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everybody and welcome back

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to the P1 podcast

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with Matt and Tommy. And

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we're back for another competitive

0:47

session. This time the main

0:49

full cajonas qualifying.

0:52

And God, it was pretty rubbish,

0:54

wasn't it actually? Probably one of the worst

0:56

qualifying sessions we've had in a while.

0:59

Mainly because Q3 was an anti-climax but we'll

1:01

get onto that. But yeah, it

1:03

just wasn't as good as the sprint. And I'm hoping

1:05

it's not going to be that we look back at

1:07

the sprint race and say that's better than the main

1:09

race we're going to have tomorrow as well. I

1:12

hope not. Yeah,

1:14

because the sprint was

1:16

really good. It is weird

1:18

that they've kind of flipped it

1:20

round because qualifying was always a

1:22

banger, right? And

1:25

the problem with this sprint mini day, everyone was

1:27

like, oh, why is qualifying on a Friday? Qualifying

1:30

is a really good thing. And

1:32

then just the way it's fallen today, it's kind

1:34

of made me feel a bit flat after feeling

1:37

really excited for the sprint. And it was a really

1:39

good, a good race. And

1:44

then we've gone into a qualifying, which is a bit of an

1:46

anti-climax. And I'm like, oh, it's

1:48

a bit annoying. But at least we got a

1:50

race tomorrow. Yeah, we've got

1:52

a race tomorrow. And it's

1:54

quite beautifully lined up for some battling

1:57

for P2. So we'll look

1:59

into that. that one at DolvePits27 comes

2:01

in with the first question which is

2:04

opinions on the sprint format. We had an

2:06

exciting race earlier but a bit of a

2:09

boring quality as the main event today. Feels

2:11

like they're still missing a trick somewhere. I

2:17

don't know whether we can have

2:19

a go at the sprint format

2:21

for this particular occasion because it

2:23

was the main qualifying which we

2:25

are slightly moaning about and we're

2:27

not going to change main qualifying

2:29

because usually that's really good. I

2:32

think it was mainly down to the track characteristics

2:34

and the ways in which it was usually

2:37

ramping up but then fell away at the

2:39

end of Q3 and nobody was really improving.

2:42

That is the worst thing to end a qualifying session

2:44

like that. I was saying on the Twitch watch songs

2:46

that we're doing as well that the only

2:49

worst thing to end qualifying on is

2:51

when you have a dry

2:54

two three minutes at the start of Q3 and then it

2:56

just pours down with the rain and you don't get any

2:58

more action. That's the only worse scenario than

3:00

the one we probably had today but

3:03

I'm not going to slander the sprint format. Formula

3:05

One has taken a step forward I think with

3:07

the way in which they have changed the way

3:09

we go around and the format. Of

3:12

course we have discussed in other podcasts

3:14

around different tyre compounds and making

3:16

it a bit more of an unknown but

3:19

we're going to save that for another day, at least

3:21

I am, because I don't feel like the sprint

3:23

deserves any slander after the amazingness that we

3:26

had yesterday. But I will say if you

3:28

haven't seen it we've done a podcast, we've

3:30

done a video all about

3:32

the sprint so if you want to go and find

3:34

that there is a dedicated episode. Yeah

3:36

the Kevin Magnuson Grand Prix has

3:38

its own episode but

3:42

for quality I think that's a bit of a knee-jerk

3:45

reaction to say like oh we need to change

3:47

it again because this is kind of the problem.

3:50

You can twist. I

3:52

am still of the opinion, I haven't changed my

3:54

opinion, that I think that I

3:57

personally don't like it. It's a rare, a

3:59

rare decision. agreement that we have where

4:01

I don't like having a

4:03

qualifying session after a race

4:05

in the same day. It doesn't compete in

4:08

my brain. I still don't really like it.

4:10

But what I will

4:12

say is that it's very

4:14

easy to jump on what happens

4:17

and then say, oh, we should change the

4:19

whole thing. Because if

4:21

you go back to the original format of the

4:23

sprint where it was

4:25

qualifying, then it decided

4:28

the grid for the sprint, then they did a

4:30

sprint which decided the grid for the race. The

4:33

big criticism for that was, oh,

4:35

it resets the order. But if

4:38

we'd done it today like that, you'd have

4:40

had Ricciardo qualifying fourth, you'd have had Norris at

4:42

the back, Alonzo at the back, Stroll at the

4:44

back, Hamilton at the back. And it

4:47

would have been amazing. But next

4:49

week or next sprint, it

4:52

might not be like that. So you can't

4:54

really judge a whole format based on just

4:56

how it goes. Sometimes

4:58

qualifying rarely is rubbish.

