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Chapter 1: What exciting experiences did the hosts have during the Monaco GP qualifying?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. We're here in Monaco. As you all know, probably, there's a car behind us. We're still in the same place we were in practice. But if you didn't watch the practice review and you're here for the qualifying review, we are on a super yacht. Yes, uh...
It still doesn't feel real to set up and do our podcast here with an Audi car behind us. Big shout out to Libitex. You know, they've given us this incredible opportunity to be here in Monaco and to live this most ridiculous life that we do not belong to. But we are enjoying the taste of it. And it's... Yeah, what a place to watch a very disastrous quali, which we'll get onto very shortly.
Yeah, it's weird, conflicting emotions right now.
Not for me. Not for me. I've been having a wonderful time and, you know, two absolute legends on the front row and yeah watching it from an amazing location witnessing you know kind of like the crowd cheering and everything it's always really cool to be here and yeah I think we first kind of need to cover that
From what we saw anyway, and hopefully it's not just the fact that we're caught up in here, Monaco did deliver in terms of qualifying and the excitement of quali, which we've been hoping for for a long time. We've not had a session like that really all year. The big criticism of these new regulations has been qualifying. And we said, hopefully we get to Monaco and it's still good.
And it was very, very, very, very good. Really exciting.
Yeah, it was just didn't know what was going to happen from Friday. We thought, well, I definitely thought I think we both thought that Ferrari had an excellent shot of getting pole position. Neither of them are on the front row. We'll get on to that shortly. But yeah, just the question marks, not knowing who was going to be fastest was was excellent to watch. And it was constantly changing.
Thought McLaren might have had a shout at one point. So we'll get on to all of that. And I also want to say as well, for those of you that commented on the Friday podcast, neither of us were drunk. I need to just say that. We were stone cold sober at the time of recording. We were slightly hungover, but we were not drunk.
We're just very much enjoying our time here in Monaco in the very beautiful weather. And can you blame us? Yeah, can you blame us? You certainly can't. Let's get into Q1, where the bottom six were Ocon, Perez, Behrman, Bottas, Alonso and Stroll.
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Chapter 2: How did the qualifying session unfold for the teams and drivers?
Now, of course, the big talking point, not that I've read his name out, but that Gabriel Bortoletto, of course, we have an Audi car behind us. I'm really sorry about the P1 curse. Really, really, really, really, really sorry. We're speaking to him in like an hour or so. Yeah, we joked about the P1 curse literally yesterday, and then Portoletto decided to break his front left suspension.
So we'll get onto that actually now because, of course, it happened in Q1, but he made Q2 because of the lap time that he did. Audi were looking so, so good, so quick. And where did Hülkenberg end up? He ended up P13 in the end. Yeah. I think that is 100% P1 curse in the flesh.
So I really want to apologize to Audi for that because on the run up to qualifying, we thought fifth best team, really great opportunity of scoring points this weekend. And for Bortoletto, you know, it was over before it really begun.
Yeah, gutting for him. He looked very quick, particularly in Q1, but it's the fine lines of Monaco. We've been watching, we've watched Formula One for so long now. You've seen on-boards, you've seen so many generations of cars.
I still wince every time I watch an on-board around Monaco, particularly some of the certain corners, you know, the swimming pool, how close they get to that wall, going into the kind of chicane after the tunnel. It is insane still how close the fine margins and you literally go from looking like a genius to ripping your, you know, your tire off. And that's exactly what happened with Bortoletto.
Absolutely gutting for him because, of course, he made it through. But once you, you know, his suspension was absolutely ruined. He was never going to make it out for Q2 and recover. So gutted for him.
Gutted indeed. Hopefully he will be reasonably okay and happy to speak to us later. We won't inform him of the P1 curse. No, let's not do that. I don't think that's something we will do. Other things to mention, of course, the two Cadillacs, out as normal, the two Aston Martins.
Now there's a question about this that I have a feeling Tommy has been saving this exact moment to pop off on the super yacht. So get ready for this one. But it's a question from Wallins the First. Can we now say the Aston Martin's issues are more Newey and Aston Martin related rather than Honda related? Such a poor showing on the least power sensitive track on the calendar.
Yes, it's an absolute embarrassment to be honest. I've just checked that there's no Aston Martin people around. But it is, it is embarrassing.
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Chapter 3: What happened to Gabriel Bortoletto during Q1?
