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Chapter 1: What are the weather conditions affecting the Austrian GP?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Notable Red Bull and Mercedes fans of the P1 Podcast. If you're listening on audio, go and check us out on YouTube because... If you're listening on audio, you've put Leclerc in the bin already. What do you mean? I've never been a... LAUGHTER We'll get into all of that depression and much more.
Chapter 2: What upgrades are teams implementing for the Austrian GP?
But it's great to have Formula One back once again. A very hot... It feels like everybody's talking about how hot it is. It's massively hot in the UK at the moment. I know some people will be like, what?
Chapter 3: How are reliability issues impacting team performance?
30? 32? That's a winter's day for me. I'm already preparing myself for the comments for that. But for me, my God, it is Melt City. But yeah, it's very hot in Austria as well, isn't it, Tommy? And lots of upgrades, lots of question marks and maybe more question marks because we're seeing things that deep down we didn't think maybe, well, we thought it might happen.
But the surface level delusion took over in our predictions, at least so far.
Chapter 4: What rookie drivers participated in Free Practice 1?
Yeah, certainly with a certain someone, but I think the heat is a huge thing in this race. There's been a lot of reliability issues during practice already, and we could see a situation where if you watched our predictions and we had P. Watt and we guessed who was going to finish 17th, that could be quite a decent... They could be one of the first people to retire based on how many...
problems we're having basically already in this in this session and weekend so far because these cars don't seem to like the hot weather no so as much as it might look like a foregone conclusion reliability can throw in a massive spanner in the works that's that i'm sorry that wasn't even meant to be a joke but then as i was saying anyway free practice one let's get into it the top three were antonelli russell piastri mercedes one two
Norris issues again. It's basically just the season. Recapped the fact that Mercedes were fastest. Lando Norris immediately had problems, which I think took him out of the session for a good 45 minutes. Standard stuff, really, for Lando. And I've got to apologise. It's clearly because I didn't predict him to not have issues. Because every single time I've done that once, it hasn't happened.
So, Lando, I'll be back for you.
Chapter 5: How did McLaren and Mercedes perform in Free Practice 2?
Don't worry for the British Grand Prix. It's a crazy prediction because I've already seen the opening there.
but yeah issues plaguing the grid across the two sessions very much so Lando you just can't write it really with how his season's gone it's just every time seems to be his car with an issue and the fact that it was immediately the second you know the second we started the session he's in the garage not able to
to leave the garage hydraulic issue again and it's just adding up all these like failures that that his cars keep having um and of course they have a very limited number of parts and allocations as well which is flying through like crazy Well, yeah, I think he's pretty much done for some of the parts. And there's a question from Mad Dog Claire.
When will Lando take his grid penalty so he can get the new and supposedly improved slash more reliable battery? Look, I think if you look at the calendar... And Belgian Grand Prix is usually one of those where teams will, yeah, an actual spa day, you know, for their new parts. Because that is always, it's so funny, isn't it? It's deemed as a place you could overtake.
And yet it's one of those circuits where in the last few years, we've really struggled to have any kind of, you know, frantic overtaking race. Unless you're Max Verstappen, of course, when you had... the car of dreams and the driver of your dreams as a hybrid combination is like, hey, you can start anywhere and still win.
It screams like a data thing where an algorithm says this is the best track because of these parameters.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Lando Norris's grid penalty?
Yet, you know, sometimes you see like crazy other tracks that you don't think you get lots of overtaking. You see loads or gives you more opportunities. And as you say, Spa is not delivered the greatest racing in kind of the last few years.
But I guess they just see it as a place where you could, in theory, with a new engine, fly past people down the Kemmel Strait, particularly the midfielders and things and make up ground for like kind of damage limitation, I guess. Yeah, because he's not going to do it unless he absolutely has to at the British Grand Prix next weekend, because it's his home race.
He's going to want to try and win it. So, yeah, I think probably Spa is the next sort of logical place for him to do it, should he be able to get to there. I think that's probably... It's only two races time, which my brain cannot compute that that's the case because Spa was always after the summer break and kind of like an August race where we're kind of a bit later into the season.
