F1 2025: Chinese GP - Shanghai (Mar 23)

///M Power-Belgium · 03-23-2025, 03:35 AM

Yuki is P19 . Man what a bad luck for Yuki !!!

M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 03:37 AM

Ollie Ollie nails that last point

GuidoK · 03-23-2025, 03:39 AM

Well done Oscar!
Faultless race.
Also a strong race from RUS. He had that strong qualifying, but I didn't expect the MERC to be this strong in the race. They seem to have a lot of things finally sorted in the last year of this ruleset.
I think Max got everything possible out of his car, but it's not looking good for the rest of the year.

M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Yuki is P19 . Man what a bad luck for Yuki !!!

Material breakdown somewhere in the moulding of it.

HFW003 · 03-23-2025, 03:40 AM

Go you good thing!!!!

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///M Power-Belgium · 03-23-2025, 03:40 AM

1- PIA
2- NOR
3- RUS
4- MAX
5- LEC

Congrats for McLaren !

The papaya car is unbeatable and the RB21 is Frankenstein

M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by GuidoK

Well done Oscar!
Faultless race.
Also a strong race from RUS. He had that strong qualifying, but I didn't expect the MERC to be this strong in the race. They seem to have a lot of things finally sorted in the last year of this ruleset.
I think Max got everything possible out of his car, but it's not looking good for the rest of the year.

With reduced rear wing gaps to .5 mm max the Larens should slow come Suzuka but by how much is anybodies guess.

M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

1- PIA
2- NOR
3- RUS
4- MAX
5- LEC

Congrats for McLaren !

The papaya car is unbeatable and the RB21 is Frankenstein

Never say never my friend, the season has just started and Wache can't get everything wrong all the time, the MAX factor will slowly come back as their budget bites into the right things coming up.

///M Power-Belgium · 03-23-2025, 03:50 AM

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Originally Posted by M5Rick

Material breakdown somewhere in the moulding of it.

Delamination !

M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Delamination !

Just like my Costco Executive card, it's all peeling

Artemis · 03-23-2025, 04:04 AM

Race summary:

Provisional classification:

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M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 04:07 AM

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Race summary:

Provisional classification:

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My mint tea and porridge is beckoning

Davil · 03-23-2025, 04:27 AM

Well done Oscar. This is going to be an interesting season at McLaren.

Two stop was a killer.

Doohan Tadger tussle was fun.

Ferrari radio closely followed that for entertainment value.

Max did the best he could in that car. Definitely ahead of where the car should be.

Poor Fernando. I reckon he’d have scraped a point. Lance did well until his mediums died. They clearly went one stop strategy for the edge but everyone else did it in reverse which worked better.

Handsome George looking good this year. He has really stepped up a level.

Antonelli driver of the day was an interesting choice.

Davil · 03-23-2025, 04:36 AM

Oh yes and Haas. That was surprising. Great work from both drivers.

M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 04:48 AM

Enjoy it while you can those in Woking but those pressure tests on the rear wings will kick in now for Suzuka in a fortnight.

M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Davil

Oh yes and Haas. That was surprising. Great work from both drivers.

Ollie 10th and * Ocon 7th brought a smile to me too, 7 points to gee them up.

GuidoK · 03-23-2025, 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by M5Rick

Ollie 10th and Ocon 7th

but we know what you mean

stellar result for Haas.
Komatsu works wonders there

GuidoK · 03-23-2025, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Davil

Well done Oscar. This is going to be an interesting season at McLaren.

Yeah. I think Oscar is the more interesting driver to watch.
Lando is a very likeable guy but it often looks to me that he finds it more important on how people look at him and what they think of him than the racing and being a racing driver.
That makes him also really insecure when racing I think. Also last week he was irritated when so many people talked about the car and not him.
A real racer doesn't care. It's the final result that should speak for itself.
And Oscar is all business. Nobody has to tell him what to do during the race.
He's more like Max.
I still don't know if he's as good as a driver as Lando (certainly last year 2nd half Lando was significantly better), but maybe he'll improve.

He's definately not at the level Max is, but probably no one is. Last race in Melbourne, Max made 1 mistake, and that is going a little bit wide in 1 corner, but that was it. Pretty much every other driver made more or bigger mistakes (even Lando went off track)

M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by GuidoK

but we know what you mean

stellar result for Haas.
Komatsu works wonders there

* Changed it

Komatsu indeed is stellar manager there and no doubt cheered Gene up some, Guenther must be taking stock of this.

wizardofOz · 03-23-2025, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by GuidoK

Yeah. I think Oscar is the more interesting driver to watch.
Lando is a very likeable guy but it often looks to me that he finds it more important on how people look at him and what they think of him than the racing and being a racing driver.
That makes him also really insecure when racing I think
And Oscar is all business. Nobody has to tell him what to do during the race.
He's more like Max.
I still don't know if he's as good as a driver as Lando (certainly last year 2nd half Lando was significantly better), but maybe he'll improve.

He's definately not at the level Max is, but probably no one is. Last race in Melbourne, Max made 1 mistake, and that is going a little bit wide in 1 corner, but that was it. Pretty much every other driver made more or bigger mistakes (even Lando went off track)

I like Oscars more 'no nonsense' demeanour whereas Lando could be your best friend on a Friday night at the bar or pub kind person.

I also can't believe GiGi finished third...that two faced woman.

M5Rick · 03-23-2025, 05:18 AM

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I like Oscars more 'no nonsense' demeanour whereas Lando could be your best friend on a Friday night at the bar or pub kind person.

I also can't believe GiGi finished third...that two faced woman.

He'll be burning up another set of rears in his loaned AMG GT in West London before running out of gas again

wizardofOz · 03-23-2025, 05:24 AM

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He'll be burning up another set of rears in his loaned AMG GT in West London before running out of gas again

Someone please slash his tyres while they're at it

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Davil Brigadier General 7291 Rep 3,295 Posts Drives: 21 Vantage, 18 Vantage, 00 WRX Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Australia iTrader: (0) Garage List 2021 Aston Martin V ... [9.94] 2018 Aston Martin V ... [8.35] 2000 Subaru WRX GC8 [7.83]	Well done Oscar. This is going to be an interesting season at McLaren. Two stop was a killer. Doohan Tadger tussle was fun. Ferrari radio closely followed that for entertainment value. Max did the best he could in that car. Definitely ahead of where the car should be. Poor Fernando. I reckon he’d have scraped a point. Lance did well until his mediums died. They clearly went one stop strategy for the edge but everyone else did it in reverse which worked better. Handsome George looking good this year. He has really stepped up a level. Antonelli driver of the day was an interesting choice. Last edited by Davil; 03-23-2025 at 04:28 AM..
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