Chapter 1: What are the latest updates from Formula 1 and the Miami GP?
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. We are away from each other, as normal, to be fair. We're not usually together, but we're also in the same country, but not the UK, because, yeah, we're touring Australia. And we are still, of course, doing all of our usual content. It's a little bit of a...
you know, bodge set up, but we figured it out and I think we're still going to sound crispy and we're still going to be here to cover everything that goes on in Miami because we could not miss this, Tommy. Six weeks away. It's finally back until we have to then be away for three more weeks, but that's fine. Let's not talk about that because Formula One is fixed and super clipping is less.
No, I mean, kind of. To be fair, it wasn't actually that bad to watch. No.
I don't buy that super clipping thing, to be honest. They're not showing it at all in the sessions. Energy rich, Tommy. It's an energy rich track. But yeah, I would... The whole super clipping thing... At the end of the day, if we're going to have competitive qualifying...
this is something we've mentioned before in the qualifying sessions that you kind of, when you go into every single qualifying session and you just expect one team to walk it, it's always going to be boring no matter what kind of happens. So the fact that that's now not happening, I think you can almost excuse the other bit.
So yeah, the super clipping, we didn't see much of, but probably with a bit of clever camera work and not showing them at the end of the straight on board. I think we saw it maybe once for Antonelli's lap, but he was of course last on track.
so yeah don't get me wrong it was a joke i know that there's definitely super clipping still out there um especially i think going down towards turn one it felt like they were they were genuinely sort of walking the car we thought russell was on a on a uh like a second push like a second slow lap didn't we oh no he's
actually no he's actually pushing towards turn one before we get into all of the sprint quali action we wanted to tell you something very exciting and that's the fact we have announced our brand new tour where we are heading to both amsterdam and the uk for our super podding p1 live show tour that's right tommy we are super podding our way around
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Chapter 2: How has the sprint qualifying format changed in 2026?
You would hope so with Ferrari's 11 upgrades. The new rules working. I think there's less super clipping, but then how do you compare it between tracks when all tracks are very, very different? And we're also being told that it's an energy-rich track. So I am taking all of this with a very large pinch of salt. So I think it was more enjoyable. It's always more enjoyable when it's competitive.
And to see Mercedes slightly pay back and to see Ferrari and McLaren a little bit further forward, it's pretty good to see.
It is interesting how this point says it's close. The top seven, which is, yeah, like the top four teams, excluding Hajar, who we'll talk about in a bit, but top seven, seven tenths, you know, that was the whole field last year. So there's still some big gaps, but it is great to see, you know, it's not two by two.
And maybe it's a bit more kind of what we expected from or prayed from testing where we were hyped about the fact that the top four, yes, there was a massive gap to the midfield and everyone else, but the top four looked very interchangeable. And yeah.
my lights have turned off it's because el's got to go and get some some coffee so it's fine you can still kind of see me actually it's pretty it's not too bad dispensable and intense so we'll we'll carry on um because she's going to be back any second and the lights will be back and we need to get this podcast out because there's so many podcasts uh happening uh this weekend we'll be there for all of them don't you worry
Okay, the lights are back on. We're now going to get into a question from MrBear15. Have Mercedes fallen off or has McLaren gotten faster?
I think a bit of both. McLaren have obviously brought some upgrades. They've found something. They promised a lot last time out anyway in Japan. And they've just improved on that even more. And this whole thing that we mentioned, if you watch predictions, we were speaking about it and how Mercedes and Red Bull have had a kind of qualifying loophole where they're able to run even more power.
And the FIA have closed that loophole now to stop them. And the wonder going into this weekend would be, would Mercedes lose that qualifying advantage that they had? Now, they were so clear, I would thought maybe they'll lose that qualifying advantage, but it might be still a 1-2 or a lot closer.
You know, Antonelli's second, over two tenths off Lando and Russell's all the way down in sixth, over six tenths off. So Mercedes do look like they're struggling a bit.
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