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00:43Evening all, hello and welcome to the qualifying notebook from the 2026.
00:49It's Kimi Antonelli's first three Grand Prix polls in a row notebook. Just look at this,
00:56this is fantastic chaos. We've got the man mountain of the security, Kimi keeping, and then everybody
01:03just coming in and getting their selfies with Kimi. This is good. And look at the grin on his face.
01:09Drive to Survive, of course, are here with a 10-foot boom pole, Pete, above you. There you go.
01:15You're never alone, are you, without a 10-foot boom pole in Formula One these days. Someone's
01:20always listening. There's nothing sacred, I ask you. Anyway, it looks like Kimi's not actually
01:25saying that much, apart from to Joly and Palmer. And what did you say to him?
01:32So, well done.
01:33I could have predicted. I'll get that on Drive to Survive. Are you trying to get on Drive to Survive,
01:38JP? That's why I'm coming in with a big statement, and then I'm getting collared by you, so.
01:42Yeah, I know your... Drive to Survive on Ted's notebook.
01:45Yes, there's no only one answer to that. I know your game.
01:48That might make it. That might make it on, that might make it on to Drive to Survive. Well done,
01:53JP. No, but it is well done, isn't it? Oh, he's gone. He's gone, hasn't he? He's gone upstairs.
01:59He's gone up to Paddock Club. So this is what they have to do. Maybe we can see them on
02:03the,
02:03on the balcony. Oh, sorry, sir. Maybe that's what they have to do. Such is the demands of,
02:09um, where's it gone, Pete? Such are the demands of, uh, what happens after qualifying that the guy
02:16gets out, the guys get out of the, uh, out of the car. They're buzzing with adrenaline. They have to
02:21go and do adrenaline-sapping interviews with the likes of me. Well, I don't do the pen. The likes of
02:26Rachel and, and, and everybody else. Then they have to do, well, they don't have to, but they're very
02:30kind to do, uh, some analysis of their laps, uh, we're on the Skypad, which, uh, Kimi has just done
02:36with Karun, which you can see in our pre-race coverage, uh, tomorrow evening, uh, 7 p.m.,
02:41everybody. Uh, and then they go up to Paddock Club, wave to everybody, and finally, they might
02:45have a chance to go back to the garage, see their engineer, Peter Bonington in this case,
02:49sit down and say, well, we found something, didn't we? We found something today. Because
02:55what a funny day it was. Oh, sorry, madam. What a funny day it was for Kimi Antonelli.
02:59You know, you go well in the sprint race, but then have a bit of a boo-boo, a bad
03:03start in the sprint
03:04race, not his fault, but then have a bit of a boo-boo with, uh, track limits, and then go
03:08and get
03:09yourself a five-second time penalty that drops you two places. It means that Max Verstappen and, uh,
03:15George Russell finish ahead of you in the sprint race, if you're Kimi Antonelli. Reset, turn that
03:20around, work with your engineers, figure out what went wrong, and then go back and wham! It's the speed
03:27that he's got, he's figured out how to do it, maybe the wind conditions, maybe the, the track conditions,
03:32maybe the hotter conditions, advantaged Mercedes, although they hadn't earlier in the weekend,
03:37and disadvantaged everybody else, but he found his mojo and then stuck it on poles. So, incredibly,
03:43three Grand Prix poles in a row, if you can remember back that far. Um, let's go through Mercedes'
03:48story, uh, safely into Q2, of course, both of them. Kimi Antonelli was actually P2 in Q2, George
03:54Russell was P6, but a great lap from Kimi, a 27.7 in Q3 on the first run,
03:59and given that he actually messed up his second attempt at turn one, at the right of the beginning
04:06of his final attempt in Q3, that left the door open for Max Verstappen to strike. So, nervous
04:14moments for the Italian youngster, uh, the world championship leader, as Max could have said,
04:20ah, give me an opportunity like that, Kimi. Mess up your last run in Q3 on your fresh tires,
04:25give me, uh, give me a chance, I don't need asking twice, I'll be like a rat up a drain
04:30pipe.
