Our 2026 F1 season predictions
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What are the highlights of the 2026 F1 season predictions?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. The 2026 Formula One season is just around the corner. How? And, I mean, yeah, ridiculous. The corner wasn't very long, let's put it that way, was it? Like the actual straight towards the corner. It's been a short break, but... Look, Tommy, it's been nice to turn our brains off a little bit, you know, reset, you know, spend some time with family and friends. But then there's also a part of me when the weekends come around where I'm like, I should be doing something. I should be cheering on that glorious red team, even though I'm wearing black today because I'm mourning everything because, you know, it's so over. Spoilers. Like, you don't know.
You don't know what's going to come up my mouth, Tommy, once we get to the predictions. But how excited are you to be back? I'm very excited. It feels like the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix finished 20 minutes ago. Now I'm sat here recording with you, but I'm excited for the new season. I mean, it is quite literally the 7th of January, so this is the earliest we've ever done content ever, I think. Yeah, definitely, because we're basically going to be getting car launches very, very soon, which is insane. They're very rarely this early, because they think all the cars are going to break down and private tests and all that kind of stuff, so it means... very very early predictions but it means we can get into the f1 excitement even earlier which i'm certainly not going to complain about yes the first car launch is under a week away now and when this goes out it'd be like three days time yeah i guess when it goes out of course time of recording is about a week but yeah it's uh it's crazy to see the amount of car launches we're even going to one as well we won't see any more than that but we are going to a car launch
Very excited for that. But I know you're all here for one thing and one thing only, and that's our predictions for the 2026 F1 season. Something we like to do if you're new to P1, we do our predictions before testing, and then we revisit after we've learned a little bit to see how we would sit with a first to 20, or sorry, 22 now. 22 cars. And then still be wrong. And then still be wrong after testing. Categorically, catastrophically even. Wrong. But that's the beauty of P1. And if everybody was correct, they'd all be making a lot of money. And this is even more fun because we've got new regulations, which means the pecking order should be shaken up. We don't know. It's only Twitter rumors and all that kind of stuff.
So, yeah, should be interesting to see what we go for because we're basically, you know, we've made these predictions before. You know, we always do before testing, like you say. But normally it's kind of like same reg, so you kind of know who's going to be up there to a point, whereas this is like, whoa. This is so many changes. I'm sure we'll talk about everything that's coming for 2026 at some point and give our opinions. One thing I want to clarify right here and right now, Tommy, is of course we're doing these predictions. It's very similar format to what we have for our main race podcast stuff and our predictions. Are we allowed to go for the same thing at any point? Or is it whoever gets in there first, that's locked in and then you've got to think on the fly?
Because in my brain, I'm thinking the second one's more fun. Because when we come to reviewing this, Oh, I went for the same thing. Well, we'll see. I don't know. Last year, I'm trying to think, we didn't do any of the same, did we? I don't think so. Will this be the same? Well, maybe. Who knows? Who knows? It becomes a problem and we've done exactly the same thing. We'll re-record and none of this ever happened. Right, let's get into it. The first prediction is a good surprise for the season. All right, hear me out. So my good surprise for this season is... Pierre Gasly. Don't tell me. You've done the same thing, haven't you? No, I'll save it. I'll save it. We'll save it for you a bit. Pierre Gasly is absolutely... I may as well just give myself a point now because Alpine...
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