2022 Australian GP Race Review | WTF1 Podcast

We finally made it back to Australia and it certainly provided some drama for round 3 of the F1 season. Matt & Katy take a look at Ferrari's up and down day, Mercedes looking ominous, Red Bull struggling again and lots more!
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[@BotanLover]

Tom's off to go fix Max's engine himself.

[@syndicategaming1668]

I’m missing the joke. Is he a max fan?

[@44dean44]

@@syndicategaming1668 Yes!

[@letsBrn]

@@syndicategaming1668 He has a cape and everything.

[@darger3]

😂

[@pranc236]

As a fellow max fan, i hope redbull doesnt need tommy’s help. Lmao

[@caitlin3771]

I think it would be cool to include abcdef1 for the constructors after ranking the driver pairings! As well as the race result, you could look at issues over car damage (esp. with the cost cap), reliability, lack of running, losing points to rivals etc

[@RRedcraftRR]

That would be cool, but maybe time consuming, perhaps best to rate drivers of each team and then the team. Fans often rate drivers lower when the team performs worse as well, even if its not really the drivers fault. I wonder if also rating the constructor makes its easier to determine the correct rating for drivers by virtue of relative comparison.

[@caitlin3771]

@@RRedcraftRR completely agree! F1 is a team sport so makes sense to analyse team performance also.

[@ABgamer33]

J.

[@vectorrr6411]

Matt isn't a fanboy, just passionate

[@letsBrn]

I am not passionate just a fanboy.

[@syndicategaming1668]

@@letsBrn are you biased?

[@letsBrn]

@@syndicategaming1668 Very much so.

[@samfalcon4794]

Timestamps would be nice guys

[@brickisland6353]

Magnusen had good pace, but the SC kinda put him on the back foot.

[@bartandaelus359]

The tyre compounds fucked the strategy this weekend. The softs were worthless and forced the race into a single strategy, one of which was then obliterated by a safety car.

[@amedeosantini3911]

Actually, he had his first Grand Chelem because he also led all the laps. I was so surprised they were so sure about the fact that Charles had, for the first time in his career, collected pole, win and FL because he literally did it three weeks ago in Bahrain. It was not so long ago ahahah. The quality is great but from time to time they do make big mistakes.

[@thesaintscorner4490]

Well, verstappen overtook Leclerc in Bahrain , so it was not a Grand chelem

[@letsBrn]

@@thesaintscorner4490 and sainz led a few laps.

[@amedeosantini3911]

@@thesaintscorner4490 the thing they said about Alonso and Singapore was correct and it was an actual stat about Grand Chelem. However, they explained that a Grand Chelem is pole, win and FL. That’s obviously not true because, if that was the case, Charles would have gotten his first one in Bahrain at least (he had pole, win and FL but was not the leader for all the laps). I don’t remember what he did in Spa or Monza ‘19. Also, he did not do a Chelem in Bahrain not because Max overtook him (Max was overtaken back right away, so Leclerc was in the lead for those laps) but because, after his second pit stop, Carlos Sainz was first for a couple of laps.

[@FFCFulham94]

What in the fuck is a Chelem?

[@alenbhaii]

@@FFCFulham94 Grand Slam

[@RockPhonic]

Matty always makes me laugh, he always give the fans in the comments and on social media stick about being 'fanboys', yet he's the biggest fanboy himself. He's like the definition of a fanboy. haha

[@Livin_LLGAMING94]

Man I await for this after every race :D great content !!!! Best podcast there is :) was great to have matt on the f1 Monday thing they do aswell 👍

[@nickpalumbo8046]

I'm sad tommy is gone. Hopefully max will stop retiring and win some races. Hopefully tommy will come back if he does well.

[@prashikjadhav3954]

Yeah lol, he is the perfect answer for the passionate lad Matt is becoming

[@flyingomelettes]

Pre-season predictions from Matt: Mercedes will be off the pace, Ferrari will be champions. Actual season: Mercedes off the pace, Ferrari are the best. Matt now: cowering in fear of Mercedes

[@prongATO]

After winning 8 straight constructors championships it would be foolish not to fear Merc. Duh

[@alessandromazzini7026]

@@prongATO it's quite different, they won't come back

[@chefcc90]

We are 3 races in. Everyone needs to chill...

