Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy,

Sprint Race Guitar Edition.

And my goodness gracious me, what have we just witnessed?

That was, I know that people joke about it.

They say, well, no, they don't joke about it.

They say with their chest that it's better to have sprint sessions, competitive sessions, over practice.

Well, my friends, that was a shortened free practice too, what we have just witnessed.

And my God, you might be thinking, how will we make a podcast out of this?

Don't worry, the worst of race, the more angry Tom Bellingham gets.

And that's what we want to see.

Well, the more annoyed I get at the sprint format, because the sprint format is useless.

And this was a showcase of just how useless it is.

It's been saved quite a lot this year

from like random things happening like the McLaren's colliding in Austin and stuff and things like

that. But here it was just absolutely awful. And this is this is kind of what the sprint does

deliver most of the time,

made even more extreme by the fact that this circuit is also equally as useless as the sprint

format, really. Yeah, it certainly is. We'll get into everything to do with the format in a bit.

Of course, Oscar Piastri won the sprint.

He's gained two points on Lando Norris.

It's 22 points now, the gap between Piastri and Norris.

The question now, is it too late?

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