The Late Braking F1 Podcast - Our 2025 F1 Season Review: Race by Race

Episode Date: December 14, 2025

Relive the 2025 Formula 1 season with the LB boys as they run through the year race by race, from thrilling highs to painful lows (looking at you, Ferrari), and the pivotal moments that ultimately shaped the championship... Want more Late Braking? Support the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and get: Ad-free listening Full-length bonus episodes Power Rankings after every race Historical race reviews & more exclusive extras! Give the 'gift' of Late Braking this holiday period with a Patreon gift subscription,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and your favourite F1 fan can enjoy anywhere from 1 month up to a full year of top-notch F1 content! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/latebrakingf1/gift⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Connect with Late Braking: You can find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Come hang out with us and thousands of fellow F1 fans in our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ server and get involved in lively everyday & race weekend chats! Think you can beat us? Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠F1 Fantasy League⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and prove it! Get in touch any time at [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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night's rest in your lie flat seat you'll see that your vacation isn't really over until your flight is over fly emirates fly better thank you for listening to the late breaking f1 podcast make sure to check out new episodes every wednesday and every sunday Hello and a very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage, and me, Ben Hocking. We are back for a very exciting episode. I love this sort of four-day stretch that we have in December of every season because we have possibly one of the more serious episodes we do in a year, followed by one of the most stupid episodes, not actually the most stupid episode we do all year. The LB awards are coming on Wednesday,

Sam, but before we get there, we are going to go through the entire 2025 championship today and review it. Yeah, the issue with the LB awards being after this one, it's like, remember when you were a kid and you know you had the Christmas break coming up, but you had to like your mocks or something like that before, and you're like, I'm not concentrating on the mocks. I've got the Christmas break coming up in a week, and that is literally what's happening right now. I'm just got straight on the LB, so all 24 races apparently, here we go. You're going to get like a C, a D, and an E. That's classic.

That sounds about right, actually. It's now officially a week, and I'm still in Ben's house. I have not left. But we have sought chairs again. I walked in. I was like, Ben, I swear to God, man. And he said he purposely swapped them this way around again. Yeah, it's about time you leave, to be honest.

I'll think about it. But I'll probably still hear for the LPs. I'm going to keep switching. these chairs around to you leave. Well, that's going to be interesting because

we're recording the LBs on the same night. They're going to swap from now. I can't wait for the next time to be that

Ben is sat on Harry in the chair to sit at each other. This is what the people are tuning in for, but just in case there's someone

out there that wants some F1 chat. Let's crack on. We're going to go through all 24 races. Obviously, we're

not going to spend an hour on each one. It's not, it's not going to be a 24-hour podcast. We're going to stick to our

usual length. But we're going to skip through some of them that maybe there aren't too many things to talk about. And then we'll spend a bit more time on those that gave us plenty of talking points. But we are going to go through chronologically. So let's go to the start of the season. Before we even get to Australia, Sam, we see the 2024 championship we have, Max Verstappen take the driver's championship, but McLaren take the Constructors championship. And a lot of Vastappan's success came from such a dominant start for Red Bull. It looked like, a result of preseason testing going into Australia, that probably

wasn't going to repeat itself. No, but we were going into the new season with a kind of not a clue of who might actually be more dominant. Ferrari won two or three races at the back end of 24. McClain who just crowned themselves construct as champions. Of course, Max had held on to the drivers, despite

a kind of rocky end to the season. So you never really knew who was going to rise to the top. And of course, George Russell are saying he's always going to be there as well. And yet, we go into Australia, and a lot of revelations start to take place because, boy, it'd be wet. Yeah, I was thinking about that obviously,

again, horrible conditions for a first race of the season. We had a lot of upheaval in terms of the grid, right? A lot of rookies, a lot of drivers joining new teams. Those aren't the conditions you want if you're in one of those spots. No, and I think that plays itself out, doesn't it? Yes. Especially for the rookies in this race. It was kind of a baptism of fire for all the moments.

involved. A baptism of water, yes. That's the same ghost. How they are. They are. Yeah, why is the same baptism of fire when they are always done with water? You don't bring any flames into this church, do you?

Pretty sorry. It's cold. Spit is that way, man. You don't bring any flames into this church. Hey, that's cold. Brup! How are you? It's the name of my new album.

Flames into this church. Don't bring flames into the church. It's a long game. You take the bowels out like for that, boy. Dundbrung. No. Goodness me. Yeah, the Australian GP, the conditions aren't good.

We do get a preview of what we're going to get for most of this season, I think, with Mastappan desperately trying his best to cling on to the McLarence. Sammy manages to get Oscar Piastri at the start of this race, but later makes a bit of an uncharacteristic error to then let Piastri back by. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We're ignoring a chaotic format. lap where we're properly introduced to Isaac Haggar for the first time in

Formula One. That feels like one of the defining moments of the season, him crying his little eyes out as he walks back through the padded with Antigley Hamilton, cradling him. Yeah, he went on to achieve bigger and better things, I'm sure we'll get on to a little bit more throughout the season. But yeah, it was

a pretty chaotic start into the wet. Max Verstappling is desperate to try and get in front. And Landon Norris proves kind of the metal he's made of by getting away well and holding on into what is a really tricky start to this season. As you mentioned, there are cars falling off the racetrack. I think Jack Doings in the wall in about three seconds of the race.

But the McClara Boys and Max Verstappen out front doing well to hold on to each other. I mean, we have this sort of instance where Verstappen again is fighting so hard to stay with the McLaren's. And ultimately that error causes Piastri to go by. I'd forgotten about this. We get a safety car later in the Grand Prix. By the time the safety car comes out, but Stappen is 17 seconds behind. behind Piastri? Like, those McCarrans were off.

Yeah, I think the mixed conditions diluted what was of quite a dominant race for them. Obviously, they both fell off the road. I also forgot when we had this sort of second downpour in this, that firstly Vestappen tried to hang it out, and then when Vistappen decided it wasn't enough, Ferrari were here to save the day of bold strategy course because they continue to keep going. Hamilton is out there drowning with dry tires on.

But both of them, not even going to split the strategy on this one, but we're going to get all in with both Ferraris and try and hang out when it's quite clearly chucking it down. But yeah, it was, McLaren should have been, I think, easily one and two and well down the road if it had been a normal dry race at this one. But obviously, yeah, the weather intervened and allowed for stopping back into the mix, even after that rare error that he made. In that Ferrari chaos, we were, of course, given one of the best radios of the whole year,

which is of, you know, is there a leakage, a leakage of what? I have a seat full of water. Must be the water. That incredibly insightful moment when even Charlotte Clare of the team radio said, words of wisdom. I don't think that's the last time that team radio is going to be mentioned over the next few days with the LB Awards coming up. Don't worry about.

We'll see. A quick way, you've already mentioned one rookie for that being Isaac Hadjar, Sam. Another rookie puts in a far more impressive performance, Antonelli goes from 16th to fourth here. He does have to overtake Holkenberg about nine times to make that happen. But it's a good start for him, right? It is a good start for him. I almost feel like we got too early in introduction to Kimi Antingelli, because what we're going to discuss as we go through the season is that, of course,

these performances tailed off as we got to kind of the midpoint and the latter midpoint of the season. But he started off brave. It felt like this was the Antingali we were expecting. to come into play, the one that kind of was all guts, all glory, you know, he's going to put it in the water, he can send it around the outside of you, regardless of the conditions, the guy that doesn't go with the break pedal is for crying out loud. And he proved that. It was an amazing comeback. I thought it was quite a disappointing, qualifying. Served him well. Unfortunately, we didn't get that continuation as we go into later races, but a brilliant introduction to

Formula One. Two last quick points I made on this one. Number one, Holkenberg gets P7 in this race, which is good for six points. That's more than they scored in all of 2024 combined, the Salver team. And Piastri's overtake on Hamilton. Yeah, this is filthy around the outside of that. Unreal move.

Yeah, naughty. Big fan of that. Big fan of that. And who knows? Overtake of the Year award. That will be coming up in the LB Awards midweek. We make a trip to China for race two, the first sprint race of the season.