[@alessandromazzini7026]

@@chefcc90 there's a thing you don't understand, the car Is wrong, there Is no fix, they have to focus on 2023 and create another car

[@flyingomelettes]

I myself think mercedes will make a resurgence. I am just making the point that he predicted they would be off the pace, third fastest car. It comes to pass and now he is really worried.

[@Av-mh2fz]

How the tables turn, now Max is leading by 34 points after 5 races

[@jakemalone9705]

Hey buddy, it's 97 now😂

[@TheBest14184]

@@jakemalone9705 hey buddy, it’s 109 now 😂😂

[@Av-mh2fz]

@@jakemalone9705 116 🤣

[@jakemalone9705]

@@Av-mh2fz we're just gonna keep this up until the end of the season aren't we🤣

[@noomade]

Lewis did not say "why is it always me that gets done by the SC"... he said "I am getting unlucky with the SCs" They have different meanings...

[@_AkashSunil]

I know people still expect ferrari to fall off late into the season...but honestly ..this is the best Ferrari team I have seen operationally since the old days...they have been good behind the scenes...proper idea of development and no toxicity within the team and pulling of good strategies

[@ABCDEF-wf9dy]

That didn’t age well 😂

[@YoyoZee]

Can confirm, the vibes at the Australian GP are immaculate and unlike anything I've ever experienced

[@abolished-kaleidoscope8776]

💯- I was there too for the 4 days and it was honestly one of the best weekends I’ve had in years

[@marcosgonzalez1688]

tom did a verstappen and DNF from the podcast

[@thesaintscorner4490]

Mercedes without the 2 SC , would have finished 1min behind Charles

[@nickmo58]

Poor Mr. Horner! He's a wonderfully kind and a sweet man. He doesn't deserve this.

[@adamcleveland27]

Tom gets an introduction even when he isn’t on the show. Lol

[@wickedjuice]

Imola 2020 was a VSC and Hamilton had already built enough of a gap with the overcut to maintain the lead anyway, the VSC just made it even more comfortable.

[@samueljayachandran2849]

No iirc the gap was gonna be like a tenth between Bottas and Hamilton (Valtteri ahead) because Lewis went quick on old tires and Valtteri had Sebastian’s end plate under his car…. VSC was that classic Lewis luck giving the extra 0.1% to help him to the title

[@samueljayachandran2849]

Although don’t take it that I’m downplaying Lewis’s performance in that race either

[@josephhynes5874]

Something to consider: We are 3 races in with brand new cars. We have 20 races to go (that is a full season by itself). ANYTHING can happen as the teams grow and evolve the tech and their understanding of this latest formula. Those first 3 races are simply a warm up at this point... prologue. I have a feeling we will see a ton of evolution, several dissonant highs and lows, along a very crooked road this season.

[@francescocorona1183]

Mhhhh I didn't like it when Katy said Binotto could be on Charles side. I think he's pretty fair with the drivers, never stated who's the number one this season and talked really well about Carlos. It's this kind of statements that can ruin a team environment

[@patrickforde7526]

Geeze feels like I’ve been waiting for this podcast forever mate 🤣😂😭

[@t1_hishin310]

Love the podcast, but time stamps would be the one thing I'd really appreciate- or even just a small icon or picture of the topic you're talking about like some other podcasts will do!

[@fancytongs]

The 1995 Australian F1 gp still holds the record for the largest attendance over the weekend. 520,000... It was the last F1 race to be held in Adelaide. That's 100,000 more than Melbourne's best and pre Drive To Survive 🤯

[@caesaraugustus3749]

Us Aussies do love our motorsport

[@TranceDude01]

I don't know why they have to ignore adelaide's f1 legacy soo much. It was 200,000 race day attendance aswell. Why don't they admit it was second biggest.

[@diogorego4675]

Alonso was 2 tents up on leclerc's first time. He would've lost that in the final sector

[@Nitrox-.]

