My 2024 Christmas F1 Season Recap // Tommo's Race Chinwag

[@NotPhishy]

leave the votes open for more that half a minute tommo m8

[@TommoMcCluskey]

😂 fair

[@thebullworm1]

Tommo - one suggestion for an added segment to the pre-race chinwag: for less experienced fans, I could see a track overview (key overtaking spots, sector characteristics, lap walkthrough maybe?) being a really nice addition. Keep up the great work!

[@akepaow]

Backing this comment

[@ikateeo]

please! i'm not a new fan but i have the memory of a sieve so that'd be a great refresher.

[@TommoMcCluskey]

That's a good shout y'know. I feel like I used to do something kinda like that, and I'm not sure why I dropped it tbh.

[@thebullworm1]

@@ikateeosame here, I’ve been watching for 3 years fully, and following for another 2-3 partially before that, and certain tracks just escape the memory as soon as I’m done watching the weekend.

[@thebullworm1]

@@TommoMcCluskeythanks for the reply tommo! Look forward to seeing if this bit makes the cut.

[@martinkrumpf]

I appreciate dedicating the video to people who might be alone at Christmas, and the talk about our para-social relationship / boundaries at the end, very mature of you. We appreciate it!

[@NebulaOblangata]

Hi Tommo, you've been my go-to F1 KZbinr since the pandemic - great job over the years! Would love to see you add a segment for F3 and F2 for the weekends shared with F1. I know you've made a couple of standalone videos on drivers but I don't believe any F1 KZbinr covers results etc regularly. It would be nice to have shorter predictions, bangers and clangers segments for those, too! Cheers!

[@morris-00]

Race week review covers junior series regularly with great content

[@TommoMcCluskey]

Much appreciated Nebula, thank you! I think a brief F3/F2 overview in the post race could be the way to go. They're such hard series to predict, I'd be more inclined to just keep them in the post race.

[@bsylvester713]

@@morris-00 Raceweekreview is the most underrated KZbin channel discussing racing

[@LowellDylan]

Tommo! - you should keep a tally of ours and your Bangers and Clangers each week and see who does better throughout the season, you or us. Or Minton. happy xmas eve here in America mate

[@TommoMcCluskey]

Definitely, big agree!

[@big-man-c77]

i would love to see a running tally of bangers and clangers as the season progresses, so maybe you can say “you gave Max banger drive for the 3rd time this season” or whatnot, and then for the end of year roundup you can go through most agreed upon bangers and clangers or most divisive, so if a driver gets like 80 percent banger you can summarise the race and their performance, or if two teams got almost equal votes for clanger you can go through what earned them those votes. maybe go through the bangers and clangers you dispute the most from the audience as well, and call us out for our lack of wheel knowledge

[@TommoMcCluskey]

Yeah a running tally is a no brainer idea, I'll definitely be introducing that.

[@jimmyc3030]

What originally drew me into your Chinwags this year was the lap time comparisons between teammates. I know that dropped off after a few races, but I think that would be interesting to bring back. Thanks, hope you had a lovely Xmas, and have a great new year!

[@Giorgio879]

Thinking about Banger Teams, I am very happy how Ferrari managed to low-key be one of the best teams, operationally speaking, across the whole season; they even managed to put a WCC challenge despite not having the fastest car for the majority of races. Sure, there were some vintage clown moments (Canada), but if they iron out their mid-season development, Fred's kitchens may finally cook a Michelin worthy meal.

[@Actualsmybruv]

Yeah, Fred's been slowly and quietly getting on with it

[@TommoMcCluskey]

Cheffing it up. Bangers & Clangers awards / punishes the peaks at the end of the day, so Canada is long forgotten. 😅

[@carlettienne2596]

If youre planning on using the banger/clanger drive as your final avarage across the season then maybe listing a 1.2.3 would make it a bit easier to cover all drivers that had a great race

[@TommoMcCluskey]

I'm in two minds whether to do a running score system, kinda like Matt & Tommy do. Versus just going off my feeling at the end of the year.

[@TyagiAviral]

@@TommoMcCluskey Do both! Would be fun if they turn out to be different

[@samhenriques4462]

One thing that rings apparent here is that youtubes search is terrible in actually showing up what was put into it. It’s not like the videos aren’t on uploaded and available already, and sometimes there will be 5 results then shorts and completely unrelated content

[@TommoMcCluskey]

Kinda awkward that I couldn't find my own video ngl. 😅

[@thomassf3]

Cheers for the whole year Tommo mate, I've absolutely loved all the vids, hope you have a great Christmas, and here's to a great '25!

