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Kvy Antinelli wins the Canadian Grand Prix.ot the way I wanted to win, but yeah we'll take it Even Antonlli in his wildest dreams wouldn't have predicted anything like this You've got heartbreak for George and you feel that emotion, he knows that the title is slipping away as things stand. I thought we were heading to a collision. like the old merv days. You could tell the body language has shifted, hasn't it? Fr happppy days, really great. Kimmy's alongside me in one and two or vice versa, good points for the team. Feels different this weekend. Feels like the first flash pointoint. I think this was Lewis' bestest weekend in a Ferrari Formula O car. It was like roollback the years Lewis. He looked capable of finding the magic again. Were we all thinking the same thing when we saw Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri on intermediate tres? I was thinking, arere we in Qatar? That's one of the most bizarre calls I've seen. and I was genuinely like, what on earth is going on Welcome everyone to Montreal for F one Nations review of a stunning Canadian Grand Prix. I'm Tom Clarkson and with me A former F one driver Jolen Palmer and commentator Alex Jakes, The voices of F one on F one TV, Apple TV and Netflix during the Montreal weekend. Guys, what a race I love that one. What was the biggest headline for each of you guys It's George Russell breaking down, isn't it? It's momoment the championship swings right towards Kimmy an amazing fight and then just heartbreak for George halfway through the race. Ended the contest as a battle. You knew Kimy was going to win and you just think five races in Suddenly The momentum has shifted so much towards Kimmy. It's been an amazing turnaround. He's frighteningly quick, he's doing a great job and this was kind of on George's turf It was like a great film that could have been an all time classic. I feel we got thirty laps brilliant battling Very rarely do you feel happy and exhausted on lap thirty, But like we were looking at each other going like, how do we how do we keep covering this? Because there were points where we' just to turn ten Russells wide again. They were pushing each other. felt like the sort of race that you'd get later in the year where they were pushing each other to extreme heights and you knew you were going to get something defining for the championship. It's round five. That never happens in round five. It was like double disappointment, wasn't it? Because you've got the heartbreak for George and you feel that emotion. you could see it. I mean, it was so much. He knows that the title is It's slipping away as things stand. There's obviously a huge amount of time left and loads of races for to gather it back. but the shift was already there and then that But then You're also thinking the race was so good until that point. I wanted just to see more. I was a breat that might have been alright because there was a lot. But JP, on that topic, we'll get on to what actually happened. But who do you think would have won that Grand Prix had George not had that technical problem I think George probablyro had the edge still. I mean, he literally had the lead and that was quite important. He was making errors at the hairpin and then it felt as soon as when Kimmy got ahead, I thought Kimmy can go now But then he made the error at the hairpin, gave it to George And it wasn't easy to pass. So So difficult to call it. couldould have gone either way, but Maybe George in front. There was also a strategy that would have played out. And being the lead driver at that point, you're coming towards the pitstop phase, it probably would have paid out well for him I thought Kimmy was the faster driver. actuallyct or had the faster car. Would you agree, JC? He was all over the back of him, wasn't he? He had a good amount of core pace. It's George Russell who took the pole positions. It's George Russell who was able to overtake Antonelli and hold the lead more than Antonelli was To be honest, I thought they were heading for skirmish, a proper skirmish If we'd gone the whole distance, there's no way you can keep doing that lap after lap after lap. pass and rep pass I thought we were heading to a collision. But the old merk days. We were building it up in common were' because we genuinely you're like thirty what thirty something laps into it and you're like This is this is There's a lot going on for us in the booth. let alone when you're thinking there's a race win on the line, a title on the line, doing it lap after lap. They were making lots of Little mistakes giving each other opportunities, but you are just thinking, Kimmy nearly rear ended George already the mental strain on those guys to do it for an hour and a half is intense. I don't think we've seen a Grand Prix ever where we've had that level of back and forth for that amount of time with mistakes, you've got wheel to wheel battles, you've got everything else on the line. It's not just a freebie. This is a championship defining moment. And the mental stress is intense. So I think if we were thinking of a breathe it would be all right. Iagine Kimmy when he sees George slow down Okay, I've probably won the race In my word, maybe my heart rate can settle as well But when you look at the pace of the two guys all weekend, let's bear in mind that you know Kimmy had the upper hand in Miami and George held his hand up and said, this isn't a good track for me. Just you wait until we go to Montreal. I've been on poll there for the last two years. It's my kind of race track sixty eight