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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Beauty podcast with Matt and Tommy . We are officially cozy back in our setups , no sun to be had, Vitamin D already lacking, Tommy , but we're here driver ratings gonna be usually Monaco's a relatively straightforward one, but I'm not sure whether this one will be I can't wait for this one. I'm looking forward to this one because the biggest gripe is that with drive ratings is we just sometimes it's too easy to agree and there's so many kind of incidents here where I think hopefully we've got different in how much you put driver blame, how much you put team blame, there's incidents where is it even the driver's fault sometimes things like that. So I think it's going to be a very interesting one and there's going to be a lot of disagreements with each other as well as everyone else. So that's always fun. That's the beauty of Formula One. So let's remain respectful. Right, let's begin with Cadillac driver Sergio Perez he had a rather eventful race. I'm going to give Sergio Perez it's going to be oh this is so difficult a six out of ten for Checo . Now you might be thinking what do you mean Matt ? He finished tenth scored a point until he got a penalty . But the amount like the actual mistakes that he made were reasonably careless if we're going to be completely honest here , one being the initial start where he just drove into the wrong grid box. He literally started from sixteenth rather than eighteenth, gets a drive through penalty , but then he also has his point taken away at the end. So he does a great race, keeps out the wall, the car is shocking, but then at the restart after the red flag he's angled his car out of the grid box and got a ten second penalty . So it is such a shame for Perez because this without that we could be talking eight nine, ten out of ten'.s a It point for Cadillac, but instead he finishes fifteenth . I will say outpaced Botass the entire weekend. He is cooking his teammate significantly at the moment. So well done for that side , but it seems like just these small errors cost him massively in this one. I'm really annoyed because all the talk of We're going to be different. I've also gone for a six episode of Paris and this one really hurts because I think his actual driving ability on track is a nine maybe a ten because I think let's talk with the positives of Perez . He was so quick this weekend. He nearly got into Q two . He by the tiniest margin . This was despite his brakes catching fire seemingly all the time during the practice sessions . And then in the main race , he's obviously finished tenth on the road. Yes, there's been a load of retirements and chaos that's helped him get there, but he's drove a very good race and the problem is it's two massive errors , one particularly at the end because of course that's the thing that's knocked him way down the order with a ten second penalty that's cost him a massive result and that could be the race that Kadlek might only get a point all year . So I have to downgrade him quite harshly . So I can only go for a six when I think had he lined up in his grid box correctly at the end and also at the start of the race, we're probably even looking like a nine or a ten here, but sadly for Perez , you know, I'm sure he's more gutted about drive ratings than the actual point itself. Devastated. Absolutely devastated. Gutted for him . The fans gave Sir Jap is a seven out of ten . Let's now move to Valtteri Botass qualified P twenty and did not finish . I've gone for a four out of ten for Botass. He was just absolutely useless again to be honest, nowhere near Perez . I know you're team Perez, but I mean well he is. Like we're going to be honest here. He's having a shocker at the moment and he's getting like really comprehensively beaten by Perez and yeah, he's having an absolute shocker. So Botass the car didn't look that great. It looked pretty horrible from watching the onboards that we saw and stuff, but his teammate is obviously doing incredible things and botass just doesn't seem up to scratch at the moment. Nowhere near again. Obviously the DNF wasn't his fault but qualifying , which is meant to be his specialty, just nowhere. Nowhere, indeed . We have continued our agreeing streak. Four out of ten for Botass for me as well , ye,ah as you say, it wasn't his fault that he DNFed, but Perez showed that without his mistakes that an incredible result for Cadillac was on the cards, but for Valteri, he didn't even have a sniff of Q two, whereas Perez for the last few weekends has shown that there could be something on the cards if everything lines up correctly. So Valtteri lines up correctly, harsh . That was that was actually accidental wasn't yeah , but perfect in fact. So Faltry needs to lock in because I see Cadillac maybe realizing quite quickly into their formula one career as a team that they've they've already made a pretty big step forward for, you know, a new team to be able to be mixing it with the midfield that perhaps they don't need two heavily experienced drivers for very long and then they'll start to look for a younger talent. So Valtteri lock in . The fans also gave a four out of ten. Franco Colopinto qualified in fourteenth and finished in fourteenth . I am going to go for a five out of ten for Franco Colop into . It was just straight down the middle, not the performances that we've seen over the last couple of weekends from Franco . He , you know, was not as quick as Gazley, who, of course, was doing miraculous things in that Alpine . This is the first driver I think we're speaking about in terms of Pitlane speeding pedal ties . I am going to say right here right now I am not downgrading any of the drivers for the pit lane speed limiting thing because it is zero point one kilometers now I think almost for all of them and it is a misjudg ment from the team slash drive when it's not the driver, right? The driver is told to turn the pit lane speed limiter on and drive through the pits. If there's been a miscalculation, I can't downgrade the driver for that. So that's where I'm sitting with this one. So yeah, I've gone for a five out of ten for Franco a disappointing weekend for him , but at least he finished the race. Franco Colopinto, I've gone for a five out of ten . It wasn't one of his better weekends. He couldn't match the highs of his teammate Gazley only a couple of tents off but Gazley just put in an unbelievable performance and it all kind of went wrong because the nature of Monica and once you