Grading every F1 team after the first 3 races!
The Late Braking F1 Podcast
The Late Braking F1 Podcast
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Late Breaking F1 podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | Make sure to check out new episodes every Wednesday and every Sunday. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello and a very well welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Eid, Sam Sage, and me, Ben Hocking. |
| 0:36.4 | Back with another midweek episode. Sadly, still no F1 as of yet. Actually, I'm lying because Sam, we actually went through exactly what happened at the |
| 0:38.4 | Bahrain GP at the weekend. We did, and I'm still amazed that they managed to fit two drivers |
| 0:43.7 | into one car. And actually, that when Iko Holgerberg, obviously, who was on the front row, |
| 0:48.9 | decided to leave the Grand Prix, he left on the back of an ostrich. Did he know? |
| 0:58.2 | What did I miss on Sunday? |
| 1:06.1 | So, yeah. You remember how Bottas got pole and Holkenberg was second and then Williams were behind, but one of them broke down, so they decided to get in the same car together and they were actually |
| 1:10.2 | pretty good, which is a surprise given how much they've struggled with the weight of the car, but having two in the same car was an advantage to them. Who was sat on the other one's lap? I think Alex did the pedals, and Carlos did the steering. I did not think we were going to get into who's on top discussion. Does that answer my question there? Who's on top? |
| 1:28.5 | Who's the bottom? |
| 1:29.2 | Who's the top out of signs and album? |
| 1:30.6 | Go. |
| 1:31.1 | You decide. |
| 1:35.4 | Album's on the bottom. |
| 1:36.4 | Right. |
| 1:37.3 | We are grading teams today. |
| 1:41.9 | So we've had three races, one sprint that we've got to, we've had a chance to |
| 1:46.0 | look at the team so far. We're going to give a grade, anything from, I guess, A plus all the |
| 1:51.1 | way through to whatever we decide the bottom of the grading system is today. We'll go in reverse |
| 1:56.8 | championship order. So we'll start with the championship leaders, that being Mercedes. |
| 2:07.0 | It's going pretty well for them at the moment. I don't think I'm going to get too much of a disagreement with that. But what do they get in terms of a grade? We'll go with grades first of all, |
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