P1 with Matt and Tommy - Which F1 teammate will finish HIGHER in 2025?

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

There are some intriguing teammate battles to look forward to this year - but who's going to come out on top? We've assessed each of the teams and, with your help, we're going to lay down some BOLD pr...edictions.Sign up to our Patreon here! You'll get access to extended versions of every Race Review podcast, every P1 episode ad-free, early access to live tickets and merch, and access to our Discord server where you can chat with us and other F1 fans!Follow us on socials! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:05 Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. We're getting excited. It's what, well, still January, but we've had things happening that make Formula One feel real again, Tommy. We've seen, obviously, Lewis Hamilton driving a Ferrari now. We've seen Lewis Hamilton in front of a Ferrari building. We've seen Lewis Hamilton in overalls. We've seen Lewis Hamilton driving a Ferrari. We've seen Lewis Hamilton's new helmet.
Starting point is 00:00:29 So, yeah. And Lewis Hamilton will be featuring in this podcast because about which F1 teammate finishes higher in 2020. in 2025. Now, before we dive into that, we have a five-star review from Rail Dog 764, interesting name. These guys are great. Thank you for keeping my commute enjoyable.
Starting point is 00:00:45 Just straight to the point from Rail Dog 764. Thank you so much. And if you want your five-star review to be read out, please leave it. Let's know why you love our podcast. It helps us a lot. Thank you very much. Now, before we dive into our selections
Starting point is 00:00:59 of who we think is going to finish higher, let's explain the format, Tommy. Okay? So we are going to say who we think will win out in a teammate battle, but we're also going to add a rating from 1 to 10 of how confident we are. One being we're not sure at all. It's literally just a, we've just thrown it into the wind. 10 is it's absolutely happening.
Starting point is 00:01:20 Does that make sense, Tommy? It sure does. Yeah, 10, we're 100% confident. One, we're not confident at all, but we still think that person's going to win, essentially. And we also got your opinion. So we got you to vote in a poll as to who you. you think is going to win out in that teammate battle. So we have a percentage to share at the end of each one as well. So we've just got all the data, very exciting. Let's get into it and start with
Starting point is 00:01:42 Sauba. Niko Holkenberg versus Gabriel Bortoletto. I have locked in Nico Holcomberg to win out in this battle. My certainty, seven out of ten. So I had written like an eight or a nine because I think Nika Holkenberg in what is quite possibly definitely 100% going to be a dustbin. He's very good in those kind of cars and he's very good at maximising results in midfield to rubbish cars. Holkenberg has had some star performances as we saw previously at Hasse where he's put the car where it doesn't belong. But the reason I've gone for a 7 out of 10, which is still like relatively confident,
Starting point is 00:02:26 is that Gabrielle Bortoletto is a bit of an unknown quantity. So I'm going to give him a bit of a benefit of the doubt at this point and think, OK, Gabriele, let's see what the first few races hold. Of course, he's the Formula 2 champion. He's got a bit of hype around him, not a huge amount. But I think it's a really good atmosphere and a good team for him to go into because there will be zero, zero expectations on his shoulders. Salbert coming into this year, they'll be happy with a point.
Starting point is 00:02:55 I think Nico will probably score a few points in that car. But yeah, I think Bortoletto's got a nice chance to be able to grow within that team. So that's why I've not gone for a full 10 out of 10. So I'm kicking off early with a controversial opinion, and I'm going for Bortoleto to beat Holcomburg over the season. I am so confident with this that I have gone for a 1 out of 10. Oh, I love it when we disagree. I know. We're starting new year, new us, right?
Starting point is 00:03:27 Maybe this is the start of something new. Oh, that's high school musical rather. Such an odd reference. So my logic here is that this is not, you know, it's not discrediting Holcomburg. I think Gabriel Bortoletto has done fantastically well in his, in F2, F3, you know, one F2 as a rookie. He was brilliant. He had some amazing drives. So I think he's going to be a real talent.