one thousandth of a second separated them in qualifying, which makes me think that actually George, although he was on poll, would have been disappointed because he knows that on his track Kimmy Antonelli was his equal. So what does this mean going forward This is a stronghold, isn't it? And George Russell has been superb around here when he didn't have a championship capable car It's a different exam question though this year for George. It's not turn up and win two grand Prix a season. It's win every single time you come to the circuit The fact that he was country mile behind in Miami and then comes here and he was at car's width away from Kimy Antonlli all weekend clearly shows that Antinell is in a more comfortable place at this stage. There's a long season to go. Antonelli has got the advantage over his teammate at the moment Even Antonlli in his wildest dreams wouldn't have predicted anything like this. Four in a row to open your winning account in Formula One, he just has the measure of these regulations at The interesting thing to me is To your point, the way that George was almost playing the Miami weekend like an a away fixture. It was almost like, yeah, but Kimmy's always good here. It' always it's his turf. He was great here last year That was a few tents. It was reasonable all weekend. It was like they were in different cars And you thought, okay, he's kind of given up a little bit on Miami, bringing out the excuses on Friday already. It's a low grip track, wait till we get to Montreal So it was like he is Pining a lot on being quick here And it was quick, but it was way closer than it was in Miami. So if you go to a Kimmy stronghold, let's say any blitzes by three or four thens You can then come to a George stronghold and it's fifty fifty like it was. So I think that's a big thing on top of the retirement. It's the way that this is a track where George now three poles in a row But we are still debating as to whether who would have won the race And this is on paper, one of his best tracks. So it does it speaks volumes as to how good Kimmy is right now I will say Hindsight is always twenty twenty. And I did think maybe Russell did not have He's fo fully on the pedal at the end of last year because Kimy beat him three times in the final five races. But coming into this year now after four grand Prix wins in a row Kimmy's racing Max stappen the road from George Russell in Brazil, Russells won in Brazil in the past George Russells run won in Vegas in the past. Kimmy's stint in Vegas was sensational to come through his overall race pace was unbelievable. There were signs that he'd made a breakthrough even before we got to this regulation set. It's a really good point about him. And going forward, are we going to see any tightening up Because I feel the innocence of youth, you don't know what you don't know and you're just enjoying the moment. you think you're going to get plenty of opportunities. I feel Kimmy's in that space. so I don't think he's going to tighten up. Whereas George eighth season of Formula one hasn't had a proper opportunity, knows they don't come along every time Are we now in the territory psychologically where this is going to start playing on their minds? The innocence of one and the weight of the world on the other? I think you can see it, can't you? You can see, I don't know, George tightening up, you can feel the importance for him to win and the way that he was having to defend aggressively in the sprint. You could certainly see the carefree nature of Kimmy He was treating the grass like it was a perfectly decent bit of off roading. Like any of those moments, you could be careering into the barrier, but he had no care in the world about throwing it around the outsideer turn one laaunching up the insider turn eight a few trips wide at this final chicane. And you just think, o with a few more years you might you might not be throwing your car into the same places, but the youthful exuberance is What's making you, I think, super quick super aggressive and he is He's getting away with it, isn't he at the moment? So You can see both playing out and whilest he's on this winning run, there's nothing to stop the youthful exuberance. So build up more points lead at forty three points and you're thinking, o, I've got a little bit of a buffer now. so I can go for these audacious moves. I can throw a car in And the pressure there's nowhere near him. I mean, he is care free right now, whereas George It's understandable if he was to tense up because this was George Russell's Championship year This was From last year, everyone was saying the Mercedes is going to be the The car to beat so it's Gege Naturally because was he was doing the job on Kimmy. Your point is very good. at the end of the year, Kimmy turned it round and started to look Low key like he could challenge George, but you still thought George was walking through with the air of confidence, took poll one in Melbourne and we' thinking okay it's aeorge Championship ast forward a few races and it's not looking that way at all and the pressure then on him is intense. And do you think we're going to see Mercedes step in and stopping them race Do you think they'll let him let him go? Good luck if you do try and step in because I think one of the things that was impressive for Antinelli learning from the sprint to the Grand Prix today is I feel that There was one point where he had to take evasive action into the final chicane, but I didn't feel like he placed his car in a position where he could have been batted off in the way that he did in the