Join Paul and me as we review teh Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. We cover each team and driver as they finished and much more.
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In this episode, Todd and Paul review the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. They discuss Red Bull’s dominance and the internal turmoil within the team. They also talk about Ferrari’s performance and the impressive debut of Oliver Bearmann. Max Verstappen’s win and Sergio Perez’s performance are analyzed. Charles Leclerc’s third-place finish is highlighted. The discussion also includes Oscar Piastri’s impressive performance and McLaren’s performance and straight-line speed issues. The Grand Prix saw McLaren and Mercedes struggling with their car development, while Haas showed improvement in their rear tire wear.
Takeaways:
- McLaren and Mercedes are facing challenges with their car development
- Haas has shown improvement in their rear tire wear
- Alpine and RB faced difficulties with their car
- Williams had a decent performance
- Ferrari made a brave call with their tire strategy
- Bearman and Piastri had impressive drives
- Lance Stroll received the Donkey of the Race award for his crash
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How can one tell the difference between a F1 devotee and a race viewer? The devotee thought the race was exciting! The race viewer only sees predictability of the winner and falls asleep. Want proof? Less than 6 minutes in 2 hours on Sky was showing Verstappen winning. Yes, you are right and amusing about all the also-rans. Thank goodness for your humor in the podcast which always makes us laugh. Enzo said “When Ferrari wins, the whole of Italy wins.” This does not, sadly, correlate to: “When Verstappen wins, the whole of F1 wins.” Until they remove restrictions on… Read more »
WE’ve said for years now, drop DRS, bring back testing, open the formula bit for engines, allow different tire makes or refueling and let’s go race. They need to do something to change things up but right now, a cost cap and prize money split has made a nice tidy business for 10 teams in the club and no one wants to threaten that. In the past, Max would have turned the entire apple cart over but the FIA seems feckless in its abilities these days.
As an Aussie, it was interesting to see Piastri taking on Hamilton (the two have clashed a few times already), plus, I didn’t think the race was boring, it’s always interesting to see what’s happening further on down the field.
On the whole RB Cash App etc, I’m a big fan of DR3, but I really don’t think he and Yuki will be there next year, they need to ship in Liam and some young gun, or possibly Kmag once he’s been booted from Haas (Ferrari will be keen to have Bearman in there).