F1 2025 - Round 2 - China - Shanghai

Will be stiff competition between Yuki and Hadjar to avoid promotion Lawson's seat.

I'd like to see where the RedBull actually is on the grid without Max behind the wheel

well done Oscar.

Used to like karun, but his interview with Zak became about Hamilton and now he is patronising hadjar because he starting right behind Hamilton tomorrow.

Well done to both Racing Bull drivers for qualifying in the top ten.

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Imagine there has to be some impact from the brain drain with some of the exits. I think some of the talent acquisition by Red Bull themselves was credited with the catch up to Mercedes at the end of the last regs and the head start they achieved in these regs. Guess they were nearer plateauing and some others were bound to catch up with good people.

It’s interesting that they went down a certain route that reaped great rewards for a few years so proved worthwhile but now have something that only the top of the grid can handle (at best).

Hard to say whether some of the off-track negatives (Horner/Helmut) had an impact unless it was a contributing factor to some leaving. The Perez situation definitely didn’t help him and was a bit of a mess with how the contract situation played out. Might be no harm to put a gag on Helmut.

Both Sky and BBC (articles mainly) are just all over the sprint, even the qualy result was below Hamilton comments about people yapping…it was a sprint race, bloody hell.

Once qualy started it looked more like we expected, McLaren are still ahead, Max is working miracles in that car, reminds me of Schumacher in 98 and 99.

I’ve fully switched over to the F1TV commentators are they are far more balanced.

I thought it was a mistake giving Lawson the seat, he didn't show anything in the races he was in last season to suggest he was ready for the step up.

But...there's no way Ted would try that line of questioning with other team principles

Red bull are the only team that treat their drivers as shabbily as this on a repeated basis. It's a fair question.

In a comment during the preview of the season, Andrew Benson, the BBC chief correspondent, admitted that the preseason stories about Hamilton arriving in Maranello, seen in the red overalls, were basically stories about nothing, but they were getting the hits on the website.

I don't know why people think this would be a procession. Shanghai usually is usually up towards the highest number of overtakes in a grand Prix, and that's without taking into account the way the tyres seem to be going off this year.