And, oh, things are looking far better for Ferrari. a completely legal car and it feels like they're suddenly very competitive do well in the sprint qualifying and then we get into sprint sorry Lewis Hamilton's gone what's happened here

he's decided to actually become prime time Lewis Hamilton again and like Stroh's prime time singer and Lewis is just himself again and he wins by miles and he's got great tire wear and Charlotte Clerk can't be seeing anywhere near him that doesn't continue ever again

this again something I forgot from from this race. Obviously, they're great in the sprint, Hamilton wins, as you say, Sam. Later on, after the actual race, they get disqualified. Yeah. Spoiler alert. But I, in my head, they were more competitive in the race than they actually,

they weren't even that good in the race. I had it in my head, like they had a really great weekend and then got disqualified. Nah, they were still pretty rubbish in the race. Yeah. Oh, this is such a defining weekend for Ferrari when it comes to the 2025 season. and it's race two. I feel like coming out of Australia, it was a question of, you know,

is that Ferrari just poor in wet conditions, which typically year after year is. I saw someone the other day say that Ferrari still haven't won a fully wet race since Alonzo in 2012, which... I saw that, yeah. That's mind-blowing.

That's a bit mad. But yeah, maybe they were just... It's a massive vessel putting it in the wall in Germany. It's just to steer everything so they can't do any wet racing. I just assumed that, like, maybe they'd be better in dry conditions, and then for one day they were, then they just never were again. It's a bit better again for McLaren.

So Piastri, after having watched his teammate, take victory in Australia, Sam. He bounces back really well here. He does, because obviously, not only think he'd run off the road like Landon Norris, he wanted to winning Australia, he dropped all over back to P9, I think it was in Australia. So he's got real points to make up. And gosh, how many of those points we see cost him at the end. the season, actually, that, you know, he picks up two, and Lando picks up 25, a 23-point gap after the first race.

He's a tough one to recover from, but he does. And he is really quick here, and this is where we start to see the piastro that we saw for so much of the season, who is not just a match for Landon Norris, but regularly faster than here, but I thought he controlled it really well. I mean, Liam Lawson is probably another one to mention here, Harry, because this is his second and final race for the team. It's going well for Liam at this point. Yeah, that we've covered this a lot.

But a savage, savage way to end is very, very, very short stint of Red Bull. This was this was not a good race. But I think you've made this one before, Ben. He'd had like one, one wet race, one sprint, which means only one practice session, and this. And then obviously Red Bull decided that was enough. Yeah. It's still bad. It wasn't good.

He was not good. No, no, of course. He was not good at all. But, yeah. A savage. I don't know what they're expected. That was capped off by Olly Behrman, pronouncing Italian perfectly as he overtakes,

doing an Lawson and going, Chao. Yeah. Behrman Chow was one of the best season. Behrman Chow. Like Chairman Bao. Yeah, exactly. I'm sad that he stopped doing this

because he felt like he was getting to stick for it. So he didn't do it ever again. No, I wanted it to become the signature sign-off every time we did an overtake. Yeah. Jiao. Jiao. I appreciate it a lot.

Imagine him in Mexico. It'd have been chowls flying everywhere. Yeah. That reminds me of Gabe, though, in the office where they're like, chow, chow. It's probably the coolest guy in the office. What's wrong about that? Yeah, I also had

Berman written down and the word chow next to each other. I also had written down that this was, and I'd almost forgotten about this, this is the point where the Salber team are trying to kill their drivers on the first laps. I'd unfairly written Bortolete's being a bit stinky, but then I realized it's because the car tries to kill them every time they're getting it.

It was awful at this point, just on that first lap. Terrifying. Terrifying for the first lap, can't get anywhere. And yet, amazingly, they still don't often finish last in these Grand Prix. So it tells you a lot about those drivers. Yeah, and things do get better for them as the year goes on too. I think, I mean, Lando Norris has to fight with George Russell for that second position, but ultimately wins that out

and Vestappan isn't as competitive here as we see in Australia. Again, looking good for McLaren in the early stages. Now, round three, we take a short trip to Japan and we take a short trip on this podcast because there are not a lot of things to say

about the Japanese GP. Well, let's start, Sam, with not what happened on the Sunday because I was dead for that day. Let's start with what happened on the Saturday. The poll position, by Max Verstappen. Yeah, Sunday was a difficult day

for Late Breaking Incorporated. We were struggling. It was Kirstie's fault. Max for Stappen. It was all Kirsty's fault. Thank you, Keith. Honestly, that lap was incredible. After the slow performance

that we saw in China, where it felt like we had started to realize that the Red Bull was actually not going to be that competitive and we were seeing more at the end of 20204 than the start of 20204 as their form in 2025.

It suddenly dawned at us, uh-oh, this is going to be a fight between McClara as Max might be out of this. And then he puts one of the best qualifying lapsing I've seen from him. I do think that's probably a top 10 lap from Max for Staffing in terms of qualifying, six on pole position. And as we've seen for so many of the races in 2025,

qualifying is integral to your victory, to your success, putting it on pole. And there was almost got a single overtakes throughout the entire Grand Prix, the two McClara's hugging him the entire race. It was a phenomenal phenomenon. I think with a bit more time, A bit more hindsight that Vastap and that will be viewed as up there with like the Hamilton, Singapore, 2018 one. Because that car, as we saw for the rest of the year, the car was really good when high speed, a lot of many corners, tracks.

Not what, I know Suzuki is high speed, but it's, it's, there's a lot of corners, a lot of long corners. That should have been McLaren territory. Yeah. And the fact that he's on pole for that is ridiculous. So it's, it's up there. For sure. The only other thing, you mentioned this before even started recording, Harry, but Lando Norris is pretty close to Max Verstappen coming out of the pits,

which could have changed this race ever so slightly. But also with Norris and Piastri being tucked behind Vastappan, there were a few questions as to whether they should give Piastri a go, see if he could try and overtake him. I'm sure that'll be the last time they'd try and implement any team rules this year. They're really good at mitigating risk from outside of the team. Also, that Norris for Stappan incident in the pit lane, which was the only bit of drum at all-race, really annoying.

I'm like, Orlando, mate. Come on. You drove into the grass. Yeah. I was clear as day on it. Let it go. Not much happens in the midfield here, but there are a few that take advantage of some poor performances. So Alex Albon, who has a great start to the year, bless him. But he still doesn't like his team at this point. He just, sassy Albon is like... So many winges this season

I think this is the first of it And he's kind of like, this gets me results It's working at this point Yeah, it is, you know, it's like you guys Don't make any sense I am, make up of you, rubbish I went through our own Instagram really just to remind myself some of the things

we'd said after these races And Sam was talking about this very point Basically you said something On the lines of that album phones up his team Just to tell them he hates them and hangs up Hey, I hate you Just to let you know By the way, I hate you

You just suck Bye bye You still suck I've got an update You still suck Round 4 The Bahrain GP And

Oscar Pastery's on a bit of a role here I know he doesn't win the race in Japan But he's the first to win two races In the season I think Sam This might be his best weekend of the year Do you think so? I think it might be.

I definitely think it's a conversation. And definitely over what Landon Norris is doing further back in the pack throughout this country, of course. Where we've seen McLaren, especially, you know, their early pace in the likes of Australia, the way they were right on the back of Max for Stappen by overtaking was so difficult. It looked like they were very evenly matched up until this point in the season. And yet here it felt like Oscar had Landau in his pocket every turn.

Of course, Landau had to make it through some traffic as well. He was in around Lecler, who was driving brilliantly. Russell was on one of his best performances as well in the early season. using, while Oscar won the race, Lando did eventually prevail throughout a lot of that traffic. So I think the points are probably more complimentary towards Lando over what the actual form of the race probably shows. I think my biggest takeaway from this race is that I think it's a pretty good race overall, like maybe a seven, maybe even an eight out of ten.

But it is somewhat ruined by the safety car because I think Ferrari might have been cooking with that strategy still. Oh, yeah. We were actually gutted, they didn't pay off. I don't know if it would have been enough to win, but LeClau was overtaking Norris legitimately due to the strategy at one point, and we don't quite see it pay off

because of that safety car. The one time they're good at the strategy. I think they nailed it. I only had a couple notes on this one, extra notes, which are Red Pell's terrible, terrible, terrible pit stops. Yeah, the red lights just always on. And this one, this race, sorry, and China, remind it, I just kind of forgot, Russell wasn't there at the start of this year.

