2025 Spanish Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️

[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.

[ragglemcsnics@lemmy.world]

Yeah Max was having a bit of a tantrum.

[rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world]

Absolute legend lol

[rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world]

Hulk had a bit of a sleeper hit there! Where did he come from on that restart???

[chocoboenthusiast@leminal.space]

Fun seeing Max get Driver of the day, though. He would have deserved it until the last few laps.

[microw@lemm.ee]

Verstappen is now under investigation for causing a collision, it seems. So what was the 10 seconds penalty for?

[microw@lemm.ee]

I get why they close the vote at some point, but if it was open till the end Hulk might have gotten it..

[rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world]

Norris in the cooldown room watching Max crash into George literally said: "I've done that before... In mario kart" lol

[sentau@discuss.tchncs.de]

Sometimes Max makes it so difficult to support him.

[microw@lemm.ee]

You're a clairvoyant

[sentau@discuss.tchncs.de]

At the very least, it should have been a disqualification from this race

[krimson@lemmy.world]

Yep he went full Jos mode again which is a big big shame. I saw the replays of leclerc and russell and I can see where his frustration is coming from but in moments like this and after all these years he is still not able to keep himself in check. Let him pass, avoid a penalty and retry to overtake.

This might have been the moment the small chance at a WDC was thrown away (also by the team by putting him on hards).

[etnaphele@lemmy.world]

Absolutely, but his signature move works only if he somewhat hits the apex, in this case he couldn’t because of Russell alongside him. He should have accepted the screw up of gambling on multiple softs and having none at the end. They are professionals, such revengeful behavior because he’s pissed has no place on any race track. I’m pretty sure being short tempered isn’t required to become a champion. Unfortunately, as you said, we have multiple examples of it.

[chocoboenthusiast@leminal.space]

Was there two collisions? I know he was saying George hit him on the radio before he had to give up the place

[4am@lemm.ee]

I like how they were all like “he got a penalty? For that?” when the earlier contact was shown, and then when the incident happened they were all like

[4am@lemm.ee]

Aged like milk