Our 2026 Hungarian GP predictions
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Straight into it. Another race week is here. Tommy, you just look like you fell out your chair with that one. What happened? What do you mean? You look startled.
I was just happily waving.
I was happy to be back. I looked over to you and just saw. So I thought something had happened. Maybe I was a bit too loud for this morning. But welcome everybody. We are here. Hungarian Grand Prix week, a very different circuit to the Spa-Francorchamps circuit that we have just left. Now, Tommy, first and foremost, how are you? How are you feeling ahead of this circuit that... I feel quite excited about.
Me too. Underrated Hungary has that perception of it's Monaco without the walls, which it kind of... Everybody tick off your bingo card.
Bingo card, there we go.
But it kind of is, but it's also delivered really good racing as well. So I like it.
Right, we're going to get into some news before we get into our predictions. Some things news, some things just to talk about in a little bit more detail. The first thing. Now, we've had our choice opinions, haven't we, on the regulations this year. Certain things that Formula One have shown and not shown. Well, George Russell was very vocal at the end of his lap one Belgian Grand Prix. He said, and by the way, this was not played in the race broadcast and was not even shown in the radio rewind on the YouTube of Formula One themselves. He said, I'm out. What the F happened with the SOC, which means state of charge, down the straight. I had no effing battery down the straight. Guys, unacceptable, un-effing acceptable this whole weekend.
So they F1. Yeah. Well, I know that's not what anyone wants to hear. We want to hear. I love 2026 regulations.
we don't want the most dramatic team radio probably of the season. And I'm sorry, but you could argue that it's not even... He's clearly got a problem with his car because Antonelli's driving off into the distance. So for them to be so paranoid, if that is the reason that they've not played it, there's rumours that it's also too... cursive but then as you say but but then but then at the same time they can just bleep it and they have done before so for me it kind of under it kind of undermines everything formula one is trying to do in this new era of creating the drama and everything about the the drivers and stuff because that is the most spicy and extreme team radio we have heard in a very very very long time
So for them not to play it is insane, insane to me.
And it's them getting their little cotton wool and wrapping up these regulations to try and protect them. But the reality is anyone that wants to find this will because it's been posted everywhere and you almost create a bigger story by not playing it during the race itself, because everyone's now talking about it on the run-up to the Hungarian Grand Prix. But hey, I guess the casuals won't have seen it if they're not on social media.
I mean, a lot of people thought it was AI because they hid it, because it's like you could, in theory, manipulate that radio, but it was actually, you know, it was broadcast. It is real. It wasn't broadcast, but it was broadcast on TV. It appeared on Germany, yeah. A German TV for some bizarre reason.
Well, surely you can find it because everybody has access to all the team radios and stuff like that through F1 TV.
So they found it through that as well. And for me, I don't really understand this because George Russell, unless I'm misunderstanding what he means by this, he's sort of shouting at his team, no? Or is it Formula One? Because it very much sounds like his team.
I think he's shouting at his team and Formula One are like, well, that's kind of us as well because he's talking about the battery, therefore we won't play it.
That's so weird because literally during the same race, McLaren said, please no yo-yo racing. So make your mind up. But that's fine, right?
Because that is not because of the battery. I'm kidding. Of course it is. It's a strange decision.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–5:02
2
What issues around F1 team radio and the SOC controversy at Spa are they discussing?
5:02–20:30
3
How is Fernando Alonso’s future tied to regulations and Aston Martin performance?
20:30–26:29
4
What upgrades is McLaren bringing to the Hungarian GP and who will test in FP1?
26:29–32:00
5
How do Matt and Tommy set the score and rules before making their Hungary predictions?
32:00–32:28
6
Who are the hosts’ 'good surprise' and 'big flop' picks for the Hungarian Grand Prix?
32:28–39:13