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"Sergio Pérez secured pole position for Formula One's mommy Grand Prix followed by Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz in third place, where was Charles Leclerc where is Max Verstappen well, Verstappen's first flying lap was abandoned, Charles Leclerc's crash led to the red flag at the top ten looks like this Perez Alonso, science followed by Kevin Magnussen standout performance for hassel get into that Pierre gasly for the Alpine in 5th. George Russell, Charles Leclerc 7th, even though he crashed, he still got a time on the board Esteban archon and Max Verstappen Valtteri Bottas without times on meaningful times on the board for qualifying. Ah, the importance of getting a banker lap. Let's talk about that with our man in Miami Jake box or leg welcome back to the podcast. How has Saturday been for you? It's been a very, very busy day. Things have started a little bit earlier today than they had done on Friday, so the track a pretty decent time. It's been hot all week and it's just been such a thrill to kind of be around the hard rock stadium and in such a kind of boisterous race because one of the flagship races when it comes to that particular essence of race in a sense. So it's been really good fun today. It did look like a great atmosphere. There were some, you know, you could see some blue seats in the grandstands. It wasn't a sellout crowd. They have put more seats in, but still it's so good to see people really enthusing about Formula One in the U.S., not a statement about today, more generally recently, which is so good. Well, a Hispanic qualifying top three Perez Alonso science is our colleague at Mark Gallagher, who writes for GP racing magazine, said they probably should have done their press conference in Spanish and done an English translation as there's more Spanish speakers notably in the world than English speakers. And that was really interesting to see a standout performance for Hass, P four, Kevin Magnussen. Let's be honest, they're out of place. Flat out pace is maybe a second elapsed slower than the Red Bull for that that has maybe even more. Other stuff to mention, we'll get into the Mercedes Lewis Hamilton down in 13th to two McLaren's not getting out of the bottom 5 and so let's start though. With Sergio Pérez, he's on pole, he did it with pace, he deserves to be on pole. Yes, we didn't see a representative time from Max Verstappen, but like I said in the intro, that's the importance of a bank lap, a Perez got it in. Max made his mistake at a wobble or two actually on that first time lap. And Burrell is deserving to be on pole very popular one. How did you read qualifying today? Well, it was a fantastic performance. And as you said, it was completely on merit. And he had to really work for it actually. Throughout practice, he was off Verstappen's pace. He was very lacking in confidence through all of the practice sessions. They made a change to his car, he wouldn't specify in the press conference what it was. But this just gave him the confidence and he was really struggling with the feeling of the car on the track surface that Max Verstappen was able to deal with a lot more adeptly. For Perez, it was a bit of a trial by fire, but he came to qualifying and suddenly he'd unlocked something from himself and from the car, and it was a very, very good performance from him. And he did the vital thing, as you say, it's so important to get a banker lap and he kept it on the island as they say in racing parlance. He didn't make any mistakes on that first lap. Generally speaking, that would usually be half the job done, just nail the last lap, but of course, when it came down to it, there were no final laps. He took Paul and he's full of confidence now getting the car together to where he likes it, but following Baku as well, which was possibly one of his best performances in Formula One ever, it is fully deserved. Absolutely, and coming at such a good time as well as we need a championship fight. I think it's very clear Red Bull are going to win this year, but to see a battle between the two drivers is exactly what this season needed and I mentioned the Spanish speaking top three. But it is good to see Alonso back on the front row. I saw a couple of different stats flying around the last time Alonso started on the front row and I've not gone and done my own
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"Get the experienced Nico hulkenberg that will keep it out of the wall rather than risk, you know, Mick Schumacher having another couple of 7 figure crashes because he doesn't have the experience and he then loses that practice session and then if the experiment turns out to be a hit and we go from 6 sprint races to ten to 12 whatever, then there is zero chance that the little rule that says you have to run rookies three times a season stays in a regulations and then you go to Vegas, which is a massive commercial driver and it is just Formula One. There's no support races or whatever. But when there are support races, they have to run to Abu Dhabi, which means by the time the F two champions crowned the F one silly seasons long over. So I know it's a slight tangential point, but it does sort of serve to undermine perhaps younger drivers less experienced ones when you can look at an older person in their advancing years and if they're still doing handy job at minimize the risk, then the shoe them in and never mind you, F two runner up, getting an epi one driving, doing a Nick devries and winning in or getting 7th place in monzo. I don't know. It's interesting you should mention Nico hulkenberg because the very first Grand Prix in Azerbaijan, if you recall, was anything but it's a thrashing crash fest. Everyone was very conservative. And that is because the drivers at the F one drivers were watching the carnage that ensued in what was then GP two, which had a number of safety car periods followed by ridiculous restarts followed immediately by safety car periods. And I was actually talking trying to speak to Nico hulkenberg in one of the many badly scheduled driver press conferences of the weekend that took place while there was a race on with a monitor in their eye line. So instead of talking to you, they were drifting off and watching what was on the screen and he watched one of those shunts on the restarts and I can't repeat what he said. Because it would cause us probably be blacklisted by Apple, but the word rhymed with duck's wake. And you can see why the F one drivers decided they were going to be conservative that weekend. So, you know, there might be an outbreak of conservatism for the sprint race. Or they might just have what the Italians would call. To the head. Well, I think so long as your good land stroll trying to keep pace with the Fernando Alonso. There's likely to be a massive shunt. Right. To be fair to mark's comment. I think. There's three there are three practice sessions qualified. But anyway, in qualifying last year, I think he was in two sessions and he crashed three times. That's quite a good, quite a good return rate for Azerbaijan. So ya boo and sucks says the Lance stroll. Do we have any members of the land stroll fan club in our listenership? If you would like to