[@TommoMcCluskey]

Much appreciated Thomas, great name! 🫡

[@Johnny-ds6pz]

Drive to Survive introduced me to F1, first race live watched on TV was Baku 2021. Thank you for being the outlet for really diving fully into F1 and falling in love with the sport. Love the content and cant wait to see what next year holds. THANK YOU.

[@TommoMcCluskey]

Thank you Johnny, very kind of you. 🙌

[@profesorz5250]

As an European, I've never been happier to have some free time past midnight. Happy Christmas everyone.

[@yhbarve]

*a European. 😂 Kidding. Merry Christmas

[@TommoMcCluskey]

Hope you enjoyed it Profesorz!

[@yert9056]

Just keep doing what you’re doing man. You are first person I go watch after race. Always entertaining and interesting takes. 👍🏻

[@valerikozarev5889]

Thanks for another great year, Tommo! I don’t typically get to watch the races but I love going into the office early on a Monday morning, getting my coffee, and catching up on what happened with your race report. Looking forward to more merch too 👀

[@hunterdanton3752]

I absolutely love these man keep it up, you have such level headed takes on the sport and it’s really refreshing. I drive long distances quite often and these are my favorite things to put on and relax. 👍

[@RinnyMinny-_-]

Thank you tommo for podting this podcast to cure my xmas insomnia

[@rbr-ns-2199]

Suggestion: I remember from the 2020 chinwags you would go through the key points of the race in order. It allowed you to touch on every part of the race/weekend, without the live comments asking you to change subjects. I really enjoyed that format and I think it would improve the flow of the chinwags in the future.

[@declandouglas9602]

Yeah you could have a little checklist on the side of all the things he wants to talk about so that chat doesn’t keep recommending stuff that’s coming up

[@eliacola5825]

Hi Tommo, just want to say Merry Christmas (late) and thank you for taking us towards this long racing season. I absolutely love what you bring with your content, can't wait to see you again in 2025! Happy holidays, and thank you again for all that you do for us

[@Infinitycandyfloss]

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄🎄🎄

[@warnerbouma5475]

Hey Tommo. I don't usually ever comment but I just wanted to say thank you very much for all the content you've published throughout the year. I always listed to you on the way to work and been loving everything you've done. Long may it last. Bring on next season!

[@judechamberlain7580]

Merry Xmas everyone, thanks for making this year a good one tommo

[@tanya__________]

When the car was geared more towards Lewis for 2022 and 2023 nobody gave George the benefit of the doubt on the times he couldn't get the most out of the car. Why is Lewis getting that excuse when things are the other way around? 2/3 seasons were George's but the story is somehow "preferential treatment"? First it was "setups", then "safety cars", then "sabotage", now "preferential treatment". If you or other F1 fans don't want to give George any credit that's fine but do realise its a long list of excuses by this point. One driver is a 7 time world champion and one is still a young guy starting to establish himself, but its the champion who gets all the excuses under the sun.

[@moonbathing2002]

Thank you Tommo Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

[@Sophie-qh1vu]

Tommo!! Hope you’re enjoying a great break over Christmas and New Year - thanks for all the videos this year… bring on 2025 (after a well-earned rest!)😊

[@Max_Flashheart]

Tommo we love you too! Merry Xmas

[@rayquetzalcoatl9672]

Love your work dude, looking forward to a great 2025! Hope you've had a good hols!

[@tiinah5602]

Merry Christmas Tommo! It's been a great year of chinwagging, thanks for all the streams and content as they really give me (and many others) a true feeling of community around this gorgeous sport :-)

[@matthewgordon8759]

Yeah, right on. Solid ending. Nicely balanced discussion. Cheers bud, bring on 2025

[@oabobby]

You and Cameron's videos have helped me through some tough times this year, nothing parasocial just a healthy distraction from things. I don't normally share but i figure you'd appreciate it. I wasn't able to comment but listened to this on my drive home after christmas, just me and the dogs. So your video definetely helped at least 1 person. Happy Holidays from the USA.

[@tabitha_h2000]

Merry Christmas! Thank you for all your content & hard work this year!🎄✨🏎️

[@georgekendall2053]

Merry Christmas everyone! Tommy you bring so much joy to every race weekend and week you drop thank you for what you do mate ❤❤

[@DelaneySeamus]

THE WAY I SENT MERRY CHRISTMAS INTO THE PATREON CHAT JUST BEFORE THIS HAHAHAHA

[@TommoMcCluskey]

HOHOHO LAD

[@thomaspounds]

Predict pole position for every race during the pre-race

[@chrisondriamarks7946]

merry christmas tommo, hannah and minton!!!