5:01

But today, sadly, it

5:03

was a bit rubbish. And

5:05

the main race is looking at qualifying going,

5:08

I might actually be better than this. Yeah. Let's

5:11

see what happens. Right, let's get

5:13

into Q1 first and foremost

5:15

with Bottas, Sargent, Ricciardo, Magnussen

5:18

and Joe, the five

5:20

that got knocked out. Of course, we

5:22

had, well, K-Mag,

5:24

obviously disappointing, that we won't see

5:26

any antics down in 19th position

5:30

from him tomorrow. I feel like

5:32

he'll, unless he goes on hard tyres

5:34

and stays out forever, in which case

5:36

we might see some antics. But not

5:39

a good qualifying performance at all from K-Mag, considering his

5:41

team mate made it into Q3. But that is just

5:44

a running trend, I think. And

5:46

you have Kevin, oh, I don't like playing

5:48

these tactics, but I have to for the

5:51

team. Well, it's because Hulkenberg's beating you, unfortunately.

5:53

Otherwise, Hulkenberg would have to play these tactics

5:55

if he was the one behind K-Mag. So

5:57

yeah, disappointing for him. But the big one.

6:00

Daniel Ricciinde. He

6:08

was on the wrong end of a very close

6:10

Q1, and we were talking about this on Twitch

6:12

as well during our watch-along, Matt P1 Tommy, if

6:14

you haven't followed us or joined

6:16

us for our watch-along, where it

6:19

was so close, and I just don't

6:21

get it. I don't understand how Q1

6:24

is so close all the time, because

6:26

the field is not separated, and the

6:28

top 15 is not separated by 6

6:30

tenths. It doesn't feel like that anyway.

6:33

And yet Q1 is always so, so

6:35

close, especially around some tracks that you

6:37

maybe don't expect it. And this was

6:39

one of them, and Ricardo, it's not

6:41

like he was miles off, but he

6:44

just marginally missed out and he starts

6:46

18th after qualifying fourth and finishing in

6:48

fourth in the sprint earlier today. Yeah,

6:51

I apologise, because if you go watch

6:53

the sprint and go back our podcast

6:57

and say what we mentioned, we

6:59

had this whole debate over, oh,

7:01

you're only as good as your last moment in

7:04

Formula 1 and something Charles Leclerc said. And

7:06

I made the joke that if Daniel Ricciinde ends

7:08

up making a mistake and getting knocked out in Q1,

7:10

everyone will kind of watch it again. And here we

7:13

are. That's exactly what happened.

7:15

Exactly what happened. I saw an

7:17

on-board of him, and he did make a

7:19

couple of errors in that lap, so

7:21

that was the difference with how close it was in Q1. Without

7:24

those, he's probably popping it in fifth, and we're

7:26

lording his performance again. But Miami,

7:31

however, I still

7:33

don't like it. I kind of feel

7:36

wrong to even defend it because I

7:39

dislike it so much. But in

7:41

qualifying, it doesn't actually punish mistakes,

7:43

and you see a lot more of them.

7:45

It's almost like a wet

7:48

session, because if you go slightly off

7:50

the track, off

7:52

that line, it's so dusty. I mean,

7:54

I can't believe we had a 19-lap

7:56

race there earlier. It looks like it's

7:58

never been driven on. based on

8:00

how we went into qualifying.

