Our 2026 Italian GP predictions

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Need the right hire fast? Then this is a job for Indeed Sponsored jobs. Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. We're back is Italian Grand Prix weekend. Oh Tommy, got the feels. It feels like a home Grand Prix weekend, the Italian Grand Prix. You know why, right? Yeah. I've had mine now. It's yours. Exactly. Wow, I didn't think of that and yours went horrendously, so I really hope mine doesn't echo that because right now I'm feeling very excited, very happy of course to be back, Formula One. What is it? 11 races in 14 weekends? That's what the week we've had off is going to feel like a summer break when we have it in a few races time. Yeah, literally. So lots of races coming and this championship that has felt like it's just constantly stalling. We get a little bit and then we have a week off then we get a little bit. The picture is going to change very quickly with that many weekends over the next 14 and I'm so excited. Yeah, the Italian Grand Prix. We move in silence. How are you? I'm good. Yeah, excited for for Monza. See how these new cars work at Monza and everything at Monza is always a great spectacle, isn't it? And yeah, excited for Formula One to be back because it's so bizarre how yeah, the season is like, come on, where's the momentum? And now when we get to these final races we'll be going, oh my god, momentum. Let's have a week off. Right, I think a lot of you enjoyed this last time, but we're sort of including a news segment in our predictions episodes now to get people up to speed, to get us up to speed as well. When you've had a week off, feel like what's F1 again? Especially because there's actually is some. Yeah, there's actually been news, whereas I think at one time we were like, just not been anything, it was the summer break. Things happen. Anyway, there has been a bit of news. First and foremost, Ferrari revealing a Michael Schumacher livery for Monza. If you haven't seen it, go and take a look because I was a happy boy seeing that. That car is exactly what I pleaded for at the start of the year. Essentially that, where I was just like, why have they made, you know, the white part of the Ferrari? I just didn't like and I made it very clear. I didn't like it. And Ferrari went, but wait, Matt, don't worry. We're going to do it for all one off to celebrate Schumacher in his legacy at Monza, which I don't mind. I don't mind it at all. Very happy to see it. It's really cool, isn't it? Yeah, 30, 30 years since Schumacher won his first race with Ferrari at Monza, which is obviously an amazing incredible thing. Really cool to see the livery. And it's exactly what I was saying when we saw at the start of the year and HP have been trying to kind of almost hide the HP a little bit or put lots of white on the Ferrari dude Ferrari. I've been Ferrari. Exactly, make us bigger guys. Exactly, but I always said that it won't look that bad if you just have a red car and the HP I'd rather that than you're trying to do all this like white. And I know everyone when we initially had a reaction was like, well, actually in 1970, it's Nikki Louder. It's like, I know. I know. But like, the Ferrari should be red. And that to me, how I picture a Ferrari is what that car looks like this weekend. And I know people think to me, you're really old. You don't go back to the 70s. You're not you're not watching it back there. No, that's not that's not the race I watched was that Michael. She might go on. Wow. There you go. Watching watching my go in action. We love to see it. What were you 15 16? Okay, I'm going to join me to ruin it for you there now. Oh, what? So Ferrari have had a special livery constantly basically. They had one in 2022. Didn't win. 23 didn't win. 25 didn't win and 26. The only year they haven't had it recently was 24 and they won. All right. So it's time to change because Michael Schumacher is on the car now. So we're not messing around. Oh, and one more thing. I love the ovals. Did you see the the back with the seven stars? Yeah. Schumacher had on his helmet. That's I think it looks even cooler than the car. Yeah. I mean, come on. We've we've got that. We've got Ferrari upgrades coming. If all of that combined doesn't get us a one two, I don't know what will. Moving away from Ferrari now, news of course about Lando Norris extending his deal with McLaren to the end of 2030 with a multi year to go even longer potentially. So we will see on that front of Lando decides to end his career at McLaren. However long that will go on for, but it does seem like we're just seeing these drivers, these big drivers just remain loyal to their to their team. Max Verstappen, of course, comes to mind in particular, Charlotte Clare as well Ferrari. They are just like, hey, I'm happy. I'm going to stay there. And for Lando, I think he even quite interestingly