2024 Australian Grand Prix Race Review | P1 Podcast 

Always felt that Ferrari hyped Charles too much over Carlos.

Because his performance in 2022 has a large part to do with it. Winning the odd race is irrelevant as Sainz isn’t consistent throughout the season. And when he had a car capable of challenging RB he was beaten by Mercedes.

Perfectly said

@@LednacekZ well he is the golden boy carlos deserve better

@@paperplane-db8qf I think anyone can have an off season for many reasons, I would not label Hamilton washed for his first season alongside Russell, or Alonso for being beaten by Ocon. But yeah 2022 is a bit of a spot in an otherwise pretty white tshirt.

Hopefully they don't continue that tradition, or else for the rest of the season the podcasts will be only 1 minute long 😂

​@@billgross1719Charles wins and we get 16 mins of Matt crying 😂

@@billgross1719or an hour ;)

Get Giovinazzi in for the 99 minute podcast

Always was my favourite part of a Ferrari win.

That was the best moment of the morning.

They were so hype

exactly my thoughts

The problem isn't that Charles is a bad driver. Of course he isn't. But Charles has been at Ferrari for a good while now and yet he doesn't have the things that I have seen from other lead drivers. He's too submissive to the team. Carlos behaves more like a lead driver than Leclerc does. If you know, you know.

Yeah people forget that Charles was on Carlos' pace. His problem is that he's a little passive with overtaking. Carlos isn't

To be fair carlos has a luck start of this season

@@swim4757not a problem

Leclerc had older tyres but it was his fault for ghosting in quali for the first time in a while.

Yes, because Charles was in Dirty air and his tires started graining after two Laps

mate 5 laps wont make a diff of .8 seconds a lap @@OnurP1

That was a man determined not to get undercut by his team pitting his team-mate to hold off Norris.

Yeah indeed, to be honest the race was just as boring as with Max leading the race. Instead of Max we had Carlos doing the Max thing... Controlling the lead. If not for the DNF we would at least had 3 or 4 laps of excitement between Max and Carlos. Maybe upto the first pits stop.

Facts. I always rated Carlos higher than Charles anyway but seeing them squirm with the possibility that Carlos might actually be that good was kinda cringey.

@@PiousMoltar They have driven together for now in their 4th year. Sainz has only started to actually match and beat Lec on pure pace in Monza of 2023 followed by Singapore, then Lec went on a 8 race in a row dominance. Now again Sainz out drove Lec in Australia but it wasn't as lopsided as people are acting like. Being stuck behind Norris and having to pit early to undercut then always being on 10 lap older tires than Carlos and in dirty air most of the race is what most the pace difference was. Sainz is a great driver and glad he is now on the pace of Lec but this season has been nothing more than 1-1 each cuz we are not gonna act like in Bahrain Lec wouldn't have finished P3 without the brake issue he had.

The only thing consistent with leclerc are his mistakes

@@filipecardozo Thats delusion and people blowing things out of proportion. I bet Sainz has crashed out and made more mistakes at Ferrari than Lec has when they were both there. Driver errors, not car issues. People like to overblown Lec mistakes as if its a real issue. Its not, and it wasn't in 2022, car reliability and strategy errors were his issues. People like to make a narrative up in their head and once they are set on it they are nearly impossible to change their mind. Easier to trick a fool than convince him he's been fooled. You are a fool for believing the narrative that Lec is mistake-prone.

@@filipecardozoy ofc getting fifth place in qualy is a mistake for leclerc and a saturday for carlos

Thanks for writing my comment for me.

@@PKWeaver74nah man, watch the last races of last season and say it again, i think this is memory issues.

@@maboh5622 No, this is a 'not forming an opinion on the basis of one race' issue.

When you're a secret Fanstappen

@@8tonystark8 I think it's more that people will astrisk Ferrari's P1-2 win because of Max's DNF. Had he won with Max still running, it would end that talk.

One thing I noticed immediately was that Max Verstappen was UNABLE to stretch the lead beyond DRS within the first two laps. This gave me hope that this race could be different. It's still too early to ask if off-track distractions at Red Bull are causing on-track performance to suffer. But if such things continue, that question will start to become louder and more pressing.

The answer is easy, Sainz was ahead...

@@InterestedAmerican And that happend because of 1 reason and everyone knows it.

Nando Lorris podium

Russell also crashed when Sainz won at Silverstone, and Max also had issues that day

Magnussen P10 on the last lap because of George's crash happened both times too.

Actually thrice

Yes its becoming a pattern that George fumbles it trying desperately to pass someone in the last laps.