8:03

It's so dusty offline, but it

8:05

does mean that slight errors

8:08

get punished and that's what we've

8:10

seen throughout, well, the whole

8:13

weekend so far really. Yeah,

8:15

and throw in some wins as well and of

8:17

course that's probably blowing a lot of the dirt

8:19

onto the track and as you say it did

8:21

feel like it was a properly green track when

8:23

they went back out there and it was causing

8:25

errors and I like to see that. I like

8:28

to see drivers wrestling the car and making mistakes

8:30

because that's what makes Formula One interesting. Other

8:33

things to mention from Q1, Jo

8:36

just very quietly qualifying in last

8:38

place. Again, how many times

8:40

has that happened this year it seems? It's

8:42

not good enough really from him,

8:45

especially if he wants to stay on the

8:47

grid for next year but it's not looking

8:49

very likely and then of course Logan Sargent,

8:51

the king of the final sector but still

8:53

getting knocked out in Q1, had a purple

8:55

in last sector I think in this session

8:57

as well and bless

9:00

him, he did have the team radio and said, oh please tell

9:02

me I'm through and they said, oh

9:04

no he's 16th, obviously he dropped to 17th in the

9:07

end. He did miss out by a marginal amount but

9:09

once again was outqualified by Alex Albon

9:11

who this time managed to get a

9:14

validated lap in Q1 and managed to

9:16

outqualify his team mate. Yeah,

9:18

Logan needed a strong result

9:20

because I think his sprint was very,

9:23

very good and it wasn't bad, he's

9:25

not far behind his team mate, actually

9:27

he's directly behind Fernando L'Anseau on the

9:29

grid which should have taken all day

9:32

long normally but

9:35

it's not a great qualifying performance

9:37

but it

9:40

sounds really bad but it's not last which

9:42

is obviously what he has done on quite

9:44

a few occasions so he's not a million

9:46

miles off his team mate so it's not

9:48

like it's an absolute way for performance. I

9:50

don't think the Williams is there, we're not

9:52

seeing Albon getting into Q3

9:55

like we did last year in some

9:57

crazy situations or qualifying 11th or 12th.

10:00

Williams just don't seem to have

10:02

that car now until

10:05

Monza maybe we'll see. Well

10:07

yeah they're very quick in a straight line all of a sudden I

10:09

wonder if they've changed a potential thing

10:12

in the car or two to go

10:14

purple. And I think that was the

10:16

lap that he thought he'd been blocked

10:18

by Yuki as well that he was

10:20

that quick in on

10:22

what is essentially a straight a very

10:24

heavy breaking zone corner

10:26

and a straight again. More

10:29

like a flat-out kink and

10:32

he went purple so Williams

10:34

got it. So if we just had a 25 second

10:36

lap around Miami which was just the final

10:38

sector Logan Sargent could be in with a

10:40

shout of winning this race tomorrow but a

10:42

lap. It does make you

10:44

wonder and finally there's a question which is about

10:46

Daniel Ricciardo from Cornish Leeds 1. Danny

10:49

Ricciardo was the sprinter flash in the

10:51

pan? What happened? The

10:55

mistakes lost him a couple

10:57

of tenths I don't think I

10:59

still think he could score points tomorrow I

11:02

genuinely don't want to write that off. Yuki

11:04

Sonoda showed there is genuine pace in that

11:06

RB. I'm not going to criticize

11:08

him too much and I genuinely

11:10

believe even if he didn't turn up for the race

11:12

tomorrow his performance

11:15

and contribution in this Miami Grand

11:17

Prix weekend is worth him

11:20

not being called washed. Even if he finishes

11:22

20th tomorrow he scored a handful of points

11:24

for RB in a miraculous

11:26

sprint race but that being said I

11:28

think that he still could produce something

11:30

tomorrow but it's going to be difficult it's

11:33

hard to overtake he's going to have to

11:35

do a different strategy I think to really

11:37

get himself in the mix but yeah

11:39

I wouldn't like to say the

11:41

sprint is a flash in the pan because China

11:43

he was showing some promise as well so yeah

11:45

I'm hopeful for Danny Ricciardo that it's

11:48

not just a one-off. What I would say

11:50

is why does it feel like V-Cab

11:53

or as and even

11:55

before this when they were AlphaTauri that when

11:58

one driver does well the other has to be awful.

12:00

It seems to like it just

12:02

seems like it happens on quite

12:04

more occasion than any other team

12:07

where one of them is getting

12:09

absolutely, you know,

12:11

slandered to being washed and they've gone to

12:13

being really good and then it can flip

12:15

around. And they,

12:18

they never both seem to be able to do

12:20

like a really good performance. It's always like one

12:22

of them gets into q3 and another one's out.

12:26

They're the only team mate partnership where you

12:28

genuinely can say, Oh my God, they've driven

12:30

terribly. You know how you have signs in

12:32

the cloud and someone's doing terrible and someone's

12:35

doing amazing and they're separated by two tenths.

