isn't it? So, yeah, really poor qualifying from Hamilton, and he was already kind of writing off his chances. We joked about the fact that in the sprint, Russell and Hamilton were together on track.
Starting point is 00:13:49 still wouldn't surprise me if they ended up together or untracked by the end of the race tomorrow even though he's all the way down in 19th because I do think he'll fly through the field we shall see other things to talk about Williams being knocked out in Q1 I think Colopinto of course getting through to SQ3 don't forget literally yesterday
Starting point is 00:14:06 wasn't able to out-qualify Albon this time round but Williams just looking like they were lacking something today compared to what they saw only yesterday and it's similar they were with some teams right, like with Mercedes we saw a shift of pace as well. It's not like some teams learn more from that first day going into the next one. I think it's just a sign of just how amazingly close Formula One is at the moment.
Starting point is 00:14:32 The field spread is so close and close than it's ever been that I think when we, in previous years, and we've had the sprint for a long time, quite a few years now, and the biggest argument was, well, you're just going to get exactly the same result. but I don't think that's the case anymore because Formula One is just so competitive and the gaps between every team is so small that you can have a qualifying session literally one day later at exactly the same circuit
Starting point is 00:15:01 and you can be out in Q3, one race and the next one, sorry, out in Q1 and then through to Q3. That's crazy. Absolutely. Q2, the bottom five on this session where Sonoda Holkenberg, Oconstrol and Lawson, obviously with Lawson has a 60 place grid penalty
Starting point is 00:15:19 so he was just trying to help Sonoda with his slipstream and I love how Yuki came over the radio and was like Lawson's doing it the wrong way okay I'm getting dirt on my tyres this is how you should do it but Yuki unfortunately just missing out going through to Q3 the big one I think to talk about was Holkenberg
Starting point is 00:15:36 Holkenberg absolutely had the pace to get through to Q3 he lost and I love this by the way from Formula 1 the little graphic that came up time lost That sort of stuff is brilliant because it gives you an idea of I guess Holkenberg's optimal first sector
Starting point is 00:15:51 or whatever it might be said that he lost four tenths of a second in term one and that's absolutely the difference between him making it through and not yeah he was has been amazing this weekend has to be said
Starting point is 00:16:05 look at the sprint as well he didn't really speak about them in the sprint but amazing from them again so they are looking like probably the best car after Formula A and now Aast in Martin might not even be in Formula A anymore so yeah
Starting point is 00:16:23 disappointing from Holgerberg because he had great potential and unfortunately for him this is the one where the big points are handed out so this is the bad this is the bad one to get qualifying wrong really at least he's starting 12th though there's an opportunity to fight from there obviously KMAG is it did make it through to Q3
Starting point is 00:16:43 Ocon not really much to say in 13th I think If anything, yeah, a little bit of a missed opportunity, but not through his own fault because he had no upgrades compared to Gasley, who had the upgrade of what seemingly must be the McLaren. And then Stroll, doing Stroll things in 14th. Okay, moving through to Q3, where the top 10 was Norris, Vestapp and Science, LeClaire, Piastry, Russell, Gazley, Alonzo, Magnuson and Perez. I didn't quite absorb that Perez qualified 10th. before we get into that Polsky-Polak underscore 2 what do you think the order would have been
Starting point is 00:17:17 if George didn't crash at the end now that is a fun game to play of course Max Verstappen was flying out there had an insane first sector was two and a half tenths up on Lando through there you have to think that Max was going to take pole position away from Lando
Starting point is 00:17:33 it would have been close I think I think the McLaren maybe was slightly quicker towards the end of the lap but still I think Max had a little bit too much time in hand to stop well to he was going to get pole essentially
Starting point is 00:17:46 was Max other than that obviously my Charlotte Claire Delirium is going to say he would have got P3 I thought
Starting point is 00:17:53 the wrong driver was that fired the wrong driver they didn't know of course yeah I'm checking yeah
Starting point is 00:17:59 I think Max would have got it of course I would say that but he was looking very very very quick indeed and it Max definitely left
Starting point is 00:18:10 something on the table going to that corner I mean, turn 19, which is where the track limits is so marginal. We've seen it many, many times. And Lando, through luck or judgment, kind of drifted around the corner. And the back end was out of track limits, but his front wheel was on it. He flew through that corner. Whereas Max looked very tentative.
Starting point is 00:18:35 It almost, you know, you could never know unless he actively said it. But just from the way he drove, it almost looked like it was a, right, I need to actually get a time on the board and then I'll go for it in the second lap. Do you really think Max is a banker lap kind of guy? I don't know. I don't know. I think he just understood. Maybe. I think it looks quite underwhelming when a driver misses the apex there because they have to get out of it.
Starting point is 00:19:03 So then they're just under steering a little bit. Has to stay on the track. And then at that point, obviously, he's going, well, I need to keep this in the white lines. But I reckon he lost two tents just in that corner. He would have been, I think he would have been polled, but we'll never know. We won't. Thanks to Russell, even as a match. It's better for the championship.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Yeah, that was a big old spin, wasn't it, from George in the penultimate corner? Oh, massive. Speaking of 1019, yeah. He, well, was never making that corner. He really sent it in. That's the thing. There's a lot of time to be gained at that corner. But not if you go backwards into a wall.