Yes 😊

Classic sainz fans getting all worked up for the 1st half of the season just for in the end of the season be going "Yeah he finished 7th, but he was the only one to win a race beside redbull" Its been 3 races calm down

Sainz is a top 5 driver. Pretending he isn't is stupid. ​@@Kaigu_b.f.2508

yeah because of the team strategy to keep Sainz at front so that he can get the p1 points, leclerc & sainz pace was very close so if not for the team orders, there's a chance leclerc could've gotten p1. Sainz did have a great pace all throughout the race though, so it would've been a battle (that Sainz could've possibly won). but it was important to get sainz up in the points since he missed last race, and now the top 4 drivers are Red Bull, Ferrari, Red Bull, Ferrari, and McLarens are further behind

@@takkamek what 😂 sainz was quicker for the whole race

our only hope at this point of someone actually competing against max, may have another 2016 season

If we get to the summer break, and it comes out that Max is leaving due to off-track drama at RBR, Sainz should be given the call to take that seat. At this point, I'd pick him over Perez and Ricciardo for 2025.

​@@Storm_CWas far as I'm concerned, Ricciardo isn't even an option for RBR at his current state.

Why are people yawning for this so hard? Carlos is too good to just be wasted as a punching bag for Max. Same with Lando for example.

​@@CMike44Neither is Perez to be fair.

the last 3!

@@1realmadridrockswrong austria 2022 was charles 🤦🏼‍♂️

​@@SasukeUchiha-ms3ttdamn bro ur right even i was like wtf

Sainz has the same amount of wins as Charles since both have been teammates lol

Smooth Operator > Overrated Crybaby

As opposed to Charles and Xavi: Charles: Is this the last lap? Xavi: Yes we have fastest lap.

Matt does not like Sainz. It is pretty obvious to me.

@@freyalove3831 Nothing wrong with being a fan of Leclerc. But it's the fake compliments he does to Sainz and then goes on to talk ifs and buts about Leclerc.

Like you've not been sleeping since Abu dab21?

@@filipecardozo elaborate?

I 100% agree every time Carlos does better then Charles it's always some excuse from Charles fans on why. Like if you like Ferrari be happy dang.

@@joshawott331 I see that as them wanting more from Ferrari as when Leclerc is shafted Ferrari loose points IE: Silverstone 22. There are some instant where Leclerc has had some bad luck and Sainz has profited but Both fans think Ferrari is against them.

Agree, Carlos has also terrible luck and no one points that out... If not for that vegas bs, he would have beaten Charles for a second season

@@Maton8587If Leclerc's engine didn't blow up in the first race and if he didn't take a 10-place grid drop, he would have beaten Sainz easily.

@@OnurP1and Brazil and USA also for Leclerc. Carlos anyway spun in lap 1 in Vegas so qualifying is not really relevant.

no

Nope

Nope ... it'd be more like 30 seconds.

Doesn’t change that he managed to get enough of a lead for a completely clean pit TWICE. Great race from Sainz either way.

Cope harder lol

I understand this, but Leclerc is their future, and Lewis Hamilton is impossible to pass up because he's the most famous driver ever. He'll make Ferrari a billion dollars, and if he drives well, he could definitely win a championship with how Ferrari are improving.

Exactly 🤣

underrated relative to Leclerc, who got to stay without really having had a better performance in the past years. They were pretty even all seasons.

@@yunketroniko2022 was not close by the slightest

True, I think his rating always matched what he did on track. He seems to be improving so it's only normal his rating will to as well.

erm Ferrari??!! This podcast on numerous occasions. Leclerc fanboys (nothing against Charles)

exactly!!! 😄

I swearrr they can’t even bring themselves to suggest that Carlos is better than Charles at anything, they said Charles is faster than Carlos when it comes to pace and is comparable to him in other aspects, Carlos is by far better than Charles when it comes to racecraft even if Charles has better pace but they couldn’t even suggest such a thing, it’s actually crazy how much they underrate Carlos

Jup, the yawning and excusing of everything leclerc does doesnt leave much space for appreciating carlos

@@LiftandCoawell, for me the few races leclerc manages to bring a real fight to max outshine anything carlos has ever done, then again i also would not replace him with hamilton

Sainz has much higher racing IQ than Leclerc

Yeah, he's really impressed me, and man did lewis make a perfect move at the perfect time yet again lol. Mercedes is falling apart and Ferrari has a win in race 3.

people are just blind george haters

Of course he did

I think George is such a smart racer he 100% was thinking about preserving his position. he for sure was shitting himself as well, but that doesn't meant you stop trying to get every advantage possible, that's what we expect of racing drivers. Swap the positions and people would be talking about Alonso being a "wild old fox".

