F1Weekly Podcast # 1090

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Oscar Piastri wins his 50th Grand Prix with authority. Russell hangs on to second place despite electronic gremlins and Norris finally passes Leclerc for third. Max goes from ecstasy to agony! Our classic Nasir Hameed segment this week, his conversation with Tony Brooks.

Oscar:

Great to have this result out here. It’s been an incredible weekend, starting off with qualifying yesterday and, yeah, to finish the job today in style was nice. So, yeah, can’t thank the team enough for the car they’ve given us. It’s pretty handy out there. So no, it’s been a great weekend and, yeah, very proud of what I’ve done this weekend as well. Very proud to do it here in Bahrain as well. It’s obviously a very important race for us, given our owners, and it’s never been a track that’s been kind to us. So it’s nice to finally have that first win for the team.

Max:

“P6 was at least a positive result considering all the things that went wrong today. The start was not good, we struggled with tyre management all race, and I had no grip or pace on the hard tyres. During our pit-stops there was a problem with the lights which cost us a lot of time in the pits and put us back in to traffic. Unfortunately our second pitstop was worse than the first and at one point I was in last place. I enjoyed the fight at the end with Pierre and the overtake on the last lap, I tried to maximise our points until the very end. To finish P6 at the end was the best that we could do, this was not the weekend that we wanted but we have to keep on trying to improve. We are working on finding solutions and solving the issues we have at the moment to hopefully be more competitive in Jeddah.

Carlos:

A frustrating end to a promising race. After a nice start, I used up my Soft tyres battling hard and trying to keep within DRS of the faster cars around me. Once the Soft compound was done, we stopped and went back at it gaining positions with good overtakes. Unfortunately, the incident with Yuki cost us the race. The impact on my right hand sidepod caused major damage and that was it for me. Despite the end result, there are a lot of positives to take. We had good pace all weekend and could have been in the points today, so we’ll take it as it is and look at how we can come back stronger next week in Saudi. 

Nasir Hameed’s interview with Tony Brooks was another very memorable moment. Nasir simply loved what he was doing and this was reflected in the way the interviewee’s responded. Please enjoy another classic Nasir moment in time.

I want to thank Jason Bentley the Original “JB” for his kind words.