Reacting to our ENTIRE 2023 F1 Drivers Championship Predictions

[@jrdahl711]

You should do this prediction for the constructors as well next year.

[@kaiserconquests1871]

I'll be honest. After Bahrain I thought McLaren would be last in the constructors.

[@Codi95]

That's a thing since 2015, everytime expect for 2020,2021 and 2018 they started bad

[@Micfri300]

I thought mclaren would come 7th 8th and norris would leave to red bull or Mercedes.

[@NicotineRosberg]

Same. They were literally dogshit

[@PeterKKraus]

I thought 4th or 5th.

[@Tminus89]

I appreciate your honesty...

[@setajini]

Matt and Tommy, thank you for adding so much more value and excitement to the F1 season. Your commentary is both entertaining and insightful. Congratulations on the channel's success, it's been a pleasure to watch thus far! Can't wait to do this all again in 2024!

[@dallinorr6929]

My thoughts exactly! :)

[@Gaelic-Rex]

Matt Tommy, you guys could do a rookie recap segment in the off season where you recap the highs a lows of that seasons rookie drivers and predictions for their racing future. It would also be cool to include their driving history before F1. I’d watch that. Thank you for the content, you guys are ace.

[@NylzTube]

Kudos for the editing, who made Tommy’s 16 points look like Charles’ #16

[@RonReynolds]

I caught that too, and was surprised they didn't do Matt's score in those colors.

[@ΑΓΣΧ]

Max is a real talent. Broke both the Monza curse and the season opener one.

[@devilzuser0050]

More tongues in his a55.

[@eliasniemela5140]

Max was so fast, that monza curse came in singapore

[@tHebUm18]

"No one could've predicted McLaren's turnaround"... except McLaren who said before the season started that they realized they goofed and effectively had a B-spec car coming in a few months that just wasn't ready to start the season. I don't think anyone thought it'd be so strong, but they were extremely forthright about how bad their car would be to start and how much better the redesign would be. Literally anyone who listened and believed them expected a McLaren turnaround.

[@shaynegaudreault7829]

I think the best way of scoring points would be 3 points if you're dead on, 2 points if you're 1 away and 1 points if you're 2 away.

[@deir712]

I would suggest a 3 points when you're dead on (because that's hard) and keep the 1 point method as it is.

[@TheStargov]

I think they could make it like golf. The lower score the better, you get 0 points for getting it dead on and 1 point for every position away you are.

[@Bigtree771]

Who actually cares it’s just a bit of fun

[@deir712]

@@Bigtree771 well... I care even though it's for fun ☺️ it's just an advice. No ill willing and if Matt and Tommy decide to continue as they do, it's their show so who am I to get angry about it 😁 I'd still watch it as they make the best F1 podcast there is in town 😁 kudos!

[@davidaugustofc2574]

​@@TheStargov Genius, and it's very simple as well

[@adamnoakes2550]

Suggestion: show us a plot of Matt and Tommy's predicted vs actual positions for all the drivers (a perfect prediction would have all the points plotting on a centered diagonal line; a bad prediction has the points scattered far from this perfect line)

[@Cloxxki]

That's a pretty cool idea. Tommy may have been ahead for a while.

[@southerntw]

Would be super nice. Honestly, can't be bothered watching the whole video. In Tommo's vid, I'd usually skips to near end, find something interesting on the leaderboards and rewind to that bit. Save me time.

[@dillonquigley3218]

You guys should add those points to the race predictions. Spice up the championship more

[@amtam05]

Predicting stuff like this is notoriously difficult, apart from the inevitable Max ofcourse, there are so many factors and variables to be considered. It's almost as hard as predicting the weather for more than a few days ahead....😀 You guys did a decent job on it.

[@samuelp1227]

Good job guys! I followed you over from wtf1 and dont miss a video. Been watching every race for 3 straight years now. Cheers from the U.S.A.

[@F1baby_16]

Hello matt and Tommy. Love the content you two make. Much love.

[@bram6567]

Prove it

[@inorbit5236]

Great Job! You nailed it going solo! CONGRATS! A success story to be shared! Best of luck moving forward! Cheers from Montreal!