[@timbrichau]

seeing the total average race rating over the season would be cool, and maybe comparing it to other seasons too

[@KellyH0878]

Happy Christmas to all! I received my shirt and it’s lovely. Thank you!

[@hey_its_heather]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays Tommo and friends of Tommo! I am skipping my family’s big holiday meal this year cause I just don’t want to go + I have celiac disease and can’t eat about 95% of the food so holiday meals are pretty miserable for me 🥲 as for future channel stuff; pretty much every F1 content creator I follow does a post race breakdown video either live stream or recorded and yours are nearly always the longest. I had to quit watching/listening to the chinwags partway through the season cause I don’t have the time given that I like to watch a variety of content creators to get different opinions. I would love to see something shorter form like a condensed/edited version of the chinwag that’s cut down to ≈ 20 minutes and just hits the high points without all the waffle. I saw someone else comment this and I DEFINITELY agree, the polls need to be up way longer. they’re only up for a few hours sometimes and it seems to happen when I’m asleep. I even have tweet notifications on for you so I don’t miss it so that needs to be sorted out imo 😂

[@rafayasfi]

Merry Christmas Tommo have a great day man!!

[@luismasanchez9367]

Happy xmas, Thomas!

[@stefan6520]

I think the McLaren banger and clanger was Hungary, not Monza

[@PoZiTeV]

Suggestion:maybe rate drivers out of 10 based on their performance after every race weekend in the post race chinwag

[@jeanmkaufmann]

Merry Christmas!! 🌲 🙂🇨🇦

[@RyanSmith-hf7gc]

I agree, Baku was probably my favourite race of the year

[@joehynes2964]

Merry Christmas, Tommo!

[@ThatGuyGloomy]

Merry Christmas Tommo!

[@TheBriGuy129]

41:28 Charles and I were born 2 days apart, I don’t want to think about him being old cause I’ll be the same 🫣

[@ryanressemann2596]

A dedicated Minton camera in every video

[@danielbingham5609]

So I have not read all the comments, so if this was already said, I am sorry for repeating it. But I feel it would be a near segment called "Tommos team principal tid bits" where you before and after a race give your thoughts on what the team should do and then reflect on how they should shift. But it's more like a conversation between you and the drivers/ pit wall if that makes sense. Tha ks for all you do. Love your videos.

[@danielbingham5609]

Neat not near. My bad

[@cyan_oxy6734]

In Germany we already exchanged gifts and opened them. Now follow two days of stuffing our faces. Merry Christmas all 🎄🎄

[@nickwoodbridge6291]

38:59 I gotta ask do people seriously think an 8th is going to make lewis definitively better than michael cause to be honest you can't use stats to determine who the greatest is in a subjective sport

[@ShiningChris12]

One conclusion we can draw from these results is that the viewers are voting overwhelmingly for the top teams and drivers when it comes to bangers and clangers. Even though the underdog might have a better weekend relative to the performance of the car, the viewers will vote more towards the race winners, while tommo has a more balanced view. One example is the high number of votes for lando, mclaren or mercedes. The community somehow though that lando had better races than max, but voted for max in the general ranking. Bit mad

[@TomC8042]

Disagree tbh, the amount of times this year that Norris had the banger driive or one of the top3 but Tommo always picked someone else. 4 is probably too much but he should have had 2-3

[@ShiningChris12]

@@TomC8042why? All the races that he won (excluding sprints), are races where he either was lucky (miami), or he had some mistakes (singapore, zandvoort lost pole first turn). By that logic, verstappen should get banger driver for the first 7 races without australia, because he dominated way more than lando.

[@MoviWasTaken]

@@ShiningChris12not giving Lando at least one banger drive is quite unfair specially races like Singapore yes he did make few mistake but did that even effect his race at all? Dominated the entire weekend finished 20 seconds ahead of Max 40 seconds infront of his teammate in the same car almost got a clean sweep if it wasn’t for Danny going for the FL, penalizing him for mistakes that didn’t even effect his race is wild. No one else on the grid this year is held to this crazy standard people have for Lando.

[@ShiningChris12]

@@MoviWasTaken Don't compare it to this year, compare it to last year. Last year Max dominated 20 races with +20 second gaps, and only got 4-5 banger drives. This just shows that tommo does not necessarily favor dominance of the race leader. I don't think that Lando's Singapore was as dominant as most of Verstappen's races last year, so this is probably why I don't think its that unfair that tommo did not give him banger.