said about the fact he just doesn't want to spend time with anyone else than than the team that he has around him, which I think is really cute. You know, and it's nice because he's obviously built a camaraderie there and you can tell, you know, this year we've been singing his praises almost every single race weekend. You can tell that he's probably enjoying it more than ever at McLaren at the moment, having won the title. McLaren approved themselves as a team that they can develop and create a car that can win championships. So why change? Why why even move the commitment? Of course, end of 2030. That's when we potentially are going into another new regulation, although Mohammed bin Saleem has said maybe it's a year earlier. It's around that time, isn't it? But no surprise to see Lando stay at McLaren. No, you could you could see him, I know we said this about Lose Hamilton and stuff, but you could see him being there forever. And it does seem more common now, like a Charlotte Claret Ferrari, like a Max at Red Bull, that they're just going to stay there for for almost their if not their their whole career. And yeah, you you bet yourself into it into a team. We've seen drivers move in it and not gone well for them. So yeah, I very much I'm not surprised to see Lando deciding, I'm going to stick with McLaren for for a very long time and potentially for his for his whole career. And yeah, I think it's a it's a wise choice, isn't it? There's there's no point in him going anywhere. He's got that that team around him. And particularly at the moment, like his living life certainly is. And now over to another big team and probably the biggest news of all, if we're talking about Italian Grand Prix and how the results may change. And that is Kimi and Tanelli. starting last or set to start last, or if I guess if there are any other grid penalties, maybe 21st, but at the back with a big old grid penalty, they're taking everything. They're like, we want a brand new car for the Italian Grand Prix and of course, this is a big thing as of right now, but I also very much predict that in the next five or six races, we're going to have other teams, other drivers taking similar penalties. That's just that Antonelli is the first of the big lot to land a picture of course. I mean, I mean, I'm talking about championship, Lando, I know is someone in the championship picture, but yeah, of course, yeah, Lando is a good shot and now he is bringing himself maybe into the championship picture, but Antonelli, of course, the championship leader, starting at the back, a wise decision in my opinion, if you're to look at the circuits and as much as Monza, Monza is a bit of a question mark, isn't it? Because the last sort of two or three years, it's been one of the hardest tracks to overtake at because they've run such skinny wings and no one can get any kind of run on anyone else and it's just a massive long DRS train back then. I do wonder whether there will be more opportunity now that we have these new cars and wide battery and sure with the activate rate, but clearly they think there's something possible here because there's no way they would have put and they would have said, look, Kimmy, I know it's your first home race where like you're going to be doing really well at Mercedes, there must be a strategic option here to take away a potential win at his home race because they're trying to score as many points as possible. Yeah, I'm surprised that they've done it here. There's obviously logic behind it, as you say, they've obviously run the data and run all the simulations and everything like that to know that Mercedes are probably going to be really strong there and this would be a better chance. Obviously he wouldn't be taking it this early in the season if he hadn't have had all the problems and the DNFs and the mechanical failures that he's had. That's why Bitlight Land in Horace, you know, he's taking it quite early into the season. Normally he gets much later in the season when people start taking them, but such has been the reliability. He needs to do it now and it makes sense just get it all done in one go. I saw some people saying maybe it relieves a bit of the pressure of his home race as well for it to almost be like, see what you can get, but at the same time, I think it's a load of rubbish. You're the championship leader and you have to score as many points off your home race. It's going to take so many cars that like, I don't know, I think that puts more pressure on him to get a result, you know, I personally am surprised that they've done this, but obviously maybe it is a case of they have to and they're simply going to run out of parts and it's better that than him starting from pole position, having a car failure and going, oh, well, we should have done that. So yeah, that's obviously the thinking behind it, but always fun to see one of the top runners at