caught in traffic goes badly, of course not going to blame him for the speeding of the pit lane but he did have the contact with science at the end which was a little messy. I saw an opportunity on a restart. Obviously we'll talk about this with other drivers and how George Russell bunching up the field made it very, very difficult for the midfield and navigating that area of the track . But yeah, one to forget for Colopinto I think compared to what he has been in the last couple . Absolutely. The fans gave Franco a five out of ten . Pierre Gasly qualified P nine and finished the race in seventh . Pierre Gasly, I'm going for a ten out of ten for Gasly. He finished third on the road . I think yes, he obviously fortunate that the fact that a lot of drivers retired that rocketed him up the order. But then you look at the fact that he managed to get a McLaren at the start. He made a great move around the outside of Hadjar as well. And this pit lane speed limit thing is just absolutely heartbreaking for him and other drivers that got caught out by it because you know no one saw it coming at the end of the race and the fact that so many drivers got a penalty cost Gazley an unbelievable result, absolutely heartbreaking as well that he had to do the whole formation lapse celebrating thinking he got third before finding out of the penalty. Sorry, I don't want to be that guy but the formation lapse the start of the race my guy. But the sorry the in lap he's I've done it guys not the start of the race yet but I've done it Yeah , I know it's Monica but yeah and yeah it's just getting for Gazie. I'm really confused by that actually I do want to bring something up here because when I watch the watch the race and also watching the highlights they show it. They mentioned that Gazie's got the penalty and he's like punching the wall in frustration and gets annoyed but then when he crosses the line he doesn't know he has a penalty so that just confused me a little bit but I don't know what the deal is there. Well, I thought the understanding was that he knew that he had one but not two . Okay . That's a different my thinking behind that then even if he had one he would have lost but maybe he thought he was I don't think he thought he was fourth because he would have been going that c razy but yeah maybe like it's clear as day that he thought he had a podium as he came over the line with Valpin not immediately gone Oh by the way, yesterday we've got, two five second penalties we finished seventh. Like, that's all they had to do. He celebrated the entire way round the circuit they said and then didn't elaborate basically Yeah they were one two,, three. Were they like counting? Like what are we doing here? It was ridiculous. My grade for Pierre Gasly is unsurprisingly a ten out of ten as well because of my stance on this pit lane speed limiting offences . I think that the only consideration here was that it happened twice to him . So after it happening once , at least from the team side, I don't want to be going in on Alp in too much for both the for the in lap and then also this as well. But surely there should have been a consideration of like ah, clearly the pitlane speed limiter might not be working correctly as we had other drivers getting penalized as well, although of course it wasn't the pit lane speed limiter that was faulty. It was the fact that the measurement between the it's maths, right? But it's the measurement between the entrance and the exit and all that sort of stuff rather than actually done on time. Yeah, exactly. It's so weird because it's sorry, not time. If you cut a corner say at Monza, you drive straight over the chicane at the start and say the speed limit of going round the chicane at Monza that first corner is sixty miles an hour. If you just straight lined it at sixty miles an hour, you'd get you'd be told you were speeding because of the distance as short. It's really weird, isn't it? Yeah, a strange way of doing it, but that's how it's been for donkeys and durable Yeah, Gasly, I think he was brilliant this weekend and fully deserving of a ten out of ten, as you said about Lando move. That was crucial for him. I think had he had we'd had no sort of Russell shenanigans and everything else going on I still would have considered giving him a ten if Lando hadn't DNFed may,be he still would have beaten him. We don't know, although if we saw Russell and Hagjar and how Pit stops could maybe change change that that battle, but he was the best of the rest and fully deserving of the podium had it not been for that crazy weird pit lane stuff. The fans gave Pierre Gasly a nine out of ten . Gabrielle Bortoleto qualified P sixteen , finished in eleventh . Migrade for Bortileto and obviously there is a consideration here that he was riding with the P one curse throughout Sunday . I am going to go for for gosh. I think it's it's a five out of ten. I think it is for Bortoletto. Yes, he's finished eleventh on the road. He's been sorry, finished thirteenth on the road, put up to eleventh with penal ties . But the significant downgrade here, I mean literally he finished in front of two cars that finished behind him. So there weren't many finishes in comparison to what we normally have. But the main consideration here is qu alifying. It was such an enormous mistake to make for Gabby because this wasn't in Q two, this wasn't making it through to Q three and risking it all. This was Q one and throwing an audi that I personally believe could have easily had a V carb result this weekend had they just had, I mean Hulk of maybe we'll get onto that of whether it was luck or should have been a racing incident but for Bortoletto, his weekend was over. The minute he did that, he ripped off his front left suspension. So it's a five from me . For Bortileto, I've gone for a four out of ten for for his weekend. You know, at the end of the day, Monaco is all about qualifying and he made a mistake in qualifying. You know, he was the driver to crash on such a promising weekend for Audi . You abs areolutely right in saying that you look at the V Carbs , maybe even Williams and you think that this is the opportunity for all the midfield teams to get those massive points. And Audi , we've said they're always almost there , but this was the weekend where had they just finished a weekend and been where their color pace was , they are probably getting a seventh place or maybe even sixth. So it's gutting for them because Bortile looked like he had great pace. He was quick for the weekend, but that one error cost him massively. And