Formula 1 - 2025

Lewis in Ferrari Red is odd, but the show must go on.

Always a constant battle if its more car or driver to get you to the top. This season will be a good show of which.
 
I watched some of the testing and for the life of me I couldn't tell you who is ahead in the pecking order other than McLaren has a slight advantage.

Also, reading some of the comments made by Johnny Herbert former Stewart in news. The guy must be really dense if he cannot understand the potential conflict of interest that his dual role as Stewart and media person. Considering that part of his income comes from some of the gambling sites.

I do not know if he was unbiased or not, but the perception existed especially with some of his comments around some of the penalties he was part off and comments made on Monday.
 
What a race last weekend.

Highlight for me:

  1. Pirelli tire suck. The amount of drivers that hit the barriers after hitting one of the white lines is nuts especially at slow speed. They need to do something about it.
  2. McLaren are the team to beat. They were fast. At one point they had close to 15s advantage on Max in RedBull with Russell another 10s or so back.
  3. McLaren got the strategy right for the last change to inters vs RedBull’s gamble of staying on mediums which led to Liam’s crash and Max almost losing 2nd place.
  4. I did not care for McLaren’s order to Oscar to maintain position when he was clearly faster within <.6s and telling Oscar it’s ok to race when he dropped back to 2.5s. It’s first race why are you employing team order. Let them race with clear instruction to give each other space and not crash.
  5. Albon and Nico were a surprise for me. I do not believe Nico would have been in the points without all the crashes.
  6. Kimi was the rookie of the race. The others had a difficult race.
  7. Racing Bull were a disappointment. I need to rewatch to figure out what happened with Yuki’s strategy which ended up being no points for the team.
  8. Ferrari duo had a scrappy race and it was interesting to hear the interaction between the drivers and pitfall. That was pure comedy.
 
dvaidya said:
What a race last weekend.

Highlight for me:

  1. Pirelli tire suck. The amount of drivers that hit the barriers after hitting one of the white lines is nuts especially at slow speed. They need to do something about it.
  2. McLaren are the team to beat. They were fast. At one point they had close to 15s advantage on Max in RedBull with Russell another 10s or so back.
  3. McLaren got the strategy right for the last change to inters vs RedBull’s gamble of staying on mediums which led to Liam’s crash and Max almost losing 2nd place.
  4. I did not care for McLaren’s order to Oscar to maintain position when he was clearly faster within <.6s and telling Oscar it’s ok to race when he dropped back to 2.5s. It’s first race why are you employing team order. Let them race with clear instruction to give each other space and not crash.
  5. Albon and Nico were a surprise for me. I do not believe Nico would have been in the points without all the crashes.
  6. Kimi was the rookie of the race. The others had a difficult race.
  7. Racing Bull were a disappointment. I need to rewatch to figure out what happened with Yuki’s strategy which ended up being no points for the team.
  8. Ferrari duo had a scrappy race and it was interesting to hear the interaction between the drivers and pitfall. That was pure comedy.
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What a mess. Gambling with tires in the rain to try and gain a second or two can prove costly as it did with Hamilton.

As glad as I am that Red Bull isn't running away, I hope McLaren doesn't run away in the same fashion.

Albon drove a hell of a inaugural race, even with the 5 second penalty!
 
Redbull also need to modify the car so the setup window is bit wider compared to what they have right now.

It’s official now with Yuki driving for RBR. Best of luck to Yuki. I hope he comes to terms with the car quickly.

I compassion shown by Anthony Hamilton (I think I have the name right) was pure class.
 
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Well, that was boring. McLaren should have swapped drivers with about a dozen laps to go just to see if Oscar could have pulled it off. If it failed, they could have just swapped back on the last lap. Yuki gets Driver of the Day for surviving?
 
I was hoping we’d get some rain there to mix things up, the top ten finished pretty much how they started.
The biggest drama was the Max/Lando thing leaving the pits. That was borderline unsafe release by McLaren.
 
mwlikesbikes said:
I was hoping we’d get some rain there to mix things up, the top ten finished pretty much how they started.
The biggest drama was the Max/Lando thing leaving the pits. That was borderline unsafe release by McLaren.
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Not sure if it was an unsafe release, but you know Max would have done the exact same thing that Lando tried and would have probably pulled it off.
 
yeah, it was one boring race to watch live. no passing worth mentioning other than everyone was driving flat out and not managing tires.

agree on the McLaren swap. They should have done it and allowed Oscar to see if he could pass Max with clear understanding that if he was not successful swapping place back. The only way they were going to win was forcing Max to make a mistake.
 
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