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Chapter 1: What challenges did the drivers face during the Monaco GP?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. We are officially cosy back in our setups. No sun to be had. Vitamin D already lacking, Tommy. But we're here. Driver ratings. Usually Monaco is a relatively straightforward one, but I'm not sure whether this one will be. I can't wait for this one.
I'm looking forward to this one because the biggest gripe is that with driver ratings is we just... Sometimes it's too easy to agree. And there's so many kind of incidents here where I think hopefully we've gone different in how much you put driver blame, how much you put team blame. There's incidents where... Is it even the driver's fault sometimes? Things like that.
So I think it's going to be a very, very interesting one. And there's going to be a lot of disagreements with each other as well as everyone else. So that's always fun.
That's the beauty of Formula One. So let's remain respectful. Right, let's begin with Cadillac driver Sergio Perez. He had a rather eventful race. I'm going to give Sergio Perez... Oh, it's going to be... Oh, this is so difficult. A 6 out of 10 for Checo. Now, you might be thinking, what do you mean, Matt? He finished 10th. He'd scored a point until he got a penalty. But...
The amount, like the actual mistakes that he made were reasonably careless, if we're going to be completely honest here. One being the initial start where he just drove into the wrong grid box. He literally started from 16th rather than 18th, gets a drive-through penalty. But then he also has his point taken away at the end. So he does a great race, keeps it out the wall. The car's shocking.
But then at the restart, after the red flag, he's angled his car out of the grid box and got a 10-second penalty. So it is such a shame for Perez. Because without that, we could be talking 8, 9, 10 out of 10. It's a point for Cadillac. But instead, he finishes 15th, I will say. Outpaced Bottas the entire weekend. He is cooking his teammate significantly at the moment.
So a well done for that side. But it seems like just these small errors cost him massively in this one.
I'm really annoyed because all the talk of we're going to be different. I've also gone for a 6-0 to Sergio Perez. And this one really hurts because I think his actual driving ability on track is a 9, maybe a 10. Because I think, let's start with the positives of Perez. He was so quick this weekend. He nearly got into Q2.
By the tiniest margin, this was despite his brakes catching fire seemingly all the time during the practice sessions. And then in the main race, he's obviously finished 10th on the road. Yes, there's been a load of retirements and chaos that's helped him get there. But he's drove a very good race. And the problem is, it's two massive errors.
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Chapter 2: How are driver ratings determined in this episode?
For me as well. Yeah, as you say, it wasn't his fault that he DNF'd, but Perez showed that without his mistakes that An incredible result for Cadillac was on the cards, but for Valtteri, he didn't even have a sniff of Q2, whereas Perez, for the last few weekends, has shown that there could be something on the cards if everything lines up correctly.
Lines up correctly, hush.
That was actually... It was actually accidental, wasn't it? Yeah, but perfect, in fact. So Valtteri needs to lock in because I see Cadillac maybe realising quite quickly into their Formula 1 career as a team that... They've already made a pretty big step forward for a new team to be able to be mixing it with the midfield that perhaps they don't need to heavily experienced drivers for very long.
And then they'll start to look for a younger talent. So Valtteri, lock in. The fans also gave a 4 out of 10. Franco Colapinto qualified in 14th and finished in 14th. I am going to go for a five out of 10 for Franco Colapinto. Uh, it was very just straight down the middle, not the performances that we've seen over the last couple of weekends from Franco.
He, you know, was not as quick as Gasly who of course was doing miraculous things in that Alpine. Um, This is the first driver I think we're speaking about in terms of pit lane speeding penalties. I am going to say right here, right now, I am not downgrading any of the drivers for the pit lane speed limiting thing because it is 0.1 kilometres now, I think, almost for all of them.
And it is a misjudgment from the team slash driver. It's not the driver, right? The driver is told to turn the pit lane speed limiter on and drive through the pits immediately. If there's been a miscalculation, I can't downgrade the driver for that. So that's where I'm sitting with this one.
