Reaction to Las Vegas GP qualifying
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Loads of rain made for one of the most enjoyable qualifying sessions of the year - even if we somehow avoided any red flags! We saw some amazing performances near the top of the grid, mirrored by some hugely disappointing ones from drivers knocked out in Q1...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:13.0 | Let's take a deep breath for a second, shall we? |
| 0:15.4 | Because I was not ready for that, you know, waking up and seeing that it had been raining. |
| 0:22.6 | But to the extent that it had rained as we headed into Kuali was just, we were not ready. |
| 0:29.3 | We had no idea what was going to happen. |
| 0:31.2 | Of course, in Free Practice 3, they had a wet to dry session. |
| 0:34.0 | So there was a little bit of learnings there. |
| 0:35.8 | But the expectation was only ever really |
| 0:38.3 | Friday to have the rain and then Saturday Sunday was supposed to be dry that all changed and it gave |
| 0:43.7 | us an unbelievably chaotic qualifying session Tom Bellingham it did it was very very chaotic it was |
| 0:50.3 | one of those classic ones where you the drivers are just circulating constantly and its last day of the line is getting the best laps. |
| 0:58.4 | And I mean, we literally saw wet tires. |
| 1:01.0 | Like, what world, what simulation are we living in that we've actually seen some wet tires this year that tells you everything about the grip level? |
| 1:09.0 | An emotional moment, an emotional moment to see those blue walled tires out there. |
| 1:14.2 | So, so proud. |
| 1:16.0 | Right, let's get into, first and foremost, a question before we get into the Q's, the Q1s, the Q1s, the Q2s and the Q3s. |
| 1:22.5 | And it's from one Pablo SF1. |
| 1:24.5 | How the hell did we get six red flags in Baku and none here? Well done to all the drivers. |
| 1:33.5 | I am utterly stunned. We were in the watch along and I was predicting at least 24 red flags. I thought |
| 1:41.3 | we were going to have a lot of stoppages. I thought it was going to be the longest |
| 1:45.2 | qualifying session of all time. Being Q2 still. Yeah, I genuinely did right now, you know, maybe midway |
| 1:51.2 | through Q1. It was ridiculous the conditions out there, such low grip around a track that we've |
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