if his private testing and sim times were competitive he would get a seat. Not only in F1 but maybe in Indy. Drugo just did an Indy test and wowed them and will have options. Where as Theo is actively looking for a seat there and there is little interest
I mean there’s very little that can be done, there’s only 10 teams on the grid and drivers don’t get killed or badly injured like they used to do, thus driver turnover is incredibly low now
@@NmorenI think it's less of driver's getting injured/killed and more that driver's stay in the sport for way longer. Looks like most of the grid wants to stay in their late 30s (Max I think only exception) and if they start with 18-20 they are in the sport for 20 years. That's just too long when there are only 20 seats to get lots of rookies in.
Counter point: Mick Schumacher. Bottas is a 10 times race winner and thanks to that Sauber car, people are now doubting his abilities. The younger drivers should not get into such a bad car cause it will only taint their career.
I think the main reason Bottas doesn't have a contract yet is because I'm pretty sure he simply doesn't want single year contracts after how he was treated at Mercedes. Can't really blame him for that, but it might cost him his seat.
Yes, sure he's not too keen to sign for just one year to drive that wheelie bin only to be replaced when Audi and the new regs arrive. But ultimately he may have no choice but that.
it's just the german press trying to fish for clicks. Mick has never been the number 1 choice for Audi. literally every article in german media about the F1 driver market somehow ends with "and how does this influence Mick Schumacher?" as if he was the only driver looking for a seat.
The sprint races should be contested by reserve/youth/developement drivers. The points for those races should still go towards the constructors championship
problem with that is that if your rookie bins the car your're pretty much fucked for the qualifying... nevermind the fact that they'd have to run on a car set up for someone else. Not a great idea tbh
@@Byakku97 it can be made to be a great idea. Include accomodations in the cost cap for a third car. Stipulate that everyone participating should either have been in an F1 practice session or F2 over the past year.
@@AlMiGa its still too much risk for the teams... You are asking teams to let rookies race the cars to the limits when you are less than 24 hours away from Qualifying. Even with accomodations it'sba recipe for disaster going into turn one to have then to haul ass fixing the car. Mid table teams specially would be affected because they don't have room to fuck around. If an alpine or a Haas had a set of upgrades going into a weekend and we're in contention for points a wreck from a rookie would bin the whole weekend. Goodbye upgrades, qualifying pace, sprint pints and race, the whole weekend gone up in smoke.
@@AlMiGa What do you mean rot? there is no "problem" with the path to being an F1 driver nowadays. the problem isnt that young people dont have chances to show themselves, the problem is on the other side: teams just keeping ancient drivers well past their 40's for no fucking reason and drivers that stay in F1 because of money... the moment we got a bit of a daring transfer window we instantly got like 4 rookies coming in next year. We got doohan, Kimi, Ollie and Lawson with a chance of either Franco or Bortoleto getting a seat as well. The problem is not that rookie drivers dont get a chance to show themselves its the teams ignoring them to favor the sponsor or marketing dollars from grandads who should be on a retirement home or drivers who are complete ass but they own the team.
Bortoleto winning F3 as a rookie and potentially winning F2 as a rookie, just as Charles, Piastri and so many others... and he still has to prove himself? LMAO
Exactly, I also think their point about Colapinto would easily be able to be loaned but Bortoleto not being able to doesn't make sense. Why wouldn't Mclaren who have Oscar signed till 2026 and Lando 2027 not loan Bortoleto to Sauber for 2 years and let him develop there and then if Oscar leaves for 2027, give Bortoleto his seat. It's much easier for Mclaren to do this then to ship him off to Indy and let him develop in a different style of car.
I mean Matt and Tom aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed just like most F1 teams they hold this mental arrogance and bias towards anyone who has driven atleast once in F1 compared to proven winners in F2/F3
Great F3-F2 drivers are not always good in F1... Colapinto has an advantage because he has already proven his worth in F1. That is worth more than championships won in F3 or 2.
