BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello, I'm Rosanna Tennant and we have just

watched the Mexico City Grand Prix and with me to chat through everything we've seen is

the former Formula One driver, Julian Palmer and the European sports car champion, Alex

Brundel. It was an interesting race. We thought we had all the ingredients for something

quite spicy guys, but in the end the story was written that Max Verstappen took the

spoils ahead of Lewis Hamilton and the Mercedes and then Charlotte Claire completing the podium

in the Ferrari. Max Verstappen making light work of things at the start, Julian. We knew

he had to sort of get that move done on the two Ferrari's who'd locked out the front

road. Did you see it coming that quickly though in the Grand Prix?

I hoped it wouldn't for the interest of all of us really. Verstappen was always the favourite,

but as soon as he got the start you could see he was just between the two Ferrari's

sights and get away very well at all and then Leclerc couldn't cover the inside quick enough.

Verstappen was through and once he's on the inside heading down to turn one, the job was done

really for him, wasn't it? Is that dramatic in 2023? Verstappen's best chance was to keep

not only the lead but to keep a 1-2 if Verstappen even split them at the start we were thinking

it was going to be a long shot for them to come back and it took about 100 metres.

There we go, 100 metres of, as you said I'd exprondled Jeopardy, in this Mexico City Grand Prix,

he was punchy wasn't he going straight through the middle of the two of the Ferrari's?

Yeah, the second phase of the start was just so good for him and had that drive down towards

the first corner. I was surprised by how little punch the Ferrari's had if I'm honest and

surprised how little formation flying there was from them, they could have easily stacked up on

that inside line and made Verstappen go the really long way round into turn one and as JP said as

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