Reacting to our ENTIRE 2024 F1 Championship Predictions (20th - 1st)

[@Zzzlol94]

Wait, you DIDN'T predict 24 drivers in a 20 driver championship? Literally unwatchable.

[@21cds72]

😂😂😂

[@QUADRANTRsrl]

Had to get eye surgery after this

[@Xenuos]

Can't wait to see 28 in a 22 car championship in 2026

[@paulami1158]

The fact that there are 24 drivers in a 20 car line-up is hilarious.

[@krigogsmerte]

Partly thanks to Sainz' appendicitis, and Ocon's Alpinedicitis

[@soundscape26]

Go to 1994 and you'll find a total of 45 drivers for a 26 car grid 😄

[@wombat4191]

I find it funny that people are repeatedly surprised by this when almost every year there are some step-ins for illnesses and such, and a driver getting booted and replaced isn't that rare either.

[@lunaticgamer75]

@@wombat4191you’re replying to a possible bot

[@jajasking9652]

​@@wombat4191normally it is like 1 or 2 drivers, but this season we got 4 extra drivers

[@ColinP-yo2mz]

Congrats to you both on completing your second season, this channel has unsurprisingly been top quality since day 1. It only ever feels like two mates (not colleagues) talking about F1.

[@cameron9292]

Mates?

[@twanlange2827]

@@cameron9292yes, mates.

[@barrymckockinner8476]

​@@cameron9292I hope you find some someday

[@daturatear]

@@cameron9292matts

[@JamesBD05]

@@cameron9292 m8s

[@OwenLeBlanc-l7h]

I'm actually kind of surprised Checho got 8th. It feels like he was constantly out of the points. It's so easy to forget how he did kind of OK for the first few races.

[@basdevaal9370]

First few races felt like a different season, but it was this season. I get what you're saying.

[@Umar-gw6fy]

Yeah redbull were still quite fast compared to everyone else at the start of the season

[@jajasking9652]

Start of the season was really strong for him, and the closest competence wasn't even close, imagine aston martin being good, alonso would have smooked him, hell, haas being good would have had hulkenberg smoking him, or RB being competent and tsunoda would have done better Edit: Alpine being good and gasly would have smooked him

[@iSkully99]

Everyone 9th and lower had a much harder time scoring points during the season. The first few races where he scored a few podiums get you really far in that situation.

[@Infiltator2]

Yeah because the Red Bull was so far ahead. He was still 30-40s behind Max but that was okay because he was still 2nd

[@oxSam11]

You should replay the clip of your Checo predictions. Not only did you think he would be second, but you said it was INSANE that anyone would rank him lower 🤣🤣

[@jamesmiller7712]

At the time Red Bull were deemed to be unstoppable

[@mysticthundersheeshgod499]

@@jamesmiller7712so was the case last year. The rb19 was stupid fast and he still underperformed severely. The only reason he finished p2 in 2023 was because the field was far off the pace of the rb19

[@sofiaarevalotoledo9147]

They are eating their words 😂

[@teongreen5254]

@@mysticthundersheeshgod499 He underperformed because the car gets optimized towards Max during the course of the season. He and Max have completely different driving styles, so a car thats completely optimized towards maxs style is hard for him to drive. Thats also the reason why at the beginning of the season he is much closer to Max and falls off more and more. Open your eyes guys. Its so obvious...

[@GonzoDonzo]

Hes always been a b tier driver and its always been obvious.

[@m_nana104]

If anyone could predict this season correctly. Please let me know next weeks lottery numbers

[@flashzeul7968]

i got top 9 pefectly

[@Gamurboi]

i predicted it perfectly

[@shaytrueblueaussie]

@@GamurboiSure buddy 🤓

[@Gamurboi]

@shaytrueblueaussie trust me, i know what im talking about

[@CadJuice]

I cashed out 89 billion bitcoin for predicting the grid perfectly. Unfortunately I can't give you the lottery numbers, because I got inside information from the FIA how the season was gonna go. *Blatant satire*

[@Mossic]

Tommy “The Sneeze” Bellingham

[@albonooo23]

😂

[@mikehipperson]

Tommy the snot bubble!