then of course his whole race is undone. And I think you know you look at oh he's finished eleventh but I think it flatters the kind of where he actually was because as you say that he's only beaten two cars , one of them Color Pinto, one of them Russell, who of course dropped all the way back . I will say and the reason why I went for a five rather than anything less is just purely because he started from the pit lane as well. So as much as he qualified in P sixteen, it was a pit lane to a P eleven in Monaco which I mean again sounds incredible on paper how you giving him a low grade but I guess when you factor in other things it has to be a lower grade because there were some real opportunities there . The fans gave Gabby a six out of ten . Nico Holkenberg qualified P thirteen finished in P thirteen I've gone for a six out of ten Feniko Holkenberg . I think he didn't maximize the result in qualifying, but I do that and basically just Audi and how quick I think they were . he But got into that position to basically score a point . And it's how you judge how unfortunately it was. I think he was very unfortunate . Of course , he could have avoided it just , but I do think it is incredibly harsh. Like for me, it's a racing incident, particularly because of what George Russell did in backing up that whole pack and just the nature of Monaco . And the way he, you know, was just driving around the corner . He wasn't doing anything malicious. He wasn't even going for an overtake. I think that's why I kind of side with him Well, he was not carbon. Yeah. Sorry, yeah, exactly, exactly. So it's tough on him but I've gone for a six . I've gone for a six out of ten as well for Niko Holkenberg. Could have been so much more had it not been for that end of race contact with Carlos. Still firmly believe that that penalty was really harsh. But that being said, he had a part to play. He hit Carlos and albeit George Russell caused all of that to happen by being four or five seconds a sector slower in that sort of sector one and into the hairpin . But yeah, it's it's a I can't believe we're talking about Audi not scoring points again after looking so so quick this weekend and I was going to say they weren't they were fast and reliable but had mistakes, but then again Bortileto as much as he crashed in qualifying also had an issue on the way to the grid. So it's still trying to figure out how to keep these cars working throughout a weekend for Audi. But for Nico, I've gone for a six . The fans give him a five . Toby likes to thoroughly inspect his bananas before purchasing. He isn't sure if he really needs post office travel insurance . The thing is, holiday Toby definitely does. The Costa Del Sol hasn't seen banana boat action like this since nineteen ninety nine. Don't worry, Toby. 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From London through the Midlands and the North all the way back to Sunderland. Every mile helps fund projects that filled conf idence, connection, and belonging for people through sport. Donate now at sportref. com to support communities across the UK. This message was brought to you by ACAS Estab on, qualified seventeenth , finished the race in ninth I am going to go for Ah eight out of ten for Esther Bannock on Again, this is a driver that has got reasonably lucky , but you make your own luck in Formula One sometimes and he was able to take advantage of other people's mistakes or pit lane speed limiting, which I don't blame them for, but this still happened . So it has on not the fifth or sixth fastest car and you have to respect that Ocon has kept his nose clean and he was yeah reasonably good this weekend. I don't know how we compare Occan and Behmann because it's very difficult to do that with not a lot of well Ollie got literally knocked out an in the EQ one, but that was due to that late red flag. So same with Okan yeah same with Okon as well of course but Okon ended up out qualifying him due to that. So yeah eight out of ten solid weekend from Occon I've gone for a seven out of ten for Estabanokon . I think his result is good fortune, but of course he does deserve credit for being one of the few that kept it out of trouble . Yeah, Has they didn't maybe deliver the pace in Ocon has been always very good around Monaco , but it wasn't kind of a really, really strong weekend for him, but he did keep out the walls, obviously finished in the points , got tenth place, just finished ahead of Perez and then managed to get promoted once Hulkbegg's penalty got in and decent points after what's been a tough tough kind of run for Ocon . Certainly, the fans gave him a seven . Ollie Behman qualified P nineteen and did not finish . I have gone for a four out of ten for Ollie Bermann. He had the crash in FP three which was a big one then we got into qualifying and yeah was behind his team of course got caught up by the red flag . But that's a risk that you take in Monaco and why we've said many times that you kind of need to get a lap in as early as possible when it counts because it's something that's happened many times at Monaco and then had contact on the first lap and lost his front wing. So then of course retired as well, which wasn't his fault but just a weekend to forget for Ollie for sure I am going to go for a five out of ten for Ollie Berman . There are so many things to take into account here and I don't really want to give him lower than a five and yeah maybe he's my second favorite driver whatever I don't care but I've gone for a five out of ten because the as I mentioned with Ocon the Q one elimination was down to the fact that basically they need a prep lap unless your Carlos Signs will get on to him. But for Ollie Bermann and for Has, you know, they struggled to get anything out of that final run . And then as for yeah, he crashed in FP three, that was one hundred percent his fault. As much as he said it was a bizarre crash . He was he was offline. So I think that was probably one of the big factors as to why that happened. The losing of the front wing, I'm sorry, I've watched this replay and it is I don't know what Occon It's absolutely ridiculous because I know it's, you know, the start of the race and everyone's jostling for position. But Occon in my mind has shaped for the inside of the hairpin and then bailed out of it at the last millisecond and then Ollie's already committed to the outside line and then just drives into the back of his teammate. For me, that is not Ollie's fault in the slightest , and I think he's very unlucky for that to have happened. So yeah , both has drivers could have been out with that sort of move, but it didn't happen for Okon, thankfully for him, but yeah, I did I don't pin any blame on Ollie for the start of that one. So I've gone for a five . The fans gave them a four out of ten . Land stroll qualified twenty second and did not finish. I have gone for a three out of ten for lunch stroll. Qualified dead last. I know his teammate was twenty first, so it's not like it's like it was miles off, but still not quick in comparison to Fernando. I think he was maybe nine, ten seconds at the biggest margin between Fernando, but we know how this is with Monaco, right? It doesn't stretch out as much when you're in io to be fair, I think Alonso and Stroll were in their own sort of pack of just Formula three . Then you have the Formula two, then you have the Formula One cars that were lapping off the Lap ten , but it's still, you know, he crashed out of the race. He blamed it due to engine braking . I think there definitely was a factor for the disintegrating track as well. Did you hear the Paris? Do you see the Paris video on that? Yes, I have seen Perez basically saying from like lap twenty odd by the way guys you need to sweep that because it's really bad. They didn't do anything until then when Lance goes to the wall, Perez goes that's not his fault which is I thought interesting. Yeah , I mean Lance himself said I think it was the engine breaking. So you know, you got to take to take what he says his gospel, Lance Troll. But I do think there is a factor there as well. But still a weekend to forget for Lance as is the entire season, I'm sure . So I've gone for a four out of ten for Lance Stroll obviously miles off Alonzo difficult one with the crash , you know, because it's not the usual kind of straight into the wall and one hundred percent the driver's fault. Obviously has crashed, so I will kind of downgrade him for that of course because other people are. So you're downgrading him and you said he's miles off a longz one, you've come four out at ten. Yes, because I've watched some things as well. And oh my word, the car is actually trying to kill him. I don't know if you saw the crazy moment in the tunnel on Lap two , but oh my word, that Astronomy is absolutely horrendous. I can't believe he's just going what normally is just a very easy turn at the tunnel and it snaps on him and he basically laughs at how crazy this car is to drive I'm looking at up so keep talking because yeah I am going for a four out of ten because yeah as you say yes his qualifying was poor, but he was right behind from the Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's a moment. That is a moment in the tunnel why is it sideways there? That is that is fascinating . Okay, the fans gave Lance Droll a three out of ten . Fernando Alonso qualified twenty first and finished tenth . I have gone for a nine out of ten for Fernando Alonso . He of course benefited quite a lot from the misfortune of others but still did an incredible job in an absolute horrendous car beat stroll by an enormous margin, which is maybe not a surprise anymore. And Fernando Alonso , you know, kicked out of trouble in qualifying. Yeah, that's right. In qualifying, yeah. I was going to say planned in the race but that's constructed in the wall. Several laps in the race. Yeah , exactly. But Fernando , yeah, he was there to pick up the pieces of course. He finished behind Perez on the road , but benefited and got a point for Aston Martin finally at probably what's been maybe even their worst weekend, which was a surprise because you thought this might be one where they could actually perform because it's not maybe all down to the engine, but alas Asamarten is still struggling quite a lot, but Alonzo got a point feels like a championship in the aftermarket certainly. Really does. I can't believe we're sat here and Tommy's giving Fernando a nine because I'm not biased I've gone for a ten out of ten for Fernando Alonso. I mean we've just watched a video you just made me watch a video of strolling the tunnel trying to kill him and then now you're telling me what more could he have done? He's put seven tenth s on his teammate in qualifying and he scored a point in a quite literal tractor. I mean, I don't need to he's done better drives this season and we can't give him a ten for just finishing fifteen. I say and I know how much it angered me giving Avid Limbladder ten out of ten for some people last time out . But you know, these are our grades and yours are yours. But yeah, I've gone for a ten for Fernando because starting on the back row of the grid and scoring a point in the categorically worst car on the grid, when else are we going to give him a ten at this stage when we've been literally meming the life out of this Aster Martin car all season long? So yes, there is luck involved, but I can't give him anything lower than that. Oh, he should have beaten blah blah blah. No, I think he's maximized absolutely everything. The fans gave him a turn out of ten as well. I'm glad you agree because crazy ey wase the one that normally it's the other way around where Alonzi gets a sixth every week and I'm there like that was an eight out of ten drive. He was like fourteenth and the worst car on the grid and now Tom is now I'm like for now I should have got a podium guys come on lock in . Let's now head to a dri ver we just spoke about. Arvid Lindblad qualified in fifteenth and finished the race in sixth . I am going to go for four Hm It's a very lovely result . I'm going to go for an eight out of ten for Avid Limblad. I think he did get reasonably lucky, I believe, with the timing of red flags and looked to be off the pace of Lawson if I'm going to be completely honest with you , we'll speak about Liam this . But still, you know, a great weekend for Arvid to be scoring that amount of points , kept it clean as well, of course . We saw an overt ake as well. So he should actually get a fifteen out of ten because of Albon making that that error . But yeah, I think that he was definitely the slower V car driver this weekend . So yeah, I'm going to go for an eight h because I think good fortune did very much play a part and and maybe on paper made Lawson look less good than he actually was when you take into account everything. So eight out of ten. I've gone for an eight out of ten as well for Avid Limblad. Yeah, I think he was off Lawson's pace qualifying was a bit of a letdown when you see what Lawson managed to do but deserves a huge amount of credit for avoiding any errors and mistakes and things in his