2025 F1 Thread

[Buzzard]

Good on Lando for winning his first WC.
Thanks to Max for putting a few $$$ into my account.
Oscar, stay positive, your time will come.

 

[MARTINE]

Good on Lando for winning his first WC.
Thanks to Max for putting a few $$$ into my account.
Oscar, stay positive, your time will come.

I think - all things considered - the right boys were on the podium and glad Oscar beat Lando at least

 

[moa999]

Definitely a tight season and lots of little moments that with hindsight could have had any of the top 3 winning it.

Also a season where individual driver and car characteristics changed who was the fastest car from race to race, and allowed others into the top 3.

Hopefully next year will be just as tight, but I doubt it.l with an the rules changes.

 

[luckypierre]

I think - all things considered - the right boys were on the podium and glad Oscar beat Lando at least

Suspect at the end Oscars tyre we’re going off and Lando didn’t need to risk trying to overtake Oscar

 

[MARTINE]

Suspect at the end Oscars tyre we’re going off and Lando didn’t need to risk trying to overtake Oscar

I have my 3 day pass and lounge access ready for Albert Park 2026!
Some changes will hopefully spice it up.
DTS will have some predictably good storylines

 

[WilsonM]

I have forgotten multiple times this season that it's only Oscar's 3rd F1 season, while this is Lando's 7th - the fact that Oscar made it a fight, let alone was leading for the majority of the season, is pretty damn promising. Mclaren letting Max back in with a hope is, well, a bit laughable.

If anyone is gonna be at Suzuka or Zandvoort next year, let me know Hopefully we see some better racing with MOM deployments

 

[Duggo]

Lando stepped up when it counted and those 4 extra seasons over Oscar proved vital when things got tight. Oscar really suffered with that dip in form, Baku was a defining race for him especially after the winning in 2024 with some brilliant overtakes.
Without the engine failure at Zandvoort Lando would have been pretty comfortable in winning the championship. Incredible that McLaren allowed Max to gain so much ascendancy in the back half of the season.
Still papaya rules delivered a constructor's championship and a drivers championship and a third place in drivers championship. Entertaining season and will definitely be an interesting start next season with all new rule changes for the cars.

 

[moa999]

Not sure how much was lack of form, versus lack of experience/ less applicable driving style on the street circuits.

 

[JessicaTam]

I have forgotten multiple times this season that it's only Oscar's 3rd F1 season, while this is Lando's 7th - the fact that Oscar made it a fight, let alone was leading for the majority of the season, is pretty damn promising. Mclaren letting Max back in with a hope is, well, a bit laughable.

If anyone is gonna be at Suzuka or Zandvoort next year, let me know Hopefully we see some better racing with MOM deployments

I am planning on going to Belgium and Hungary.

 

[cosi]

This is a snip from an report in today’s SMH/Age newspaper (the full article is behind a paywall)

Yes, he lost points to errors at Albert Park and in Azerbaijan, contentious penalties in Silverstone and Sao Paulo, and a McLaren strategic howler in Qatar where he looked set for his first win in months in the penultimate round of the season.

But Monza – when he was ordered to move aside for Norris for a team mistake that had nothing to do with him – felt like an overreach when it was demanded, and invited questions over whether McLaren’s “Papaya Rules” to pursue fairness between its two drivers had a preferred outcome in mind.

Whether correlation led to causation, we’ll never know. But after Monza, Piastri’s worst weekend of the year came next time out in Baku, and he went without a single podium for the following five rounds as Norris surged, the Briton taking the lead after the Mexican Grand Prix with five rounds remaining.

After showing such metronomic form and unflappable composure atypical for a driver in just his third F1 season, Piastri’s late-campaign wobbles, Norris bouncing back from a Dutch Grand Prix engine failure and Max Verstappen arresting a 104-point championship deficit to turn Abu Dhabi into a three-way title showdown for the first time in 15 years simultaneously showed how far Piastri has come, but how far he has left to go.

Sunday was the 11th successive race at Yas Marina where the pole-sitter took victory

 

[moa999]

Lots of moments through the season for all three drivers.

Lando also had the only McLaren engine failure when 2nd at the Dutch GP. So +3 Max and -18 Lando.

And Max obviously had his red mist penalty.

 

[elanshin]

I have forgotten multiple times this season that it's only Oscar's 3rd F1 season, while this is Lando's 7th - the fact that Oscar made it a fight, let alone was leading for the majority of the season, is pretty damn promising. Mclaren letting Max back in with a hope is, well, a bit laughable.

If anyone is gonna be at Suzuka or Zandvoort next year, let me know Hopefully we see some better racing with MOM deployments

Ill be in Japan.... But I don't know if i can make it to suzuka. Work weekend and all...

 

[moa999]

Shanghai most likely for me. Tickets on sale this Thu.

 

[WilsonM]

Ill be in Japan.... But I don't know if i can make it to suzuka. Work weekend and all...

GA is only 18,000 JPY for the weekend - I'll see you there