sprint. I f he learnnt from the wheel to wheel battle Russell in the Srint So Mercedes of Clity It rememinded them of the number one rule between teammates donon't touch each other. It's inevitable If it's an interam battle evidence is the entire history of the forul one worldorld Championship. so they can say what they like, but ultimately when it' the sports biggest prizes on the line, they're going to clash at some point. The job's never been harder, has it? Because of the Regs So you're getting these sort of yoyo races still you see that The guys are struggling to break one second which means you've got thirty laps of back and forth racing. That's a hell of a lot of chances to come together. When Nico and Lewis would have it They might have one moment in a grand Prix and it would be like all on this. You've got to make it through or not. and sometimes they clashed. even more so with Lewis and Max in twenty one, obviously different teams. but There were flash points in a race where you think this is your chance, you might wait fifty laps for another opportunity Whereas in a way they've got a chance to back out of moves and go again with the way the regs are. but Naturally they're going to find themselves in position to shunt so much more often and we've already seen that. The amount of wheel to wheel back and forth I've had just this weekend alone is more than we saw in the entire season of Oscar Orlando last year Can I take you to lap six of the Sprint on Saturday George said, you don't go round the outside someone at turnurn one. Kimy tried it, and of course, do you think Kimmy was right to be so upset If you put a nineteen year old in a formul one car that can win races, I think you're going to get radio messages like that. I thought that was a I think the reality by the time he got to Palmmer And the interviews afterwards, he'd remembered his media training, but the reality it came out on the radio, didn't it? I'll let the driver judge whether it was correct or not, but he didn't do it again for the Grand Prix, did he? JP. was there anything off camera in that post sprint press conference he did in the pitan interviewed it in the pit lane. Was there any off camera or chats between them or U you know, it was tus. It was really you Kimmy got out of the car There was not a hint of a smile. There was just a 's still a frustration there They are really well media trained. I think Toto banging on the radio saying wind it back. We need to keep it in house. It obviously worked Uh In the end it's a sprint and it cost him to Lando. I mean, arguably a if he had got past George But no you could just see that what it meant to him to have had that what he feels was a wrongdoing by being shuffled out wide. I have to say it was an incredibly ambitious move he was going for He made a good fist of it to get as far up the outside as he did at the at the apex and it's natural I think for George to shove him wide. I think that is sort of Rac's instinct there But I can also understand why Kimmy's on the radio. I think if I was in that position, I think you're going to naturally get on the radio because it's your teammate, it's a guy in house and you've just got to point to your team and think He's just forced me off. I probably would do the same. It's just I think a natural instinct But when Toto is then coming on the radio and telling you to shut up You accept nothing's going to happen of it and and you get your head down and that's basically what happened. but internally No doubt, there's still disagreements. What did you think when they came to you, then They didn't look at each other. Yeah In't ask that. It was separate off camera in the press conference. There was no banter at all One thing that was interesting is that at the end of the press conference, They all get up to leave together. and Kimmy absolutely did not want to walk out with George So he started yacking to you, didn't? he did start yacking to me about the marathon of all things because I'm the only one who's ever run a marathon ever. And that's all I ever tri to ask ask. No wearing wearing a t shirt that said askk me about the London marathon. But it was interesting that he actually wanted he just came over to chat to me because he just did not want to walk out with George. So There was tensions were high ye. You could tell the body language has shifted, hasn't it? From happy days, really great Kimmies alongside me in one and two or vice versa, good points for the team Feels different this weekend And it's going this is going to play on, isn't it? We got this all season. So we were talking teammate rivalries in that podcast a couple of weeks ago and we were saying in all of them, you get a flash point. F feels like the flasho It feeleels like the first flashpoint. Last year, there were quite a few people watching who felt that it was almost antiseptic with the way that like you know it was overmaged with something leveled at McLaren all the time. And the flashpoint, a couple of meters from where we're talking now, by the pit wall, Lando immediately were like, that's on me. No need for an argument, no need for any debate Shut it down immediately That did not happen. That will not happen between George and Kimmy And that's good for us. We love the drama, TC This episode is sponsored by Indeed You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday So how do you find the right candidate fast? Easy. You use Indeed. Instead of your job post getting buried in a sea of listings, Indeed sponsored jobs helps you stand out and hire faster. 