[@BvG_Venom]

Worst Mob name ever

[@JamesBD05]

@@BvG_Venom 'you come to me, on the day of my weekly allergies checkup'

[@Santi-hh1tp]

If you used the f1 points system so that a correct guess is 25 points, one off is 18, 2 off is 15 and so on till 9 off 1 and 10 or more 0, then Matt ends up with 292 and Tommy with 270

[@crazycjk]

Well it looks like the eventual 2025 predictions video will need a new category: how many drivers will be ranked by the end of the championship!? Don't think many people would have guessed 24 for this season!

[@caterinavega-l2q]

The top 8-9 were fairly guessable, but 10-20 absolutely mayhem considering all the experts analysing pre-season testing.

[@edymiguel4247]

Yeah, Checo really threw a wrench in the predictions there

[@mandel-j4x]

new target for 2025: believe in my self like tommy believed in stroll

[@michaelwilkie35]

In Tommy’s defence Lance was in 10th for quite a while but once even Alonso was nowhere with the car, (until the last 2 races) there was zero chance he’d stay there.

[@mandel-j4x]

@ Absolutely! It was not that impossible for stroll to finish tenth considering the how the car was for the first part of the season. It’s just that in the end he wasn’t enough. But it was funny seeing how even Tommy seamed questioning himself for that amount of trust in him.

[@SuicidalLemonade]

You should do this with f1 style points. So each driver is a race, 25 points for a correct guess, 18 for 1 off, 15, for 2 off ect ect

[@eliashardy9528]

damn thats a great suggestion

[@MichaelDemko]

They claim to have struggled to add up the 1s and 2s though... do we really want to make it harder on them?

[@LorenzoCorrado19]

Sounds cool

[@John14710]

M8, if it took them like…a week to do 1/2+1/2 imagine with a podium points system 😂😂

[@Paul-zk2tn]

I think they should just do 5 points for the correct placement, 3 for one away, 2 for two away, and 1 for three away. Similar to what you said, but more simplified.

[@joaotess2562]

Hey Matt and Tommy. I’d love to see you guys do a video about the F2 season in retrospect. I know you normally don’t talk about it in your videos, but considering the hype in the beggining of the season and the sheer number of F2 drivers debuting in F1 this year and next year, I think it could be a really cool video.

[@samuelsiltala119]

Yeah kinda like a season review video of like 40-50 minutes. Even if it is F2, I think a season review type of 1 video will get enough views.

[@FrostyFrostySnow]

Really impressed at Matt finishing P19 in a 2 horse race

[@norwegianknightrider]

The buzzer was quite annoying for good predictions. 1 away is not a bad attempt

[@pault5045]

You guys should score the predictions on golf style rules. The "points" you get are the difference in the actual vs. predictions and the lowest total points wins. A correct prediction is 0 points and if you predict p20 but they finish p15 it's 5 points.

[@BryTee]

I assume the 4 unknown drivers would get skipped over.

[@pault5045]

@BryTee yeah. I didn't account for driver swaps or subs scoring points but it's hard to account for the unknown like that in any scoring system.

[@BryTee]

@@pault5045 I like the idea though. Since being off by 1 is very close and should get something, similarly off by 2, ... Perfect or nothing seems unfair.

[@jdselders8010]

0:04 truly an endless font of creativity, you two. Every video I think surely you'll run out of ideas one of these days, but I'm beginning to realize maybe my mind is just too small.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

There was another time the second driver to a champion finished in 8th. 1994. So 30th anniversary! Who? Jos Verstappen! 😂

[@ivan_andrew]

Yeah. And Jos didnt get a full season i believe

[@alextaylor9778]

