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We need a compilation of the emotional rollercoaster that Matt has gone through on this first half of the season

After the Binotto interview I really wanted to ask how much faster does Ferrari need to be to win a race? 1 second per lap? 2 or even 3? Mercedes is in fighting distance with a car that often was a second or more slower. Red Bull won this race from P10 with reliability issues and a spin. Ferrari built a car that can win a championship but it looks like they need one that can't loose it.

I have a feeling Binotto has put so many warnings into Charles' head he's made Charles afraid of becoming the next Vettel or Prost and get fired for not doing exactly what Ferrari are telling him to do.

Looking forward to Matt being in pain for 90 minutes again

Max actually took the spin just to make sure that the Ferrari was actually on the hard tyre. Then he just went on his way.

A ranking of all the races at the end of the season would be an amazing idea.

It's all gonna be fine Matty! We're here to support you and accept you as a changed man since you joined the Max army! (Although I'm a McLaren fan and I'm in pain as well because Dani Ric isn't doing great...)

F1 needs a Gordon Ramsay for a commentator or Team Principal because it'd just be fun to see him losing it at Ferrari's blunders. Really though, god help these guys if midseason doesn't represent a turn around lol.

Thing about the Ferrari strategy: Sainz told the team straight out "I want to go long and take the softs". Just as he did in Monaco, he took control of his own strategy. Leclerc didn't then, he didn't now. Thus my unpopular opinion: Leclerc is not innocent, he has to take some responsibility. He has to demand from the team that some strategies are talked about with him IN the race, not just before.

The fact that Max, Lewis and George were laughing in the cool down room sums up what Ferrari is now. A joke. Literally a joke to everyone. And the fact that they are still giving excuses assures us that there are more Ferrari blunders coming our way.

A simple straight answer to the question in the thumbnail... yes, it's underrated. Funnily enough, for the past 10 seasons or so, the races at the Hungaroring have been much more interesting than the ones on the much beloved, (and rightly so) Spa.

Crofty going “sorry we’re British we’re gonna talk about there’s three brits in the top 5 right now” is such an eye roll moments

Max didn't do the lap to the grid on hard , he did it on the soft and they were strugling to warm'em up and decided to avoid the hard tyre

If Max outscores Lec by 66 points in the next 3 races he gets crowned in Italy, just the idea that the title can be over so quickly is horrifying. I just want a good battle between the two

with the whole Ferrari debacle, it reminds me of the scene in Rush, just slightly altered. "The Strategy is full of s***" "You can't say that... it is a Ferrari!" 🤣

I have always liked the Hungarian grand prix for as long as it's been on. It always throws up a surprise as it's really a street track characteristically speaking. Strategy plays a role always and weaker teams on strategy are highlighted. Good strategic teams, Mercedes and Red Bull tend to do well.

Lewis has got 25 more points in total than Russell in the last 5 races. Which is great considering some people were saying Lewis is being destroyed by Russell and should retire.

Perez going from 11th to 5th: C Leclerc going from 3rd to 6th ending the race behind perez: A Wha?

Christian to Mattia:” I am planning to go for extended holiday with family over summer break . Can you please cover for me at Spa ?” Mattia : “Don’t worry. We have plan V and plan P in place to get RedBull 1-2” Christian : “ Thank you mate. You are always dependable “

Don't understand how Matt has the motivation to keep doing these podcasts 😅

For a team that has ruthlessly disposed of drivers, team bosses, technical staff. They are quite gentle with their strategy crew, who has been headed by the same person since 2015, who had made so many errors and cost the team so many wins.

Really? B for Vettel? He started 18th and without the VSC would have finished P9. In an Aston Martin! What more could he have done? For me this is an A*-performance.

14:05 Sainz was telling Ferrari for softs, he had to go against strategy again.. Ferrari feels so incompetent

21:45 corret me if I'm wrong but he did do the lap to the grid on the softs and was struggling tremendously at getting temperature and grip into them. RB's conclusion was well if he has poor grip on the softs in these conditions, the hards must be a total disaster let's not take them.

Like what Matt said, Max is doing things more in a Hamilton kinda way. It seems that Max unintentionally learned a lot from Lewis last year

I got my friend interested in F1 at the start of 2022 after he heard me rave about the 2021. Even he, a man who has never seen F1 races before, and after only half a season, when Leclerc put the Hard tyres on he looked at me and said: "Hard? That's not right!! He's gonna lose the race". And this is someone who has been watching for only 5 months...

