Reaction to Japanese GP qualifying
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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We're back at Suzuka for more confusing qualifying runs, with a SHOCKING Q2 exit leaving one of us very unhappy...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:10.7 | Japanese Grand Prix qualifying is in the books. |
| 0:15.1 | It's done. |
| 0:16.0 | And it's still a Mercedes one too, but lots of things to discuss the legendary Suzuki circuit. |
| 0:24.9 | It's always great to see these cars go around here. |
| 0:27.8 | And I don't know how you would, how would you sum up your thoughts and feelings right now, Tommy, after that. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, I feel wonderful. |
| 0:36.0 | Obviously, favourite driver aside, I do think a lot of the criticisms of qualifying. |
| 0:42.4 | It's not as amazing as it used to be for sure, but I do think a lot of it is because of the gaps. |
| 0:48.9 | And I think as soon as we see better competition, which hopefully will happen, please, please field to catch up |
| 0:55.8 | Mercedes, we'll enjoy it a lot more because at the end of the day you want to see |
| 0:59.9 | battles for pole and yeah, the field spread was absolutely enormous. I mean like one, one point |
| 1:06.1 | five seconds between the top ten, we were used to way less than that of the entire field last year. |
| 1:14.0 | We certainly were. |
| 1:16.2 | So why don't we get into the first part of qualifying? |
| 1:19.2 | Q1, where the bottom six were Albon, Bearman, Perez, Bottas, Alonzo and Stroll. |
| 1:26.8 | So I think there's one outlier there because it's not two Williams, two Cadillacs and two |
| 1:31.8 | Aster Martins. |
| 1:32.6 | There's a hat in there. |
| 1:34.4 | Olly Behrman. |
| 1:35.2 | Question from P-1 Patreon member, Edith is my middle name. |
| 1:38.0 | What happened to Olly Behrman? |
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