Abu Dhabi GP Driver Ratings
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Here we are, the real climax to the 2025 F1 season: one final round of not at all controversial grades from the only totally unbiased people in F1...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:10.8 | Final driver ratings of the year. |
| 0:12.8 | The final time we grade your favourite drivers from zero to 10 on their performance throughout the entire Formula One weekend this time in Abu Dhabi. |
| 0:24.5 | Tommy, the season is over. |
| 0:26.6 | That was a race. |
| 0:30.1 | It was a race. |
| 0:31.3 | A grand prix. |
| 0:33.3 | You look at the pit stop strategies and you go, oh, you know, there was strategy. |
| 0:37.2 | And look, maybe just maybe it wasn't like. you look at the pitstop strategies and you go, oh, you know, there was strategy. |
| 0:43.3 | And look, maybe just maybe it wasn't like absolutely horrendous. And we were obviously more focused on the jeopardy of the title fight. |
| 0:47.2 | And there were some overtakes out there. |
| 0:49.5 | A lot of the things, I think as well, it goes down to TV direction where we didn't see a lot because |
| 0:54.7 | they were fully focused on the championship sort of protagonists. So yeah, looking back, |
| 1:01.3 | shock at replays and things like that. I'm like, oh wow, that happened. So that's fun. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah, particularly at the end where I was, I watched back the highlights about six times to find out what on earth happened to certain |
| 1:12.7 | drivers in the midfield, particularly over that last points, points positions which we'll get into, |
| 1:18.9 | which was basically swapping all through the celebrations of, of Lando crossing the line to be world champion. |
| 1:26.8 | And it all changed as that was going on. |
| 1:30.5 | But understandably, the TV, of course, was focused on the champ. |
| 1:34.6 | Imagine. |
| 1:35.2 | Do you remember that time when Oscar won the race and it was in a mini box? |
| 1:38.3 | Imagine if it was Oscar Piaccibiac becoming world champion and they put in the mini box again or something. |
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