@@unikeness8692 Great F3-F2 drivers are not always good in F1... Colapinto has an advantage because he has already proven his worth in F1. That is worth more than championships won in F3 or 2.
@@danielcalero3929 only three drivers have won both F2 and F3 in their rookie seasons back to back and all three are top drivers in F1. LeClerc, Piastri, Russell. Bortoleto could be on that list as well by the end of this year. If you would genuinely take a driver who did good over a few F1 races over someone who has done amazingly and won back to back championships then it shows you’d rather go safe than go ballsy. Sauber/Audi need to go ballsy if they have any intention of being a top team. They have experience in Hulkenberg. Now they need a winner in Bortoleto.
Atleast untill then in COTA it's still we have Motogp and it also in crazy title fight again like always but in thoes races in Indonesia and Japan and Australia in my time is early in the morning lol
6:14 Sauber will be terrible in 2025, so you don’t risk points by tossing in a junior who then has a full season to prepare for 2026. It’s both rational & good for the sport.
@@fakee7744 But they already have an experienced driver in Hulkenburg and I don't see why they need another one, it just seems like such a cowardly decision.
@@lukew6725 Well I'd say having two is better than having one. I don't know how much more value does it provide, but it's clearly better than having just one. And I agree it's a cowardly decision, but I think that might be what Audi wants. From what I've heard the Sauber is in much worse state than they thought, so going for a "cowardly", I would probably say safer, option makes kinda sense for them.
Franco I think would do good with another year of F2, he’s F1 material for sure but he has a chance of being on the sidelines completely if he doesn’t get the Sauber seat and I know for a fact MP would take him back in a heartbeat, just so he can be racing competitively instead of being out of a seat completely
@@definitely_not_nick41yeah but James don't seems to like the idea, he thinks it would be better for him as a reserve doing work in the sim and testing older cars to potencially get a seat in 2026
No such thing as "not wanting an F1 seat". If you're offered it, you take it, unless there is a Piastri-Alpine situation of the possibility of a better seat.
Randomly the driver I believe was on the scene at the wrong time to get a seat was Callum Ilott, seemed like a great talent but never got a chance to get a seat
My (chaos) wish list : 1. I want Colapinto to do extremely well for the rest of the season. 2. I want the remaining seat to go to Bottas. 3. Some driver chokes mid season in 2025 and then Colapinto finally gets his chance. Why? It will make for a great story!
I think they should change F2, so if a driver wins the championship then they can race the next year but they have to change F2 teams. And limit championship wins to two not one before someone leaves. So if the F1 team wants to avoid losing an F2 driver they have to make a decision to offer them something after their first championship win. And if they don't act the driver has another chance with a different team.
There needs to be a spec team which can have 1 part from each team funded by F1. This team takes two drivers from F2 each year. The winner and runner up. They have a 1 year contract only. After that they are automatically released and the next two are promoted. If the winner or runner up have seats already, you take 3rd and 4th etc. Everyone gets a year to impress who enjoys it.
@@matfoster5938 there are multiple, but the most recent article about it is from Fernando Romero Nuñez posted on October 1. Vowles confirms that he's in talks with Sauber to loan Colapinto out for 2025. You can find it on the website of the Buenos Aires Herald.
with the backlog of F2 champs waiting in the wings for F1 drives, FIA just needs to get rid of the rule where the F2 champ can no longer race in F2. Then you’d see all these young f2 champs going at it over and over again until we saw some true talent rise above the rest
Colapinto proved himself. Do a lawson and give the team fomo (and a clause in your contract). Albon or sainz will eventually move over and there you are... maybe? Better than being lost at sauber
It almost seems like it would be good to have another championship in-between f1 and f2 with all this new talent that has nowhere to go. Maybe using the f1 championship winning car from the previous regulations as the spec car for the series
I don't have the solution but adding a category will just shift the problem... And absolutely no team will be willing to give up a car that serve as base for the current one!
