Barcelona-Catalunya GP Driver Ratings
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What are the key highlights from the Barcelona-Catalunya GP?
Hello, everybody, and welcome. to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Driver Ratings, your favourite series in the world that involves numbers, is back. And not a sprint weekend to deal with. We've dealt with quite a few sprint weekends already this year. But this one had enough pit stops to claim it had many different parts to the race. And it was a very intriguing one at that, wasn't it, Tom Bellingham? Certainly was. A lot of strategy involved. And yeah, should be a good one, this. Indeed, when you look at the strategy graphic which I've got in front of me, there's a lot of different colours, a lot of softs, mediums and hards used by a lot of drivers. So that's a race that I love to see. So let's get into our driver ratings and begin with Sergio Perez.
Started the race in P19 and finished 14th. My grade for Sergio Perez is a 6 out of 10. It was... A rather lonely race for Sergio Perez, I will say that. He was faster than Valtteri Bottas once again, albeit a bit closer in qualifying. And also, you know, my goat was also, I love how I say my goat, like I'm the one that's been, I've been backing Bottas, but he saved a fresh set of softs for the race as well. He's thinking ahead. He's like, how do I beat the Aston Martins? And lo and behold, he did because I don't think either of them finished. But he also, the Bottas Perez qualifying head to head, he actually had some problems with his car as well, which meant that he was a little bit slower than he would because the key word, the key term, deployment issues.
Because that's just the standard thing in 2026. So yeah, I would say once again, the faster Cadillac driver. So I'm giving him more than a five that most back markers always get on driver ratings. I am going to give Sergio Perez a 5 out of 10. I think it was a good result due to, obviously, the DNFs that happened. But I don't think he was as impressive as maybe we've seen. Maybe that's the fact that he has been so impressive that maybe just a more normal weekend, he's being downgraded a little more than normal. But... Yeah, Perez certainly didn't match the heights of what he's kind of done in recent times, I don't think. So I'm going to go for a five for Perez. Okay. The fans, they disagree. You've come into the Bottas corner by the sounds of it, Tommy, because they've gone for a six out of ten as well.
Valtteri Bottas started P20, did not finish. I've gone for a 5 out of 10 for Valtteri Bottas. Much more comparable to his teammate this weekend. Obviously, the big standout for him was a very scary moment, whereas breaks failed in practice, which thankfully happened at a corner that he could realise and go into the gravel and kind of turn in, because had it happened somewhere else, we could have had a very scary incident indeed. But yeah, he's much closer and signs of improvement, so I'm going to give him a five. Interesting. The fans gave Valtteri Bottas a five out of ten. You're not going to grade him? I'm not going to grade him, apparently. I just said it. Well, who's the hater now? I went for a five out of ten, sorry, for Valtteri Bottas, because Perez did beat him this weekend.
Of course, Bottas had the DNF and also some problems in practice, but...
How did Sergio Perez perform in the race?
I can't give him the same grade because Perez did look like the faster driver. And as I mentioned with Checo's qualifying as well, he would have had a bigger margin had it not been for an issue with the car. So that's why there's a point difference. So Valtteri Bottas gets a five from me and the fans, which technically I am a fan of Formula One, also went for a five. So there you go. Franco Colapinto started 13th, finished 10th. My grade for Franco Colapinto is a 7 out of 10. Would have been probably one point higher, but he picked up a penalty after the Alonso incident, which dropped him down behind both V-Carbs come the end of the race. So that's a shame for him. Of course, he outqualified Gasly, which is a really sort of notable thing.
And it's not something that's only happened once. He's been pretty good in qualifying when you compare him to Pierre Gasly.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the key highlights from the Barcelona-Catalunya GP?
0:05–3:39
2
How did Sergio Perez perform in the race?
3:39–13:16
3
What were the ratings for Valtteri Bottas and his race performance?
13:16–18:18
4
How did Franco Colapinto's race strategy impact his results?
18:18–26:32
5
What were Pierre Gasly's key moments during the race?
26:32–44:10
6
How did Nico Hülkenberg's performance affect his team?
44:10–49:07