52:15 I thought so aswell but I looked at the footage again and no part of Strolls car actually leaves the track from what I could see. So there is a tiny bit of white line that Bottas theoretically could have stayed on (although unrealistic) - meaning by the exact wording of the rules it was a legal move. Because there was a flat kerb and tarmac beyond that, forcing Bottas that wide there also wouldn't be deemed dangerous, I think.

[@mjk06]

Wasn't Charles first pole, win and fastest lap in Bahrain?

[@nikbhatnagar9024]

They didn’t mention that Charles lead every lap which is another requirement for a grand slam. He didn’t lead every lap in Bahrain.

[@flavia987]

Couldn't wait for the video version so I did listen earlier on the audio version

[@hrithikjho4075]

Dear WTF1 is it possible for you to put time stamps in your race reviews please. So that I and others can jump to the part of the review they want to hear. -A random guy that likes race reviews

[@jaryd12345]

I’m glad Matt pointed out how it didn’t make sense that Hamilton got a lower grade than Russell. 🤷‍♂️

[@dexraikkonen7]

(🤷‍♂️)the gayest emoji; fits.

[@r57887]

Love the podcast!! ❤️😄

[@chefcc90]

Okay new idea. Anytime Matt says "not a fanboy, just passionate" he has to put a quid into a swear jar. At the end of the season he then donates all those pounds to a charity of the chat's choice

[@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm]

Scientists: OMG so much money, we can cure cancer now! I'm all for this idea!

[@ericsmith7887]

I believe Alonso said somewhere that he meant to hold onto the wheel as long as possible to try to save the car.

[@vrccb]

Such a cool and (almost) unbiased look at the events of last week. Great perspective. Thanks

[@ashokathegreat4534]

Does anyone know the race duration of the upcoming race in Italy? I felt like the last race was over so quick, I did not really enjoy it.

[@jakel7213]

Ashton Kutcher from Prank'd! =P

[@anthonyreaves9029]

HOW is Max rated lower than Checo? He was very far ahead until he DNFed and didn’t make any mistakes

[@mbandai]

Congratulations Tommy!

[@georgythomas8451]

The momentum of luck and victory seems to be with Charles. You just know when "the force" is in favour of a particular driver. Its like this Championship is meant for Charles. I am a Carlos fan. But I think his strength lies in putting in consistently high performance and waiting for Leclerc to make the odd mistakes especially is he can follow him closely and put pressure. Carlos can feel the wind is in favour of Leclerc and is trying to hard in a style that is not his and trying to match Leclerc Explosive speed.

[@samueljayachandran2849]

Ferrari are low key glad that Sainz tanked in Melbourne because now they can justify making him a Barrichello or Bottas. Who knows if they deliberately ruined Sebastian Vettel’s races in 2020 to get a low constructors finish and get more wind tunnel time for this year. I wouldn’t put anything beneath Ferrari. Why did they have to change Sainz’s steering wheel? Felt like they added to his troubles with that.

[@xtheamazingax]

Ferrari are a much better team than they were before. Sure they've faltered before in these situations... but I think this time is going to be different. I really believe that this is Charles' time. And I hope it is because he would bloody well deserve it for a number of reasons. Imola's gonna be an electric atmosphere now.

[@xfreja]

he genuinely deserves it. i really hope ferrari stop screwing him over though, and let him do things his own way more. even if he sadly doesn’t win the wdc this year (95% ferrari’s fault 😐) then i’m seriously rooting for him to snatch the title next year

[@pranc236]

I think that the extra PWM signal that ferrari uses for the high pressure fuel line decreases the water hammer effect that is hurting redbulls reliability. 😊 To early to count anyone out. Development will be huge this season.

[@thedragongamer6655]

Been waiting for this

[@mattthomas739]

A grand slam is all laps led as well. Not just pole win and FL which is called a hat trick

[@thelittleowl1]

his first grand slam i think.

[@syndicategaming1668]

@@thelittleowl1 it is

[@thelittleowl1]

@@syndicategaming1668 nice. Charles is the best driver I’ve seen in a while tbh.