I think it's like half a second. It's still big. But yeah, Perez. Perez had a sniff of Q2, but unfortunately for him, wasn't able to make it through. Let's head to Q2 then, shall we? Where the bottom six in this session were Albon, Sainz, Hülkenberg, Colapinto, Lindblad and Bortoletto. Of course, we mentioned Gabriel Bortoletto. after the damage wasn't able to continue into Q2.
Of course, Williams very close to making it through to Q3, but 11th and 12th for them. Hülkenberg is one of the big disappointments, it has to be said, just purely from the potential that we mentioned and where he was actually able to deliver. As much as I said, and I said this, I don't know if you posted the story, Tommy, of us coming in on a tender to the boat.
But I was saying like, oh, you know, the conditions, the weather is pretty consistent throughout the whole weekend. Surely there's not going to be much of a massive swing in performance. But it feels like for Ferrari and maybe even for Audi, they went in the wrong direction when we went from Friday to Saturday.
which is crazy because Audi looked competitive in Q1, obviously, before Borsaletto's issues. They were looking fast, so they kind of continued that. They were looking great in FP3, again, which is obviously, you know, the most representative where they're pushing for quali, but they just didn't deliver the hype.
And unfortunately for Audi, they've just been kind of weirdly consistent in their kind of finishing position where... If you got points to, you know, 12, 13, they'd be scoring points all the time and looking great. But the problem is, it's points to 10. And while other midfielders have good times, bad times, Audi have kind of stayed kind of consistent, but not quite got there.
And I think it's another missed opportunity for them, unfortunately.
I was convinced. I was absolutely convinced they were going to score points this weekend after what we saw on Friday.
You never know.
Yeah, I mean, it's going to require a pretty crazy race. Is that Carlos Sainz Senior just coming off that yacht? It is, wow. That is, yeah, cool. That is quite something. Standard stuff, right? You know, when we're just recording and we're just seeing people left, right and center. I also want to do a quick...
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Chapter 4: What were the reactions to Aston Martin's performance in Monaco?
We're not getting insane like cold conditions today rather than yesterday. It felt very similar. And yet teams made a step forward. Red Bull clearly made a step forward. So did Mercedes. And Ferrari didn't. And then Charles Leclerc made mistakes. He overdrove the car. He tried to put it on pole position at Monaco, right? You know, he knows that this is his only opportunity.
And of course, look, I'm a fanboy, right? I'm going to defend him to the hilt. But he got outqualified by Hamilton. There was clearly more on the table for Charles Leclerc and he wasn't able to deliver. He's not a bottle job, like some people like to say about Charles. I really can't label him that.
But it wasn't a Saturday around Monaco that we have seen so many times before from Charles Leclerc around here. It was lacking.
Yeah, I think in terms of like Charles Leclerc and them saying about like, you know, he's bottling it and stuff. To me, it screams overdriving.
Which some people might attribute to bottling.
Of course, yeah, yeah. Because people were expecting Charles. I think the way Charles drives and maybe it is the pressure of Monaco and he's done this before. is that he puts everything on the line. It's his home race. He wants to win it. He knows being on pole is the only way to win it.
And when the likes of Verstappen and Antonelli are challenging for pole position, he knows he has to throw it into every corner and find those hints. And while he does that at other circuits and events, Yes, it has been before in things like Miami. And he's, you know, made these human states in his career. When you get it wrong at Monaco, there's no room for error. So you smash into the wall.
And the way Charles drives in qualifying, this is something that's just continued pretty much his whole career here, is he is willing to just put it on the line of win or win. And maybe that's, you know...
if he was challenging for the World Championship and right in that World Championship fight, maybe he's thinking more about just locking in a P2 or a P3 and just going for something a bit more sensible. But it's quite clear that he just wants to absolutely go for it. I mean, The way he sent it into Tabac, which obviously he crashed at, was just desperate.
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Chapter 5: What were the standout performances in Q2?
Wow, OK.
Who's jumping into the harbour? Is it either of us because we're either depressed or happy?
The amount of fish that are in there, there's not a chance. I don't know if they're going to nibble me. OK, anyway, that's a strange comment. To leave the podcast, I'd rather Tommy nibble me. But anyway, thank you so much, everybody, for tuning in. We'll see you tomorrow for a Leclerc victory around Monaco. Take care. Goodbye. Lots of love.
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