Reaction to Chinese GP qualifying
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What were the highlights from the Chinese GP qualifying session?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Thick and fast, another session done and dusted, qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix. We have our result and we have, I would say, a finely poised race for tomorrow. I am rather excited for it, I'll be completely honest. And I would say, of the three qualifying sessions, of course including the sprint qualifying, that was the best qualifying... We've had, and that's because of George Russell's car. Thank you, George. How are you feeling, Tommy? I'm feeling good. I think all the complaints about qualifying were justified. It was very confusing and different and not what we liked, but it's clear to see that everything is... a bit better here and i think as well like it just proves that what we want to see more than anything is competition at the front and when we saw you know q3 where it looked like it was going to be close between quite a few drivers felt a bit more like the qualifying evolved didn't it when when you're actually seeing people going for for pole position and it's close which at the end of the day that's what we all want as formula one fans
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Yeah, it's a joke. It's the two by two of the Williams-Astons and Cadillacs once again. But look, it's not the same as sprint quali because Valtteri Bottas outqualified Lance Stroll. And I think that, I mean, it goes straight in the head to head in my favor of the Bottas camp. Come on, Bottas believers. We love to see it. You'll start a quali then. You'll start a quali Bottas. Yeah, and I know as well also that the head-to-head between Perez, that basically his car just could not stop falling apart. His engine cover came off at the end of the sprint, which I found was absolutely ridiculous. But yeah, we'll still take the point for the Bottas believers. Yeah, the bottom six having just exactly the same as what we had in the sprint quali.
It's a shame. Not the same in position-wise, just the same six.
How did car issues affect Mercedes during qualifying?
The same six, again. We've kind of joked that this year, so far, we're going to have the fact that it is the two Aston Martins, the two Cadillacs, and then whoever else, even if Aston Martin maybe are making a few gains, very little, but you think they might catch up. But Williams, oh, it's painful. You hope that it's just a track thing and they're really struggling here and other tracks will be a bit more competitive and that midfield will swap around, like we said a few times. But, oh, it's painful to watch Williams. We heard a radio message, didn't we, from Albon shouting terrible, which... After all the highs of last year, they must have gone into the season so excited to have it go this badly already.
You can understand their frustrations big time. It's kind of to be expected, though. If we remember, they missed shakedown. They were so far behind very quickly. So the expectations, I think, for Williams fans, for Williams themselves... couldn't have been anything other than serious struggles at the start of this year. I guess the saving grace once they've clearly got more fundamental problems than Alpine, but once they get a handle of some of those issues, you can see with Alpine, they're starting to unlock more performance with that Mercedes power unit and so on and so forth.
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