Reaction to Australian GP practice

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2:01Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. The season is finally underway. Practice for Australia is in the bag. Well, the first two practice sessions. Friday's in the bag tomorrow is qualifying. Finally, just one more day until hopefully some questions are answered. A lot to get into over the first two practice sessions of the season. Tom Bellingham Netflix Drive to Survive Sensation. Surprise you get up this early considering your stardom. And how are we feeling now that the season has begun? Happy to be back, of course, to see F1 cars back on track. And yeah, just getting used to my brain of this new Formula One and we'll get into this. But seeing cars slowing down and realise they're not backing off their lap, that is just Formula One now potentially. So yeah, it's a whole new way of watching, I feel like

3:03sometimes. Wow, Tommy's straight in with, uh, let's be positive. This is great. The race is good. It's going to be amazing. We like them slowing down on the straight. Right. Let's get into free practice one, shall we? Because this is the one I want to talk about the most as it was a Ferrari 12. Shaula Claire nearly half a second clear of Lewis Hamilton. And I thought we're in for something special. You thought it's so over, but it's so over because Shaula Claire's already won the title. Yeah, I almost almost, you know, started posting on social media. Oh, no, starting to get bored of Shaula Claire dominated sessions, but I didn't, and I'm glad I didn't. So one of the big talking points from free practice one, unsurprisingly, what's the vibration team themselves, Aston Martin, they managed three laps for launch roll, and he managed to be 30 seconds off, Shaula Claire, but that was better than

4:08Fernando Alonso who did not manage a single lap in free practice one, a truly poor start to the season. Yeah, it's awful for us to mind. There was still no matter how many times. There was always like point one of my brain going, wouldn't it just be absolutely hilarious if this was all just a joke, like come on Fernando, just just press the throttle down now and actually go faster, just go copium, exactly. But it can't be said enough. I know we're talking about Aston Martin all the time, but it can't be said enough like how embarrassing this is. This was the year that was meant to be good for them. They were, they were once racing point, working in a shed in Silverstone and somehow getting podiums. They got a win with Perez. They were always scoring points. And now they've kind of got this billionaire owner that made all these amazing facilities. They've got Adrian Newy, the cheat code

5:09on board. And they are so bad. We're talking at this moment reminds me of the new teams in 2010 that came in the HRTs and the the manoracings that they are that bad. They're acting like they're Cadillac or they're Audi. They should be. That will be the expectation for an Audi or a Cadillac to be like Aston Martin are this year of having huge teething problems. But they're not. Audi have looked incredibly strong, I would say, on this Friday and and Cadillac have done pretty well themselves to just put some mileage down. Question from DeKid underscore solo. Will Aston Martin even make it to qualifying? I believe they will make it to Saturday. They will put a lap on the board. But I guess the question is then if they are unbelievably slow. And also in my brain it's not just the fact that they

6:13are the slowest car with the fact they can't fully express the power within the engine and the speed in the car. But also they have highlighted there are clear health concerns with the car for the drivers in the car with the vibrations. So for me, I'm sat here thinking, do the FIA have a decision to make on this Aston Martin? Should they be five, six seconds off, clearly above that 107% you're supposed to be within pole position. Then you're supposed to apply aren't you? Oh, please can we race? But then you've got all of these quotes coming out of potential nerve damage after a certain amount of laps. Is there a decision that needs to be made here? Because this is not as simple as, yeah, we're just a little bit slow. Yeah, exactly. And there's talks of Aston Martin potentially not even turning up to this race at all, but the Concord Agreement obviously means that you have to to commit and it would be a disaster for

7:13many things, you know, all the sponsors that are on board and everything, it would be probably even more embarrassing than what's going on now for them just to not show up at all. But if they are genuinely this slow, I mean like FB2, it continued and they were last, you know, Alonzo was a second slower than Bottas and a Cadillac who were a new team. Bottas. Well, it's all Bottas isn't it? That is. But it's, I'm amazed at how bad it is. I expected them to be bad this year, but this is an absolute joke really. It's so, so bad. Well, no one anticipated this. You mentioned that Adrian Neuey is the cheat code, but even he's come out and said this weekend or a few days ago that the chassis element, the thing that Adrian is supposed, you know, is the goat for, and he measured them to be fifth fastest, three quarters of a second to a second slower than the top teams. Now there are