Breakdown of other prediction video. Biggest Good Surprise: Both: Yuki - did a decent job getting 30 points, but finished 12th in driver standings. Biggest Flop: Matt: Alonso - finished 9th, and won the class B fight with 70 total points. he did good. Tommy: Merc - team finished 4th well Infront of the 5th place team. merc drivers also won multiple times this year. they did decent. Loses Race Seat: Matt: Sergio Perez - Kept his seat till end of year. Tommy: none - failed, Logan and Danial lost seats. New Race Winner: Matt: Norris - came second with multiple wins. he passed. Tommy: Both - Also correct. Oscar and Norris got wins. Biggest Meme on the Grid: Matt: Oscar - He did a great job. didn't have too many meme moment so don't know if this counts. Tommy: Hass - did fantastic, was in the fight for 6th in constructers but lost out to alpine. failed World Champion: Matt: Norris - close but failed so hard in a couple races and lost it. Tommy: Max - Won and with a decent margin to finish with. Crazy Prediction Matt: Leclerc more wins than poles - Charles got 3 poles and 3 wins. failed technically. Tommy: Rb finish in front of Alpine - nope Alpine got 6th, RB got 8th. Total Points (personal Grading): Matt: 2 Tommy: 3

[@soundscape26]

Matt predicted Lando the world champion but Max P1? 🤔

[@alextaylor9778]

@soundscape26 indeed.

[@soundscape26]

@@alextaylor9778 Either Matt was after some loophole or he had one too many that day 😄

[@calumbishop7082]

"Loses Race Seat: Matt: Sergio Perez". To be fair to Matt, how Sergio kept his seat despite arguably costing Red Bull the Constructors is anyone's guess.

[@NIGERIAN_K]

Oscar did have quite a few memes, like the one with Charles Leclerc, where he said he is Charles Son or whatever, something like that, id count it...

[@mrmarecki1]

Video idea for the offseason: was Perez's performance really the worst in history when compared to his teammate? What other cases were there of second drivers getting a similar beating?

[@hassantaibaly293]

There was a guy in the 70s who didnt score a point while his teammate ended up winning the WDC (i believe that was fittipaldi)

[@LSB001]

@@hassantaibaly293 Completely different point system, so it's not comparable. If you look at where they finished in the race and award points using the modern point system, it would probably look very different. DNFs were also a much bigger factor. It's not rare that half of all races would end with an exploded engine.

[@hassantaibaly293]

@@LSB001 true, but still a terrible performance

[@aliakseimemelau3]

Here's a useless stat for you. For each place from 1st to 20th, which driver was classified on that place the most (and the number of times it happened). Tie-breaker: number of times classified +/-1 from a target place. 1 Verstappen (9) 2 Norris (6) 3 Leclerc (7) 4 Leclerc (5 | 10 - TB) 5 Sainz (5) 6 Sainz (4 | 6) 7 Russel (4 | 5) 8 Piastri (5) 9 Hamilton (4) 10 Ocon (3) 11 Hulkenberg (7) 12 Magnussen (6) 13 Ricciardo (5) 14 Stroll (4) 15 Zhou (6) 16 Bottas (7) 17 Sargeant (5) 18 Zhou (3) 19 Zhou (2 | 4) 20 Sargeant (2)

[@martinprince8253]

I predict Tommy and Matt are gonna have an amazing 2025 F1 season with us

[@DrZuppo]

Been watching F1 since Boutsen raced senna. Last few years off F1 would not be the same without you guys. Keep it up!

[@FixiSlaptaccount]

Tommy - good at predicting bad teams Matt - good at predicting good teams

[@Marbeary]

This season was so unpredictable but that is why I loved this season. Next season is already starting to get wild.

[@frdml01]

Tommy on Verstappen P1, not expecting it to be "this close"? It was still a 62 points difference between P1 and P2 at the end, so quite a margin! It is kind of a curse for Verstappen, people by now expect magic, and when he "just performs", it is kind of dissapointing.

[@soundscape26]

When you consider Max clinched the 2023 title by 290 points yes, 62 points ends up being much closer than anticipated

[@lorenzomarchesi1471]

People were expecting a dominant red bull and a Perez P2 and with him being 100/150 points from Verstappen like the year before, so it kinda makes sense saying that the championship was closer than expected

[@calumbishop7082]

I mean in fairness the gap in 2023 was 290 points between 1st and 2nd. So compared to that.