12:37

Yeah. So no different Ricardo like 10 places

12:39

different or whatever it might be. And they

12:41

do deserve that, that sort of spotlight. And

12:43

it makes you wonder how good the car

12:46

actually is sometimes if it is just all

12:49

over the place or if that like what

12:53

is that, that performance of the

12:56

car? Because, you know, you

12:58

see, and we'll get onto this,

13:00

like Gasly and Ocon are always quite, quite

13:03

close together in terms of like, that

13:05

all the time and stuff, not all

13:07

the time, but I would say they

13:09

are probably the closest teammate partnership, which

13:12

makes you sort of feel like they're getting

13:14

the maximum out of that car and you

13:16

go, Oh, that's how good the Alpinits. Whereas,

13:19

yeah, when, when it's with the

13:22

V carbon, you're fourth,

13:24

then you're 18th, then the other teammate

13:26

is out in the

13:28

first session, then they're making it through to q3. Like,

13:30

what? How good is that car?

13:33

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go to Q2 now and the

14:49

five drivers out were Stroll, Gasly,

14:51

Ocon, Albon, and Alonso. And

14:54

the question is of course surrounding

14:56

Fernando Alonso, Tom Bellingham, who

15:00

has not looked and I can't

15:02

remember the last time we've genuinely

15:04

said, ah, Fernando's had a terrible

15:06

weekend so far. But

15:08

I would have to mark this down as

15:10

probably one of his weakest performances in a

15:13

very long time. 15th on

15:15

the grid, outqualified by Stroll in

15:17

both qualifying sessions this weekend. Had

15:20

a mistake as well in the sprint. It's

15:23

been a poor weekend. Maybe it's

15:25

just Miami. It's a track that of course

15:27

he doesn't know from his previous racing experience

15:29

and career. Maybe it's just something that doesn't

15:31

suit him. Didn't he get

15:33

a podium last year, do you think? Okay, yeah. Ignore

15:36

that comment, but maybe he doesn't like it this

15:38

year in the second one. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's

15:40

true. Like, it's clear that

15:43

he's not vibing

15:45

with the car and

15:47

he's just not having a good weekend at all.

15:49

But, you know, Justin Martin bring

15:52

these upgrades. We know that they

15:55

bring upgrades sometimes and it seems to make

15:57

the car a little bit worse and or...

16:00

Or Alonzo's so good at driving

16:02

around a problem that it wouldn't be

16:04

surprised, wouldn't surprise me if they fix

16:07

a certain problem and he's somehow slower because he

16:09

just, it seems to be so good at getting

16:11

the best. This is unpredictable. Yeah,

16:14

yeah, seems to be so good at getting the best out

16:16

of a worst car.

16:19

It's almost like when

16:21

Stroll is there, they're very

16:23

close. And

16:27

Stroll does sometimes that qualify me

16:29

a bit better. But then when

16:31

Alonzo is, you know,

16:34

ahead, it's always by like an absolutely

16:36

enormous margin. So

16:38

Alonzo just not getting on with that car

16:40

this weekend. And yeah, I have to admit

16:42

as much as it hurts me is having

16:44

a terrible weekend so far. Yeah,

16:47

a lot of drivers have been struggling out there.

16:49

Let's not beat around the bush. It's not just

16:51

an Alonzo thing or a Daniel Ricciardo thing. It's

16:54

been up and down the grid, but you just

16:56

saw the onboard of Alonzo at the end of

16:58

Q2. And he was wrestling the car absolutely everywhere.

17:00

Question from James underscore Hughish. Why

17:03

did the Aston's not put on

17:05

fresh tires? They had no pace

17:07

whatsoever ever. I

17:09

love another ever just just to clarify,

17:11

they had no pace ever ever. I

17:14

imagine it's down to tire allocation. I'm sure that

17:17

they're trying to make sure that they have

17:19

at least something to use in tomorrow's race.