8:17other factors in there, the fact that the whole timeline is quite condensed and he's not had as much time to work on it as he would like, but it's not as if Astamine are sitting on a car that could win them a championship if Honda had had an engine to supply them. They would be fighting at the bottom end of the top 10. Exactly. It's not, it's not all on Honda. There's this situation and they need to be very careful that they don't go down the routes of McLaren that we've said before where they just put all the blame on Honda, which I didn't think they are doing, but obviously that a lot of the narrative is that the Honda engine isn't very good, but I think even had they got the Mercedes engine still in that car, the chassis isn't up to scratch either. And I think there are a question much to be asked of whether maybe this is a separate discussion when we see what they are in the race, but like Adrian Nui is team principal. Is he really the right guy to be front and center as well of all this when he needs to be working his magic on the car and doing what he's best at, you think?

9:21Now I am wondering, of course, how much this Friday running actually means when we get into the rest of this season, but everything we've hammered home so far is it's an engine formula, it's an engine formula. And yet we look at Alpenes running today with a Mercedes engine in the back of their car, and it's not as if they've shown any signs of life of being the fifth fastest team. Now, of course, I'm sort of touching part of FP1 and FP2 here, but I find that the kind of most striking thing and striking element, of course, Williams as well have the Mercedes engine and they aren't quick. So Tommy, have we been chatting out of our behind that it isn't just an engine formula this year? Yes and no, and that's a great answer. It kind of isn't in isn't in terms of there will still be teams. I don't think it's as extreme. It's certainly

10:22nowhere near as extreme as 2014. That's a very good thing, by the way. We're not, we're not having a situation where it is just Mercedes, McLaren, Williams, Alpen and then a gap and then it's all the Ferrari powered cars and a gap and then it's all the Ford powered cars and a gap. That's kind of what happened in 2014 where it was very, very difficult to make it up in the chassis department. Now we've still got those top teams and it's not a case of an Alpen just because you've got a Mercedes engine maybe being amazing, but equal it at the same time. Dare I say Alpen, surely they're not that bad, but I never know because they've been hyped up quite a lot, particularly by me and yeah, they're down there at the moment with Williams and you thought with the the Merck engine that they'd be up there. Now the one final thing to mention from free practice one, I mean there's a lot of

11:23sort of gremlins in the cars as they they put them out the out the pits and that's something that see as much in Bahrain, of course in the shape down in Spain there was definitely some some problems, but across everyone and FB2 we saw some technical issues happening and for Lando he only managed seven laps in free practice one and was all the way down in 19th. So let's move on to free practice two, the Juicy one as we all know it and where maybe we see some slightly faster running. The top three, Wasca Piastri, Kimi Antonelli and George Russell. Where are the Ferraris? Well Lewis Hamilton was one thousandth of a second slower than George Russell so you know it's not all over just yet but then I am currently in the mindset as we speak about free practice two then it is so over the we're so back was free practice one. Question from P1 Patreon remember cake bomb seven, Mercedes finally stopped sandbagging but are they actually much quicker than Ferrari? We don't know yet because they're still leaving a lot on

12:29the table I think you don't want to look too much into into these times and we always get this with a new regulation that I think if Mercedes had been fastest we'd be going oh it's completely and it's funny how we just we're sowing this mindset of Mercedes going to be strong this year George Russell's the favorite for the championship they're going to be clear that even when you know they weren't there we'll be saying oh they're sandbagging and then when they are they're going oh they're clear now and no one's got a chance it is looking close and that's that's the good thing I think you know we're mentioning Mercedes but Piastri top the session and we spoke about my Claren didn't have the the big dog Mercedes engine for for a lot of testing either and now that's in the car they're obviously doing a lot better and could be up there challenging and they don't have that Mercedes don't have that luxury that they can just turn their rivals I say rivals people with their engine down like they could in 2014 and just be

