Weekend Warm-Up - 2026 Spanish Grand Prix

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AI GeneratedFormula One returns to Madrid after 40 years with a challenging new 5.4km circuit. Experts analyze the technical demands of the track, Kimi Antonelli's historic Monza victory, and the internal strategic struggles at Ferrari. The discussion also covers driver market speculation regarding Fernando Alonso and Yuki Tsunoda, alongside podium predictions for the upcoming race.
Oh, welcome to Madrid! Formula One has returned to the capital for the first time in over 40 years.
This is the Spanish Grand Prix at our newest race venue on the calendar and the track looks like an
enormous challenge to truly test our drivers at a pivotal part of the season. There are so many
unknowns this weekend at a brand new circuit who will hit the ground running and show their class.
Welcome along to weekend warm-up. Hello and welcome to our newest paddock. It is sunny,
it is warm and this place is absolutely enormous and we are just about getting to grips with what's
happening here in the paddock, let alone what will be happening out there on track. If indeed the track
is the way I just pointed, I don't know. And do you know what? For this weekend warm-up,
I don't know is a legitimate response guys as well because we don't know. There are so many
unknowns. James Hinchcliffe, Jolyon Palmer, Juan Pablo Montoya, who better to talk through this
one. James, I know you came in pretty hot from a flight early in the morning. How are you doing?
I'm doing okay. I'll be better tomorrow but like you say, so many unknowns, so many questions and
that's what's so exciting about this place is we don't know what to expect. We don't know who's
going to be good necessarily and I'm really excited to see what the drivers say after FP1.
Jolyon, how much would you have relished this as a driver? Coming in mid-season,
you're going to tracks you've been in over and over and over again. You suddenly have a whole
new track, 5.4k to get to grips with. Yeah, a lot of fun. You always would sort of earmark
this one as just a curveball. I've never been to Madrid before, so you go to a new city
and experience a new track and it's so fun getting up to speed in FP1. I used to have a sort of
personal challenge with how high can I get myself up the leaderboard as everyone's trying to learn
the track and of course the faster you go initially, you get ahead on the learning
curve and you can start dialling in on setup and everything else. If you take a while to get the
basics right, then the rest can leave you a little bit behind. Pablo, enjoyment aside,
how much of a challenge is it though to come to a brand new track? Well, I think as Jolyon said,
it's always really, really hard and it's always that balance of how fast you want to go and how
fast you want to look initially and how much risk you want to take because I played like this with
so many walls and everything. You can look like a hero really early or you can look like a zero
really, really fast. So this is going to be that balance and we'll see who can get that balance
right. We're going to take a closer look at this epic track through the course of the show. For now
though, we are going to take a moment to savour all that was Monza. Here it is. Welcome to the
Temple of Speed. Pierre Gasly is on pole. Antonelli, 19th on the grid. The Italian Grand Prix
is underway. Russell going to the outside line. Gasly leads. Hamilton and Leclerc making contact.
Russell knows he's got to get this move done and George Russell takes the lead.
Charles Leclerc hanging on to that Ferrari all over the road. Charles Leclerc is off and into
the wall. What a dramatic start. Tears in the grandstand. Here comes Antonelli.
Laid on the brakes and going through. Make that P19 to P3. You are the fastest man on track.
This is sensational. It is a three-car battle for the lead. Antonelli has the momentum,
has the inside line and it's a Mercedes 1-2.
Antonelli on the attack. Russell holds the lead, goes defensive. Antonelli on the outside line.
Russell goes deep, sends Antonelli off the road. What a competitor. The lead is still not settled.
Russell's trying to hang on. He's got him. Kimi Antonelli takes the lead.
Kimi Antonelli wins the Italian Grand Prix. This is a sound unlike any other.
It feels like a dream. It's more Monza magic.
Home hero Kimi Antonelli leads the World Driver Championship by 66 points. 267 compared to his
teammate George Russell on 201 points. Is this the race we will look back on as championship
defining? Lewis Hamilton lies P3 on 191. Dare he still dream of an eighth world title?