[@janfromm5964]

I just have a couple things. My #1 would be that if you listen to the McLaren radio they didn't tell Danny Ric he couldn't overtake. They just asked him not to pressure and be careful in case lando stopped (basically to avoid a crash/double DNF). Also for HAAS, Mick could have gotten points I think, but be made a couple of mistakes/lock ups in that DRS train where he didn't quite take advantage.

[@cebrasil]

Charles doesn't need to worry about Max, but yes with Russel. lol

[@meyrickjesudasan255]

People saying that Mercedes are inevitable are wrong in my opinion. Isn't their car slow and draggy because of their design, their rear tires are creating all the drag because their sidepods are so tiny. Porpoising can be fixed with floor upgrades, but how much drag will they be able to eliminate given that teams are allowed very few Aero upgrades throughout the season (tickets or something). It's also quite obvious that all Mercedes customer teams are struggling with lack of power compared to Renault, RBPT and Ferrari. Do correct me if I'm wrong!

[@liamtheurchin5569]

42:00 if Albons pit box was at the start of the pit lane (so before the start finish line) could he have pitted on the very last lap and then crossed the line in the pit lane and only lost half a pit stop?

[@patrickcasey7391]

Why isn’t the VSC used more as it doesn’t disrupt the race as much

[@PaoloVolpato]

A suggestion: not all three of you need to answer all the questions all the time. Especially given that Matt and Tom tend to answer first, and then poor Katy can only repeat what the other two have already said (“like you said” seems to be her most frequent expression). Just take turns going first in answering questions, and the others can add something IF they have something interesting to say

[@lyleclarke619]

52:15 after seeing the onboard I've changed my mind, he just held his line, but yer genuinely an atrocious weekend from Stroll.

[@monchoyt714]

The way y’all gave Aston Martin: EE Like theyre a calculator saying Syntax ERROR💀💀💀

[@flyingomelettes]

the situation with lando didnt seem like he was losing performance, and they were managing an issue. He was lifting and coasting up to the gap of ricciardo to maximise the chance that nothing goes wrong, so Riccardo as told not to put pressure because norris could go faster to keep him behind, but there would be more chance of a DNF.

[@roberttimbrell3369]

It would have been nice to give Albon a little bit more love. The guy was killing it. I wouldn't be surprised if more teams take that approach. If he keeps this pace up I wouldn't be surprised to see him going to Alpha tauri either to replace Yuki or Gasley.

[@yogendrabijwe]

any updates on the Miami F1 track?

[@samueljayachandran2849]

Aldas made a video about how Verstappen indirectly needs Mercedes to take points away from Leclerc when he has reliability problems, finish between himself and Leclerc when he wins to gain back more points. Kinda like Vettel and Alonso in 2010 and 2012 with multiple drivers winning and preventing one of them from really running away at the top

[@lgah1091spud]

Race was at 1am for me. US east coast. I am tired!

[@archielundy3131]

Lando was told to LICO in turns 1 and 9 starting after the last VSC. With a few laps left Lando was told to spend his entire margin - 5 seconds - over Ricciardo in lift and coast over the last 3 laps with the explicit proviso Ricciardo would not pass. Without that proviso Lando would not have been persuaded to slow as he did.

[@roflchopter11]

LICO?

[@archielundy3131]

@@roflchopter11 Lift and coast. It's used a lot in NASCAR and Indycar to extend a fuel run, but quite rare in F1.

[@st.wakkadepaul4413]

A lot of talk about 'when mercedes fix their car'. It seems to gloss over the fact that red bull can fix their car too. I'd have the same amount of confidence in them doing that as mercedes fixing theirs. It's going to be an interesting season

[@b1ue_skies]

I think it’s because Red Bull’s problem seems to arise due to PU issues, and there’s an engine freeze until 2025, so if they’ve made an unreliable engine, then they cannot fix it. However, the Merc issue appears to be with aero and they’re saying if they can fix porpoising (an aero issue) then they say they will get on the pace.

[@ArkadiaII]

Toto: "We don't have the parts..." yet...

[@ArkadiaII]

@22:00 Merc should have swapped George and Lewis and tried to tag team on Perez. HAM had the pace to catch and draw him back, RUS would have the tyres at the end to pass both. 50:50 it was on! But i think they are genuinely resource conserving at this stage.