[@ljohansson6496]

At the start of the Brazil GP the virtual difference was only 18 points, with 3 Grand Prix to go. At that moment it felt pretty close.

[@BrandoN-ie1np]

62 points are closed considering how dominant the Red Bull was for half of the season... Even Checo managed to finish P2 multiple times tell you about how Rocketship the Red Bull was

[@Isherz314]

Thank you guys for another year!

[@bloodharrier3333]

Gasly might be the driver of the year. Overperformed while driving a trash bin, cleanly, without costing the team much money.

[@sammoore3687]

Not even close💀

[@LSB001]

Verstappen was driver of the year. Russell runner up. George Russell would've won 4 races this year if Merc hadn't screwed him over. Possibly even 5. The only reason the points were even remotely close with Hamilton is because Russell got 0 points in races were Hamilton got 25.

[@En_Joshi-Godrez]

Gasly is driver of the year. Everyone else here is coping and seething

[@bloodharrier3333]

Verstappen and Russel were also great. To be sure. Maybe surprise of the year for Gasly. I just think Kick/Sauber had the next worst car throughout the year besides Alpine. And Gasly did a great job considering everything.

[@bloodharrier3333]

Leclerc is my favorite driver here. Was just trying to be objective, and Gasly had an exceptional clean year and outperformed the Alpine car. In my humble opinion.

[@ChicaneryF1]

Thank you guys for another amazing year of content! We appreciate you guys putting so much time and effort into this community 🎉

[@SirKnum]

Congratulations to Matt for beating Tom in equal machinery!

[@OfficialWilly]

It must feel good knowing how well you guys have done coming out the back of WTF1 - multiple times more active viewers now

[@darinjost902]

Next season, instead of driver rankings, you should predict their average finishing position. Take their total placements and divide it by 24. That'll give a lot more accurate result and be a little different from the norm.

[@ProgramKiraTV]

Surprisingly 20/24 drivers scored points this season. Pretty wild

[@vojtechdrozd858]

Thanks for this season boys. You make me informed about F1, and bring value to the whole F1 community.

[@IbokRock811]

Thank you guys for a great season once again 👏👏👏

[@HashbrownShelfie]

I would love to see more of those "unedited" moments, it always adds to the vibes.

[@sash1440]

You guys should do a destructors standing review featuring some major crashes of the year

[@offcourse9241]

When it comes time to start talking about next years predictions, I would be intersted to hear a discussion around if and/or when the budget cap will start to (or not) rebalance team performances.

[@hamza-chaudhry]

2024: 11:42 20:16 Ver: 13:44 14:48

[@Strand0410]

To be fair, the RB19 was so OP that last season was like a 20 man swimming meet if two guys were allowed jetskis, yet Perez still almost lost it to a guy doing freestyle. Given that dominance and momentum, many expected another RBR 1-2. Turns out when Checo 'only' gets (at worst) the third best car, he chokes like mad.

[@marcnunn-ne3gt]

Bloody love this channel!

[@mgardiner2725]

P1 slept hard on George Russell.

[@Brossano22]

How can people still get his first name wrong?! 2:38

[@danielmetcalf]

Right?! Double T twice, easy

[@razorgxp]

Do a community poll for the results for next season as a competitor for a 3rd competitor.

[@F1-Passion]

Stay passionate Matt it’s the only thing we have.

[@Badstingray]

For each driver the points should be the difference between the predicted and actual position. A perfect round would be zero points.

[@SupaaRaphael]

I predicted with friends that Russel would have beaten Lewis, and they said I was mad, that 2022 was just a fluke. I said "Actually, I think 2023 was a fluke, and Russel was gonna beat Lewis again in 2024. Looks like I was right. Close call, but right :)

[@Nathan-qc4gz]

You'll have to both throw in a couple driver swap guesses for next year's predictions!

[@JAL1403]

It’s been awesome to go on the f1 2024 journey with you guys, hope to continue next year. Thank you Matt Gallagher and Tom Bellingham 👏

[@GamerSloth2275]

Next year will be banging with the predictions!

