2025 Spanish Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️

[frostytrichs@crazypeople.online]

Fernando taking the full tour of the track.

[microw@lemm.ee]

Looks like the Sauber upgrades are working really well.. while Williams is not convincing here

[chocoboenthusiast@leminal.space]

Spain 2025, the front wing battle race

[hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Leclerc podium looks very likely, Ferrari has been a rocketship on low fuel.

[chocoboenthusiast@leminal.space]

A lot going to rely on when Max pits. Feeling a possible Leclerc too.

[dv8@lemmy.world]

Piastri driving very mature after putting in the work to make it possible yesterday.

[microw@lemm.ee]

Jude Bellingham did NOT read the room well lol.. laughing immediately after the Antonelli dnf while sitting at Merc

[microw@lemm.ee]

Aaand he's pitted under safety car. No way Leclerc gets that podium now.

[microw@lemm.ee]

"Why are we on hard?!"

Same question here, Max. Official tire info says you should still have a used soft tire left that could be used.

[chocoboenthusiast@leminal.space]

Max getting stuck on hard though... Maybe a flicker of hope there.

[dv8@lemmy.world]

How Max kept that car on the road is insane. And as I'm writing this. Seems like people bumping into Max at the moments his car isn't slipping...

[hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Bro what

[microw@lemm.ee]

Max when he feels unfairly treated by the marshalls is something else.. this feels like the race where he and Norris were pushing each other off track

[microw@lemm.ee]

Did Hulkenberg in a Sauber just overtake Hamilton in a Ferrari?

[chocoboenthusiast@leminal.space]

Max should be a race ban for that, but it'll never happen.

[dv8@lemmy.world]

A Sauber overtaking a Ferrari was not on my bingo card for this weekend

[microw@lemm.ee]

P5 for the Hulk! Points for Alonso!

[sentau@discuss.tchncs.de]

What the fuck happened at the end. Max's move made no fucking sense. Total red mist moment there.

[damage@feddit.it]

He wanted to ram Russell in revenge, pretty simple

[rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world]

It's a shame for Max that they stuck him on hards after he'd raced so well, but jesus christ does he get away with some nonsense. Ten seconds for intentionally crashing into a competitor? Ridiculously light.

He obviously went for the "ahead at the apex" rulebending* that he's used so effectively by rolling off the brakes and trying to claim the position off track on T1, and then when it doesn't go his way he's lost his head.

He's the best driver on the grid, not just in terms of speed but also consistency, track awareness and shrewd rule awareness too - but when he behaves like this it reflects poorly, the way it did when Schumacher was doing this sort of thing too. I guess that kind of anger is part of what makes a best-of-the-best racing driver though.

*It's not really rulebending, more following the letter of the law than the spirit, which is what makes a fantastic competitor -- very clever, very much maximising every inch of the track and of the rulebook.