[@Cryhavok22856]

Im canadian and watch Through f1tv which has international and f1tv broadcast and at this race they mentioned that double screen being exclusive to f1tv on the f1tv broadcast

[@cyril_ogude]

So one driver and team are running away with the title and nobody is complaining that is boring? Hmm I wonder if it was just Lewis hate rather that genuine complaints

[@matthewgilster4035]

It’s only a “runaway” since Max’s car has broken twice. There was a really good fight for the win in the first 2 races. Plus, it’s hard to say domination after 3 races. We’ll see how it is 18 races in

[@syndicategaming1668]

Your comment is about 10 races too early Cyril. You just used this as an excuse to talk about Hamilton for no reason

[@muammartsalis6086]

Hamildog fans crying 😭

[@wojtasssk]

Can LEC have a season simillar to BUT in Brawn GP? He will win a lot in the first part of the season, because his car is simply fastest , then Mercedes will catch up with performance, RB will fix their relability, but it will be too late to beat Ferrari?

[@MarcSob22]

Ferrari is not even showing the real potential of car yet! The next races they will turn up a bit

[@jarijaridewa]

How about Max Verstappen? Do you think he can perform well like Zeus in his fans eyes if he driving Ferrari car in 2020 (The engine was Less 50 HP to Mercedes and Less 30 HP to Red Bull)? In 2020, Sakhir GP qualification with that engine less 80 hp to Mercedes and Red Bull combined, Leclerc set 4th fastest and his gap to Verstappen in his RB fastest car only 0.022 sec. And he got POLE in Baku with 2.2 km STRAIGHT and engine LESS 25 HP to Mercedes. Do you think Lewis or Max can make great performance with engine lack power and complicated car? What happened today when Max and Lewis didn't had GREAT CAR is THE ANSWER of these questions. NO, they can't perform Zeus result if the car doesn't ALMIGHTY. RIGHT?

[@jamesmcmillan1809]

I don't think you can compare it to Brawn. Brawn didn't develop the car throughout that season as they literally had no money. Ferrari have the opportunity to develop their car more than RB and Merc.

[@jarijaridewa]

@@jamesmcmillan1809 Ferrari didn't up grade the car while RB and Mercedes did it few times. :) They just up grade the ICE. Their MGU-K still Less 10 HP to Mercedes and RB combined. Someone said they added 5 hp as test in Australia, but it means their MGU-K still LESS 5 hp to Mercedes-RB combined. Plus heavier car than RB! RB will reduce that weight in Imola while Ferrari didn't because there is SPRINT RACE so they won't took any risk by doing a test. Mercedes problem is NOT ENGINE like you thought! But porpoising. They reduce it but the way they reduce it also reduce the aerodynamic and PACE! Ferrari has porpoising and they reduce it, they lose in STRAIGHT Jeddah track for that reason! They are slower than RB cars in straights. That is the reason Leclerc want the car return to Bahrain set up, the car bounching in straight but as fastest as RB. He win in Australia in that way.

[@ozankrml1301]

I think there is a reasonable chance that Merc will catch up but they still do not have a good engine and don't forget Red Bull was not able to catch up to Mercedes in 2014 after winning the last 4. That could also be the case for the Mercs this year where the rule changes affect them too much.

[@ouonouanwilfried-desire7758]

I don't know what rule book you guys are reading but it is specified clearly in article 24.4k that the punishment for not changing tyres is a disqualification...

[@benjameshodges]

Please equalise the volume for the ads.

[@syndicategaming1668]

Saudi gp showed us that charles is much faster than carlos. This week showed us that carlos has absolutely no chance to win the title. It’s going to be Max or Charles 100%

[@asherbarnsdale5203]

Max seems unlikely at this point…

[@ArgarSwede]

Not at all. Not sure if you’re a DTS tag-a-long but anyone who follows F1 knows that A LOT can happen with 20 races to go

[@ok-dy2tz]

Max better start finishing races, checo will need a number 2 driver if he's gonna challenge Charles.