[@ConnorPenfold]

Love the video ❤, you should make some replacement driver predictions in next years version

[@multidisaster6]

finishing 21st in a season while still having scored points twice is absolutely hilarious ngl

[@arnaudj.5314]

Everyone’s acting like Alpine is ’’the best of the rest’’ car in 2024, but in reality isn't Aston Martin the real best of the rest car? It’s actually only Alonso scoring points regularly in the first part of the season that made us think they were the last of the top teams, but if look at the races since this summer, they've really been off the pace a lot, Alonso scoring too much point for what they are worth

[@Duval-In-The-Wall]

Alpine were quick for like 5 races, and caught lucky SC/red flags in 2 of those lol

[@sanxi34]

For next year, do the full-time drivers and wild prediction; how many substitute drivers will we have in 2025? That way you two get a change of another point that is not an N/A

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

"As the real Charles Leclerc fan..." I thought Matt was going to teleport to Tommy's room and suplex him.

[@VagabondJim65]

How many nights we at? Good call. Race car drivers' have a great saying that I apply to my life everyday: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. It's so true. Keep relaxing.

[@ricardorodrigues9661]

Didnt chat vote on this aswell would be fun too see if chat was the real winner

[@trevorhintz1290]

Next season you should take a point away from your total if your prediction is at least 5 spots off.

[@curtishoffmeister9399]

The competition was close-ish. Well done, boys.

[@federicosilvestri5527]

I suggest a new point system: You start at 0 and subtract the difference between prediction and actual position. That way you take into account *how* wrong or right you've been. Whoever is closest to zero wins

[@dylanyoules4995]

Tom at the end: ‘It’s not skill, it’s luck’ ;)

[@jivyajinn4144]

Predictions pretty similar between you guys. Would have liked to see some more wild and outlandish predictions.

[@DumbledoresArmy456]

What if your predictions next year include possible new drivers, you could open the podcast revealing how many drivers will have raced in the coming season. Guessing who may be replaced and by who. It could add extra drama into the show and adjust for new drivers coming in and kinda ruining your predictions. You two do a great job all season long, thank you 👏👏

[@alexandrehuot3326]

Next year's predictions will be totally insane!

[@deanpierce9048]

Personally, I think these schools should be added to the prediction scores overall, it would add a lot more jeopardy to this final video, and they are still predictions after all

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

How does Oscar magically go faster and have more grip passing on the outside? He makes it look so easy.

[@winapp22]

Been waiting to see if you get that point for more wins than poles for leclerc… it was tied…. You should get it!!

[@alcapony5412]

Next time you should add graphics on the side of both of your lists so we can see points tally and order

[@TomBomb259]

Fun fact: Charles started the season with less race wins than Checo and finished the season with as many wins as Ricciardo

[@Trunkenb0lT]

I really don't understand why you only count the drivers starting the season. They are the only ones you predicted, so the rest shoul not be put in consideration. Take Zhou for example: he finished 20th with bottas and sargeant behind him, so a net "18"... much better to compare

[@mrcasinoo556]

Tbf should of just ruled out the 4 stand ins and gone with how your standings would be because Tommy essentially got Zhou correct /and makes your predictions more accurate

[@Nekonaut_aka_Jebus]

You won the "Less Washed" prize!!

[@michaelfierman3256]

Hey, congrats Rein on reaching your goal after a tough summer, but more importantly on growing your channel the way you have. I guess we both took the "safe step" of not 2x LEC and I can't regret it too much even though I probably would have ended up at around 1500 or so instead on 2219🌎, but it was my best season so far, so i'm quite happy. The streams have been fantastic and I think it is very smart that you keep the first half of them devoted to the main questions of the race weekend and wait until hour 2 to do the individual team analysis as lets face it, most of us are not interested in other team problems. One suggestion I have : if you have the time you could engage more on Twitter and I think that would grow the channel here by significant margins. One question: do you think the game developers might change the price algorithm now that they know we have cracked it?