@@WanSking thats why i said previous regulations hell could even go back a couple of regulations just to make sure. But yh might not fix the problem was just an idea to help with the issue of f2 drives sitting out completely waiting on an f1 seat
unlikely is the point here. Mick was never Audi's favorite candidate, even though the german press is working overtime to make it look like that. they should give the seat to Franco Colapinto anyway so it's all good
When they were teammates, Hulk was beaten by Ricciardo. This seems to no longer be the case but RIC is a safe pair of hand still. We saw with Ric's Monza win that he has something extra when he sniffs out a podium or win. With Hulk, there have been too few opportunities to really judge him in that respect. He looks amazing at taking the 6th car to 7th place where it shouldn't be in modern F1 with zero DNFs and safetycars.
Thank you Matt and Tommy for keeping it real. As much as the opportunity of having an Argentine driver in F1 thrills me, and fills my head with unreal exciting expectations, you are right to give Franco a 50-60% chance. I agree that going to Sauber will be a waste, so I rather Williams keep him sidelined unless another good team, even Red Bull gives him a chance now, but I just don't see it. By the way, you can thank Colapinto for me finding you, and subscribing, on TH-cam. Congrats on 500K intelligent (if I may) subscribers.
It’s always fascinating how much luck plays a role in the driver market. You miss out on a drive two years in a row and it’s basically never going to happen. Andretti, anyone??
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To be fair the place should go to Pourchaire. He's still only 21 (20 August 2003), he's being punished for going to young to F2, just like Kimi Antonelli. He was 19/20 when won the F2 title, on his first season he was only 17. He deserves a chance on F1, he didn't did bad in Indycar.
Zhou is chinese, and Audi might wana sell some cars in China. Argentina is not an interesting market for Audi at the moment. Money rules the world sadly
With his backing, Colapinto might need to do a road+street course Indycar campaign. Similar to Pourchaire, but with funding as the cherry on top. Teams would see him race more, and they know he takes really well to F1. We see how early Indycar seasons end. COL might well get 6 or 8 final F1 races again in 2025.
They should introduce a rule that would go something like "the F2 champion has to drive in F1 the year after, if no team takes him, the team that was last in the WCC has to" or something man its cruel
I hope Colapinto gets it as hes done amazingly well so far. If he does, then there will be a quarter of the grid lining up to start their first fill season at Bahrain next year.
I hope Audi looks at all the accelling rookies and gives the seat to Teddy. Dudes been through the ringer this year and it'd be nice to see him catch a W.
Being a reserve driver and F2 champ and having zero chance at a drive is exactly what's wrong with current F1
Yep. Seems like F1's current restriction is very strict at the moment.
if his private testing and sim times were competitive he would get a seat. Not only in F1 but maybe in Indy. Drugo just did an Indy test and wowed them and will have options. Where as Theo is actively looking for a seat there and there is little interest
I mean there’s very little that can be done, there’s only 10 teams on the grid and drivers don’t get killed or badly injured like they used to do, thus driver turnover is incredibly low now
@@NmorenI think it's less of driver's getting injured/killed and more that driver's stay in the sport for way longer. Looks like most of the grid wants to stay in their late 30s (Max I think only exception) and if they start with 18-20 they are in the sport for 20 years. That's just too long when there are only 20 seats to get lots of rookies in.
@@batandy23that’s the thing, not many of these guys want to go the Indy route.
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I think 2025 F1 Driver Lineup looked absolutely stacked.
RPM beat them there dispite not posting any vids.
RPM still beat them
Who gets the seat? Probably Bottas. Who i want to get a seat? Colapinto. He deserves a chance.
One thing is true about F1. It's better to drive a terrible car than no car at all. If you doubt it, ask Pouchaire or Drugovich
Didn't Piastri had to wait a whole year to get a seat?
@@konradbrodniewski6892 Yep
Counter point: Mick Schumacher.
Bottas is a 10 times race winner and thanks to that Sauber car, people are now doubting his abilities. The younger drivers should not get into such a bad car cause it will only taint their career.
Or illott or shwarstman.
