The worst starts to an F1 season ever
P1 with Matt and Tommy
Stak
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Sorry, Aston Martin - but your awful start to the 2026 season got us thinking about some of the other terrible openings other F1 teams have suffered in seasons gone by. So we're here with some of the standout candidates: from more bad luck for Fernando Alonso to some... suspect goings on between Ferrari and the FIA, and plenty more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:11.3 | Now, this is a podcast, of course, completely and utterly dedicated to Aston Martin. |
| 0:18.0 | And they have, they've got our brain boxes going, haven't they, for an idea for this |
| 0:23.1 | podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | A little bit of a short view back to the past kind of vibe, if you remember that series. |
| 0:28.7 | And look, we're bringing your content. |
| 0:31.2 | I've seen some stupid comments. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah, I'll say it. |
| 0:35.7 | I'll say it. |
| 0:36.5 | Oh, oh, yeah, F1's kind of left content creators hang in in April, haven't they? |
| 0:43.0 | Oh, this is peak spring slop. |
| 0:45.9 | All this sort of stuff. |
| 0:46.8 | Well, yes, there's no races going on. |
| 0:49.1 | There's no news. |
| 0:50.5 | Sorry for entertaining. |
| 0:52.5 | Exactly. |
| 0:53.3 | So thank you. |
| 0:53.8 | I'll shout out the positive comments that were like. We appreciate you guys still doing stuff. Yeah, I love that. And not just hiding away. Stop liking the ones that are, wow, this is slop. So that would be good. But thank you. You turned up anyway, didn't you? So you can't really complain. Now, we are going to get into the worst starts to an F1 season ever. As I mentioned, Aston Martin, the green vibrating machine has been very much the forefront of conversation of having so much hype coming into 2026 and not being able to deliver anywhere near that. And we've got some examples to discuss. |
| 1:30.2 | So Tommy, why don't we just get straight into it, hey? |
| 1:32.6 | Are you looking forward to this? |
| 1:34.6 | As a Fernando Alonso fan, no. |
| 1:37.7 | Fair enough. |
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