13:30clear so yeah it's it's close and Ferrari are up there I think that's the important thing I don't think it is so over it's looking close between them yes not yet although as you say we haven't seen the full form of these teams yet you know we look at I'm just comparing what free practice to the times were last year and it was a 16-4 for Lecler as the fastest time and god that was a good time when I I believed ever so slightly so the fact that Ferrari haven't top the timings means that it is so over again but it's interesting to see them about 3.3 seconds slower at this stage of the new regulations and they were at the end of last year with of course at the end of the regulations and for Mercedes they were clearly running lower power in FP1 there were lots of sort of telemetry things being flown around on social media they were both 1.1 seconds off Charlotte Clares at 1 minute 20.2 in FP1 so very clearly they were not pushing that engine

14:34in the slightest then they started to stretch their legs a little bit in free practice too it's clear to see but yeah Oscar Piastries probably the shock in some ways to see him at the top of the classification despite them literally winning the constructors and the drivers last year but as we know massive shake up and the form book is supposed to go with it but right now yeah Oscar I think he did a very solid lap to go fastest but in terms of Mercedes vs Ferrari Mercedes potentially quicker but I saw at the end of FP2 the Ferrari launch again and I remembered that it is indeed so we are so back because my god that Charlotte Clare launch yes he he he did exit his grid box earlier than George Russell but my god there's something there's something still there yeah it was so funny because you I think you're watching on a very very just slight like delay from from me

15:36just of your like sky box because I was I'd watched the practice start so Ferrari got off the line and I was like any second now Matt's going to watch that and I'm going to get what's that and then just gifts dancing gifts constantly just appearing I've it as I that's just watch the practice start and it was amazing wasn't it that it was Ferrari and Mercedes side by side in that moment where they did the practice start and the Ferrari was just gone again because there was there was a lot of talk of was it all over played and testing and now we've got this new start procedure could it not be as big of a thing but that's got the hype going all over again I think just wish they'd gone off at the same time I just wish that we'd seen them exactly the same time and had some lights but I'm trying to see on Sunday as long as Charlotte Clare qualifies p3 year then we are absolutely we're in with a shout can't wait when he doesn't make a single position about the light you're losing your

16:36position of the star that's when yeah we need to check in on on my mental health speaking of Ferrari let's talk about them and and really sort of decide where we think they are a question from Bing Ping Ching's are we so back or is it so over for Ferrari where do I sit where do I sit what do I say where do I sit how is this going to get clipped up on Sunday I don't think we have the fastest car I think it's clear that there the Mercedes power I think is it's pretty mighty would I be saying that if we just had one practice session it was fp1 and we were half a second clear probably not but I do believe that I mean look judging by fp2 right that's the the most representative conditions for qualifying they're going to have been pushing quite a bit we don't know exact fuel loads we don't know the engine modes and yada yada and seems like Ferrari might

17:38have the third fastest car but the fact is it could well be very close like just because it's the third fastest car could mean that they're two three tenths slower than the fastest and if they're launching off the line and gaining five positions and it doesn't really matter as long as with third fastest and no slower than that they will absolutely take it but right now I was hoping for a little bit more from fp2 after seeing fp1 from Ferrari would have liked a one two but it's fine we're not asked and martin that's all that matters true dare I say we're going on about the starts and this and that I think we could in theory be in a situation where qualifying in the race are very different and we've seen that before we've seen that before with Ferrari and how how quick they've been in qualifying sometimes and I had the race pace and equally red bull one one year were not really getting a lot of pole positions and then dominating and we're looking at all these lap times I think probably based off what we saw last year and going whoever's fastest is the quickest car

18:43but as we go into the race even even after qualifying I think we're still almost like guessing just from the fact that the lifting and coasting and the power deployment and everything is going to be so interesting to see how that evolves in the race because you could have a unbelievable qualifying and be like a one lap specialist and you've got the car really worse that up but if you're not harvesting and managing and doing all those things correctly you're going to be sitting duck on on the straight and we've seen that a few times even even in the practice sessions of cars how much they're like lifting off in certain sections or running low on on power and things so in theory we could see something completely different from qualifying in the race as well which is something to bear in mind. Yeah in my head I'm really thinking that the racing is either going to be diabolical or incredible or we're going to have like 60 passes very close.