I think the main reason Bottas doesn't have a contract yet is because I'm pretty sure he simply doesn't want single year contracts after how he was treated at Mercedes. Can't really blame him for that, but it might cost him his seat.
Yes, sure he's not too keen to sign for just one year to drive that wheelie bin only to be replaced when Audi and the new regs arrive. But ultimately he may have no choice but that.
Bottas is old and not a former World Champion, expecting multi-year deals at this point is ridiculous.
@@bipolarminddroppingswhilst true, isn't bottas statistically the 4th best driver on the grid? Only lewis, Max and fernando have a better resume
I'm surprised you guys mentioned Pourchaire. I've heard more about Schumacher than Pourchaire in the media.
which is so sad. Because hes as good of an F1 prospect as u can get
Look up Binotto's take on MSC and you will see why he is not here...
@@MO-rl9glPourchaire may got an F1 seat in probably 2029.
it's just the german press trying to fish for clicks. Mick has never been the number 1 choice for Audi. literally every article in german media about the F1 driver market somehow ends with "and how does this influence Mick Schumacher?" as if he was the only driver looking for a seat.
@@LathropLdST Care to elaborate?
The sprint races should be contested by reserve/youth/developement drivers. The points for those races should still go towards the constructors championship
problem with that is that if your rookie bins the car your're pretty much fucked for the qualifying... nevermind the fact that they'd have to run on a car set up for someone else. Not a great idea tbh
@@Byakku97 it can be made to be a great idea. Include accomodations in the cost cap for a third car. Stipulate that everyone participating should either have been in an F1 practice session or F2 over the past year.
@@AlMiGa its still too much risk for the teams... You are asking teams to let rookies race the cars to the limits when you are less than 24 hours away from Qualifying. Even with accomodations it'sba recipe for disaster going into turn one to have then to haul ass fixing the car. Mid table teams specially would be affected because they don't have room to fuck around. If an alpine or a Haas had a set of upgrades going into a weekend and we're in contention for points a wreck from a rookie would bin the whole weekend. Goodbye upgrades, qualifying pace, sprint pints and race, the whole weekend gone up in smoke.
@@Byakku97 so we just leave good young driver to rot then? People are quick to shoot down ideas without thinking of solutions
@@AlMiGa What do you mean rot? there is no "problem" with the path to being an F1 driver nowadays. the problem isnt that young people dont have chances to show themselves, the problem is on the other side: teams just keeping ancient drivers well past their 40's for no fucking reason and drivers that stay in F1 because of money... the moment we got a bit of a daring transfer window we instantly got like 4 rookies coming in next year. We got doohan, Kimi, Ollie and Lawson with a chance of either Franco or Bortoleto getting a seat as well. The problem is not that rookie drivers dont get a chance to show themselves its the teams ignoring them to favor the sponsor or marketing dollars from grandads who should be on a retirement home or drivers who are complete ass but they own the team.
I´d like to see all the rookies together in the grid next year, Kimi, Ollie, Doohan, Lawson, Colapinto, we need refreshing F1
just imagine: 1/5th or 1/4th of the grid new kids on the block (depending on that last seat...) that's 20-25%.. I say whoopwhoop to that
Bortoleto winning F3 as a rookie and potentially winning F2 as a rookie, just as Charles, Piastri and so many others... and he still has to prove himself? LMAO
Exactly, I also think their point about Colapinto would easily be able to be loaned but Bortoleto not being able to doesn't make sense. Why wouldn't Mclaren who have Oscar signed till 2026 and Lando 2027 not loan Bortoleto to Sauber for 2 years and let him develop there and then if Oscar leaves for 2027, give Bortoleto his seat. It's much easier for Mclaren to do this then to ship him off to Indy and let him develop in a different style of car.
I mean Matt and Tom aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed just like most F1 teams they hold this mental arrogance and bias towards anyone who has driven atleast once in F1 compared to proven winners in F2/F3
Great F3-F2 drivers are not always good in F1... Colapinto has an advantage because he has already proven his worth in F1. That is worth more than championships won in F3 or 2.
