2025 Formula 1 Season
2025 Formula 1 discussion thread...
If Max truly wants to leave Red Bull, and the rumors of the performance related escape clause in his contract are true, then the DNF helps his cause.
It will be interesting to see what happens if Arvid Lindblad performs well in FP1 for Red Bull. Realistically, they aren't fighting for anything as a team this season. They might as well go full clown car with the second seat and give everyone some time in it, and see if they find someone that can handle it.
Nobody can handle that RB car, except for Max. That must be absolutely clear to everyone now. If Max decides to leave, RB will have some serious work to do to not become a bottom tier team.
Almost 7pm here in Australia, big night of racing for me. Got a complimentary ticket to see F1 The Movie at IMAX at 8:15pm, will be home by midnight to watch the British GP.
F1 movie was pretty meh I thought.
Standard sports movie fare with no surprises. Not offensive and it kept me watching, but nothing special at all. 6/10. The kind of thing you’d feel ok about watching on the plane but you don’t need to pay to see at the movies.
One horrific logic/reality fail at the end too
I gave it 7/10. Pointless plot, but action sequences were quite well done and the time flew by for a nearly 3 hour film. Obviously tons of in-race crap that would be impossible irl, but you have to expect that.
Hulkenberg is currently on the podium
Hulkenberg running in third
HOOOOOOOLD
ONE TIME PLS
It’s like all these teams are new to F1
Congrats to Oscar for being a dickhead
NICO HÜLKENBERG ladies and gentlemen
First podium in a ****ing Stake
Small thought but it feels like there's a lot of improvisation with the rain.
Shoudln't there be a way to measure the rain and determine thresholds that make it clear when we can race/when under SC/when red flag it etc.. ? And also use those thresholds to enforce mandatory inter/wet tyres because it's a bit boring and disturbing to have a bunch of idiots on a freeroll going for slicks, crashing and causing another safety car that compromises the race of some
Before today, most GPs without a podium.
Yuki can get a podium next year … by reaching top 3 of this list.
Let us also note that Piastria got a 10s penalty where Russell did not, for just about the same thing
Oscar still doesn’t win if given a 5s penalty.
I applaud him asking if the team didn’t think the penalty was justified, that Lando give the place back. Doesn’t hurt to ask!
I don't think it should have been a penalty for Piastri today (or maybe a 5s) either but it was barely even close to being the same thing. The Russell incident was in normal conditions, with the safety car still active, and the hard braking was at safety car speed whereas today was in conditions with awful visibility, after the safety car lights were off, and Piastri had accelerated quite significantly before the hard braking. Also apparently Oscar braked about twice as hard as Russell did - 59.2psi vs 30psi of brake pressure.
Noone's really discussing it, but I thought Bearman had an incredible performance and I was hoping he'd make that final pass to get in the points, but fell just short. Consider this: there were 5 DNFs in this race. They were all rookies. So Oli was the only rookie to survive and nearly scored a point on top of that.
Shoudln't there be a way to measure the rain and determine thresholds that make it clear when we can race/when under SC/when red flag it etc.. ? And also use those thresholds to enforce mandatory inter/wet tyres because it's a bit boring and disturbing to have a bunch of idiots on a freeroll going for slicks, crashing and causing another safety car that compromises the race of
Why do they even have wet tyres? If it ever gets to the point where they might need them they're just gonna stop the race anyway.
As for your other question, I don't agree at all that they should enforce a tyre. Maybe it's just me, but the intrigue over whether or not to switch tyres is fkn awesome and creates a ton of excitement.
We have so many races that or more or less just processions around the track with a few passes, I think it's fine to have these types of races every now and then that are "unfair" and the field gets scrambled and bottom teams randomly snag a podium.
To each their opinion and I respect both - I used to think as well that more chaos/variance was more fun but lately when we've had those wet races, we're always good for a couple drivers who have nothing to lose going kamikaze when going on slicks is obviously wrong/way too early, causing a crash and eventually bringing more laps under SC and less racing
I just checked, and there was only even 1 safety car caused by drivers gambling on tyres.
-There was a lap 1 SC, racing incident when they went 3 wide.
-During that caution, a few guys gambled on slicks and Bort would bring out a safety car.
-After that, the rain came back and everyone got back on inters. During the heavy rain there were 2 more safety cars, but that was due to the rain, everyone was on the correct tyre.
-Eventually the track dried up and a couple guys went a bit early on slicks (Alonso, Russell notably), but without a further safety car incident.
So there was exactly 1 SC that was due to "a bunch of idiots on a freeroll going for slicks".
It seems you're just against any racing taking place on a non-bone dry track, which I guess is fine, but you can't blame the string of SCs on tyre gambling.
With Piastri pouting about his penalty, I wished Nico would have told him to not take any podium for granted.
Horny is gone
lol Whinger Spice
Pretty harsh after 4 straight world champs. Can only mean that it was him or Max
Interesting. I never disliked him, but I will also not miss him
Red Bull is disintegrating
This is a fairly well rounded summary of the issues…even if it doesn’t come to a firm conclusion
Max to Mercedes, Christian Horner to Cadillac, George Russell to Aston Martin, Stroll retires, Arvid Lindblad to Red Bull.
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