[@MoviWasTaken]

@ I like how you literally proved my point lol? Max got 4 - 5 banger drivers for dominating a entire race weekend in the fastest car, Lando does the same fastest FP2, FP3, Quali Pole, Leads every lap wins with a 20 second gap to 2nd and 40 second gap to 3rd in the same car almost gets fastest lap but that isn’t enough for a banger driver why because he almost hit the wall twice even though it didn’t affect his race at all? The standard people have set for Lando is basically impossible to achieve if anyone else did what Lando did that weekend they would have been banger driver, what I’m trying to say is that he deserved at least one banger driver in the entire season.

[@nicktrains2234]

Merry Christmas tommo, thanks for the video. Just to say, not giving lando a single banger all year is just ridiculous. Not even miami?

[@siimtokke3461]

Charles and Ferrari for me had a very "under the radar" season. Sure I can remember the wins, but I can't remember any of the highlights. I can't remember which race it was, but after the race people were surprised including myself how close Ferrari was in the points to RB and McLaren. People talk about how McLaren was "the best car since Miami", but people don't talk about how close Ferrari and RB were to McLaren since Miami. That is probably why Charles' and Ferrari's season feel so "under the radar". In the first 5 races, RB had 4 dominant performances, in the rest 19 I'd say McLaren had as big of a gap as RB did (at the start of the season) in 3 races (Hungary, Dutch, and Singapore). For the rest of the 16 races, the gap between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd was much closer. Plus RB wasn't 3rd fastest in those 19 races like a lot of people like to pretend. Again McLaren wasn't the clear nr 1 car for all those 19 races, for every pole Lando took. For some reason, people are pushing the narrative that McLaren was the clear favorite. Realistically those 19 races were close racing, with small gaps between teams, one weekend McLaren was the slightly better car, the next weekend Ferrari was, and the next RB was. Then on odd weekends, Merc got into the mix to be the best. About Lawrence and AM and not giving people time. Just look at McLaren. They and many reporters made so much noise about signing James Key from TR, he became their technical director in 2019. His first real impact came with the 2022 car and he was fired after 2 races in 2023 (24 races total in the groundforce era). Now McLaren is the Constructor champion. Also, Mike Krack has received much praise for what he has done as the team principal. It's so sad to hear in a year where McLaren completed the season with 0 DNFs Tommo ripping into Lando for almost crashing. Implying that Lando was as crash-happy as Max, or young Charles, or Russell. Also, on a side note, Max is still crashstappen. When it comes to wheel-to-wheel racing in equal (or somewhat equal) machinery Max is lacking. Max doesn't crash into others when he has the better car. Hold your horses Tommo, Max didn't get one over Ric more often than not. Of the almost 3 years they drove the same car Ric beat Max in the season standings 2-1. Plus in Ric's last he got some horrible luck with mechanical issues. Max got 22 podiums (5 wins, 9 2nd, and 8 3rd), and Ric got 19 podiums (4 wins, 5 2nd, and 10 3rd). Max scored 612 points and Ric 588 points. So I'd say they were pretty even.

[@josephvickers167]

You should do a quick blind list of predictions for next season before testing, then do the actual predictions post testing. Would be fun to see what changes

[@samuelbartram9611]

thank you tommo

[@andyyy2009]

Tommo! You should do a rating video of all the secret Santa presents the drivers bought for each other! See who’s given the best gifts over the last few years 😄

[@kinyuaa]

the intros kinda go hard you know...i like them

[@mayankarora2460]

Happy chrimus. Merry chrysler. Feliz navidad or whatever they say to checo

[@hoverpilder1905]

Hulkenburg was wonderful this season !!! All those podiu....

[@juanesninolorenzo3589]

26:23 tommo, whatch sports car racing😂

[@vmacattack]

running score of our bangers/clangers vs yours throughout the season. I also don't get notifications when your polls are up, I have to find them.

[@782claudia]

I dont want to make things too complicated but I like the idea of having bangers and clangers for both the top teams and the slower teams as they're generally is a top 4 or 5 and then everyone else, bc most people focus on the top teams and u focus on the lower teams so I think it would be good to have two sections

[@samoht-k2g]

The fact that Piastri was given 2 banger drives and Lando wasn't given anything shows how overrated Oscar is and how underrated Lando is. Picture it this way, If Oscar had performed like Lando and Lando had performed like Oscar, people would be saying Oscar had the better year. I think when rating performance expectation should be disregarded

[@ally-o-oreo6090]

I think when you’re talking about a subject or if someone says something that you’re going to reference, we need to see it on the screen especially for those of us watching after the fact we don’t see the chat so even if you have to put like a pop-up up or something after the fact to give us an idea on what was going on in the chat more that would be a big help as I’ve been watching a few of these and gotten completely lost on what was being discussed as a result of not having the chat Also would be really nice if you potentially looked into getting a few of your top subscribers and commenters to join you either through audio or video calls on these. It would be really nice to have people able to be included in that regard as well as seeing you partner up with a few of the other KZbinrs to do a few of these with them

[@F1Fan3025]

Menton Mondays with videos featuring him

[@paidquartz]

58:49 I predict that neither of the drivers will be interesting to see in the C45 next year.