first Monaco Grand Prix, which is, you know , deserves credit for sure and the fact that other drivers have made a lot of mistakes here and there and it's been a race of so many kind of errors and problems and crashes and craziness and the fact that he's managed to keep it out of the walls and everything and get a great result deserves credit. So I've gone for an eight out of ten. The fans gave Arvid an eight as well . Liam Lawson qualified tenth finished the race in fifth . I have gone for a ten out of ten for Lilliam Lawson. I think his qualifying was absolutely brilliant. I don't think that the racing bulls was a car that should have been making it into Q three when you look at some of the others . I don't think it's obviously terrible, but I don't think they had, you know, say like the advantage that they had in Canada, for example, where they were looking mighty and made no mistakes . He was the quickest V carb driver all weekend and yeah deserved the amazing result he got in the end and got the reward for his great speed and keeping it out the walls and execut ed, you know, the weekend very well. So I think I've gone for a ten. It's going to be a ten. You think you've gone. I was going to say I was going to say something else and then I was like, I think that was and then I said ten. But I'm glad you think you've gone for a ten My thinking of going for number ten out of ten. Very, very easy. I think you all saw that coming from when I spoke about Arvid's grade . Lawson massively impressive. He was yeah, so quick this weekend potentially could have outqualified Gasley, but I'm not going to downgrade him for that. Just genuinely a brilliant performance from him . And if he keeps this kind of performance up, which again, I think he's been one of the drivers of the season so far this year that he been consistently good . So another one , sorry, I didn't mean to do the meme, but another one to put on the board for Lawson. And yeah, he's having a great season so far. So fully deserving of a ten out of ten and the much quicker VCAB driver, I would say , around Monaco The fans give him a nine. What are you doing? I'm sorry, this is the first time lashing out. How on earth is that a nine? Is it because Gazie finished ahead of him on the road? Don't care. It was definitely a ten . Carlos Signs qualified P twelve did not finish . This one's difficult because it got yeeted . But how much do you put a little bit of sprinkling of seasoning of blame on the yeet being on his side . I don't really put much blame at all on him. I'm going to go for God, what am I going to do? Eight out of ten for Carlos signs . I think he had a really strong weekend . If you listen to his interview, he said he put the lap of his life in qualifying and if we think about how heavily we grade this stuff in quality , of course this was Q one. Q two he left a bit on the table. But Q one, he was the I think the only driver to actually make it into Q two on that final lap without a prep lap. So Carlos made something work that no one else did, which I think definitely needs to be commended because of course he was on the back foot after the red flag came out . And then he was on for points. Both Alex and Carlos were working together beautifully . And I will say that you know when you watch the aerial shot is the aerial camera angle of the hairpin , it's easy to say Carlos, why did you come across? But also Carlos expected to Yeah, he's not he can't see that and he's not expecting Nico to be there and he has to kind of drift over that way to go for the next right hand or it's the racing line. So it's just really unfortunate for Carlos , but I think the eight out of ten shows that I believe he had a pretty strong weekend . I have gone for a seven out of ten for Carlos Sins. Yeah he,'s unlucky not to get points there, of course, getting taken out the race Williams of course did that that strategy again that worked for them last year and it was almost going to be absolutely perfect until Carlos got taken out because it would have got both of them points. But yeah, Carlos drove a good race and it's a shame that he didn't get rewarded for for his drive . The fans give Carlos a seven out of ten . Alex Albon qualified p eleven and finished the race in eight . I have gone for an eight out of ten for Alex Alban. I think it was a great result. You know, he got , you know, the points , which is great for Williams because they've struggled to get them this year. I don't think Alex has had the best a season so far . You know, he's struggled to get points on the board, but here, you know, eighth place is massive for Williams, a strong weekend out qualifying Carlos when I think Carlos , you know, has been very strong recently and Alban yeah delivered a great result to get P eight and yeah very very impressive from Alex to get some big points on the board for Williams . I have gone for an eight out of ten for Alex Albon as well. I really don't think and I don't want to downgrade Carlos for being taken out of the race and that's why I've done this because Alex and Carlos could not be separated this weekend. There were twenty eight thousands of a second separated in qualifying . So I can't give Alex a bit of a one point additional nod for the fact he outqualified his teammates. They were so close and then in the race they were working together to come and score great points for Williams. So I'm going to go for the same grade for both of them because I think that's the fairest in my head. So Alex gets an eight out of ten as well. And the fans get us get a well, I'm not sorry I'm not grading you guys. I'm not grading fans. You guys get a seven out of ten. No, they graded Alex a seven out of ten. Maybe we should start doing that at the end. Yeah, based on how you comments from the previous episode. We're going to grade you guys a two out of ten because you shouted at us the entire way through for our opinion indeed Football, it's in your DNA. And at Spread Exports, new customers can earn up to eighty pounds in free bets after placing a ten pound world cup at right bet. 