Starting point is 00:03:55 but even that aside I think my logic here is that Salbert are going to score very few if any points and if you look at last year and you'd have said I think Jeze is going to win everyone I think you're absolutely insane but it might only take one performance
Starting point is 00:04:11 where you get into that kind of top moment and have like a you know I'll say I hate to kind of bring this up again for poor Nika Holcombberg but the crazy races where points and kind of miracles can happen
Starting point is 00:04:28 haven't always been Nico Hockenberg's strongest kind of category, if you like. I would like to interject here and say that, yes, when a podium is up for grabs, that's when shaky hands of the wheel will happen for Nico Hulkemberg and shaky legs. But he's a very good point scorer. A point might as well be a podium for that dustbin. He's not going to start shaking for 10th place, is he? Well, I'll go for Bortiletto. I'm back in Borteletto to surprise.
Starting point is 00:04:54 Interesting. Well, the fan vote completely disagrees with you, Tommy, because 90.2% believe Nika Holcomberg will win out, which means Gabrielle Bortoleto got 9.8% of the vote. Let's go to Williams. Alex Albon versus Carlos Sines. I've gone for Carlos Sines, and I've gone for a 9 out of 10. I think this is, I think people may be unfairly sort of using their thinking of that Carla Sines is going to do a great job to kind of discredit. it Alburn. I don't think Alex Alburn is a bad driver at all. I just think Carlos Sites is a very good one and far too good to be in a Williams. And I think he's shown brilliant consistency. We've seen that against Charler-Claire when I don't think Carlos Sites is a better driver than
Starting point is 00:05:44 Charle-Clair or faster than Charle-Clair, but in the points, they're not that far off because he delivers. And I think that Carlos is going to be, a perfect fit for Williams where he can essentially be the one to deliver lots of points and he'll be the one to push that car to kind of the next level and be the one to make sure it is getting points on the regular. So yeah, I think Carlos is going to show what he can do even in an inferior car, basically. Okay, I've also gone for Carlos Sines with a certainty of eight out of 10. I,
Starting point is 00:06:26 yeah, similarly, believe what you say, Tommy, I think Carlos Sines is a fantastic driver. Albon has yet to kind of prove himself
Starting point is 00:06:34 in this Williams outfit against a competent teammate. I just think that Carlos is going to just rag that Williams to places it doesn't belong. That's a strange sentence, but you know what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:06:47 Like, I think that he will, he will be desperate to prove himself, at Williams, even though, of course, it is a downgrade from Ferrari, and a lot of us believe that it was unfair on him in the sense of not unfair, the fact Lewis Hamilton got the seat because anyone would move over for Lewis Hamilton, sadly, most drivers would. But for Carlos signs, I think that at Williams, he will thrive, he will get great points positions, in my
Starting point is 00:07:13 opinion, and yeah, the reason I've not gone for a 10 or a 9 is that Albon has been at Williams for quite some time. He knows the team very well. He knows the car very well. So I wouldn't put it past Albon being close to Carlos, perhaps beating him on occasion. But I think once Carlos is up to speed, that's when he'll really start to show his talent.
Starting point is 00:07:36 So, yeah, 8 out of 10. The fans have gone for 87% Carlos signs, which gives Alex Albon 13% of the vote. Let's go to Racing Balls. Yuki Sanoda versus Isaac Hajar. I have locked in Yuki Sanoda with a certainty, but I'm getting less certain as I'm thinking about it. Five out of ten. A five out of ten certainty for Yuki Sanoda. It's just I can't get past the fact that I think Sonoda coming into this year is going to feel quite frustrated with the situation that he's been put in.
Starting point is 00:08:16 he proved that he should absolutely be stepping up to that red ball seat for an opportunity. It hasn't happened. He's at the same team again. Whether that would translate into it or that's just complete nonsense, we'll find out. But I think that as well, similar to Gabriel Bortoletto, Isaac Hajar had a very decent Formula 2 season. He again is an unknown quantity. And I think that Yuki Snowda isn't, he isn't the full package yet. he still has mistakes in him
Starting point is 00:08:47 and Liam Lawson did a fantastic job in the amount of races that he had compared to his teammate. So let's see what Isaac Hadjar manages to do and that's why I've gone for a 5 out of 10 I don't know what I'm doing kind of yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:05 Yuki Sunoda, I've gone for Yuki Sonoda and I've gone for a 7 out of 10. So a bit more confident last minute, but not. No, I didn't. No, okay. It was like a dramatic pause. I like that.