make yourself known, then please email Matt dot Q out from to support dot com. I think I met both of them at the Montreal Grand Prix. Stuck in the elevator momentarily. Do you have an Aston Martin cap behind you? Is that Vettel? Was that Alonso? Is that Lance stroll? Oh, yeah, you're looking at what Christian Horner during a Zoom interview rather snotty described as my partisan bookshelf. I'm sure he's really concerned about your support for Valtteri Bottas. So it's actually both. So Sebastian Vettel and Lance stroll have, I'm not sure who's actually what. I should probably keep this out of the sunlight because the sharpie mark is fading, but it won't perform as well on eBay then. As is well known, I'm banned from eBay. I tried to sell some of my own books. I canceled the sale and threw me off and told me I was a security risk. Did you have to poke them inside? Well, the local arcs fan is now saying, well, another one of these. What? I'll be keeping the Aston Martin baseball cap because it actually covers up a rather annoying blue stain on that shelf caused by a expired ink cartridge that I'd put in one of those macmillan charity envelopes. The residue leaking through the bottom. So there's a cyan splodge on that shelf. So your summary is that the benefit of having a signed acid Martin cap is that it comes up the stains on you. That's terrible. That's terrible. Oh, dear. I think it's as we come up to the hour mark in this podcast. It's time for us to leave it there with our listeners, visualizing peculiarly colored stains on market share. You really need to wrap this one up colors. Yeah. Well, thank you everyone for listening
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"It's about their time for me and tomorrow I'm going down for the first day of the Adelaide motor sport festival and look forward to having a bit of a chat with Valtteri Bottas on Sunday afternoon. Hopefully clothed. That's both him and me. That's both him and me when we do it, but I'm looking forward very much to that and then heading over to Melbourne for the Grand Prix. And Matt, thank you very much. Are you going to on deck in Australia or have you got this one off? I'm not on deck in Australia, but my immediate plans involve writing a feature for you that's due in about 12 hours from now. Yes, it very much is. So in the grand tradition of great leadership, I mean, they say work harder you mangy dog, can I say God is, I'm heeding your advice. It is, of course, written, but I'm taking some time between writing and filing to fully appreciate when there's any edits I may want to make. This is very good. You have to sort of do the whole that the whole swish thing imagine that you hadn't written it and you're reading it cold and so what I did with the thing I submitted yesterday morning. Before I submitted it to myself anyway, thanks to all our listeners, thanks to the long suffering Martin Lee are producer for more fabulous content as we must call these things nowadays. You can buy our magazine. It comes out every month, go to GP racing dot com to find out a subscriber offers. You can find out your nearest stock is if you live in the UK, by going to Seymour, that's as in the lady who played solitaire in the James Bond films, Seymour dot co dot UK type your and it is actually working because I checked it before I hit record. It's working again the store finder will now accept your postcode and you will find out which shops stock GP racing. Thank you very much. We will speak to you again next month, enjoy the next couple of grand prixs. Bullet social podcast network.
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"Patrick Swayze over a few cartons of Tia Maria outside the roadhouse. It's from South Australia, Mark Gallagher. Great to be joining you and I have to just warn the listeners that it is almost midnight at the time of recording and I've been at a very nice and very enjoyable dinner party where there was much Shiraz and Riesling being shared by local winemakers. So I think my contribution to this podcast maybe actually a huge improvement on normal. Well, let's move over and say hello to the only person with enough how to grow a mullet should he desire. But actually, you know, if I put my mind to it, I could, but it would go through a terrible curly stage. Life from the Midlands. It's Matt Q hello. Thank you for having me on the show. So, besides the mustache and the mullet, you'll probably be seeing more of Valtteri Bottas than you ever thought you wanted to in this month's GP racing. There's an interesting and distinctive headline and opening image to a company Oleg karpov's exclusive no holds barred interview. And in the interests of full transparency, I should point out this is all Oleg's idea. Now Matt, you've got a sneak peeve preview in Bahrain just as Oleg was freaking out about over whether he had done the right thing. So you knew what was coming. Mark, what did you see, what did you think when you saw the spread? The spread, so to speak. I have to say it's a very peachy interview. I was delighted because
Box of Neutrals
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"You got another people's actually know that people's participants run tire. 8 points to Lance stroll. So you're telling me that Lance stroll has a better chance at this point to time. In this part of the localised entirely in this Grand Prix, a better chance of winning the world championship than Charles Leclerc, which is remarkable. Another honorable mention, the honorable Australian Valtteri Bottas, the four points for him. He'll be driving a V8 supercar this weekend at the end of the festival. He's full. He is genuinely out of the two Aussies in the championship this season Valtteri Bottas is the highest ranking. Good for him. Good for him. Yeah, what should we give him a nickname? Like the fact that we'll see or something like that. The de facto Aussie. He kind of is. It's almost the correct term. The fact of all work on it, let us know in the Discord channel. What should Valtteri Bottas Australian nickname be? And how can we help him on the immigration test? Yeah, yes. John Bradford. Warney. And Anne said. Let's give I want to give a stocks up to Oscar piastre, who had a good weekend. Except I feel like every good weekend he's going to have, we've got to say underratedly good because McLaren cars so bad. Yeah. Robert, what do you think? They have Oscar piastre. I would go. Really. Okay, really? He qualified very well. Very well. Very well. Very well. Jared, how well did he? Very well. He did so well. To qualify, granted he's got history at this track as well. So it's a good sign so far. In terms of his stocks aren't meteoric. I tell you what he's a solid investment at the moment because he certainly hasn't disgraced himself. And he also has the great caveat that everyone is acknowledging. It is clear as day that the car is shit. It is so bad. It is, I know, I have to run to. I say, just hold your horses with Ferrari. But it is no good. It is no good. McLaren and Ferrari are definitely not Ferrari racing to the bottom. But they're not making life easy for themselves at the moment. So I'd say it's turbulent for them at the moment whereas McLaren is just screwed. It's really bad. It's really bad. That's quite