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Let's now go to Lewis Hamilton, qualified third and finished the race in second I've deliberated this one quite extensively . So as we know, I'm not downgrading him for the speeding penalty This is this is tough. This is tough because I'm genuinely considering him giving him a ten . Ah was there more inqualifying? It's so hard because you're looking at Ferrari from Friday they're the fastest car but Saturday they weren't the out ten. It's a ten out of ten for Lewis Hamilton. I'm giving him a ten because he had an excellent weekend this weekend. He outqualified Charlot , which is no mean feat . We will get onto leclerc's grade once I process that . But for Hamilton, I don't think I can really downgrade him on what he did this weekend . Genuinely on Charlotte's heels throughout sort of Friday and to be fair, he was ahead of Charlotte in one of the practice sess ions. And I think he loaded a lot of pressure in the Charlot te camp. And Hamilton is going from strength to strength at the moment at Ferrari. He genuinely is. Canada was an excellent performance and now this one I can't fault him. So yeah, I'm going to go for a ten out of ten and I'm locking it in . I have gone for a nine out of ten for Phillip Hamilton so good to see basically the Hamilton evol backved's. That two races now with a P two . The stronger for eye driver absolutely this weekend on a trek where you know his teammate is an absolute specialist at . The reason I can't go for a tent and maybe it's just because of Hamilton and how good he is just in his whole career is that you know we all know these drivers can elevate themselves further and I know that Ferrari will maybe a little bit off, but you know, an unbelievable quality maybe gets pole position. Of course, he was third on the grid , but yeah, still a fantastic performance. It's very nearly a ten , but I'm going for a nine for Hamilton and it's so good to just see him back fighting at the front. Second in the world championship as well now is incredible just shows what a great job he's doing and how much he's turned his form around when essentially last year , you know, he was probably the flop of the season and now he's one of if not the most impressive driver I think what we're seeing so far this season. So great job from Hamilton. Yeah, really enjoying the rigs. One thing I always wanted to add and the reason why I leant more towards a ten was just his race pace as well was really strong. You know, when Leclau was in the Grand Prix. Charles wasn't really that close. He started to eat back towards Louis towards the end of the stint, I think it was, but Hamilton, yeah, it was unphased. So ten out of ten from me and a nine out of ten from the f ans . Charlac qualified fourth did not finish . He did not I've gone for a four out of ten for Charlac . I think one of his messiest weekends of his career at a track that of course he is so good around and has been so good around in recent years . We'll start with qualifying. Of course, yes, he finished fourth, but there were errors all over the place. His Q three was an absolute mess. Like me know when you finished. Yeah, I will do. Just an absolute an absolute mess. His first run, put him on the back foot, put a load of pressure on him , then he was basically looked desperate at the end where he went into the wall to just try and gain anything from the from the car. And maybe there's a bit of frustration there how quick they were on Friday and it wasn't coming together for him . Of course , crashed out in the Grand Prix didn't have the pace that Hamilton had. I'm surprised actually I thought that Shell would be all over the back of Hamilton and they'd kind of race together, but Hamilton, you know, went off into the distance and yeah, they came close together at the end. But of course the crash again, there's talk of the brakes a bit like Stroll with his incident with the engine, but at the end of the day, he has put it in the wall and yeah, it's a really poor weekend overall for Charlotte on what could have been the track where he , you know, it was their big chance, I think, for victory, particularly with how good he is around it . Indeed , I have gone for a four out of ten as well for Charlotte Clare Yeah, crashed in both competitive sessions ditifying and the race. Yeah. It's it can't be any higher than that. Yes, his pace at times was excellent and thought maybe maybe there was a chance of the win at the start of the weekend but you know that the it's such it's such gray area isn't it? This this you know, how did he crash ? Was it the tr actus integrating? Was it his brakes and the fact that I mean, he said after the race that he wasn't that he had his front brakes locked and then his rears didn't decelerate at all and I think he was even caught speaking in the pits and saying, Ah, I put this amount of pressure on and you know he was mystified as to why he's gone in the wall. And when you watch the onboard, you know , I said in the podcast like I don't I don't blame him for it , but like how can I give him any more than a fall for a weekend where he has not completed each either session? So very tough, very tough indeed. But we move on because I don't want to talk about it anymore ever again. Yes. The fans gave them a six lord. Who is the fan boy because it might not be me? Of course it's me. Let's go to Isaac Hadjar . Qualified in fifth and finished in third . I've gone for an eight out of ten for Hadjar . I think I was slightly harsh on him in the main race podcast where I said he was really slow and the reason why he was really slow is because he was managing a problem with his with his engine and he had no first gear and you could tell he was having a bit of a meltdown, and I feel sorry for the person on the receiving end of a lot of those team radio messages, but for Hadjar, he managed, you know, and worked around that problem and I think he does deserve credit that it's not easy to manage problems around a circuit like this, especially when you're this early into your career. See, I've gone for an eight out of ten . I've gone for an eight out of ten as well for Hadj a yeah,, wasn't incredibly fast this weekend, obviously , you know, not on Verstappen's level when it came to qualifying, of course , but if you'd have said that he'd got a podium after, you know, the crash that he had in practice he would have been dreaming. I think you know, a really bad moment for him. It must have been guttered. The pressures would have been on him . And then yeah, to have the issue in the race to manage it the whole time to kind of keep his head and keep it on the road when others were having issues . And yeah, was there to basically bag a brilliant result for him and his team. What I find absolutely insane is that during the red flag and the reason why he was under investigation was that the Red Bull team started doing work on the car , like replacing spark plugs and things like that. Then they found like the FIA were like, well you can't do that. And so they