2024 Japanese Grand Prix Race Review | P1 Podcast 

I dont get why people are saying that Ferrari should’ve held positions and that Carlos’ podium is undeserved, it baffled me. They are on different strategies and Carlos going around a second faster and you want him to hold positions? While Charles had an amazing race and DOTD is deserved. Carlos deserves the podium when he did a great race and qualified ahead.

Tommy’s point about swapping Yuki and Danny’s result is so true, had never thought about it that way. Great shout out. Regardless of whether he actually has a chance for a Redbull seat, hope he keeps up this form and for sure he will get a great opportunity at some point!

Can i suggest 2 things: 1. Do a quarterly review (every 6 races) and assess how the driver, the car and the team has performed from one quarter to another and comper against your predictions that you posted in February. 2. When doing the qualifying review, can you compare the 2024 time against the 2023 time so that one can get a better idea of how the car has improved when compared to last year and how the team has improved when compared to the other teams.

Logan was doing really well until the pitstops when like 5 cars came in once, and Williams had a slow stop. Completely ruined his race and the excursion happened after it was ruined anyway. Don't make a habit of defending Logan, but he had a decent race for the most part.

Sainz villain arc is absolutely glorious!

My favorite moments where Checo overtaking in 130R twice, and that pitstop battle when yuki and his team did a superb job.

I love how the Yuki part of the Podcast tommy makes a giant point how Yuki has been best of the rest consistenly now outside 1 or 2 races. But then his "crazy" prediction is Yuki is best of the rest. Which honestly is an expectation and not a crazy prediction at all.

Smooth operator really pushing his stock price to the ceiling hope he ends up in Red Bull or at least Mercedes

Logan didn't do much wrong this race imo. He was running pretty well all the way up into the pit stop battle, where he lost out all his hard work and then ofc went into the gravel on top of that afterwards but still, it was already over at that point. He didn't get stuck, he didn't crash. There were more positives than negatives this race for Logan imo.

Bottas' performance was pretty good as well, held back by the pitstop woes and then held off on positions in the 5 pitstop battle. Could have also been in there in the mix for the points.

That is what I have been saying about Yuki! If that was DR, or Alex, people praise them, and if they weren't doing good, they are the ones not on it instead of recognizing how fast Yuki is. If Riccardo was doing a lap at Silverstone close to Max, then Yuki would have even closer no? And please keep Stroll for now! It is making Formula B so amazing! The fight for P10 is incredible. Those bottom teams (except Alpine) is so evenly matched. Haas is doing amazing, even stake (with Bottas), is fighting each race if it wasn't for the pitstops. And having Stroll in the mix with a much faster car makes it better.

Sainz happened to be on podium every race he participated in

I like that in 2022 it was straight up dangerous to even acknowledge that Carlos has been a consistent solid driver till 2021, and now you’re not allowed to give the minimum amount of compliment to Charles even if he did a great job at tyre management and made his own call on strategy. Same as Perez last year, the amount of hate he got was incredible to the point that people would deny his achievements in the past few years in a whole. The weirdest thing is people say that Lewis is washed, while refuse to admit that George Russell did well. I just keep getting amazed by how toxic and extreme F1 community can be. Seriously, I sincerely hope that every driver ignores the “popular opinion” because it is very stupid.

I watched RB's super pit stop from the grandstands at Suzuka. It was an incident that had not happened very often in recent years, so the spectators there were extremely excited. Of course, it was a cherry on top for us that Yuki scored points in his home Grand Prix. 9/10 for me.

Matt and Tommy are the epitome of the "all leclerc girlies need a verstappen girlie best friend" think on tiktok and i love them for it

Suzuka was great, idc what anyone says. That was a great race with strategy & overtaking. The only thing that really could have made it better was a battle for the win. 8 out of 10! Also Yuki is doing great, I think he’s earned a Red Bull drive but if he continues this form all season then Red Bull would be silly not to sign Yuki at least for one year. Yuki’s growth rate each year fantastic

F1 is much more exciting when each team does its own strategy. Matt said it perfectly. The more cars and strategies there are to think about and keep track of the more interesting it makes the race.