embarrassing. The car this round was probably the slot. It was probably the size. Maybe equal or maybe just a head of Alfa Romeo, which had a weirdly not good weekend. Although I think Joan used to finish it at both of them. Although both were car and drivers had damaged on the first lap, from each other, funnily enough. The thing I don't get, like you can look at the rice style that you can look at the long runs, all that kind of stuff, all the rice pace. Every week what every weekend, for the last two weekends, McLaren's coming out and said, we had points winning pace. Put a score points. There are 5 there are no points to win. There are 5 teams that are clearly better than all the other ones. And McLaren's not one of them. You're not there are no points on offer for they may as well not turn off at this rate. They were hoping that the likes of they just resting their laurels on alpha alpha Romeo will stuff it up and alpha tour is shit and our pain ah, they no good because there are tribal and drivers to survive. Harsh cars will be repossessed. That is what they need. They need all of those cars to not turn up. No. Or crash or retire, whatever. No. There are ten cars now on the basis on the evidence of this weekend, Alpine is a step ahead of everyone else in the midfield. There are ten cars that are normal race will score all the points. The only reason Kevin Magnussen scored a point was because Lance stroll formerly the people's parties event retired. Had he not retired, they would just be no points on offer for anyone else. That is that's the style of it. It was a poor showing for risky stroll for capitalizing on some much needed points because if we talk about the entertained battle though jeez, I think by now, if S bass and haven't thought about putting all their resources behind Fernando, I think this is it for a hundred podiums for eventually. Technically a 101. True today. Oh yeah, true. A 100.5. 100.5. Yeah, let's hundred and a bonus. Let's call it that financing. I wonder what's the status? I want to know how many what is the all time record? Podiums. Podiums for drive a bit like in multiple teams. Oh, that's a good question. He's done them at Renault. McLaren Ferrari Renault. Did he cut our, I believe? Remember that one. Well, there you go. It was a very forgettable ride. Right, so obviously it was the rice before Saudi Arabia when the exciting stuff. Okay. I must have also not watched the film. Okay, so there you go. I would like to know the record because again, I'm very pleased. It is the thing that case we're going into this season. I think the Fernando Alonso effect. I think it's brilliant. I'm absolutely here for it, because if Ferrari can't do it, then philando, it is, like I said, Fernando Alonso, it's trolling the field. These trolling Ferraris trolling McLaren. He's trolling Alpine. And he's in an Aston Martin and he's doing what he's doing and I think it's brilliant and I'm here for it. He's very exciting. He also was so when he was told he lost his podium. I think his words were I don't really care because the car's quick. I had fun. And I got to go on the party. It's what everyone really wants to do. What's the record of the podium? We just want to go on it. Exactly. It's exciting. Get their photos. Okay, all right. Let's eat. Yeah. But it was good for Fernando to get the hundreds out of the way as well, which is a remarkable stat. That we're going to have to because for me, Fernando Alonso winning a Grand Prix is a highly more likely prospect that McLaren possibly scoring points this season. Or Ferrari even winning a race because I think two races in, it's a bit of a hyperbole. I'll acknowledge that. Long way to go, but it's not looking good at this early part of the season. And Mercedes. Fans like me and you tune to three a double U 9 6906 9 three four proves. That is where the day is. Great sweat. Great production by the way. Only made for box of digital. Is that the first song
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"There is an argument that there's not a lot that you always nothing they can do about Aston Martin developing their way into a good position. But yeah, where do you see Alpine and McLaren making that? But having just said that, who could have predicted what Aston were going to do. So it is possible. And I think it's really interesting talking to some of the members of the team, particularly some of you guys down at Williams. They're actually inspired by seeing what Aston have done because it's like right. This is possible. It's a good story for Formula One and it's a good story for a lot of the teams. It's just ultimately, you know, it's the prize money thing, right? They're going to end up not doing as well because they haven't done good enough job. I'm going to get into that. Next, take a quick break and I'm going to dig into that a little bit more about what we should be expecting to see teams doing this year. Stick around back in a second. All right, let's talk about that. At the point, Alex just made teams being inspired by Aston Martin, revealed a car a year ago that was second slowest and by the middle of the season had a new development path and were on their way. And yet multiple times when I've asked people about Mercedes since the beginning of this year, I'm often told how Mercedes is going to dig themselves out of the Maya and people often say, well, in a cost cap era, that's really difficult. So those two things can't be true, Aston Martin did it in a cost cap era and didn't break the cost cap. So Mercedes should be able to do it. They've got a team of people that know how to win. Well, championships am I being a bit too simplistic? Only because astin made its major gain over a winter, like it did make significant gains in 2022, like I said, Phil, we're about to go after Melbourne, and I remember watching FP three with Andrew van leeuwen and Sebastian Vettel which has binned it because there was no down force and it was porpoising horrifically. And the car was just slow. They had made significant gains. They were up there a threat to the podium positions on merit in Austin and things like that. They would as well inconsistent. But then they had the new car coming behind. And that's really where they've made their game. So I take the point, I do take the point, but that is not quite the same comparison. Okay. Okay. So while the teams can do it, they can do an Aston over the next year or 18 months. It just refreshing to see this narrative of the cost cap has baked in this advantage for the big teams and the small teams will never be able to make a big step. I think that's been dispelled and I think that's really encouraging for Formula One. Let's look at I'm not giving a full rundown. Apologies listeners. A terrible podcast host. I should do that at the beginning of the podcast every week. You know Sergio Pérez won from Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso, who is back on the podium. George Russell Lewis Hamilton, science and leclerc in 6th and 7th, then ocon and gastly all going two by two and Kevin Magnussen in the house. Yuki tsunoda was just outside the point. He was inside the points, but he was 11th Nico hulkenberg 12th. Zhou guang yu in 13th Nick de vries in the AlphaTauri 14th Oscar piastre got