Certainly not if Kimi Antonelli has anything to say about it. My goodness me, what a ridiculous
performance from him. What an all-time classic of a Grand Prix, James. Kimi Antonelli surely now
firmly in the driver's seat. I mean, even Toto Wolff said, I don't think a win's possible going
into the weekend and it was just everything sort of fell the right way. He had a brilliant first
start. That restart helped him then kind of regroup, have another launch, have another crack
at a first lap and get a bunch more. The VSC came at just the right time for him to kind of go off
strategy from George and chase him down. But it made it really exciting, didn't it? We didn't
really know till the last few laps goes off trying to pass George the first time. It was
phenomenal to watch and it really does show again that step in maturity that he's taken
from last year. He's just driving absolutely phenomenally right now. Yeah, he truly is
bidding to become the first Italian to win the driver's title since 53. He's just become the
first Italian to win at home for 60 years, certainly at Monza on the other side of the garage. Then
Jolien for George Russell, splitting the strategies was an obvious call in that moment because Kimi
was on that medium tyre that wasn't going to last till the end. What if they kept him out? Have you
run those kind of simulations? Well, yeah, I looked at it and I just think Mercedes did the right
thing for both drivers. George was on the hard. It could go to the end. Kimi was on the medium. It
would have been really marginal to the end. Lewis was on the same tyre and sort of showed that
dropping back. So when you get a VSC, it's natural to pick Kimi at that moment. And at the time,
I actually still thought it was going to be tricky for him to make up all of those seconds that he
needed to get back into contention. So it wasn't black and white. That was the best strategy and
that's why Kimi won. And personally, I think if you put Kimi on George's strategy with the way
that he's going, he probably still would have won on that one as well. You look at other drivers,
the Audi split strategies, there was barely anything in it. You look at Max, he actually
fell away from George by pitting. So it's not just about the strategy. I think Mercedes called it
right. And I think Kimi absolutely nailed the driving. Yeah, George was magnanimous about it,
saying Mercedes did the right thing, equally like you did, and Mercedes thought that higher tyre
could have gone on forever. Moving ahead then for George Russell, and it's a question we've
been asking a fair bit. Where does he go from here? Because it's 66 points and his teammates
just gone from P19 to P1 in an all time great performance, Juan Pablo. I think he needs to learn
and understand why it works so well for Kimi. I think the medium tyres were a little better
than people expected on speed, especially as they got older. Actually, the speed kept,
you know, there was really no deck on those tyres. And for George, I think George is trying to
overanalyze everything with the driving. He wants to wants to do everything so right.
And I think Kimi is letting it happen more naturally. Kimi is just going for it and
things are working out. It's like whatever he's doing is working. And it's, you know,
it's really hard to beat Kimi because he doesn't seem to get it wrong. Like his wrongs end up being
right. So how do you beat him? Even when he was in the gravel, right? Losing 1.4 seconds. I thought,
this is it. This is, he could have beached himself right there. And somehow he doesn't.
Yeah. He goes through the gravel and he gases it and the car keeps goes like everything. It just
can't get it wrong. And when you have that, it's, it's really hard to beat. And I think George needs
to understand why he needs to, the way he's managing the tyres, maybe needs to be a little
more aggressive and just keep trying. You know what I mean? He's got the guide there. He's got
the information. And I think it's a good lesson for George to get himself better and a better
level. The speed is not the question. It's how the execution is happening. It's a little,
it's a little bit like you look at Oscar Piastri, look at the speed and everything, but
Lando at the end, it can always, I would execute him. All right. I'm going to ask you a question
about this weekend. And I appreciate we don't know a whole lot, which is the beauty of it.
But James, I'll come to you on this one. Do you think the Mercedes car is going to suit this track?