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Would you guys agree one hundred percent. he was so happy, confident. It was like roll back the years Lewis. E just the way that the car was moving around, but was he was at one with it the whole way through. It was great to see It's been the best Lewis for years. Even in his final year with Mercedes, it felt like he was sometimes chasing it. He knew he was leaving the team and everything U but this was it was a proper rollack Lewis He's come to two tracks where he's had enormous success in the past in Shanghai and now in Montreal and he looks like the Lewouis that used to win here. and it's not so much where he finished It's it's the body language of the car. It's the fact that he looked animated again. It looked he looked like he was on the edge. He had a few errors in there, but the fact that He looked capable of finding the magic again. I think is the thing that he will take from this weekend. And when you think through the other good performances he's put in at Ferrari There's not been a huge amount of them, but you'd say China this year, he fended off Chal in that really long tussle happappy lowis, it was good You think sometimes in Melbourne was okay last year obviously the China sprint was great, but the rest of the Grand Prix, a great day for Lewis was to be close with Chl, basically he's obliterated him this weekend. Shal was absolutely fed up. He was saying it was the worst, worst weekend ever yesterday and today D didnn't want to hear from his engineer on the radio until the end which speaks volumes of the pressure that Louis put on him. But we're back into the sort of what's your favourite track territory? because Charl is actually Never been particularly great here. Whereas Lewis has been great. This was his eleventh podium here in Montreal. I want to ask you guys about simulators There have been two races this year. prior to which Lewis has not been in the Ferrari simulator. One was China, the other one was here. He said in the press conference after the race that he will not be going in the simulator as part of his race prep again this year. If you're the guy in charge of the S in Marinowa, you're probably feeling a bit short changed. I mean JP, I mean, we'll start with you How useful are simulators? if you're old school like Lewis Do you need them? I would argue no is the answer. He's got so much muscle memory of how to drive around circuits. He understands what he wants from the car I think there's a new age of young driver that lived on the simulator and they do a lot. But the correlation is really difficult. We've got new reggs newew cars, different ways of driving, different ways of deploying energy around the lap, which is changing lap on lap day on day So unless the simulator is perfectly correlated to what you're going to get on the track is a negligible benefit anyway, because you can't then plug and play On a Friday. You saw how dirty the track was on a Friday It's evolving in all sorts of different ways. You've got wind direction that changes. So a driver like Lewis has been around any twenty years If he doesn't feel like there's value in going on the S, then there's probably the value would be more on Ferrari's side to get his feedback to improve, maybe set up things. I'm sure the S is working enough to you know to understand different setup options, development options, absolutely. cororrelation to improve the simulator even further. That's where benefit would be it would be more for Ferrari than it would be for Lewis They've got development drivers who do a lot of that work. That's the whole point of having a development driver on the simulator. Chharl is still using the simulator. so he's not on the same page kind of think each of their own. Shume never lied to liked to S, did he? When he left Ferrari, came back to Mercedes, the world had changed a little bit and it was all right, hop on the Sim And it literally made him sick. so he stopped using them. Kimmy Richel and Ditto. That or the great drivers find really good excuses. Not to have to go in the sim. No, I think it's really interesting, but they do still, especially with the spprint weekend format where you have to make so many changes over the weekend and you've got someone through their You know, in the SM overnight, if it's not accurate, they need to make it more accurate the benefit of the S is more for setup. It's bigger picture than ing your driver dial in. I think that's the key to this is there's value in Ferrari having simulatedor. I mean, I don't think gu guys going to hand in resignation. I think that's enough. Lewis has proved me wrong. I'm sure there's still a lot of value in them having what will be a really fine tuned tool You see Red Bull, McLaren, some really sophisticated teams use their S overnight sometimes Friday to Saturday and trial load of different setups that some peddl has done through the night in the UK ob It could be worse, I guess. But if you're Lewis Hamilton, it's you know, a day in a dark room pounding round somewhere that's not necessarily that relevant to what you've then got to do orort of limited relevance. I could see why he wants to focus on other things and The thing is when you turn up here, if you'd have been awful scratching his head as to where he was going, you'd say okay, that's a big cool He's had his best weekend for a long time. so it's tough to argue. I'm fascinated by these intra team battles, right? We've discussed George and Kimmy and how, you know, one of them was really strong in Miami and we were coming here. George had to sort of, you know stamp his authority back on