past Logan sergeant finish 15th legan sergeant 16th, which I still think a good drive though, by the way, we get into that. And Lando Norris 17th Valtteri Bottas, classified 18th. Let me talk a little bit about McLaren, the Williams and that back end of the grade with AlphaTauri teams that are not where they should be or teams that are probably quite happy with how they're doing. McLaren couldn't pass. Well, okay, so Lando Norris in a McLaren couldn't pass a Williams, even with DRS. That actually panic stations at McLaren. Well, whether it's team orders and piastre got past him, he did get past Logan sergeant. Eventually. But Kev, this is, this is a difficult Monday morning to wake up to at McLaren, isn't it? Yeah, but they were kind of expecting weren't they? We talked about this after Bahrain that they were quite pleased because they thought it was going to be even worse than it was. And they got a load of updates coming. So I think they'll be encouraged by piastres performance in qualifying. I think we now can see that he is for whatever reason to step up from Ricardo in the second car. Obviously Landau had a little mistake in qualifying, which had big consequences, so he was kind of out of it from there. I was not like carrying a problem. Why did they switch the cars around? If Lando's the number one. Can I just jump in very, very quickly? It wasn't a little mistake, Kev. You didn't beat in the car. But it was a poor mistake. It was important. A little fire, a little size mistake, but it was bad from land. I think, and I know he reads my driver ratings. He should be very lucky that he's not being rated on qualifying this season now. Okay, so I think panic stations at McLaren more so than I ever ever have done based on today's you run. I mean, by which I mean the reason why not the 80s. Early 90s. I don't think there was many panic stations during that era. But yeah, I'm still not yet. Let's get to some more normal tracks. I don't think it's going to be quite as terrible as it looks at the moment. Don't forget they both had incidents on the first lap. They weren't down the back on Lando's end yet because you hit the wall and then you had to come in and get his nose changed and pastry was just, was he unlucky? I think it was just one of those unfortunate things that at that corner is possible to get a little bit squeezed and he just did with the Alpine. So yeah, unfortunate more at the start there for McLaren than any sort of shock reason for them being back there.
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"Second round and he's getting penalties already. But they seemed quicker, at least a day, does this track suit the Ferraris more than Bahrain, are they going to be hopeful for Sunday? It should do with regards to tyre wear because this is something that's been a bugbear Ferraris for a little while now and they're not so great at managing the tyres and Bahrain really exacerbates that and it really magnifies that issue, particularly just because the tarmac is so abrasive the tarmac and Jeddah isn't anywhere near like that. So with regards to tyre wear and that kind of thing, it shouldn't affect Ferrari quite so much. But they were honestly a little bit surprised to be second in qualifying. And you know, without Verstappen's issue, yeah, it would have been P three, but that's still a good effort, nonetheless, to be a tenth and a half away from Perez's ultimate time. It does take that penalty, but he thinks that a podium again is very much possible. Leclerc said, you know, it's more possible for Carlos Sainz than it is for him, but it's something that Ferrari feels that it's achievable. And it knows that it's better with regards to race pace over qualifying, which I think is another contributing factor to why they were slightly surprised. But yeah, it's not all doom and gloom at Ferrari. Bahrain was a difficult round for them with regards to reliability and with tire wear. And they've been really behind the 8 ball so far this weekend, you know, the Ferraris haven't been really factoring at the top of the time sheets. There is the suspicion that they were perhaps running their engines quite detuned because they were just losing so much time in the straight lines in practice, but in qualifying, yeah, they seem to be much, much better in much better shape. And yeah, we'll see how they get on tomorrow if they can fight for a podium. If they can find something over Alonso that maybe Alonso had over them in Bahrain, we'll have to wait and see. Yeah, let's hope that Ferrari power unit is robust, they're not de rating it or anything because it was still good. Some decent performances at times for Hass now from over the weekend as well. So we'll wait and see on that in terms of that midfield battle when we thought we were going to be talking about Aston Alpine McLaren. Things are working out a little bit different this year with Aston Martin's progress, Alpine line up with ocon in 6th and gasly in 9th. Bahrain was a weird one because we saw ghastly making progress through the field ocon collecting time penalty. So I feel like we haven't really just had a chance to see them start where they should do and then progress from there. Is that where you expected them to be? This is probably a little bit more in line with what they promised as a team, perhaps over the off season. The car has been really, really strong. And it does seem quite wayward. So I was down one, two, and then it turns 22 and 23 on Friday. You could see the red balls going through the Aston Martins going through really, really, really stable. The Alpine looked a little bit all limbs kind of all a little bit wayward. It just seemed to produce the lap time where it needed to. To see gasly and knock on, up there, it's not it's probably where it should be given the progress that it's made. Ocon did have a little bit of a moment where he very nearly lost the current qualifying. And just about managed to keep it on the road. That was an issue that he had to face and he had to deal with, but it was a very, really strong performance from our pain. They'd looked really strong all weekend. So it's not a surprise given the context of the weekend to see them up there doing quite so well. Well, Oscar piastre and Lando Norris had both a little sniff of the wall this weekend. Oscar piastre getting away with it and in his second qualifying for McLaren, starting 8th on the road. Lando Norris down in 19th I had to retire him. Can you explain what happened to Lando Norris and if we heard from piastre afterwards as well? He must be made up. Let's be honest, it was sonoris fault there. He just got a little bit too overeager with trying to take the apex into the turn 27, which is the final corner. And just clip the wall when you do that, when you clip a concrete wall with your front left tyre, you're going to break something. And you could see that sort of tire wiggle where the suspension was just broken. And there was no chance of getting him back out in time. So that ended Norris session pretty much immediately. He'd managed to get at a lap in and this was his going to be a second lap that was a bit stronger, but unfortunately he wasn't able to clock that. Bias tree was really, really strong. And it was really good to see him in his