19:46Let's say first and second are close they could genuinely pass and repass every lap because with the overtake mode and the fact that you get basically so much more power than the car ahead and we've seen just how powerful that can be then it's I don't know there might well be tactics around you know you have to get past that car as soon as possible to try and then extend a gap of one second otherwise you're going to get passed again there's yeah it's going to be interesting because I just really hope that it's not either so artificial and so silly that we're not you know the defending driver has no chance that that's one of my main concerns and the other one is that the two ends of the spectrum one is I don't know if they're going to be able to pass at all and the other ones I hope they don't pass too much that overtaking becomes like almost standard and they're just doing some sort of peloton formation and just constantly you know constantly going past each other because they have more energy it's it's it's a it's a big unknown

20:47informal one at the moment for me in in my brain and we we will have to just wait and see but I what I guess as we're talking about this we're talking about energy and things like that we we as human beings don't like change quite clearly you know we don't we don't like things that we've been used to some of the things that I've been watching on board I'm like oh my god I feel physically unwell like that the deceleration the super clipping I love how they've tried to give it a fancy name for basically going slower at the end of a straight by calling it super like it's not super it's terrible it's terrible clipping like you're writing monster going to be like it's so funny as well because you can clearly see already that the TV direction have been told to cut away as they start decelerating yeah yeah that the cars still look awesome through the corners I will say that especially at the the most you know the the really fast left right that they have an amazing camera angle for and you know the F1 cars aren't slow even if they are taking it a little bit easy in the corners but the thing for me is the deceleration that's something that is

21:50quite literally ingrained in my brain from the second I've watched Formula One when I was plonked in front of a TV at three months old so that's my biggest thing I'm going to have to get used to this year 100% yeah that was that was my biggest shock watching watching practice and seeing them more representative I know we've watched a lot of testing but you never know what what runs they're doing but as they were doing quick laps to still see them ease off so much going into a corner and hearing the car make those noises it was it was very confusing and it is that balance isn't it of if we get amazing racing will we care as much when we get get down the line no but at this moment it is very very weird and very strange I can already hear the keyboards right now tapping going ha ha ha what do you mean you're not used to it Matt Ferrari were lifting into the last year loads but they were practicing they were just testing yeah that was actually testing for 2026 my goats there so so ahead of it this message is brought to you by Apple

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26:11empower our future coalition dot com slash solutions paid for by the coalition to empower our future question from the fake Kelsey it too will the term harvesting become incredibly annoying by the end of the season I think so and what I hope is we don't end up in a situation like we did with when for when Pirelli first launched the tires it was just constantly talking about tires and I think there's a level where there's a side to the the commentators as well and everything within formula one of making sure that it is doesn't just feed the narrative and it's always talking about that because that will be annoying if it's just constantly mentioned and you do have to leave a little bit on the table and just go well this is the norm let's not keep talking about it again again again at the moment obviously it is new and it's going to be a massive talking point this weekend there were moments I think we're on board with Max Stappen and I was the same

27:17the commentary were like always lifting off and it's like oh no that's his that is just how you drive now with these cars and how you deploy all the power onto the straight and there's going to be a few times in qualifying I think where we're so not used to it that we will probably watch a car think they've backed out of their qualifying lap and then gone oh no that is just how you drive these cars and so it's going to take a new way of watching but as we said if in theory if the racing is really good I just hope that means we can forget about it because the worry is is the motorway passing we don't want to see too much of that I think we were we were chatting weren't we on on whatsapp when we were watching because I think it's colapinto had a moment where he just had no power down the straight and we think there could be some really sketchy moments here if we have cars running out of power on the straight because the deployment is so extreme that

28:17that cars will be going so unbelievably fast because that is the thing about these new cars is they are absolute rocket ships on the straights when when they have all the power and everything that they can do but if another car is going slow and they're caught off guard it could get very sketchy I think I think the colapinto incident was frightening very very closing speed of Hamilton versus colapinto was quite frankly almost it was much better for Lensia vibes yes wait it was it was worse than that in terms of the difference in speed you know might web a crash into a car that was also going at racing speed this was colapinto going 10 miles an hour and Hamilton over 200 so I mean for Franco I'm not really sure why he hasn't peeled off that the racing line when he knew he was going really really slowly because I think visibility is not the easiest as well going to turn one Australia just because I think the way in which the sun and all that sort of stuff but yeah thankfully nothing came of that but but back to the harvesting subject I don't