the team and I feel we've got a similar situation developing Ferrari Lewis has come here and we're going next to Monaco, which is you know, Charles track. He's won there before he was second last year and And actually I think Ferrari probably might go really well. there a bit of a power deficit on a track like this, but that won't matter so much in Monaco How do you see the immediate future for Ferrari and Monica It is a very good time for Chaleuccler to be going to one of his great tracks. Obviously his home track, but it's a track where he's always been superbly quick, even if he hasn't had the results. So it's the calendar has fallen nicely for him there Ferrari on the evidence that we've seen in the earlier rounds this year, surely have a chance to win that Grand Prix Because they are just superb through the slow stuff I've been hanging my hat on that all year. Ferrari win a race. If we go by Monicaco and they're not that competitive, then I'm going to have to roow back on that one. On the upside I will do whoever wins if it's not Ferrari, the loudest I've done in commentry. Para wrote them off. I feel like we didn't see how good the merk was this weekend with its updates. So it might still You know, see everyone, see everyone off in Monaco, right? Well, they still were good enough to top the sessions, weren't they? Might not have got the the extremity of their performance out and they'll be in the mix. I've got to say on the evidence of his previous career, George has never brilliant run of it in Monaco. So it's not ideal from a George Russell point of view, but for Ferrari's inter teeam battle. Absolutely perfect for Charleslecler, literally on his home streets. evenven last year, he wasn't far off taking pole position was he? So absolutely perfect for him to go there. And if Lewis can beat him there, then we got the start of a different narrative What about Red Bull? Max Verstappen's first podium of the season But it was the lowest step after Lewis passed him around the outside He seemed pretty upbeat, I thought after the race Max I think he wasn't happy with the car all weekend soort of come away with their first podium of the season was a decent result We talk about body language of cars. What did you think of the Red Bull this weekend? Yeah, it was obviously a bit of a handful. They started, I think, with a really stiff setup and he was just bouncing off the curbs trying to get that balance between getting a decent aero platform and getting ride quality is always difficult around their circuit and I think they were too far in the trying to chase Arow and missing appliance in the car. So they managed to improve that a little bit for qualifying. The car was more competitive but still not quite where he wants it to be. But the race was It's just a very decent max race, wasn't it? When I was on the grid It was drizzling, it was blooming cold. Everyone's talking about a race of survival and I was thinking, okay, if you're Max, you're starting on sixth place You this is it'll probably be on the podium here. Of course he's helped by two cars starting on Inters in front of him He's still worked his way up to second place They still did the job. Max was pretty clean and It's not a surprise that in a bit of a chaos race, he ends up just putting it together and getting a podium Hi Joe He spent more time in Pit lane than most JP just back to you on a driving standards thing. when he was when he was had Chol Llair behind him coming into that final shockane. He moved twice. Um You think the ten second penalty was fair I think it was harsh actually I understand The stewards being a little bit twitchy, especially with the new regs. you've got sometimes big closing speeds. We obviously had the Big moment in Japan with Beermman and Color Pinto But I was watching we werere watching it live, weren't we? and then I sort of I saw it coming and Shar was still keeping his foot in moving to the inside And then what's the replay? and I still thought Charles's got quite a lot of time. I don't think Hji was moving super aggressively or super late which is what the Colapinto moment was a little bit more in Japan with a way bigger closing speed So I do feel like it was actually a little bit harsh. Th Charl backs off. there's a little bit more of of a hover In the past you've seen these moments beat dealt with with a warning flag, I think, rather than a than a ten second penalty was my initial opinion. It was a very extreme chop I wonder if we're slightly misunderstanding their decision becausecause he then goes back to the racing line and then he defends again into the Chockane So I wonder if it's not entirely for the chop at high speed, which was hairy But he then goes back to the racing line on the left hand side if you're pitching it on the onboard. and then he goes back to defend again. So I think it's a little bit because it was so quick gone all right, if there was no drama there, if there was no brinkmanship at two hundred miles an hour, we wouldn't say it. But it felt like they penalized the first chop and then then gave the explanation of a second move. Yeah, I didn't that's the explanation was moving moving twice was moving more more than one change of direction. But that didn't feel like there was the bad thing that he did was more in question that Charl was not happy about wasn't that. It was the The move to the insider. Again He was late, JP He only moved to the right when Charl pulled out. I think he was already on the way That's my feeling. forget already movingget forgetting the regulations, right? Just what is the unwritten