The 2025 F1 British Grand Prix WINNERS & LOSERS

Silverstone 2025 delivered a British Grand Prix which saw Oscar Piastri lose big whilst Lando Norris picked up the pieces.

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Relive all the biggest moments of this race, such as Nico Hulkenberg finally earning his first F1 podium in his 15 year career and ending Sauber’s 13-year drought in style! Lando Norris sent the home crowd wild with a faultless drive, while Alpine and Aston Martin delivered much-needed points to counter Sauber’s surge in recent races…scoring MORE than Red Bull. Alex Albon also kept Williams in the hunt when Carlos Sainz fell to Charles Leclerc’s damage.

Not everyone left Silverstone smiling though. Oscar Piastri’s bid for victory ended with a harsh penalty and Max Verstappen saw Red Bull’s low downforce punt unravel in the rain…but WHO ELSE won, lost and meh’d their way this weekend?

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00:00 The Winners
08:59 The Meh
10:52 The Losers

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2025 British Grand Prix: The WINNERS & LOSERS
The 2025 F1 British Grand Prix WINNERS & LOSERS

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I’m okay. I swear I’m I I am okay. But you know who I don’t think is okay right now? One Mark Weber. Come on. There’s plenty to celebrate, right? Because one man finally got a podium. Salut never planned to gamble. Ironically, considering their title sponsor, but Rain meant they had nothing to lose from 19th. Yet another burn from the Stern campaign for Nico after his efforts in Austria, which also got him points. Then he was poised to pit in at the right time for mediums. He alongside Lance Stroll rocketing up the order from right at the back and then people just going, “Where did he come from?” But given the last few races, should we really be that surprised? And then for all of those tense laps, we were just waiting for the moment, the inevitable that Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari would come and spoil the show. And it just proved that Spain wasn’t a fluke. Nico Hulenberg in a Salva beat Lewis Hamilton in a Ferrari again. And so after 239 starts, the best driver without a podium has finally got a podium to his name and ended Salva’s drought of podiums after 13 years and the last time that was in Japan with Kamui Kobayashi. I bet Valkas right now is absolutely sthing. And Nico going one better than his previous best result with Salva back in 2013 in Korea. And I just think this is fantastic news for Formula 1 in of itself. And look where SA is right now. They’ve scored 35 points in the last four races. Still more than Red Bull. And they’ve now find themselves sixth place in the constructors quite handily and closing in on Williams. And I think they could possibly do it if Gabrielle has a clean weekend because you unfortunately he did lose out. But he was a very good sport about it. Getting in close with Nico, congratulating him on the radio. You really sense that those two are going to be really solid teammates in the years to come. That Nico’s just happy to be there. Now he’s got a podium. He’s even more happy to be there. No problems, no dramas, no miscommunications. And also that gesture from Mercedes sending a care package Nico’s way. A that was lovely of them to do, but it’s so telegraphed to me. Yeah, sorry for not signing you in 2013, but you know, Lewis. And then we of course got to move on to the race winner, Lando Norris. Even though the first half of the race looked like his teammate was going to run away with it, Lando stuck at it regardless. For Lando, qualifying third, the task was simple. Since Vstappen was compromised with running a very, very skinny rear wing, he was going to overtake him eventually. So, just get that out of the way and then hound Pastri as best he could. The penalty came along, the order reshuffled, and there you go. What’s also going to bolster Norris’s confidence, something fierce, is that in the pursuit of getting past Max, it was he that forced Max into an error. like how Oscar forced Max to do an error around Miami. And then Miami comes back into the equation again because Norris also demonstrated something I noticed at that race weekend which was really impressive during that transition period when it was going from damp to somewhat dry line. Lando was simply that little bit quicker than Oscar slowly bringing down the gap or ensuring that Oscar couldn’t get that 10-second gap required to overcome the penalty. And don’t worry, I will get to that section later on in the video. So do keep watching. Okay. And what was better is that the Lando stand that many people mocked and derided and thought was going to be a bloodbath if he lost turned out to be the absolute best place to be where Norris would wave at it at any opportunity and their man won. It was all absolute gravy for them. And although some people may say that really it was Pastri’s race to lose than Norris’s to win, as far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t matter. As I’ve said also many times, you’ve got to be in it to win it. And Lando was in it, and that’s what counts sometimes in Formula 1. And it now means Lando Norris has become the 13th British driver to win his home race. So, he’s joined a very illustrious gaggle of people. So, yeah, of course, enjoy this, Lando. You did nothing wrong. You were absolutely fine. And who also was