04:30Uh, but in the end, Max did improve, but only enough up to, to share the front row,
04:35uh, with Kimi Antonelli, and he held on. The first lap was good enough. Let's talk about
04:40George Russell, and, uh, well, I've said it already today, I'll probably say it tomorrow,
04:44but we'll see what happens. Bogey track for, uh, car number 63, and, um, he just doesn't like the way
04:52you don't have much grip, and it's very, uh, slippery out there, and Kimi Antonelli,
04:56with his natural verb, if you want to call it that, can sort of slide the car on four,
04:59all four wheels, uh, and, uh, get it to go around here very quickly, whereas George
05:04tends to be more of a precise driver, that's the reason he said, and the reason he doesn't
05:08go quite as fast around here. But, at P5, when Kimi has pole, that's a problem for George Russell.
05:16George really needed, for his championship, if you're George Russell, to come here, to dominate
05:22the weekend, to win the sprint race, to get 25 points in the Grand Prix, and then reassert himself,
05:27uh, over Kimi Antonelli. He hasn't got that. He hasn't got anywhere close. So, worrying times early on,
05:34uh, in the season for George Russell. And, ah, listen, you know, I know it's a very long season,
05:39but, P5, when Kimi is P1, that's a problem for George. Right, should we do, uh, McLaren? And then,
05:49I'm sort of half fancying an early break, Pete, because we're going to go and relocate into,
05:54I mean, it's very busy around here, obviously, there's lots going on. Uh, we've had a band here,
05:59um, they're not here at the moment. Uh, we've got a Roland, uh, 700, uh, EX, and we've got all
06:06the
06:06Creole bongos on here. Very nice bongo set up here, Pete.
06:19Take that, Kid Creole. He's the only bongo player I can think of. Uh, probably an 80s reference there,
06:25someone. Right, uh, ah, hello. Are you all right? Someone noticing me playing the bongos there in
06:32a very bad way. Who's a famous bongo player? Can't think. Anyway, uh, right, let's do McLaren,
06:41uh, and, um, I know it's the coconuts with Kid Creole, wasn't it? I've got the wrong,
06:47got the wrong percussion. Anyway, right, let's do, uh, let's do McLaren, shall we? Uh, Lando Norris,
06:53fourth, his old race number, Oscar Piastri, seventh. A nervous Q1 for Oscar Piastri,
06:59scraped through on a used tire by two tenths of a second. Lando P4, but then we turned out,
07:05we found out that Oscar had a power unit issue in Q1. Then Lando had a problem with the boost
07:10system, the boost button, which they traced, uh, in the software and fixed in Q2. But the real answer
07:18as to why McLaren can go from winning the sprint race with a one-two and Lando Norris being on
07:23pole
07:23for the sprint race in qualifying on Friday to suddenly being fourth and seventh is that that was
07:29kind of McLaren's limit. They didn't change the car much and everybody else improved. Add to that,
07:34those little glitches on, uh, on a boost button and, uh, on the power unit for both drivers. Add to
07:41that,
07:41the weather conditions changing and, you know, that meant that they are back down to earth with a bit
07:48of a bump. Lando said this is more or less where we should have been for a start. It's just
07:51that everybody
07:52had problems in sprint qualifying, uh, but we didn't. Uh, but you know, given how, uh, the clean
07:58air and getting a good start and Lando and Oscar controlling the sprint race earlier today was so
08:03crucial for them to do that for fourth and seventh might be a very, uh, hard task, uh, tomorrow. So,
08:10um, we will see, uh, how that goes. Uh, what did McLaren do in the four weeks to improve
08:17their position so much, notwithstanding their, uh, fourth and seventh on the grid? Well,
08:22they combed through the data and went through the harvesting and deploying strategies. Now,
08:29of course, not being the works Mercedes team, McLaren didn't have quite the depth of knowledge
08:34that Mercedes had coming into the season as to when to deploy around the lap and then when to actually
08:40went up to harvest, went to recharge your battery. And then when the best points are around these laps,
08:46to actually press the button and use the quick boost of electric power, uh, around various
08:52corners. Mercedes knew that. That's why they were leading, uh, so far in the advance. But the four
08:57weeks allowed McLaren to sit down, go through the data, see what Mercedes were doing. And they would
09:02have had that data on GPS. It's not, not, it's all freely available, uh, to everybody and figure out
09:08what they needed to do. And that's what they did. And of course, they put the, uh, they put the,
09:13uh,
09:13the, the, the burners on their, uh, aerodynamic, uh, development and their production and, uh,
09:19the, the, the new floor, things like the new floor, that meant that they were suddenly, um,
09:24in business and back in business. Um, if you're talking about back in business though,
09:28there is no one more back in business than Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing. So welcome
09:33back Max. And he is, he could have got pole with the opportunity that, uh, uh, uh, Matt,
09:40that, uh, Kimi Antonelli gave to him by making a mistake on his last attempt. He was very close
09:45in the end. It was only a 10th, but, uh, yeah, he was on it all throughout all of qualifying.