So yeah, I've gone for a five out of 10 for Franco, a disappointing weekend for him, but at least he finished the race.
Franco Colapinto, I've gone for a 5 out of 10. It wasn't one of his better weekends. He couldn't match the highs of his teammate Gasly. Only a couple of tenths off, but Gasly just put in an unbelievable performance and it all kind of went wrong because the nature of Monaco and once you're caught in traffic, it goes badly, of course.
Not going to blame him for the speeding of the pit lane, but he did have the contact with Sainz at the end, which was a little messy. Saw an opportunity on a restart. Obviously, we'll talk about this with other drivers and how George Russell bunching up the field made it very, very difficult for the midfield and navigating that area of the track.
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Chapter 3: What were the key highlights of Sergio Perez's performance?
My grade for Pierre Gasly is unsurprisingly a 10 out of 10 as well because of my stance on this pit lane speed limiting offences. I think that the only consideration here was that it happened twice to him. So after it happening once... at least from the team side, and I don't want to be going in on Alpine too much for both the in-lap and then also this as well, but...
Surely there should have been a consideration of like, ah, clearly the pit lane speed limiter might not be working correctly as we had other drivers getting penalised as well. Although, of course, it wasn't the pit lane speed limiter that was faulty. It was the fact of the measurement between the... Maths, right?
But it's the measurement between the entrance and the exit and all that sort of stuff rather than actually done on time.
Yeah, exactly. It's so weird because it's like... Or speed, sorry, not time. If you cut a corner, say at Monza, you drive straight over the chicane at the start and say the speed limit of going round the chicane at Monza, that first corner, is 60 miles an hour. If you just straight lined it at 60 miles an hour, you'd be told you were speeding because of the distance.
The distance is shorter. It's really weird, isn't it? Yeah, strange way of doing it, but that's how it's been for donkeys, isn't it? Yeah, Gasly, I think he was brilliant this weekend and fully deserving of a 10 out of 10. As you said about the Lando move, that was crucial for him.
I think had we had no sort of Russell shenanigans and everything else going on, I still would have considered giving him a 10. If Lando hadn't DNF'd, maybe he still would have beaten him. We don't know. Although if we saw Russell and Hadjar and how pit stops could maybe change that battle. But yeah,
He was the best of the rest and fully deserving of the podium, had it not been for that crazy, weird pit lane stuff. The fans gave Pierre Gasly a 9 out of 10. Gabriel Bortoletto, qualified P16, finished in 11th. My grade for Bortoletto, and obviously there is a consideration here that he was riding with the P1 curse throughout Sunday. I am going to go for... I think it's a 5 out of 10.
I think it is for Bortoletto. Yes, he's finished 11th on the road. He's been... Well, actually, sorry, he finished 13th on the road, put up to 11th with penalties. But the significant downgrade here... I mean, literally, he finished in front of two cars that finished behind him. So there weren't many finishers in comparison to what we normally have. But the main consideration here is qualifying.
It was such an enormous mistake to make for Gabi because... This wasn't in Q2. This wasn't making it through to Q3 and risking it all. This was Q1 and throwing an Audi that I personally believe could have easily had a V-carb result this weekend had they just had, I mean, Hulk, maybe we'll get onto that, whether it was luck or should have been a racing incident.
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Chapter 4: Why was Valtteri Bottas's performance considered disappointing?
Then we got into qualifying and was behind his teammate, of course, got caught up by the red flag.
but you know that's a risk that you take in Monaco and why we've said many times that you kind of need to get a lap in as early as possible when it counts because it's something that's happened many times at Monaco and then had contact on the first lap and lost his front wing so then of course retired as well which wasn't his fault but just a weekend to forget for Oli for sure.