Max is clearly going to win the championship as he has support of two teams 😜

Being a Mercedes fan I thought i was gonna have a tough season😂

Katy needs some new glasses…for Hungary, this was an epic race….

Btw I must say, the commentary on f1tv this year is just getting better and better. They actually have 3 commentators solely focused on the action. They always have Jolyon Palmer there too which is good as he's a recent F1 driver and really knows his stuff.

the hungarian race showed how good f1 could be if there are more than 2 teams in contention . 3-4 would be best actually.

martin brundle called them "concrete tyres" lol

Don't forget also that boxing Sainz was also their way of not issuing team orders. Instead of boxing him in his medium compound window, they pulled him in on the same window as the softs and literally 1 lap after GR. I guess they figured they could keep GR covered, but could have used the info from Charles driving longer to see that the mediums we're good for long stints.

My three word race review was going to be “underrated af” in regard to the Hungaroring, as it is my favourite track and usually produces good races, so glad to see a similar question on the thumbnail

When the commentary said he is sliding around on cement tires, I lost it

Regarding commentary: in my opinion they cracked the code on the international feed on F1TV pro. We have Collins (engineer), Palmer (driver) and Gaymore/Edwards (play by play). It's mostly great, Palmer is a star and you get a complete outlook of the race with proper excitement mixed in. Not to mention additional split screens and stuff.

Chainbear did a great parody of a post-race debrief last week. I feel it applies this week as well 🤣

Max outlap after the second pitstop was 1:39:455 and Leclerc's outlap after the second pitstop when he was on the hards was 1:45:325 .. almost 6 seconds difference. That sums it up pretty well!

Some clarification on the 3 laps to terminal failure, that wasnt the new PU they were talking about, they were referring to the PU that failed in quali.

36:38 It's more that Lewis always had that toxic positivity in his posts and his interviews. He's always trying to cheer everyone up at the factory, at the garage, that's a statement some people from the Mercedes team keep repeating. Even when things doesn't go his way he somehow keeps repeating the worlds "let's keep pushing", that tells a lot of his power of will and character. In comparison, Wolf is like a dad for his drivers, Binotto in the other hand, treats his drivers like step-kids from a divorce.

I'm pretty sure I said something similar after last year's race, the Hungaroring is a very solid track. Turns 1-4 allow for some of the best racing of the year, simply because it's hard to pass and slam-dunk DRS moves aren't really possible. Yes the rest of the lap is follow the leader, but it's a short lap so you don't have to wait too long for the next opportunity. Over the past 10 years I would say it has been one of the more consistent tracks for providing a good race.

Ferrari should be a drinks manufacturer because they have a good ability to keep bottling chances to win. They might sell more of that than their cars,who knows 🤣☠️

Red Bull's Power Unit that was 3 laps from failing was their Number 2 PU, which was used in qualifying and lost power. They made a minor fix and were originally going to use it in the race, but luckily decided to change it to PU 3 just in case. The new PU used in the race was fine.

Ferrari as a team should learn from Charles about owning mistakes.

How the hell did katy say that it was a boring race?? Top 3 of the season for sure

Katy with one of the fastest bad takes on the podcast ever. Alonso only going only for money? Really? Alpine hasn't really shown any signs of growth while Lawrence Stroll has shown plenty of willingness to throw money at the team and even poaching good engineers from RB and Mercedes for stupid amounts of cash. Alpine was only willing to give him one year contract while Aston is willing to do more and on top of that, did you see Ocon blocking Alonso and letting Hamilton pass and then he did the same damn thing with Ricciardo. With Stroll as a teammate he doesn't have to deal with that.

man coming to this after everything with the Piastri drama and hearing Katy go "I want a break" and "I need some time off"