[@HaloseBetaM14]

Next time it should be 3 points if you are bang on 2 for the closest and 1 for draw.

[@jiggy7108]

I decided to calculate to Qualifying Championship: 1 Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull 452 2 Charles LECLERC Ferrari 339 3 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari 271 4 George RUSSELL Mercedes 208 5 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes 201 6 Lando NORRIS McLaren 191 7 Sergio PÉREZ Red Bull 169 8 Fernando ALONSO Aston Martin 160 9 Oscar PIASTRI McLaren 122 10 Pierre GASLY Alpine 60 11 Lance STROLL Aston Martin 55 12 Esteban OCON Alpine 51 13 Nico HÜLKENBERG Haas 48 14 Alexander ALBON Williams 40 15 Kevin MAGNUSSEN Haas 22 16 Yuki TSUNODA Alpha Tauri 19 17 Valtteri BOTTAS Alfa Romeo 15 18 Daniel RICCIARDO Alpha Tauri 13 19 ZHOU Guanyu Alfa Romeo 11 20 Logan SARGEANT Williams 7 21 Liam LAWSON Alpha Tauri 1 22 Nyck DE VRIES Alpha Tauri 0 1 Red Bull 621 2 Ferrari 610 3 Mercedes 409 4 McLaren 313 5 Aston Martin 215 6 Alpine 111 7 Haas 70 8 Williams 47 9 Alpha Tauri 33 10 Alfa Romeo 26

[@jiggy7108]

I included the Sprints, but didn't count grid penalties in this

[@D.H.1987]

So we can conclude that it is very hard to predict a f1 season

[@kondriedo2488]

Imho next time you should do predictions before testing, so 100% blind. You can have more fun, doing it that way! Cheers :)

[@dorklyasmr6017]

Congrats Tommy and Matt for a really awesome year of fun F1 content. So glad to see how successful you guys have been!

[@TheFerret22ca]

Next year you two should also predict the WCC, it would make it more interesting.

[@garylasorella7997]

Any thoughts about checking out other racing series during the off season or another series alongside f1?

[@janvesely3125]

Could you do a comparison between the championship standings and your average rating standings? Would be cool to discuss and show how drivers make difference to the their cars

[@paulasilva3382]

14:50 YES HE ISSSS OSCARRRRRRRRRR

[@greenlantern7959]

George finishing P8 when Mercedes managed P2 in the constructors is rightly disappointing, especially given how close the front of the non-Max field was. He seems to be cracking under the demand to be both fast and consistent.

[@snugbear7250]

I don't think it's as bad as it's being made out. Sure he made a couple of costly mistakes - but he was also unlucky with 3 DNF's due to car faults which didn't help. Without one or two of those DNF's he would have been right in the mix with Everyone up to Alsono. I think the fact the Merc managed P2 was more a testiment to how close it was this year (George still picked up 43% of Merc's total points).

[@kylem324]

This coming year you should raise the stakes. Low score for your predictions… does a shoey this time next year?

[@SixOThree]

I say no points for predicting max finishing first.

[@reina.0_0]

Matt dominating the predictions like Max

[@kimonskretas5610]

you could count the difference between predicted position and actual position, and see who had more accurate predictions

[@ahmadeus8427]

For me the exact position was right : Max, Perez, Hamilton, Leclerc, Ocon, Zhou. & Constructicons just Red Bull The rest of it is just off 1-2 or maybe way off 😂 This thing happen because - William suprisingly not dead last - McLaren somehow doing great - Aston Martin make big jump, i know gonna be at front but not like that

[@LastBanditCrafts]

"Max Verstappen is inevitable" great quote!

[@UprightJamal]

Wast thinking about a "lowest points win" system, where you get fewer 'points' for better predictions (ie, For De Vries p22; Matt gets 3 points (p19) and Tommy gets 5 (p17)); was really rooting for you Tommy, but Matt still wins 45 to 50!!

