Matt Beer

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1,273 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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The Race F1 Podcast · Driver Rankings: Who was the most impressive driver in Austria? · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

So that stuck with Thomas Knights in the Race Members Club.

Thomas would have put Piastri

I think he said he would have put him third, potentially.

He was comfortably ahead of teammate Lando Norris on a track Lando always goes well at, and he beat the Ferraris, and he beat Isaac Hajar in a faster Red Bull.

Both Thomas and Ed W were also a bit surprised that you mentioned as one of the cons in your pros and cons of Piastri's performance, being that he benefited from Ferrari's poor strategy helping up the order.

As Ed says, does this mean you ascribe some level of responsibility to the drivers for strategic calls by their own team?

So...

I get the point the members are making here.

This was a weekend where Piastri definitely had the upper hand at McLaren.

You yourself admit that he did as much as someone could have done with a McLaren.

Is fifth a bit low for that?

Yeah, I guess ultimately you can't give Piastri more marks for Ferrari having bad tyre where he didn't do the setup.

So that's how Ferrari put itself behind Piastri.

Obviously, your approach to this is spectacularly detailed.

I think as listeners and viewers may know, you watch so many onboards.

You're listening to team radio.

You're having all the conversations in the paddock through the weekend to build up the most detailed picture of what really went on.

You possibly can.

Ed W. did mention about the responsibility for strategic calls that the drivers themselves make.

How much does that weigh in sometimes when you know that a driver has kind of pushed a strategy call or even overruled one and taken responsibility for that result?

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