How The Team Battle For 3rd Was Won | Jolyon Palmer Analysis | 2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 

Thanks for the best season ever! 👊

Haha cool

MY LORD ..... McLaren In 3 Place , Let's Celebrate ! ! ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The price of having a pay driver, it means the other driver is having to do more heavy lifting to keep the team up with the points

mate comb your hair at the very least.

The (wrong) decisions made under safety cars (twice I think?) robbed Sergio of big shots at podiums, getting tapped into a spin by Max at Portimao did too, and at least one less 3rd place due to engine failure in Bahrain would have buried any hopes McLaren and Renault had of grabbing third waaay in advance. But, Lance just didn't deliver consistent results when Checo couldn't. That's the single biggest reason as to why they lost out.

RP should be happy not getting a penalty for that release

This race was so bad even Palmer's analysis is boring

honestly, stroll didn't even have to slow down at all. there was still a large enough gap that he could have stayed at 80 the entire time.

I mean, Carlos would have still ended up passing stroll.

Vettel better be the bag man because Tracing Point need to driver who can carry for Stroll.

daddy's cash

Respect to McLaren as they are a great team but in my book Racing Point got 3rd. The FIA took away 15 points from Racing Point - but let them use the car after all. It’s the prerogative of the FIA to do that, and ultimately they make the call, but in my books Racing Point was best of the rest and the unadulterated results support that.

Giving critisism on the steward on the official F1 channel. Respect Palmer.

That graph looks like they are not allowed to go 81 instead of allowed to go 80! Clearly going 80.5 or 80.6. Marginal gains I guess :D

This race doesn't deserve the quality of _Jolyon Palmer's_ analysis.

Racing Point's 15 point penalty cost them the season.

Essentially Sainz gave Stroll 2 tenths. But Stroll's mechanics were ... strolling.

Racing Point will NEVER be the team McLaren is. At least not while Stroll is there

the difference:two consistent drivers Ocon and Stroll not consistent enough

Merry Christmas Paywall Palmer

For you F2P players: The bit you missed was just fast Max and slowish Mercedes.

Fernando will probably ask where Palmer is again next year.

Laurence hit the Red Button on Checo's car.

Racing Point knew that without Perez they are just not going to do it. Stroll is too terrible of a driver, looking for excuses instead of pushing. He complained about the temperatures later and said that the car had pace at some points, but not for long. I mean, when you find F1 seat under a Christmas tree, you kind of stop playing with it after some time. Too bad that him playing with daddy's toys cost Perez his seat.

I hope Vettel gels, and totally destroys Stroll next year. Billionaire daddy's son F1 drivers need to be a thing of the past. (Next target should be all pay drivers)

Surely if anything, Carlos backing up slightly actually advantaged stroll by letting him get closer to him before the pit boxes? By doing that you can see stroll was right up his rear wing when Carlos peeled into his box compared to the few car lengths between them when they both crossed the pit limiter. If Carlos had kept to the limiter stroll would’ve still been those one or two car lengths behind which would’ve given Carlos more breathing room and he actually would’ve gotten out slightly more comfortably ahead.

And it still comes down to pit stop strategy and timing. Just ask George Russell.

Up McLaren

Stroll doesn’t deserve that seat man...I mean racing point lost the championship the second checo’s car went kaput

That Alfa Romeo pit crew member who almost got hit by Stroll tho😂😂

Short answer: Stroll Long answer: Strooooooooll

It was unsafe exit by stroll no?

Guess racing point couldn't take photographs of the cooling system in the Mercs, also the other way around wasn't Strolls pitstop an unsafe release ? He ended up stuck between Sainz and other mechanics...

It was always Perez vs (Norris and Sainz).

Karma for tracing point...the car was illegal

I understand that I am just speculating, but the pace that stroll was holding was garbage anyways. So would stroll being in from of sianz out of the pit made a huge deal?

Racing Point or AM will run 2 unmotivated drivers in 2021.

Guys, do you know the name of the song that is hearable mostly in the first few mins?

Stroll is no match for Checo's performance

It was Gear Box failure for Perez and not an Engine failure this time :) Abu Dhabi race should either be taken out or moved to earlier in the Season as its not worthy to be present as the final race of the season especially when the Championship goes down to the wire in the last race.

Nice double stack from mclaren

Money deal was made with mc laren with fia

Woah palmer really took alonso personally

Analyzed by a driver who forgot to turn on the correct engine mode on for qualifying... so what he does is basically stating the absolute 100% obvious

Jolyon palmer is clearly not educated on the car speed differences and downforce. Look dude I get you can’t comprehend it but once Ferrari fixes its engine then it will be a 5 way fight for the championship mercedes Red Bull Aston Martin ferrari and mclaren. It takes a real f1 fan I guess to understand the future is bright

Racing point complained that Sainz slowed Stroll down in the pits ! ... BUT it was Strolls release that was the dangerous point ! ,.,,, RP should of been given a pitstop penalty for unsafe release

So F1 TV not gonna do a analysis on Alonso's Young driver test??🙃🙃

So F1 TV not gonna do a analysis on Alonso's Young driver test??🙃🙃

Mercedes turned down every engine except for Perez .... The idea was Perez would have such an advantage he should of finished on the podium ! ...Karma though does not like cheating ! And the final result ??? Boring race for everyone

Why do we only get part of Palmer's review? We want the full thing, come on F1

I would rather say, How the Team Battle for 3rd was lost by Racing Point.