[@sircomplexiii9197]

thank you so much for the video ls bro❤ from south africa❤🇿🇦

[@RadityaPramanaPutra2001]

Greetings from 🇮🇩 to 🇿🇦

[@sircomplexiii9197]

@@RadityaPramanaPutra2001 greetings 🙏🇲🇨

[@RadityaPramanaPutra2001]

@@sircomplexiii9197 Yep, you're welcome. 🙏🇮🇩🇿🇦

[@RadityaPramanaPutra2001]

Thank you once again for this year, Matt and Tommy! Almost 365 days since you guys left WTF1 for this channel, and i know that effort will never betray the results. Anyway, see you later in 2024! 👋🙋‍♂️🏎️🏁🏃💨 02/12/2023 05:49 At My Local Time.

[@andrewhazlewood4569]

If you scored based on total delta Tommy won 44 to 47

[@rachelkoiks]

5:54 Why are we looking at DR in papaya when we’re talking about him returning to F1 with the bull family? It’s weird

[@misterlestari5772]

also add an estimate point next to the predicted position next year to make more spicy and interesting

[@Silentdoesyt]

Went along with it with my list made after testing , would have won with some lucky Zhou , ocon , hulkenberg bang ons haha

[@Billi84-MaBoi]

I had no idea that you guys had a KZbin channel… I’m glad I found it!

[@kaylanlayton]

Pls do the predictions before testing so it’s more unpredictable

[@HCL_Plus]

Awesome to see the predictions after the season.. perhaps you could also have a constructors' title predictions for the next one?

[@gabrielstevens3884]

Other than than the top 2 its really hard as there just wasn't a clear 2nd fastest team this season as it really did seam to change each race as some cars suited certain tracks more than others. Plus one lap vs full race performance was so different too. Ferrari for me probably would have had p2 in the bag but tyre wear from them was so bad this year.

[@chillfish702]

UPDATE: I’m here in Vegas and Red Bull merch showed up in a Walmart here today. I saw A $40 RED BULL HOODIE!!! True, there were size small and 2xl, but at 40 bones you know we rocking a massive ridiculous double X L and loving it. 😅

[@raduantoniu]

Let's go Matt, Charles Leclerc 2024 WC!

[@theodorezanello]

This year do it before pre season testing

[@Targeting-Must-End]

Keep up the show guys. Very good.

[@DragosMarcean]

Would be nice if the prediction winner out of you two would win something at the end of the year. You can add a rule throughout the year to not abuse the max verstappen pole/win prediction or haas out of points and at the end of the year, the winner gets something like an all expense trip payed to x Grand Prix for the following season out of the company money. Would be more engaging. Cheers!

[@francesco153]

George still makes a lot of mistakes in the race because just on qualifying he is on level with Lewis 11v11

[@overvieweffect9034]

that was really close between you 2 actually, all it would take is 1 prediction for tommy to tie it up

[@adam346]

In the future you should set out a prediction for how many drivers will actually drive in the series first and then base the rest of your predictions off that.. not the first time you guys have been caught out by this.

[@sportinfo4898]

Can you guys rate the cars of 2023 and your reasonings? From 1 to 10. My ratings: RB: 10/10 Aston Martin: 8/10 Ferrari: 7/10 Mercedes: 5/10 Williams: 7/10 McLaren: 8/10 Alpha Touri: 4/10 Alfa Romeo: 5/10 Haas: 3/10 Alpine: 7/10

[@dachathwei]

If you instead give points for the amount of positions you were off by for every driver and add them together, Matt had 48 points, Tommy had 50. Lowest wins. Very tight indeed

[@matthiascerebri3315]

Williams in P7 with such a strong Albon and such a weak Sargeant who still keeps his seat is incredible

[@trevorhintz1290]

First got into F1 early last season. Gonna stick around for a while.

[@juliusfucik4011]

I have been watching since 1988. F1 today is more likable than ever before. The connection we as viewers can have with the drivers is so much more intense. They were pretty anonymous back then. If you want to see old races, which is fun, depending on the race, get F1TV. It has an archive of all F1 history. It gets me through the winter break 😊

[@Connor19527]

Bookmark this: the grid at the end of next year will have 2 different drivers than the start. Not including those on new teams, but totally new drivers

[@Cander9966]

Can you do a 2024 prediction prior to testing and one post testings?