29:20think we're going to be able to not talk about it because it's so important to the racing it's so important to drivers pace that you know they can't make up the time in the corners if they're not doing that but it's not as if there's a what is either you know pushing or everything is about the battery everything is about the battery this year we Fernando had some incredible also very concerning quotes from testing about the chef being able to drive around you know turn 12 at Bahrain because they're going so much slower so yeah I mean look if it creates great racing then of course we will still look at it fondly but there are parts of me that yeah I'm trying qualifying qualifying will be the biggest shock I think of the more yeah watching qualifying and seeing people lift off on a lap and also in the race where someone has got a run on someone else and then they just run out of energy and then they're just going so well they that will then allow at least for some outbreak in the braking

30:22although not only braking according to what we've seen in free practice today is essentially a lottery where sometimes the engine will be doing something slightly different and you'll lock up and just go off like the amount of mistakes we saw today of you know the greatest driver of all-time Charlotte Claire he went off many times at turn three and you had of course let's speak about the the moments as well max for stack and the maximum one was absolutely enormous and I say to give you guys insight in myself and time we were texting away the entire way through the the practice session you should see the emotion like it's it's so over and it's not just me though like Tommy as well as that I can't believe I said this about Alpine our red ball of so finished now all this sort of stuff yeah yeah absolutely brilliant as a as a as a back it was good as well because I was there going our max is off and and you were obviously like having our banter and then LeClaire will run wide immediately straight after and it is just there's going to be a lot of mistakes I think isn't there going it going into this as as they're driving one thing I do like

31:24though is that and you do wonder last year if max had gone off in that moment he's just spearing straight into the wall with with how you can't save these cars whereas now they're having these big moments but so far they're sort of saving them a lot of the time and we we even saw that in testing didn't we as well I just love the excitement of the new season as well and asked you know chatting whilst we're watching free practice which you know we know where how you feel about free practice anyway and then max obviously making a mistake going off and Tommy's like my goat everyone else would have been in the wall there you know and I'm just like there he is there's the fan boy we love to see and it was an amazing save don't get me wrong like we've seen max you know in Mexico last year that the save that he did there was absolutely ridiculous but yeah there are a lot of mistakes that can happen and and we could well see that in the race as well not just qualifying so that's a positive we've said that for a long time that we want we don't want cars on rails we want to see the drivers challenged and maybe hopefully challenged in the right way but if they if they're making mistakes it could be could be better for

32:29the racing because that's what we kind of want to see that's why we love wet races and things a lot of the time because people are going off and that's how you get passing and in terms of mistakes one really niche reference I want to make here is that the way in which they can save the car reminds me of how I used to play the F1 2010 game where if you lose the back end you just slam on the brakes and the car would just come round that's literally what happened with Perez I think in free practice one where he had like a massive what looked like surge from the engine or something he was saying was engine breaking whatever it might have been and then his car just came back way round it's like an auto correct yeah yeah you just hold the brake it just puts you back on exactly so it's it's a very different way of saving mistakes but I think that could help in terms of seeing them but also drivers being able to put their skill to the test okay let's go to the next question from p1 patreon member steel head have we jinxed the reliability issues now we were of course full of praise for the entirety of formula one for create and the teams creating bullet proof

33:35cars for most of most of testing now it turns out of course the whole conversation was you know need to have it behind closed doors seems like Friday practice Australia should have been behind closed doors because the amount of yeah reliability issues gremlins that were going on were were quite big of course I guess of course I'm joking um but yes it it there's a lot of of course differences between Bahrain and Australia as a track and I think generally just a team turning up to a race weekend and not having the luxury of eight hours a day to set the car up and I you know we'll roll out the pit oh it's not really working okay come back in you know these are restrictive timing sessions now you have an hour for fp1 and after fp2 so there's pressure on the teams to make sure everything works and and clearly with these new regulations with it being a brand new car there are going to be teething issues at this stage of the season so we kind of touched upon it I think in our predictions for the season and stuff like that that reliability issues

34:37could play a factor and I think when we were talking about our P watt prediction that we did which if you haven't seen our predictions episode essentially we just pick a random well a random number comes up and we have to predict who will finish in that position and we were saying okay well that person might finish in p9 if everybody finishes but everyone may not finish at the start of the season yeah it's so it's so true the reliability has been a surprise we kind of went in this first race thinking well realistically it's Huston Martin and Cadillac that are having these issues but everyone now seems pretty okay and within two minutes of the very first practice session which you know we didn't speak about when we're covering fp1 is Oscar Pastery had a lot of issues as well and in his car struggling so that's you know a top team equally in fp2 max came straight out of the pits and had a problem I mean the staffer and it did 13 laps which was the same as Lance Stroll did less than Fernando Lonzo so wow when you put that into perspective