I am going to go for a 5 out of 10 for Oli Behrman. There are so many things to take into account here, and I don't really want to give him lower than a 5, and yeah, maybe he's my second favourite driver, whatever, I don't care. But I've gone for a 5 out of 10 because, as I mentioned with Ocon, the Q1 elimination was down to the fact that
Basically, they need a prep lap, unless your Carlos signs will get onto him. But for Oli Behrman and for Haas, they struggled to get anything out of that final run. And then as for, yeah, he crashed in FP3. That was 100% his fault. As much as he said it was a bizarre crash, he was offline. So I think that was probably one of the big factors as to why that happened.
The losing of the front wing, I'm sorry, I've watched this replay and it is, I don't know what Ocon's doing. It's absolutely ridiculous because I know it's, you know, the start of the race and everyone's jostling for position. But Ocon, in my mind, has shaped for the inside of the hairpin and then bailed out of it at the last millisecond.
And then Oli's already committed to the outside line and then just drives into the back of his teammate. For me, that is not Oli's fault in the slightest. And I think he's very unlucky for that to have happened. So, yeah, both hash drives could have been out with that sort of move. But it didn't happen for Ocon, thankfully for him.
But, yeah, I don't pin any blame on Oli for the start of that one. So I've gone for a five. The fans gave him a four out of ten. Lance Stroll qualified 22nd and did not finish. I have gone.
for a 3 out of 10 for Lance Stroll qualified dead last I know his teammate was 21st so it's not like it's like he was miles off but still not quick in comparison to Fernando I think he was maybe 9-10 seconds at the biggest margin between Fernando but we know how this is with Monaco right it's It doesn't stretch out as much when you're in.
Actually, to be fair, I think Alonso and Stroll were in their own sort of pack of just Formula 3. Then you have the Formula 2. Then you have the Formula 1 cars that were lapping after lap 10. But it still crashed out of the race. He blamed it due to engine braking. I think that definitely was a factor for the disintegrating track as well.
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Chapter 5: What factors influenced Pierre Gasly's driver rating?
And if we think about how heavily we grade this stuff in quality, of course, this was Q1. Q2, he left a bit on the table. But Q1, he was, I think, the only driver to actually make it into Q2 on that final lap without a prep lap.
So Carlos made something work that no one else did, which I think definitely needs to be commended because, of course, he was on the back foot after the red flag came out. And then he was on for points. Both Alex and Carlos were working together beautifully. And I will say that, you know, when you watch the aerial shot issue, the aerial, the camera angle of the hairpin.
It's easy to say, Carlos, why did you come across? But also, Carlos probably is not expecting. Yeah, he can't see that and he's not expecting Nico to be there. And he has to kind of drift over that way to go for the next right-hander. It's the racing line. So it's just really unfortunate for Carlos. But I think the 8 out of 10 shows that I believe he had a pretty strong weekend.
I have gone for a 7 out of 10 for Carlos Sainz. Yeah, he's unlucky not to get points there, of course, getting taken out the race. Williams, of course, did that strategy again that worked for them last year, and it was almost going to be absolutely perfect until Carlos got taken out because it would have got both of them points.
But yeah, Carlos drove a good race, and it's a shame that he didn't get rewarded for his drive.
The fans give Carlos a 7 out of 10. Alex Albon qualified P11 and finished the race in 8th.
I have gone for an 8 out of 10 for Alex Albon. I think it was a great result. He got the points, which is great for Williams because... They've struggled to get them this year. I don't think Alex has had the best of seasons so far. You know, he's struggled to get points on the board. But here, you know, eighth place is massive for Williams.
A strong weekend out qualifying Carlos when I think Carlos, you know, has been very strong recently. And Albon, yeah, delivered a great result to get P8. And yeah, very, very impressive from Alex to get some big points on the board for Williams.
I have gone for an 8 out of 10 for Alex Albon as well. I really don't think, and I don't want to downgrade Carlos for being taken out of the race, and that's why I've done this, because Alex and Carlos could not be separated this weekend. They were 28 thousandths of a second separated in qualifying.
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Chapter 6: How did the drivers handle penalties during the race?