[@ashleyw6728]

Surely the most ridiculous fact is that both haas cars qualified in the top 5 and finished last

[@bangaverageben596]

Hopefully Paul De Vries can pull hisself together next season and climb up the drivers standings 👀

[@c0mplex564]

12:07 you used the wrong formula but got the correct answer

[@simonf.8271]

Matt: "I thought there's gonna be 20 drivers" Also Matt: Predicts Danny Ric to replace Nyck de Vries... which one is it now Matt?! Because it can't be both :D

[@stuartclifton4764]

Solid first year for the channel lads, here's to the next one!

[@Zzzlol94]

Everyone's watching every piece of F1 content to cope with the cancellation of silly season.

[@crazyjayr]

I hope thumbnail face goes away in 2024.

[@teamrainbow7674]

I almost made a genius prediction, putting De Vries at 21st assuming that he’d get close to 0 points and thinking that Drugovich was gonna jump in for at least the first weekend for Stroll and bag some points. Obviously that didn’t happen, and yet De Vries somehow managed to end up even lower than I predicted

[@CareyBoeckx]

This video was so inspiring, it made me want to go out and chase my dreams.

[@PeterKKraus]

RUS was picked way too often for top 5 qualifiers.

[@eamonahern7495]

Matt is the Max Verstappen of P1 predictions.

[@Gavin_1990]

Love the work guys enjoyed all your videos over the 23 season made a not the best season a good bit better from your content. Also please come to Dublin to do your live show please.

[@siimtokke3461]

I call this "Max's paradox"- when Perez drives RB then everyone says it's the best car and he should be P2 easily, but when Max drives RB then all of a sudden RB is the slowest car by 2 min and it's only Max's talent that puts him to P1. But on your skepticism about AM. To be fair AM finished 2022 as the 4th (???) fastest car behind RB, Ferrari, and Merc. They had a really good trajectory for their development. Just as no one predicted the rise McLaren would have, no one also predicted the drop AM would have. The fact that you didn't go with AM hype is surprising to me. And this gives me hope for McLaren to do really well next year.

[@officialWWM]

I’m gonna miss you guys, have a great Christmas!

[@trevorhintz1290]

Even though Williams is bringing back Logan Sargeant, will he make it to the end of the season with them?

[@leoarevalo6786]

Yes

[@soundscape26]

Not many teams who aren't called Red Bull or Alpha Tauri usually get rid of drivers midseason so I think he will.

[@2Fast4Mellow]

Next year also predict the ranking of the teams

[@herbertwilliams1608]

De Veris dialed his Alpha for Riccardo to score points.

[@hugodiazgarcia1266]

Congratulations to Matt and Tommy for their predictions for 2023 F1, close to what happened in the real-world drivers championship!!!

[@GhostOfLorelei]

Mmmm...maybe golf scoring next time? Ie., if you're on it's 0 points, and how far off you are is how many points you get. Lowest score wins.

[@prathameshfulekar9848]

I like this video of you guys, that how wrong was ur prediction on Alex Albon. I saw ur 2023 predictions video before when u predict Alex p19 I was like how wrong you guys going to look after 2023 season. Coz I know he classic aggressive driver that many doesn’t see. Everyone remember his 2020 season but not remembering his rookie season 2019, when he was a rookie of the year and he did finish almost p5 in all race he race in redbull. Even beat onRussian experience driver kivyat in some races. So I am happy to see Alex prove you wrong. Even ur happy with his performance.

[@sambahuleyan5809]

Yaay we have a new World Champion Matt 🎉🎉 Racing for Matt Racing F1 team 😬.

[@louiskwok2317]

I would suggest if the difference between prediction and acutal position is more than 5, you should have 1 point deducted 😊

[@ashg5674]

Matt saying go on Fernando for getting 4th when Aston finished last year. Bro this year, the car was lightyears ahead. What are you smoking, good sir ?