35:39that the red ball did less it's well max did did less laps than the Asa Martin shows that they didn't have a great session in terms of mileage so it's happening up and down the grid and that could be a massive factor of this season going into the championship is is that reliability because we we don't know how these cars are going to race and how when they are pushing or how much they're pushing and they've got to manage manage there we go bingo bingo card please no but they're going to have to manage a lot during during the races and and reliability could could end up being such a key key part of it let's go to a question from Poo on patreon member ilaria roll could the red ball second seat curse finally be over had jar was well within a second or even faster at points i love how within a second of max the staff and means the curse is over and they're so back at the end of the day he's had a good

36:46yeah he has looked more impressive but let's not forget three tenths he was behind max in fp1 and what was he six tenths yeah so and obviously max didn't have much running i think we're going to see it's going to be a very interesting year for that second red ball seat and even if had jar maybe doesn't perform as well as we'd hoped he might be saved by the fact that the the top four teams are very strong and let's not forget we say oh had jar was within a second he's doing a lot better and always three tenths here yuki a lot of time could have been three or four tenths off of max but the problem was last year three or four tenths off max would put you 17th because the field spread was just insane now you look up and down the grid and we've got six seconds on its custom martin but even up to colapinto nearly three seconds covering that whole grid there's a lot more margin for error and i think it's far too early far far far too early to say that

37:52that had just done a good job yet because it's the races when the pressure is on and how we've seen many times where the second red ball driver has started quite strong and then the relentless pressure and how much max just dominates his teammates gets too much so i don't think we can speak about this till maybe even four or five races even if he does do a good job i absolutely love how this question has come in and yet avid limblad literally went faster than had jar yeah which is the same as what we saw in and actually i think we need to speak about limblad who's very impressive we will we will we're still we're still talking about the red lesson that i know we're very excited to try and have a structure we're so so eager to talk about everything yeah but let me just quickly talk about red ball and and and where i stand on it i think that it is i agree completely far too early to start singing the had jars broken the second seat curse because this doesn't really tell fp1's fp1 as much as i'd love to say frory

38:55one two or winning all fp1 means very little in fp2 i think six tenths is kind of concerning because had jar 27 laps on the board compared to for stappens 13 max has a lot of problems in fp2 now concerning is you know maybe a slightly too strong of a word but there's nothing to suggest right now that had jar was on the pace of of the stappen there isn't we'll have to wait and see in in the in the first few races and also it's kind of a bit of a mixed bag really because on one side i think it works in isoc had jars favor in the fact that we have a new completely new regulation set new car but also it doesn't work in his favor in the fact that i think there's no excuses if he is really far off max because i don't think the max for stappen has this car built around him crew have any real leg to stand on at this stage of the regulations yes max has a driving style and this that and the other but you know they strip back the arrow more like a formula two car

39:57maybe whatever you know whatever the quotes have come out and said so in that sense had jar needs to perform that he does and we'll see we're literally talking about practice he could have been on a completely different run of run plan could have been in different power modes we don't know but i think to say that the second seat curses over is just because had jars not last yeah exactly yeah because of course Lawson had a big struggle at the start of last year so it's not over yet but but had jars in a good place to build from and and the fact doesn't have helmet like air there as well which doesn't have helmet and doesn't have the entirety of the midfield behind him waiting to capitalize just yet and now right this has been a great chat and we have to now use all of our information that we've spoken about absorbed and choose pole position right now and who would we pick okay so my pole position for the Australian Grand Prix

41:05is George Russell I think George Russell is going to get pole position yeah I'm not changing any any thoughts about that I still think Merck are holding a little bit back especially as we've had hints of that in fp1 have they really rolled out an fp2 with full power have any of the teams rolled out with full power we don't know at this stage but I think George Russell would be a safe bet for pole position and to be fair that's what I put in my predictions and then Charlotte will go straight off the back of the grid to take the win in lap one yeah I will also go for George Russell but I mean so far again we don't know what's been left on the table but Kimmy Antonelli is worth it worth a shout as well of the fact that he's looked comparable and he's looked strong and he's been better than well better than Russell he out out practiced Russell in fp2 we have lost it out practiced is now a new job it's called the Jumping to Conclusion's

