Reaction to Barcelona-Catalunya GP qualifying
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What were the highlights of the Barcelona-Catalunya GP qualifying?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. I don't want to do this one. I don't fancy it. I'm not in the mood. I'm really not in the mood, Tommy. Why is that? Shut up. See, this is why. You're P5 and you're strutting around the place like you're happy as Larry. But I'll take a P5 right now, that's for sure. Welcome, everybody. We're going to talk about qualifying for the Barcelona-Catalonia Grand Prix and a great qualifying session. To some degree, it was. Depending on who you support, of course. And yeah, it was surprisingly entertaining. I think qualifying has obviously been under quite a lot of scrutiny this year, but good battle for pole and very close battle for pole indeed.
Yeah. Indeed, but we begin at the very beginning with Q1, where the bottom six were Ocon, Albon, Perez, Bottas, Stroll and Alonso. So by the emphasis on Stroll, this is the first time in 43 Grand Prix that Lance Stroll has outqualified Fernando Alonso twice. For the main weekend, right? That's my understanding. For Grand Prix qualifying, yeah. Yeah, for the proper one, the big boy one. So that is a record that is now shattered in pieces. It was a small margin between Stroll and Alonso, literally in their own league, but in a bad league. I'm talking about the bottom league. The dustbin league. They were a second off Cadillac, those two, fighting around in quite literally the dustbin league. But Lance Stroll, mate, Fernando Alonso's home track...
To be outqualified is simply, to be fair, as much as we're kind of like jesting, I reckon Fernando is actually devastated. Yeah, Alonso will be hurt by it because he loves to share the fact that he absolutely whitewashes people in qualifying and things. Have you seen what Lance Stroll said afterwards? He was absolutely buzzing about it. He was asked in the media pen, this is from Nate Saunders, he asked Lance Stroll how he felt about Fernando Alonso's 42 race qualifying streak being over and Lance Stroll's reaction was, I don't care. And then he asked what it would mean if it would mean more if the team were up in Q2 or Q3. And he said, I don't know. I don't give an S. Ah, so that is someone that does give an S because it's quite an embarrassing record to have finally broken.
And obviously just how bad Aston Martin are. They're just all sick of it, aren't they? Yeah, they really are. And if the rumours are anything to go by, Alonso might be off to Alpine, which again, back to Alpine to be reunited with Flavio Briatore. That's the last thing that we've heard is that they're pushing very hard to get Fernando back. at that team but that is a question in itself isn't it of you know to be fair there is a question around the fernando lonza retirement which we'll go into now from p1 patreon member rosie rangetsu what are the chances we see a fernando retirement announcement in the near future aston is still at the back of the pack and i have no doubt he's gutted qualifying last at his home race
I think it would have been a very sobering experience for Fernando to just be there qualifying literally last. That's something he's... Even at Minardi, he was doing great things and able to not start on the back row of the grid. But in this car... It's impossible. In this current regulation, it's impossible. So I don't see him retiring off the back of this season as much as my pre-season prediction was around Aston being terrible and Fernando retiring. You can't be turning your back on the career that you love so dearly on the worst season. It's not his fault, but just the worst season he could have possibly imagined Now the question is around, you know, does he go to Alpine? Is that even an option?
Does he stay with Aston Martin?
How did Lance Stroll's performance impact Fernando Alonso's qualifying record?
Because you go to Alpine, if that is a genuine possibility, which seems to be the case, you are solidifying like maybe a chance of some scraps of points. Or do you stick with Aston Martin and Adrian Newey, who Lawrence Stroll has brought in specially to try and keep Fernando there, to then bin them off after a season because they're terrible?
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