[@gercobosch2870]

I feel like you guys really talked down to Mercedes, since Although it was third fastest car. It was the whole season third fastest. Where as AMR starting 2nd fastest, then the McLaren resurgance and falling away a bit and giving Ferrari a bit of air and then constantly McLaren and Ferrari changing 4th and 2nd fastest car.

[@varunchowdary599]

You should not get a point for being 5 places wrong. Points within + or - 2, whoever close gets points, or nobody gets points. But great video.

[@martinhalaj9604]

Idk if it is just light but Matt should probably wash his hair

[@andrewcurtis4568]

I'd rather have 1 grand prix win and finish 7th than finish 4th win zero wins.

[@WalkingToKatahdin]

Well done this year fellas

[@Cloxxki]

Apologize to Alex Albon by sending him some P1 merch?

[@tjitsekoster9379]

It's insane to think Williams chose to keep Sargeant after the season he's had. But good for him. I hope he can improve.

[@PeterKKraus]

They kept Latifi 3 years. Albon has been in F1 7 years and this was his first decent one.

[@marielapena3686]

​​@@PeterKKrausthose are lies .Alex was in F1 2019-2020 and 2022-2023.And Latifi was much better,because in wet he was a god and he got points more than once.Sargeant has proved nothing.Fortunately,2024 will be his last year because O'Sullivan, Browning and Colapinto are stronger than him.

[@deandrewaters8468]

What are thoughts on Leclerc's future?

[@lmr4403]

What people now call "a decent end" by Perez, is still quite poor (DNF, p4, p3, p4).

[@SixOThree]

Hard to believe he was winning races at the beginning. I am still convinced internal forces at redbull hampered him.

[@soundscape26]

Well, you can sweeten the deal by only counting the 3 last races... had Perez scored mostly P3's and P4's and he would be fine, that's the kind of performance Red Bull needs from him, not what he did at Monaco, Japan or Mexico.

[@Bigtree771]

@@soundscape26well no in that red bull anything less than 2nd isn’t good enough

[@soundscape26]

@@Bigtree771 So that's why they decided to keep him?

[@Bigtree771]

@@soundscape26 they kept him because no one is willing to go next to max. The only driver that would be willing is Ricciardo but red bull know he probably will be about the same level as Perez

[@laurenmp7486]

To think that if Checo had a few more 2nds Red Bull would've had over 900 points in the constructors title, how do you even try to wrap your mind around that?

[@luc5901]

How the hell does it takes 26 minutes to check a prediction.

[@Berrraaaa]

How come the podcast and the youtube video arent the same length? Sometimes I feel like the visuals can help me understand but I dont wanna feel like I’m missing content so I just listen to the pod if that makes sense! Love your work, and as a newer fan to F1 thank you for helping me understand things better🥰

[@timmartin8088]

The Tube of You does not algorithm well with logger formats. So, they edit down for this platform to please the math gods.

[@Berrraaaa]

@@timmartin8088 alright fair, thank you! All hail the youtube gods😇

[@joostpeek]

Charles’ performance is bad for matt’s health. One more year of Ferrari dissappointments and Matt is looping like bernie Ecclestone

[@gauravsashikumar692]

Mad respect to Lewis Hamilton hating the car and putting it P3 in the standings 🫡

[@Perfection100]

These vids are fire lol

[@hanstubben]

Do it next season before testing!

[@hamza-chaudhry]

19:35 20:55

[@hamza-chaudhry]

20:06

[@willy.1369]

I can see the pain in Tommy's eyes.

[@brucemckay7828]

No one could predict McLaren's turnaround, except Mikka.

[@devilzuser0050]

That P1-P2 was so hard. 😐

[@waverod9275]

I'm *still* not convinced that Max won't win this year's Singapore GP somehow.

[@bradjasperson134]

That's the best word I've heard used to describe Max Verstappen, inevitable.

[@thedandude]

Absolute drought of uploads from fanny head has led me straight back to the forehead

[@marcusstirling1385]

Bellie hamm bellie hamm bellie goallllllll