I know he was kind of anyway, but like the Mercedes itself was kind of there a lot of the time. And it had to battle the loss of DRS in this Grand Prix, didn't he as well? There was something issue, yeah. I thought it was just a transponder issue. It's like actually the car was fine. But he couldn't use DRS, right, because of that? Yeah.

He definitely did also, like, that was the thing, yeah. Yeah, I think he couldn't open the deal or it was a registry where he was going over the line, something like that, they had to tell him when to do it. It was odd, but he definitely had a problem that he had to mitigate. Yeah. Also, Max Verstappen spots that Lando Norris is over his gridbox in this Grand Prix. Nothing gets past him.

Nothing gets past Max Verstappen. And that penalty kind of cost him in this race. I've heard that in the off season, they employ him at Wimbledon to be Hawkeye. Vastappen is Hawkeye. I love that. Yeah, he sits there at the ring. Also, Haas double points finish. Bearman's cooking to go.

Yeah, that's a good point, actually. So Ockon pits like really early in this race, because of course he does his Haas, which kind of works out. And then Bearman's also, yeah, you're right, bareman's in that mix too. Good start to the year for Hass at this stage. Also, Alpine are actually okay here.

And it's like the one... Because they were okay in preseason testing and they weren't any good for the first three races. We'd show up to the same place that we went to for preseason testing. They're okay again. And it turns out this is the only track they can do all year. So, yeah.

Also, this is Yuki-Silgoa's first point to single Red Bull. Very good point. Yes, very good point. Lots more to come. Yeah. So many more. They're going to come sub-blading, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Right, let's take our first break on this episode.

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He takes victory again. But this time, Sam, there's a bit of an incident at turn one. There is. We have one of the first, sorry, debates about, you know, leaving the track, getting advantage, giving it back, not giving it back. Time penalty was awarded, of course, for Max Verstappen. And I believe he served it in the pits, right? Yes.

And I think he's sort of functionally, yeah, drops too far back. But Oscar Piastri, because carries on this dominant form he's able to pick up, even with the issue of what Max is doing. And, of course, we had a lot of debate about back at the time. Oscar Piastri is just so dominant again. It feels like he's really got into the groove of what he's doing in this championship at this point. And he's taking advantage, Harry, of some issues that are popping up for Lando Norris. We know he didn't have a smooth Bahrain weekend.

And here he crashes in Q3, which causes. him a lot more work to do on the Sunday than he would have hoped. Yeah, my three notes from Saudi are Piastri, ungrateful. Not a great race from Norris and Verstappen's hanging on. Yeah, Norris didn't make a lot of progress from, he started P, was it P10? Yeah, P9 or P10. Yeah, it was the bottom of P3. Didn't make many inroads really into that.

So yeah, not a bumpy weekend for him. He was in for a, no, I'm not going to do that. Nope. Yeah, I didn't have too much on this. I still, I stand by that I don't think Verstaffin was in the wrong here, but I appreciate I'm in the minority with that one. Bortoletto nearly puts his manager in the wall.

Oh, yeah. But Alonzo's response is so like, whoa, whoa, that was close. Oh, that was close. Remember we did the wheel in Canada? Yeah, and basically that, but in verbal form. If it had been anyone else, he'd been swearing down the radio because Bortoletto,

Oh, that was close. Also, Charlotte Clue had a bit of a belter in comparison to Lewis Hamilton in this race. He was so far in Franklin him, I thought. Yeah, yeah, classic Ferrari. Yeah, good. Well done. Signs and Albon work quite effectively as a team as well. So they are holding off, I believe, Isaac Hadjar to secure eighth and ninth place. So an early opportunity to see both Williams sort of fighting together to claim really good points in a race.

sorry Saudi Arabia finished right next to each other anything else on Saudi Arabia nah I hate that race do you Saudi I've heard that before it's just below Qatar

shocking Miami now before we get into the main race just a quick note on Kimmy Antonelli who does a very good job in sprint qualifying yeah because it's well you can't really kill it a poll

but yeah first first start of the front award. Qualifying session. Yeah. But yeah, delivering on the pace that we were hoping to see

from Antenay, it's a very impressive showing, actually. We have Norris versus Verstappen into turn one and sort of through turn two and turn three after that with Norris getting squeezed out.

And ultimately that kind of hampered him quite a lot in this Grand Prix. Again, sort of, is it Norris not knowing what Verstappan's going to do? there. It definitely, I think there were some moments of trauma coming back from the previous

season when they went wheel to wheel with each other. And of course, Norris more than once was run straight off the side of the road. Mexico being a prime example of that. There's walls at Miami. Mexico, you got a bit more run off. But yeah, I think he was a little hesitant to get past Maxis for staffing. Of course, the way that Piastri opened up this Grand Prix, he was able to just run off into the distance. So by that point, no matter how fast Norris was, The gap was never really coming down. I wrote Vestappen schooling Norris at turn one. Look, whether you agree with the way he goes racing or not,

Verstappen's never going to let him stay there. Just, no. He should have backed out of that one. And ultimately, Vestappen, whilst it qualified quite well, that car wasn't quick enough here. And Piastri got by a lot more clinically than Lando Norris did, and that's a huge part of the reason why he goes on to another win, number four overall

and three in a row for Oscar Piastri outside of that Ferrari are now battling Williams Alex Album finishes P5 ahead of both of them and this is the race

where we get the tea break radio from Lewis Hamilton might also be coming up later wrong in the week I think that the LBs may just be a selection of radio messages

from Lewis Hampton and no other awards I don't mind that That man was so fed up from day one. It's the way he's like, Sykes 1.4 behind. Want me going to pass as well? Yeah. No?

No. No one else comes through? I also just noticed Dan Collins I got bored so he spun. He did just spit. He did that a few times, did he? Yeah. I'm bored. Yeah.

I had two other notes here. Firstly, Carlos Sines tries a move. I can't remember if it was on Hamilton or LeClaire late on in this race. Signs tries a move and it's never on into like that last not quite the last corner but the last sort of break, yeah. And it's never on. Almost goes into the side of the Ferrari

and he goes over T-Radio. He moved a bit under-breaking there. And it's just, it's not on. I respect it, but it's not on. Other thing, come away back from Tegasie. Yeah, he might as well have done. The other note as well, I'm not a man for special liveries,

but the V-carb special livery here might have been the best one of the year. is this the pink one? Yeah, the Miami-colored sort of... It's a beauty, absolutely beauty. I tell you what is it, a special livery that I enjoyed here. Ferrari, more blue from HP. Yeah.

It's terrible, isn't it? Oh, Ferrari. Yeah, it is terrible. Anyway, we move on to... We go back to Europe for the next race. Or I should say, for the first time, we go to Europe, and we're at the Imola GP. I'm not going to call it by its proper name.

San Marino, Grasper. Yeah, yeah. There we go. It's looking pretty good for Oscar Piastri yet again. Challenging for the lead, or holding the lead, going into the first quarter, looking for four wins in a row. There's a rogue Vastappen around the outside. The filth of that move.

Have you heard David Kautar's reaction to that move? Yes. He claims to have an out-of-body experience watching that move. It's so good. Yep. it's freaking outrageous that move it's so whether he meant to do it or not

but it's just it's he is so far back yeah he's so far back when they get to that first corner like he's not even a bit alongside he's fully behind he's alongside Russell not alongside Piastri

he does too essentially filthy I wanted to talk about Russell as well in relation to that first corner instinct because he gets a really good start but it's kind of boxed in. And I feel like everyone appreciates the greatness of that move,

apart from George Russell, who has a bit more experience racing for Stappen than Piastri does. And you can just tell by his radio message, you can't let him do that. He might as well have said that. Yeah, he's like, come on, what are you doing? Why are you doing?