09:49He was P3 and Q1 when Isaac Hadja was P5. Max was P1 in Q2. So that was a, a
09:56real, uh,
09:56warning shot to everybody. And then P1 became P3 initially in the first runs in Q3,
10:02but he improved, uh, to Q, to P2. Uh, so he shares the front row with, uh, the next big
10:09thing
10:09in Formula One, supposedly, Kimi Antonelli. Uh, he is going to come back out of the same door
10:14he came out of. So that's kind of why I'm hanging around, uh, Antonelli for more chaos,
10:19Pete, if you want to go and, um, loiter between there and, uh, and Red Bull. But if you look
10:23at the
10:23red back of the Red Bull garage and you look at all the success they've had with those laurel reads,
10:27you know, Max is back. Red Bull are back to a certain extent. We'll see what happens
10:32in the Grand Prix. Big question for me, does this mean Max likes these cars and likes these rules?
10:38Now I would say no, because he said he was quite clear about it when he was giving his
10:44frank assessment of the new rules and, uh, the, the, the, the more reliance on, uh, you know,
10:51energy harvesting and, and, and, and battery overtaking. He said, look, even if I was winning
10:56races, this wouldn't mean that I like it. Um, uh, so I think we have to say that he would
11:02still feel
11:03that, uh, now that he's potentially in a position to win races, he might not still like it. But that
11:09certainly wasn't something, uh, that, uh, was asked to him. But I think that we have to assume
11:14that he still holds his personal opinions about the, uh, regulations, notwithstanding the fact
11:20that we've changed the regulations. We've had a little, oh, look, there's GP, uh, just behind you,
11:24Pete. Um, notwithstanding that we've changed the regulations, we've had a little tickle,
11:28as he calls it, and, uh, they are, there is less of the, uh, having your lap compromised by having
11:35to charge the battery, uh, than in the previous, uh, races. You are looking at here on the right-hand
11:41side, not Greg on the left, unless something really interesting has happened, McLaren's chief
11:46racing officer from 2028 onwards. He will be, uh, wearing the papaya. Well, I don't know whether
11:53McLaren will still be wearing, uh, having papaya shirts in 2028. So long, so far away,
11:58but, uh, he will be changing shirts definitely the end of 2007. Yes, that is next year. Uh,
12:04but maybe before that, if Red Bull can find a replacement and how do you replace the irreplaceable?
12:11Uh, who do you replace GP with? And that is a very, very big question. It's a personal relationship.
12:18I asked Max about this earlier in the weekend. What is it that's so valuable? Uh, oh, Pete,
12:23just imagine if you were by McLaren at this point and you could get a shot of GP passing McLaren,
12:28that would be a go, yay, good old Pete. There we go. There's a shot for the, uh, for the,
12:33uh, it's like, it's like a news piece coming together. Uh, GP Lambiazzi with his new team McLaren.
12:43There you go. Did you get it? Good. Good lad. Um, I mean, yeah, let's try to get another engineer
12:50that has the same natural affinity with their driver. The strength of which that Max has with GP
12:55might be a hard ask, but hey, they can do it. And Max is up for finding an engineer who
13:00can take GP's
13:01place. Here you go. You're rewarded, uh, with where Kimi goes next. And finally he goes
13:06to see his engineer. And, uh, yeah, that's good. Finally, you can go into the garage,
13:11see the engineers, find out what's going on, get the door shut on your face and we can move on.