rule between racing drivers? Well, you don't want to have late reactive moves So once a driver's committed to a line It's difficult to back out when it's too close for too big a closing speed And the example for that is clearly Bem and Colapinto. He's coming too quick. Colapinto just jinks to the left and Ollie's committed Again for me, I understand the safety aspects of it. I just think there was I don't think Chl was super committed to the inside as Isaac was starting to move across, for me The closing speed wasn't as massive. It didn't feel like a really big closing speed like we've seen at other times I think he telegraphed what he was doing quite early when Shal still had C length plus to him But Ch kept going for the inside, which then was shutting. I understand what you're saying. I just didn't personally as a driver think it was extreme at all from Isaac. I think we've seen that sort of thing Get away with a few times. And after a difficult weekend for Isaac Hadjer in Miami, do you think he gave a good account? A better account of himself here? Yeah, if we take every lap that he ran this weekend, he said he was getting destroyed through the corners up against Max. in Miami. He clearly wasn't here and that's his best result for Red Bull. So Not perfect with a couple of penalties, but a step forward for him to school starts now. 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So obviously the radar was giving different options, but I always believe in situational awareness, deal with what's happening in front of you, not what your laptop iss saying the whole time. and it was clearly a slick tire st I mean, seven cars went for Inters. so it wasn't just McLaren I don't think they were going off the radar. I think they were going off what was on the ground. But I have to say in your Qatar comments, when you look around and you think it's aw Big teams. onlyn McLaren have gone for interinters and you think track record for McLaren right now doing something different to everyone else It's not legendary is it? I thought this is a bowl cool. It's either going to be a hero one or it's a zero one and the last time was Qatar and it was a zero one. and As soon as they went for the forormation lab, you knew that The soft would just, you could even just see the Mercedes leaning on it and you're like, oh, if you can weave like that on a straight, you're doing okay So I was out there at Green lightight, just beyond Green lightight doing the practice starts. And so I'd been out there at half past And I've gone to the commentary box and I've seen there's no obvious rain. and then we've heard, oh, it's wet at turn ten. We've heard the radio chatter on the reconnaissance labs., It's wet at turn ten And so we're waiting for this great reveal on the formation lap because we see the same pictures that everyone else does at home. It cuts to the hair pin And I was genuinely like, what on earth is going on? Have they all taught themselves into You know, sometimes Alex Brondall has this wonderful turn of phrase where he talks about psychological reign I felt like they all talkught themselves into interters because the temperatures were low. It's fine if you're the other five and you're not in the points. O row two That's one of the most bizarre calls I've seen since I've watched F And to put both of them on into right. why not roll the dice and have one on one on one on the other? And then he takes the lead. Yeah Could he have I don't think in his entire life he would have been more grumpy to find himself in the lead of a race. He's in the lead, he's jumped the ms. he's on the wrong tie. It's a magical track O obviously right. It's freezing out there one of the strangest things I've seen in a while. So there's been so much scaremongering the last twenty four hours. If you speak to anyone in the paddock and they're talking about The race being a race of attrition. If you keep it on the road, you're doing well today U ye quotes from Pierre Gazlely that if it rains, it's going be a demolition Derby and all of this. And everyone was saying I was on the grid speaking to various people and they were like Look, we just need to survive this one. And spke Oolly Bem and as he was walking off the back of the grid. I said, how's the grid? And he's There's not a lot of it. It's going to be really tricky And I think they were all everyone was just so terrified of Tire attemp And clearly you could hear Oscars team radio and Tom Stadar coming back and saying, look even when Oscar wanted to pit And look we can all see at this point it's dry Is the tire temp going to be an issue And I think it was all just tire temp related rather than just moisture related. but basically It was fine They started on the right tyre Do you think they could have challenged the Mercedes Well on the evidence of Saturday, they had a fair showll, didn't they? And the Mercedes scrapping would have had an entirely different context if you had Lando right there because Lando looked capable of picking up the pieces because he did in the sprint So if you constantly have them scrapping lap after lap Yeah, Llando looked most likely to pick up the pieces, but they deleted their race before it even began and That is a I I think the field will learn from that one. I don't think the next time we get a gamble race, we'll see it with a I track an intermediate t. It is so strange. what happened? I was reminded of the Malaysian Grand Prix and I think it was two thousand seven. Ferrari pitted Kimmy Reichkenen on a bone dry track. literally bone dry track because the radar said, Oh, there's going to