Hello and welcome to the WTF1 podcast.

I'm your host James Coker along with Luke Francis.

Hi, Luke.

Hi, James.

Today we are going to be reviewing the Formula One Heineken, Las Vegas Grand Prix

2025, and we are also going to be previewing next week's race in Qatar which correct me

if I'm wrong is also a sprint weekend correct correct yeah final sprint of the year and clearly

going to be a very important sprint I'd be the most important one of the year thus far obviously

all points count to one thing but this is a a big moment in the championship, as we'll discuss.

Yeah, we have a lot to talk about third year in Las Vegas.

Another, you know, I think like the race started out pretty exciting.

Quali for certain was a very interesting one. It was the first time we saw

the full wets get pulled out by these teams in quite a while. But let's just get right into it,

shall we? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I think, as you said, qualifying was a very unique one,

one we've not seen in a while.

Obviously, wet qualities are a bit more uncommon.

They're not completely rare, but they're a bit more uncommon.

But we saw the wet tire for the first time that I can remember.

It seems like people only use it by accident, whereas this time it was actually an intentional tire choice from a lot of drivers.

Yeah, conditions were brutal for them.

I don't think it gets much harder than a green street track with heavy rain, with walls right next to the track.

I think the reason why we don't see the full west anymore is usually when we see a track that would require a full wet tire.

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