Val Khorounzhiy

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463 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Race F1 Podcast · Driver Rankings: Which surprise name did we rank P1 for Hungary? · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, and I've already, having looked at the comments that you've received, I've already felt a lot of kinship, because you are also getting yelled at for putting a French guy too high, which happens to me basically every single week.

Although I do think my French guy is generally more accomplished than your French guy, so... And...

I'm not sure I would have put this particular French guy first this weekend, but we'll get to that.

Let's start with the Alpine elephant in the room.

Not actually so many comments for a Pierre Gasly placement in number one, but when I opened it, I was like, oh, this is going to be curious.

It's going to be interesting because it wasn't a bad weekend, but it felt like a relatively...

par for the course slight underperformance one.

So Thomas Beagley says, maybe just me, but I don't consider Gasly's performance in the Grand Prix worthy of the number one spot in the rankings.

I'd argue his performance was mediocre at best.

That's a little harsh, I'd say, but okay.

As he achieved the minimum that should be expected of a driver currently in the sixth, seventh fastest car in the grid.

uh, number one priority for a driver in any race weekend is to out-qualify his teammate, which in fairness he did do, but ultimately he finished where he started and didn't out-drive his machinery to maintain his position.

Hülkenberg, Norris, Piastri, Verstappen, and Alonso all had stronger performances, in my opinion.

And Zephyr, who comments a lot on the, on the MotoGP ranking, rankings too, seems to have quite an analytical mind, says, Ed, enlightening as always, I would have never said that, but I would have wanted a deeper, uh,

a burial of a teammate to help put Gasly P1.

I guess maybe that's just me admitting I don't rate Colopinto in quality yet.

Help me understand.

Yeah, I think that the use of...

Out driving.

I know out driving is a misnomer, technically, because you can't go faster than the physical limitations of the machinery will allow you.

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