@@unikeness8692 Great F3-F2 drivers are not always good in F1... Colapinto has an advantage because he has already proven his worth in F1. That is worth more than championships won in F3 or 2.
@@danielcalero3929 only three drivers have won both F2 and F3 in their rookie seasons back to back and all three are top drivers in F1. LeClerc, Piastri, Russell. Bortoleto could be on that list as well by the end of this year. If you would genuinely take a driver who did good over a few F1 races over someone who has done amazingly and won back to back championships then it shows you’d rather go safe than go ballsy. Sauber/Audi need to go ballsy if they have any intention of being a top team. They have experience in Hulkenberg. Now they need a winner in Bortoleto.
I am not surviving the break 😢
Well there's another 3 week break after these races
Sad@@Alucard-gt1zf
I feel like I'm already dying, at least we got some copium from Matt and Tommy. That makes the pain bearable.😅😅😅
Atleast untill then in COTA it's still we have Motogp and it also in crazy title fight again like always but in thoes races in Indonesia and Japan and Australia in my time is early in the morning lol
Darwinism
Clearly Gutiérrez is their man to complete the 2013 reunion.
Nah... Felipe Nasr 😄
6:14 Sauber will be terrible in 2025, so you don’t risk points by tossing in a junior who then has a full season to prepare for 2026. It’s both rational & good for the sport.
I agree, on the other hand you are loosing the experience of an experienced F1 driver that you can use to develop the car for next seasons.
@@fakee7744 But they already have an experienced driver in Hulkenburg and I don't see why they need another one, it just seems like such a cowardly decision.
@@lukew6725 Well I'd say having two is better than having one. I don't know how much more value does it provide, but it's clearly better than having just one.
And I agree it's a cowardly decision, but I think that might be what Audi wants. From what I've heard the Sauber is in much worse state than they thought, so going for a "cowardly", I would probably say safer, option makes kinda sense for them.
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Theo pourchaire is like Mick Schumacher, everyone puts him in but nobody really thinks he will have a chance
Poor Poor chair..
Mick had his chance wtf
@@panlama6669 yeah but people still think he deserves a seat in f1
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Bottas is most likely. Followed by Colapinto, Bortoleto, Pourchaire, Zhou in this order imo
Drop Bottas to make way for Bortoleto/Colapinto.
Franco I think would do good with another year of F2, he’s F1 material for sure but he has a chance of being on the sidelines completely if he doesn’t get the Sauber seat and I know for a fact MP would take him back in a heartbeat, just so he can be racing competitively instead of being out of a seat completely
@@definitely_not_nick41yeah but James don't seems to like the idea, he thinks it would be better for him as a reserve doing work in the sim and testing older cars to potencially get a seat in 2026
No such thing as "not wanting an F1 seat". If you're offered it, you take it, unless there is a Piastri-Alpine situation of the possibility of a better seat.
Randomly the driver I believe was on the scene at the wrong time to get a seat was Callum Ilott, seemed like a great talent but never got a chance to get a seat
It's a hard time having a longer break than the first break after only a handful of races
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My (chaos) wish list :
1. I want Colapinto to do extremely well for the rest of the season.
2. I want the remaining seat to go to Bottas.
3. Some driver chokes mid season in 2025 and then Colapinto finally gets his chance.
Why? It will make for a great story!
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I think they should change F2, so if a driver wins the championship then they can race the next year but they have to change F2 teams. And limit championship wins to two not one before someone leaves.
So if the F1 team wants to avoid losing an F2 driver they have to make a decision to offer them something after their first championship win. And if they don't act the driver has another chance with a different team.
that's interesting thought!
There needs to be a spec team which can have 1 part from each team funded by F1. This team takes two drivers from F2 each year. The winner and runner up. They have a 1 year contract only. After that they are automatically released and the next two are promoted. If the winner or runner up have seats already, you take 3rd and 4th etc. Everyone gets a year to impress who enjoys it.