I mean, there really hasn't been a track that it hasn't suited so far. It is still sort of
the class of the field in an overall sense. And then you look at, you know, other cars
with low speed, lots of curbs. Lando Norris even said, you know, after the two victories,
we're still not creating the low speed. So I'm not sure just like at Monza,
the super high speed stuff wasn't great for them. I'm not sure the super low speed and
curb riding is going to be huge for them here. I think Mercedes, potentially Ferrari going to
be fighting for the win. Yeah. And look, the Mercedes teammate battle was not the only one
we enjoyed last time out in Monza. The Ferrari drivers had a right go at least for two laps.
We spoke earlier to the team drivers about team dynamics. Here's Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.
It's Formula One. There's always going to be some kind of tension. However, I feel like we
have a very, very good relationship with Lewis. We've always had it. And of course, there are
moments where both of our motivation makes us want to kind of win or at least to finish as
high up as possible. And sometimes you've got to set up that motivation a bit down,
which was the case for me in Monza and speak about it. And when you speak about it, again,
we have a very good relationship. The only thing is that obviously driving for such an iconic team,
Ferrari and then in Monza as well, things are taking proportions that I would have hoped it
didn't take. But that is the way it is. And we've got to live with it and manage it in the best
possible way. I think we've got a good racing relationship. And I think the fact that we
are grown ups and are able to communicate with each other, which we have, I'm really firstly
happy that he's really healthy and he's back here this weekend because we need him in the fight to
challenge Mercedes together. And the great thing, I think, you know, there is all this discussion
about communication and just like execution and stuff. But the communication between John and
Benedetto and and Fred and his drivers are really, really great. You know, we all sit down and talk
afterwards and and squash it and move on. So nothing like lingers, nothing. You know, we're
just looking forward to how we can work better together. Work better together. I think we can
read quite a fair bit into those words. They are more measured than what we heard from Lewis
Hamilton at the end of the race in Monza, in which he was obviously annoyed that the team
orders hadn't come into play. And obviously, Charles and him had contact through turn one.
Jolyon, what do you make of this dynamic between the two Ferrari drivers? And should Ferrari
begin now to prioritise Lewis Hamilton? And should they have done sooner?
Well, I sort of feel like it's too late. I think the ship sailed. I feel like they're
drifting away from championship contention. They're not going to make it. I don't think
they're quick enough. And the drivers are so focused on beating each other that Lewis is
talking there about they need to start working together. We're on round 14. I think back to
China and they were knocking, knocking each other. And there was a little bit of contact
and they were absolutely swinging for each other for a podium whilst the Mercedes escaped.
And you thought, OK, they don't have the pace to beat Mercedes on that day. And it was fun
to watch. And they do race each other really hard. They have done all season. But I can't
think of a single time where they've actually worked together. Think of Lewis's win and
Charles wasn't in contention in Barcelona and Charles win and Lewis to jump the start
and wasn't really in contention at Silverstone. So when you have an inferior car, I do feel
like they had to probably prioritise a driver, probably if not, at least make sure that they're
working together in any given race and starting third and fourth in Monza with one Mercedes
at the back, both McLarens behind them, Max Verstappen behind as well. You're thinking,
you've actually got a great chance to take the fight on your home turf. And they
immediately started having a go at each other. Just unplug. Yeah. No, no, they do. It's really
cool to see because they're so I mean, in a way, it's great. And it's funny because in Monza after
the race, I said I think it was completely wrong with Charles, but I would have done the same.
It's it was our nature. The problem nowadays. Yeah. You like when I race, I never thought about
the team. And I'm 100 percent honest with that. I was me, me and me. And I think they need to,
you know, we really need to work together. I need to figure out how to sit there and go,
OK, we need to be smarter. If someone's quicker, we're going to, you know, really react as a team
and benefit the team. And the conversation needs to be not about the drivers, but about the team.
They are conditions that Lewis Hamilton is very used to from the Mercedes days,
obviously, in the way in which Valtteri Bottas would be from time to time maneuvered out of
Lewis's way, should we put it politely. Fred Vasseur, Lewis said this. It starts with Fred.
