2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️
FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Lewis schooling Lando.
Making him look silly honestly. Gotta be smarter than that if you want to be WDC.
Sheesh Lando, falling to the same trick twice in under 90 seconds.
Lets go, both Williams in points.
Go weeyums
I am in this picture and i love it.
And Hadjar again too!
Stoked for the team, they're having a good run.
That's how you clear a 7-time world champion Lando.
Absolute madman to pull an overtake there. Piastri is the real deal.
The classic go off track turn one to keep position manoeuvre by Max there. F2 was full of it as well.
While I agree he should have given it back, Piastri also either steered into him/lost control and went deep into the corner further than a normal racing line. So curious what the stewards would think.
Edit: 5 penalty seconds for this, if you think it's penalty worthy, remains stupid. It should always be at least 10.
I agree with the stewards here that it's on Max. Though he will happily keep track position and try to make a gap. This is a classic Max move, one of his signatures tbh. Wasn't it Mexico last year as well for example? Really kind of tired of this stuff from him honestly.
EDIT: I completely agree about the penalty though and I thought they already said they were going to use 10 sec as the baseline just for the reason that 5 is so often worth it.
Bwoah
Welcome back Kimi Raikkonen.
Bwoah that was close for Alonso
I, too, was pleased at that bit of Kimi from Fernando.
Great overtake by Leclerc, bad way direction showed it live. It basically didn't even show the actual overtake. They had to do a damn replay for it.
Leclerc out here driving a medium like a hard tyre.
There is no deg here, only overheating it seems. Could have possibly gone M-S honestly seeing as he was in clear air.
Did we miss the incident with Lawson and Doohan? No way is what we saw on screen 2x as bad as Piastri and Verstappen
Classic FIA inconsistency.
Can't remember seeing it, but I must admit to spending time here too when it looks slow because I am happy other people on Lemmy also like F1.
Was given leniency as it was the first lap. The penalties are a nonsense though. If anything, being so early in the race and there being no time limit when to take the penalty means the 5s is much much lighter than 10s in the middle of the race and pitstops. I would rather see consistent 5s penalties and they have 3 laps to take it in. So you can't do a lunge, ignore the track limits and scamper off in clean air for 25 laps, which is what Max clearly wanted to do and almost managed it. That would have been a tragedy of the stewarding if it had happened that way.
"That was Gabi, he might not have a manager tonight anymore" - Piastri on the Bortoleto-Alonso situation 😅
I thought he said "flight home?" I assume he meant Gabi is using Fernando's private jet.
C'mon Leclerc, don't let Norris past after that fantastic stint earlier!
Nice, well-deserved third :)
"Cya nerds" ~ Max Verstappen
Sainz smooth operating for Williams right now
Well that was a quick safety car.
So who do we think is causing the inevitable safety car/red flag? Any bets?
Verstappen and Piastri, leaving Norris to win after a luck safety car caused by a Stroll crash. (Crazy predictions cost nothing!)
Edit: Norris starting on hards makes me believe they're on Lemmy too!
Stroll my man never disappoints 😂
Well they didn't completely fuck up the national anthem so that's nice
Piastri going for an undercut seems super sketchy. They need to find clean air for him and this puts him in traffic no? Even without the slow stop. I feel like possibly the overcut would have been better today?
What's Red Bull's game here? I think they lost 2-3 seconds to Piastri already by pitting late
Probably expecting Hamilton to box a lap earlier.
STOP THE COUNT!!
Quite an optimistic move from Gasly
Wow! Great overtake for Piastri. And thank you Hamilton for holding up Verstappen
Whoa Alonso, what a overtake.
Is it just Max or the Red Bull is fast here, that 5s penalty doesn't look that threatening to Max's race.
The 5s penalty does almost nothing for anyone. It's way too low a penalty for anything. Regardless of how good your car is. It's only annoying if you got lucky earlier with a car where you're actually out of position where your car should be.