first race doing such a first season doing such a good job given the difficulties that he endured in Bahrain. He did say that he was very, very careful when it came to Jared because he has raced at the circuit before in formula two. He's won here twice back when formula two was doing three races a weekend for some unknown reason. But he hasn't raced here for over a year. So he was slowly trying to build up for it. Slowly get used to it because it's such a difficult circuit for a rookie to deal with. But he was getting more and more comfortable. The lap time just seemed to come for him. And ultimately, yeah, he did a really, really good job. McLaren still knows that it's behind and it still has a lot of work to do with regards to its concept and development, but that really difficult Bahrain. The picture doesn't seem so bad now. And realistically, Norris probably should have been in Q three as well, given his pace in practice sessions. Maybe you've got a couple of tents on pediatric as well. So you would have to expect both of them to be in on had things been a little bit normal. Norris sort of given maybe a little bit of a quarter there in Q one. Yeah, people were quick to write off McLaren bottom of the constructors after the first round, but we haven't seen them do a full event yet, so a normal weekend. So this could be it. JBL, thank you very much. It's late here, which means it's very late for you. I appreciate you coming on the podcast. Thank you for that. We look forward to. Hearing more from you. This season. That is your podcast for today. I'll finish off Nico hulkenberg in tenth, Zhou guang knew in 11th, Charles Clarke 12th as I mentioned, Kevin Magnussen and his ass in his 13th place Valtteri Bottas is 14th, followed by Max Verstappen 15th, three places behind Charles Leclerc, big action last year. They won't be doing the dance for the DRS activation line because that's been moved till after the apex boo spoiling our fun, but they will be on a similar piece of the track as they both make their way through the field. A UK Samoa 16th Alex Alban in the Williams 17th Nick de vries in the AlphaTauri 18th Lando 19th, as we mentioned in Logan sergeant 20th. That is your lineup for Sunday. Thank you for listening to the podcast. And we'll catch you tomorrow. Podcast network.
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"It's probably a two part thing of the long term situation is probably a brand new car four 2024. And then do what they can with their current concept and they've talked about a new side pod design and a few other things that will be changed for imola, which is in mid May when they're sort of the first big upgrades everyone's expected to live will be coming. So yes, they are where they are. They've been very honest and open about they haven't met expectations within themselves. They thought if they could get on top of the poor person and I'm trying to unlock the performance they believe was there in last year's car and this is car that they could be, yeah, fighting for world championships, but they've got to where they are currently with this W 14 and did just whether it's the data, whether it's correlation, it's just not adding up and it has never added up to what they expected. So yeah, some pretty harsh and brutal on home truths and honesty has come from the team and I think they're preparing for a changing of concepts and changing ways because it's just not worked. Wow. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see a B spec car. Sometime around Silverstone this year as they clearly have said, hey, you know, we tried it. We tried our best. But this is not the way, not the way to go. A team who did, I think, show well. If you look at the actual times, the progress made through the race, ignoring penalties and stuff like that. If you sift through the data, a team who had reason to be happy in Bahrain, you wouldn't think so, is Alpine two cars in the top 6 in free practice today. Any news coming through from them, they're going to bring some upgrades quite regularly. Any news on that, or is this a sign of the inherent place in the car? What do you think? Yeah, so nothing in terms of a significant upgrade for this weekend, which is by and large the case for most of the teams because it's so close to the opening race. There's bits and pieces, but nothing too too drastic. But you're right. I think the real pain maybe is showing up this time around. They had in no one certain times a bit of a shocker in Bahrain. Whereby gasly just didn't get qualifying, hooked up was out in Q one, back road to grid. Whereas ocon qualified well, but he had very much a race to forget picking up penalties like their sweeties. And therefore, he dropped out the points and eventually they retired the car, whereas gasoline fought his way up to the point, but gasly saying that speaking on Thursday, like you said, they had to look at the data, they looked to where the cars and the traces were going. They thought if they had a clean weekend in Bahrain, they could challenge Mercedes or give them give them a headache, which instantly puts them sort of, as we know, 6th, 7th place. Or maybe just behind them, which on reflection of where they are at the moment in Saudi, early days of course, is probably where we'd expect them to be going on going on the practice pace. So yeah, if they can have a clean weekend and extract the full potential of their car, which is pretty much what the team said at the end of the Bahrain Grand Prix of knowing like, right, this isn't really us. Then yeah, they probably will be the fourth or 5th quickest car on the grid. So yeah, let's wait and see, they've still got to get through qualifying in the race, but yeah, if they show their full potential, I think they'll be, they'll be fighting for the point, definitely. And finally, a quick word on Williams actually, I thought I'd pick them out to just talk to talk about rather. Alex Albon finishing just over a second off the pace of Max Verstappen today and Logan Sargent ahead of drivers like Oscar piastre, ahead of Valtteri Bottas. So William's not bringing up the rear today in free practice. Actually, with Saudi, it's a fast flowing track. They said their car could be good on some circuits this year. This should be one of them. Any news coming out of Williams and how this could be a good circuit for them. That's right, yeah. The circuit should suit their car characteristics. Albania was 14th nephew two, but he, his fastest lap was set on the mediums, whereas everyone else managed to get their fast lap down on the softs, which is a bit of an anomaly, so you could definitely give him a few tents in hand to move him up the order and that puts him just on the edge of the point where he was for Bahrain. And yeah, I think you have to think you're right. Again, if they have a clean weekend and qualify well, there's a chance that Alban in particular can be fighting for that sort of just outside and just the top ten is sort of where they would be aiming. It is a definite tough ask for rookie Logan sergeant. He has experienced around this track in F two, but obviously this is a different sort of challenge. He didn't he didn't do too badly. And granted his Bahrain debut in F one was, I think, the most people's