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F1 2025 - Round 3 - Japan - Suzuka

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Especially when it was all on Lando, if anything it looked like Max moves slighty left when Lando trys to get along side of him



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    I'm in serious danger of falling back to sleep again



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,380 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    That stat that theres never been a race where the starting 6 cars finished in the same order at a permanent track says it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Pretty terrible race so



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,597 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    4.5hrs sleep and heading up the mountains in a couple of hours, get up outta that ffs!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,604 ✭✭✭Harika


    2.5 second's between the first three and still a snoozefest.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,568 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    So McClaren radio say that was Lando's pace, but Piastri could not do anything.

    Lando picks it up a little to get out of the DRS threat from Piastri, you'd have to think he won't have enough to get passed Max. Although Max needs to up it a little to steer clear of DRS just in case.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Is Piastri going to attack Lando



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭PsychoPete




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,568 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    That pole position lap basically won the race. Track position has trumped DRS at the upper end of the pack.

    It was a lap deserving of a race win, but not a race deserving much talk.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭Busman Paddy Lasty


    Lando did well there staying on the wide line. Piastri had to abort and that was that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Longing


    Simply the best MAX. Absolutely lovely



  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Get in you beauty Max!!! Heart was pounding those last 10 laps.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Great drive from Max, flawless start to finish but an absolutely terrible boring race



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,940 ✭✭✭✭skipper_G


    McLaren too busy fighting each other again, instead of working together to try and get Max. Even then it might not have been enough given how well Max has driven but at least try it. Or try something, anything....they had 2 cars in the fight, why would you not roll the dice and split strategies.

    Definitely should have stayed in bed for this one and watched the highlights later. It was a bit of stinker



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Longing


    The most exciting thing to hear this morning was @Itssoeasy been woken up by his cats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,042 ✭✭✭Captain_Crash


    Sh**e race, McLaren made a mistake not splitting them during the pit window. Nice win for Max and goes to show the McL isn’t the same beast when it’s in dirty air like it is when it’s out in front.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    I envy anyone that stayed in bed



  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Which gives us hope it could be a close championship. Will be interesting to hear Stella’s assessment on the McLaren strategy. There weren’t many gaps behind to pit out into.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    Max to Lando… It's an expensive lawnmower….

    haha



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    First off, another dud race from my compatriot. Let tsunoda past at the start and then easily overtaken by other drivers. He was supposed to know the track like the back of his hand in an easier to drive car…but finished 17. Will be out of F1 next season if this trajectory continues.

    Impressive race from Verstappen but the driver that keeps catching my eye is Antonelli. Russell better watch out. Seriously impressive so far in his rookie season. Not sure why Ferrari dumped sainz for Hamilton. Hardly lighting up the season to date.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,503 ✭✭✭TheRona


    I don't even know if Lawson will last this season, the way he's going. Hadjar lapping miles faster than him, and Sainz on the same strategy easily bested him. Not looking good for him at all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Longing


    The faces on the McLaren team management during that trophy ceremony prestation. Stone faced they had the same impression for Lando and Oscar as the did for Max. They know the f##ked up today and two this championship will be no walk in the park now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Boring race. Isaac Hadjar looking good though. He better watch himself or he might end up in the second red bull seat 😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    Sky sports sticking that fake microphone on the screen, when chatting with the drivers post race, is annoying and distracting.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 847 ✭✭✭steinbock123


    Jesus, Naomi & Jacques would put years on ya . . . . (and she must live in a house with no mirrors)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 Forza_Monza


    Jacques Villeneuve putting Crofty in his place during race commentary. Facts vs Fiction.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,880 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    The lack of alternative might save him.

    I dunno why he was being called a rookie after 11 races over two seasons but he is by far the worst of the 6 rookies despite his experience.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,775 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    The big stick thing in the media pen? That's a real microphone.

    This too shall pass.



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