Colapinto with KICK SAUBER alongside Hulkenberg could be a nice choice.
Anyone feel like their ratings should add up to 10? 5/10 means a 50% chance, 9/10 means a 90% chance etc
that's what it means though
Yeah, makes the ratings pretty meaningless. Tommy gave out 26 points out of 10, for example.
Yes it's the only sensible way of doing probabilities.
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Please be colapinto please
He deserves it
I want him next to sainz so bad
Nah he deserves a better team@@zombiekilla25979
Colapinto deserves a better team. Sauber is slow as hell. It's not even an f1 car. They're currently f1.5 now
its to set up for audi
Discussions like these are great arguments for why F1 needs more teams on the grid.
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I'm betting that the team will gov for Colapinto over Bottas. They already have a good veteran driver in Hulkenberg.
The intro are getting better and better =D
- Bottas
- Pourchaire
- Mick Schumacher
- Colapinto
- Bortoleto
Mick is hot garbage let's be real
Switch mick and calapinto. Mick struggled from the get-go, calapinto hasn't
@@FrayedACCL this is a list, not a ranking
Colapinto needs a seat. Dude is a future star.
His performance so far has been very impressive. I hope he keeps that up.
He deserves a seat, however Pourchaire was far more dominant in F2.
It’s so gonna be so sad now if we lose 2 legends of the sport at the end of season
(Riccardo and Bottas)
10:04 You've not been watching the news. Vowles has already offered Colapinto to Sauber for next year, there'd be no "dragging" involved.
source?
@@matfoster5938 there are multiple, but the most recent article about it is from Fernando Romero Nuñez posted on October 1. Vowles confirms that he's in talks with Sauber to loan Colapinto out for 2025. You can find it on the website of the Buenos Aires Herald.
Here after the bortoleto news for research.
Do we need to see Bottas in the Sauber again? Perhaps a new driver should get a chance.
Oh and no more Autumn breaks ever. I do think you guy's were right. They had a planned race fall through.
with the backlog of F2 champs waiting in the wings for F1 drives, FIA just needs to get rid of the rule where the F2 champ can no longer race in F2.
Then you’d see all these young f2 champs going at it over and over again until we saw some true talent rise above the rest
All drivers should be limited to 4 seasons on F2 including the champions.
Colapinto proved himself. Do a lawson and give the team fomo (and a clause in your contract). Albon or sainz will eventually move over and there you are... maybe? Better than being lost at sauber
It almost seems like it would be good to have another championship in-between f1 and f2 with all this new talent that has nowhere to go. Maybe using the f1 championship winning car from the previous regulations as the spec car for the series
I don't have the solution but adding a category will just shift the problem...
And absolutely no team will be willing to give up a car that serve as base for the current one!
@@WanSking thats why i said previous regulations hell could even go back a couple of regulations just to make sure. But yh might not fix the problem was just an idea to help with the issue of f2 drives sitting out completely waiting on an f1 seat
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Francolapinto.
He's proved himself in F1 already. Give him a full shot!
crazy how sauber has more option than sainz had for a team 😂
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My ratings
Zhou Guanyu: 2
Gabriel Bortoletto: 3
Theo Pouchaire: 4
Franco Colapinto: 6
Valterri Bottas: 9
The smart move is Bottas. They need two experienced drivers who know how to give actionable feedback to help quickly develop their car
An unlikely candidate is mick schumacher since audi might want a german lineup
I think they are happy with having just one German
unlikely is the point here. Mick was never Audi's favorite candidate, even though the german press is working overtime to make it look like that. they should give the seat to Franco Colapinto anyway so it's all good
Welcome to f1 Bortoleto it's been confirmed
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Bortoleto!!
When they were teammates, Hulk was beaten by Ricciardo. This seems to no longer be the case but RIC is a safe pair of hand still.
We saw with Ric's Monza win that he has something extra when he sniffs out a podium or win. With Hulk, there have been too few opportunities to really judge him in that respect. He looks amazing at taking the 6th car to 7th place where it shouldn't be in modern F1 with zero DNFs and safetycars.