It's a trickle down process and it starts with Fred. How much pressure is Fred Vasseur under?
I think a tremendous amount at this point, just because it has got to this stage. And to Julian's
point, I mean, we're around 14 of their second year working together and we're still having these sort
of questions. What are the rules of engagement? There's very clear rules that McLaren is very
clear rules that Mercedes, whether it's always been missing from a Ferrari or just recently,
hasn't been something they've looked into. It's clearly something that they have to have
a discussion about in the near future. Back to this track then and looking at other teams as well,
who may well capitalize on Ferrari's lack of action in terms of giving a hierarchy to their
drivers. McLaren, Red Bull, where do we think they will sit on this track? Who does it suit?
I'm not as gloomy as you on McLaren, actually. I just think that they've got a chance here.
Remember, they were off the back of back-to-back wins before Monza. They have quite a draggy car,
so I don't think they'll be penalized as much for that around here. There's not long straights,
there's a lot of corners. You're right, there's kerb riding, there's lower speed,
which is a question mark for them. They're also good in medium speed corners, which they showed
really well in Budapest particularly. So for me, McLaren have got a chance. I would never rule out
Max for it, but I think a win seems harsh, but a podium for Max somehow to throw himself in the
ring as well. Yeah, for me, I think the car to beat is the Ferrari because the medium speed
corners and everything. If you look at the McLaren, they tend to lack a little bit of front end and I
think that's going to be an issue here, but it might help Oscar more than Lando, the way the
track is, because the grip level seems to be really, really high. They say this asphalt has
crazy amount of grip, so a lot of the cars that have instability are going to be good.
The Red Bull might be really good here because you always see Max complain about the back of
the car and if those problems disappear, then it's going to be really cool to see because it's not
going to be a clear winner. I'm sure Max Verstappen has spent plenty of time in the simulator as well
trying to work out exactly how to master the Madring. Don't forget as well, Yuki Tsunoda is
in at Racing Bulls and Liam Lawson is in at Red Bull for one more weekend as Isaac Kadjar
recovers from a wrist injury. All right, we're talking about the track, we're yet to really see
it and get to grips with it, so here it is, your track guide for the Madring. This is the Madring,
a 5.4 kilometre tour of the Barajas district in the northeast of Madrid. Across the start finish
line and a lap in the Spanish capital begins with a short run to turn one, presenting an immediate
overtaking opportunity. A right-hander launches the approach to turn three,
Autolesa, where the drivers hit the streets. This is the longest straight on the circuit,
taking us through turn four flat out, hitting speeds of 340 kilometres per hour. A heavy
braking zone follows, presenting another passing opportunity before the drivers head out under the
Into the first real elevation change, culminating in a blind apex at turn eight,
Albunca. From here, the track evolves from street to purpose built. The drivers must
negotiate la chicane before preparing for the track's biggest challenge.
This is La Monumental, where 45,000 fans roar the drivers through 550 metres of banking,
reaching a gradient of up to 24 percent, offering multiple racing lines and the opportunity for
wheel-to-wheel action for the duration of the arena-style section. Another large braking zone
brings La Monumental to a close and prepares the drivers for the next challenge. A rapid section
of linked corners flowing flat out before another heavy braking zone at turn 17.
The drivers pass through another tunnel and the return to Ifemar begins at Norte,
where a sweeping right-hander takes us back past the exhibition halls, where the walls close in
and the slower section of the circuit begins. This tight and technical series of corners lead
the drivers past pit entry before the final turn, El Parque, named for the Parque Juan Carlos I,
where the cars turn back onto the start-finish straight and the test begins again. Fast,
flowing, relentless, the Madring offers a truly unique challenge for the drivers of Formula One.
Well, that is the Madring circuit. What a beast it is for our drivers to tackle.