Russell has to try and hold off Lando Norris. I think a pretty underrated overtake for the year, actually, was Norris getting by Russell. Into the second, into the second chagain. That was a good one, I thought. Yeah, had to get it down as well,

because that championship was starting to fall away from this early point in the season. Yeah, indeed. And we have a bit of a debate here about whether it's going to be a two-stop race or a one-stop race. So Piastri pits quite early,

sort of maybe goaded into a two-stop strategy, whereas Vastap and a Norris keep going, and the tyres actually end up being a bit more durable than the teams expect here. Piastri kind of doesn't end up on the right side of this one. no it's well well not for the last time i guess this year but yeah yeah i know imola's gone off canada and it didn't always produce the greatest race this one's all right yeah it's not a bad little race this one strategically it was fun

yeah i'd like we say it when you get a different like different strategies variety of strategies interesting race yeah but they were almost two camps what that's right the race like Piastri was leading in Camp two that was trying to see there's two stop and then Camp one where we could just hold on and the likes of the Loris of the Staple were driving off into the distance

and Piastri was desperate to try and make this two stop working just fell the wrong way for him. Yeah, it did and you had like drivers like Fernando Alonzo and Aston Martin overall have really good pace here and the strategy just doesn't go his way

nothing's going his way at the moment and it carries on into this weekend for that strategy call at which point he calls himself the unluckiest driver, which might be accurate for the year, who knows. Same race he's trying to get, is it, but I think he's trying to get past Sonoda.

It's like nearing the last lap, and he gets it wrong coming out of the hairpin. And he's so annoyed, he's like slapping himself in the face, is he trapping off the hill. When he's like raising a P11 or something, it's just, oh, dismal. The only other note here I had, Sam,

is that we've got Ferrari versus Williams again. Albin and LeCleur have contacts going into the first chicanne, which, yeah, LeCleur is, as you say, with those two camps of drivers, LeCleur is kind of the one that's holding on versus Hamilton and Albin, who have the better strategy at this point. Yeah, it's, again, just the way that the Ferrari's really started to flounder

in this kind of early mid-part of the season. We're starting to see what it's really made of. It's basically a midfield car that has some slightly better races than everyone. else around it. That's all it is at this point. And Williams are probably, in one of their better spells. I think they are going through a good portion of this album. It's really on top of things. Sikes is just starting to get to grips with the car. And that's proving a real harmful for Ferrari. Monaco's up next. We're probably going to get annoyed about some of this.

So let's just focus on the positive bits first. Lando Norris is in need of a really good weekend. Delivers it. Delivers. Yeah. Poll. Paul. When? It's just no fuss. Can ask for more, to be honest. Yeah, Lecler and Ferrari actually have a reasonably good weekend here as they come home second place with Piastri in third. But I think the biggest talking point, Sam, is this...

I'm not going to shy away from it. Two-stop nonsense. Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course. A mandatory two-stop applied for the first time. And with the aim to try and spruce up the entertainment and the fact that pits are there in a cause drama at Monaco, and yet immediately,

it looks like racing balls have found a loophole in the system by one of them backing up every driver on the racetrack and then the next one backing up every driver on the racetrack and then just going to have to stop into that free air and every other team going oh we'll do the same thing actually um it just ruins it immediately it was not fun it was forced and it was painful do you know how stupid this was again racing balls hadjar pits twice under green flag conditions Liam lawson is backing up the field he does two pit stops in 20 laps and comes out ahead of Lawson. I forgot, yeah, I forgot about that tactic.

Yeah, stupid tactic that was. So it's going, what, two seconds a lap slower, a second and a half a lap slower than everyone else to back everyone up? Was Almond doing the same? Is that where Russell cut the chagame? They all did it. They literally all did the same thing. Yeah, they're Russell going to have for this.

Yeah, Russell genuinely just goes, I'll take the penalty. I cannot be here anymore, which I kind of appreciated. But yeah, very good weekend for Lando Norris Outfront at a very opportune time. Race number nine is the Spanish GP. Piaastri looking to bounce back versus Lando Norris.

Delivers on that. Yeah, good race. It might be one of his best races of the season, actually. I think he handles a lot of risk really well. There's safety cars involved. But slightly further back, of course, we see the Red Miss to send over Max for Stap and Zines for the first time in a little while, it feels like.

Well, yeah, Red Bull are trying something a bit different here as they are at pretty much every Grand Prix just to see what they can do. And I don't really know what... What's that saying? Three stop? Three stop. They're trying three stops.

Okay, they're trying three stops. Which I think was a good tactic, apart from the fact that a late safety car made an appearance, at which point they don't have any tires left. So he's on a set of hard tires versus much better, soft and medium tires for the rest of the field. And Vastappen very nearly drops it, Can we go on that safety goal restart?

It all just from that point goes downhill. The red miss does descend, but I think for very little reason, having rewatched this. I know it gets a bit hairy down at turn one, so he misses it, and that's what they're saying give it back to Russell. But apart for it, I think it's just pure frustration from the fact that he doesn't have any ties so he's having to defend. And then he loses the spot of turn one, and then he has to give it back to Russell, and it all just goes there bit pear shape from there.

I think it's an accumulation. I think it is the strategy going wrong, then it's the near spin, then it's the term one incident. At this point, it's just all of those small little things have happened in the space of about a minute. And we obviously get the infamous contact, Sam. I know this was asked of Max Verstappen after the Abidabie GP as to whether this defined the championship, which Verstappen wasn't very happy about being asked that. But I guess you can point to a number of different incidents. That's life, right?

That is life. Things can go a different way, at any different point. And you could single out one event and go, well, that was what sold it to me or cost me it, whatever you're going to call it. And if you can live like that, sure. But I think he's, I think overall he is right to go, look, I'm making a mistake. But there are a number of other things that could have happened that also could have helped me or hindered me. It's not just a one singular event. So I think he's understanding of it now, the way he approving.

approaches it now is a much better and mature way of dealing with it. I'm not sure he dealt with it in that way as it was happening. Well, an opportunity to redeem himself at the Canadian GP. We'll hit this one before our next break. And so far this year, we've got used to either Piastri, Norris, or Vastappan taking wins. And suddenly, in the heat of Canada, Mercedes have shown up. I'm sure. For no reason.

Why are you here? Russell was glad that they were though because he took advantage It did They brought this upgrade to the rear of their car And it looks like from the talks The Mercedes engineers have given Something about the tarmac

And the way that the tarmac is laid at Circuit de Jiu-Vilnerve Just worked perfectly with the way that the rear suspension operated with the tyres And it just clicked and didn't work anywhere else As we're about to go and see But here it meant that George Russell was able to produce one of his best races

And takes his first victory of the season With his work in Singapore to be fair. That's true. But everywhere else. Still, two out of 24. It's not great. Yeah, I don't have too much more to say on George Russell just because he ran off.

Yeah, he dominates here. His teammate also puts together a good showing. Yeah, a good weekend, probably his strongest so far for Anthony Lee. Obviously, he'd had that high in sprint quality in Miami, but this one was, I think, definitely his most competitive showing. I think for the, when, and this is completely fair, because it's his first year, when the car has been good to drive, I think generally Antonelli has been there or thereabouts with Russell. When the car's been hard to drive, Russell's had a bigger gap. And that's completely fair because he's got more experience. He had to drive Williams for three or four years.

So I think this was a weekend where the car was better and it clicked for Antonelli as well. And he became grand, Kim. Yeah, I don't like that. That's small, Kimi, become the grand day, Kimi. How did we get Toto on the podcast? Toto, welcome. Are you causing all the time? I'm good, Frank.

I was going again. Okay. Yeah, he's got many other, many other hats to wear. We'll bring that one up in a bit. I wouldn't worry. I think Sam will have plenty of opportunity to speak to guests in his house at some point today. I feel like... Do you know what, such a value points on such a bono.

I feel like that might be coming. Um, Norris and Piastri, all year, they've kind of been trading wins and we've been asking the question, when are they actually going to fight on track? Sam, here. Here is the answer. And it resulting exactly how we thought it would with a crash. Norris, straight into the back of Piastri, but fair play to him is reaction. Actually, I think he's maybe one of the best bits of radio from McLaren all season. put his hands up because that's my fault. Generally, August, fair, open. My fault, I made a mistake. We move on with it. It doesn't cost piastry.

He was never going to win this race anyway. The McLarency didn't really have the pace for the first time this season. Unfortunately, it's costing us big time. Okay, let's go to our second break on this episode. On the other side, The Hills are alive with the sound of F1 as we go to Austria.

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And again, we get a good fight between the two of them here. Yeah, it was, I forgot about the fight in this one. And actually, given the context of the last race, I think that hyped it up even more. But there was some good racing between the two of them at this one. Sorry, Piazzi, you'd try to one rash, the little dive, but... What did they say about it? It was like, it falls outside of...