17:22

They're very aware as well that they're struggling

17:24

for pace. So why would you

17:26

waste any more than you need to? So I think

17:28

for Aston Martin, they decided right at the end, because

17:30

it was the end of Q2 that they was it

17:32

mediums they tried or something? I can't

17:35

remember exactly, but they at least didn't try

17:37

on it. They weren't using it. And there

17:39

was use that they tried on. But

17:43

that's what pretty much every team did at some

17:45

point that Max Verstappen was out on use softs

17:47

at some point. And it

17:50

was something that they've tried and clearly they want

17:52

to at least save something for tomorrow. Based

17:54

on how the sprint went, it

17:56

could well be a bit of a DRS. trained

18:00

throughout the field so why not save

18:02

tires for the race to do something

18:04

and have an advantage in the

18:06

race because at the end of the day it's a

18:09

very long race and while qualifying

18:12

matters a lot in

18:14

Formula One you can get through the field. It's

18:17

not a circuit that's impossible to overtake at

18:19

even though it will be difficult and

18:22

they can do something in a very long race. You

18:26

want to maximise your race because that's where the

18:29

points are given out which is a proper commentator

18:31

thing to say but it's true. Certainly

18:34

is. Other things to mention, Gasly and Ocon,

18:36

obviously very close, Gasly beating out Ocon which

18:38

was a surprise I think with Ocon looking

18:40

quite strong this weekend but Gasly fighting back

18:42

in that team mate rivalry.

18:45

Albon, yeah that was about as much as he could

18:47

get out of the car, actually went slower in Q2

18:49

than he did in Q1 so maybe left a little

18:51

bit on the table there and I think he had

18:53

that mistake didn't he as well where he had to

18:56

reverse in the last sector and

18:58

then of course we've mentioned Stroll out qualifying Alonso but

19:00

I thought I'd mention that one more time because that's

19:02

the only pain Tommy ever gets when talking

19:04

about Formula One. Q3

19:07

and usually we're

19:09

like wow what a banger but what an

19:11

anticlimax. The order was

19:13

Verstappen, Leclerc, Sainz, Perez, Norris,

19:16

Piastri, Russell, Hamilton, Hulkenberg, Sinoza.

19:20

I mean you look at the times and you

19:23

go oh it's actually quite close you know tenths

19:25

and a half between Verstappen and Leclerc and oh

19:27

you know maybe maybe there's a chance and

19:29

the question, Fleser, what was

19:32

that final run? Few tenths below the

19:34

first run for almost everyone. Yeah

19:36

as we mentioned at the top of the show not

19:39

the way you want to end qualifying leaves a

19:41

bit of a sour taste in your mouth. What

19:44

I will say and something I noticed was of

19:46

course Lando Norris's decision to

19:48

go on the mediums at the beginning of

19:50

Q3 and then going on to the softs he

19:54

got within what three and a half tenths of a second

19:57

on his final run where everybody else

19:59

lost. 2, 3, I mean, Charlotte-Clarend's

20:01

signs, I think, both went over half a

20:04

second slower than their first Q3 run. You

20:07

do wonder if, once again, it's not

20:09

worked out for McLaren, where they've tried

20:11

something different fair enough, but with the

20:13

benefit of hindsight, I

20:15

think... I think... That was the best

20:17

track conditions. Yeah. Could even threaten the

20:20

front row. So, you know, you

20:22

look at that and you go, oh, Lando, not a

20:24

bad performance, but it's only a couple of tenths away

20:26

from challenging Charles. Yeah, true. Yeah,

20:29

it'd be interesting in the race to see what

20:32

they can do because Lando

20:35

has been very impressive in race trim.

20:40

And yeah, it's a gamble that

20:43

they tried... I've never

20:45

seen it that close

20:47

between the mediums and the softs. It's

20:50

a very bizarre situation that... Not for

20:52

a while. Not for a while. It's

20:54

been a very long time since we've

20:56

had that where... Yeah,

21:00

the fact that people are trying

21:02

it and thinking it's worth the risk

21:04

just shows how unknown

21:07

it is. You could

21:09

argue also, you know, as part of a

21:11

sprint weekend that you don't get as much

21:13

practice time. The teams don't have as much

21:15

data. So, in that sense, I'm here

21:17

for it because it's better when they don't know

21:20

everything. But

21:23

unfortunately, yeah, I think it has cost

21:25

McLaren and Lando in that sense because

21:27

the track conditions were best in that

21:29

first run. But what

21:32

a bizarre thing. It's so rare.

21:34

You only normally see that when

21:36

it rains or something. It's

21:39

very, very rare. Yes,

21:41

the drop off was rare. And I

21:43

think as well that whole medium decision,

21:45

of course, to Mercedes tried it as well at the

21:47

end. I

21:49

think the last time we've seen that was when we

21:52

had such soft compounds with the

21:54

Pirelli tyre range that

21:56

the soft would essentially run out, similar to

21:58

what we're seeing here. can do a full

22:00

lap. It's struggling to do a full lap, so

22:02

that's when we saw quite a few

22:05

years ago now, I would say, where it was

22:07

those aggressively soft compounds where they would go for

22:09

a medium tyre because it would just last the

22:11

whole lap. And that's kind of what

22:13

we saw with some of the drivers here today.