Starting point is 00:09:17 I felt like I was doing drive rings then. Yuki Snowder 7 out of 10. Yes, I've gone for Yuki. I think he'll be experienced now. Well, very experienced in that team. And he's a very quick driver. But I do think there will still be those moments of chaos, which sometimes when Yuki can have a bad race,
Starting point is 00:09:39 he can have a bad race. You know, his bad races are not him finishing. 18th, he sometimes, you know, can crash in a quali session and they crash in the race and it kind of all go horribly wrong and get really frustrated. So there'll be those moments again this year, but Yuki's experience, I think, will beat Hajar, but again, it's going to be another exciting rookie on the grid to see what they can do. And I think he might still surprise a few people. Okay, the fan vote, Yuki Sonoda, 90%, which gives Hajar 10% of the vote going into this season.
Starting point is 00:10:15 Hasse, Olly Beerman versus Esteban-Ockon. So I've gone for Esteban Ockon, but just a four out of ten for this one. I think this will be a very close teammate pairing. You've got, in my opinion, a kind of
Starting point is 00:10:31 not quite veteran, but a driver that's been in the sport quite a while now, and in my opinion is very underrated. And versus Olly Beerman who's an exciting young talent, and obviously did an amazing job when he came in for his kind of substitutes that he had during during last season. But I think Ocon's experience will be the thing that kind of helps him get this
Starting point is 00:10:56 over the line. Just kind of while Olly Behrman has kind of gone in for multiple races and done a great job, I think it's very different to perform over an entire season. And O'Conn has that experience from that side, so that's why I'm going for, Esteban O'Con. Okay, dramatic drum roll please, because I disagree. Olly Beerman wins out in this teammate rivalry this year, and my certainty of it is a four out of ten. No disrespect to Ockon here. I just truly believe that Olly Beerman is a special talent.
Starting point is 00:11:31 He's not had a consistent run of races to actually get up to speed in Formula One. He's now going to have testing. He's going to have everything to kind of really embed himself in the sport now. And he's always impressed, whether it's in practice, whether it's in these random races where he's been called up on a Friday to come and do a race. I genuinely believe once Ollie Behrman is up to speed, he's going to be a phenomenal talents. And I think we're going to see that over the course of this season. Whether he'll come out the blocks firing, that's another matter.
Starting point is 00:12:00 But he is very quick and he's shown that. So I think it's going to be very close between the two of them. I'm not saying that he's going to wipe the floor with Ockon. But I do genuinely believe that Bairman is a really good driver. So let's see. The fan vote, more split with this one. 63% going in favour of Ocon, 37% to Bairman. So some people believing in the potential delusion of what I believe. So, okay, let's go to Elpin.
Starting point is 00:12:29 Pierre Gazley versus Jack Dewan. Oh, God, this is not going to make for good viewing or good listening. I've gone for Pierre Gasly, and it's a 10 out of 10. Now, there are two things to this. one, I do think Gasley would win out in a whole season quite easily, I think, just purely with the experience. From what we've seen so far of doing, I don't think there's too much to write home about. But secondly, I don't think doing last the whole season. So I think Gasly is going to win out 100% because of that as well.
Starting point is 00:12:59 Again, the cards aren't in doing's favour here. It seems very much colapinto, colipinto, colipinto. I heard, I don't know if this is absolute fact, that Colapinto, for like five years. He's got a long contract or something. So he's got a big old contract with Alpine. There's no way he's signing for a reserve driver contract. I really want to be a reserved driver for five years.
Starting point is 00:13:22 Yeah, exactly. So it's going to be very difficult for doing. Not only is he coming into his first full season in Formula One, but he's got this insane pressure on him as well. So yeah, it's a 10 out of 10. Gassley wins. I've also gone Pierre Gassley 10 out of 10. There's some obviously like rivalries here and going through that ones are a bit closer.
