Max’s move? Sainz’s switch? Fernando’s future? 2025 F1 grid predictions + Australian GP Preview
F1 Nation
Formula 1
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Tom Clarkson, Sky Sports’ Natalie Pinkham and L’Equipe’s Fred Ferret predict next year’s driver line-up, debating where Sergio Perez, Daniel Ricciardo, Alex Albon, Fernando Alonso, Esteban Ocon, Ollie Bearman, and Carlos Sainz will end up.
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. It's race week again. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome everyone to F1 Nation ahead of this weekend's Australian Grand Prix |
| 0:30.0 | with me Tom Clarkson and there's lots to talk about after a busy start to the season. |
| 0:36.0 | And to help me do just that, I'm joined by Sky F1 presenter Natalie Pinkham and French journalist Fred Ferre from Le Keep. A very warm welcome to you both. |
| 0:46.8 | Should we start in Paris perhaps? Fred, how things? |
| 0:50.4 | Very good, thank you, Tom. Bonjou. Bonjou and Pinkle all good. From Paris to Brentford and it's Bonjou for me too. |
| 0:58.0 | We haven't had either of you on F1 Nation since the season's been up and running. So what did you make of the opening two |
| 1:06.7 | races? Well I mean I think there's been a bit of criticism that they weren't the most |
| 1:10.9 | enthralling races but for me the subplots brought the drama |
| 1:14.8 | Ollie Behrman the debut in Saudi I mean I've just got this enduring image of him |
| 1:19.9 | eating a banana in the garage looking completely unflappable. |
| 1:23.8 | I certainly wasn't that chilled out and confident aged 18. |
| 1:27.2 | He was just phenomenal, wasn't he? |
| 1:29.4 | You know, to step in at such short notice and to weave like the eye of a needle, |
| 1:34.7 | threading the eye of a needle, that Ferrari through the streets of Jeddah was just so |
| 1:39.3 | impressive. But that's my big takeaway of the first two races is Ollie Berman's debut. |
| 1:45.0 | I mean just such an exciting prospect. |
| 1:47.0 | The one hour before the start of the race, |
| 1:50.0 | he was so |
| 1:55.0 | smiling at all of us watching him taking his helmet on and things like that he was so impressive and |
| 1:57.7 | I think we're gonna talk about him for the next day in years. |
| 2:01.4 | Fred have you been surprised by the gap that Red Bull has managed to maintain over the winter? |
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