People are also stupid.

I mean, you sometimes hear of people driving their own cars for miles down a motorway before realising the handbrake is on. The power going through those wheels definitely could offset the friction the brake was having to where it felt like a tug if the handbrake momentarily. If not for friction doing what it does best (a.k.a. creating shedloads of heat), I reckon the pace deficit wouldn't be much different to losing several points of downforce.

not how it works, the brake was slightly engaged else hed have problems turning from the the first corner. since these f1 brakes operate at such high temps, a slight jam can over heat them in a couple laps which is what happened to him.

I don't think that was the case. There more than 1000 hp going to those rear wheels. No brakes on the planet could significantly reduce the effect of that much power, apart from catching on fire and exploding.

@@joyl7842 No way, those brakes will stop 1000hp without much issue at all...

@@shahjahanriaz499 Max literally said it was like driving with the handbrake on. It's exactly the reason why he made the mistake that allowed Sainz to pass him.

Apparently the reason is they would slow down the same amount for a red or a VSC. I agree though, a red makes drivers much more aware that something terrible has happened. Thank God for strolls engineer yelling DANGER DANGER, he probably saved George's life.

I had appendix and I couldn't even walk in one week. (Nor poop, goddamn it). Carlos is a fucking hero.

Absolutely, the clean air/dirty air conversation needs to be had. The whole point of these regulations was to get rid of dirty air, and now cars can't get within 5 seconds of each other, let alone pass, it's awful.

True actually. Didn't think of it that way. Just a shame his 'stepdaughter' who was watching him race for the first time only got to see like 6 laps😭

you know its not firing when you don't get renewed though ? He isnt pushed out the door mid season

Says some rando named ogreman2229. Humble yourself and remember you’re just a fan. You can’t see into the future.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing ever since I heard Lewis moving news.

⁠@@mapleleafkay9824lol bro relax. This is the comment section. Expect some comments 😂 HUmBLe YoURseLF cringe

I wasn’t a fan of the move but man, no one can say atm that the move was bad move. No one can predict Whats gonna happen, period.

yep, glad we did not see it, a good change

And apparently his brake was stuck THE WHOLE TIME

But Checo said Carlos would've won anyways 😂😂.

@@filipecardozo... to hide behind his own terrible race

It’s only because he was a part of the Russell/Norris trio that the British Motorsport press were all gushy over. Like Russell he’s got some serious one lap pace but not got the chops when it comes to the races.

Carlos was slower than Stroll in Abu Dhabi, literally costing Ferrari P2 in the constructor standings. Leclerc is not the most consistent driver on the grid (that would be Max), but only a blind man would claim Sainz is in any way consistent.

Both Charles and Hamilton are better than Sainz, that’s just the reality. In 2021 and 2023 Leclerc had the vast majority of reliability issues and that’s the only reason Sainz was close. 2022 Leclerc was challenging the Redbulls, Sainz was challenging the Mercedes. You can talk about consistency but there’s a consistent pattern of luck and nothing else. He started 2024 strong but that doesn’t overturn the previous 3 seasons.

@@danielkristiansen2298 he’s still consistent. Don’t get to mad because people like him more than chuck

@@nollienick1121 He is not, though. He is worse on his tyres, has a lower average finishing position over the seasons, causes more damage to his car. By which metric is he more consistent? The big difference is that when LEC is having an "off" race, he does something spectacular and ends in the wall (once or twice a season). When SAI is "off", he is just slow. So we remember LEC for the memes but SAI flies under the radar. I don't know any of them so I can't speak for their likeability. They are both very handsome though.

It wasn’t intentional by Alonso but as per F1 stewards reports he did brake 100m early which and then accelerated again before braking. So yeah Alonso made a mistake for which he was penalized, which imo is harsh. George could do nothing by that point.

Alonso literally saw George crash, then lied to his engineer and said he had a clutch issue. The FIA checked his clutch and it was fine. So Alonso crashed George, then lied about having a car issue. Alonso has always been like this, watch 2007 if you want to see him ruining Lewis' chance to win the championship as a rookie. Then in 2008 Alonso cheats and has his teammate intentionally crash so he can win a race, Alonso is a dirty driver.

@@utkarshtyagi10 Their report also said he braked, but it wasn't the main reason for the slow down, so he may have just engaged the brake a let go and realized his mistake, or he was actually racing and slowed a bit early, but it was far from a brake check.