Starting point is 00:19:39 Yeah, and it just snapped away from him as well. are just taking a little bit too much speed through there and lost the car. So, yeah, sad for George, but then happy for Lando, I guess, because he was helped in getting pole position. And I think that will make the race a lot more interesting tomorrow. It seems as though Max does have a little bit more race pace than the rest of the field, which we're back to sort of pre-Spain now, aren't we, where we truly think that Max might have the fastest package driver and car.
Starting point is 00:20:10 and yeah I'm really looking forward to seeing what the what the race has has installed tomorrow who else are we going to talk about Carlos Sines was P3, Charlotte Clare P4 so the two Ferraris again they are in the mix second row I believe we could see a nice little tasty battle there yeah there'll definitely be a battle between as long as they don't fight between each other that's what we need to not do in the main race like the sprint was a bit of fun one or two points who cares but the main thing, let's try and get. Well, yeah, so there'll be,
Starting point is 00:20:42 Carlos will be on the clean side, won't he? So probably be quite aggressive at the start to try and get ahead of Max. But yeah, if they start fighting, that's going to be the most difficult thing for them because they do seem a bit stronger, based on the sprint
Starting point is 00:20:57 race, stronger in race pace than the Aaron qualifying pace. Yeah, and of course it's quite warm out here as well, isn't it? So you have to wonder how Max's car will behave if he's second or third and he's got dirty air to contend with, because he was out in front the whole time with the sprint. He had loads of cars behind battling him. So that could throw a spanner in the works with Lando leading from the front, but he's going to have to keep
Starting point is 00:21:17 that position into term one. And it's not the longest run down there, is it? But it is, it can be absolute carnage. It's set up very nicely because, like I mentioned in the sprint race, Lando is seemingly more inclined now to get his elbows out. And he will have to do it against Max, because he cannot afford Max to beat him in this race. He'd need to start eroding that gap, like we say, every single podcast. And the fact that, you know, Max is now back, it seems, with good pace. Whether it's just a flash in the pan here at Austin or they've found something, are McLaren going to rue the fact that they didn't make the most of it while Red Bull?
Starting point is 00:22:00 Yeah, Red Bull was so poor. But Landau still got a chance to do it. He's on pole. Now we get to see, because we had a little taste of it in Austria, but in a weird way, they've not really raced each other since because the Red Bulls fallen off. And even the race is where Max has finished second to Lando, Lando's 1 by 20 seconds, which, you know, famous last words, but I would be amazed if that happens again based on just how close it was in qualifying and how Max seems a lot a lot quicker. So, oh, it's going to be so good. Turn 1 in particular. Yeah, crucial for the race.
Starting point is 00:22:39 If Max comes out and turn 1, lap 1 ahead, I think we can pack our bags and look for P2 from there on in. Next question, Kyle P75. Will we ever get a one-lap shootout when there is a quality ending crash like that? No. No, I assume what Kyle was saying here is like if we are robbed. If we're robbed of a final lap shootout, will they extend the time or, you know, do it? No, sadly, session times are session times. I don't think they would ever add like...
Starting point is 00:23:08 Because, I mean, how do you measure that as well? Because if some drivers... If some drivers have finished their final lap, but some drivers haven't, then there's a crash. What do you do then? You go, no, everybody, wind the clock's back, where then it's sadly... As much as it is really anticlimactic, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:23:22 To see the final Q3 runs ruined, that is the story of Formula One. Yeah, I understand why they want to do it in races and things. And it's something that they've done in IndyCar, for example, in the races where essentially like you want that big finale, so you don't want to be rubbed with it. Being qualifying, it's just qualifying. You know, in the race, I understand why sometimes, you know, they really want to get the race where you're going, even if there's been a red flag quite late on. Obviously, didn't used to do that back in the day. But now they're willing to kind of like restart the race and make sure they have that grandstand finish.
Starting point is 00:24:01 but I don't think it's the right thing to do for qualifying I think as much as I love the sprint and do like the sprint format I don't want Formula One to get in danger of being too gimmicky where you're sort of like adding so much for like every different scenario to make sure it's as entertaining as possible
Starting point is 00:24:21 because it is a rare occurrence at the end of the day that this kind of stuff happens and I don't think you should be that reactive to every single moment basically next question P1PATRIM member Longo, 1996. Chances of Max and Landau crashing in turn one on the opening lap. 95%.
