Reaction to Azerbaijan GP qualifying
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Why were there no red flags during the Azerbaijan qualifying session?
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. A windy day in Azerbaijan, a depressing day in the Tom Bellingham household. Yeah, how are we feeling, mate? I know, it's tough, you know, getting outqualified by your teammate round Baku. It becomes a bit of a recurring trend round here, doesn't it?
It's the fifth time I saw the stat come up.
Is it the fifth?
Yes, it's the
most of
his entire, any track. of his career, Max Verstappen.
Can this be seen as the Max Verstappen bogey track then? Can we finally anoint it?
Maybe. It might be, which is very Max that it's still a bogey track, but he's actually won around here. But I'm trying to cope from that horrible session in terms of, of course, Max Verstappen. But at least Kimi Antonelli and Alonso did well for me, eh? Yeah,
you've hedged your bets on all of the drivers that, oh, I'm a fan of all of these guys. And they all did terribly, which is quite something. I stick with one man and he's on the front row. Right, before we get into everything Q1, Q2, Q3, let's start with a question to kind of summarise the day. And it's from MrBear15. How in the world did we not get a single red flag during that qualifying session? Well, it's because the Oracle over here predicted it. The Oracle that's so many points behind Tom Bellingham. I know, I know. Let me bask in my one correct answer. Yeah, I was genuinely very concerned about this prediction coming into it, mainly because the wind is so strong, the gusts, FP3 was littered with mistakes, and I thought, you know what, there's no way we're not going to see at least one red flag
But I think there is a few factors at play here, one of them being the tyres. I think the tyres meant that the drivers didn't have as much of an urgency to set a lap and that be it, because Pirelli have brought a step harder in the allocation this weekend, which I think has given maybe drivers a little bit of... sort of comfort in the fact that if they make a small mistake they can bail out and just go for another lap once they've charged the battery of course we've seen this sort of like warm-up push then maybe come into the pits or maybe just recharge again and then go for another lap so there wasn't as much urgency i guess in terms of this one lap being it but that being said i think there's still you know props to the drivers for for not not messing up and going into the wall
They didn't. No, there's plenty of runoff for lots to go down. Obviously, there is one driver that did crash that we'll talk about later, and it was
a big one in terms of who it was. No red flag,
exactly. He managed to avoid that. I do think as well with these new regulations, if we can even call them new in September, but genuinely the cars this year, you don't gain as much in qualifying for pushing. We've heard so many times now that qualifying isn't about flying into corners and hitting the brakes at the very last moment because you have to drive in a completely different way and I wonder how much that as well means that a lot of drivers are kind of not crashing into the wall at Baku maybe like they used to where they're not pushing as much in qualifying because you're not gaining lap time Turn 15 was a great example where that used to be the corner where everyone would go into the wall.
So many people would crash. So many crashes into that corner in recent years. But it looked, I think it's unfair to say pedestrian, but it certainly didn't look as extreme. You could tell they're easing off a lot more going into that corner. And it's all about getting the deployment and everything with the engine and the battery going down the main straight. So it's not as extreme as it is.
Certainly isn't. It's a different world of qualifying this year and, you know, recharging and everything else. It's a different way of watching Formula One, as we know. A whole new world. A whole new world, and one whether we like it or not. Right, let's get into Q1, where the bottom six, Bortoletto, Hulkenberg, Alonso, Perez, Stroll and Bottas. But of course, the big story being Kimi Antonelli crashing out of the session in a...
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why were there no red flags during the Azerbaijan qualifying session?
0:05–5:21
2
How did tyre allocation and strategy affect driver urgency in qualifying?
5:21–12:05
3
What caused Kimi Antonelli’s crash in Q1 and could it have been avoided?
12:05–19:20
4
Why did Mercedes dominate the front row and how did George Russell’s lap compare?
19:20–26:45
5
How did the new regulations change qualifying dynamics at Baku?
26:45–32:13
6
What impact did penalties and grid drops have on drivers like Carlos Sainz and Sergio Pérez?
32:13–38:01
7
Will the one‑stop strategy and slipstreaming shape tomorrow’s race?
38:01–43:08
8
Can Oscar Piastri regain form and challenge the midfield after qualifying?
43:08–49:35