Reaction to British GP sprint qualifying
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What events led to the unexpected sprint pole at the British GP?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Now, you will see, yes, we are in fact in our studios. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh, uh-huh. That's because we didn't go to track today. But we went to track yesterday with some amazing things that we have to talk to you about and you will see on social media. And then on Saturday and Sunday, we're also going to be at track Sunday, main stage, 10.40am. Please come and see us. We would love to see you there. The weather looks good. There is no excuse. We want to see you there because it makes our hearts very full when we see some P1 fam. Doesn't it, Tommy? It sure does. Yeah, can't wait for the stage. I'm already kind of more reassured knowing the weather because it's been terrible the last couple of years, but still you guys turned up in that terrible weather last time.
So please do it again and some more if you can make it. We'd very much appreciate it because, you know, the P1 fam are the best. They certainly are. Now, let's get into some quali action and begin with SQ1, where the bottom six were Behrman, Ocon, Perez, Bottas, Alonso and Stroll. But the biggest thing, Tommy, is not those six drivers. It's Isaac Hadja. He went, you know what? I know what to do in this number two Red Bull now. And it's go fast and go quickly. It was a very surprising one. Of course, we had one practice session earlier today because it's only a sprint weekend, meaning one practice, which we all love to see the sort of unpredictability of how that weekend unfolds. And we didn't really know coming into qualifying, sprint qualifying,
who necessarily was going to be fastest, but my goodness gracious me, Hadjar going fastest just through the form book, out the window, and we're going, wow. Is Max Verstappen really half a second off Hadjar these days? Yeah, they dropped a Trek dominance graphic with Hadjar and Max on their lap, and Hadjar was quickest through every single straight. It was just the straight and all the corners was max. Yeah, it was unusual as they're kind of deploying their energy and using it differently. And I find it really weird. And we've had this conversation before and I still can't get my head around it. Just in Q1, whenever we have that first qualifying session, how it's so much closer and how you get random things.
Because I know people don't go absolutely all in until the kind of like final session. And that's when you absolutely go for it. And it's the lap that matters for these top teams. But the midfielders do. But it always seems to be, you always do get these weird surprises that never kind of translate when it gets to the kind of nitty gritty into Q3, does it? But Hajar, still an impressive job. But unfortunately for him, didn't do it when it counted. Sadly not. Looking at other things from SQ1, of course, Aston Martin's still absolutely miles off. I was eight hundredths of a second away from getting my Stroll out-qualifying Alonso prediction in. So I'm hoping, you know, we've got another attempt at this.
We'll go again tomorrow and we'll see if Stroll can... This was the warm-up. Stroll didn't want to do it in sprint quality, just in case you were like, oh, no, it's just the main quality. So tomorrow, Stroll is ready for that one, because those two, very close, but a second off the Cadillacs once again. But we're not expecting any overhauls here. We're not expecting anything crazy, because Aston Martin have brought nothing. They're still bringing nothing, because they're reworking the entire car. So as much as you think, oh, surely they would have figured it out by now, they're probably spending a lot of their cost cap money into this one big old upgrade to try and haul them ahead of Cadillac. Yeah, just a completely new car because it's clear the car is absolutely woeful.
I mean... last year if you were one second off you know the whole field we were saying was kind of separated by like a second when Lance Stroll crossed the line it came up and he was 1.8 seconds off just getting through to 16th that was so they're just absolutely nowhere and they're just they're just waiting and hoping that their upgrades they just go all in on this one
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What events led to the unexpected sprint pole at the British GP?
0:05–4:50
2
How did Isaac Hadjar's performance change the qualifying dynamics?
4:50–13:21
3
What challenges did Aston Martin face during sprint qualifying?
13:21–22:25
4
Why is Esteban Ocon's performance under scrutiny this season?
22:25–39:42