fine was PA Gassley. Despite Alpine still being last in the constructors and Friday’s practice leaving them outside the top 10 on war pace, Gastley trusted the wet weather plan suggested by Enston engineers and it worked. And even though it ultimately didn’t become the most perfect of strategies, his tires were giving up the ghost toward the end of the race. He still had enough left in the tank to ultimately claim sixth place, which as far as I’m concerned is the absolute best that Alpine car can get right now, even in the rainy conditions. because eight points to their name, that’s effectively almost doubled their tally. And you might also argue, well, wait a minute, this isn’t the team’s home race. They’re French. Well, they won’t be French for much longer. So, as far as I’m concerned, this is their home race. And also, there isn’t a French Grand Prix at the moment, so they’ve also got to make do in that regard. And what was also really good for Pierre’s confidence at the moment since it might be a little bit precarious, unsure of the team’s future, is that for a brief period, he was able to hound Max Vappen. Even though it was just for a few laps, he didn’t let him get away too quickly, which in an Alpine is absolute gold dust. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the team gets a surprise visit from one of their major big fans. Maybe some crates of Hawkston Laga perhaps to celebrate this momentous occasion where Alpine scored something. And it was all down to massive aggression as we’ve seen in recent races which ultimately came up with nothing mixed with just nursing the tires in the right way to matter in some capacity at least more so than Aston Martin but be able to convert and this will do him the world of good in the eyes of Flavio Britorii as well. He’s now fulfilled one of the big rules that Flavia laid out. score some points and be fast. And especially cathartic since in practice the Argentinian was actually getting closer and closer to the Frenchman and sometimes even being quicker in said practice sessions. So this sixth place came at the absolute best time, absolute easy win. And then if you wanted proof that the upgrades from Aston Martin at IMLA worked ultimately this race was it similar conditions to Miami in terms of track conditions and unlike that particular race Aston could do something with their car. Sure, the cars lacked single lap bite, but thrived once strategy roulette began with Lance running in the podium places for a good long while because his particular stops resulted in him just catapulting up the order from 17th where we all thought he was just going to be languishing there whilst Fernando would be picking up the pieces. But instead, it was Fernando that came off the lesser of the two drivers with him being I think one of the earlier drivers to put in for slicks. In time, the Aston Martin’s inefficiencies came up to bite him and he did fall back to seventh with that last lap. I think last lap, but very near the end of the race, Gastly taking him for sixth. And as for Alonzo, yeah, he did the best he could. He still came away with, you know, a couple of points, which is not too shabby. It maintains his streak, but you do get the sense that he ultimately became the full guy that Aston Martin had to make do of the situation and make sure at least one of their cars scored. But hey, you know, other cars falling down the order meant that the Spaniards scored anyway. So, you know, double points finish at their home track, literally just across the road. Not too shabby. And yeah, okay, eight points on any other day would be a fantastic coup for the likes of Aston Martin. But considering that Sala scored 15, yeah, that that that this was the bare minimum. But hey, there was some achievements to be had because again, Lance going from 17th to an ultimate seventh. That’s still not bad. Credit where credit is due. and then Alex Albon. At one point it was Williams who were looking likely to net the double points finish, but sadly that failed to happen and the tie driver came in in eighth. As I said, Williams were looking likely that they were going to be getting some additional points as well with Carlos leading the charge. But as I will describe later on in the video, that wasn’t to be through external circumstances. But as I said with Stroll, Albon had to come from P14 to get up sixth places, which yeah, it’s not as monumental as Nico and the Sala, but it is still something to note that this was going to be probably a bad day in the office for Alex. And it turned out to be a pretty decent one and a welcome relief after three races on the bounce of not even finishing the race. And quite frankly, the team needed this, too, because they had not scored for a good long while. And now all of the people in the midfield are closing in behind them with Saaba only 17 points at the halfway point of the season. This could easily be surpassed if we see more reliability issues or SA kicking on even more. And you might be saying, well, wait a minute, Williams, they’re not chasing this year. Well, I think they got to try and make do with something with the extra prize money because when the ATR and wind tunnel time things reset, Williams lost a huge chunk of time. So, their pursuit of doing well in 2026 was heavily compromised. Now, Williams have got to try and make do of the situation and do whatever they can to secure P5 or at least P6. But, you