13:16Good. All right. Uh, we've done 12 minutes or so. Um, shall we just do Ferrari? Come on. Yeah,
13:21let's do a Ferrari. Well, I'll tell you what happened with Max Verstappen. Uh, he almost got pole.
13:25Uh, the light at the end of the tunnel, he says, the Max Serena wing is an interesting story.
13:30It turns out that when everyone was going crazy, when Ferrari had done the Macarena wing,
13:35somebody or lots of people within Red Bull and Milton Keynes had said, ha,
13:38just you wait until we see what we've got in development. Uh, it turns out they had one that
13:43had an even bigger opening, uh, and allowing more air through, dumping more drag, being more effective
13:49than the Macarena wing. And they must've been laughing into their computer screens in Milton Keynes,
13:54when Ferrari weren't even able to, to race it for the first two races of the year, their Macarena wing.
14:00Um, but interestingly, uh, Laura McKee saying, look, with other priorities of having to get the car
14:05better, the Red Bull better, we had to put our Max Serena wing on the back burner and only now
14:10could we actually put it into production and get it to a race. So well done, whoever thought of that.
14:14It seems like some clever people, both in Ferrari and in Red Bull, thought of it at the same time
14:19over the winter and thought, do you know what? Listen, there's no, there's no, uh, restriction
14:24in the rules as to how far this rear wing flap can open. So let's make it open like crazy
14:29in a kind
14:29of rotating way, uh, which is what they have done quickly on Ferrari. Uh, Lewis Hamilton sixth,
14:35Charles Leclerc third, not bad, maybe not as great as they'd hoped, but P3 for Charles Leclerc. Again,
14:41upgrades are working, but the car, the Ferrari is not loving the hotter conditions. Lewis Hamilton
14:45overheated his rear tires again over one lap, said Fred Vasseur, and may have to manage them in the
14:51rain, uh, in the race, but it will depend if the rain comes, uh, or not. Right, uh, I don't
14:58know if
14:58you're looking at the back of the garage, you probably shouldn't. I don't know what's going on
15:00in there. Probably you should be, you're a naughty boy, you shouldn't be looking. Uh, let, we've done
15:04lots of in the sort of undercroft, so just to explain what happens. This is, if you normally sort of
15:09come
15:09out of a Miami Dolphins NFL game and you come out of the stadium here, it is a bit weird
15:14that you walk
15:15straight in to the, uh, to the garages of the Grand Prix, but, uh, you know, they are permanent,
15:20and that's what happens. So, for the next bit, we will walk inside, shall we, the, uh, the Hard Rock
15:26Stadium, uh, and, um, well, show you what the paddock looks like, if you haven't already seen it, uh, from,
15:32uh,
15:32the inside where all the motorhomes and, uh, the, uh, yeah, the really important people are.
15:37Uh, right, more Notebook in a bit.
15:50All right, if that doesn't make, uh, uh, uh, uh, keep you there too long.
16:02Okay, all right. Am I live now? That was strange. I could hear myself, I could hear myself pre-recorded
16:09some time ago, and who knows what I said back then. So, uh, good. I'll check I'm live now.
16:16All right, everyone, everyone in the sound department? Good. That was worrying, wasn't it, Pete? Good.
16:21I always assume all microphones are live. Do we need to do the shadow shot again? No? I think we're,
16:26I think we're probably okay. Right. Uh, right, let's carry on, shall we, with, uh, Williams, and, um,
16:33P14, Carlos Sainz, and, uh, P16, Alex Albon, and Sainz with a 29.5 in Q1, uh, a P9 better,
16:43Williams have found six tenths from yesterday, uh, Sainz in between the two Haas drivers, with Alex Albon
16:49just behind. There is James Matthews, one of the bosses, uh, here at Williams, and, um, I mean,
16:55better, but still 14th and 16th, so they have, you know, progress of, of, of a sort, I think, uh,
17:01with a Haas of having a difficult weekend, but, um, there is one positive thing about Williams.