[@En_Joshi-Godrez]

@michaelfierman3256 this is chatGPT 100%

[@jinxthepetrock]

Good luck trying to predict next season. If either of you score as well as this year I'll be amazed.

[@Mortimer992]

I believe that if two or more people finish with the same amount of points the one with less races should be ranked higher.

[@spencerboland8540]

Next year you guys should add a prediction for “Added driver”

[@the_yes_7]

to be fair to gasly he did score points 4 races in a row from Monaco to Austria mid-season so it wasnt all bad

[@chucknorris6640]

The only way checo can secure his play in F1 at least for 2026 is to try and sing with Cadillac, as Cadillac has shown interest to him because of his experience and sponsors and also they believe that he can perform well again out of RB Also checo has a secret weapon, his manager Julian Jakobi which secured him the RB contract and Julian was the manager of Senna

[@gasgaslex_photos]

Prediction for 2035 : Lance Stroll still finishing P19

[@Duval-In-The-Wall]

The grid is running out of drivers that are worse than him

[@3xoticG4m3r]

15:07 yeah but George got a win taken off him. He really dominated Lewis, especially in the quali.

[@RashidHasanRafi-ru7fn]

Tommy was cooking at first. Then Matt stole his fire and cooked Tommy himself

[@WinnieTheDark]

You should do a version without the unpredicted drivers to be closer to the original 20 drivers line up predictions :D

[@mahadevovnl]

RBR don't have a championship-winning car. They have a championship-winning Max. It's like teaming me up carrying Tiger Wood's golf clubs and winning a golf tournament against 3-year olds, claiming "I am a championship-winning golfer." The RBR car was not the reason for Max's WDC win, he won it DESPITE that brick of a car.

[@moraolmdg12344]

Youre exagerating, redbull was the fastest car for the first 6 races, even getting checo some podiums, and as Bad as they got, they were usually in the top 3 fastest cars every weekend

[@emhanama1867]

Looked at my own predictions and distributed the points accordingly, safe to say I’m the one with the wheel knowledge (jk of course). But Matt and Tommy tied at 11 in this and I got 20 points (it helped that i got 4/5 drivers in the top 5 bang on)

[@chucknorris6640]

The last driver that underperformed so bad in the WDC car was Jos Verstappen and look how good is his soon , so Checo Jr is going to destroy everyone in F1 in 20 years

[@siegfriedbv]

Fun fact: If Matt and Tom got penalty points equal to the difference between their predicted and actual positions, Matt would score 57 points and Tom 62. Looks like Matt wins this one too 🔥📉

[@steffenleikvold1]

Next year you should do 3, 2, 1 points and 0 if you miss by more than 3 places. Or at least 2, 1 for nearest but 0 if more off than x places. It will highlight the one of you being nearest, and not give an random advantage to one of you if you both are way off. 🤔

[@Narmatonia]

I wonder if any of the lower positions would’ve been dead on correct if the midseason replacements had been removed

[@shadowclaw878]

you should count this towards the predictions championship

[@mansipandey1680]

Intro keeps getting better and better everytime 😂😂😂❤❤

[@SeraphineTheD6Queen]

I think Logan should be p24 since he had more races with no points to Jack's 1 single race with no points.

[@sillymarty3318]

Do a ranking of all the races in the 2024 season

[@Aunini]

I'd give 2 points for predicting Zhou in 18th for he finished 18th of the applicable drivers 📈

[@Kgothatsolhosie]

2024 had 24 tracks, and 24 drivers.

[@BRPerfections]

Should have added this to the regular season prediction championship

[@pjtemplin]

Also looking forward to your review of your Biggest Flops, and the review of your predictions on the 2024 F1 Driver Market. ;)

[@lourencomurteira9353]

You should award like 5 points for a bang on prediction, for the bottom 10, given how unfrequent they are

[@am_golf_games]

There’s more innovation in P1’s intro than in Formula 1 😂

[@ct4547]

13:29 not just that, that the other Top 7 won a race, they all won twice at least

[@givemeabreak8784]

Should be another section of predictions: Damage costs 🎉🎉. Gasly was the champion this year 🎉🎉