Why Carlos Sainz chose Williams and Sergio Perez stays - for now! 🤝 | Sky Sports F1 Podcast

Matt Baker is joined by Sky Sports News' Craig Slater and former Aston Martin Strategist Bernie Collins to discuss a gripping Belgian Grand Prix in which George Russell was disqualified, promoting Lewis Hamilton to victory. The trio also discuss the announcement that Carlos Sainz Jr will join Williams from Ferrari in 2025 and the news that Sergio Perez will remain at Red Bull - for now.
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[scottnewlands]

Bernie is the best thing to happen to Sky F1. I love her input, always on point.

[markaxlbyrne]

The best signing in F1… Bernie Collins to Sky F1. When this woman talks… people listen. She gives a fascinating and educational insight to things you couldn’t even imagine. Loving this engineering perspective now given to fans. Helps to build knowledge and understand the engineering competition side of the sport

[KarthikRaj-tf]

Bernie Collins explained every aspect of car weight technicality so beautifully, she's super good, also thanks to Matt for acknowledging Lewis Hamilton win, he was super on the track and deserved to win, ...

[PeteJ]

A request to Sky Sports F1. Don't ever employ people who have never worked in F1 to give explanations on on car technology, regulations, team operation and circuit characteristics. Content creators, YouTube personalities and ex-drivers from lower categories don't really know what they are talking about. they just have an opinion, like the rest of us. The people who do know, like Bernie Collins, Anthony Davidson and Nico Rosberg for example, are always a pleasure to listen to - and we always learn something from them. They educate and entertain.

[Jesus_H._Tap-DancingChrist]

Bernie and Brundle almost make up for Slater and Crofty being on the Sky F1 roster.

[fatimasolitary]

loved Bernie's analysis of the Checo situation. The bad performances is on Checo but RB had THREE years to figure things out.

[blaymeister]

Craig showing how simply he looks at F1. Thanks for putting him right Bernie 👍

[sam.victor]

Hidalgo Don Carlos Sainz Vazquez de Castro has made Williams his seat of choice for 2025.

It's not prestige heavy like Ferrari, but it's a solid home on The Grid with a long-term project. He'll know if he's putting his faith in a winning package and team at practically the first launch. He's a good racing driver at this stage of his career and it remains to be seen if he can improve more, to be in the very top echelon and morph into 'an-in-your-face' competitor.

I hope that he'll be happy there.

[adamahmed]

I took part in a recent swimming competition doesn’t matter I was in a speed boat and the rest weren’t. I take pride in the fact I crossed the line first.🎉🥇 🏆

[ACsPianoCorner]

First, I must be getting old because how on earth did Bernie or Matt not know that Craig when referring to “International Rescue” was giving a Thunderbirds reference…😅. Second, let the “driver” silly season continue - it makes things much more interesting. I think it’s not an ideal move for Sainz, but it’s certainly the right one. Williams are certainly going in the right direction, whereas the others are unknowns.

[Drew_]

42:00 or what about weighing the cars without fuel and without tires both before and after?

[julesaa]

Craig should stick to being a reporter, the car not needing to be weight at the end is something you would expect from a new F1 fan

[alv]

The important point no one seems to mention is that with Checo never ever taking points off of max’s rivals that actually HURTS Max’s Drivers Championship hopes. Even if you take the view that the drivers is more important than the constructors, having a one driver team is never possible without an RB19, which a team can obviously never bank on…

[TheJBALLA]

Bernie in the thumbnail…. Automatic thumbs up and a like 🫡

[philtucker]

Now I’m pretty sure Verstappen has specified that in order for him to stay at RB, he must have Checo as his fellow driver as he doesn’t want anyone to challenge him in an equal car..

[joeshap]

These are by far the best combination of guests. More Bernie and Craig...forget the others.

[KCYT]

Outstanding podcast with Bernie and Craig bringing thorough insight into this season !

[sugs]

Bernie is spot on about RB handling of checo.

[mx]

24:32 True that Max singlehandedly scored enough points in 2023 to win the WCC for RBR but in 2023 Perez was 2nd in WDC and is currently 7th and heading toward 8th behind Russell.

[MrPutman]

Surely if the car was expected to last 15 laps on a set of tyres but ended up lasting 30 laps, then the tyres would still be in a similar condition to if the tyres had lasted only 15, and then changed and then worn down towards the end of the race. It's much more likely that the car was always underweight and that the lack of marbles showed up that fact.