[@jms4745]

Here's a idea tommo. Add your favourite mrnt of the grand prix. Not a big idea buts just some fun. Could be a battle, a overtake, or even like a radio message.

[@bigsmooshflopdong33]

I've got an Idea!!!! Chinwags after an eighth of mushrooms.

[@babyshark805]

The race is on for ‘26 engine development. In a few days the teams can start developing their ‘26 engines for the new regs. My question is where does this fall in the cost cap?? Do the teams just stop development for ‘25, they race with what they have?

[@TranscendBeyondTime]

Aaah going back to Rick 😌 shouldn't even have visited this channel

[@lk2829]

16:08 honey it's lestappen 😂, like carlando

[@TommoMcCluskey]

😂

[@babyshark805]

To say Max wasn’t dominate is crazy talk. He won 9 races while the other teams were trading wins. Watching RBR fall off a bit gives me hope that without Newey, Wheatley and with a driver that hasn’t done a season, there’s a chance for the other teams to really challenge.

[@declandouglas9602]

I see the vision of Aston Martin, trying to follow the Mercedes model of becoming relevant and cool again but until Stroll is removed from that second seat I can’t take it seriously as an investment

[@Stepheno0125]

I would love a collab with lawvs or P1 in 2025.

[@DelaneySeamus]

Merry Christmas everyone 🎁

[@Juhi118]

It would be better, if we could vote 2 drivers for clangers and bangers next season. A lot of times 1 vote is not enough.

[@aaronchantler2150]

Idea: Give us a bit more of biased Tommo. We are all fans and have our favourites - don’t always sit on the fence, we’re all human 😅

[@phodge9985]

Hamilton's contract is 3 years

[@benellis6480]

VIDEO IDEA Your Dream F1 2026 Grid! Name your dream 12 teams and dream 24 drivers for the 2026 season!

[@OoOd4v3OoO]

Alpine selling the stock of a sinking ship

[@intellectualhumour]

Happy holidays ❤🎉😊

[@save_KaJ]

1:05:40 I do that all the time😂

[@samoht-k2g]

Only Norris would be critisised for beating 2nd place by 20s and his teammate by 40s, because he ALMOST crashed into the wall (but didn't)

[@cameronlisowski8140]

Agenda

[@hamza-chaudhry]

1:05:30 That's totally me

[@EmJay-o8l]

Why are you not adding the race rating to the banger/clanger google form? Should give a more accurate representation I think.

[@TomC8042]

This shows my reason for my comments all year about trying everything you can not to give Norris banger drive... Not once in the year did you give it to Norris...

[@eliaminator2313]

The Ferrari will probably be with if not slightly ahead of the McLaren to start last season if the development path of this last season continues Ferrari ended the season with the better car most of the weekends to end the season I'm just not sure either Charles or Lewis will be able to get the drivers championship. Charles will probably go back into bottle job mode when given the chance to win a championship again and Hamilton we'll see hard to judge this last season age isnt on his size bit hes still Lewis Hamilton and would be great to see him win his 8th

[@juanignacioordoqui7539]

Leave the votes open for more time. The time is very tight for people from Americas.

[@aaron_ow]

🎄🎄🎄

[@Standard____]

Sorry tommo - a Liverpool fan

[@iainwalker5150]

NEW ZEALAND BIAS

[@glenrobinson10]

❌Not rating Norris because of him "almost crashing" in a 21 second win ✅Rating Leclerc based on hypotheticals of him in a top car (even though we've seen it) ✅Rating Russell based on being aggressive & mouthy even though we've seen how poor it makes his race craft ✅Rating Piastri based on potential growth (that didn't happen this year) because he's a chill guy Tommo loves a good "if."

[@abbzsolo205]

How about timestamps

[@Drew_2308]

baku best race over brazil? huh?

[@nicoiosa]

27:23

[@OoOd4v3OoO]

Many of the great drivers started out with an amazing season, The car is just off and Kimi new but stranger things have happened than him finishing top 3

[@qmc7091]

Merry Christmas

[@LB-vc2dm]

FP1 means nothing,

[@crazychimp1324]

No banger drive for lando , where is the bias Tommo