know, points, they’re still welcome. It’s still a great season for them, but I think they might have to readjust their priorities for 2025 slightly because, well, they got nothing left to lose now. Just now try and get some extra moola. And then we get to the meh section. And Lewis Hamilton is the only meh driver. And okay, Lewis fans, I know your man’s podium streak ended at Silverston, but read the room. The wider F1 world is celebrating Nico’s achievement right now. So just just let the German have it. But needless to say, I’m pretty sure that right now finishing in fourth place after having Friday and Saturday look like he was going to be on for pole has resulted in him feeling a little bit hollow at the moment because according to him and the statistics that maybe if he had just come in one lap earlier, he might have had enough in the tank and in his tires to be able to overtake the German and get P3. However, the reason why I don’t put him as a loser for his podium streak at Silverston ending, it’s because out of the two Ferrari drivers, Lewis looked by far the most competent. That the updates to the SF25 are working. He’s feeling more confident that there were at times he could be setting the benchmarks only for McLaren as a passing, but he was still there in the thick of it in qualifying. And had it remained dry, that podium could have been on. But yes, I think he’d be ruining the day in that this was a car that was somewhat coming to him, even though he said in previous instances and interviews that he absolutely hates this Ferrari when it actually gets a little damp. Well, the Ferrari came to him. It was a pretty decent car. But unfortunately, the strategy was a little bit too cautious, but understandably so given what happened to his teammate where he was absolutely nowhere and looked one of the shoddiest drivers on the grid who actually finished the race. I mean, yeah, that that was gling for the Monogas, but for the Brit, I think he can score some brownie points with the team in that he could actually bring them some points. And somehow, even though Shaw crashed out so hard, Ferrari came away extending their lead in second place in the constructors. Yeah, for Lewis, there was some good things to be had here, but it wasn’t overly a great weekend. And now we get to the losers. Oh man, my boy. My poor boy. But yeah, okay, I got to be fair here, but Oh, it stung. When you look to the first half of the race before the second safety car, he was a class act. This is what probably makes it harder for him and Pastry fans. He was looking fast enough to win the race, maybe by over 30 seconds. He was pulling away that quickly, but alas, that wasn’t to be. It all came undone with him being a little bit too hard in terms of breaking and the stewards were paying attention. him becoming the safety car and the brake pressure according to the stewards being 59.2 PSI which is 29.2 more than what Russell did behind the safety car in Canada. But I think there was some differences in terms of the timing of the safety car whereas the safety car was pulling away Oscar became it and what have you. There were many semantics here and as Oscar said well I did the same thing I did the first time and I didn’t get noble for it so why should I get noble here? But needless to say like in Canada it did force Bstappen offline. He had to take evasive action and it did mean that he overshot him. I don’t think this was intentional by Pastri, unlike debatably with Russell in some circles of the internet, but the damage was done and he got a 10-second penalty. And unfortunately, Pastri just didn’t have enough left in the tank to be able to make that gap. And then, as we saw, Norris came back fighting. And sure, they didn’t overtake in the race itself, but Lando inherited the win. But it still was something that did cause a lot of debate, especially from Red Bullbacked people’s because David Kard in the Channel 4 coverage was actually saying that 10 seconds was way too harsh for the stewards and that it just seemed like a punishment that didn’t suit the crime because none of it was intentional. And what makes it even more interesting is that Max Fappen said the 10-second penalty was too extreme. And when you’re getting Max Vstappen going like, “Well, that’s a little harsh.” Well, then maybe there might be something to it. Yeah, legally speaking, there was just cause for a penalty of some description. The main issue here that’s going to come to light here is that there’s a lack of a clear definition or a yard stick, a specific amount of breaking that would count as erratic breaking. And also, I will get the foam of doubt out for this particular bit. Lando won the race ultimately. Oscar said there’s nothing he can do about it. You just got to move on to Spa and try and get somewhere before the summer break. you know, it’s all done now. There’s nothing more that either party can do. But I can’t imagine McLaren would have been fighting this case too hard, as in trying to get the punishment down to 5 seconds or something because had that been the case, Lando and Oscar would have been on top of each other. And that would have made McLaren all the more jittery about a one-two almost a photo finish and potentially them colliding because you got to look at that second half of the race. Oscar was driving angry. He was mad. even though he wasn’t telegraphing it. He even said so on the radio afterwards that he couldn’t say