17:07They poached someone important from Mercedes. They poached a top aerodynamicist, Claire Simpson,
17:13who is joining Williams as the head of aero development. Uh, in fact, I think she's already joined the team,
17:19this is her first weekend working in the, uh, UK. So, uh, yeah, they're adding to their team as they
17:27look to improve, uh, here at Williams. Right, let's do Racing Bulls, which is all the way over
17:46you've seen. Uh, when we shot with Frank Colopinto, uh, we went to a River Plate game in the Monumental
17:52in Buenos Aires, and that's 85,000. I don't believe this is 85,000, just from the look of it
17:57and from
17:57memory. I think this is about 65, 65 to 70. Does that sound about right to you, Pete? So, um,
18:03it's sort of,
18:04it's sort of a bit smaller than Old Trafford, I think. Uh, you could, uh, you could put it that
18:08way. Uh, the Hard Rock Stadium here. Right, Racing Bulls and, uh, sorry, say that again. Um, uh,
18:17so, uh, Racing Bulls. Uh, uh, uh, Arvid Lindblad, P17, and Liam Lawson, P12. Better from Liam,
18:25into Q2, and quicker than both Haas and the Williams,
18:29but couldn't get into Q3, but much better day, uh, for Liam Lawson. Uh, don't think he's in there.
18:36He must be in a briefing by now. Uh, but, uh, yeah, got done by Niko Hulkenberg by three hundredths
18:42of a second. Uh, Arvid Lindblad, 17th on the grid with a fixed clutch after it not working the other
18:49day,
18:50and, uh, he is 17th, but he scraped. He didn't manage to scrape out of Q1, uh, just lost out
18:58by a
18:58couple of tenths, uh, of a second, but he is P17. Let's do Aston Martin quickly, just over here,
19:03Pete, on the left-hand side. Uh, 18th for, uh, for Fernando Alonso, 19th for Lance Stroll,
19:08and today, unlike sprint qualifying, they did representative laps, and because of that,
19:13they were ahead of Cadillac again. So, it looks like the early showing that, uh, he had, um, uh,
19:19that the Aston Martin had gone ahead of, uh, of, of fallen behind, rather, uh, Cadillac. It seems like
19:25it's not the case now that they actually did representative laps. I mean, we knew they didn't
19:29do representative laps in sprint qualifying, but when they do, they are, uh, ahead of Cadillac.
19:36Uh, Fernando Alonso, nine tenths behind Arvid Lindblad, and Lance Stroll a tenth further back,
19:42uh, from there. There is the new papa, uh, as, uh, he's, uh, uh, talked about, uh, openly now the
19:49birth of
19:49his son, uh, Leonard, Leonard Alonso. I don't know whether that'll be short to Leo, or Leonardo,
19:55or Leonardo, or whatever, but, um, congratulations, uh, to Fernando, and to Melissa, his partner,
20:01with the birth of their son. Lovely news. Right. We cross the paddock to the Haas team,
20:07and, uh, Ocon 15th, and Ollie Bearman 13th. So, well done, Ollie Bearman. The slightly difficult
20:12weekend continues for Haas, but Ollie Bearman out-qualifies Esteban Ocon again. It's only two
20:18tenths, but at least Esteban Ocon got out of, uh, Q1. So that is an improvement from sprint
20:24qualifying when he hadn't managed, uh, to do it before. There is Ollie Bearman. Ah, with a very
20:29interesting man, Jock Clear. Actually, Jock, um, Alex Zanardi. Oh, I've got a shock off this. Can you
20:35just come over? Sorry, because from memory, you worked with Alex at Tello, by the way. You worked with
20:42Alex at Lotus, didn't you? You'd left Williams by the time he went there. Give us a story. Come on,
20:47give us some memories. We've all been going around. I've got the pineapple on my phone.
20:51Do you remember the pineapple on his helmet? The pineapple. And, uh, I mean, what? A man who
20:58transcended motorsport, but give us a, give us a recollection if you can. Yeah, I mean, I think
21:01the good thing is that you and I are smiling about it, because that's actually what you feel when you,
21:04when you think of Alex. I worked with him in 94. I engineered Johnny, and then Johnny was nicked by
21:10Flavio for the last three races. Alex was in the other car, and I swapped engineer over to Alex,
21:15and I did Alex for three races. What a lovely, lovely gentleman and absolutely inspirational.