Starting point is 00:13:49 But I think this one is the easiest 10 and I feel really sorry for Jack Dewan that the guy's not even started the season yet. And there's already talk of him being replaced and it seems very likely that it's going to be. Alpine we saw at the back end of last year the confidence that Gassley had in that car when I very much feel. like it was becoming team Gasly and they could, you know, Gazley just flew when they got those new upgrades and things. Did an amazing job, so I think he's going to have a great year. And then there's also the fact that I feel so bad for doing, but I just, I really do think he's going to last like five or six races.
Starting point is 00:14:28 And then Colapinto's contract comes in. There's talk as well of like even him being replaced after testing, you know, because they, they might try and find loopholes in his performance there or whatever. You do wonder if Colapinto, if Colapinto signed this big old contract, if it's like, oh,
Starting point is 00:14:45 I need to do one day of testing as well or something, which we've seen with, that would be so controversial. Can you imagine Colopold? But we've seen that with drivers like Cubitsa because he bought a big sponsorship deal and things like that. But then he could also kind of leverage that as a performance thing as well, because,
Starting point is 00:15:01 you know, if he, if he's there and Colopinto is doing the test and he's quicker than do it, he might be like, well, that's a great shout actually. The more I now think about what you've just said, the more I think that's actually going to happen, where that would then be used for Alpine as a, well, we've got a quicker driver in Armitz with the reserve driver with Colopinto. Testing for Alpine could literally become a shootout for the seat rather than it be testing the car, which is quite insane to think about.
Starting point is 00:15:31 Wow. Or Alpine just give doing low sort of energy on his engine as well, lower power. mode. Well, there you go. Colopinto wins. Sorry, we've, Colopinto's got the entire budget of Argentina behind him and, yeah, yeah, you can, poor doing. I mean, it's great. I'd love to see Colapinto back on the grid. Don't get me wrong. But it is such a shame for doing to have that excitement of like, oh, I'm going to be in Formula One next year. But there's no scouting around the fact that he signed for Alpine when no one wanted to drive for Alpine. But now they do because they've seen what they can do at the end of the year. Yeah, it's just, it's feeling it on a human level,
Starting point is 00:16:13 isn't it? You know, of doing, you're just putting yourself, you're putting yourself in his position of the excitement of being signed to then, oh no, Colopinto signed for a five-year reserve contract. Like, yeah, the cards have been dealt, I think for Jack. But the fan vote, 97% believe Gasley will win out, which means three percent. I think Duon defies all odds, keeps his seat and beats Gasley across the whole season. Wins the first three races before he's replaced and it's enough to keep in the head. That would be wild. Let's go to Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso versus Lance Stroll. I've gone for Fernando Alonso.
Starting point is 00:16:50 No way. I've gone for a 10 out of 10 as well. No way. I did almost contemplate going for less than a 10 here, just because my kind of theory is not as extreme as a salber, but I don't think that Aston Martin are going to do well, so I don't think there'll be as many points on the table. But even looking at the kind of back end of last.
Starting point is 00:17:12 year when the Aston was terrible it was still Fernando Alonso that was beating Stroll every race and kind of getting into the points and Strale's just not improving as a driver how much more can be said it's Fernando Alonzo against Lance Stroll I think yeah there's no doubt that Alonzo is going to beat him it'd have to take a miracle even even with the you know you have there's a lot of kind of theories in Formula One among certain drivers and teams and people have to continue conspiracy theories and you know when people really think like are this driver's getting favoured in this team and all this kind of stuff it is funny that astern martin can literally come out and say we're team stroll but he still gets beaten every single year by his teammate yes i've also gone
Starting point is 00:18:01 for fanano alonzo unsurprisingly uh with a 10 out of 10 because there is no way in hell this anything else happens in my opinion uh i can't see it stroll isn't even really uh delivering on these random occasions that we may have seen five years ago from him. And Alonso, the motivation's going to be there. Adrian Newey, walking around the factory, don't do that. Why are you kind that up? Just little things like that. He'll start making a little bit of impact, I think.
Starting point is 00:18:28 It's not going to be massive into this year, but Alonzo's going to be excited for sure, and I think he's going to wipe the floor with Stroll personally. So that's why I've got 10 out of 10 confident, very, very confident. The fans, Alonzo 98%. Stroll, 2%. Did they buy that vote? Did the stroll family buy that? That was Lawrence 1% Lance.