what he would want to say over the radio because he’d be getting in trouble. He might be banned for the rest of the year. Again, he’s not mad at Lando. Not at all. Like how Lando wasn’t mad at Oscar for the situation in Canada. They’re not blaming each other, which is very important to signify here. But again, you can imagine McLaren were probably not that bothered it was a 10-second penalty. It meant that there was a good distance between the two that they wouldn’t be a coming together. No drama. One, two, boom, sorted. The bug bears of last year fading into memory. And hey, for Pest Street, he’s still leading the championship at the very least. So, you know, just got to deal with it. And then alluding back to Max, in an unusual fashion, Red Bull trimmed drag for the straits, which was qualifying focus. They usually focus on race trim, as in, you know, they make do on Saturday and then concentrate on the race. And whilst it meant Max pulled off another surprise pole, the rain left this car toothless in the intermediate conditions. I mean, I’m not going to lie, he did very well remaining in the hunt for a podium, but that loss of downforce really bit, especially when he was battling Norris. He made that mistake out of Beckett and he was therefore sitting duck down the hanger straight. There wasn’t really much he could do. He just try and had to salvage P3 at the very least and see what would come to him. And then ultimately what did come to him was P5 after the particular incident behind the safety car and then Pastri. He was then left rattled a little bit. He then spun out of Stow. He fell back down to I think 10th or something and he had then had to get back up to P5 which by the way I predicted he would finish but I didn’t expect it would have come to him in that way. Well yeah the low downforce gamble didn’t pay off and it’s something I dabbled with in the F1 video games. Now where do you go in Silverstone? Do you either go for high downforce or do you go for low downforce but top speed down the straight? And also the upgrades that he brought for Austria which were meant to be the most optimal for Silverstone have not been enough to styy the flow where Max can at least mount some kind of fight back or limit the damage because Lando has pulled away from Versappen by 15 points and Oscar has pulled away from him even more. So he’s now 69 points behind the Australian. Not nice. And this should be a major red flag for the team that now even Max is not being able to get the most of that other car because these conditions are so ideal for the Dutchman. And he still wasn’t able to convert. Had he been able to get back to the podium after falling down to P10, that would have still been a huge triumph. But he was struggling. He didn’t really have much to say. He he felt the car was not working with him that it just simply wasn’t enough. Especially with Christian her, I think in some interviews he was saying the mirror of Max Vstappen was over. So, you know, he looked a bit down in the dumps whilst trying to remain a bit tripper. You know, it’s a bit precarious there. And then there is Mercedes because let’s be real, this was nothing like last year for this team where Lewis dragged the W15 to a fairy tale victory. A win was off the table. A podium could have been possible, but Toto Wolf instead called the day terribly wrong, and he was not exaggerating. One point for their trouble. Yikes. The fact that Russell was able to claw P10 after he was one of those people that came in on the formation lap to change onto tires. hard tires, by the way, which is a little weird considering they take the longest to get up to temperature and water is wet and known to sometimes most of the time be cold. That was a little bit of an unorthodox strategy, but there you go. At least he scored points unlike Charlair in the Ferrari. And then the team not long after that mirrored that decision because obviously Russell wasn’t suffering enough on Anteneelli. And then it turned even more disastrous because you put the rookie on the medium tires when it was clearly not slick tire conditions. And I know we all remember what Kimmy Antonelli was able to do in Albert Park in very treacherous conditions there and was able to get a really solid result in his debut race, but this is a very different circumstance and the car is in a bit of an uncertain position and Kimmy Anteneelli is going through a really bad streak at the moment. And also, you got to be fair to the rookies around here. Only Oliver Bearman finished the race and even he didn’t have a perfect weekend as we will describe in a moment. And then to top it all off, he tried to make up of the three places he’d already lost on the grid from his penalty in Austria. Hajar then slammed into the back of him. His diffuser got completely torn to shreds. So what kind of downforce can you get? I appreciate him from trying to continue to maybe make the most of even more retirements, but he ultimately had to retire the car because, well, he had no rear end on his wagon. And then Russell had very little to say either. He was looking odds on for a podium because he did qualify in fourth. It was a very respectable position for him to be in. He could have been on for fighting for P3 because he was right up there. But he took the gamble. It didn’t work out. Uh so yeah, George had to come away with a consolation point and that’s not where Toto and Mercedes want to be, especially