[@RRedcraftRR]

@@ArgarSwede Yes and no. If it was last year with consistent ham and ver p1 p2 trades it would have taken almost the entire season to climb back a 2 DNF disadvantage. We could see how many race results of verstappen p1, hamilton p2 were wiped out when verstappen dnf'd last year, its a massive blow, so thats why max made that 45 races comment. But this isn't last year, and if Ferrari suddenly drops the ball hard or dnf's, or RB becomes clearly faster and doesn't dnf anymore Max can definitely win. Which is not impossible since this is a regulation year so, and those are far less predictable than an end of cycle year like last.

[@syndicategaming1668]

@@ArgarSwede can’t wait to see how wrong you are in a couple of months

[@TheManThatIsF54]

Its funny Katy mentioned Aston Kutcher, cos that's who I think of every time I see Sainz...

[@darkangel1674]

Just saw the news on Instagram! Congrats to Tommy on his new baby!! ^_^

[@selder_7]

Latifi at least feels bad when he messes up, Stroll just doesn’t care

[@luke7842]

About halfway through Katy does a reconstruction of what happened with Michael Masi at the last race of the season.

[@mastermaltese8731]

Dammit I have to study but this comes first.

[@LordWay]

I worry sainz's mistake could be costly in the constructors

[@schadi2901]

Can you guys please add timestamps for the video

[@WezMan444]

You should have got Hannah on again, she was great on the audio only podcast last week.

[@tetsuya5617]

Being a Charles Leclerc fan is normal but, being a Sergio Perez fan is somehow abnormal right Matt ? And then you guys say you are buzzing for Checo when he got pole in Saudi. Why put up this facade ?

[@alejandroquinones3636]

The thing with Gasly was that he was screwed by the safety car…

[@lohifi8471]

I'm here just for Katy happy and excited for Checo... Meanwhile in F1 power rankings and in the Race they are like naaah not british.

[@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm]

That's why I totally stopped watching The Race. They might have some good tech analysis there, but I absolutely. can't. stand. those guys.

[@superxavxii421]

I still have faith in my boi Carlos

[@btrenegade4996]

Just to clarify, Katy, when you said that Matt's audio had gone it was definitely off for around 10 - 15 secs.

[@xfreja]

32:25 he’s just like me fr

[@ankuracharya1689]

Hurts everytime they missed mentioning 'led every lap' when defining a grand slam.

[@alykassam9550]

20:00 Matt says that Mercedes’ wouldn’t sandbag into a season, BUT Paddy Lowe said on beyond the grid that they never ran at full power between 14-15 to make it look closer than it actually was. Not saying they’re doing it now, just saying that they have done it before :)

[@Alexander27463]

Yeah, but the BIG difference is that in 14-and 15 they still were the fastest by far. They weren't pretending to be the 3rd fastest car. But just running the engine not as hard as it could, which also reduces wear and prolongs the engines life

[@suckieduckie]

That was mainly because they were afraid the FIA would intervene if they ran the engine at full power because the difference was too big. They ran about 80 percent of their engine capacity those years.

[@alykassam9550]

@@suckieduckie ya u guys are right, i wasn’t saying that they are doing that now, im just saying that they have masked their true pace in season before. I definitely don’t think they would do that now though

[@HoopleHeadUSA]

Now that Mazespin is out, time to get rid of Latifi and Stroll next.

[@Aru_TK]

6.4-k. Unless he has used intermediate or wet-weather tyres during the race, each driver must use at least two different specifications of dry-weather tyres during the race, at least one of which must be a mandatory dry-weather race tyre specification as defined in Article 6.2(b). Unless a race is suspended and cannot be re-started, failure to comply with this requirement will result in the disqualification of the relevant driver from the race results. If the race is suspended and cannot be re-started, thirty seconds will be added to the elapsed time of any driver who was unable to use at least two specifications of dry-weather tyre

[@hm05090x]

So y’all just gonna ignore the fact that Gasly literally had to brake to let Max past him and lost an extra position in the process

[@exempli646]

I call BS on this Sainz slander...ffs it's one race and it was a series of events that got wrong. Finished P2 and P3 and now we're talking as if he's done. Using that logic Mercedes are poor now so they don't have hope... it has just been 3 races guys.