Starting point is 00:18:49 We had more than 100 votes. Yeah, we did. Right, let's go to Mercedes. George Russell versus Kimmy Antonelli. I've gone for George Russell with a certainty of 8 out of 10. Because George has, George beat Lewis Hamilton twice out of three seasons. George is a consistent driver, a very consistent driver, and he's got a fantastic driver in him every so often as well.
Starting point is 00:19:18 I cannot see Kimmy Antonelli. As much as I can see Kimmy doing some star performances, the occasional podium, or even maybe a victory this year, who knows. But over the course of a season, I think George will win this one. The reason it's not a 10, it's because Kimmy is massively hyped. He may well live up to the hype, but I cannot see him outscoring George Russell so that's why I've gone for an 8 out of 10.
Starting point is 00:19:44 I've gone for Kimi Antonelli because of course I have. It better be a 1 out of 10, I swear. I've gone for a 2 out of 10, a bit more confident. I think the reason I'm not, I think by the end, my personal thoughts is by the end of the year that Antonelli is better than Russell.
Starting point is 00:20:01 The reason I've not gone for like kind of all in with it is because like you say I think Antonelli will still have his moments where it's a bit crash happy and stuff and George can have that
Starting point is 00:20:14 in him as well where he's like makes the odd mistakes but he's more of a consistent driver throughout a whole season and we've seen that like points scoring consistently throughout the year whereas Antonelli could be a bit more like
Starting point is 00:20:25 up and down but I'm just really excited to see Anthony against Russell I think he is going to just go all guns blazing and we'll see how that goes it could be one of those things where he goes all guns blazing and it works incredibly well
Starting point is 00:20:41 where he's incredibly fast and it pays off or he goes all guns blazing and he's backwards into parabolic so we'll see but yeah I'm back in Antonelli we will see the fans George Russell gets 92% of the vote so a lot of confidence there came to Anteley 8%. So Tommy is one of the 8% which is very interesting. Red Bull. Max Verstappen versus Liam Lawson I've gone for Max for Stappen with a 10 out of 10
Starting point is 00:21:13 this one is also incredibly easy Lawson at the end of the day isn't there to beat Max for Stappen anyway and Helmut Marco that has even said himself that they don't need that driver to come in and beat Max Stappan and even if they were talented enough to beat him
Starting point is 00:21:33 you know, it's Max's team, but I don't think that's even a question anyway. Max's, you know, he showed at the end of last year, his talent, he's been a complete teammate killer in Formula One anyway. And he's got that, which I've seen Lawson even talk about himself, like Max has got a very extreme driving style that, you know, loves to throw the car into corners and stuff, very aggressive. and yeah, I think it's just going to be all in Max's favour. Can't see Lawson getting anywhere near him, even though I don't think he'll do as bad of a job as Perez, but to beat Max just absolutely no chance. So I, come for Liam Lawson.
Starting point is 00:22:18 Because I think Red Bull aren't going to score any points this year, and Liam Lawson's going to score one. No, of course, it's Max Verstappen, with the certainty of 10 out of 10. I mean, do I even need to explain my reasoning? Max Rastappen is the best driver on the grid. Liam Lawson is entering a team where the car is very suited to Max's driving style. Liam knows that already.
Starting point is 00:22:43 That's not to say that Liam won't drive well. I think I have hopes for him to do better than Perez, not that that's a huge benchmark to beat. But yeah, I think Max will, again, just team. make killer. That's a question that will he end another driver's career? That seems to be a trend that Max does or at least kicks them out of the team to
Starting point is 00:23:05 send them somewhere else. But yeah, Max will win 100% on this one. That's why I've gone for a 10 out of 10. The fans 99% have gone for Max for Stappen, which means 1% of you are jokers and went for Liam Lawson. Watch this aged terribly and Liam Lawson wins the championship. That would be quite
Starting point is 00:23:20 something, isn't it? Ferrari Charles LeCler versus Lewis Hamilton the big one. It's my boy. It's my boy. I've gone for Charle. Obviously I've gone for Charle
Starting point is 00:23:33 with a certainty of five out of ten. A five out of ten certainty that Charlotte Cloor wins out against Lewis Hamilton. Even when I say that, I'm like, oh Lord. It generally could go either way, but I do believe that Charl will have the advantage,
Starting point is 00:23:54 of course, being at Ferrari now for many years. Hamilton coming into a new team, he will be motivated. out of his mind to do well at Ferrari. And I'm not saying that Hamilton's going to have a poor season. But I also believe that Charle-Claire delivers almost every single season with whatever car Ferrari decide to give him. Charles is right there in qualifying.
