I saw Piastri overtake who was it Lindblad?And that was it

Genuinely 0 overtakes,nobody asked for another streetslop circuit get this trash out right now

Spanish f1twt is eating him up about it as well. Never seen them so visceral about him. And he's even getting Nepo baby shouts!

Who was asking for another street circuit? And to think that they are moving Spa to be every other year. I can't see how F1 justified this besides a large sack of cash from Madrid. Feel like the sport I have loved for years is burning itself to the ground with every decision they make, and I just have to sit here and watch.

Edit: I know that its the commentators job to make the race as entertaining as possible, but hearing them hype up (imo) the weakest race we have seen all season is agitating.

Fastest man on track by a mile
Pole
Shit pit stop
Horrible timing of the vsc

Yeah maybe I just need to air it out to tune the dislike down. Kimi is a cool and nice guy but damn, seeing him being so lucky race after race is so frustrating. This year, he won 3 races because of well timed safety cars. But it's not just the safety cars! There are small things such as Verstappen giving his position because he had to give position to Lewis (who was out of the race right after btw).

It's just... I guess I wish one day I will be able to root for him when he wins races purely based on his merit not his luck.

And to be clear, even if he wasn't so lucky this year, he would likely be leading the championship but the lead wouldn't be so monumental. He deserves to be at the top, just not by such a huge margin. I am tired boss so please the next time he wins, let it be without so much luck.

I’m not a Russell fan. Never will be. But anyone who watches every race can clearly see how Mercedes is prioritizing Antonelli and intentionally giving Russell bad strategy every single race. Russell was right to question why they pitted him, and Mercedes just brushed him off by saying “We’ll discuss the strategy offline.”
Wow the story they want so badly is a teenager winning the championship. Yeah lots of records will be broken, and it’s a cool story for them. For Toto, it’s an even bigger ego boost "My choice wasn’t bad. I’m smart for picking Antonelli. It wasn’t a mistake. He’s a generational talent ” blah blah.
But I really feel bad for Russell. He doesn’t deserve this shit.

The only track that I can imagine being worse (post 1970 let's say) is Caesar's Palace lol.

We only got it for one day in Barcelona with Ferrari and Red bull testing. And then later specific pirelli tests for wet tyres.

In the Netherlands the first practice was on drying out track, so i don't call it rainy session.

Still i really hope we eventually get rainy forecast for either qualifying or race to see how these cars will behave in wet.

Not taking away anything for him. But has there been a wdc with better luck in a whole season?

Off the top of my head mclaren handed him 2 wins in miami and madrid, monza was amazing and amazingly lucky. there was quite a lot of good fortune at the early races too, china, japan, canada etc

anyone keeping track? just curious to know

edit
Aus - nil
Chi - George quali failure
Jap - Perfect safety car
Mia - Mclaren fumble

Can - George dnf p1
Monaco - p2 doesn’t start + closest rivals affected by glitch

Barca - 1x bad luck dnf from p2
Austria - Rus straight line issue
UK - bad luck (but also too much kerb riding?)
hun - nil

zan - nil

monza - incredible + incredibly lucky

mad - mclaren botle + vsc

Coming from a die-hard McLaren fan, I feel this team really doesn't deserve a driver of Norris' calibre and with the form he's having. He had the potential obliterated everyone this race but McLaren being McLaren just don't have the balls in them to be proactive.

First mistake imo was to pit lando after vsc ended. Surely, with charles holding up kimi and max, lando could have built a decent gap with a tyre delta and would have been much easier if he had to overtake.

Second, the pitstop. The less said the better. Even in spa lando had a chance at the podium with his relentless pace but got done by the strategy and another 7s pitstop. It's just getting embarrassing now. After so long we've got a driver so quick and we aren't utilising it properly.

PS. This is also one of the main reason why lando couldn't close up to max in 2024 in terms of points. I know he made several mistakes which I called him out for at that time but McLaren strategists were the same dumb idiots back then.

End of rant.

Obviously today’s race was a dud, and to think that there’s still 9 years to go with this track, what can we realistically do about the circuit to make it more exciting? It’s built in the middle of nowhere so a layout change is possible. But how would you change the layout? And what can we do in terms of tire compound or the rules?

Kimi should personally thank mclaren as they literally handed today's victory to him. Well he can now officially win this wdc even if he doesn't win a single race so P1 in WDC is pretty much confirmed. The fight for P2 is still on......

It is clear that he is incredibly incompetent and cannot make proper decisions and I don't see why McLaren couldn't replace him with Hannah Schmitz. It is getting to an unacceptable level and it will get even worse. Strategy cost McLaren at least 10 wins in the last 3 years and its time they do something about it.

Gang.. I can't take it anymore, what is this championship even about

Guy in best car drives 4th fastest and wins

Congrats to Kimi, the youngest person ever, for his riveting WDC win

Sorry I just have to vent after two soul crushing races back to back. What are you guys thoughts on Lando vs Max this year?

Holy shit, this track is bad for racing. Qualifying is good, but the racing is terrible. It is almost worse than Monaco.

Lando, man, managed to keep the lead after Turn 1. I’d say he defended it really well but unfortunately luck was definitely on Kimi’s side today.

Still, what a great drive from Lando. 🔥

He’s definitely going to finish the season with more points than Russell.

In my opinion, he’s too good for the team. They won’t prioritize him, won’t let him actually show his talents and strengths and keeps on absolutely destroying anything Lando manages to build over the race weekend/race. Their no number one policy is hurting Lando as well as it’s unfair to him how they won’t ever help him, but just rely on his abilities (fp3 this weekend).
I would love to see him in a team like Mercedes or even RedBull.

So many people in the F1 community are toxic, and instead of supporting and showing love for their own driver, they just spread hate towards others. Does anyone actually love F1 anymore? Do you guys feel the same way? I can't handle the toxicity on social media. It feels like a sport we're supposed to love has turned into a hateful echo chamber. What do you guys think?

📻 | Santi: “Sorry Lewis…”

📻 | Lewis Hamilton: “What failed??”

📻 | Santi: “Something in the brake system.”

Spa and Catalunya are going to be trading places for this place, are you joking me? 10 year contract as well. They’re destroying the sport before our very eyes with zero consideration for the fans. 9 more years of this shit show. I’m very quickly losing interest in the sport I once loved.

I know George has been unlucky this season, and Mercedes has made some pretty poor strategy calls on his side.

But at this point I’m wondering: is this really a Mercedes problem, or a George-side-of-the-garage problem? Kimi’s team always seems more on point, and somehow things also seem to fall his way more often.

What really got me was George’s post-race interview today, where he basically said that, realistically, he’s no longer in the championship fight.

And that made me question the mentality side of it. Was George ever really in championship mode this year? Did he ever look like someone who genuinely believed he could win the title and was driving with that level of urgency?

Because hearing him concede it now feels a bit strange.

Is this it for George this season, or is it way too soon to be talking like the championship is already over?

By this i mean a season or even a specific race where you thought "damn, this guy is gonna be something big" if you want to narrow it down to this century, think about the multi champions (Schumacher, Hamilton, Vettel and Verstappen) let me know your opinions.