if they’re trying to woo Max. And then speaking of Shaw, it happened again. Certainly didn’t help when water was getting into his helmet. So, I’ll let you finish that sentence yourself. So, yeah, like with Russell, Ferrari decided to box him in to try and make do with the situation that maybe the conditions would have come to the slick tires pretty soon and then it would have been a dry race. But, as we then know, it then started to rain even more. It bucketed it down for a period and therefore anyone on the slick tire was going to have a very nasty day in the office with only Russell, I think, out of that continued to even get anywhere near the top 10. But basically, this is what happened in 2024. The timing of changing onto these tires was extremely poor and it resulted in apart from Yuki Cenoda Charlotte being second to last in classified finishes and really not registering on the track at all. He was anonymous except for that tangle with the likes of Carlos Science later on in the race and then him completely cutting maggots and Beckets due to the fact that he lost the grip. It was just an absolute disastrous race. And to top it all off for the Manag, it was Lewis Hamilton, the guy he is fighting to try and change the course of Ferrari’s future this year and next. Charlotte Clay came up with nothing thanks to Ferrari strategy and then Lewis came away with 12 points and that means they are closing in on one another in the championship in the constructor’s means and that will be very important in where they go for 2026. They Charlotte Lewis are fighting for top banana status and it’s getting a very very tight folks and we’re going into the second half of the season. Even though Charlotte is winning the argument in continuing to develop this year’s car, that is something for him for this race. Oh no, this is not what Charles wanted at all. This is just the repeat of last year. And then some of you might be thinking, I’m about to defend Yuki Snoda to the hilt. Nah, I can’t I can’t defend the guy. Nah, that no that was bad. That that he just had nothing. He did qualify in an acceptable P1 though. The Japanese driver went backwards, though, despite the team’s assertions that they would do everything possible to make the car better suited to his knees. But when you look at even Max starting to have some issues, what does that bode for Yuki? Not much, seemingly. Oh, and then it was a scruffy race in of itself. He tagged Bman. He got a 10-second penalty. He got another penalty point. So, he’s now got three of those, which still pales in comparison to Max’s nine, but he is still racking them up in a desperate bid to try and at least score a singular point. Red Bull falling even further away in terms of trying to get anywhere near third place in the constructors they are very much slipping away because on both sets of tires be they wet or dry he just simply had nothing to give even though he was giving it his all left perplexed mystified stupified even the only way that these maladies have been dulled somewhat is that Max had a fair few of those as well that even he didn’t have plain sailing and it’s just becoming clear that Red Bull really need to do something drastic and it’s got nothing to do with the drivers What they need to do right now is just fire Pierre Vash and his team and get Joey Egggington in. He’s the guy that helped design the VCarb O2, the much more forgiving of the two cars. So, yeah, Pierre out, Joey in. And then Carlos Science. This was yet another weekend where he looked the stronger of the two Williams drivers on paper and in qualifying, but then ultimately finishing behind Albon through no fault of his own. He was the one who ran in P8 for a good long while and was keeping Max Vappen behind him for a long while to boot. A morale boosting scene for James in company, but that wasn’t to be until half spin meant that they came to blows. It damaged Carlos’s front wing and floor, which like in Miami compromised his pace. It meant that he fell down the order. He finished 12th, whereas his teammate was the one to inherit eighth place. And it was a really herculean effort considering this was the first race in a while he got out of Q1. He looked fairly solid. It looked like he was going to be the one leading the two home for a double point finish for Williams in their home race. I think the team were very much aware of this that this was through no fault of the Spaniards and that he did the best he could, but it was still not going to be boosting his morale up anytime soon and that he was capable of scoring points after many races where he wasn’t going to be scoring any, but then he still didn’t score any and it was just through nothing that he did. He did nothing wrong. It was his old teammate that compromised his race in an opportunity where it was really presenting itself to him. And it will really not help Williams because SA are closing in and the constructors, may I remind you. And then H. Pure pace was obvious with the cars updates. It looked like they were going to work because they brought four of them here. But the execution from team and drivers were woeful. Had Oliver not gotten that 10 place grid drop for doing something in practice under red flags again, this could have been easy points for him. Okon tried to stage some things of his own, but then he had a little bit of a situation where going out of turn four, there were three of breasts between