Damon Hill? He got the word BRIT tattoed on his liver.

For Logan, the new saying should be "He can't crash _every_ race.."

Alpine are killing it right now

As a Williams fan, this weekend was PAIN.

I love how consistent Sainz is!

Love how these guys trash Logan but don't even realize that his pit crew destroyed any chances he had at getting anything. He was in front of multiple cars until the 5 man pit stop. He literally went from the front to the back because they took too long. Then he tried making up time pushing too hard. But guess that's too hard to understand.

Carlos actually had a horrible strategy where he had to fight all race for positions and was almost deliberately released back in a flock of backmarkers while Charles actually just had clear air for most of the race and hold on for dear life. Carlos earned this one and then some

dont forget Sargent lost 4 poistions in the pits from a slow stop

I think the biggest improvement this season has been Yuki. He's had such great pace around one lap and also in the race, I don't get why he isn't considered a potential for the RB seat (although Checo is doing really good)

I don’t understand why Carlos is being criticized? I watched the entire race. He was better than Charles the whole weekend. Or is it just fanboy jealousy?

"There's been a lot of talk recently about Damon Hill and his slightly um uh skewed approach perhaps to Charles Leclerc's performances recently" Matt Gallagher everyone ;D

the leclerc coping is humongous

The best part of the race was Penelope screaming for Max during the National Anthems.

Thank you for your F1 enthusiasm. This race was excellent! I thoroughly enjoyed it

People need to stop talking only about Sargeant now, bcs they seem to act like Albon is this bullet proof driver. He's crashed in the last two grand prix's pushing himself somewhere he doesnt need to be, bcs he KNOWS they dont have a spare car and the other car is in literal pieces. He's made just as many errors this season as Logan and hasnt got anything to show for it.

Job Opening Williams Racing Repair Engineer Stable job. Weekly schedule.

I didn’t think an insult could get worse than a tractor but a mobile chicane is too much 😂😂

As a Max fan, Don't worry about Damon Hill Matt, he is incredibly biased against some drivers and it shows.

Tommy is savage and I love it!

If Yuki is a Honda boy, maybe he'll go to Aston Martin once they switch to Honda engines in 2026.

Saying Stroll should've done like Alonso in the first stint isn't fair, cause Alonso went management mode after the first 2 laps to just make the tyre last 14 laps, but Lance had to not only do 18 laps, but had attack and push to overtake cars.

Leclerc did not just let sainz past. He clearly defended the inside. He just did not have a chance against sainz on the better tires.

The lecfosi fandom on twitter has gone mad over Carlos getting podium. Like Carlos was always gonna pass lec with that strategy. He came 4 and that's aswm coming from 8th. I guess they are being emotional that lec should have been getting podium for Jules.

As a Mercedes/ Hamilton fan, calling them mobile chicanes is so crazy lol, it was true 😂

Sleek Pitstop from Racing Bulls and Yuki comes on the radio immediately to thank them. So wholesome and shows the kid is loving life now. :)

Guys, this was an unbelievable podcast. It’s awesome to hear you converse on this level.

You may want to watch the replay at the start again. Danny and Yuki touched before the Danny/Alex accident. Both Danny and Yuki had a slow start off the line as well.

Charles was leading on lap 17. JB was w him

Yuki went from yelling at his engineers to being extremely professional and appreciative of them. That’s maturity right there. ❤

Tommy says “time to fanboy about Yuki” Everyone in my house: YEEEUUUUSSSSS 💪💪💪💪

James Vowles thinking about Logan: "He can't bin every race.."

Paul Newman raced competitively well into his 70's...Alonso should be judged by his performances not his age

Danny Ric had fp3 only, and was 0.055 secs off Yuki (who only went 0.004 sec faster in Q3). Just a bit of perspective on actually a really good Saturday. Sunday was just unfortunate but badly timed.

Right with you Tommy. Not having a dominant engine advantage has exposed them for what they are, a not well run team. They covered up a lot of mistakes by turning on party mode. They no longer can do that. Toto never had to scrap for tenths.