@@suede__it wasn’t a brake check but worthy enough to deter the driver behind, for stewards to make the decision of giving 20 sec penalty

Leclerc crashed out once while leading. Same as Seb. Leclerc crashed in quali about 4 times in 6 years. About the same number with Sainz. Leclerc has never lost a quali H2H and only lost race H2H once. Leclerc's engine blew up twice while leading, lost a race due to strategy error 3 times Leclerc beat Vettel twice, beat Sainz twice. Was outracing Max when the cars were close. Seb had two cars that could legit challenge for a title across his entire Ferrari stint(2017-2018) and he bottled it in 2018.

@@OnurP1Vettel had front wing damage and it was dry tyres on a wet track. Whereas there’s really no excuse for Paul Ricard - perfect weather and a fully working car. Vettel didn’t bottle 2018, Ferrari did. Almost all of Vettels errors were recovering from Ferraris mistakes. They even made the car slower for 3 races. And Vettel got 3 wins in 2015 in peak Merc dominance which is more than half of Charles’ total in 6 seasons.

@@paperplane-db8qf 2015 Ferrari had the pace to win on merit on occasion. They didn't inherit a win after a Mercedes DNF. Vettel locked up and lost 3 places in Baku. Had a shit restart in China which allowed him to fall back enough for Verstappen to crash into him. Fucked up an easy P2 in France. Crashed out in Hockhenheim. Spun in Monza Spun in COTA Crashed with Verstappen in Japan.

​@@OnurP1Where did Chatles outrace Max lmfaooo

@@LiftandCoa Silverstone 2019, Bahrain 2022, Austria 2022, Las Vegas 2023 comes to mind.

Rules are rules. Pretty clear cut erratic driving. It was a unanimous decision by all stewards. Johnny Herbert wasn’t the only one who decided it. If Kimi can get a drive through penalty for crossing a white line I don’t see how a drive through penalty for brake checking is harsh.

@@paperplane-db8qfThere's no universe in which what Alonso did can be considered "brake checking" and if you read the ruling, it's a complete joke. The FIA literally said Alonso didn't even brake, he lifted off 100 meters before the turn, and he lightly touched the breaks, which in their own words, wasn't the reason for the car's deceleration. But since in the previous laps he didn't do the same, he got a penalty. At that point, just have the cars go through rails, and give them automatic braking points, not that there'll be much individuality in the future anyway with penalties like these.

@@TheRayzorOneyou are clueless. Taking your foot off the accelerator in an F1 car is the same as hard braking in a road car.

@@TheRayzorOne Alonso braked regardless when he didn’t need to. He downshifted, and just lifting off caused engine braking and retardation due to drag and the energy recovery system and slowed the car. Just because he lightly touched the brakes is irrelevant. The car slowed down significantly due to his actions.

​@@TheRayzorOne you clearly don't know what you're talking about. Go educate yourself

Agree with the fact you can’t punish Alonso for George’s loss of downforce outright. However I personally actually disagreed with the Aldas video because the rule broken was: 33.4 At no time may a car be driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically or in a manner which could be deemed potentially dangerous to other drivers or any other person. I don’t think it’s the ‘unnecessarily slowly’ part so much as the ’erratic’ part that incurred the penalty. For me, the fact Alonso literally had to apply the throttle again before slowing a second time for the corner is what makes this erratic. I highly doubt KMag ever did this, although I have absolutely no evidence of this 😅 I think the penalty is fair, but it’s definitely an interesting and divisive incident!

@@fredgoodyer4907 but how was Kmag's driving predictable? Erratic means unpredictable, so in order for driving not to be erratic, it has to be predictable. The first time he lifted way earlier than the corner was completely unpredictable, aka that was erratic. Nothing happened because the others were far enough behind, but that's kind of what happened here as well, george was far enough back that he did not hit alonso I could even turn that reapplication of the throttle back against the penalty and say that the fact that he reapplied throttle when he saw that george was catching very fast means he was trying to avoid a collision. And again, he was harvesting. His lights were flashing, george should've seen that, knew that he was going to be slow. He didn't brakecheck george, he slowly decreased speed, just like kmag did. I don't know, the whole thing smells for me, I am not rewatching this vid but I think even matt and tom said "if george doesn't crash, nothing happens", which i think would've been the case indeed and that goes fully against the fia's "it's not the outcome that matters"

@@zsfekete5211 I’d say that slowing down early and coasting into a corner is somewhat predictable, but I could absolutely accept if it was decided to be too aggressive as well. Maybe you should have to stay within a certain percentage of your best lap or last lap or something. Wrt Alonso trying to avoid the crash, his defence of the scenario was that he was only looking ahead and not behind (which I don’t believe for a second but) which I will take as an admission of not actively trying to avoid a crash. I see it as him slowing so early that, had he not reapplied the power, he could have been passed into the corner, but that’s pure speculation on my part. You are right that it’s not a proper brake check (I think it technically is one but not really) but his early downshift would cause the car to slow more suddenly than just harvesting. If George had gone through the gravel but stayed out of the wall and kept p7 to the end, I personally think the stewards would still look, but I agree that they basically just lie every time they say “we don’t consider the consequences” cuz they definitely do! I think they should though, which possibly is why I agree with this penalty 😊

Yes the FIA's decisions are so random. Last race Norris move dangerously in the braking zone against hamilton and get no penalties. Now Alonso get penalty because he brake early. FIA failed again.