So, yeah, maybe we'll see Lando being that kind of first driver to do it and potentially maybe it's a McLaren 2015 era McLaren Honda where he changes... everything and gets a 90 place penalty and starts in a different country or something. Yeah, may well do. So another thing to talk about from free practice one was the fact that we had lots of rookies again.
So let me run you through what drivers we saw and for what teams. So for Aston Martin, Crawford replaced Stroll.
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Chapter 7: Can we expect a high number of retirements in the race?
At Audi, Aaron replaced Bortoletto. Ferrari, Boganovic replaced Leclerc. So already on the back foot. Can't believe I've good surprise Leclerc and he's not even taking part in Free Press 1. I will blame that for the rest of the weekend if that is the reason. If he'd had FP1, he would have won. Yeah, it would have changed everything.
Haas Hirakawa who absolutely just loves driving for almost every team on the grid replacing Ocon Racing Bulls Iwasa replaced Lawson and Williams Browning who gets another run out after we of course were very sad the last time he was literally got no running replacing Carlos Sainz.
And I think when you look at the order, when you look at how rookies were doing, there's a few standout performances, it has to be said.
Chapter 8: What factors contribute to the reliability issues in Austria?
I think Boganovich did a pretty good job up in P9 in the Ferrari, only six tenths behind what Hamilton managed in free practice one. Who took your sort of eyeballs, Tommy, for want of a better phrase? I think Boganovich, even though he's a long way off Hamilton, that's kind of expected, going into that car and still getting a good amount out of it.
But there wasn't maybe like a crazy standout like maybe we saw with Paul Aaron last time out where he was quicker than Bortoletto, wasn't it, and really stood out. Half a second behind Hulk. Crawford ahead of Alonso, you know. I mean, I know I sort of set that up to see if you might just mention that Crawford was quicker than Alonso. Or just pretend it didn't happen. Yeah.
And that's where you went down. Oh, yeah. Well done, Jack. The minute that Lance Stroll gets out like that. Enjoy the money. Yeah. Enjoy the P20 and FP1. Did you say actually there's a quote from Fernando Alonso this weekend where he's basically like ranting about the, he kind of ranted about, oh, all these teams keep bringing these upgrades.
Like if they got infinite money or something, it's like you drive for Lawrence Stroll. Yeah. And you're complaining that the other teams have too much money. Like what is going on here? And also, I guess he's very much alluding to the cost cap element of Formula 1 where there is a limit for F1 teams. You can't just constantly upgrade.
But the difference I would probably say here is that most teams on the grid have a functional baseline package to add a little bit here, a little bit there. Aston Martin are creating a new car, basically, to roll out whenever it is in the mid-season. So, yeah, I get Alonso's point, but also... There is a massive rework going on here because the Aston Martin car is absolutely diabolical.
So yeah, anyway, Crawford quicker than Alonso. So probably the standout, even though he was P20 in Free Practice 1. Let's now head to FP2, where all the big dogs were back in the car. Top three, Antonelli, Piastri and Norris. Two McLarens coming out of nowhere when they were...
absolutely writing themselves off Lando in particular writing McLaren's chances off coming into this weekend saying might even have the fifth fastest car and well look here they are looking very quick once again it has to be said let's go to a question from P1 patron member Matthew Cole 04 Mercedes and McLaren top two teams this weekend do you think Potentially.
I mean, I did think it would be this way with Mercedes and McLaren in the fact that it is a power track, even though you don't look at it on paper and think it's anything like a Monza or something. It's one of those circuits where it is very much like straights, a heavy braking zone. So Barcelona is very different in the sense that it was very much about...
cornering ability and that's why we saw Ferrari so good as they've kind of mentioned before about how good their chassis is and how they've probably got the best chassis on the grid but it's fully believed despite what's the FIA say that the Mercedes do have the best grunt and the best power and at a track like this where it is very much heavy braking zone and then just
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