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

That's the whole nature of elite sport.

So we think it's fair enough and a

bit more fun as well to do this one to 20 second format for the rankings.

It does mean that sometimes drivers or riders who have pretty good weekends have to be 20 seconds, but that's

kind of what they're there for you've still got to have a an exceptional weekend to be in the top 10 and that's that's kind of what it's all what it's all about really i understand the downside of that is you do get passionate fans in the members club and elsewhere who would hate to see their driver 22nd in whatever circumstances i yeah and i don't mind that at all because sport works because people care that much about the drivers riders teams they support so you know i never i

And never mind if I see passionate comments coming in on these rankings or anything else.

We want people to be fervently behind their drivers.

Yeah, and also by his standards lately, which have been pretty good, it wasn't a great weekend.

He's done a lot better than that lately.

So yeah, I wasn't too surprised to see him much lower than he has been in some of your recent rankings.

I'm going on the attack.

I'm going to go straight to the top and say I disagree with George Russell being first, partly because I found it a slightly boring choice, but also...

I like how much you've praised some people who outperformed their machinery, got the absolute maximum out of what they were doing.

I'm not convinced, looking at how close to his tail Max Verstappen was at the end of much of the race and how much Kimi Antonelli caught up, that Russell was overperforming his machinery like some of the others were, that he wasn't benefiting from...

the Red Bulls still being a bit inferior from Antonelli having the slightly wobblier qualifying.

And it still felt like it wouldn't have taken a lot for this result to be different.

I understand.

One of the pros in your praise of Russell was that he nailed the situation in qualifying where he knew it was not a double yellow, it was a single yellow, and he did enough.

Part of me is a little bit dubious about that.

I don't

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