Who better to welcome us to Madrid than our two Spanish drivers? Here is Carlos Sainz and Fernando
Alonso. Well, welcome all to Madrid. Happy to have you all here in my home city, the city where I
grew up, the city where I did my first steps as a little 10-year-old karting driver wanting one day
to be a Formula One driver. And yeah, almost 20-something years later, here I am being a
Formula One driver in this city, which is crazy to think and something that I'm incredibly proud of
and something that I'm for sure going to enjoy a lot. It's going to be busy, but also emotional,
and yeah, I'm going to try and enjoy it as much as possible. It's going to be a very nice weekend.
As you said, we have this privilege to race two times in Spain this year, and yeah, for the very
first time in Madrid. I think the last time was in Jarama, you know, many, many years ago. So
yeah, it is special, also a new track. So it adds this challenge, you know, for everyone to learn
the track as quick as possible in the free practice. And yeah, these cars as well, with the
new regulations, always tricky to fine-tune energy here and there, and especially if it is a new
track. So yeah, a lot of challenges ahead, and for me, yeah, double special because being in Spain.
Fernando Alonso heading out onto the track for a track walk here. Drivers looking to get every bit
of information possible they can glean from the 5.4 kilometres that lie ahead in quite hot sunshine,
I have to say. Now, Jolien, you're heading out on a track run, aren't you, after this? There you go,
I've nailed it now, you've got to do it. It's going to be done. It's been declared on air,
so that's it, you're out there, 5.4k, let us know your time, tell us tomorrow.
Picture it didn't happen. No, picture you just hit a puddle at the end, and that'll be me.
I'd like to see the full stats. You were in the car earlier, we'll come to that. Juan Pablo, are you
cycling around the track, are you walking yourself? I walked this morning, and I've been in a road car
a couple of weeks ago, I've seen a few times. Wow, okay, okay, tell us, tell us more. Unbelievable,
like, honestly, I do a lot of track walks because my kid races Formula 2, so we do track walks every
race, and this is the first time I go, oh, I would like to drive this. Out of all the tracks
we've been this year, it's the first time I go, oh, this would be unbelievable. I don't think the
track gives it any justice because of the elevation, and the blindness, and you know what it's got?
It's got all those corners, and a lot of the corners are all styles that you have the
barriers inside and out, and they're blind corners, like you're turning, and the guy that gets closer
to the apex is the guy that is closest to the wall, not, and I think that brings a lot of cool
things because when you open the apexes, anybody can do it, anybody can run over a wide line, and
a little here, a little there, but if you put a barrier on it, you gotta be perfect, and I think
that is just the level of commitment you need to bring, it's incredible. Yeah, we're hearing Macau,
Jeddah, Baku, just a number of the circuits that it's been likened to, also old school UK tracks as well.
James, very quickly coming to you, just on the Sergio Perez hot lap that you did, how was that?
That was incredible to get to go around it at speed in a Cadillac with Sergio, it's, I'm with Juan,
it is a high commitment place. I'll throw in a little bit of the Valencia street circuit in
there as well, some of those kind of decreasing radius brake zones, it's going to be, it's going
to be absolutely phenomenal, and yeah, a lot of elements that, I'm with you, I would have loved to
have done a hot lap myself, unfortunately I was in the right seat. Julian bought the elevation
change that lies ahead of him on the run, plenty of corner names for you to get right in a free
practice as well. Yeah, I've got La Chicane under lock and key at the moment, La Monumental, El Norte,
but there's a few more, I think we'll do it in FP1 because there's like some five worders all in
intricate Spanish, and there's like the local industrial villages that have all got a name,
so you want to tune in for that. Yeah, absolutely, wow, you've really set it up, haven't you? Okay,
Chris Medland is here with us this weekend, and we've sent him out track side to take a closer
look at some of the drivers doing their track walks. Yes, thanks Laura, I've come down to
turn one, the first braking zone on this brand new circuit, all of the action on Sunday will
be starting behind me on the grid, but then when the drivers come down into turn one, I'm looking,
for once I'm paying attention when I'm on the track, I will admit, normally I don't pay attention
to this, at the kerbs, because the first kerb is quite a severe one where drivers are going to
climb all over it to open up turn two, and we've already seen even on some of the recce laps that