Starting point is 00:24:39 I think there's obviously a higher chance. You've already sort of highlighted it, Tommy, that Lando has to and seems to be getting his elbows out a little bit more when it comes to defending. How he'll be with Max, I think is another story. Of course, Lando defending for his life against the Ferraris is one thing. But when he's up against Max, Is there any kind of psychological difference there where he won't be as aggressive
Starting point is 00:25:05 full well knowing that Max ain't going to move either? So that that's a fascinating dynamic that if they are side by sudden to turn one, I'm looking forward to seeing how that one unfolds. Because it could well be a Ferrari one too. Yeah, I think Max is very much going to be in the, is expected to, if he gets a good start, he will do the old classic of running. landing Lando wide but then equally you know Max got run wide himself and I think it's hungry wasn't it and then complained about it these drivers they're always kind of when
Starting point is 00:25:41 the shoes on the other foot you know what I mean they so so Max will probably like his his big chance will be to dive down the inside but I think the thing that's different now is with his performance seemingly better and the fact that he won the sprint we know there's a lot more pace there it's not going to be a case of Max needing to be in the lead at turn one because that's game over. You know, there'll be plenty of the race. So if Lando does lead, because he has shown that he can do that now after Singapore, there's still going to be plenty of the race for Max to make moves because, my God,
Starting point is 00:26:20 we saw so much overtaking in the sprint. We did. It was brilliant. It's brilliant to watch. I will say as well, it's good that Oscar Piaastri is up there as well for McLaren and Lando's sake, up in P5, although has seemed to just lack a little bit compared to Lando this weekend, whether it's the sprint format or whatever it might be, Oscar, just not being able to dial it in the same as Lando, but at least he's there. Could maybe force something if his race pace is all right, and it's like a five-way battle or something, which, God, that's making me salivate just thinking about it. And then Perez, I know we touched upon it 10th, with no time set in Q3.
Starting point is 00:26:57 I mean, so did he go out, I know he tracked limits the first time. Did he track limits the second time as well? He must not. Oh no, no, of course. Yeah, there was no lap. Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah. But so, yeah, no lap time set is still a disaster. It is a disaster.
Starting point is 00:27:10 Yes, it is a shame because, you know, being here in Austin, you see how much Sergio Perez means to, you know, like, you know, there's so many Mexicans come over for this race. There'll be loads of the Mexican Grand Prix as well, of course. And, you know, they are cheering and whooping of him, you know, battling for 11th place in the sprint. You seem like going absolutely crazy. He is like their hero and it's awesome to see. But yeah, it is so disappointing that he can't challenge.
Starting point is 00:27:45 He didn't look that bad either. I genuinely think he could have qualified maybe, even ahead of the Ferraris perhaps, because you look at the sort of progression between the first, second and third parts of qualifying. like in Q2 he was only a couple of tenths off Lando and so you'd think that if he can continue that progression like Lando did he might well have been in the mix of the Ferrari as if not just behind. Yeah, I think the gap now between those, you know, the top runners, you've got like the Formula A and now that Max is actually doing better
Starting point is 00:28:19 if Perres even is like three, four tenths off, which we've known for. in the previous races, that many was way down the order. There's still a chance for him to be 6th, and then he can come through the pack because he's normally better in the races than he has quality. Absolutely. And a quick shout out to Pierre Gazley, P7, looking like he's driving a McLaren with that very strange Alpine livery that I'm still not over when I see it just flashing
Starting point is 00:28:44 past me. That's a McLaren, no, that's an Alpine. But P7, with the upgrades, it's worth, of course, highlighting once again. And what an upgrade that has been for Alpine? like goodness gracious me, getting ahead of, obviously, Perez, Hamilton having a shocker and starting seventh, which is really important for Alpine to try and actually score some points this year. Yeah, Gassel get really good.
Starting point is 00:29:07 And after their kind of woeful start to the year, they kind of got back into being the top team in Formula A for a few races. It kind of feels forever ago now. And they were picking up a lot of points. And you kind of thought, oh, no, they are going to finish maybe seventh in the Constructed championship and then since then they've really fallen off so yeah the fact that gazley are showing those upgrades are working well and you've got to think that you know we've said so many times that gasly and o'clock are so evenly matched throughout their kind of on their pace
Starting point is 00:29:41 that as soon as o'con gets them as well it's a big opportunity for you know both alpian drivers to just keep scoring a lot of points because there's a lot of teams like rb for example that have really dropped off and don't seem to be scoring so there's potential to move up in the Constructors Championship, whether you want to or not with the budget cap these days, who knows. But I guess it's money for them. It's money indeed. And that is it. Thank you, everybody, for watching and listening, this little compressed, put together, double podcast in one. I hope you've enjoyed it. We'll be doing our Austin live show tomorrow in downtown in Emo's. So there's a few tickets left. If you're in Austin and you want to come along,
Starting point is 00:30:20 you're more than welcome. Nine p.m. starts. Cannot wait for our final show of the tour. It's been unbelievable these last couple of weeks. The support that you've shown is, it truly means the world to us. Tommy, final thoughts? Final thoughts are that I'm absolutely loving Austin. It's everything I hoped it to be. It's my first time here and it's basically like been my bucket list raised for ages.
Starting point is 00:30:42 So yeah, I had an awesome day at the track and can't wait for the live show. It's just such a cool place and I think the last show is going to be, you know, the best of the lot is going to be a big one and super air. Super excited for it. Perfect. We'll see you tomorrow for all of our usual stuff as always
Starting point is 00:30:58 and we'll see you very soon. Lots of love. Bye! Bye. P1 is a stack production and part of the ACAST Created Network.

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