Not a peep about RP's unsafe release of Stroll?

now Vettel is hired as Stroll's manservant

Next analysis, the driver's young test please!

Spot on, thank you!

If it was Perez he would have made it.

If anything, Racing Point should've gotten a penalty for an unsafe release... Stroll nearly ran over an Alfa Romeo mechanic while avoiding Sainz.

'ultimately, nothing to see here.'

RP wld hv easily won the constructor championship or wld hv got way ahead in bahrain gp itslf if Perez engine didn't blown up in last few lap & dani kvyat didn't caught up stroll making him rollover & sakhir gp wld hv been the last nail in D coffin for McLaren & Renault... Anyways dts history now...

no mention of rp points deduction early in the season?

The main thing is that Stroll didn't have the pace anyway. Racing Point can't claim the pit stop thing stopped them getting p3, because Stroll clearly didn't have the pace to keep Sainz behind him anyway.

Enjoy the analysis more than the race some weeks.

Sainz slowed and stroll got closer, yet stroll lost out?? ha ha

Enjoy Palmer's analysis even if there wasn't a lot to analyse this race.

I'd like to see the speed graph of every car entering pit lane. I'm just happy to see that the pros do the same IRL as I do in the F1 games. I've gotten so many speeding in the pit lane penalties that now I hit the limiter, drop below the speed, then floor it as I cross the entry line to let the limiter keep me from getting a penalty. Seems exactly what Lando and Carlos did.

He didn't lose a place in pits still came out behind

“KARMA” Fernando is back, how do u feel joylon? “WHERE IS PALMER”

Is slowing Stroll down in the pitlane the worst thing? Seems to help everyones safety

Stroll IS a liability! He can drive, but he is not a winner. When Seb joins the team next season he clearly needs to be the #1 if they intend to truly be contenders instead of just The House that Lawrence Built so his son could be a cool race car driver.

The speed trace shows that Stroll did not slow down below the 80kph in the pit lane... THEREFORE nothing to complain about.

Here in the USA we’d call RP coughing up 3rd place a Choke Job one week after their first double podium & after Nico Hulkenberg appeared out of thin air to get them into the 3rd place to beginning with. McLaren used experience, strategy, and a rare piece of teamwork by the drivers to steal that spot away. Racing Point clearly had the 3rd fastest car this season.

How about a point for fastest pitstop 🤷‍♂️

Off topic but I hope f1 channel will deliver us a proper KVYAT video & if it does not contain hard bass I'm going to be disappointed

Know what's a desperate move? Copying the design from the winning car the previous year and going so far as to literally making an exact copy of their brake ducts. That's desperate. I hate that Vettel went there because I like Vettel but I have zero respect for RP. But according to Stroll, it didn't impact anything. So it's moot. If anything, he made the gap closer. They both come out almost exactly as they entered. Don't understand why there was so much contention.

Am I the only one who was happy when Perez was out.? I really didn't want rp to get p3.

Jolyon your analysis is superb! Thank you

It's simple RP lost their 3rd position just because they were dependent on Perez's performance most of the time just like redbull with verstappen. Yet it was stroll who used to get preferential treatment for his car.

Video unavailable? why

Fun fact: Most of the comments are Karma and Where is Palmer? meme

How McLaren won the battle for p3 ? Short answer: drivers Long answer: better drivers

It was won by bad luck, not skill not abilities

2:16 bammm

C'mon McLaren 🇬🇧

There is no rule for such a little variation of speed...it was nothing and completely agree with palmers opinion

I think they have to investigate afterwards because they only have speed data access from the actual car so have to hardwire that data

If I gave Liberty Media the same money as Abu Dhabi gives them, they would hold a F1 race in my very small back garden. As Lewis said in Melbourne "Cash is King in F1"

This analysis is a YOKE!

I would love to hear Palmers analysis of his own career in F1...

I think they should’ve penalised Sainz to where he lost one position. So he loses to Albon in the Drivers but McLaren still come 3rd in the constructors. I don’t think it changed the constructors result at all, even Perez not breaking down probably wouldn’t

This guy looks like an ex-f1 driver. Should apply for a mclaren seat next to alonso in 21.

We need to bring back v10's, modern f1 just misses the wow factor it has

Must be something wrong with that pink Merc... when's the last time Merc engine failed

My expert analysis; McLaren finished third because they got more points than Racing Point.

Racing Point taking a leaf from Renault early in the season and just grassing in a desperate attempt to explain their shitness

This is outstanding documentary. Aston Martin May miss Pérez next season, he was mostly consistent. Perhaps pushed the engines too hard. Would have not be needed if Stroll were more consistent.

I feel bad for Sergio, not for Otmar.

Who actually watches the full analysis on f1tv?

There was absolutely no substance to the idea Carlos slowed down in the pits deliberately McLaren got 3 because they were far more consistent

Stroll's performance was disappointing..