Reaction to Abu Dhabi GP qualifying
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
With the grid set for tomorrow's Championship decider, let's run through all the possible scenarios and try to work out how this seismic finale could play out...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:12.4 | Abou-Dabby. |
| 0:14.1 | Competitiveness, sessions, qualifying, done. |
| 0:17.0 | We have seen DRS in qualifying for the final time final time goodbye we will never see a rear wing open |
| 0:24.5 | like that over a hot lap ever again and tom bellingham you were an absolute mess in the |
| 0:33.3 | qualifying watch along can only imagine what the race is going to be like when Max does Max things. |
| 0:39.9 | How are we feeling? |
| 0:41.0 | How do you sum up your emotions right now? |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah, my emotions weren't. |
| 0:44.9 | I did not remember that DRS thing at all. |
| 0:48.0 | You'll be amazed to hear that my thoughts were elsewhere during qualifying. |
| 0:53.0 | And yes, if you joined us for the watch-along, |
| 0:56.7 | my heart rate was at 130 BPM basically during Q3. |
| 1:02.2 | And, yeah, it was all very... |
| 1:03.1 | It was actually 133, Tommy, which was even more interesting |
| 1:06.2 | because it had 33 in it and it had the number one. |
| 1:10.0 | You know, whether that's... Is it a sign? Is it a sign? From number one. You know, whether that's max going from number 1 to number 33 |
| 1:13.3 | and it's just your pessimistic heart getting involved as well. |
| 1:17.4 | But yes, it was a very, very fun one. |
| 1:20.3 | And look, three drivers in the title fight and it is set up. |
| 1:25.6 | Rather interesting indeed. But before we get into the top drivers, |
| 1:29.7 | let's begin with Q1, where the bottom five were Hamilton, Albon, Holkenberg, Gazley and Colapinto. |
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