 Hello everyone and welcome on the Boston Internet of Spanish Formula 1 GP, the brief. Pretty cool Grand Prix. I've watched it before going for the first 12 at the Indianapolis 500 qualifying. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. A few bullet points I wanted to talk with you guys. So the first one, Mercedes. Mercedes is back. I've been saying that for quite a while. I've been saying that actually before. Was it in model Australia? I tell you one thing, they are preparing really hard on the background. They upgrade and the solution. I feel like they're going to be back in the game. They did struggle a little bit more than I thought they would. But eventually Mercedes is back with a decent car. It's not the best car yet. It's not a winning car yet. But they've sorted the bouncing problem. They were performing. Yes, George Russell is on the podium. P3 incredible race. But for me, the most impressive one was Lewis Hamilton. Contact with Magnussen at the beginning, puncture. 19th wants to retire the car. I think he's not going to do anything good. But with a higher tire degradation in Boston, they picked up the right strategy. They're at the pace. I think they had the fastest race time of everyone. Meaning that if they were at the front, they could have won the race. And that is good. That is exactly what we need. We need a Red Bull. We need a Ferrari. And we need Mercedes to fight together for a good championship. So Mercedes is back. They know that the bouncing issue is solved. I'm pretty sure they're going to bring up great to bring performance to the car rather than trying to fight that bouncing brilliant strategy. Did a good job again. As I said, George Russell, congrats, P3 amazing. But for me, the most impressive one was Lewis on that race. I believe it could have won it. So, you know, Monaco next week, Monaco is probably not going to be the best place for Mercedes. They normally historically struggle a bit there. But with the new car, who knows? But we're on for something pretty cool there. Ferrari, they had the race. They won the race. They had it. And then power unit failure or power unit issue. I don't know what it is, but that is normally Red Bull's problem. They lost the lead of the driver's championship. They lost the lead of the constrictor championship in one race. That is a shame for Charles. He was doing an incredible job. He had everything under control, but mechanical failure. That happens. But as I said, you don't want that too often because, you know, Red Bull is there. They're sorting their problems and they're fast. So, yeah, for Ferrari, that was a bad weekend on the corner of signs. Yeah, in the gravel, early in the race, that's no ideal. It's been quite a few now in a row. Good recovery after that, finishing fourth. But really, I don't think that for the team, if they want to be world champion, they have to, you know, they have to be more consistent and be more at the front and giving trouble just to where George Russell does, right? It doesn't have the fastest car, but he's always there. It doesn't make any mistakes. And actually, he was leading the race for a while. So, that was pretty exciting. Red Bull, well, there's a clear number one and number two. That's as clear as it gets. Perez was doing an incredible race. Max Chase Charles made a mistake. One in the gravel came back behind Sergio. They asked the first time Sergio to move over to let Max go. To Max defense, the DRS not working is a big issue. And again, it shows that with the DRS, I feel like the overtaking is too easy, too straightforward, but without the DRS, it's almost impossible. So, there is something to be found there. The 2022 Formula One racing is so much better than it was. Very good job to Formula One and everyone that was involved in that. But I feel like the racing, the overtaking part could be improving a way or another, right? As I said, the DRS, most of the time you saw the DRS move, the guy was well ahead of the braking zone. It's a bit of a shame. When it doesn't work, like it was the case on Max, it's just you can't pass. Well, come back at Red Bull. So, clear number one, clear number two. So, Chico has asked the first time to let Max go. Okay, fair enough. And then Chico has a different strategy, yes. But he's leading the race. And Max is second at that point. And yes, Max is faster and catching him. But let them race. Why would you, when Max is about four or five seconds behind, already give a team order to Chico to let him by? Basically, you can't word it that way. But that's what he means. When you get the message, your teammate is on different strategies faster than you. Please don't hold him. That means clearly let him by. But why? There were no reasons. I mean, Chico was, didn't go in the gravel, didn't make a mistake, run a good race. Yes, at that time he's slower because on older tyres, but let him race. Yeah, that was a bit of a sour feeling to the race yesterday, in that aspect. It is what it is at Red Bull, where you are next to the leader. You're just number two. And, you know, that's the way it worked for many years, I guess. But yeah, I wish we'd seen a bit of a fight for the win there. I want to talk about French and French driver and French team Alpin struggling and qualifying. I don't think they can generate quite the temperature in the tyres that they want for a quali lap, which may be an issue in Monaco. But on the other side, in the race, they could pass pretty much everyone. They're flying, Alonso starting 20, finishing 9, Ocon starting 12, and finishing 7, they passed, they didn't have too much aggravation, they were good on the tyres. So that's the right balance that you want to find between qualifying and race. Qualifying, yes, you want to generate the temperature into the tyre quickly, so you get the maximum of the grip. But if you do so, that means in the race, most of the time you're going to generate too much temperature too quickly, meaning you're going to overrate your tyre and struggle a lot. So Alpin was very good in race, that was good to see. Always good to see a French team doing great. Yes, I'm French, I'm Swiss. Yes, I was happy to see that. I was happy for Esteban Ocon, Fernando Alonso, 40 plus years old and still going like he was 20. All of that, it's so good to see. And exciting. And last, I think it's the opposite, Haas. Very good in qualifying, 8 and 10. I think Kev was a bit too optimistic on that turn 4 turning in. The guy on the inside normally is going to open the corner. That's the way it is in turn 4. And Kev just on a better tyre. Turning probably maybe at more grip than he thought. Collided with Luis and that was race over. And on the mixed side, good qualifying, good to be in the top 10 definitively. But the race space wasn't there. They just fall backwards and soft initially. Then they put another set of soft, which was quite interesting. They came back in the top 10, but then they went for a 2-stop while everyone was on the 3-stops. And they just lasted far too long on those medium tyres at the end and not scoring points again. So I'm quite impressed that they were able to be in the top 10 in qualifying with no upgrade on the car. It's good that they're fast in qualifying for Monaco, definitively, because that's a place where you cannot overtake, especially with the big new wider car. I think it's going to be following each other and the race is going to happen on Saturday in qualifying. They have to be careful not to fall back too much because Alfa Romeo has been up there doing a good job. Williams was rolling into his weekend. But yes, Haas has to bring up great to find more pace in the race and make sure that they get the right strategy. So I think they're struggling that aspect. And then, obviously, the talking point of the weekend was the green red bull. Kind of the copy from Aston Martin. I guess that's what you do in Formula 1. You look at what the others are doing and you just try to put these on the same stuff for your own wind tunnel and see if it works. I don't see a problem personally. That's what everyone has always been doing, trying to find the IDs on the neighbours and copy them. Obviously, that one was quite extreme. It was the Mercedes back in 2020, it was the pink Mercedes. But yeah, why not? Why not copy something that works if you can copy it? As long as you design it yourself, I believe that's what the rule says. As long as you design it yourself, you're fine. But you can always see what the neighbours are doing and get the inspiration from it. So obviously, they still need to get on top of that, bringing such a big upgrade. The race is not easy because you need to make sure that it correlates well. It works well on track and then find the way to set it up. It's a big change for them. But in the race, it worked pretty well. So let's see. They've been one of the teams that's been a bit up on the back foot this year. So let's see if they can make it work. And definitely Monaco is going to be a good test because we know normally the red bull is very fast in Monaco. So I'm excited. It's straight here this weekend. Monaco, it's happening. They changed their schedule. It's not any more Thursday, Saturday, Sunday. It's going to be Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And I'm excited to see what it's like. As always, please make sure that you subscribe, comment, like to have your reaction on the videos. And I'll see you very soon.