I'll be honest. After Bahrain I thought McLaren would be last in the constructors.

You should do this prediction for the constructors as well next year.

Kudos for the editing, who made Tommy’s 16 points look like Charles’ #16

Max is a real talent. Broke both the Monza curse and the season opener one.

Matt and Tommy, thank you for adding so much more value and excitement to the F1 season. Your commentary is both entertaining and insightful. Congratulations on the channel's success, it's been a pleasure to watch thus far! Can't wait to do this all again in 2024!

I think the best way of scoring points would be 3 points if you're dead on, 2 points if you're 1 away and 1 points if you're 2 away.

Suggestion: show us a plot of Matt and Tommy's predicted vs actual positions for all the drivers (a perfect prediction would have all the points plotting on a centered diagonal line; a bad prediction has the points scattered far from this perfect line)

You guys should add those points to the race predictions. Spice up the championship more

Predicting stuff like this is notoriously difficult, apart from the inevitable Max ofcourse, there are so many factors and variables to be considered. It's almost as hard as predicting the weather for more than a few days ahead....😀 You guys did a decent job on it.

"No one could've predicted McLaren's turnaround"... except McLaren who said before the season started that they realized they goofed and effectively had a B-spec car coming in a few months that just wasn't ready to start the season. I don't think anyone thought it'd be so strong, but they were extremely forthright about how bad their car would be to start and how much better the redesign would be. Literally anyone who listened and believed them expected a McLaren turnaround.

Great Job! You nailed it going solo! CONGRATS! A success story to be shared! Best of luck moving forward! Cheers from Montreal!

Good job guys! I followed you over from wtf1 and dont miss a video. Been watching every race for 3 straight years now. Cheers from the U.S.A.

Hello matt and Tommy. Love the content you two make. Much love.

So we can conclude that it is very hard to predict a f1 season

Congrats Tommy and Matt for a really awesome year of fun F1 content. So glad to see how successful you guys have been!

Imho next time you should do predictions before testing, so 100% blind. You can have more fun, doing it that way! Cheers :)

Keep up the show guys. Very good.

Next time it should be 3 points if you are bang on 2 for the closest and 1 for draw.

Awesome to see the predictions after the season.. perhaps you could also have a constructors' title predictions for the next one?

Any thoughts about checking out other racing series during the off season or another series alongside f1?

Next year you two should also predict the WCC, it would make it more interesting.

Could you do a comparison between the championship standings and your average rating standings? Would be cool to discuss and show how drivers make difference to the their cars

This video was so inspiring, it made me want to go out and chase my dreams.

I had no idea that you guys had a KZfaq channel… I’m glad I found it!

These vids are fire lol

also add an estimate point next to the predicted position next year to make more spicy and interesting

thank you so much for the video ls bro❤ from south africa❤🇿🇦

Thank you once again for this year, Matt and Tommy! Almost 365 days since you guys left WTF1 for this channel, and i know that effort will never betray the results. Anyway, see you later in 2024! 👋🙋‍♂️🏎️🏁🏃💨 02/12/2023 05:49 At My Local Time.

This coming year you should raise the stakes. Low score for your predictions… does a shoey this time next year?

you could count the difference between predicted position and actual position, and see who had more accurate predictions

Next year also predict the ranking of the teams

Love the work guys enjoyed all your videos over the 23 season made a not the best season a good bit better from your content. Also please come to Dublin to do your live show please.

Well done this year fellas

Went along with it with my list made after testing , would have won with some lucky Zhou , ocon , hulkenberg bang ons haha

If you scored based on total delta Tommy won 44 to 47

Can you do a 2024 prediction prior to testing and one post testings?

that was really close between you 2 actually, all it would take is 1 prediction for tommy to tie it up