the back because it makes for a fun race. Maybe we don't know right now, George Russell could potentially also take new parts to start the back as well. I don't see Mercedes personally if they don't have to, making both of their drivers start from the back because that in itself could be like carnage between the two of them. Yeah, they're like, for are you, we really want you to win this right? God, you can have this. Yeah, we'll both. Don't worry about it. But we'll see, that's a question, Mark, as George is very close if not for the Italian Grand Prix than somewhere in the near future. I think Max is also running out of parts as well, but yeah, right now the only one confirmed is Kimmy, and then also I guess that another question, Mark, is Hadja, and whether he'll race as of recording right now, we don't know. And I think they are going to be deciding tomorrow or maybe as is as this released today. So it may well, you may well know that news by the time you watch this. Yeah, they don't know yet. They're deliberately leaving it as late as possible to make sure. Obviously, Hadja really wanted to race in the first place in San Vort, but was advised not to, by no less than Mark as who actually had a similar injury to him and brushed back in its made his career much more challenging. So maybe as much as it probably pains him, and particularly seeing how well Lawson is doing in his car, is probably the sensible bet to just make sure he's he's ready to go. Of course, as a racer, you know, he'd probably race whatever, but it's not the sensible option to do so. No, especially when you have so many races coming up, if he wants to miss one more to make sure that wrist is all good, then you'll have a flurry of races to get back into the swing of things. But only he knows and only Rebel know exactly how deep that injury goes. Right, that is it. That's the news done. Not the whole thing. That sounded like I was ending the podcast. That is not correct. We are now going to predictions where at the score is 41, 33 to Tom Belliom. It's eight points. This is the biggest. Did you just say mind the gap? That is disgraceful. If you've never travelled on the London Underground, that's what Tommy is referring to the absolute bleep. So yeah, that is a big old gap. I'll be honest. And that's why I am bouncing back this week. Yeah, you watch me. It's my turn to go first. Ever goes badly when you say watch and learn, not watch this, watch and learn. All right, everybody, here we go. Good surprise. My good surprise is Williams. So you straight line. Yeah, you thought that you thought that I was going to maybe say a different team. And you might be surprised. I mean, I may not even mention them once this predictions because we move in silence. However, for Williams, we will not move in silence. There is really nothing to suggest that they will be good round here. But one, I'm still throwing teams out to transport two points, which is a strategy which may well end up me being 25 points behind come the end of the season. But that's fine. Williams were, if you didn't know, the team that always used to turn up at Monzer, and that's it. Really. They used to have an incredible result. Even when James Vowels said, you know, we're going to make a more sort of a baseline car. We're not going to just focus on the high speed tracks. And yet they were still good at Monzer. So yeah, everyone thought Nick DeVries was the next big thing. Yes, they really did, including us, I think. And that turned out to be the case. But I've gone for Williams because they're on a terrible run of just generally being rubbish this year. And if they have even a remotely good result, with Alex Albond now, maybe with a bit more confidence, Carlos Sines wanted to bounce back, we could see a 13th and 14th good surprise looked in. Yeah, the Baselay, isn't it? Williams. Speaking of good surprise, I've gone for Max Verstappen. So, yes, speaking of what exactly? The barbing. I've been so pessimistic about Max Verstappen this year. And I've never noticed. I know. And been proven right. So let's try some positivity and see what happens is basically the logic of this prediction. And he's in the past has been good around Monzer. That's a very different regulation, of course. This was the place where we started to see the amazing comeback begin and thought, what if I don't think that's going to happen. But yeah, I'm just trying some positivity for Max to see if it helps because it's not been going all too well recently. And as I was kind of joking back, can't get worse than Zanvot, maybe we'll see. Hopefully not for your sake. Interesting. Okay, Max Verstappen. As you say, the bar pretty low. So any kind of good result there, little podium, little cheeky P3. And you might be arguing it. Okay, let's go to a big flop. Big flop. I've gone for Kimi Antonelli. Now, of course, there needs to be some, this will be discussed in