Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 podcast with Matt and Tommy, another pod, another

competitive session, a sprint weekend. They come thick and fast, do they not? And we are here yet

to talk about main qualifying. And for sort of the criticism that

sprint weekends sometimes get and have done over the years, quite fairly, is that we essentially

have spoilers for the main event. Not this weekend. Everything changes, apparently, between

sprint parts of the weekend and the main one.

Yeah, definitely.

It's been a surprise, maybe a bit of an indication of how we're still in a very early phase of these new regulations and a lot of learnings to be had and people still trying to work out what they're doing.

But yeah, crazy to think that

you go into another sprint, sorry, another qualifying session. After the sprint, and you think,

oh, McLaren have just walked this, they're going to be fine. And, you know, both of them

nearly got knocked out a few times in that session. It was a crazy turn-up and very unexpected. And that's what,

that's what we want as Formula One fans at the end of the day is the unexpected. Exactly. I don't

know if it's because it was close or because they've actually made improvements, whatever it might be.

It felt like actual Formula One to a degree again. So I'm, I'm happy And Miami of all places, energy rich. And I will continue to say that for the rest of the weekend. Does your bingo. Praise today. Forget like, oh, you know, I love tracks that you can overtake. I love tracks that are energy rich, you know. I like it when they've got good amounts of wobbling you like? High-speed corners? Do you like heavy braking zones? No, no.

Energy-rich circuits for me. I like it when they can gobble up their energy really, really well.

Anyway, let's get into Q1, where the bottom six were Lindblad, Alonzo, Stroll, Bottas, Perez and Bortoletto.

The latter, the last name that I read there, of course, having lots of struggles.

And had it not been for Audi having problems again, every single weekend it feels like

they're having some kind of reliability issue, of course, Holkenberg exploded on the way to the sprint grid.

If it wasn't for Bortoletto's issue in qualifying, the big talking point, and a name I probably

would have read out, is Oscar Piastri's name. He finished 16th in this session and I cannot believe how close it was because

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