Been saying for nearly 5 years that Yuki is gonna be great in F1!

If Perez keeps running on the podium and RB gets 1-2s - he will drive at RB in 2025 too.

I love Yuki. He’s been incredible last year and this year so far (minus some outliers here and there.) But I really don’t want to see him on the 2nd Red Bull seat. I personally believe he would do better in an Aston Martin (replacing Stroll) with less media pressure. He’s not exactly rockstar material like Danny, which Red Bull seems to require of a driver.

Sainz has become one of my favorite drivers! Ferrari throwing him away has fueled him and I'm not sure Lewis will be able to replicate Carlos' racing next season

Absolutely SAVAGE from Tommy @39:55

I lost it at "mobile chicane".... never heard that before 🤣

19:46 matt’s face is amazing

i think LeClerc deserves biggest good surprise. He surprised me with that strategy working

And yeah, pitstop strategy depends a lot on how good the car is. If the car is good and does what the drivers ask of it, they can achieve their targets set for a particular strategy and everything kinda works and falls in place. That Leclerc 1 stop shows that the Ferrari SF24 is a much better car and both their drivers know how to make it work.

Tommy - “Don’t use my boy Fernando against me.” Matt - “I thought you were going to say boyfriend then!” Tommy - “He’s not my boyfriend.” Fernando - *hands Tommy a cold beverage.* “It might be a bit warm, the cooler is off.” Tommy - “Thanks babe.”

It absolutely baffles me that Merc haven't tried to pick up Sainz. I know it's not likely but if they had near equal machines with Sainz and Russell vs. Lewis and Leclerc would be an insane rivalry

Here's an idea. Pirelli bring all 5 compounds to every race. Teams in Free Practise can use any they like. For quali they choose the compound they want to use. For the race they need to select 2 only out of the 5. Any 2. Each team and car respond differently to different compounds. Some work good on the C4/C5. Some work better with the C2/C3. Let teams use them in FP and decide what two they want to use in the race.

I totally agree with Tommy about Yuki. To say as Yoda would: So underrated his performance is!

I admit I wasn't sure about Yuki. The potential was there but it seemed like way more down than ups, too many errors, and I wasn't sure I was seeing any improvement. But that is no longer the case. He's ironed out the errors and has been showing consistent good pace. It feels early but Tommy has a great point, looking back farther it's a good run he's on. Perhaps a corner has been turned. Sadly I just cant see him getting the RB seat but hopefully this season will land him somewhere! It wont be RB but any step up would still be good.

Nothing is more pleasing to an open or conclusion of a video than that intro/outro goodness!

We need to give Adrien Newey an FIA seat. no other aerodynamics guy can come even close.

You are correct about Yuki!

6:27 I've had a brilliant idea to make races more exciting while listening to the tire discussion - prior to race weekend, each team has their first stint tire chosen at random. Strategies will vary across the grid by design for every race. We'll have more races with a rainbow of tires on the timing tower.

I imagined asking Ric "Why aren't you aggressive on restarts, like Yuki?" Ric: "Well it's not like I have anything...to...lose" Me: "Hey Honey! You've lost your Badger" "Now, watch out for the Sweet & Low Hamster"

Having multiple strats is awesome, but to do that you need to make the tyres softer and then as soon as one pops, everyone will scream about the softer tyres being unsafe and we'll go back to what we have now

Loved this race as well, so much going on. 21 was epic, but i have to say, max's unprecedented dominance since, has taught me to mind and enjoy the fights and skills of drivers fighting for spot 4 to 20. It has permanently changed the way i look at races.

I think Matt is wrong about Ricciardo. It is just about performance at this point. RB are in a situation where a maximised result for them means one or two points at best. And if they don't do that, their competition does. At the end of the season them and Haas might likely be separated by literally singular points. If Ricciardo can't be up there to pick those points up he's just dead weight.

To Sargeants defence a lot of drivers made mistakes at degner 2

Go Yuki, I believed in him from the very start.

No doubt did the strategies and tires save this race. Leclerc holding out far longer on mediums then people thought could be done, a mix of red, yellow and white down the list. i wonder if this is possible to mimic elsewhere.