the podcast because I'm not going to say that Kimi Antonelli having a grid drop is like, oh, that means he's flopped. I'm thinking here that there needs to be some additional kind of struggling to make it through the field or he's making mistakes or maybe he takes his front wing off, like trying to get past the traffic or something. Something, something clumsy. And this isn't me just caching at a point because he's probably going, he will start last. So, you know, being like, well, actually, he's never been off the podium or something like that. And I do think there's, there will be some, some pressure on him to deliver his home race, fighting through the field. There's also a bit of a home race curse, which people love to mention at the moment that's kind of hitting everyone this season, it seems like. So yeah, gone for Kimi Antonelli. Interesting. I'm glad you explained that because I know a lot of people would be going, how dare you talk about eight points. Yeah, a lot of people being me. Yeah. But we will assess that one in great detail. And I will make sure you don't score a point. So, I'm like, Tommy, finish 12. That's 10 positions game. You're talking about my big flop. It's a team. McLaren. Oh, I am sorry, McLaren fans. All I'm angling for here is neither of them on the podium and we've cooked. Alright, so this is the one sort of unknown at the moment from McLaren. The last two races called land has been incredible. credible to win at quite different tracks and for and hungry. Monza, I would say, is another big change. They could well not be the fastest team. You could have Mercedes, maybe Ferrari. We don't know exactly right now. So this is pure vibes. This is pure like, Lando's won a couple on the bounce. Maybe just maybe McLaren won't be as quick round here. So that's the logic has an unbelievable race. Yeah, you watch the Lando for the seventh, but Oscar will win. But now I'm going to flop them. No real reason, as I say, but I need double points. So McLaren, come on, but also sorry if you support McLaren. Right, let's go to pole position, shall we? I'm not mentioning them. I'm not doing it. I'm not. I told you we're moving in silence. My pole position is Charlotte Claire. I'm proud of you for not doing the, in me out. No, I've gone for a shot. OK, because I cannot physically move in silence without talking about them for the Italian Grand Prix. Yeah, they are bringing their second upgrade, update, whatever you want to call it with the ad duo thing, the engine. I'm here in rumors that it could be significant. They've got like a nitro button or something that they want it. I don't care. As long as it's in a sealed document and we don't need to talk about it after this race and we've won it all. That's all that matters. But look, of course, there is a romantic view here for Charlotte or Lewis to get pole position at Monza in that livery will hit. Of course, for me, if Charlotte does it hit slightly more. But yeah, I think that there is a genuine possibility for Rari every single year, almost without fail. They could have, they could be rubbish. And then they'll be, oh, hold on, they're fastest in practice. It just feels as though for Rari, no, this is their like Le Mans 24 hours. They've put everything into this one race to make sure they're competitive. And they love to do it as well, don't they, where at the start of the season, you go, oh, their car seems really suited to Monaco, and which you think would be complete, and obviously is the complete opposite race to Monza, yet somehow it flips on its head. And they're like, right, Monaco's done. Let's now develop the car to suit Monza so he can win in Italy. Maybe that's their downfall of trying to win a championship. But I don't know. And yeah, we'll see that there's obviously talk of the upgraded engine. I think had this been right at the very start of the year, you wouldn't put this one down as Ferrari's best, based on the fact that they're kind of lacking a little bit in their engine. But with some upgrades and the catching up of these new rules, obviously everyone needs to catch up with Red Bull because they're so far ahead, phenomenal engines. Yeah, what an engine. Yeah, we'll see. And I can't wait for it if it happens, because. Are you going to tell me your power position? It felt like you were just ending the conversation then, and just leaving me hanging as to what your power position would be? My power position is George Russell. I think that Mercedes will be very, very strong around this circuit. Shall we just pull it up? Let's go into more, and you just said about Kimmy. What if Kimmy, because someone else also is starting at the back of the grid? What if Kimmy decides, you know what? I'm going to do qualifying anyway. Gets Paul, is it whoever starts first? No, it's Paul position, right? Which is Paul position, whoever starts first? Yes, starts first on Sunday, yeah. I love