Reaction to Barcelona-Catalunya GP practice
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What are the key updates from the Barcelona-Catalunya GP practice?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the People Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Friday, Barcelona. Does it get more frantic? Well, to be fair, it actually has been. It has been a chaotic day, that's for sure. Yeah, for news, for arguments with the teams and all sorts of stuff, mainly because of Monaco, let's be real. And a lot to talk about as well. Free practice one, of course, having seven rookies on track. And just generally trying to figure out the pecking order for this weekend's Grand Prix may be a little bit more difficult than it usually would be. Now, before we get into all of that, as I just mentioned, there's been some Monaco drama. We've actually done a separate podcast and a video on P1 Extra to talk about the Gasly penalty or penalties.
They were both overturned in a lovely special bonus episode. However. It's not done. It's not over. Because as of recording when we did it, of course, it was very much reacting to the news. How would the teams feel? Well, the teams feel dreadful, as we're about to tell you, because the drama has continued. McLaren and Red Bull have submitted a notification of their intention to appeal. They've not appealed, but they're going to tell everyone that they are going to appeal. Yeah. So they get 96, 92, 96, 24, 48, 96 hours, four days to basically work out whether they're going to actually appeal. They get together all of their information and evidence and so on and so forth. But this is kind of like a heads up, by the way, guys, we're not happy and we're coming for you.
And I can see why, because of course, Red Bull, their protest is because Hajar's lost his podium. Oscar Piastri, we obviously recorded our reaction to the news, but it's come out now where McLaren, obviously appealing as well. And of course, if Piastri gets his penalty overturned, which was five seconds, he would be third place, in third place.
What rookie drivers participated in Free Practice 1 and how did they perform?
But he can't get it overturned because he served it. But he served it. But they're obviously unhappy with that kind of situation. And also the fact that, yeah, how do you overturn a penalty because it's been served? Also, the Oscar's been shuffled back in the order. So that's an issue there. So I guess it has opened a can of worms to a point. But the argument here will be, well, they actually served the penalty, of course. And that's the kind of issue here. And then, of course, Russell as well, which we did mention in the video, being understandably a bit peeved because of the situation there. yeah and there was mention of toto wolf i think in the uh press conference for team principles mentioning that he was chatting to the to their lawyers about the whole russell drive-through situation uh that screams to me like we want to look like we're doing something about it yeah yeah yeah rather because they can't really do anything they can't really do anything but it's almost like a message to be like yeah we know
So let's go into a little bit more detail about that because we have some breakdown of what Red Bull have said and what McLaren have said, and it's slightly different between the two of them. So Red Bull have said that the timing was consistent all weekend, that the normal process was followed, that teams adjusted their systems according to the process in place, and that teams know the method of calculating the pit lane speed is imperfect. That's Red Bull's argument, or at least headline, highlight arguments.
How did Monaco's drama influence the teams' performance in Barcelona?
As for McLaren, they said there is a well-known risk of discrepancies in the pit lane speed calculations. Teams coach their drivers on how to manage this. All teams adjust their processes accordingly. And there was conjecture on the issue of shortest distance. And this is a team that literally got penalized for speeding in the pit lane. yeah which is crazy because they did so it's more it's more of the argument of fair enough oscar got a penalty so they're not arguing take the five seconds off oscar they're saying well oscar served his penalty because it was possible because it was yeah they're almost weirdly saying yes our driver did get a penalty and we served it and then red bull of course yeah
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