expectations. I think he quitted himself very, very well. So yeah, give him a chance to see how he does. I'm always sort of keen to see how he does compared to the other two rookies for this year, which is piastre and de vries. They've all got varying experience, let's say, in terms of their junior careers and such. But given where their teams are, they're all they seem to be fairly well matched in terms of how the seasonal go. So keeping that sort of little battle between those three going. And he's acquitted himself, I think, very well. So yeah, give him a charge. It might be a bit more difficult for say sergeant to fight for the points and match albums performances. Over these first few rounds, but yeah, they've got the package to hopefully do something quite exciting this weekend. Absolutely. All right, well, thank you very much for your rundown of the Friday action once again. The big stories on auto sport dot com, which is where you should be heading to, if you are a subscriber to also support plus a reminder we have all our wonderful long reads and in depth articles on the plus section of the website as well. And it should be your first port of call for the
Strong Opinion Sports
"valtteri bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"Also there's one kind of feel good story from qualifying Sergio Pérez was amazing during qualifying. And let me be clear, I'm glad Mick Schumacher is okay. I really want to see Hass. Keep going. And hopefully you have two competitive cars in the coming races. Now, Sergio Pérez got his first ever pole position, this was his 215th race in form of the one, and it's been a long time coming. And it's kind of a nice reminder, you know, last year we learned, oh my gosh, this is what Sergio Pérez can look like in a really good top car in F one. And he's a guy we always thought that about. We always kind of wondered, um. Sergio press has been on a bad team for a long time. What would happen if you put a guy with clearly the talent he has in a top car, we learned last year and then finally, on Saturday he got his first ever poll in F one. Now the race itself in the early part of the race on Sunday. The most fun thing was the two Alpine drivers going head to head. Esteban archon and Fernando Alonso, they were battling back and forth for 6th place following each other really closely. It was Esteban ocon gives some kind of quote talking about how it felt like go karts, right? Because they're so much more able to follow each other this year than they have been in previous years. And Alpine let them race, which I love. It hurt the team a little bit. It did slow them down. It allowed Valtteri Bottas with the Alfa Romeo to kind of challenge them a little bit. But on the flip side, they dominated the screen and put on a show for their advertisers. So look, was it a stunt maybe? I don't really know. It certainly was great to see them on TV for like half of the race. But it was also really fun battle. And that's what I live for in F one is watching these guys race wield a wheel and battling back and forth for positioning, and I do want to add, I could see it being hard to be teammates with Fernando Alonso. He's always driven like a bit of a bully where and it was interesting..
Strong Opinion Sports
"valtteri bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"I'm shocked. I did not believe that this episode is going to be very long. And we're going to reach almost an hour, which blows my mind very happy to say that I love you. I appreciate you. It's kind of weird because I'm going to end the show, but you're also going to hear ten more minutes. So I'm just going to let you know now. Let's shift gears to form of the one, I love you though. I appreciate you. Hope you have a great day, and I will, I guess I'll see you in like 5 seconds when I cut and you go to Formula One. Bio. Okay, there's a cut there. Hopefully you can not tell I'm recording this much earlier than the rest of the show. Let's end this show with this on Sunday. We had the Bahrain Grand Prix. We learned a lot. There's a lot to break down. It was fun. It was exciting. There were twists and turns, both figuratively and literally. Here are the top ten points finishers from Sunday. First you had Charlotte Claire for Ferrari. He also got another extra point for fastest lap. Second, you had the other Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz in third and fourth, you had third Lewis Hamilton and fourth George Russell both driving for Mercedes in 5th place. You had Kevin Magnussen for half, that's a great story. We'll talk about that in a moment. In 6th place, you had Valtteri Bottas driving for Alfa Romeo, 7th was Esteban archon for aachen for Alpine 8th Yuki sonoda for AlphaTauri, 9th Randall Alonso for Alpine and in tenth place, the other Alfa Romeo driver, a rookie in his first ever form of the one race, Joe guan yu. I hope I pronounce it right. I'm doing the very best I can. Let's start off by talking about Ferrari. It's a one two for them. It's incredible. It's a new top dog in Formula One Ferrari is awesome. We're only one race in, but they are the team to beat so far during the 2022 Formula One season. And I got to say it is so great to see Ferrari back on top and form of the one a good Ferrari team is great for the sport and.
Strong Opinion Sports
"valtteri bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"You can write into the show as well go to Patreon dot com slash Zach Schumer. David wrote in, David said, hey, Zach, hope you're doing well. I am curious about your thoughts on the upcoming F one season. Who do you think will win the drivers and constructors championships personally? I think Charles Leclerc and Ferrari will win both championships, keep up the great work, David. I don't know how to make a prediction for this year's F one season because all I really have are a bunch of questions. We haven't had a single race yet. We've had testing and the better teams about fewer time doing certain tests. And so I want to tell you my questions going into the 2022 F one season and we'll see how those questions I'm going to set up the narratives now and in a month or two from now we can go, here's how those narratives are working out so far. So question number one, is it a three team race in Formula One? Do you got Ferrari Mercedes and Red Bull Ferrari put a ton of development energy and money into this year? So I guess my big question really is, is Ferrari the team to beat, should they be the favorite? In Formula One. And then we got a new guy coming to Mercedes George Russell, elevating himself from Williams, a really, really talented driver getting a promotion, and I would assume that George Russell is an upgrade on former Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas, who really was good enough to not have to challenge Lewis Hamilton so they were able to win a constructor's championship again last year. But not good enough to give Lewis Hamilton often the support he needed and so not only can George Russell give Lewis Hamilton the support he needs to help push people at the front of the race, but also how much can George Russell challenge Lewis Hamilton. This upcoming year for the silver arrows. I'm excited to find that out. Will Red Bull still be a contender?.