42:06podcast now that's what we are exactly but Piaestry was quite a surprise I would say with with how strong it was I know we don't know the full potential of everyone yet but yeah that was a nice shout and maybe you going for Russell so I couldn't pick Russell and me just backing going for Piaestry might end up actually might well come in because again like it feels as though that Piaestry lapse a little bit of an anomaly at this point and that Mercedes should be favorites but perhaps in the hands of Oscar Piaestry he could he could do something pretty special I've got a bonus question for you jumped in before you do that we do need to talk about our limb level yes we do before we forget um I love it he's amazing he absolutely out practiced the life out of the abortion yeah he goodness practiced him like yeah I practiced him crazy about that I don't know what you say that's that's that's anyway yeah I think a limb that's looked really really good so far um fifth in FP1 eighth in FP2 had a few problems with the car

43:09as well across today but yeah he's he's really come out the blocks with with a lot of confidence he definitely has and this is something that a lot of the kind of pundits we're talking about of saying there's two sides to this of is it better that he's come in you know completely new regulation and a lot of pundits were saying actually it might be even more difficult for him because he's having to learn formula one in the most complicated formula one there's probably ever been so while it is almost a blank slate for everyone he's come in and yeah done it done a really really solid job so they're trying to say that it's I'd I completely disagree with that statement I think it's that it's an advantage that he comes advantage where everybody else is learning how can it not be surely you know if you come into a team at the end of a regulation set where your teammate is fully up to speed with the car they've been there a few years I just I can't see that being an advantage I think that this is bridge bias isn't it let's be honest

44:15there it is there's the first bias uh yeah mention of the season but no I mean not to take anything away you know I think that I can't say it because we've literally been saying and banging on the drum of Hadjar having a great opportunity this year because it's a clean slate so exactly of course he has not much experience under his belt okay we could probably talk for literally ever um because there's so many exciting stories so many things uh to talk about but I think we'll leave it there for now um we'll be of course live streaming uh across the weekends look forward to that and also as it is Australia if you haven't got your Australia p1 live tour tickets yet go and get them they will be I mean literally just type in p1 live tickets it will come up on in google it's across our social media in our links in our bio and things like that as well we'd love to see you there of course where it's literally just under two months away now isn't it before we before we fly maybe like a month and a half month and three quarters so yeah looking forward to that one Tommy final thoughts please the first final thoughts first competitive final thoughts of the season I want a bonus prediction

45:21which is where does LeClaire qualify and where is he by turn one okay um oh god I can already see myself melting at the fact that he's not in the top three I think I think Charlotte Claire qualifies fourth and is first by turn one okay perfect god you tell me god what do you think I think I genuinely think he just stays where he is in position I think he will qualify third or fourth and stay there you get emotional my god yeah yeah I'm looking for 40 minutes and yeah just yes it is it final thoughts of the year my so you think he qualifies where I reckon about fourth as well yeah and he stays there by turn one yeah I don't think you're making a position I think it's all over high why do we have to end and we're on a negative that's really really sad and upsetting for me so um cool all right thank you I can't wait further watch along yeah me neither well unless what you just said happens in which case I don't want to do the watch long true but thank you for tuning in it's so exciting to see Formula 1 back as you can probably tell by

46:26the fact that we've spoken about practice for 40 minutes uh hopefully we speak about the race for as long if not longer uh if not then something bad all good there's I don't know right bye everyone see you soon lots of love bye bye bye bye bye bye bye for our area the winning all the winning nothing it's over it's over it's over it's over Tommy's voice has gone one my voice is over we'll say it back Tommy's checking out for the entire season yeah I need to manage my voice oh harvest it the one is a stack production and part of the a cast creator network hey this is Paige DeSorbo from Giggly Squad and this episode is presented by D-Pop okay be honest how many things in your closet are just sitting there waiting for their next main character moment instead of staring at them list them you can list an item in just a few taps on D-Pop snap a photo and their AI powered listing fills in the details and you're done it's not giving

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