how we still, we still deliver it. Qualify, no, whoever starts first, whoever starts first is Paul position. So basically, if Kimmy has a grid drop, he cannot, it's impossible for him to get Paul position. Yes, exactly. It's impossible. Is the easiest way of explaining that one. So yeah, I'm going for Russell, which again, he could be like, actually, no, what? Screw you, I'm going to take the penalty, so you don't get the point. Please, there's the risk. George, if you're listening and you want some ideas ahead of monster, just take the engine. He did tell us, he did tell us it, so he was saying they've seen the video. Yeah, whether that was just that he saw that, that one thumbnail, because I'd predict him flying. No, he did say, watch the videos, and he said it in a much more positive light than some people on Twitter thought he'd said it, which was very interesting. Yeah, very true. So George, yeah, look, if you're listening, take the engine drop now. Just so Tommy doesn't score a point, cheers, appreciate you. 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Lando Norris for you, P3, my third place, George Russell, George Chiquipodium. In another land, in another predictions episode, I've popped him in first and he's winning by a country mile because he's in a Mercedes, but who knows? Who knows who I've gone for for a second? first place. But yeah, let George Russell P3. I think they're going to be really strong. It just depends if one or two other teams, depending on how I've gone, how quick will they be. But I feel like I'm going to regret putting George Russell P3, but I'm going to lock it in. Also actually something that just came to mind is that the Zanvort predictions and someone commented saying, "I bet Matt's regretting now trying to second guess his predictions because I had put Lando first and then changed it to Kimmy Antonelli." Oh, yes, you did. Yeah, I've lost sleep since that moment when someone highlighted it. So thank you if you're the one that commented that because I need every point I can get. So I'm really, I'm not doing any mind games this time because it clearly is costing me points. In second position, if you're telling Grand Prix, I am locking in. Lewis Hamilton. Lewis Hamilton, little cheeky P2. Does Ferrari going to be quick? We'll Lewis be able to then shall finish off the podium. TBC is all I'll tell you. Lewis Hamilton, P2. P2 have gone for George Russell. A little George P2. I think it'll be very strong. You're now I'm sure whether I'm going to prove your prediction that I will drive to your house and make sweet love to you if you if you don't. I thought you were going to say that you'd like punch me if I went for prediction. No, I didn't think that was stealing more PG but I don't know if that was more good. Yeah, I don't think it was. And now you're definitely going to go for him. So there you go. Cool. All right, George Russell P2. Fair enough. Perfect. Okay, over to P1, Tommy. P1, hit me out. Max for Steppen. Oh, wow. Yeah, no good. Why not driving to your house right now? Again, again, so much pessimism around Max. Let's just let's just go for the the wind and see what happens. Eight points. Yeah, part of it, part of it is that I can't check the feeling that why not maybe he he might do something here that this is the one he could deliver at if he can just get that red bull. You know, they do have the best engine of course as well. With the best ICE, Tommy. Yes, indeed. Sorry, the best ICE. Or to be fair, which is the engine. Which is the engine, yeah. Power unit is up for debate. Okay, wow. I don't know. I just, yeah. You just know. I know what you're like. You're like eight points clear. So you feel a bit fruity. You feel a bit flexible. And then you're like, you know what, if Max comes in, I score the point and I and I go down in history as one of the greatest predictions like this. Yeah. And then quite Pierre Gasley P3 Monaco, but it would be here, but it's Max's first win if it comes in. Yeah, I think the boring option would be to go for Russell to win based on the fact that Antony's got a penalty. So I've gone 12 seconds. Predictions are over again, isn't it? Would be boring to go for George Russell, who hasn't won in absolutely ages. Austria, yeah. Okay, who won the sprint, but yeah. Yeah. All right, first position for the Italian Grand Prix. Hear me out. Charlecler. Okay, Charlecler. He's doing it. Just lock it in. Just thought we were going to get the flag and no, no, because I could sense you knew what was coming. And I'm not going to perform for you if you if you already know, you know, so like and everybody knew this was coming. I have to be fair, I didn't until about 30 minutes ago when I was doing these predictions. And you saw the Michael Cheevak delivery, I went, yeah. I literally, I was, I went straight down the, my god, it would be so incredible to see them going to around, around Monza in that livery. I think I might actually cries. Assume you found boy, if I saw that livery, just go, ah, it would be truly emotional. So that's why I've jinxed them entirely and it's a double DNF. So there you go. Charlecler, P1, please. Like, let's not forget just how incredible the Claire was to win Monza the last time he did. Like, it was so out of nowhere, it was ridiculous. Give me another one of those, the cheeky one stop does, does McLaren out of nowhere. You know, that's the dream. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is, this is quite funny and fitting, isn't it? Because every time there are some parts of the internet that think if you don't predict your favorite driver to win every single race, you're not a real fan. So we've actually, you know, we've done what people expect. You know, when, when I predict anyone else other than Verstappan, I thought you're a Verstappan fan. It's like, well, he's not going to win. There we see. So we've done that now. I've gone for Max. You've gone for Charlec. And let's see how it goes. And now the universe can be angry. It's up to girls. Yeah. Okay. There you go then. That is, yeah, the Claire Verstappan can't wait for neither of them to be on the podium. Yeah. Let's go to P what? What? Where the random number generator is going to go between four and 22 and we're going to have to think on the spot. Who will finish there? And who's going first? First is you. Oh God. Four and twenty two. Please be a good number this time. Yeah, in a way, because what we had previously, we've had like just really low, really low, like a BDNF. Twenty first. Yeah. What do you do? Okay. All right. Here we go. Sixteenth. We've had that before. Boring. Boring. Boring. Not stroll. I'm going to go for Alex Albin. Okay. So you're not for the Williams hype. Fair enough. No. All right. Interesting. Oh, if you get two points from that, I'll be so angry. Okay. Let's go to one crazy prediction, Tommy. One crazy prediction is that both Cadillac's be Aston Martin in qualifying. Wow. Wow. You just went nah. Aston are not good. They're not going to be good round here. Doesn't matter what upgrades they brought. Yeah. Yeah. I've just gone back to Aston Martin being pretty much dead dead last. I was going to say Aston Martin last and then see if you'd forget the Kimi Anthony loophole, but I'm not, I'm not that shameful. Not that shameful. Yeah. Yeah. I go for Cadillac to be Aston in qualifying. Both Cadillac's beat both Aston's. That is that is quite quite the prediction. That comes in fair play to you, sir, because I can't see that happening. Interesting. My one crazy prediction. Both Ferraris on the podium. It's only happened once this year. Has actually other name. Yeah, so it is a bowl. It's bold. Yeah. It's bold. It's crazy. It's not crazy. It's happening. Ferraris have literally come out my mouth every single time I've been able to talk about them in a positive light. So apart from good surprise, I had to spread my egg somewhere and give Williams some props or hopeful props. There you go. Make it happen. Please, I don't care in which order. I do care. Shall we go to P1, please? Thank you so much. Patriot prediction. So if you part the P1 picture, you can add free listening, which is glorious. I know a lot of you enjoy that as well as access to one discord early access to live show P1 tickets. Remember to go get them, by the way, for our tour in November. And that's you can be part of the predictions right here, right now. And it's mine to go first. My one. And I've chosen Cubitzer would save Ferrari. My name. Both Astans make Q2. So what a really disagreed here. What a segue from you going Cadillac are going to cook Astan Martin to me going, you know what? I fancy it. Fancy a cheeky Astan Martin Q2. So that's what I've gone for. I like it with discreet a lot here. And speaking of I've gone for Georgina's prediction, which is sister. No, wait, is she a P1 picture? Maybe it is has nothing Italian on the podium brackets. No Kimi no Ferrari's. And I want to clarify nothing Italian on the podium. It's basically that no Kimi no Ferrari's is what I'm going for here. Not the champagne. Yeah, because the champagne is Italian, I think. So that does the Ferrari champagne. Yeah. And technically the podium would be Italian because it's probably made in Italy because it is in fact, in Italy, so it's constructed at Monser. Well, that's not how I'm reading that. Just covering the leaps off already. Already, it's a zero pointer for you there. Thank you for submitting it. You can tell we've done predictions a long time that I'm already already covering you when you're like, actually, I will do. Charlotte Claude drops his wallet on the podium and that's actually Italian. Why would he be doing that? I would love to know. Why not? So sorry, it's more likely that he will drop his wallet on the podium and actually be on it. Thank you so