have happened, we've got tire marks on those kerbs right now, some other corners, the walls are
essentially the track limit, so the inside kerb is going to see drivers getting as close to the walls
as they can, but I'm also interested at the pit exit that's out here, so we've got a big bit of
runoff here at turn one, but then just beyond that you can see the Tag Heuer bridge that goes over
the pit lane, and the red lights flashing for the pit exit, that's the point that they can release
the pit lane speed limiter, but then you've got a long run within the pit lane still, cutting the
insides of turns two and three to rejoin the track, that's at racing speeds, so drivers will be pushing
out of the pits to understand how much time they lose when they make a pit stop, but also how much
time they can gain compared to their rivals there too, lots of different areas you can make a
difference when you come to a new circuit, I am fascinated to see who's taking the most risk and
early, because whoever seems to hit the ground running and be confident in their car will be
Thank you so much Chris, yeah 560 meters long the pit lane, that is some pit loss time isn't it, and
19 red flags when F3 tested here, we could be in for a pretty wild weekend, I'm going to talk
briefly about driver market if I may, we obviously heard from Fernando Alonso in his press conference
earlier, he was also asked about his future, when we may hear something, he said not soon, two-word
answer, not soon, and I guess perhaps he's seen nothing in that car that makes him want to
immediately put his signature there, he also mentioned that we may see him in WEC next year,
so it seems we don't know where he's at at the moment, well I think he's been pretty consistent,
we've even heard Pedro de la Rosa make the same comment, that the upgrades that they brought to
Hungary and the engine upgrade in Zandvoort, these were not going to be the things that made him
make that decision, so I'm not sure if it's really a function of the car, I think it's more
does he see the potential in the team, is he still enjoying what he's doing, does he enjoy the
regulations the way they are, and he's clearly not in a rush to make that call, at you know his age
and his tenure in this series, he's got the right to take time and make that decision whenever he
wants, yeah he's got to get it right, Yuki Tsunoda, he's got one more chance, we think if indeed we
see he's back in the car at the next race, he's got one more chance to really prove himself,
do you think he's in with a shot of a seat anywhere? Difficult, personally I think it's
difficult, I think he's got the speed and the talent to be in Formula 1 for sure, the problem
is when the way he came into the Red Bull world and he got kicked out of Red Bull world, you
either get picked up somewhere else and you survive and end up with a career like few of them,
or you don't and then you end up on that bubble where everybody else is and it's really difficult,
I think he's reminding himself, reminding everyone that he's actually very capable of
being in a modern Formula 1 car, he's done two really decent efforts, almost got the points,
then got the points, another good effort here and I think there could be one or two teams that are
thinking maybe for Yuki for next year, he just has to keep plugging away and I think Racing Bulls
will have a really good shot this weekend again to get back to the front of the midfield, get some
points, so maybe this will be Yuki finally putting it all together. For me, if Yuki, the only thing
Yuki would have going for him and he would scramble everything is if Fernando decided to stop,
then I think a lot of opportunities and people would react and you know with them having Honda
and everything, I think that would be a true... There's not a lot of options outside of that,
is there? Yeah, there's really not, I think the rumor is there's an opportunity in Haas and they're
looking at two young guys from my understanding and Yuki and I don't know where they are at
and where else are you going, it's like... Haas could be the chance as well, but yeah,
Haas, I think Fernando, my hunch is he'll stay, but he's under no real pressure to... Yeah, I think
the problem, probably the deal's been done and agreed and it's just they're not interested in
announcing it. I mean, here would have been a wonderful place to announce it, but look,
we will wait to hear of Fernando Alonso's future. What of your future, I hear you ask?
Here's the schedule. Was that tenuous enough? Here's the schedule for the Spanish Grand Prix
weekend. This is your future, you're here with us on Apple TV, on F1 TV for all of the action. Okay,
FP1 building up at 1.10, our first look at this great track, then FP2, 20 to 5 for all of your
build-up and that second hour of practice. Saturday, FP3, 12.10 for all the build-up.