22:15

But I quite like that. I like that it

22:17

was a little bit of an unknown, but it's

22:19

a shame that the mediums couldn't get really anywhere

22:22

close in the end, which was

22:24

a bit strange. Of course track conditions change between

22:26

days, and Lando did a 27.5, I think, yesterday

22:29

on the mediums. But

22:32

then I think Lando did actually

22:34

say in his post-qually interview that

22:36

he lost a bit of confidence in

22:38

the car, and he's made some setup

22:40

changes, which he now wishes he could go back

22:42

on, but he can't because Parc Fermé is in

22:46

full force. Unfortunately, McLaren fans,

22:48

next question. Oh, I've actually done it. The fire

22:50

has asked, can someone explain the medium tyre logic?

22:53

And that's pretty much what we've done. So the

22:55

soft tyres couldn't last for some

22:57

of the drivers, or they couldn't get them in the right

23:00

operating window. I think Alex Albon even said, my

23:02

tyres are lasting six corners, and then

23:04

they are over heating. So I'm

23:07

surprised he didn't maybe try a medium tyre,

23:09

but that's the reason why some of the

23:12

drivers tried that instead. And

23:14

then maybe if we see more aggressive choices from

23:16

Pirelli later on, and we have 52 degree track

23:20

temperatures like we've had this weekend, then it might

23:22

happen again. And

23:26

I don't know, I saw that Hamilton's best

23:28

time was on the medium. Yes.

23:31

Yeah. So him and Russell

23:34

were extremely close, where Russell was on the

23:36

soft and Hamilton on the mediums. So

23:38

Russell did that time on

23:41

the soft, but he also did a medium

23:43

time pretty much identically, but

23:46

like a few thousand slower than his time. So I

23:48

think he would have had, they both had no lap

23:50

times. Russell still would have pipped him, but it was

23:52

very, very good. It's crazy to see that where like

23:54

you see two teammates that close and they're

23:57

on completely different compound tyres. It's very, very

23:59

rare to see. Formula One.

24:01

I'm hoping, you

24:05

can only just hope that this also

24:07

makes the race exciting, that some people

24:10

try something different, think, oh you know in

24:12

the race why not? Because in

24:14

the sprint we saw, I think it was

24:17

Yuki and Logan

24:19

were on the soft tyres and

24:21

they got through the

24:23

field, obviously thanks to a bit of carnage, but

24:27

made the tyres last, they got through the field and

24:29

they both picked up a very good

24:31

result from starting way down the back,

24:33

so yeah it could be interesting

24:35

to see, I just

24:38

know I've said this, they're all going to start on the same

24:40

tyre but please no, please Formula One

24:42

be interesting. I would

24:44

like to think not, I'm hopeful that

24:46

they will change something up for stopping

24:48

on the mediums, maybe Leclerc and Sainz

24:50

both go on the softs, get involved,

24:52

get stuck in, little dive bomb into

24:54

turn one, I'm dreaming, but you might

24:57

well see that, I think there is

24:59

definitely a chance, so fingers crossed and

25:01

Tommy that pretty much concludes

25:03

our qualifying round up, what are

25:05

your final thoughts? My final

25:07

thoughts are I can't believe we

25:09

got 24 minutes out of that session

25:11

because it wasn't, it wasn't a great

25:14

one, but no I do really hope

25:16

that, I

25:18

think what this race needs tomorrow

25:21

is a nice bit of

25:23

strategy and intrigue, so fingers crossed for that

25:25

one because it's going to be hard for

25:28

that. Yeah and my biggest flop is basically

25:30

relying on something because Max has done and

25:32

won everything up until this point,

25:34

so let's see. Yeah I don't think

25:36

you're getting it for a slight

25:39

mistake in SQ3 that's still quite the whole.

25:41

He did lock up in FP1, he did

25:44

lock up in FP1 I'm just saying, but

25:46

let's see what the race has in the

25:48

store tomorrow, we'll be alive on Twitch, Matt

25:50

P1 Tommy, come and join us if you

25:52

want to be with two goofy Formula One

25:54

fans and we'll be screaming all the way

25:56

through I'm sure and that's it, see you

25:58

soon, see you tomorrow. We look for love. Bye.

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