then took it all and reverted the car back to its original state, which I feltt I don' know about you, but yeah . That's a penalty, isn't it? That feels like it should be a penalty. Yeah, that is crazy because I imagine and I'd love to please mention the comments if you are one of these people, that if you're a Georg Russell fan, you're probably going , that guy that's touched the car, can he now wait five seconds and then serve that five second penalty and then go, oh, we served it now and then go again because I'm guessing no you can't do that. So yeah, it's obviously a very strange rule that one that they were able to get away with that one. When queried about their works, they stopped working and reverted the car to its previous state without replacing its car racing. That should be a penalty in my opinion. That's what ruling . But anyway, well unto Ajal, that's not down to him. And an eight out of ten. The fans gave him an eight as well . Max Verstappen qualified second didn't finish or really even do anything . I what are we doing about this because we are grading him for his qualifying. Okay, right because we need to make this clear that Monaco clearly is a special case here then because we have had and we've already yeah, we've had NAS for this kind of thing. So can we just make it clear to everybody what we're doing here? Well, I want to give them a grade shock. There goes. And you want to give a grade because yeah, twelve, yeah Because essentially Monaco it's all about qualifying and also like we've I've made this point before that if Hadja , if Gazley or put it on pole position and then the car breaks down, it seems incredibly harsh to give them no grade at all and not be rewarded for something brilliant that they've done qualifying because essentially you know and the same goes for the other way had Max bin it in the wall in qualifying, started last and his car broke down. He deserves to get less than NA because he's had a bad race. Okay, so it's a case by case basis. You know, we just need to clear this up because there are that care much more about upgrades than we do and they need clarity, Tommy . But it is a case by case basis. We say this with everything in Formula One when it's penalties. It's not just like this person did this or then this person did this and I think, you know, feel free to say it in the comments. I'm sure you will. I'm sure they have already seen that I don't I don't believe it is for someone's series. So you go ahead. I've gone for a nine out of ten for Max Verstappen. You can only judge him when he's qualifying and he put up an unbelievable lap to almost get pole position in a car that's clearly not there yet , you know, ahead of his comfortably ahead of his te ammate. It was a phenomenal lap. And then of course, you know, had it been his error like Limblood that you gave a ten, just a reminder. Had it been his error for the start , I would have downgraded him but it's not OK, so thanks for bringing it up. Look, I know that was one piece of information I was not made aware of when making that grade . So I will revert to a five out ten for Limbladd in Canada and look, we're already locked in and people are over it and now they're not Tommy because you brought it back up So Max Verstappen I am going to go for and he can't he can't get higher than Hadji and even do the race bro like I'm going to go for an eight out of ten for Max if we're if we're going to grade him for qualifying and then not doing the race but then you know this Limblad by the way he did a sprint alright before he started shouting at me it wasn't that was a different sprint weekend. We saw that he was unbelievable in both Quality and Race Trim. Anyway, back to this. Yeah, I can't I can't give him a higher grade than Hadjah who scored a podium his first podium for Red Bull . So that's why I'm going for an eight out of ten for Max. He put three tenths on Hagar, which is a decent chunk. It's not on Alonzo Stroll level . So but yeah, that's not to take away from Max's quality performance. I wish we'd been able to see what he could do in the race. I really do or at least down towards turn one. I think not a lot, just purely from the Red Bull and what we've seen this year. I still firmly believe like Hamilton would have probably got him maybe and it was impossible to get into the lead from second, as we mentioned in the podcast, two thousand two thousand two. It's a long, long time ago annoying. But yeah, Max phenomenal qualifying and yes, he's getting a nod, a cheeky nod. eight out of ten. The fans gave him an eight as well . Kimmy Antonelli qualified first, finish first . It's a seven out of ten for Kimmy Antonelli, just left a lot out Cub, ten out of ten , obviously for Kimmy Antonelli . No notes , no negatives , just probably his most impressive weekend of his entire long formula one career . It's Monaco Pressure of the Championship. Mercedes is kind of on the back foot to some degree, George Russell sticking its sick in qualifying. You would even have forgiven Antonelli for a P three or P four in quality. But no, he was P one. He was so quick in the race that he left everyone for dust whenever he wanted to push . I don't have any other words because I'm genuinely speechless at what we're witnessing. Five wins in a row for Antonelli, ridiculous . I've gone for a ten out of ten for Antonelli . It's finally a ten and it's a full deserving ten because it is the absolute perfect weekend. You know, there's been debates of the fact that some people will say, Oh, I deserve a ten anyway because he won the race, but you know, we've given him nines a lot of the time because it's never he's never executed like perfect wins and there's been lots of circumstances and he's had poor starts and then come back through the field and how good Mercedes as well. The Mercedes was not clear this weekend you look at what his teammate managed to do and Antonelli did a perfect quality lap , a perfect race. You know, he just went off into the distance, see you later . And yeah, when the pressure could have been on , when I think what's most impressive as well is it wasn't even like a case of drove the perfect qualifying lap, which we'd still give him a turn for, I think, because he's driven the perfect qualifying lap in it just been a normal monoca race, lights to flag, he controls the pace , but he bolted, was never in doubt of losing that victory and in the craziness of the track breaking up , people getting penalties left right and center , two , you know, two race starts because of the situation we have with the red