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

I'm not sure, you know, the...

The one stops for Bortoletto and Lindblad didn't work, but I'm not sure they didn't work worse than the other one stops would have.

But it's still a little surprising to me to see him in the top 10 in the rankings, given that by all rights, he should have been in Q3.

And I would say he maybe would have been punished harder for his underperformance in qualifying with a worse car than the current racing roles are.

Like if he's in a worse car, that could have been a weekend ruining qualifying rather than something he can just shrug off.

All right, so Melmut Harko says, respectfully, Ed, if there's any weekend science should have got the wooden spoon, it is this one.

So I'm being led to believe this is the second time in as many weeks as you've been called out for clear science bias.

So why Olly Behrman and not Carlos Sainz for last place?

Yeah, actually, I totally agree with that.

What I would say, and this is, although I did think this came up in the members club somewhere, I just didn't grab the question.

But so Behrman is still being penalized for a weekend in which we do believe his car was offset relative to Ocon in terms of aerodynamic performance and sudden loss of load.

But Ocon isn't being rewarded, right?

He's not maybe as high as he should be

given his supremacy over his teammate this weekend, even though there's the uncertainty factor of how much of this is down to downforce.

Because I think looking at Ocon and Behrman this particular weekend, I think you could make a cogent, half-cogent case that actually that was the most stark teammate difference in the field, especially relative to recent form, where they've basically inverted the gap and maybe even a little bit then some.

That's how much...

more performant Ocon was than Behrman.

What would you say to that?

Let's go into a more philosophical couple of questions and get back to the, you know, ghastly Hülkenberg of it all at the top.

Simon M. says, do you enjoy these races where you can put a non-point scorer and a low-point scorer at the top of the pile?

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