be a downpour in five minutes. It never came. And so you just had Kimy going around on this inter waiting for the rain and eventually had to pit and put a slick on again. Alpine did that a couple of years ago, didn't they? They put I think they put Okon at the time on totally the wrong tyre in Zanvor and Okon was so angry that it led to their double podium and just stay out there. When it rains, just stay out there, wait for the inevitable safety car. So the only upside for McLaren is they can learn from this, but I don't think you'll ever see anyone on the second row gamble on non existent rain for a long time. What I would say as well is dririvers surely have to bear some responsibility here. we're pinning it all on the team, but The drivers are the ones that have driven the track So everyone's All the drivers are thinking Blminag This is going to be a difficult race on the way around to the grid The drizzle, the conditions, they're all just feeling it tiptoeing around, a bit of moisture Oscar and Llando must have a decision here to make. They're the ones reporting it back. so they'll have come back and just said, don't know if we can survive this they must have done to speak to the bra engineers, there's no way that Claren can overrule drivers that think it should be slick with interest. So maybe one driver thought more strongly of it and the other oness thought of he's doing it then I'll do it. and that's why they've jumped in the same boat Al he did the same Science I was interested in him going for inters as well further back Normally a driver that I would back to be on the right side of these sort of cools. So when when I saw him on it as well as the Audi guys youve got Nicko Holkenberg there with loads of experience They weren't alone, it's just They were alone in the top bunch that did it. If you're science in a Williams, you're Holkenberg in an Audi, you know you're going to be nowhere on the end of that one anyway you've got more to play by going a bit rogue, whereereas McLaren had less and sure the drivers have got to burden a little bit of that. It was a difficult weekend for McLaren. as a whole, not just the race. I mean, they brought, you know, the second part of their upgrade and they had to take the front wing off this There's a bit to review in woking, isn't it? They sometimes do that. If that front wing doesn't return for a while, that would be a massive outlier from what we've seen from McLaren in the last couple of years where every time they've brought something bolt it to the car. It's made the car quicker. So there is a potentially bigger story, but we'll have to wait a couple of weeks to see whether that's the case. Obviously Monaco' is an oututlier next. So one after that We'll find out Well it was it was a hell of a race. There was so much going on throughout. I just want you guys, before we come to our driver of the day, just reflect on a couple of standout performances. whatever they're feeding Franco Colorinto at Alpine keep feeding him the same thing. best ever result in Formula onene, actually a double points finish for Alpine as well. I mean, what has happened to Franco? just I'm being serious. somethingomet happened in Miami and he hasn't looked back. I don't think he quite knows. I suppose I spoke to him after the race. he came on our show and He said the month off between Japan and Miami was great just to have a bit of a reset. He said he was driving okay at the start of the year, clearly was chasing it compared to Pierre who was completely hooked up. They bought some parts of the car in Miami and he just seems to be feeleing the grip Just understanding it, happy to lean on the car, making fewer mistakes, finding more pace And sometimes just a bit of time off and you come back with a fresh mindset It does work. The car changed a little bit and doing a tremendous job He showed with Williams that if it's in his wheelhouse, he can extract good results. but it's The motivation in keeping your seat in Formula One. He's the driver hovering over the exit with a team boss who is famously impatient if you're not performing If he didn't have these results, he would be in trouble Back to back personal best in Formula onene is superb and it gives him a foundation for the rest of the te. Yeah he's such an emotional driver. I wonder I mean, fun of JP and I have talked about this before, but going back to Buenos Aires and doing that showcar run before Miami. Yeah S hundred thousand people turned out to watch him. it can turn just like that sixix hundred thousand people. Yeah, in Buenice Aires for a showcar run. I wouldn't want tona be in the back row It's unbelievable. When you saw the pictures of that and they'd built grandstands for a show run, you know it's special. So It doesn't hurt does it It doesn't hurt to have your name chanted and to feel the love of a sporting nation that just they just get behind everyone. I remember when he was scoring points at Williams and he was in tenth place and I was like, whats it going be like if gets major points, he's looking capable of scoring major points. sometimes just literally taking your mind away. Having that month off, you don't think about Formula One the whole time. You get to just reset, just chill out And you go and get praised by six hundred thousand people. But it's you do rock in, you get a different perspective. You're not entrenched in, o this is all tough or He' the guy. You come in and you think, hang on, no, I'm shoulders backed can I can do this. It is great to have a reset sometimes The final one before We will head out. Liam Lawson P seven