This year do it before pre season testing

I decided to calculate to Qualifying Championship: 1 Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull 452 2 Charles LECLERC Ferrari 339 3 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari 271 4 George RUSSELL Mercedes 208 5 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes 201 6 Lando NORRIS McLaren 191 7 Sergio PÉREZ Red Bull 169 8 Fernando ALONSO Aston Martin 160 9 Oscar PIASTRI McLaren 122 10 Pierre GASLY Alpine 60 11 Lance STROLL Aston Martin 55 12 Esteban OCON Alpine 51 13 Nico HÜLKENBERG Haas 48 14 Alexander ALBON Williams 40 15 Kevin MAGNUSSEN Haas 22 16 Yuki TSUNODA Alpha Tauri 19 17 Valtteri BOTTAS Alfa Romeo 15 18 Daniel RICCIARDO Alpha Tauri 13 19 ZHOU Guanyu Alfa Romeo 11 20 Logan SARGEANT Williams 7 21 Liam LAWSON Alpha Tauri 1 22 Nyck DE VRIES Alpha Tauri 0 1 Red Bull 621 2 Ferrari 610 3 Mercedes 409 4 McLaren 313 5 Aston Martin 215 6 Alpine 111 7 Haas 70 8 Williams 47 9 Alpha Tauri 33 10 Alfa Romeo 26

Matt dominating the predictions like Max

"Max Verstappen is inevitable" great quote!

Pls do the predictions before testing so it’s more unpredictable

Do it next season before testing!

Let's go Matt, Charles Leclerc 2024 WC!

George finishing P8 when Mercedes managed P2 in the constructors is rightly disappointing, especially given how close the front of the non-Max field was. He seems to be cracking under the demand to be both fast and consistent.

For me the exact position was right : Max, Perez, Hamilton, Leclerc, Ocon, Zhou. & Constructicons just Red Bull The rest of it is just off 1-2 or maybe way off 😂 This thing happen because - William suprisingly not dead last - McLaren somehow doing great - Aston Martin make big jump, i know gonna be at front but not like that

I’m gonna miss you guys, have a great Christmas!

Solid first year for the channel lads, here's to the next one!

Wast thinking about a "lowest points win" system, where you get fewer 'points' for better predictions (ie, For De Vries p22; Matt gets 3 points (p19) and Tommy gets 5 (p17)); was really rooting for you Tommy, but Matt still wins 45 to 50!!

I hope thumbnail face goes away in 2024.

In the future you should set out a prediction for how many drivers will actually drive in the series first and then base the rest of your predictions off that.. not the first time you guys have been caught out by this.

First got into F1 early last season. Gonna stick around for a while.

Would be nice if the prediction winner out of you two would win something at the end of the year. You can add a rule throughout the year to not abuse the max verstappen pole/win prediction or haas out of points and at the end of the year, the winner gets something like an all expense trip payed to x Grand Prix for the following season out of the company money. Would be more engaging. Cheers!

Yaay we have a new World Champion Matt 🎉🎉 Racing for Matt Racing F1 team 😬.

Matt is the Max Verstappen of P1 predictions.

George still makes a lot of mistakes in the race because just on qualifying he is on level with Lewis 11v11

Hopefully Paul De Vries can pull hisself together next season and climb up the drivers standings 👀

Other than than the top 2 its really hard as there just wasn't a clear 2nd fastest team this season as it really did seam to change each race as some cars suited certain tracks more than others. Plus one lap vs full race performance was so different too. Ferrari for me probably would have had p2 in the bag but tyre wear from them was so bad this year.

Everyone's watching every piece of F1 content to cope with the cancellation of silly season.

Congratulations to Matt and Tommy for their predictions for 2023 F1, close to what happened in the real-world drivers championship!!!

5:54 Why are we looking at DR in papaya when we’re talking about him returning to F1 with the bull family? It’s weird

Can you guys rate the cars of 2023 and your reasonings? From 1 to 10. My ratings: RB: 10/10 Aston Martin: 8/10 Ferrari: 7/10 Mercedes: 5/10 Williams: 7/10 McLaren: 8/10 Alpha Touri: 4/10 Alfa Romeo: 5/10 Haas: 3/10 Alpine: 7/10

UPDATE: I’m here in Vegas and Red Bull merch showed up in a Walmart here today. I saw A $40 RED BULL HOODIE!!! True, there were size small and 2xl, but at 40 bones you know we rocking a massive ridiculous double X L and loving it. 😅

Bookmark this: the grid at the end of next year will have 2 different drivers than the start. Not including those on new teams, but totally new drivers

De Veris dialed his Alpha for Riccardo to score points.

