Our reaction to the Mercedes F1 car launch
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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We’re fresh off our *amazing* win at the Autosport Awards for a chat about the new Mercedes livery - slapped on a car that will probably bear no resemblance to the actual car come testing. And we’re disagreeing over it!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:10.7 | If you're noticing a gravelly voice, it's when you go to places and talk to a lot of people |
| 0:16.0 | and you project your voice and now it sounds like this. |
| 0:19.2 | If you missed it, we're going to just start it and say right now, we went to the Autosport Awards last night, not hungover. Neither of us are hungover. We were very sensible because we knew about this Mercedes car launch. However, my brain decided, you know what you need, Matt, at 7am after going to bed at like half two? It's some adrenaline. |
| 0:38.6 | Why don't you just remember everything that happened at the Autosport? |
| 0:41.1 | We won. We won. We won. And it's thanks to you because it was the fan vote. |
| 0:48.3 | We are creators of last year, I guess. |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah, maybe. Yeah. |
| 0:53.9 | I still haven't processed it. |
| 0:56.0 | My brain is very sleepy. |
| 0:59.0 | But thank you. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, can't thank you enough. |
| 1:01.8 | We did a little video on P1 Extra. |
| 1:03.2 | Go check that out if you've not seen it and subscribe to that channel. |
| 1:06.3 | Because yeah, we just wanted to share our thoughts while it was still fresh in the mind and |
| 1:10.3 | it's still very much fresh in the mind. It was an amazing night. So apologies that we're a little bit groggy and |
| 1:16.2 | tired, but we're going to be chatting about the Mercedes, of course. Can we call it a launch? |
| 1:21.3 | Some pictures. A render. So Mercedes, they are doing a car launch. I believe they're doing it |
| 1:27.2 | after when they get a car, but obviously so many of the teams |
| 1:31.1 | are just doing these livery launches so they can say like, here's our design, they have |
| 1:34.7 | the moment in the sun, but it's so secretive at the moment. |
| 1:37.6 | There's so much going on with the new rules, there'd be so much changing. |
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