Reaction to Austrian GP qualifying
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Not a lot to talk about in this one, I'll be honest. Hardly any topics. If you are unfamiliar with sarcasm, I will just be very, very clear to you that we've got a lot to talk about. And this might well be a podcast that we're still recording come the early hours of tomorrow morning. So this might be a hefty one to listen to, but... Yeah. Wow. Austria. We knew it could deliver. We knew that qualifying should be exciting. And it was for many different reasons.
It was. Obviously, the fanboy in me is disappointed with the result. But the Formula One fan in me is thinking, like, that was absolute cinema, basically. That was the best qualifying of the year. There was so much happening, so much excitement, epic battle for pole, chaos, drama, controversy. What more could you ask for, really, if you're a neutral?
Which neither of us are.
So we're bitter and we're going to rant about it.
Well, I've been told on the grapevine, i.e. you telling me before we start recording, that you've got opinions. You've got things locked and loaded, ready to go about a certain Q3. So I'm sure it's nothing to do with the fact Max was in the wall. But anyway, we will get into all of that a little bit later on.
My 40-minute analysis of Liam Lawson in ninth and Lindblad in tenth is going to hit. No, I'm joking.
Sarcasm again. Thank you. Every time we're sarcastic, that will be a lot of alerts for our podcast. Let's get into Q1, where the bottom six were Sainz, Albon, Perez, Bottas, Alonso and Stroll, otherwise known as two by two by two. Williams, then Cadillac, then Aston Martin. The funniest thing that came from this, not funny, sad if you're an Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso fan, was what Alonso said after Q1, which was good lap. So obviously, you know, he wanted to make everybody clear.
Lap of his career.
Yeah, exactly. Never said that before. It's not what we want, but not too far off. We're getting closer. Sorry. Good joke. Sorry. Can I please tell you, right, so Alonso did a 1 minute 9.942. Stroll did a 1 minute 10.363. Now, bearing in mind, right, of course there is a bit of track evolution. The track is going to get a bit quicker. But also the big teams, they start to risk it a bit more as well with the track limits and trying to find performance. Russell's time, bearing in mind he slowed down in sector three, was a one minute 6.1. So 3.8 seconds Alonso was off the fastest time we saw today. and he's saying, good lap, we're not far off. This, for me, is even worse than Monaco, in the sense of, like, the scale of how far behind they are, because this is a one-minute-six lap time.
I said this on the Watch Long, this is a social experiment now, I'm convinced, like, This is how can Alonso not complain when he's being paid by a billionaire and his boss is a billionaire and it's like, how far can he go before he goes crazy? I know what they've done.
They've got terms in the contract of like, Usually for like Verstappen or whatever, it's wins, pole positions, championships. For Alonso, it's how many terrible things can happen to you, but each time you get paid. So every time they pull out a stinker of a car, if Alonso doesn't complain, 10 grand in the bank.
Yeah, it's going to be a Netflix series that's going to be like a spin-off to Drive to Survive called Can Money Buy You Happiness? And then it's like they push it as far as they can. That is what's happening.
I think it's Drive to Thrive, but Thrive in the Banks of Lawrence Stroll. Anyway, yeah, disaster for Aston Martin once again. Of course, we're not expecting anything different because they've not brought anything. They're not going to be, I think, for another few races. I think it's the mid-season where they will apparently bring what you would imagine is a brand new car.
They did say that potentially Belgium would be a spec car, but who knows?
Yeah, literally a new spec of car is basically what they have to bring because this one was a disaster. let's go to a question from people on Patreon remember Edith is my middle name how much longer do we think Williams can hold on to signs their season has been absolutely woeful thus far the longer this goes on
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–6:31
2
What happened in Q1 and which drivers were eliminated early?
6:31–9:27
3
Why is Aston Martin struggling despite Alonso's 'good lap'?
9:27–18:14
4
How long can Williams keep Carlos Sainz amid poor results?
18:14–38:43
5
Did Red Bull gamble correctly in Q2 to save Verstappen's tyres?
38:43–38:48