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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking, reviewing the first qualifying session of the 26 Formula One season, a qualifying session

dominated by Mercedes, a one-two, front row lockout, George Russell getting

pole position ahead of Kimmy Antonelli. Sam, there's a lot to talk about in terms of where the

teams lie, where these drivers have all qualified, but before we get to all of that, I mean,

this is the first time we've seen these cars out on track in anger. What did you make of it? Oh, it was so good. It was so good to see cars going. I would say full pelt around the track, but there were many exorcises as we've now seen where they're not going full pelt around the race track. And that is something that is going to take a lot of adjustment, is corners that used to be heading to them flat out, you know, break at the

latest moment possible.

That's the whole point of this show, late breaking.

And now you'll get breaking three, four hundred meters before the, the breaking zone to do this super clipping, which is a new phrase.

We're having to adjust to.

You like that one, mate?

I actually, I'm not a massive fan of the super

clipping, but I think I dislike the term super super, oh, I can't even say it, super clipping even

more. Yeah, it's like porpoising never died. It just managed to resurface as something else.

Well, that's evil for you. It'll always reemerge as something else.

So, yeah, it's a lot to adjust to, but it was an interesting qualifying session.

Exciting. Let's hope the race brings even more of the same, but reliability looks like it could be the

absolute bug bear. We think it might have been preseasoning. It has already reared its ugly head.

It has, and there's plenty of did not start to review.

We've got three drivers that didn't even set a lap in qualifying and then others that

encountered other problems throughout.

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