Reaction to Japanese GP qualifying
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Japanese Grand Prix qualifying is in the books. It's done. And it's still a Mercedes 1-2. But lots of things to discuss. The legendary Suzuka circuit. It's always great to see these cars go round here. And... I don't know how you would – how would you sum up your thoughts and feelings right now, Tommy, after that qualifying session? Oh, I feel wonderful. Obviously, favourite driver aside, I do think a lot of the criticisms of qualifying, it's not as amazing as it used to be for sure, but I do think a lot of it is because of the gaps. And I think as soon as we see better competition, which hopefully will happen – please, please feel to catch up, Mercedes –
But we'll enjoy it a lot more because at the end of the day, you want to see battles for pole. And yeah, the field spread was absolutely enormous. I mean, like 1.5 seconds between the top 10. We were used to way less than that of the entire field last year. We certainly were. So why don't we get into the first part of qualifying. Q1, where the bottom six were Albon, Behrman, Perez, Bottas, Alonso and Stroll. So I think there's one outlier there because it's not two Williams, two Cadillacs and two Aston Martins. There's a hat in there. Olly Behrman, question from P1 Patreon member Edith is my middle name. What happened to Olly Behrman?
What were the main highlights of the Japanese GP qualifying?
Been absolutely flying the last two qualies and now knocked out in Q1. Well, let's sound the little bell, shall we, of driver had a problem because it sounds like that's what happened with Ollie Behrman. So something that I've seen after qualifying is that he mentioned he had a problem in the car, losing a lot of time in the straights, some kind of software glitch and doesn't really understand the details. Then in run two, didn't find any pace. So a little bit. grey area as to what exactly happened with Oli Behrman and the Haas you have to assume fairly assume I think that there must have been something wrong with the car for Behrman to be knocked out in Q1 because as Edith said with this question he's been phenomenal so far this year and looked to have a great handle on the car so
The fact that he's reported that as well makes a lot of sense. And obviously it's a big shame for, for Berman who, who has scored some, well, he scored one less point than McLaren have the entire year so far, which I don't know if that says more about McLaren season or Berman's. Yeah, definitely. It's a big shock for, for Oli Berman. Cause as, as said here that he's had an absolutely unbelievable season fifth in the championship and, Done so, so well. And to get knocked out, we thought it was going to be another two by two by two with the whole Cadillac Aston Martin and Williams. But these these situations of it's so hard to know how good a performance is. And when a driver's left something on the table now, because everything you hear and we'll get into Albon as well.
He said something very similar is, oh, what's going on on the straight and the deployment? And now it's all done on, you know, the software and how that when you attack into corners, the computer can almost be like tricked into not deploying the right power because you're going too quick through the corners. It just... It's so bizarre, and it's just something in qualifying that makes it so hard to understand as a viewer what is a driver error, what's a brilliant quali lap, what's a bad quali lap, and getting my excuses in already for Max Verstappen in QT. Yeah, I mean, it's excuses up and down the field. And I think that's something I've highlighted already this season. And it continues currently that, yeah, we don't know exactly how good a performance is.
And that's really tough. And I think quite difficult as a fan to watch because that's one of the fun things is to be like, oh, he's performing really well against his teammate and he's doing quite well against whoever.
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