Strong Opinion Sports
"valtteri bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"Now, here are the standings in Formula One after Sunday. The driver standing look like this. Max Verstappen is in first with 351.5 points. And second, you got Lewis Hamilton with 343.5 points. Vader Botox has 203 points in third and Sergio Pérez, the other Red Bull drivers got a 190 points in fourth place. And the team or constructor standings you have Mercedes, which is narrowly narrowly ahead of Red Bull Mercedes isn't the first place with 546.5 points Red Bull is in second with 541.5 points. There are only 5 points a part of each other. Lewis one, but Valtteri Bottas did not finish. So with max getting second and Sergio Pérez getting fourth in Qatar, Red Bull actually gained a lot of ground on Mercedes, and it's very possible we see a world where Lewis Hamilton could win the individual drivers championship, but Red Bull could still very much win the constructors..
Formula 1 Grid Talk Podcast
"valtteri bottas" Discussed on Formula 1 Grid Talk Podcast
"So we still got about just under ten minutes before qualifying starts. So I think the most important thing we've already had the comment from Conor walker in the chat. What are our predictions for this Grand Prix? Well, for this qualifying, I should say. A Wayne give me for you is going to be on the front row coming under this qualifying. I think the pretty obvious answer is going to be probably on the front row. It'll probably be about just stuff and Lewis Hamilton. Maybe not in that order. But it's all up to play for. I thought it was, I thought it was going to be a walk over from Mercedes on Friday, but in practice earlier, we saw that Red Bull has come back. They've done clearly done some set of work overnight. And it's looking a lot closer now. Aaron, would you agree with the way? I think it's going to be an almost Mercedes front row. I think Mercedes have got something extra up their sleeve. This clever sort of squatting mechanism they've got in the rear suspension. I think it might just give them a little bit of an advantage over one lap. Especially down the back straight. I don't think they showed their forehand in practice three. So Bottas has got a completely fresh ICE in there and Hamilton has only done the race distance in Turkey, which was a lower power. Usage because it was wet. So that said for Stefan's has only done two race distances. So it still was playful. Wouldn't surprise me if Owens prediction of Hamilton and Verstappen front row is entirely correct. Tom, so we've had the stuff in Hamilton for the office. We've had all Mercedes. What are you going to go for? Are they hosting to put it out of the bag for whom? No. Realistically, Red Bull have definitely made some setup changes certainly from Friday to Saturday or even between possibly between F one and FB two. But especially coming in today. With how good Mercedes had been around this track in a Friday morning just to go by and arguably with the momentum swing for Hamilton, I would say Hamilton will quantify on poll. So closely followed by max and then I do reckon Bottas will round up the top three, even though he's taking that engine penalty. I still think Bill be up there. Yeah, angel penalties is something I think we should touch on. No matter where they qualify as a guarantee that Russell Vettel and I'm missing someone. That's all Vettel and who's the other person Alonso. A lot of it. Yeah, they will all be starting from the back. They have taken. I believe they've all taken completely new engines. So regardless of what they do in qualifying, they are going to be at the back. As both iron and Tom have mentioned the Valtteri Bottas has a 5 place grid penalty for a new internal combustion engine. And if you're confused on why it's 5 instead of ten like Hamilton had in Turkey, it's because this is Bottas's ICE. It was only how the pieces for so if you take to your allow three, you can take a fourth it's Ted. You take any more than that, it's 5. It's backwards is wrong. We know, but it's just the way that F one likes to operate. Color walkers brought, perhaps, like a very good point..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"valtteri bottas" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Goalkeepers has accused footballs authorities that have only caring about their pockets and not play a welfare This side suffered a two one defeat to Italy in the nation's league third place playoff yesterday which he described as a money game the former Chelsea keeper tells Sky Sports News they're being asked to play too much Can you hear that now they want to put a European Championship in a World Cup every year When will we get the rest Never So in the end only top player so that injured and injured and injured And then at the end of it you know France lifted the trophy with a two one victory over Spain in last night's final We also wait in Estonia this evening as they look to stay in contention for a World Cup qualifying playoff rob page's side of level on points and second place Czech Republic in Group B after securing a two wheel draw in Prague on Friday night I'll still have a three point lead at the top of the wheel in Super League this morning After maintaining their 100% starts with a three year old victory over Everton champions Chelsea up to second on goal difference thanks for tuning in against Leicester Britain's Tyson Fury says he doesn't know for sure what he'll do next are pertaining his WBC world heavyweight boxing title He knocks out in the 11th round of a fight which will go down as an all time classic in Las Vegas Lewis Hamilton believes the tactical error from his team costume third place in the Turkish F one Grand Prix and dented his world title popes the Mercedes driver finished 5th and now crowds championship leader Max Verstappen by 6 points after the Red Bull racer ended up second in Istanbul Hamilton's teammate Valtteri Bottas won the race And salute still promotions a rugby league Super League last night with a 34 12th win against featherston in the million pound game victory in the championship playoff final It's thought to be worth that much to the team that goes up George.
Strong Opinion Sports
"valtteri bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"In the F one driver standings. And the F one standings there's only a two point gap between them. Here are the drivers standing. So you have Lewis and first with 246.5 points, max isn't second in the driver's standings with 244.5 points. Third is Valtteri Bottas, 151 points. Fourth is Lando Norris 139.8 Sergio press 120 points. Let's talk about the team constructor standings I might as well mention them. In first you have Mercedes with 397.5 points, Red Bull is in second with 364.5 points. McLaren is third on the driver's standings. There's a big gap there between second and third McLaren has three 232 134 points over a hundred points less than Red Bull. Ferraris and fourth, a 216.5 points. And the wetter weather, when The Rain came in at saatchi, it created chaos. It was like ridiculous what happened. And in the end, I just can not believe that max got second in this race. It's like it's shocking. Because with 11 laps to go, remember, max was in 7th place with 11 laps to go, and he got stuck in 7th he got past by Fernando Alonso. So bad things were going. And then The Rain came in, create a chaos, max took advantage, got into second. It was like an unbelievable finish for Max Verstappen. The Red Sea parted, and he got the opportunity the lifetime to keep the gap between him and Lewis really, really tight. And we only have a handful of races left to go this year. And it's shaping up to be one of the best finishes of all time to a Formula One season. It's one of those special years where it's going to come right down to the very end. That so rarely happens usually by like this point of the year. Frankly, Lewis Hamilton is one by like a hundred points, and wow, Lewis, once again, F one champion, no competition. We're so lucky. You have to, if.