Cenoda, Okon and Lawson. Lawson coming up short. Aon probably sustaining that little bit of damage, but then fortunately it being a racing incident, he got away from getting any means of penalty, so didn’t have to worry about that, but it was still a scruffy weekend for him. And then Bman got clipped by Cenoda, so that didn’t help. And then they both committed a cardinal sin. Bman and Aon took each other out. Surely they should be in the N section because an 11th and a 13th is not terrible, but there were 15 classified finishers. That meant that Okon still finished the third to last of the classified finishes. And Bman, it could have been so much more. That red flag incident compromised him again with a car that was coming back to him and that he was capable of getting into Q3 pretty easily actually. And then it was all undone by an intream scrap. They were trying to fight each other. It didn’t work out. Kamasu calling the race absolutely terrible. And that really shouldn’t be the case in terms of morale since these upgrades were looking kind of handy in the dry. Sorry house fans, it’s true. They blew it. But to be fair, in the dry conditions, at least Oliver finished the race and he has shown a little bit more progression from where he was back in Brazil last year where he looked like a complete fish out of water. And the same could easily be said for Gabrielle Bortletto here. Yeah, his weekend was peppered with incident and practice which proved to be correlated more than a skill issue fortunately. But he was hoping to outsmart the radar like he Russell and the clair in particular swapping to slicks early on. But when the rain returned, grip vanished, spin demolished his rear wing and that was that and the team will most likely pick up a fine for not telling him to park it immediately since we did see parts of said wing strewn around turn four. But one thing you can say about Gabrielle is that he is not a sore loser. Out of all of the people that were cheering Nico on to that podium for his team, I think Gabrielle was the most vocal, the most viciferous out of all of them, he confronted Nico after he got out the car, gave him a big bear hug. Some people even think they were kissing. I I doubt it, but I also don’t fully dismiss it. Those two are going to be absolute wonderful teammates when Audi becomes Audi. And I’m really thinking they could be pretty good next year if they can get the power unit down pat because this car progression and the team’s progression is absolutely miraculous. They’re absolute unit. And it really helps that Gabrielle, despite his own misfortunes, had plenty of time in his post- race interviews to say that Nico was the best teammate he ever had in his entire career. And I’m pretty sure that Nico reflects those sentiments as well. They get on like a house on fire. But nevertheless, I still call Bortalto a loser because he did attempt to try and do the formation lap slick tired jobby. It didn’t work out for him. I’ll go easy on him since he is a rookie. You know, it was bound to happen. Same could be said for the racing balls because the downside of running two rookies. It became evident here. Lawson’s efforts were halted from 16th when Okcon squeezed him on lap one, sent him into the barrier, then that triggered the virtual safety car and event Wishbone. And then, of course, Hajar running slicks, which you now know as the wrong call. He speared into Antonelli in the spray, wrecking the car even more than Lawson. And now they’ve fallen behind Sala. And it means that the work of Lawson, that P6 in Austria, converting that from P6 on the grid, that’s now a distant memory. You got to give them a little bit more of the benefit of the doubt because these conditions were all over the place. It was very hard to read for people that don’t have the experience because even Fernando got caught out in some shape or form. And then we wrap up with another rookie, Franco Colapinto. This was sad to see stalling in the pit lane before lights out thanks to a second drivetrain issue. The same thing which prevented him from getting out of Q1 in Spain, which I think he was bound to do. And probably what made it especially gling for the Argentinian is how competitive Gastley was in that car in these conditions and getting up to P6. There might have been a good chance for Franco to open up his bank account with a singular point or at least be in the hunt for it. considering that Beman and Okon had their own issues, Russell was not having a great time and Lance Stroll was falling rapidly down the grid. But maybe given the conditions and how all the other rookies were struggling out there, maybe Franco not starting the race was for the best. It might have ended up in another incident which might have garnered even more attention. I think Franco needs to gain some stock, make the most of the fact that he still has to sleep for the rest of the year. Even though Valkyrie Botas has confirmed via Finnish TV that he is in talks with Alpine, I think Franco just needs to regroup and see what he can do in Spa. But like I said with the other intakes for 2025, they found issue. So yeah, for a rookie wasn’t great. But what I didn’t find issue is with the hospitality of one of McLaren sponsors who treated me to a spot track site to watch qualifying unfold. To find out what it’s like to be part of a VIP experience from a ladder man’s point of view, watch this video next straight after this one.