Our 2026 Chinese GP predictions
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What predictions are made for the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. If you're listening on audio, it is dog season right now on the P1 Podcast. Bruno's on my lap. Frank is on Tommy's. And as a four, we're all going to put our predictions in. No, sadly not. No dog predictions content just yet. But the Chinese Grand Prix is here. The second round of the season. We've spoken a lot about... formula one and the current state of it bruno feels very strongly about it um how does frank feel frank is buzzing about the new season he loves it oh really it was one of those one of those sort of left field yeah you know just likes he's like yeah 120 overtakes that's what i want he loves that he he's a big fan of the uh the timing tower now just having one decimal place like that that's his biggest takeaway from the season
Mate, I saw a reel that was about it, and it had a quarter of a million likes of people being triggered by it. And I am one of those people. Tommy on the other hand.
Yes, I'm not.
Tommy's going to be campaigning for just seconds, like just 9, 10, 11 seconds.
All you need is a point, whatever, like.
i get it i get why they've done that of all the things to complain about i'm not complaining about a decimal place let's not let's not trigger the audience immediately off the bat and straight into china um so a few things to talk about first and foremost foremost let's try and speak uh it's the first sprint weekend of 2026 the second race and we're straight into sprints In a new set of regulations, surely nothing can go wrong there, Tommy. I mean, are you excited that we have one practice session and lots of competitive sessions?
I think the good thing about the regulations, despite all the complaining, is that the unpredictability of it at this stage, yeah, while they're still working everything out, makes it unpredictable and unknown. So to then go into a session, a weekend, where there's even less practice and even longer straight for super clipping, will they even make it to that corner without running out of speed? We'll find out.
No, I can tell you for a fact. I would put every penny I own on the fact that they will be running out of energy before they happen. I think it's going to be another one of those.
Yeah, where will? Where on the straight will the Speedmaster be? hit the top speed, as we've now seen from a graphic.
Yeah, yeah. For context, F1 posted a Speedmaster thing.
Was it Speedmaster? Is that what it actually was? Yeah, Speedmaster.
Yeah, yeah. And I think they're doing it for the whole year of... Because it's sponsored, isn't it? Yeah. who has hit the highest speed on the straight. And unsurprisingly, that was before... Was it Colopinto? It was Colopinto, just before the superclipping, yeah. And then they fade out the audio, put the graphic in, and they're just... It's... For the strategy of the content, I've got to say, they're just double downing on exactly what they've gone for and they're not listening to anything that the fans are saying currently. If you've missed it, we did an extra video over on P1 Extra. Shock, an extra video on P1 Extra. where we spoke about the F1 social media team or whoever it is, an agency that helps F1 have been silencing the fans in terms of hiding lots of replies over on Twitter or X. So yeah, go and check that out if you haven't seen it already.
And now there are some bits of news to talk about before we get into our predictions. First and foremost, unsurprisingly, I would say, but then also kind of surprisingly to see it actually be a proper statement. from mclaren and it's the fact that they are very unhappy about mercedes essentially giving them an engine brand new one of course for this year and gone good luck that obviously they've given some instructions but they haven't given potentially all the information that they need to essentially get the power and the efficiency and everything else that we've seen from mercedes and transferring that over to mclaren and other customer teams
Yeah, I'm unsure about this one because it's not Mercedes' job to tell McLaren how to use the engine, essentially.
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