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Chapter 1: What exciting experience do the hosts share about Monaco?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast live from Monaco.
You might be able to tell that either visually or maybe even on audio as well. We are here in Monaco. We're going to talk all about practice. We're going to give you a bit of an insight into what we've been up to as well over the last sort of 12 hours, even 24 to be fair. Yesterday was pretty chaotic as well. Tommy? You're in your favourite place, Monaco. How are you feeling?
Of course, I'm absolutely amazing. I can't believe the view we have. I can't believe we're on this super yacht. I can't believe I'm telling people we're on a super yacht. But we're on a super yacht with a Formula One car. Yes.
honestly right behind us yeah as you may well be able to tell with the livery even though it's not the same livery as what they're running this weekend at monaco that's the audi formula one car and big thanks to libertex right there they got us on this super yacht for the whole weekend uh to basically watch the action and have an unbelievable weekend and a big shout out to marios as well what a legend uh to give us a core memory i don't think i'll ever i mean
Don't get me wrong, I feel entirely out of place the whole way through. It took me an hour to get a water because I was scared to ask someone. That's the kind of levels that we are, Tommy. We're not super yacht born.
We're not born for a super yacht, but we're having a great time nonetheless. And obviously being in Monaco is such an awesome place, being able to watch from the yacht as well. We were lucky enough to watch a bit of practice as well from the Audi garage, which was amazing, like a viewing platform. So we are just feeling like the luckiest Formula One fans in the world right now.
So let's begin with free practice one. I'm really happy to talk about Friday running at Monaco because Ferrari are turning up like crazy. We kind of thought they would. Leclerc was fastest ahead of Hamilton and Verstappen.
But big stories, I suppose, from free practice one was a crash for Isaac Hadjar, who went into the wall in the final sector, the notorious, famous right-left chicane where you have the slow-mos of the one millimetre away from the wall, the brushings of the wall. But for Hadjar, firstly, obviously not ideal to be crashing. I know he was very happy in Free Practice 2 to be back up and running.
But another mistake for Hadjar this year. But it was such a unique and bizarre way to have gone into the wall. That's the thing that I took from it is usually it's
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Chapter 2: What were the standout performances in Free Practice 1?
All the drivers, I think Lando said it, of like, oh, Ferrari are going to be quickest. Mercedes said it as well. And they've certainly lived up to that. Their car looks brilliant around it. You know, Lewis Hamilton...
wrongfully he said in the podcast but like his form around Monaco it's never been one of his specialist circuits not like a Canada not like a China not like a Hungaro ring where he's absolutely brilliant around he's obviously won here but he looks brilliant this weekend so far like he he is on Charles Pace and that's been a big surprise because we know that Charles is a specialist around Monaco and Hamilton's really taking the fight to him
Well, beautiful segue, Tommy. There's a question from Velox97691723, who asks, can Lewis really beat Charles at Monaco, either in quali or the race? Of course he can.
He definitely can. Charles isn't unbeatable. I think at the end of the day, Charles has always been fantastic at qualifying. That's been his big strong point. But we know that it's not always the case now. And they're very different cars to drive.
Chapter 3: What incidents occurred during Free Practice 1 that impacted the session?
Thankfully, we're seeing them push here. We're not going to have the problems with super clipping. You know, we're not seeing any of the drag, the straight mode or anything like that. So we're going to see them going flat out. But Hamilton does look confident. And I think he absolutely can do it. It's going to be fascinating to watch. And it's really good if Ferrari are, in fact, clear and fast.
It's going to be fascinating if we have the two of them fighting. Probably not for you and generally for Ferrari fans because it would be heart and mouth stuff. But yeah, Hamilton's been really strong and he absolutely can win the race now. I feel like it's definitely not out of the question.
Yeah, it's closer than I thought it was going to be. Hamilton, I'm going to say that, of course, you know, I went for Hamilton pole position in predictions because you blocked Charles and I was like, you know, rather than going for a Norris, I think Hamilton, especially after Canada and, you know, at points this season has looked really quick and on Charles' pace. So,
In my heart of hearts, I think Charles Leclerc should, in theory, have it covered. I do think he will unlock an extra percent or two when it comes to Saturday, the risks he's willing to take. And yeah, maybe that's a little bit of hopium there, but it will either be P1 or he will start 10th because he'll crash in Q3. I think it's as simple as that.
Yeah, it gives that vibe, doesn't it?
Because we've seen it before, right? We've literally seen Charles Leclerc mistakes around here, sadly. And that's where the Monaco curse came from until he, of course, won in 2024 and lifted that. But yeah, it's going to be really close. Now, the question says either in quali or race. I firmly believe whoever starts on pole will beat the other one in the race as well.
Unless one of them gets a terrible start, it's just very unlikely at Monaco. So I'm going to back my boy Charles Leclerc, but I'm not as confident as perhaps I thought I might have been, especially after FP1 where there was that quarter of a second gap. Okay, next question from Fire Breath. Surely even Ferrari can't mess this up, right?
And if it's a 1-2 in quali, do you guys think Fred will tell them to hold position and secure the 1-2? So Ferrari lock out the 1-2 in qualifying. They've got a really difficult job on their hands into translating that into a 1-2 in the race. Because if you look back at Monaco in the past, whoever's leading manages the pace.
We have a train, we get baited into the fact we're going to get any kind of action, we don't. But the thing is, they're going to have to potentially, depending on the strategy, of course, one of them is going to be open to an undercut at the very least. And that will most likely be Hamilton, right? It's always track position.
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