I would suggest if the difference between prediction and acutal position is more than 5, you should have 1 point deducted 😊

What are thoughts on Leclerc's future?

Williams in P7 with such a strong Albon and such a weak Sargeant who still keeps his seat is incredible

12:07 you used the wrong formula but got the correct answer

That P1-P2 was so hard. 😐

Matt: "I thought there's gonna be 20 drivers" Also Matt: Predicts Danny Ric to replace Nyck de Vries... which one is it now Matt?! Because it can't be both :D

Surely the most ridiculous fact is that both haas cars qualified in the top 5 and finished last

Bellie hamm bellie hamm bellie goallllllll

RUS was picked way too often for top 5 qualifiers.

Idk if it is just light but Matt should probably wash his hair

I can see the pain in Tommy's eyes.

Apologize to Alex Albon by sending him some P1 merch?

If you instead give points for the amount of positions you were off by for every driver and add them together, Matt had 48 points, Tommy had 50. Lowest wins. Very tight indeed

How come the podcast and the youtube video arent the same length? Sometimes I feel like the visuals can help me understand but I dont wanna feel like I’m missing content so I just listen to the pod if that makes sense! Love your work, and as a newer fan to F1 thank you for helping me understand things better🥰

can we talk about the Tommy glow up tho? 😂

Even though Williams is bringing back Logan Sargeant, will he make it to the end of the season with them?

Mmmm...maybe golf scoring next time? Ie., if you're on it's 0 points, and how far off you are is how many points you get. Lowest score wins.

Damn

19:35 20:55

Absolute drought of uploads from fanny head has led me straight back to the forehead

I call this "Max's paradox"- when Perez drives RB then everyone says it's the best car and he should be P2 easily, but when Max drives RB then all of a sudden RB is the slowest car by 2 min and it's only Max's talent that puts him to P1. But on your skepticism about AM. To be fair AM finished 2022 as the 4th (???) fastest car behind RB, Ferrari, and Merc. They had a really good trajectory for their development. Just as no one predicted the rise McLaren would have, no one also predicted the drop AM would have. The fact that you didn't go with AM hype is surprising to me. And this gives me hope for McLaren to do really well next year.

Liam beating Sargeant damn xD

No one could predict McLaren's turnaround, except Mikka.

I'd rather have 1 grand prix win and finish 7th than finish 4th win zero wins.

How the hell does it takes 26 minutes to check a prediction.

I like this video of you guys, that how wrong was ur prediction on Alex Albon. I saw ur 2023 predictions video before when u predict Alex p19 I was like how wrong you guys going to look after 2023 season. Coz I know he classic aggressive driver that many doesn’t see. Everyone remember his 2020 season but not remembering his rookie season 2019, when he was a rookie of the year and he did finish almost p5 in all race he race in redbull. Even beat onRussian experience driver kivyat in some races. So I am happy to see Alex prove you wrong. Even ur happy with his performance.

My prediction for my boy Lance Slow being crap came true ⛳

put some respect to Albono’s name

I'm *still* not convinced that Max won't win this year's Singapore GP somehow.

Logan the P20 merchant

To think that if Checo had a few more 2nds Red Bull would've had over 900 points in the constructors title, how do you even try to wrap your mind around that?

I almost made a genius prediction, putting De Vries at 21st assuming that he’d get close to 0 points and thinking that Drugovich was gonna jump in for at least the first weekend for Stroll and bag some points. Obviously that didn’t happen, and yet De Vries somehow managed to end up even lower than I predicted

That's the best word I've heard used to describe Max Verstappen, inevitable.

I feel like you guys really talked down to Mercedes, since Although it was third fastest car. It was the whole season third fastest. Where as AMR starting 2nd fastest, then the McLaren resurgance and falling away a bit and giving Ferrari a bit of air and then constantly McLaren and Ferrari changing 4th and 2nd fastest car.

Mad respect to Lewis Hamilton hating the car and putting it P3 in the standings 🫡