F1 2025 Mega Thread

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Here's how the drivers line-up for Sunday's race 👀

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OSCAR PIASTRI WINS THE DUTCH GRAND PRIX!! 🤩

Piastri is now 34 points clear in the F1 world championship! 📈🏆

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ISACK HADJAR.

P4 IN QUALIFYING
P3 IN THE RACE

Incredible. Just, incredible.

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RACE CLASSIFICATION (LAP 72/72)

Piastri's ninth win, Hadjar's first podium and double points for Red Bull, Haas and Aston Martin 👏👏👏

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Lando Norris is so real for this... 🍔➡️🏠

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DRIVER STANDINGS (after 15/24 rounds)

Piastri ⬅️ 34 points ➡️ Norris

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Oops! How unlucky Ocon was to pit right before the SC accident with Leclerc!

But before that he was one position ahead of Berman and could have finished higher!

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🇮🇹FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO D’ITALIA 2025

Above is the full F1 Italy schedule – get up to speed with all the important timings, both on and off track, for the Formula 1 Pirelli Gran Premio d’Italia 2025, which takes place over 53 laps of the famous 5.793-kilometre Autodromo Nazionale Monza on Sunday, September 7.

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Hustling into the points... 📈

Alex, Esteban, Lance and Ollie made some serious gains in the Dutch Grand Prix! 💪

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The awards for Monza this year are interesting.

The author is Italian artist Nico Vascellari. The awards are called "Chimera". The creature combines the features of a cheetah, a peregrine falcon and a sailfish - the fastest creatures on land, in the air and in the water.

A word from the author:

“The reference to the animal kingdom in this trophy comes from a natural human fascination, an instinctive feeling that transcends and expands the boundaries of speed, flight and endurance. Animals are an inexhaustible source of inspiration. When I designed the trophy, I thought about the moment when the rider lifts it high above his head: it is a symbolic gesture that elevates the animal world and nature above us, trying to restore balance. It is also a celebration of nature’s ability to inspire.”

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✍🏻 Let's figure out together how Albon - Berman - Stroll - Alonso - Tsunoda - Ocon got to the qualifying points.

⛔️ Let's start with the obvious.

➡️ Norris (DNF)
➡️ Ferrari (accidents)
➡️ Antonelli (accident and penalty)
➡️ Sainz
➡️ Lawson (collision)

These guys withdrew, so six positions were immediately vacated among the leaders and in the middle group.

Which gave the opportunity to score big points for the drivers behind.

🔴 The Haas drivers started on Hard, missed the first safety car, and eventually made up positions, remaining on old tires.

Then Berman and Ocon blocked the drivers behind them, taking advantage of the fact that Zandvoort is not an overtaking track...

If Leclerc had not crashed, it is unlikely that the American team's drivers would have finished in the points.

🔴 But the second safety car allowed them not only to make a "free" pit stop, but also to switch to fresh Medium tires and attack until the end of the race.

After that, Oliver and Esteban were in 11th and 14th positions respectively, and ahead of them were the defenseless Sauber, Alpine and Aston Martin drivers on less advantageous tires.

Thus, they were able to break into the points despite Kimi's penalty.

💚 Alonso stopped on lap 40, and although he made up some ground by not stopping for the second safety car after Charles's crash, he finished the race on worn-out Hard tires.

Therefore, he became an easy target for his rivals.

🔵 Albon was lucky to break through after numerous retirements and the collision of Sainz and Lawson.

At the same time, before that, together with Carlos, he led the middle group behind the Racing Bulls pilots (we do not take into account Ajar, who spent the entire race in the lead).

Alex had a standard strategy of Medium - Hard - Soft, and it should be noted that at the start he immediately made up FIVE POSITIONS.

💙 Pierre Gasly's strategy failed.

The Alpine driver came in for a "free" pit stop after the first safety car (Hamilton's accident), and decided to stay on the track on the second wave of the Safety Car (Leclerc's accident), hoping for his defense.

But the too worn Hard, on which Gasly drove from lap 23, did not allow Pierre to defend himself from rivals on fresher sets by that time.

💚 Lance Stroll had an interesting strategy. He stopped earlier than everyone else on lap 8, stayed on Hard after the first safety car, winning back many positions...

And waited for the second safety car (Leclerc's accident)!

Thus, Lance made a "free" stop, kept the positions he had won back, and was able to earn points.

We note that this is not the first time that Stroll's race engineer and the garage side have chosen the optimal bold strategy - we can recall the race at Silverstone, when Lance even fought for the podium.

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🔴 In the end, Oliver Berman finished in the best position of his career!

Breaking through from the last place, starting from the pit lane. One of the main heroes of the race.

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🇳🇱 The analysis of the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix is ​​over, thank you all very much!

This week we meet in the legendary Monza for the Italian Grand Prix.

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🇮🇹 Schedule of the sixteenth round of Formula 1 2025 Italian Grand Prix (Monza)

🏆 September 5 (Friday)
FP1 - 14:30
FP2 - 18:00

🏆 September 6 (Saturday)
FP3 - 13:30
Qualifying - 17:00

🏆 September 7 (Sunday)
Italian Grand Prix - 16:00

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Coole poster van Ferrari op Monza

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It's nearly time for the Monza action to get underway 🤩

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🏁 FP1 CLASSIFICATION 🏁

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🏁 FP2 CLASSIFICATION 🏁

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Max Verstappen takes pole position for the 2025 Italian Grand Prix

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Max on pole!!!!
Norris starts next to him.
Charles is on the second row with Oscar.
Lewis will start tenth, taking into account the penalty.

Tsunoda, of course, made it to Q3, but again lost to Max by more than seven dozen

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Qualifying gaps in top 5 at Monza

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Max now has the joint most poles this season. Insane [from DAZN on Instagram]