Combat guideline. Yeah, so it's... Yeah. Well, you wait too hungry, then, McLaren. But enjoyable, enjoyable to watch. Yeah, we have a few, fewer contenders in this one, Sam. You've got the two McClaren's fighting out front, but because of Antonelli and Vestappen coming together on the first lap,

It kind of allows positions three through five, Lecler, Hamilton, Russell to kind of just work itself out. Yeah, unfortunately, it kind of costs us what could have been a really fun battle for that podium selection where this kind of eased itself into bigger gaps. But this was the first race that we suddenly realized that McClaring doesn't really go through its ties very quickly at all. The fact that Piathri hung on to the back of Norris for what, half the Grand Prix within a second in the heat of Austria as well. That car at this point is a beast to go up. against. Yeah, a very good win for Lando Norris to bounce back from Canada, hold off Oscar Piastri, take that win.

Like I say, the Ferraris are kind of okay, but we don't really see much of them throughout the race. George Russell and Mercedes, a week after, or two weeks after Canada, I'd just rubbish. Like, they're not that far ahead of the midfield in this one. Speaking of the midfield, Alonzo and Bortoletto, Alonzo gives Bortoletto one of his many lessons for the year. Lesson one was here, I think. Yeah.

Good to watch, though. And also, Yuki Sonoda and Franco Colopinto fighting over P-76 as Piastri tries to lap them, and Colopinto thinks, all right, put you in the wall, mate. Yeah. Just no space for the championship leader, until, you know what, you're one of us back here, I'm sure. I bet you love P-76, he's thinking. I realize this is where Paster, which wasn't broadcast, Piastri came on the radio and said, even after all the easiest LPs still find a way to bleep me.

Yeah. What a great line that is. So sassy. Also, Antonelli, murders overstathing on that one. Yes, that was. And Antonelli was kind of like, he accepted blame for it, but not like 100%. Like, he was, it's my fault, but it wasn't an error kind of it. It was my fault, but get over it.

Yeah. I thought, but also, Max Chica moved. Yeah, was he in the wait for? Yeah. God. Another thing that at the time, we didn't know how consequential that might have been. That's points gone. So you can blame that to sing a spang.

Yeah. There you go, people. Use that one instead. Round 12, the British GP. I don't know where to start with this one. Oh, good Lord. This one had everything. Absolute chaos from start to finish.

The weather. British summer. There you go. Beautiful. Yeah. Should we start on the formation lap, which feels like a weird place to start with these reviews but there was even

attention drawn to the formation lap due to the likes of Lecler and Russell coming in for, so they came in for dry tyres where most of the grid is starting on the inters. Yeah, bold call was still quite damp out there as they found out. Yeah.

Not the right cool. Yeah. If not to work. No, Leclair is a stinker. I think there's one point he's doing a team radio and his eyes are slightly open could stop condensation. He just gets splashed in the face with the router.

It's like, oh, he's having a really tough day, shall. Should have just pulled over at that point, I think. I'm done. Yeah.

But, E. Hulkeberg, on the other hand. Yes. Finally, after, you know,

making his debut in 2010, gets on the podium for a first time. What a moment. Huge moment. And I think everyone was delighted to see. Yeah. My whole body cringes. I think it was brilliant this day.

Actually, it has always been good in these sorts of conditions and obviously never really been able to deliver, but finally he did. In that car, all the cars. And held off, I know Ferrari, I'm brilliant, but this year, but still held off Hamilton. Yeah. That's superstar.

That's not bad. I just, he and Landstrol get the, But you get a bit lucky with the strategy here. Holkenberg takes advantage of it and stroll kind of just fades away quite quickly. Drama at the front as well, right? Because we had piastrian under the safety car, get himself a penalty for kind of improper driving,

stopping starting essentially. And does Max then loop it at the restart? It does, yeah. That red book, I know they took the wing out and that's how he got pole. Disgusting. Yeah. It looks disgusting.

That's a dry setup, man. So awful. He's got a tea tray on the back. It's so bad. Yeah, it's not great. But again, pretty consequential. You have one championship rival spinning, one, getting a penalty, and Lando Norris takes victory at his home Grand Prix as a result of that.

There was a good win for Norris as well. A lot going on that day. Oh, yes. Yeah. Held his own. I mean, evidence of that was the year before, right, where he was in the mix, but came up a little bit short,

made an error going a bit deep into his pit box that year, sort of resolves it with this one, very good win. Round 13, the Belgian GP, my overriding feeling going into this one was annoyance because we were there for, I don't remember how long we were there for, waiting for this race to start,

until the point where it was basically dry. Every time we go to spa, there's some kind of annoyance with the work where they're tire. I'm just so annoyed how long that took together. that race go. Again, this is something that was on one of our posts on Instagram.

We waited so long that it was basically dry when we started, in which case, that took all the strategy out of it because they just changed onto dries and that was it. You're right,

but how did we start this race? A rolling start! It was dry! So annoying. Ah! Anyway, when we do get going in this one, Sam, Oscar Piastri, needing to make a move on Lando Norris

sort of going up O'Rouge and Raddy on, he nails this one. My guy knows exactly where I put his car and he goes exactly, I can get through that corner. He flies. This is a great throwdown. He's throwing the mantle down at Landau Norris' feet.

He gets the job done. This is to show him, you know, I'm annoyed after Silverstone. This is a great way to bounce back at this point. And of course, even with Oscar Piastri getting that move done, this race wasn't over, because whilst everyone, and I mean, literally everyone, apart from Lando Norris goes onto the medium tyres, McClaren roll the dice with Lando Norris

to put him on the hard tire, it was looking like that might be the right call as Lando Norris was kind of gaining on Piastri, but made quite a few errors in those sort of closing laps to never really get within a shot. Yeah, he goes off at Poo one, doesn't he? Has a big old poo because it was a bit of a moment. It was. Ha ha ha, ha. a funny corner game

who joke a joke oh joke every year but then regains that time that he loses and we get into the final few laps

and then he has a moment at the source at the first corner as well as loses it all over again so that was game over yeah it felt like there was an opportunity

for him to at least have a go in the last couple of laps if he properly nailed that stint and I don't think he quite does but again McLaren pretty good

here. Vestappen was able to fight them and indeed win in the sprint race, but not in the main race. Round 14. Slightly controversial, one, the Hungarian GP. Again, a slight difference in strategy between the McLarence, Sam. We've got Lando Norris, who's trying to fight back a bit, go on to a one-stop strategy, Piastri leading the way on a two-stop, and it looks like maybe Lando Norris, with nothing to lose, has gained here. Yeah, this is almost has a whiff of Imala, you know, where they've tried something that in theory should work for them with Piastri, and it's got a little pear-shaped.

And Landon Gores has come out, smelling of roses a little bit. For me, the biggest talk here is Charlotte Clare in that Ferrari, though, because it felt like something might have actually been, I know, that's what I'm saying. But where's it come from? Where's that come from? We might have finally got our fourth team winner, of course, Russell, Verstapp and both McLaren's.

and the car breaks. He's having to drive with a broken car for the last, what, 30 laps. Ridiculously unlikely. Some questionable defending from Shell. I don't care. I'll allow it. I'll allow the violence on this occasion.

semi-attempted murder. Lecler versus Russell has been an underrated rivalry this year. They've had a few moments. A few ding-dongs. Yeah. I don't think Russell's been particularly impressed by Lecler's defense and attack

throughout this year. year. This is one of those. But you're right, Sam, like for the first half of this Grand Prix, it looks like Ferrari are legitimately in the fight for a win here. Sure, Piastri's keeping pace with Lecler, but he's still there. And then the second half of this race, completely, it just completely goes to, I can't say that word. Some poo on. Yes. Aston Martin has some pace here. We saw that downforce, mate. All that high, high, downvo.

One point, Lonzo's in, like, fourth. Yeah, well, they brought the spa update too hungry, which is good. But both of them were good here. Yeah, a strong weekend. Well, yeah, it was the trend for the year. It wasn't it any high-down-forth circuit. They actually had some decent pace at. I don't remember where Alonzo finished yet.