21:22You know, what he did in athletics and in a racing car is fantastic. But as a human being,
21:28oh my God, he was such a nice guy. And, and, you know, I've, I've, that's lived with me ever
21:33since,
21:34you know, I've, I've worked with some very nice guys, not necessarily drivers throughout the paddock.
21:38But yeah, that's what sticks with me. I mean, he, he was just such a gentleman.
21:42And, and on top of it, my God, you know, what, what he achieved and what, you know,
21:49how he recovered from the challenges he, he had, you know, and, and not the obvious one,
21:54yeah, you know, losing his legs, but just in racing as well, you know, he was really,
21:58really up against it in those Williams years, you know, that was, you know, your, your career's
22:03over and he turned it round and, you know, when he won championships over in America and,
22:09and won hearts all over the world. And yeah, a real, a real tragic loss of a great, great guy.
22:16And, uh, yeah, thoughts to, I think Daniela, his wife and the family and, and, but yeah,
22:21motorsport enjoyed a really, really great guy in Alex Zanardi for sure. And I, and I just,
22:26I'm honored to have, of, uh, you know, been on the end of his radio for three races. It was
22:31brilliant.
22:31And, uh, yeah, it's great, great memories, sad day, but yeah, remember the man to remember
22:38the man. Yeah. Yeah. And as I say, you know, we all looked, you know, us in racing, then looked
22:43at what he did, uh, in athletics on the TV and you're like, my God, you know, that, that is,
22:49you know, to, to, to be at this sort of level as a motor in motor racing is one thing,
22:54but then to just
22:54transcend that to another sport and, and be, you know, the best in the world at what he was doing
23:00over
23:01there as well, just inspirational. And, uh, and yeah, just a really nice human being as well.
23:06You know, when you, when you'd sit and have dinner with him, he's just a lovely, lovely guy.
23:09As I'm sure you've talked to Johnny, they had a great relationship and, you know,
23:13Johnny enjoyed his company all through that year. Brilliant, brilliant guy. And so sad.
23:18Okay. Listen, Jock, thank you very much. And as you say, uh, all love to, uh, and, uh,
23:23uh, commiserations to, uh, uh, Alex Zanardi's, uh, family, right? Uh, we've got another three
23:29teams to do. So, uh, might have to squeeze it in as quick as I can, but let's do Audi
23:34first
23:34and, uh, Niko Hulkenberg 11th. Gabriel Bortoletto was 22nd. Great job by the team to get Niko Hulkenberg
23:41out. He was P12 in Q1 and then P11 in Q2, beat Liam Lawson by six hundredths of a second.
23:48It's a great recovery
23:49from that. But a strange thing with Gabriel Bortoletto, they had to understand what was up
23:53with the engine air intake, which had meant that he was disqualified from the, uh, sprint race by
23:57exceeding it, uh, exceeding the air engine air intake pressure. Once they had, they could put the engine
24:02back on his car, which wasn't there for the start of qualifying, amazingly bolt it on and get him out
24:07for one lap. It didn't do much because he was only 22nd and a second or two off the pace.
24:13Alpine on the
24:14other side, Pete, just at the end on this side. Well done. Uh, Gasly P10, great performance from
24:20Franco Colopinto P8, both into Q3. Again, Franco ahead of Gasly in Q2 by a tenth and two tenths
24:27after the first runs in Q3. Ended up one tenth ahead, but two places with Isaac Hadjar in between.
24:35So well done. We watch out for a lovely piece that we've done with Franco Colopinto following him
24:39around his hometown in a big show run he did in Buenos Aires, uh, last week in the race show
24:44tomorrow.
24:45And Cadillac finally, Valtteri Bottas P20 and Sergio Perez 21, as they continue to try and manage the
24:53temperatures which are slowing them down a little bit on their car. Right, that's it for us. Thanks
24:57very much for watching. Have a good night and join us tomorrow at 7pm for a 9pm Miami Grand Prix.
25:04Wet or dry,
25:05can't wait for it. Thanks very much for watching today. Bye for now.
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