I'm just here now for the unhinged openers
I think they'll go with Bottas with Bortoleto as the reserve driver. They don't want drivers on loan and Williams surely won't hand them Colapinto.
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Tommy.EXE mafunctioned near the end 😂
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Top video as always
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Back in the 60s teams used to field 3 cars, that would be interesting - however you would need to revise the point scoring.
Thank you Matt and Tommy for keeping it real. As much as the opportunity of having an Argentine driver in F1 thrills me, and fills my head with unreal exciting expectations, you are right to give Franco a 50-60% chance. I agree that going to Sauber will be a waste, so I rather Williams keep him sidelined unless another good team, even Red Bull gives him a chance now, but I just don't see it. By the way, you can thank Colapinto for me finding you, and subscribing, on TH-cam. Congrats on 500K intelligent (if I may) subscribers.
I'm here for the opening puns
It’s always fascinating how much luck plays a role in the driver market. You miss out on a drive two years in a row and it’s basically never going to happen. Andretti, anyone??
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Wow 500K in just under 2 years is amazing. Congrats 🎉🎉
they had a bit of a headstart 😅 I think they had 3 mil on the old channel
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To be fair the place should go to Pourchaire. He's still only 21 (20 August 2003), he's being punished for going to young to F2, just like Kimi Antonelli. He was 19/20 when won the F2 title, on his first season he was only 17. He deserves a chance on F1, he didn't did bad in Indycar.
Bottas, Bottas, Bottas or... Bottas
The fact that Tommy laughed at the fact they were talking about Checo again is wild it's like an itch for them to talk shit lol
For me, either Gabriel Bortoleto or Franco Colapinto...
Might be Colapinto. Colapinto performed incredibly on his first 4 races at Williams.
it has to be Colapinto. Bortoleto is a good driver and all but F1 experience > F2 results
@@NeonColoredBortoleto was ahead before Franco got the call up, just saying
Matt putting zhou above pourchaire is crazy.
Zhou is chinese, and Audi might wana sell some cars in China. Argentina is not an interesting market for Audi at the moment. Money rules the world sadly
Franco Colapinto
How is Tommy never prepared for the final thought? 😂 love it
4:05 Gabriel Bottleletto if he bins it a few times
Breaks no problem for me there’s lots of fine junior series racing.
Id love to see a podcast about the gap between F2 and F1, it seems huge, but I have to admit I dont know enough about F2.
what's that new catchphrase "keep pushing in the gym" lol
9 days without you guys posting, 14+ days without F1, I aint gonna make it 😭
0:35 unless he does really BAD and they bring Colapinto in
Mika Hakken will come back from sabbatical!
With his backing, Colapinto might need to do a road+street course Indycar campaign. Similar to Pourchaire, but with funding as the cherry on top. Teams would see him race more, and they know he takes really well to F1. We see how early Indycar seasons end. COL might well get 6 or 8 final F1 races again in 2025.
500k! Whooooo!
Pourchaire or Colapinto leaning on Pourchaire please.
They should introduce a rule that would go something like "the F2 champion has to drive in F1 the year after, if no team takes him, the team that was last in the WCC has to" or something man its cruel
listened to this on spotify, came for tommys final thoughts
This weird sequence of brakes is killing me
Wasn't James saying he was asking Stake about getting him a seat?
Congrats on 500 000 :)
I hope Colapinto gets it as hes done amazingly well so far. If he does, then there will be a quarter of the grid lining up to start their first fill season at Bahrain next year.
Thanks for keeping F1 alive, when they choose to flat line. Best F1 show, on any media 👏👍😀
I hope Audi looks at all the accelling rookies and gives the seat to Teddy. Dudes been through the ringer this year and it'd be nice to see him catch a W.
felipe “f2’s forgotten champ” drugovich
Bruh Pourchaire?
I reckon it could/should be Franco Colapinto
Its 85 percent likely we got Colapinto in a fulltime seat in next year. If not, might be 2026.