Yuki is the freaking mid-field-goat

What are you talking about, Riccardo did not turn into anyone? He didn't deviate he line at all, If he didn't hit Albon he would have hit Lance?! Where's he supposed to go?

The Charles bias Is strong on this one.

Tommy’s totally right about Tsunoda!

I understand Carlos with the faster pace and fresher tyres, but realistically unless they were trying for a chance at P2 there was no reason for them to not hold positions. They clearly said that their battle is with Norris behind, which Carlos w fresher tyres could do as well. Even if Norris was struggling, Charles w older tyres and less pace they could have lost P4 but if they held positions they’re more guaranteed P3 P4. Obviously they did end up there but with only a few laps left and Ferrari not looking to fight for P2 I don’t understand why they had to switch positions

I wonder if another reason RB would keep Danny Ric at least until mid season is to continue to develop the car (along with the sponsors)? Not to take anything away from Yuki, because he has been on a worldy, absolutely amazing performances from him, honestly so proud and impressed with him. However it might just be a coincidence, but his performances have started when they brough Danny in to develop the team last season, that was the biggest perk to bringing him in the first place remember. He would be providing some constructive feedback to the engineers to help RB be the best of the rest. In saying that though, I agree with Tommy, if Danny continues with poor performances then it'll be hard seeing him stay past the mid season mark. I think it'll be the turning point between benefits from development feedback and providing points for the constructor championship, as well as reputation for sponsors to back. I'm sure where a team places on the leaderboard has a bit more weight than the marketing a driver can provide, but yeah, mid season would be that tipping point I think. Bloody good stuff Yuki, keep up this form! Danny Ric, please please please start putting in some good performances, it's never nice seeing such a driver retire in this way.

Before DRS, Japan T1 was one of the best corners for overtakes on the calendar.

HAHAHAHA "mobile chicanes". I died. Never heard that before

39:43 TOMMY BRINGING THE HEAT TODAY!! 🔥🔥🔥😂😂😂

AMR should have responded to lace in the same manner by saying man you're slow you should be racing in a different category.

It was an average to boring race. There were a lot of overtakes, but it was due to tyre strategies and it was all about not losing time with the car ahead, other than fun overtakes. But it is true that is better than Schumacher time when no one overtook anyone and there was one pit stop for refuelling

I think yuki is seen more as a honda driver than RB and that is why no matter his performance he will not be considered for the 2nd red bull seat as that partnership is already reaching the end.

I still can’t believe Mercedes haven’t figured out their car after 3 years and they haven’t been able to consistently fight for race wins. Smh

Crazy how it took over 45 minutes for either of them to mention the guy who got third in the race when they talked for over 5 minutes about his team

18:02 Actually, in a post race interview with Austrian TV, Helmut Marko praised Yuki without the reporter mentioning him beforehand P.S. Get well soon, Matt!

Starting the RB Visa both on medium was bad strategy should of split them let Ricciardo pass or hold off others on soft tyres at the start...

The moment I realised I was a tsunoda fan was the day he did some amazing defensive driving against guanyo and was given the single most unfair penalty which stole his p10 and dropped him from points and my soul was crushed when I saw him sitting defeated out the back of the garage. I’m so glad he’s picked himself up from that moment.

the tiktokfication of f1 made charles DOTD. yuki shouldve gotten it

Tsunoda doing more for a Red Bull seat than Gasly is crazy. He has done more than Albon though.

Don’t you think it is strange that Max is never voted driver of the day, while he is performing so outrageously excellent and flawless every week? It’s like it became normal. Same like a mistake here and there for Charles 😆

With the teams pitting at different times and starting on different tires, it almost felt like back when refueling was still a thing.

The weird thing about the whole formula a vs formula b is that the field spread is historically small. However, due to superb reliability and the gap in pace being very consistent, it seems like we have this split.

It was Charles decision

Matt: We saw strategy! The tyres can save us! Steak F2 Team Lick Sabre (or whatever, the super green ones): Are we a joke to you?