Reaction to Qatar GP qualifying
P1 with Matt and Tommy
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4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We're back with reaction to one of the most important qualifying sessions of the season, where Matt is joined by a special guest: F1 commentator extraordinaire, Alex Jacques!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 podcast with Matt and not Tommy. |
| 0:11.4 | No, no, I know. |
| 0:13.0 | It's another episode, but it's not Tom Bellingham. |
| 0:15.6 | And I've got a pretty substantial guest. |
| 0:19.3 | It's Alex Jakes, the F1 commentary sensation. And you may have seen |
| 0:23.5 | before. Alex has been on the podcast before. Alex, how are you doing, my friend? We're about to |
| 0:27.5 | reflect on some qualifying for the penultimate round of the season. Thank you very much for having me, |
| 0:32.8 | Matt. Yeah, you know it's got to the business end when you and I are having a conversation, |
| 0:36.6 | but thank you for having me on the pod. I look forward to sharing a beer with you at some point when all of this is over. Now, first and foremost, you may well have heard already everybody, but we need to talk about what Alex has devoted his life to, and no, we're not talking about F1E sports where we have worked together on it. It's in fact, |
| 0:54.6 | you've released a book, Alex. It's called Grid to Glory. It's a book where over 75 chapters, |
| 1:00.0 | the wonderful Alex Jakes, right here tells the story of Formula One's rise, fall and recovery |
| 1:04.2 | through the extraordinary moments that shaped the world's most traumatic sport, celebrating the best |
| 1:09.4 | sport in the world through both well-known |
| 1:11.1 | and never-before-told stories. How does that paragraph sound to you, Alex? I made it in the last |
| 1:16.9 | 60 seconds before we went live. Does that encapsulate what Grid to Glory is all about? |
| 1:22.2 | You sold it brilliantly, Matt. I'm going to put it, I'm going to put it in vision. I'm going |
| 1:26.5 | to put it in vision. Yeah'm going to put it in vision. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah. 75 chapters that tell the entire history of the Formula One World Championship with some entertaining stories, some crazy stories, some unbelievable stories. The World Champion getting kidnapped, |
| 1:38.0 | a World Championship leader getting fired in a magazine and the driver's going on strike, |
| 1:43.5 | along with all the big things that have happened in championship history. It is essentially the backstory for this sport that we love. And this is not a sponsored episode. I'm just doing it for the love of Alex Jakes. So there you go, just in case you're wondering if I have to put hashtag ad at any point in this episode. Right, we're here to talk about qualifying. |
| 2:03.0 | We're here to talk about the Guitar Grand Prix. |
| 2:11.5 | So let's dive straight in to Q1, where the bottom five were Sonoda Ocon, Hamilton, stroll, and Collar Pinto. |
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