Was it fifth or sixth, seventh? It was better than seven of them. Maybe six, sounds right. But both of them were in the points. Yeah. And this is to your point earlier when we were talking about Suzuki and how good that Vastappen pole lap was there because it typically doesn't suit their car.

This is, Hungary's fairly similar to Suzuki in a number of ways and they are awful here. This might be in terms of pure competitiveness, their worst weekend. Vestappan finishes ninth. Yeah, Vastaping is night. And Liam Lawson shows what he can do. I think this is his third top ten finishing a row at this point. And he's only a couple of points behind Hadjar.

So it looks like the tables are starting to turn and he's taking it to his real rookie teammate. But at this point, we're writing the staffing out of the championship a little bit here. It's kind of like if the Red Bulls is this bad and even he can't pull something out of it around a track like Hungary, then it's almost game over for them. Dutch GP is up next.

Piastri returns to form here. A big old lead in the championship coming out of this one is 34 points in the favour of Oscar Piastri because whilst he goes on to victory, No, Norris has the one and would seem to be only mechanical DNF of McLaren's year. Yeah, tough one for Norris. He may not have been going on to win this one, but to lose 25 points to Piastri. We were obviously at this point thinking Vastappen was out because he was 104 points down by this point.

And yeah, then Norris also drops 25 points to his own teammate. So it was a, it was a tough one for him. I stand by my comments of the opening lap, by the way, here, where Verstappen is nearly sideways going into and trying to make an overtake happen, which, by the way, it's a completely pointless overtake because... Oh, it does it for the love of the game? That Red Bull is awful when he gets overtaken like seven laps later or something.

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Yes, that's a 10 grand of you, Sattanga project. Also, two incredible rookie performances here. Isaac Hachar picks up his first podium after qualified brilliantly. And only Ben, I think, goes from pit lane to sixth place. Yeah. I particularly want to shout out Hajar here because sometimes you look at a midfield car getting a podium

and you think, okay, what's happened to get them there? He's legitimately in, sort of around that fight. He didn't need too much to happen in order to get third place. I thought that was a really great result. Goes well for Ferrari as well. Yeah, Ferrari, that's a good one. So, LeCleur makes an overtake on Russell, which is a pretty audacious one. That's the positive.

And then the negative is Hamilton crashes in some light rain, and Antonelli destroys LeClau. at the same corner at the same corner yeah I thought one of us had a bold prediction about them

not qualifying inside maybe you said they wouldn't qualify and say in the top ticket they need to actually finish inside the top thing that's about right

yeah sounds sounds true yeah I think that's probably about it for the Dutch GP Italian GP

was up after this one Vestappen hasn't won since the last time we were in Italy in Imola and yet Red Bull, with an upgrade, seem to have turned the corner. Well, yeah, and like we said earlier on,

they seem to do well at these circuits where it's high speed, Munza being the temple of said speed. So, yeah, he obviously gets pole. Not the best start. He doesn't do term one or turn two, I guess. So has to relinquish the lead to Norris. But it takes like three laps and he's back in front again. Yeah.

I think that was a sign then that this was going to be here. We don't see him again after that. No, it's one of those afternoons for the staff. Bye-bye. Yeah, very much bye-bye, which gave us more time to look at the battle between the McLarence, Sam. And this was a pretty important moment in the championship. Again, going into this race, Piastri has a 34-point lead over Lando Norris. And with the race coming to its end, he has a lead over his teammate as a result of a botched pit stop from Lando-Norris.

It takes six seconds. So a decision has to be made. He has asked, let Lando-Norris. Norris by. He does it, but even back then we were debating should he have done. Yeah. And in hindsight, you can kind of see that this was almost the first pebble to start the rockfall of bag form for Oscar Piacchri. If he had just walked away with a point of advantage of any kind over Landon, Norris, who knows what this might have meant for the rest of the the season. The fact that, you know, that that wobble from Mantigli and Qatar that allows

Norris to get through and secure fourth place might not have been enough for him to get. get third in Abu Dhabi, it really will have been that close to me that Gores could finish on third in the final race in the season, but Piastri played the team game, and that's when we started to get sick to death of hearing papaya rules.

The other thing I was sick to death of hearing that I'd forgotten about until 30 seconds ago, and well done, you've got another great eye roll from me because this was the fastest race ever. Yay! I don't care!

Cool, great record, bro. Cool. the only thing that wow me up more in this race was Olly Behrman getting that 10 second time penalty. Goodness me. What earth? Yeah, there were a few, because the race before in Zandvot, signs, I know this one wasn't,

the signs got a penalty, 10 second penalty for existing. There were some bad, bad, bad stewarding choices in those past couple of races. Yeah. But even with the Piastri and Norris, position swap. Piastri is still in a very good spot in the championship at this stage as we head to Baku, which is not a good weekend for the man. No, if you want a lesson in how not to do an F1 race weekend, Oscar Piastri delivers the perfect

lesson. Yeah. Jumpstart crashes like five corners later. Yeah. Also crashing in Corley. Yeah. So terrible qualifying. Oh, I'll give it another go on Sunday. Oh, no, I won't, because I won't even do half a lap. And he made Fernando also job to start as well. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's on him. Yeah.

Entirely. And that was the only point Alonzo all year just went. Yeah, that's on me. Yeah, so my bad. I'll tell you what, though, even though, even though Piastri has a very rough day, Sam Lando Norris's day isn't that much better. this is a premium opportunity after the DNF through an aging failure in Zandvo after the crash in Canada

he's been begging for a chance to capitalize on Oscar Piaastri not scoring points because he's been on a points run for every race of the season so far and now he's got a golden opportunity to rate back 25 points does he do it no no he doesn't and I think this is properly squanded and there was a real risk that of course we go now know what we do that he may have really come to pay the price for not winning this score on Priy at one point. Further back, shout out to Carlos Seins, getting his first podium for Williams. Sorry, first Wodium for Williams. Thank you.

Yeah, no worries. And Antonelli tries to kill George Russell. Oh, yeah. No respect. None. I think Russell does a good job. He gets in a really good stint after that. But yeah, he very nearly ends up in the wall, turn one.

Would you like a side order of wall? Yeah. Quote Antonelli The best chef Best waiter on the earth On the grid Singapore GP is up to that

And Mercedes are good again Sure Yes the great The great form breaker That is Singapore Why were they good Honestly

I can't give you an answer Weirdly Even in their dominant era Singapore was always Like their Achilles heel as well Like generally So why are they good now It makes sense actually

It makes sense. Now they're rubbish. Yeah, now they're really good. That's why Max Verstaffan can't win there. Yeah, might be the reason. Yeah, Russell, similar to his Canada win, is just left to go out and win the race. I think it might have been more interesting

if the McLaren was able to get by Vastappan because I think Norris might have had the pace to take it to George Russell, but he was desperately trying to get a pass for Stappan and couldn't do so. Of course, again, on the McLaren's there's some lap one contact here there is and we go through the annoying phrase of there will be repercussions that last a week because it does it

literally back to him on the next phrase what I forgot this is this annoyed me so much at the time the precedent that had been set that had been set by McLaren behind the scenes when this happens and yeah it was clumsy and messy and Norris does barge him out the way but piastri's on the radio straight away going well that's not you know within the rule so he should be given that back i'm just like this is not how we go racing he calls him a team player isn't he said that's got being a team player or something like that because of after what happened in longer yeah that's got being a team player is that brown wrote that one now didn't he like i'm going to use that one against you when you lose the championship that's what zack brown

said well for being a team player player The funny thing is McClara actually win the Constructious Championship here. They do. So, I mean, they were always going to win it, but they wrap it up here at least. What a sad little life sack. Yeah.

Alonzo tries his best to get in contention for Team Radio every year. Oh, is this the unplugging the radio? I will disconnect. And then he is raging because Lewis Hamilton's just cutting every corner because he's not going to get. He's absolutely raging at him.

Hamilton's just like they're in a straight line for the last thing. Singapore is a straight penalty. Alongso is seething. Oh, man. Did Hamill get a penalty for that at the end? I can't remember. I think he did. Yeah.

Oh, boy. I think he only got like five seconds or so. It wasn't that big of a penalty. Anyway, by that. Sorry, producer Gershey just said this. send through the radio message. I cannot believe it. I can't believe it.