much, Dominic. Appreciate it. Okay, let's go to family top three. It is currently 9/7 to the Gallagher's and it is time to ring my dad. Well, I did message him. So let's see. You're ringing your dad because your mum will go for Antonelli to win. Yeah, she won't go. And then a new please don't. Hello, hi dad. Welcome to the P1 podcast predictions. How are we feeling? All right. Thank you. How are you? Good. I'm all right. We're at least leading this championship. Can you please give me your third place for the Italian Grand Prix? Oh, yeah. You know, we say it's a tricky one, but this is a tricky one. It is a tricky one. We've been saying this for 30 minutes in the podcast. I'm going to go for Kimmy third. Dad? Hmm? Good, Adam. Do you know you can't say anything about Kimmy Antonelli? Yes, he's got a. Oh, okay. Finish with the Italian and he's in the Mercedes. Yes, but he's starting from last. Oh, yes, you're starting from the back of the grid. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's it. No, no, Tommy said it. Tommy's overruled it. I don't care about Tommy. You can, oh, you can't change. You can't actually, three is locked in because I've influenced your decision. So, Antonelli is going from last of P3, which could happen. It's not really. I know I can tell that it's fine. P2. OK, Hamilton P2 and in P1. OK, so George is undecided as to whether he's having a good penalty as well. So hopefully for our sake, George does not show. I don't think he will. OK, thank you dad. Appreciate it. All right. Love you. Bye. It's all right. Bye. I love how my dad's mortified about that and the reality is we hardly score points at any race weekend. So, Antonelli and also it's not outrageous. Last to P3. I enjoyed that. That had some. Yeah, there was some. That was some serious fights. Yeah, we need to have a little counseling session with you, too. I don't know what's gone on there. OK, let's go to your family. He didn't realize you two, two know ahead. Right. Two minutes. You'll be 97. Sorry. Two ahead. We've just started. I'm going to give my mum a call and hope she acts as good. I said. Ring her a to get. Yeah, she might not know because also she's been in traveling. So she might not have seen on the news. Hello. Oh, my word. Hello. Oh, the reception is really bad. Can you hear me? No, I can hear you now. I can hear you now. OK, excellent. Hi, man. How are you? Holcombberg. You just had one o'clock at balls. This could be very interesting. OK, right. Here we go. Top three, please. Starting from third. OK, P2. Hamilton, P3. I'm slowly. OK, man. OK, yeah. OK, I'll tell you afterwards. Yeah, first. I knew you'd go for Charlotte Claire. I knew it. I'd to be fair. It doesn't matter how much wine you've had. You'd normally go for Charlotte Claire for a win anyway. You love it. Yeah, Anthony's got a grip penalty starting last. But it's fine. Matt's dad's gone for P3. You can't change it now. Don't worry. It might be a masterclass. All right. Thanks, man. I want to know if she's winning a balls. Are you winning at balls? Also, what's wine o'clock? Is that drunk balls? Like what? What is this? Sounds lit. My mom wants in. She played balls. Wine afterwards. OK, so did you win? Is it celebratory wine or commissaratory wine? Celebratory. Celebratory. All right. It's not in the Gallagher versus. All right, man. Live stream for the ball. All right. Thank you. See you soon. Bye, man, bye. Is she playing in the middle of the forest? Apparently so. Yeah, impressive. All right. So your mom's getting lit up. My mom, you know, fans is a bit of balls. So we need to need to get a little live stream going on. That's the problem. Yeah, that is. We do need to do that. We need to help the balls. Balls game. That'd be good. OK. Well, that was chaotic and just how we expect it to be after one week off. Yes, we remember how to podcast. I hope you've enjoyed all this everybody. We'll be live on Twitch and YouTube as always for this weekend's action. Very excited for it. Tommy, final thoughts, please. Final thoughts. I will just shout out one P1 patron member that made me laugh a lot, which is a Moss who their bold patron prediction was Matt will say gobble gobble at least three times over the course of the weekend, which is your absolute catchphrase at a slipstream track. So, um, and if you don't watch the watch along, you have absolutely no idea why I use the word gobble, and that makes it even fun. So that's why you should come and watch the watch. Because all I'll tell you is that Charlotte Claire is the gobble master of sector three in Sanville. So if you want more context, you'll have to come to the last. Well, that's why that is technically. Yeah, it is true. It is true. Anyway, it's true. I know it's not technically true. Well, no, it might be all right. There we go. That was good fun. Thanks for bringing that up to me. 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