Starting point is 00:24:16 He's sensational. Hamilton has struggled in qualifying. So that's another thing where I believe Char will have the advantage, maybe most weekends on a Saturday. Can Hamilton turn that into amazing race pace on a Sunday? I don't think we're going to see a, if George starts first and Hamilton starts last, they'll finish together kind of vibe, because I do think that Charle is brilliant in races as well, but he's slightly better on a Saturday, in my opinion.
Starting point is 00:24:41 So yeah, I think Charle will win out, but it will be a close little battle between these two, and it'll be first and second in the Drivers' Championship. I have gone for Lewis Hamilton. And I think it's going to be incredibly close. goodbye Matt. I think it's going to be incredibly close between the two of them as Matt leaves the room because, yeah, I can see Hamilton.
Starting point is 00:25:12 Maybe I'm kind of caught up in the hype of Lewis Hamilton. Yeah, you are. We're recording this first day of him in a private. He is going to be so motivated, so excited. And I said this before, that Hamilton had this awful season last year in inverted commas and were still incredibly close to George Russell, who was being lauded as having this amazing season.
Starting point is 00:25:35 And Hamilton's going to be way more motivated than he was at Mercedes. His consistency in the races, I think, is going to be more than Shell. I think Charles are the quicker driver, but I think some of, I think one of Charles's very few weaknesses is the tendency to maybe go on a bit of a bad run, which and have like the odd incident and push the car too hard. So that's why I've gone for Hamilton. A bad run.
Starting point is 00:26:07 He had a bad run of like three or four races out of a 24 race calendar. And he's known as having bad runs. That's crazy from you. That's crazy slander. How dare you have an opinion? And I needed us to agree on that one like we usually do. So that's absolutely disgusting for me. What was your certainty?
Starting point is 00:26:25 I wasn't really listening because I was too busy storming out the room. One out of ten. I'll allow that. I just think it's going to be so close. You're rolling the ice. I think it will be very similar to, I think it could literally go down to like the, whether that's going down to the final race,
Starting point is 00:26:39 and it's a championship battle between them. God, that would be outrageous. But or even just a case of like, they are literally like five or six points separate going into the last race, even if it's for the fight for P2 or P3 or whatever it will be. Can you imagine if we had like an opportunity to go to Abu Dhabi at the end of this year
Starting point is 00:26:57 and it was a Charlotte Claire Lewis Hamilton title decider. We would have one of the most, like, difficult decisions to go. Do we go and then no one sees our reaction, or do we stay with the Twitch gang? I genuinely think I'd stay with the Twitch gang, because I don't think anyone would ever forgive us if Charlotte Clare won the World Championship and we weren't live. You can't not be live when Charles wins the World Championship. It's very true. It's very true.
Starting point is 00:27:19 I can't be, that's wild. I just said when, if? No. It's rubbing off on you. The delusion is rubbing off on you. I love that. When from Tommy? Do you want to change your vote? Do you want to go for Charles now?
Starting point is 00:27:31 Okay, fine. The fans, 75% went for Charles LeCleur. I think that's wearing it slightly heavily in LeCleur's favour potentially, but Hamilton gets 25% of that vote. And finally, McLaren, Lando Norris versus Oscar Piastri. I have gone for Lando Norris, and I am so confident that Lando Norris is going to wipe the floor with Piastri I've gone for.
Starting point is 00:27:56 a two out of ten. I think the end of the season, you know, that final race in Abu Dhabi has kind of maybe changed a lot of people's perception of Lando that he's, you know, he can now handle the pressure going into the next season. Am I convinced that's the case? I'm not still not entirely sure. There was a lot of moments last year where it cost him. And over an entire Formula one season,
Starting point is 00:28:26 it's incredibly difficult to maintain that consistency. If you've asked me this question when Oscar Piastri was having his amazing run in the middle of the season, I'd have been like, yeah, I'm back in Oscar this year. But he did tail off towards the end of the season. I think he will improve his game and be a lot closer to Lando. But I think maybe Lando just beats Oscar over the season, but I'm not hugely confident in it. I think this one I found quite difficult.