I love so I cannot believe it. There's a word missing in there, but you. I like the question of the end. Is it safe to drive with no breaks? No, Fernando. Yes, it is actually. Thank God you've asked. Right.

Singapore GP, that's in the books. We'll take our final break on this episode and then on the other side. We've got a few more races to get to. Welcome back, everyone to the final part of the 2025 season review, and we head to quite literally the United States Grand Prix, as we were, of course, there in person in Austin. I don't know if the listeners know that. We've really mentioned it. No. That never comes up. Yeah, it's our third one as well.

I think this is a good one for us to have been at, not only because Austin's brilliant, but because it's, I don't think this race was very good, but a race is always pretty good when you're in person. Yeah, and also we were sat at all the action points. Yeah. I realised when I watch the highlights of this,

it's turn 12 and then turn 15 when literally anything happened. So, yeah, it was, for us, it was dramatic to watch, it's not the most exciting, but Verstappen again. Three out of four, Domain wins. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think at this point he's closed the gap

to like 60 points to the guys in front. It's like 104 or something, like three races before. He's crazy. He's getting there. He's getting there. Ferrari kind of okay. Yeah, well, strategically, LeCleur starts on the soft tire, right,

where everyone else starts on the medium tire. And it can't, yeah, it kind of works. Until the point where, Hamilton and LeCleur have the most pointless battle for a one lap. Why they didn't just hold each other off? Yeah, of course, I forget this is the season where they can't communicate to let each other go at any points and just hold each other.

Like, I think Miami also had this where they were just stuck behind each other for a few laps and finally they let each other pass. Yes, yeah. And Norris has to overtake LeCleur twice in order to get P2, but that was a quite an entertaining battle to see Norris having a fight to get that spot. And then a little bit further back, as you mentioned, where we were,

we could see pretty much all the action at this Grand Prix because you've got Carlos Sines making a move on Olli Beerman at turn 15, which triggers two things. Number one, Carlos Sines try the same move again on Antonelli and it doesn't work. The other thing it triggers is Bearman thinks, that's a good move. I'll try that one as well on Yuki Sonoda and he spins.

when he's only like two points off a race back. Yeah, we had a whole conversation in our preview about how he's going to get banned and they might have to bring someone else in. Also, the site turns to anyone. He just punts him. He just drive straight into the back of him. See you later, Kimmy.

Off you, pop. No, he turned in on him. Quote. Okay. Okay, Gales. Yeah, but for Stappan, another dominant win. Round 20, Mexican GP. Speaking of dominant, this is, at least in terms of seconds, the second margin that you've got,

Lando Norris, is it just over 30 seconds he wins this Grand Prix by Sam? He utterly dominates it. This, in terms of outright domination of a Grand Prix, I think is his best Grand Prix ever, in terms of outright wings. I'm not saying it's his best performance ever, but in terms of lead margin, it is by far his biggest. this is where we start to realize that Oscar Piastri might definitely be in trouble and the form is not going the way that he needs it to go.

We're also denying something really, really fun because, of course, a last-minute VSC was called out due to, or was it Carlos Sites' car, stuck right by the war in the third sector? Stuck. Stuck. Stuck. Yeah, sure. Sure.

Sure. We had the lap one chaos, or term one chaos. Yeah. And then later on, we just had Vestappen Hamilton just decided not really to do many of the corners for a lap. And Behrman saying, all right then. Ciao. I'll have a couple of spots.

He goes on to P4 in this race. Lecler, meanwhile, has to hold off Vestappen, thanks to that VSC, and he does for second place and then third place. Vastappen and Red Bull basically declaring their strategy over Team Red. I listened to this back, and GP is kind of there saying, are we on a one stop or a one stop or a two stop and the message is intended clearly not for Vastappen and not for broadcast and for someone else

the more I listen to the more I think this is intentional I think it might be I'm too hot on I've always thought that they're playing again they're being clever I think entirely being clever it worked it's never happened before it's never happened before would GP be that uncertain about whether it's one or a two stop

no we see everything uncertain ever They are playing Ferrari and McLauring at this point. Maybe GP knows nothing. And it's just Hannah Schmidt. He's just a puppet. Yeah. Someone's telling him what to say on the radio. She has a really good, bald English man impression.

Also, George Russell being very sassy on the radio. Yeah, good shout. Yeah. You know, you want me to let him pass? Go, thanks. Just checking. And then he gets past. It doesn't really do anything.

Oh, another. Actually, it's a good race for George Russell. radio because this is when he screams at Marcus his engineer that he's got a car up his that's the same. Yes, that's the same radio. And they obviously Antigelli actually has a good Grand Prix and beats Russell. Yes, yeah,

because as soon as Russell can't make the overtake, they decide to switch him back again. Round 21, the Brazilian GP. Norris really responds at this point in the season. When Vastappen has started to emerge again as a contender, Piastri's

gone off the boil a bit. The opportunity is there for Lando Norris to take advantage and here's another instance where he does. Yeah, this is just two in a row real hardcore blows to Piastrian's championship league. Any hope that Max Verstappen might get back into this right at the death of the season, whilst we got a good

fight all the way to the end, it was Norris's couple of races in this part of the season that really stopped any really decisive blow for the other two in the fight. And when you say Piastri's off the boil, mate, he's more in the fridge at this point. He's cool. He's cool to the touch. There is no form

coming out of that half in the McLara garage. He's on what, or rather four races at this point? It's the fifth thing a row, something like that. It's crazy bag for a championship leader. Of course, he's derailed by a 10 second time penalty that he gets on the safety car restart that sees the retirement of Charles Lecler, who is just a passenger

in all this. At the time, I think we were a bit uncertain as to whether the right person was penalised. Yeah, I still don't think it should have been Piastri's penalty here. i antonelli's but probably more a racing incident it was just three into one at brazil is never going to happen and it and it didn't um i don't blame the thing is the the only thing about is that the stewards just i think i've seen the lockup from piastrian god while he was out of control

he wasn't he was squeezed and i think he's just trying desperately not to at that point not to have any contact so an unfair one on pester i think and vestappen Pit lane to podium, not too shabby. That's it again. Obviously. Even with a puncture as well. A slow puncture. Yeah.

What a boy. You can drive a car. You know what? He can drive a car. You're absolutely right. Antenelli does a very good job holding him off for that second place. But the fact that even Vastan was there is pretty crazy. Three to go.

Las Vegas GP. Vestappen really needs a result over the McLaren's to get back. into this and he doesn't really get it until he does double disqualification for McLaren one of the most shocking

moments of the season for sure and really really well time Harry's asleep me and Sam want to get on with our day and the FIA had taken years

to resolve this but for the championship Sam I guess overall probably helpful hey look I don't Double DSQ is never a way that I want to end the race. But if it feeds to the championship fight and the, I don't know,

the little blood of excitement that I felt when we were about to re-record that intro or that extra segment that we were doing, it felt like it was really on. After Norris had been so good, and again, so good, it felt like, here we go. Oscar Piastri's little smirk walking out of the team garage really told you everything you need to know that this was the gift that both him and Max for Stapper need to be back in this title fight.

Because Norris at this point had turned the tigues, but yeah, it was spicy. Even if we ignore the disqualification, this was seemingly a race that was won and lost at turn one. It was, yeah. And another turn one where this happened, I think, slightly outsmarted Norris on this one. Norris, where it goes to do the chop, then doesn't know where to break and goes wide. So if the staff can get through. And he loses out to Russell at that point as well. He pulls his own banks down.

I do. Yeah, it's all done by himself. Hold on, sir. Let me do it for you. Bortoleto still hasn't started breaking I don't think he has I just drive straight into him what's he doing? Revenge

for Brazil that one Yep which again kind of cost him a lot because he gets a five place grid penalty for Qatar which ends up being one of the most difficult races to get any overtakes done all season so it really doesn't help him having that incident

stroll is just like cool I'm out I guess and then we have I'm just going to label it the post race that's as long as the race I think you enjoyed the Disney

Mickey Mouse performance the fireworks yeah you like that oh man my highlight of the year you love the fanfare of Vegas I love the fanfare of Vegas

when we go anywhere you always imitate Mickey Mouse I do the voice non-stop Yeah, and I pretend there's fireworks behind me. Yeah. You call your home the clubhouse for that reason. I do.