I've gone for a four out of ten for Charles Leclerc. I think one of his messiest weekends of his career, a track that, of course, he is so good around and has been so good around in recent years. We'll start with qualifying. Of course, yes, he finished fourth, but there were errors all over the place. His Q3 was an absolute mess.
Let me know when you finished. Yeah.
It was an absolute mess. His first run, put him on the back foot, put a load of pressure on him. Then, you know, he was basically desperate at the end where he went into the wall to just try and gain anything from...
from the from the car and maybe there's a bit of frustration there that how quick they were on Friday and it wasn't coming together for him of course uh crashed out in the Grand Prix didn't have the the pace that that Hamilton had I'm surprised actually I thought that Shell would be all over the back of Hamilton and they'd kind of raced together but Hamilton you know went off into the distance and yeah they came close together at the end but
Of course, the crash, again, there's talks of the brakes, a bit like Stroll with his incident with the engine. But at the end of the day, he has put it in the wall. And yeah, it's a really poor weekend overall for Charles on what could have been the track where he, you know, it was their big chance, I think, for victory, particularly with how good he is around it.
Indeed, I have gone for a 4 out of 10 as well for Charles Leclerc. Yeah, crashed in both competitive sessions, qualifying and the race. It can't be any higher than that. Yes, his pace at times was excellent and I thought maybe there was a chance of the win at the start of the weekend, but...
you know that the re it's such it's such gray area isn't it this this you know how did he crash was it the tractus integrating was it his brakes and the fact that when he said after the race that he um wasn't it that he had his front brakes locked and then his rears didn't decelerate at all and i think he was even caught speaking in the pits and saying ah i put this amount of pressure on and you know he
he was mystified as to why he's gone in the wall. And when you watch the onboard, you know, I said in the podcast, like, I don't, I don't blame him for it, but like, how can I give him any more than a four for a weekend where he has not completed each, either session. So yeah, Very tough, very tough indeed. But we move on because I don't want to talk about it anymore.
Ever again.
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Chapter 7: What was the significance of Kimi Antonelli's performance?
I still firmly believe that Hamilton would have probably got him maybe...
And how it's impossible to get into the lead from second, as we mentioned in the podcast, 2002. 2002.
How? Long, long time ago. So annoying. But yeah, Max, phenomenal qualifying. And yes, he's getting a nod, a cheeky nod. Eight out of 10. The fans gave him an eight as well. Kimi Antonelli, qualified first, finished first. It's a 7 out of 10 for Kimi Antonelli. Just left a lot out there. 10 out of 10, obviously, for Kimi Antonelli. No notes. No negatives. Just...
Probably his most impressive weekend of his entire really long Formula One career. It's Monaco. Pressure of the championship. Mercedes kind of on the back foot to some degree. George Russell sticking its sixth in qualifying. You would even have forgiven Antonelli for a P3 or P4 in quali. But no, he was P1. He was so quick in the race that he left everyone for dust whenever he wanted to push.
I don't have any other words because I'm genuinely speechless at what we're witnessing five wins in a row for Antonelli. Ridiculous.
I've gone for a 10 out of 10 for Antonelli. It's finally a 10, and it's a full deserving 10 because it is the absolute perfect weekend.
There's been debates of the fact that some people will say, oh, he deserved a 10 anyway because he won the race, but we've given him nines a lot of the time because he's never executed perfect wins, and there's been lots of circumstances, and he's had poor starts, and then come back through the field, and we know how good the Mercedes is. And Mercedes has been clear as well.
The Mercedes was not clear this weekend. You look at what his teammate managed to do and Antonelli did a perfect quali lap, a perfect race. You know, he just went off into the distance. See you later. And yeah, when the pressure could have been on, when I think what's most impressive as well
is it wasn't even like a case of drove the perfect qualifying lap which we'd still give him a 10-4 I think because he's driven driven the perfect qualifying lap and it just been a normal Monaco race lights to flag he controls the pace but he bolted was never in doubt of losing that victory and in the craziness of the track breaking up people getting penalties left right and center
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