Starting point is 00:28:55 Okay. I've gone for Landau Norris as well with a four out of ten certainty. Yeah, I think that I think Lando will win out in this one. I believe he is the quicker driver currently, whether Oscar Piastri takes another step up into this year and continues the trajectory of improvements. That's an unknown at the moment. I would have been more confident perhaps in Oscar doing better
Starting point is 00:29:19 if he'd finished the season the way he had that stint, as we mentioned, where he was really, really doing well. But he didn't, he kind of fell off the ball a little bit, went off the ball a little bit towards the end of the season. So I do think Lando,
Starting point is 00:29:34 over the course of an entire race calendar, will win out once again. And they are the favourites to win the championship. Will Oscar have to slot in if Lando has a fantastic start to the year? And McLaren, once again, are the quickest car, or are we going to have this debate again
Starting point is 00:29:49 of two number one drivers and this, that and the other? And there's a lot of questions, marks over this season because, yeah, in my mind, I do think McLaren are going to be the favourite. So will that play against Oscar Piastri if he does have to help his teammate against the two flying Ferraris? So yeah, four out of ten certainty. The fans gave Landon or a rest 75% of the vote, which means Oscar Piastri gets 25%. Same as Ferrari then. Yeah, 75, 25. Interesting. So have I disagreed with the fans once?
Starting point is 00:30:23 Yes, I disagreed with Ollie Bearman, and that's... And I disagreed for Portoletto and Antonelli and Hamilton, so three. Yeah, you love... God, is this new Tommy. And we disagreed with each other, which is the important thing. Yeah, new season, new Tommy. He wants to go to combat. Or it's just an incredibly unpredictable season,
Starting point is 00:30:46 and that's going to be so much more fun with, like, opinions and reaction and predictions and stuff. I cannot wait. Me neither. Very excited. Can't wait. Thank you everybody for getting involved in the poll as well and kind of giving us some stats to give your guys opinion within the podcast. We want to do more and more of that across this season and beyond. Tommy, what are your final thoughts? Final thoughts is that I spent a good 50% of that podcast trying not to laugh
Starting point is 00:31:20 because the preview that our program users where you can see the user of when you first arrived on the call, Matt was jumping in the air celebrating something. So my preview is just you doing that, and I spotted it halfway through the podcast, was trying not to laugh. Brilliant. Okay, well, thanks for that.
Starting point is 00:31:44 And thank you, everybody, as always, for watching and listening. Hope you having a lovely January, and looking forward to Formula One coming back in a matter of months, which I'm trying to make it sound like it's not a long time. It still kind of is a long time. But we've got that the launch coming in a few weeks. No, a few weeks away from that big launch now. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:32:01 And we will hopefully be live for that. So that'll be good fun to watch along with everyone. Thank you everybody. We'll see you very soon. Lots of love to care. Bye. And now it's time for, have you done your chores? Tommy, what chore you?
Starting point is 00:32:20 you want to submit this week? Well, my chore, I'll tell you about an insane chore that I did, was carrying an entire bed upstairs. Is that a chore? Is that something that happens often? No, but it was, it was some, it was painful. Okay, so for all of those out there that have a bed downstairs and haven't moved it upstairs, what the hell are you doing? Move that bed. My chore is to tune your guitar.
Starting point is 00:32:50 because I can see Tommy's guitar in the background. He's just bored and he wants to show it off in the background. We love to see it. I don't know why. I thought he was going to grab it for audio listeners. I was like, I don't know. They can't even see that. Just rip a solo.
Starting point is 00:33:02 Yeah, just make sure you tune your guitar because it sounds awful. And I know you've been putting it off, but I think you need to do it. So very, very specific chores this time. And, yeah, lots of love, sweet dreams. You're the greatest. And, um... Peace. Peace out, A-town.
Starting point is 00:33:18 Peace and love. Bye.

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