Tim Hodges

Like, it's crazy, isn't it?

So, yeah, and even the fact that Monaco is the... It's the big-ticket weekend for Formula One.

You know, everyone knows it's such a tight and twisty place.

It doesn't provide a great race, but it is some sort of weekend that we probably both have to put...

on our bucket list, Whitey, but the fact that, you know, Kim Kardashian turned up, um, who is, you know, in a, um, relationship with Hamilton, the fact that Hamilton had a, a breakout weekend, you know, clearly, um, you know, beat his teammate, Charles Leclerc, but to finish second behind Kimmy is, is huge.

So,

I don't think the sport can get much bigger, to be perfectly honest, but having Kim Kardashian hanging out in the Ferrari pit garage of the biggest driver in the sport is a pretty cool thing as well.

So, yeah, the fact that Hamilton had such a good weekend is something, and it probably goes to show that Ferrari... I mean, I thought over one lap they were going to be the best team out there, but they had Anthony Elliott to contend with, but they were the next best team after Mercedes, which shows that Ferrari is getting better, and they have to, but it also shows that...

The decline of McLaren is alarming, and it's horrifying for Oscar Piastri, the fact that they were the champion team for the past two seasons, and they are nowhere.

And on a weekend when they celebrated their 1,000th Grand Prix, one of the most famous teams in the sport in McLaren, gee, they had a really disappointing weekend in a really disappointing season so far.

No, I mean, the fourth was only aided by the fact that Max Verstappen didn't get off the line and his race was over after about two and a half metres.

It was helped by the fact that Charles Leclerc was running second and stuck it in the wall.

It was helped by the fact that there were penalties to George Russell.

There were penalties to Pierre Gasly, which helped bump him up to fourth.

So it was a manufactured fourth, which he'll take no joy out of.

And even if no one's celebrating fourth, especially in the McLaren team, but especially in the Piastri camp, he's a better driver than to be finishing fourth.

So he's certainly not celebrating it.

they're a long way behind McLaren.

It's a horrible thing to say for the team that is the defending teams and drivers champion team, but they are unfortunately slow, which is, I don't know how they get out of that.

The fact that now they go into their European summer, they're racing pretty much either every weekend or every second weekend from now on, you know, next week they're straight back on the track in Barcelona, in Spain.