Ferrari's biggest problem is they always try to counter the strategy of their opponents (Russel at the start of the Hungarian GP, later on Max with mediums) instead of simply doing their own race and react if the circumstances dramatically change. This is also the reason why Ferrari has Plan A to Plan F or whatever, because if for example RedBull pits for softs instead of mediums Ferrari changes their race plan. This is why we constantly here a Ferrari radio where LeClerc or Sainz are asked what they think of plan x. Ferrari has no real race plan their race plan depends on their opponents and this is the reason why they mess up all the time, because you simply cannot react to everything what happens in a race. There is always some luck invovled in winning a Grand Prix, but Ferrari tries to ignore this fact. First of all Russel was their biggest opponent to win the Hungarian GP so they countered the softs, during the race Ferrari realised Max has a real chance for the victory and adjusted their previous strategy and tried to counter Max, but their first strategy (lets call it Plan A) is in conflict with a strategy to counter Max. After that they realized this is not working and again adjusted their strategy and went on the softs, but at this point they have already lost the GP. So the combination of both strategies and switching between them resulted in the worst possible race strategy for Ferrari.

honestly, the reason why red bull are such masters of strategy is that they are adaptable and recognise the limitations in models and simulations. both red bull and ferrari's simulations showed that the hard tyre was a good race tyre - evidenced by the fact that they put max and checo on the hard tyre at the start. but when both drivers said that the tyre took a long time to warm up, they swapped for softs, demonstrating the adaptability when presented with evidence contrary to their data. this is unlike ferrari, who insisted that their simulations on the hard tyre would mean it would come up to temperature in time when they had real time evidence in alpine that it would not.

I must admit I see a pattern, remember Vettel? he had several seasons where Ferrari did the same thing to him too, the car has a small operating window and if you take your eye off the ball for one second it will eat you and worst still the tacticians have no idea what they are doing to help the driver too. That Silverstone race where both drivers was on different plans and yet they did not swap the cars around (hell, they did not answer Leclerc's qustions over the radio). If Leclerc is still there for the following season I will be surprised.

56:08 I know what you're trying to say, but ice-skates are actually very grippy on ice, much more grippy than tyres are on a racetrack.

I'll have to cover Dan for you since you didn't pay attention and are just going by results. He was 100ms off Lando in Q1 and Q2 but went slower in Q3 for some reason, he was doing ok in the race but lost about 6 seconds due to switching off the softs a few laps late, on to mediums and he was 8th behind Lando, 15 seconds behind which he maintained for a while, he knew the hards were rubbish so suggested they stay on mediums longer and finish on soft but the team decided to switch him to hards causing him to hit stroll as he had no grip and he fell back after that with the penalty costing another 2 places. Not brilliant but potential was there to come 8-10 if not for the strategy.

Matt Matt Matt at 15:01 you say "Perez wasn't very quick at the end of the race" yet finished 1.1 behind sainz who was on softs and gaining significantly. If the vsc did not happen, he would have got 4th.

See Alonso was right he’s still very quick, he was quicker than anyone else in snagging a new deal as well as on track performances. He’s on form for sure. Bwoah!

That Jingle actually gave me goosebumps, well done Arjen! Hope it'll return

Amazing time to be a Max Fan, to see your man - Start 10th, do a donut mid race, still handily beat them all, without help from Rain, Safety Car or Red flag.

How is this a bad race for Katy lol it’s one of the best this season

A Russell-LeClerc Mercedes driver pairing… Matt don’t play with my heart!

Happiness for Matty ends once the intro is complete. Then it's onto talking about Charles and Ferrari.

Everyone is talking about leclerc being shafted by ferrari but can we also talk about how they screwed carlos' race too. 2 bad pitstops that made him lose position with Charles and then with Lewis. And a horrible strategy making him pit extremely early with those mediums that basically ended his race.

Best explanation about Ferrari strategy: There is a secret agreement between Ferrari and FIA. It is about the fuel system controversy in 2020. Ferrari agreed that they won't fight for the championship for 5 years.

My predictions for next race is that the winner of the race will come in 1st and someone will use the team radio during the race

1:03:00 Hungarian GP isn't alone in this. My stepdad went to the Belgian GP in the '80's and he said it hasn't changed at all when we were watching it recently. It's such a mess, with the mud everywhere and news of traffic jams dozens of kilometers long.

What is Katy on because it just seems like Katy just likes carnage and because it didn't happen this year It was a boring race, because apparently Miami, Baku and France where better races. And prior to the 2021 race all of the Hungarian Grand Prix were bangers according to her. We had 3 teams battling for the victory this season for the 1st time how was that not exciting.

LOVE hearing Katy’s input, she makes this podcast so entertaining!!! Don’t stop with the hot takes!!