Qualifying comes to you at 3.25 for our pre-qualifying show, 4.00 p.m. start for
qualifying. One thing from today, all the drivers are saying how incredible this place will be
in qualifying. Of course, your post-qualify show with all the reaction just afterwards,
and then race day itself, 10.00 to 2.00, the pre-race show at 3.00 p.m. start for the Spanish
Grand Prix and the post-race show as ever, just after the podium. Keep it here for all of your
analysis. Okay, I am super excited for this weekend. I love an unknown. I love a new place.
I love it when we don't quite know what's going to happen. We've got no data. I love it.
And look, I think teams and drivers especially, they always want to be the first winner, right?
They want to be the ones that claim that they could figure this place out first. It's going
to have some tricks. It's going to have some little nuances that certain drivers are going
to get on top of. I'm thinking about the curbs of chicane in 5.6, the uphill kind of flattening of
turn 7. Of course, La Monumental is going to be incredible. So all of these things, every driver
thinks they're going to figure it out quickest. And if you can get that inaugural win at a
racetrack, that's always really special. IndyCar superstars, will any oval experience pay for La
Monumental? I'm thinking Fernando Alonso. The banking is really high compared with what
Fernando did. This is like really high banking. I think what the teams are going to be surprised
on Pirelli is the loading on the tire because it's such a long corner and it's such acceleration
through it that the left front tire is going to take a beating more than they think. And if a car
struggling in front of you, if you can just kind of pop the left front of your front wing out,
I would love to see someone just run half a car with higher to kind of stay close or somebody
or somebody try too low and hit the apron. Oh, I don't want to see that. No, that would be really
bad. It's that they're not used to that. Like what you don't understand, like even the banking,
if you put that right front tire below the line, like onto the flat, that car will snap
left. Well, kind of what we saw in Zandvoort, right? Off the banking with Max Verstappen?
Yes, but in the dry. Yeah, it'll be dry here, that's for sure.
Jolyon, any thoughts on your prediction, please? I'm just looking forward to it. Yeah,
it's really difficult until we see cars on track to see which are going to be the big challenges
that all the drivers are going to talk about. There's a blind entrance as well to turn seven
that could be tricky. My prediction is that Norris is going to win, actually. I think McLaren are
going to be back to their best. I'm going to go Norris, Antonelli, Hamilton for a nice mixed podium.
Behind you there, I'm just watching Antonelli struggle for his life to get that scooter going.
Let's hope he doesn't have the same issues in his F1 car this weekend. Thank you. Your predictions,
please, Juan Pablo? I'm going to go with a Ferrari win and a McLaren podium as well. I'm going to go
probably Charles. I don't know why, but I think Charles are going to do really well. Lando and
I think I'm going to go Charles, Oscar, Lewis. Oscar back in there as well. He needs it, doesn't
he? He needs a good weekend. James, this is the most, I think, spread out we've been. And that
just highlights how little we know. I'm going to put Max on the podium, put Max third. You know
what? I know I said I don't think the McLaren is going to be good, but this does seem like Lando
could suit this type of track. I just don't know if the car is going to be there. I think he's
going to win. I do think he's going to win. And I'm going to put I'll put Hamilton second and then
great. The whole thing is everybody's saying one, one, one and one, one, one. Yeah. Yeah. It's like
no one team's going to sweep it. It looks very open. All the characteristics, you could pick
one thing that will really suit someone. Also something that won't be great for them.
I think about asking you guys your prediction. I rarely formulate them in my own head myself. So
we're out of time. Unfortunately, I can't give you them. But of course, I'm waiting to see this
weekend prove maybe these guys right or wrong, because you pretty much plump for different
drivers all over the place. So who knows? That is the beauty of a brand new venue here in Formula
one. Keep it right here with us here from the measuring. We'll see you tomorrow for everyone.
