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ROUND 5: ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Saudi Arabia


FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025


Circuit stats


  • First Grand Prix: 2021
  • Number of laps: 50
  • Circuit Length: 6.174 km
  • Race Distance: 308.45 km
  • Lap record: 1:30.734 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
  • 2024 winner: Max Verstappen

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[โ€“] hagelslager@feddit.nl 16 points 2 months ago

Sheesh Lando, falling to the same trick twice in under 90 seconds.

[โ€“] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 12 points 2 months ago

Making him look silly honestly. Gotta be smarter than that if you want to be WDC.

[โ€“] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's how you clear a 7-time world champion Lando.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 points 2 months ago

Absolute madman to pull an overtake there. Piastri is the real deal.

[โ€“] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Lets go, both Williams in points.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am in this picture and i love it.

[โ€“] DV8@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

And Hadjar again too!

[โ€“] _ed@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Stoked for the team, they're having a good run.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The classic go off track turn one to keep position manoeuvre by Max there. F2 was full of it as well.

[โ€“] DV8@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

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.

[โ€“] hagelslager@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

All champions we had in the past 30 or so years were willing to play dirty. It's part of the sport really... or rather, soap opera where occasionally some cars drive around.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I absolutely know why he does it and it's very smart. Like I said, taking the 5 seconds is absolutely worth it.

I'm still kind of tired of it though.

[โ€“] hagelslager@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the penalty is almost a "tut tut", especially considering the pace Max currently shows. He's adding tenths per lap to everyone behind him.

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[โ€“] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Bwoah

Welcome back Kimi Raikkonen.

[โ€“] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bwoah that was close for Alonso

[โ€“] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I, too, was pleased at that bit of Kimi from Fernando.

[โ€“] DV8@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[โ€“] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Leclerc out here driving a medium like a hard tyre.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 2 months ago

There is no deg here, only overheating it seems. Could have possibly gone M-S honestly seeing as he was in clear air.

[โ€“] Microw@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"That was Gabi, he might not have a manager tonight anymore" - Piastri on the Bortoleto-Alonso situation ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 2 months ago

I thought he said "flight home?" I assume he meant Gabi is using Fernando's private jet.

[โ€“] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

"Cya nerds" ~ Max Verstappen

[โ€“] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sainz smooth operating for Williams right now

[โ€“] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Well that was a quick safety car.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So who do we think is causing the inevitable safety car/red flag? Any bets?

[โ€“] DV8@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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!

[โ€“] Mateoto@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Stroll my man never disappoints ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] koella@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tsunoda getting a bit overconfident, maybe? Hope it won't be him, though.

[โ€“] DV8@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ding ding ding! (Doesn't look likes it's his fault but still involved)

[โ€“] Microw@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I wonder if this is the first time Gasly and Tsunoda have ever collided, given their teammate history

[โ€“] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Well they didn't completely fuck up the national anthem so that's nice

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 2 months ago

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?

[โ€“] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Quite an optimistic move from Gasly

[โ€“] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's Red Bull's game here? I think they lost 2-3 seconds to Piastri already by pitting late

[โ€“] DV8@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Probably expecting Hamilton to box a lap earlier.

[โ€“] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is it just Max or the Red Bull is fast here, that 5s penalty doesn't look that threatening to Max's race.

[โ€“] DV8@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] hagelslager@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Commentary here speculated it was probably 5s because of Piastri being partially responsible for pushing Verstappen off, where Lawson took full blame and got 10s.

[โ€“] DV8@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a weird way to reason though, no? That's what should be called a race incident if they're both partially at fault.

[โ€“] hagelslager@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

Stewards and consistency ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 2 months ago

STOP THE COUNT!!

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