The only silver lining in a Ferrari stuff up is watching Matt’s reactions and the WTF1 podcast

Katy saying it was a boring race is almost as incomprehensible as Ferrari defending the hard tire.

What's lost in all of this is that McLaren put both cars on hards AFTER Ferrari! It ruined Danny's race and the only thing that kept it from ruining Lando is the Alpines also being on hards.

As expected rated Danny without taking into account how fucked over he got by mclarens 'strategy' hence why the fans gave him a C

I love how Ferrari tries to give Leclerc the better strategy (for instance, when they chose the overcut for him and he came out in front of Sainz), but its strategy is always so wrong that it ends up playing in Sainz's favour

"Man's about to start watching cricket " line of the show! Lol

The only hope for Ferrari at this stage is if Matt Gallagher gets a Charles Leclerc onesie for all the Twitch streams for the rest of the season

We talk a lot about the strategy with Leclerc, but also the strategy with Sainz was pretty bad. What is the point of starting with the mediums if you are going to react and pit just after the guys with soft tires? That made Sainz do 25 laps with the softs an the end of the race. And also they were 3.7 and 4.6 pit stops for Sainz.

The quote from Horner about Maxs engine was about the old one he used in quali, his new engine was fine

Up at 4AM to get that WTF1 podcast freshly posted? 100%!

Agree with the commentary. Wasn't good this weekend. Crofty with some horrendous shouts. The inters thing was just so odd. Confused Russell for Hamilton for a whole battle also. I do like Crofty though. His commentary on 5live back in the day was awesome.

Katy is clueless, Hungary this year was amazing. Every stint had something going on, and with the chance of rain and the mistakes, and Lewis on sorts at the end

37:06 I'd deny Binotto entry to my home. Don't want that weirdo in here.

I love how Matt's no longer a ferrari fanboy... But I hope we'll still get his fantastic reaction to every f*ck up they do hehe. Great rundown btw

Katie this was one of he best races of the year. 5 stars. Now France last week was shit, like 1 or 2 stars.

Katie thinking this was a bottom 5 race of this year, I don't think I've heard a more stupid take this year 😅 there was literally 4/5 cars battling for the first place, it was very intense imo

WHERE IS THE PIASTRI/ALONSO/ALPINE VIDEO!!!?? Been waiting all day to try to understand what is happening. Love u guys

This is so well done, great job guys

Katy is such a anti max bashgirl, tom talking about how max had a great race starting 10th to win the race, then katy starts to praise hamilton for his god tier drive, (sure was a great drive for lewis but max was on another level) than starts saying this was one of the most boring races yet this season...... What this race is top 2 top 3 atleast hands down

I feel like Ferrari are ruined by their own ego, and more concerned with their legacy than actually winning.

Matt has to get 2 nurses in his stream in Monza because if they implode, they gonna take your laces off your shoes and hold you down.

It was the engine they removed after qualifying that was 3 laps from failure - "We changed the power unit because there’s a component that broke in Max’s car yesterday,” Horner explained. “Thankfully, sitting here now with 20-20 hindsight, we’re grateful that it did break yesterday because another 12 kilometres it would have broken on the way to the grid."

I feel that LeClerc also has some of the blame though. Carlos is pushing back much more with these asinine Strat calls. LeClerc keeps going along with it. He is the team leader. He feels what is going on with the car. He should speak up

Matt has moved to acceptance stage

On one hand matt wants ferarri to win but on the other he's got to love the views every ferarri blunder brings in. If something bad happens with Ferrari I go back and watch the twitch stream and make sure I catch the podcast as soon as it comes out. I can't be the only one.

It's probably not very good for his health but an angry Matt is an entertaining Matt. That Windows joke got me good lol

What was Katie thinking? That was a great race!

Katie is crazy, that was one of the best races this season.

The 12km or 3 laps to go wasn’t his new power unit, that was the estimated distance the old one would have went.

1:10 Lando was the only driver on hards that got them fired up. the race's vid said that too

Has Katie lost her mind? That was a great race!

This Podcast taught me not to watch the

The disgust on Tommy's face as soon he hears any Hamilton appreciation is gold

Did you or anyone see the air vents blocked on the right side of the bodywork on sainzs car at the end of the race 🏁 🤔