Reaction to Miami GP sprint race
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What were the initial reactions to the Miami GP sprint race?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. It is currently 2.53 in the morning, hence why the intro has a slight less bit of energy than usual because I really don't want to get kicked out of this place in Adelaide. And this one is obviously the worst session of the bunch, so there's not much I can really say if someone knocks on my door at 2.53 in the morning to tell me to shut up, so... Here we are. The sprint race is done. Miami, just F1 racing back on our screens. And it's a delightful sight. You know, I miss Formula One cars so much. I miss the racing, the excitement of qualifying. Of course, we have another qualifying coming up later today. There'll be a podcast for that as well.
So keep an eye out for that. But Tommy, we've watched 19 laps of Miami. How would you summarize your feelings in four words?
Is this 2025 again?
Okay, perfect.
That's really good from you, actually. Yeah, nice. My brain trying to work something out at this time. Is that four words as I was saying it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, very much, you know, the takeaway from that was it was different to the other sprint. There'll be a lot of discussions of whether it was better or worse. I'm sure probably a lot of the latter and... Yeah, seeing not just the pecking order, but a few different kind of themes up and down the grid felt very similar to last year, actually, with the changes that have been made, whether it is the changes or, of course, a track that has never really provided scintillating action anyway, has it? Let's be honest.
No, and to be honest with you, as Miami goes, it probably, well, it definitely wasn't the worst Miami race we've seen around there. We saw some action. The buzz low. Exactly. But you know what's not low? The amount of energy they have available to them this weekend, because it is rich. Energy rich. Oh, baby. Right, let's get into some questions to dive through a lot of the big talking points. First one from P1 Patreon member Longo1996. Could this be the resurgence of McLaren again, or will any other team respond? Well, a 1-2 is a pretty good way of going about mounting some kind of comeback. It is crazy to me that the team that did not roll out the pits for Sunday and could not make either of their cars work...
are now finishing one, two in a sprint, only two race weekends further on from that. So, I mean, the turnaround is absolutely phenomenal from McLaren. But it's not like it's come out of nowhere. I genuinely believe if you are a McLaren fan, you have a lot to look forward to because they have steadily moved forward. Piastri could have easily won Japan, as we've said. And they have looked quick when they've been able to just hook it together. They've had some reliability issues on Norris's side. And it's easy to jump to conclusions and say after the first three weekends, McLaren, they're just too far behind. But they're not. It's a 22 race season. And if they can start to do this with also other teams getting in the mix, Antonelli picking up a penalty at the end to cost him some points, Mercedes start tripping over themselves either through mistakes or racing each other.
There is a big opportunity for McLaren to be able to bounce back. I will say that the sprint is a bit of a window of looking ahead to what the race will look like. But I also think when I was looking at the pace that was being put down by pretty much the top seven, it just made me think how important qualifying is once again. Because if we had a slightly different order in qualifying, I think we'd get a completely different result.
Definitely, and we saw again the Mercedes having an abysmal start, Antonelli dropping down the order from the start, which we'll get into. But onto McLaren, I completely regret now saying that the championship's over for them already, being too far behind in this terrible start they had to the season where they basically scored barely any points while Mercedes were just romping away with one-twos consistently. And now with Mercedes, you know, we need to wait a little bit because we've only had one sprint qualifying and one sprint.
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