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2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️

ROUND 5: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025

Circuit stats

First Grand Prix: 2021
Number of laps: 50
Circuit Length: 6.174 km
Race Distance: 308.45 km
Lap record: 1:30.734 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
2024 winner: Max Verstappen

Track Map

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Sheesh Lando, falling to the same trick twice in under 90 seconds.
Lewis schooling Lando.
- Making him look silly honestly. Gotta be smarter than that if you want to be WDC.
That's how you clear a 7-time world champion Lando.
- Absolute madman to pull an overtake there. Piastri is the real deal.
The classic go off track turn one to keep position manoeuvre by Max there. F2 was full of it as well.
- While I agree he should have given it back, Piastri also either steered into him/lost control and went deep into the corner further than a normal racing line. So curious what the stewards would think.
  
  Edit: 5 penalty seconds for this, if you think it's penalty worthy, remains stupid. It should always be at least 10.
  
  I agree with the stewards here that it's on Max. Though he will happily keep track position and try to make a gap. This is a classic Max move, one of his signatures tbh. Wasn't it Mexico last year as well for example? Really kind of tired of this stuff from him honestly.
  
  EDIT: I completely agree about the penalty though and I thought they already said they were going to use 10 sec as the baseline just for the reason that 5 is so often worth it.
Lets go, both Williams in points.
- Go weeyums
  
  I am in this picture and i love it.
- And Hadjar again too!
- Stoked for the team, they're having a good run.
Bwoah that was close for Alonso
- I, too, was pleased at that bit of Kimi from Fernando.
Bwoah

Welcome back Kimi Raikkonen.
Great overtake by Leclerc, bad way direction showed it live. It basically didn't even show the actual overtake. They had to do a damn replay for it.
"That was Gabi, he might not have a manager tonight anymore" - Piastri on the Bortoleto-Alonso situation 😅
- I thought he said "flight home?" I assume he meant Gabi is using Fernando's private jet.
Leclerc out here driving a medium like a hard tyre.
- There is no deg here, only overheating it seems. Could have possibly gone M-S honestly seeing as he was in clear air.
"Cya nerds" ~ Max Verstappen
Sainz smooth operating for Williams right now
Well that was a quick safety car.
So who do we think is causing the inevitable safety car/red flag? Any bets?
- Verstappen and Piastri, leaving Norris to win after a luck safety car caused by a Stroll crash. (Crazy predictions cost nothing!)
  
  Edit: Norris starting on hards makes me believe they're on Lemmy too!
- Stroll my man never disappoints 😂
- Tsunoda getting a bit overconfident, maybe? Hope it won't be him, though.
  
  Ding ding ding! (Doesn't look likes it's his fault but still involved)
Well they didn't completely fuck up the national anthem so that's nice
Piastri going for an undercut seems super sketchy. They need to find clean air for him and this puts him in traffic no? Even without the slow stop. I feel like possibly the overcut would have been better today?
Quite an optimistic move from Gasly
Is it just Max or the Red Bull is fast here, that 5s penalty doesn't look that threatening to Max's race.
- The 5s penalty does almost nothing for anyone. It's way too low a penalty for anything. Regardless of how good your car is. It's only annoying if you got lucky earlier with a car where you're actually out of position where your car should be.
  
  Commentary here speculated it was probably 5s because of Piastri being partially responsible for pushing Verstappen off, where Lawson took full blame and got 10s.
What's Red Bull's game here? I think they lost 2-3 seconds to Piastri already by pitting late
- Probably expecting Hamilton to box a lap earlier.
STOP THE COUNT!!
Whoa Alonso, what a overtake.

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