Reaction to Canadian GP qualifying
5/23/202631 min
We're straight back on track with qualifying for tomorrow's race, where some of the frontrunners changed their setups in anticipation of some bad rain... But did it make a difference?
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First 90 secondsMatt Gallagher· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Sprint weekend, we are fast and furious right now. Still think I'm digesting what happened in the sprint race, and we've already now had a full qualifying session to now put our brains to as well. And i- if you'd seen the result between first and second, no, this is not the same. Should we just ... Actually, Tommy, should we just, should we just sort of copy and paste the sprint qualifying- [laughs] Same thing ... chat and just- I think what is funny, though, is I'm pretty sure, I don't know if it's in the watch along or the sprint qualifying thing, but the biggest kind of gripe about qualifying and sprint qualifying is, like, there's no difference.
Tom Bellingham· Host0:52
It's kind of gonna be the same result. And I'm sure we were like, "Oh, no, because they actually, in parc ferme, they can change everything now." And yet they've done that, and you've got the same gap between first and second. The top five are exactly the same, and Hülkenberg's still 11th. So yeah, all that, all those things going on in parc ferme, and we've got almost the same result.
Matt Gallagher· Host1:12
Right. Let's just dive straight into it. No fluff. Q1, the bottom six were Ocon, Albon, Alonso, Pérez, Stroll, and Bottas. Slightly less, um, surprising perhaps this, uh, this bottom six. Didn't have a Gasly getting