The Autosport Podcast
Italian Grand Prix: Max Verstappen on Pole After Valtteri Bottas Wins Sprint
"Vouch. we bought one one seconds qualifying at the twenty two nd. Two italian gregory beating max staffan with lewis hamilton fifth after making a poor start from among side us down robotic finished third mclaren ahead of his teammate landowners who kept hamilton at bay for the duration of the race which was disrupted by a fast lap crash for twenty months of winter. Pa ouseley ghazi. Briefy fit the mccaren of down. Your ricardo damaged his front wing as a result which went underneath his front wheels causing him to shoot off into the gravel. The crash about the safety car and ask as these call was recovered a clash between iki snow to number but cubits so usa came about the race restarted on that four of eighteen with batas romping to one point six second lead over verstappen with hamilton chasing. The two mclarens both tie as fast as the mediums of the cheerleaders. On the second mercedes recorded came home fourteen point five seconds behind the winner with norris keeping hamilton behind him who at times was even sliding around dramatically shall lead time. His ferrari teammate call assigned in sixth and seventh the former recovering from feeding on while at the end of f. b. two scientists ferrari had been rebuilt off his heavy f. b. to crash came highway started ahead of antonucci of nazi. The affirmation drive ahead of the charging such a paris to finish with the red bull. Dr having to make a couple of attempts to pause after martin's launch drove for that position.
Strong Opinion Sports
"valtteri bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"I do want to say that it was really sad, George Russell started in eighth on the grid, but once again, he could not get any points he finished eleventh and it was really cool at the end of the race. I'm glad they showed it off your George, Russell intent, Fernando Alonso and trying to pass him in this battle for 10th between Fernando Alonso. George Ross was really, really interesting, really exciting. I'm glad they showed it on T. Had a lot of fun watching it off but I guess so, as I look back in the race Fernando Alonso will tell you. He got screwed in, like, maybe certainly, I thought, Lando, Norris got a penalty should not have deserved dominated Louis had some damage. So about your Botox, finished ahead of him and the gap between Mercedes and Red. Bull's grew even more. Here are the current standings and form of the one Max's, the truck driver. Max is in first with a hundred eighty two points, Louis is in second with a hundred fifty points. Sergio Perez is the third driver in the standings for the hundred four points and Lando is right behind him and forth with a hundred and one place. It'd be kind of cool and endorsed. Got third in the driver standings. I'd be very interesting. You know if Lando got third in the driver standings and McLaren got third in the team standings like that'd be a really big win for them. By the way, land is the only driver this year who's had a points finish in every single race in 2021. That's very impressive. He had, he's not, you know, Louis had a race where he finished like sixth May 14th or something cuz he spun out and like, the final two laps, you had, Max has a spun out and did not finish and erase before, Wendell was the only drivers at a points finish in every single race. That's really impressive. It shows to his stability into his every week just showing up bringing his best. It's really impressive to me. You know, in the team standings Red Bulls. And first with 256 points, 286 for Red Bull, Mercedes is in second with 242 points and then way behind McLaren the battle for third, McLaren has 141.1 points, 141 points off early in third, and the Ferrari has a hundred twenty-two points in 4th. That's the battle for third right now. And I guess it just not my favorite race. I don't really like when the winter dominates, it happens a lot in form of the one, but it makes it a race. I don't love that much. There were some interesting battles throughout the race but yeah, the thing it kind of will always stick to me is hey Max, our step and dominated and I don't love that, the next race is on Sunday, July 18th, at Silverstone in Great Britain should be fun and until then by the way, another news the the Australian Grand Prix got canceled again because Australia's been so strict and tight with their covid-19. If anybody gets another seat in with Mercedes, it could be maybe George rust, but I don't seems like about your Botox is doing solid right now. I just keep your eye on that Lewis is the next couple of years. Will Mercedes retain valtteri bottas, or will they make this shift to George Russell for next year? Keep your eye on that..
Strong Opinion Sports
"valtteri bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"To make a change to improve and they're also not guaranteed to have Lewis Hamilton for much longer. Who knows how much longer Luke Walton is going to stay in the sport. We don't know. Big retired anytime. So, at some point, Mercedes has got to be prepared for that moment and start grooming the next guy. Valtteri bottas is not the next guy for Mercedes to be their number one driver. If George Hamilton retired, you would want George Russell, ready, waiting waiting in the wings to be kind of groomed and be prepared, but you want to hear of him as the number to First, to get him used to the team and then have a more seamless transition from Lewis Hamilton to George Russell. I don't think Lewis Hamilton's going to retire any time soon. I don't know why you would he might but I don't I don't know why he would that make sense. He's he's got plenty of years left driving, he's been dead forever. But my my point is that the problem with Mercedes right now, Is there a number two driver? It's a big deal. They're going to have to make a move at some point and I think I love how after Botox I like a story is you got divorced and got he's got a new relationship. I like off his Instagram story like I like the person the driver's coming up short and at some point we're saying is going to reach a breaking point. I think they already have where there are thinking. Now, the wheels are turning total was not dumb. It's like, oh, we're going to have to make a move and replace this guy. By the way you kiss, no. 7th, Azerbaijan, good for him, solid points. I was happy for the rookie outfit. Our driver. That's pretty cool off and coming up on Sunday. We have the French Grand Prix. I can't wait. It's going to be fun to watch Formula One man. There's nothing like it. I watched other Motorsports. There's other things off of other motor sports. That do things very well to me. Ferrari is a sorry Ferrari, it's another f word form of the one..