Yeah. I'm calling the police. Should we go to Qatar, the penultimate race in the season? We don't have to go there ourselves. We can just talk about it. It's fine. Thank goodness. 25 laps was the maximum stint that you could have here, Sam,

which kind of fed into strategies with there being a lap seven safety. car, you would think? Yeah, well, there were two golden laps as we discussed on the review at the time, and that was lap 7 and lap 32, because that meant that you could pit and get your lapsing, of course, with a two-stop that match what you need to do for the end of the Grand Prix. The safety car comes out on said lap 7, and everyone decides to pit. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, just the orange cars decide that they don't want to do that. I guess come back off on.

So they throw away a race wing, quite literally just hand it to Max Verstappen. and why do they not split this? Fairness. That's the reason, folks. Fairness. I know it's the fantasy. The more I thought about this, it's so stupid.

Because they say their reasoning to their drivers are. They've lost all their flexibility on strategy. Well, then if you do the same, you are still leading and will have also have no flexibility. You just will follow. Everyone will follow what you do because they have to. It's like they're trying to claim

that they've lost the flexibility but the rules as they were at the weekend allowed no flexibility that you couldn't go longer than 25 laps it's inflexible They've gained Yeah they've gained the flexibility

basically because they can do this stop They're literally like They're like they have to stop on this lap And they have to stop on this lap Yeah and complete the two stop as intended What are you trying to do here? You have to stop again also

So we gave a lot of praise to Hanger Schmidt's actually And you know what? She deserves a lot of praise But actually, the more I've come to watch this, the more I guess where it's how Maronic McLaren were. Because everyone else pits as well. It's Hannah Schmidt and every strategist in the pit lane, bar McLaren.

McLaren claimed basically that because they were obviously the first to act, at least with Piastri who was leading the race, they thought that there would be others that didn't pit. And as a result of that, if Verstappen was to pit and the overtakes he would need to get done, it wouldn't be worth it. But everyone else came to the same consensus that it was worth. worth it to pet. It's baffling. But Piastri, he has a brilliant Grand Prix. After a tough run, he has a brilliant Grand Prix to recover to at least second place. He was gutted, though, and rightly

so Norris, though, who is leading the championship, is trying to extend that advantage, manages to get Antonelli late on. Antonelli makes a quite costly error for both Verstappren and Piastri and the championship. Yeah, I think if Piastri had won this Grand Prix, there was a a very different finale that we would have seen. And I think it robbed it, unfortunately. I also think Antigali having the wobble running wide also cost us what could have been a really, really exciting finale between the three of them. It almost would have played out in the perfect moment of the guy furthest back wings,

the guy closest comes second and the guy leading is further back. And of course, we then get a terrain of violence on Kimmy Antigley because of Helmut Marco's morgue at words. So love that. Love picking on a scene age when you're in your 80s. I'm going to miss him. I'm not. Mark Go.

Oh, got him. That's one of your better ones, mate. Heaps anyway. Top tier. Jeez. Sides gets his second podium for Williams. Well, on to you. I want to call us.

Well, then. Great answer to the year for him. Abu Dhabi is the... Why do you? Anyway, Abu Dhabi is the finale. Just go to Brazil again. Come on. Come on, come on, F1.

Let's call it Brazil, Abu Brazil. Abu Brazil. Brazil. Brazil. I prefer Abu Brazil. Lando Norris has the advantage. And those two points that he gets for overtaking Kimmy Antonelli are quite crucial here. So if he finishes third, it does not matter what Piastri does, what the Stappan does.

The Stappan, he has a blinder. He does all he can out front. Yeah, can't do any more. and obviously we talked about after the race could him and Red Bull don't anything different to hold up or influence what happened behind but you know it was difficult

but I think he did already from himself just driving the car that weekend he did everything he needed to do yeah Paul win by a margin there's not anything else he could have done really so a convincing one and a reminder why he was

even in this title fight at the end of the year anyway with drives like that. And Piastri, of course, qualifies third in this one, Sam, but gets the move done on Lando Norris on that first lap. Can't quite chase down Vastappen, but at least even if it was semi-orchestrated, shall we say, based on some of the comments afterwards, still a very impressive move.

Yeah, it really could have gone wrong for both of those guys, and it was still admiral that he put in such an effort. I do think even in his heart, he thought there's a 1% chance something might happen and he could go on to win this championship. I think you always would. But what's got to be for him? Max Schroeder, a brilliant Grand Prix. I was just a little bit gutting.

We didn't see any. Then he's stealing us from Red Bull. I've had a Yuki Sineau to pick up a penalty for running Mando Nauris off the road. Yeah, there's that. The worst effort ever. The worst defence you could see. I would say he tried, but I'm not sure he did. I'm not convinced he did.

And of course, as the attention deserves to go to, Alpine. They've had a great year. It is an important race for Alpine because it's their last one as a true sort of factory team, right? They're losing the Renault power unit. Gazzley is just like, I don't want to see this car ever again in my life. I don't blame it. I don't hide and seek where that car hides, so he never seeks. There was also quite a lot of good midfield scraps in this one that we didn't ever see.

No. Maybe. Wouldn't know. Never saw them. Never saw them. Have you seen the Lewis Hamilton compilation of track limits for other drivers? Yeah, well, he's doubling them in. Yeah, yeah.

Telling them off is so good. Bortoletto term one. Hockenburg term one. Stop. Don't know. Confirming. Copy. Copy.

Understood. I'm going to kill you, man. I can't tell you. My favourite one is he forgets Ollie Berman's name which is like that guy in front which is surprising

given how much of a fan of Lewis Hamilton Olly Berman is well apparently yeah yes let's not get into that right now oh

yikes F1 also put on their social as a compilation of Lewis Hamilton overtaking people like being like Lewis was on a mag one on the last one should we've seen it shows four different

but well we didn't see it he only overtakes four different cards It's like Stroll Bortoletto and Sengeli, Bairman, and Sengeli, end of. They just replay them again, beef it out a bit. That's the sign of how Hamilton's year's gone, that's on a mad one. Four over days. He's flying. He's flying.

Go, got him. And then he gives that little speech at the end, and I just ignore him from laughing or we were chatting in the background. Sorry. Yeah, it's been really great, but yeah, well, the way. Yeah. Oh, were you talking? Sorry, mate. My head.

Lano Norris, therefore, wins the driver's championship by the margin of just two points over Max Verstapp and becoming world champion for the first time. We're not going to talk about the celebrations because I can't talk about that guy. Piastri, ultimately finishing third in what is a very impressive campaign. And that's the 2025 F1 season.

We did it. Did it in an hour and 19. Well, on everyone. That was, that was, if you put, it in fast forward. That's how it sounds. You can't miss anything when listening to anything.

Actually, you don't need to go back and watch it if you're your first time. Just listen to this. You get every single bit. Imagine you're listening to the 25th season review and you've not watched the F-1s. You just, you wait for this review to come out. Shall I watch the season?

I'll wait for the review. Guys, guys, I want the condensed hour and 19 version of the F-1 season. Do you watch the F-1 at the weekend? No, no, I'm waiting for the season review from LB. I get all my info. I wait until December. It's a very serious

intense review. Imagine like listening along. Piastri's got this. He's got this in the bag. No, Norris wins. No, I never saw it coming. Oh, Vestappen was in the fight as well. Stappen was so out of it.

I can't believe it. Oh, geez. Gosh. Well, I think we should, there's a reason we need to get out of here, Sam. And that is because we need to do a costume change. The LB Awards are just, a few days away.

Folks, get your drinks ready to toast because it's award season. And that means there's a few extra characters that like to come and play on the podcast. We give out many, many awards. His son. Clive's Picklesworth, Jr. Yeah.

It's Rosie with a moustache. It's Ian the cat. Anyway, if we're laughing this much about it at the end of one episode, just you wait until you come and see the real thing, the Albies, the Hall of Fame, and so much more sitting us. We'll see you then in the meantime. I've been Samuessage.

I've been Ben Hocking. And I've been Flames in the church. And remember, keep breaking late. It's actually a Sunday episode. Oh, yeah, I see I don't know what day it is anymore. I haven't seen sunlight for days. They all merge together.