[@unthenner5519]

Exactly. Their opinions on driver performance are so unbelievably fickle.

[@caesaraugustus3749]

Until you love the driver people are talking about you don't realise just how harsh and fickle this sport is. I love Sainz but he hasn't been on Charles pace this year and he really needed a big weekend here to take some momentum back and pretty much the opposite happened. It was a disastrous weekend no use in sugar coating it

[@exempli646]

@@caesaraugustus3749 if he can knack podium finishes while he is "struggling" that's not bad for a challenger, eh. Aussie GP was an anomaly and things weren't under his control. Passing remarks on his ability to challenge or be up there is recency bias.

[@preethasjenarthan5411]

Agreed! Its quite ridiculous. The only mistake from Sainz is a lack of patience and we’ve seen Charles do the same (Monaco 2019) when things get hard. He was genuinely on the pace this week and that’s why he was so frustrated. That said - I know Carlos will come back stronger and its in moments like this a driver has to decide the kind of person they will be

[@AliHasan-je7zw]

Finished p2 due max dnf, finished p3 due to safety car after he lost his position the first corner which opened the door to Charles. Australia he was on pace from the jump and things were looking really good, got unlucky in quali but the race was long and could’ve gathered many points.

[@LordWay]

In the early 2000's ferrari used to run the last season's car for the first few races and still win

[@mariusciprian24]

Ricciardo gets back from covid and finishes ahead of Lando , wholo cumunity : Washed! Vettell comes back and looks like Mazepin , whole comunity: Let s be kind , he is the goat

[@menglei2527]

So true! I mean Seb is four-time wdc no doubt, but that won't justify his poor performance. Outpaced by Lance? I don't think he pushed to his limps

[@MaxskiSynths]

Secrashtian Vettel :(

[@timjennings8152]

Oh booo hooo you have to get up at 3am for at most 3 races this year. Australians have to be up until 3am EVERY WEEK

[@Albibotta]

I understand carlos was in one of the unluckiest weekend of his carcere, bu he commetted 2 big mistakes: in quali he was unlucky, but someone who wants to challenge for the title has to be consistent. Even with new red tires he could have put his car fourth or third, but he went for pole and he ended 9. Then the major mistake in the race

[@normiepatrol3715]

The biggest thing is… he knew his tyre weren’t warmed up and still tried to push so much, alas if he knew that he would’ve gotten second starting from fourth then maybe he would have slowed down a bit

[@rcwardawg]

had to take another week off of F1 after the 2nd Max dnf, recovery time Checo though salvaged it for us. Just going back now and catching up with all the podcasts and reviews I couldnt watch I was so gutted. On another thought here is hoping Andretti gets their team into F1.

[@xfreja]

1:14:48 guys…… matt called sebastian’s retirement 😟😟😟

[@abdullaalmazrouei6096]

FORZA FERRARI!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🔥🔥

[@YasirKhan-ey6hi]

Should do a different jingle every podcast for the abcdef1

[@selder_7]

Oh I wouldn’t predict McLaren points with how they’ve spoken about slow corner pace

[@davidhauser4321]

you can‘t say ‚don‘t write mercedes off‘ on one hand but also say ,rb is pretty much out of the whole thing‘ on the other hand, that‘s just not right

[@syndicategaming1668]

Yeah it’s weird. Mercedes definitely doesn’t stand a chance, but red bull does (even if it’s a very tiny chance).

[@davidhauser4321]

yeah innit. i‘m not even saying that mercedes is out of it either but to write either of them two off would be qutite stupid I think. although it does look like it might be all over with ferrari running away with it anyway so it might not even matter😅

[@jmacd8817]

@@davidhauser4321 I think it’s based off their history of fixing things, especially after last year when RB clearly DID have the better car after the floor redesign. I don’t believe they are “inevitable “, but they have a history or pulling things out of the bag as the season progresses. We shall see!

[@azirrahman4573]

Missing the timelines ❤️

[@nuancedhumour]

Isn't it funny that there have been more technical difficulties since you've been sponsored by Elgato? 🤔

[@patricktho6546]

1:07:00 the aston SC is really slow