@@blackmichel8974 I'm not sure if it's the same stewards every time or not. I think after Masi was let go they replaced him with multiple race directors ona rotating basis, I think that's causing inconsistency

You don't know that. Sainz could've finished where Ollie did in Saudi

@@michaeltelfer3483 lol you serious. Ollie took a while to overtake Zhou. Sainz would have done it much easily.

And if Max his engine didn't break down he would have won the race. Both missed an entire race essentially...

Carlos has won races but only when rbs have had problems. I want to see him win when he’s actually fighting. I’ve never seen him actually fight for his win. It’s kinda just been a bit of luck for him tbh

​@@Snazzy16 i dont remember Verstappen having problems in Singapore? I thought the car was just historically shit at that track

@@TheJubess Yes, but they qualified hugely behind so there was no fighting. He has yet to fight the rbs or really any car for the win. I would like to see him do something par with Las Vegas (I know rbs won there but it was very close). Overtaking the Red Bulls and competing with them. I do think he has it in him, and I want to see him do it.

Let's just comment end of the season and see where it is at. Charles last crashed in a race, back in France 2022. In quali, both drivers have had incidents and if you want to really be critical, Carlos cost Ferrari P2 in the championship at Abu Dhabi. It is only race 3, let's calm down. Charles did not have the best weekend but still finished P2 with Fastest Lap. It is not like he finished out of the podium today. Let's see how the season pans out. The Paddock rates Charles higher. Perhaps they know a bit more than fans?

@@nisuraperera6068 I agree 100%. After Singapore Charles went on his streak of staying top 5 (this is still going) as well as his 7 consecutive front row streak. I think it will be the same after Australia. He has shown so many times that he will immediately bounce back and in no way did he do bad in Australia. P2 is very good

Exactly

If Ferrari is with redbull in 2025. I do think they might come to blows. But who knows.

Or he would have crashed. He’s good for that too

Leclerc has more outright pace on his best days but Sainz is the more consistent driver. Realistically Ferrari has the best driver pairing on the grid and is tearing it apart for publicity.

@@ogreman2229 Leclerc is consistent too his last 10 races show that. Just missing that bit that none can control its luck

@@michaeltelfer3483 BS. Max is obviously in an insane car, but Leclerc could *TRY* and fight for first, instead it’s like he only cares about Perez.

@@DrDinoNuggiesI see the Leclerc haters are out the one time Sainz beats him

@@DrDinoNuggies what are you on about. To say Leclerc doesn't fight for 1st is delusional

But then when he saw George crash, he lied and said he had an issue, so he knew he was being dirty.

yeah he may not have touched the brake, but he definitely got of the throttle one time just before he normally would for that turn.

@@egeveke Nothing wrong with slowing 100m early. That's like saying you can't go off line.

@@joshn1678 Didn't his car have a battery issue through the race?

Ferrarilusion at it's finest

Of Course.

Agree imo Ferrari should have waited with extending Leclerc..... Still signing Lewis but they should have waited with the second seat. After the first 3 races Carlos is clearly better....

Yeah, it's a disaster, at least we know now what the problem is. I hope the FIA steps in.

I‘m not a verstappen fan but you could also say the same about verstappen… Both had one dnf and max is still leading the championship

@@greydiesel aint the same since a mechanical failure and apendix removal chances are WAY different

@@greydieselbut max actually did the race, Carlos probably would’ve been 3rd 4th if he raced but we know verstappen was meant to DNF

Lmao

It wasn't bs, Alonso lied about having a clutch issue when he saw George crash, which means he was trying to cause George an issue. He could have killed George, not okay at all.

@@joshn1678Its racing. George shouldn't be that close if he can't handle it.

Only problem is this is all depending on lots of factors like wind speed, wind direction, atmospheric pressure. How do you account between a track like Zandvoort which is at sea level vs a track like Mexico?

@@jamesbishop9450 You don't, you have the cars turbulence level calculated in a wind tunnel and then you allow track variance to be track variance. That would actually add another layer to the interest.