flags. All these things could have easily got in his head for a young driver that's going for the world championship and knows that this is a huge opportunity for him to get a massive points lead in the championship and he just did absolutely nothing wrong all weekend. It was perfection. It was absolute perfection. Ten out of ten as well from the fans unsurprisingly, we now go to George Russell, qualified sixth, finished twelfth . I have gone for a five out of ten for George Russell . Of course there'll be people saying he's very unfortunate for his drive through penalty , but his teammate dominated the race. And you know, I said this with Bottle Letters grade . Your Monica Grand Prix is make or break in qualifying and George had a poor qualifying. His teammate put it on pole position and he was sixth . And when you are out of position in Monaco , that is the nature of what happens at Monaco that you get stuck behind a car that you know can't get has a problem with first gear and is going so slow that you end up being lapped by your teammate, but that is just what happens . And you know, even the even the drive through penalty which he got for of course touching his car, I heard a radio where and Skywer mentioned this and I think Bernie Collins was saying this as well that when your team say stay out, you don't come into the pit lane because they're not ready for you and they could easily have not had any tyres or anything like that. And yes, it's the fault of the team because they've touched the car, but they were saying stay out, stay out and he came into the pits . So it's not like there's a little bit of obviously I'm not saying like he does a like it's his one hundred percent his spot for a drive through but you have to put a bit of blame there even other things at the weekend like he was so close to getting a penalty going almost out of the pit lane like on the white line which looked incredibly marginal That's perfection. Perfection , it's not getting a penalty. Grading by that grid box as well. I'm not grading him. I'm just saying that I think like there was like investigations here there and everywhere . It was a really messy weekend from him . And yeah, like he needs to like pick it up and find out what's gone wrong because it was just a case of it all went wrong and qualifying and then just got even worse in the race . I've gone for a five out of ten as well for George . I don't think you can really downgrade him any more than that just pure and I did even contemplate maybe one point higher but I'm going to go with a five because you know with,out that whole Mercedes pit stop debacle, he's he's going to finish third so but then you know on the other side of things there are things to downgrade him on how slow he was in qualifying to you know be that far off your very young nineteen year old teammate it's just not really a good look for George after you know being very impressive over the last few seasons The speeding penalty , I don't I'm not going to downgrade him for that as I haven't with everyone else . I hear your point about the pit stock confusion ? I still think it's ninety percent Mercedes fault. Just because George has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons and pit , that doesn't mean that it's his fault. Like it's not my responsibility to not touch the car because they know they have a penalty, but they have. And it was only one member member of the mechanics, wasn't it? So yeah, it's it's a really tough grade and I can understand where people could sit between a four and a seven if you actually think about where he might have ended up. But I'm going to go with a five and And considering the numbers I've just said as the scale, the fans, they didn't agree with any of those numbers and went for a three out of ten for George Russell, which I think is insanely worst grade of any one so far. Him and Lance probably Lance went to the Lance Goes and George ? Yeah Yeah, wow, that's incredibly harsh . Indeed. Okay, we now go to Oscar Piastri Qualified in seventh and finished in fourth , I am going to lock in a seven out of ten for Oscar Piastry. Good weekend . It seemed as though Lando, who shocked didn't have a clean weekend because of reliability was slightly faster . Looked at one point that Piatri might even be on the podium, which would have been pretty sensational considering McLaren being the fourth fast est car around here, which was a surprise to quite a few people . But was able to just I mean clearly if you just go around Monaco and not pick up too many penalties of, course he picked up one for speeding , which he served, I think, didn't he under the safety car, I think it was. So it actually was sort of negated . But yeah, a seven out of ten for Oscar, a reasonable weekend, good points , but nothing to write home about. Definitely I've gone for a seven as well for Oscar. It was one of those races where he of course out qualified his teammate. He had a better, a better Q three . Lando had a lot of issues of course, but then he was one of these drivers that was able to just drive their race. McLaren were so surprisingly poor the what we thought they were going to be, which is of course no fault of Piastri but then kept it out of any kind of trouble for really other than of course the speeding penalty to bag a really solid result. And I think you would I think him and McLaren would have taken forth all day long based on how poor they were this weekend. But Oscar's been rewarded for basically just having a good weekend where he 's not made any mistakes . The fans gave Oscar Piastri a seven as well . Lando Norris qualified eighth did not finish I've gone for a six out of ten Filando Norris . I think one harsher than Piastry because you know, they were racing each other into turn one which put him behind Gazley which, of course meant that there was going to ruin his race, of course, not downgrading him for the reliability that had, of course, which is why he failed to finish . But again, like unidal preparation all weekend for what's happening with Lando and the unreliability . I have seen a graphic that someone has posted about Lando's reliability issues. I think we did something similar to this before, but it is now insane reading even more. So I'll just go into the problems that Lando has had this year. So Australia had a gearbox and collection issue and missed eight y percent of the session in FP one . In FP two we had power unit issues which meant he didn't do any running. FP three deployment issues. Qualifying was where they duct tape his front wing