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2025 Spanish Grand Prix - [POST RACE] discussion thread 🏁

ROUND 9: 🇪🇸 Spain

FORMULA 1 ARAMCO GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA 2025

Circuit stats

First Grand Prix: 1991
Number of laps: 66
Circuit Length: 4.657 km
Race Distance: 307.236 km
Lap record: 1:16.330 Max Verstappen (2023)
2024 winner: Max Verstappen

Track Map

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Max is a skilled driver but otherwise a shitty spoiled child. Can't respect him no matter how fast he can drive.
- Yeah, now I see why people hated Schumacher.
Shocked Max only got a 10 second for that..
- Yeah agree.
  
  Happy cake day btw
- The real punishment is that he is now on 11 penalty points for the next two races, even a reasonably minor infraction could result in a race ban.
  
  If he did get a race ban what would be interesting is how RB would fill that seat, would Liam get recalled for a race as he has recent experience of car? Isack can a crack at it? Who would replace either of them in the Racing Bull?
  
  This is why I hate penalty points. No, minor incidents shouldn’t add up to a ban, but something like this, deliberately ramming your car into someone else’s, should be a race ban.
Man...Max is going to get a talking to. I can't believe he didn't get a black flag for doing that. Slowing down and then fully speeding up to hit Russel. Just absolute nonsense and terrible communication from red bull.
- What was the problem with RedBull communication? (Plain real question :) )
  
  From what I understand from the turn 1 incident on that lap with Russel, the team told Max to give the position back as he could have been deemed to gain a lasting advantage by going off track and keeping ahead. Max didn’t like the call and decided to show his team what George did to him. However it was clear that Max did it intentionally and in a what could have been dangerous manner. Completely against the code of racing really. There was no need for it and it seems in many peo0,e views he should have been/should be penalised more harshly.
Race was alright until that safety car made it spicy. Wonder why it took so long to pull into the pits - we could've had at least 1 extra lap of racing.

Mega 10 points for Hulk and Sauber. Watching him overtake a Ferrari was surreal.

Leclerc's risky tire strategy yesterday worked out well today.

Hadjar with another strong points finish.

Alonso finally with points on board.

10s penalty for Verstappen seems lenient. He got 3 penalty points for it apparently and with 11 penalty points is 1 point away from a race ban.

Another engine failure for Antonelli is bizarre.

It's a shame that Lawson wasn't able to get a point after all that brawling.
- They were waiting for the backmarkers to catch up to the rest of the field before restarting the race, is why it took so long
  
  The F1TV commentators were saying it's not mandatory for backmarkers to catch up in order to resume racing.
All the drivers clearly have been advised by their teams to not comment on the Max situation. Oscar basically said "didn't have context on what happened, only saw they collided, can't comment", Lando ignored the question entirely and just started talking about his own race, George was pretty non committal despite being involved in the incident and also flat out refused to comment in his role as a GPDA director (says he was "too close to comment").

Clearly they don't want any sound bites out there about it.
- I can’t comment I’m sorry
- I mean, he definitely should not comment on that in his GDPA role since he is personally too close to that situation. Full agree on that.
  
  Why the teams all had their drivers not comment on it however is interesting.
  
  Agree on the GDPA role, but they did explicitly ask him about it during the interview so figured it was at least worth mentioning.
  
  Best theory I have is all the teams are expecting some sort of sanction over the incident and they all want to be able to be arms length and say "that was the FIA's decision" and not have sound bites where they were suggesting that something should happen.
Verstappen one point away from race ban The stewards have given their explanation for Max Verstappen's collision with George Russell and have given the Red Bull driver two penalty points which takes him up to 11 points. If you collect 12 points over a 12-month period then you are given a race ban. Verstappen will lose two points at the end of this month at the Austrian Grand Prix. The stewards said: "From the radio communications, it was clear that the driver of Car 1 was asked by his team to ‘give the position back’ to Car 63 for what they perceived to be an earlier breach by Car 1 for leaving the track and gaining a lasting advantage (in fact, we had later determined that we would take no further action in relation to that incident). "The driver of Car 1 was clearly unhappy with his team’s request to give the position back. At the approach to Turn 5, Car 1 significantly reduced its speed thereby appearing to allow Car 63 to overtake. "However, after Car 63 got ahead of Car 1 at the entry of Turn 5, Car 1 suddenly accelerated and collided with Car 63. The collision was undoubtedly caused by the actions of Car 1. We therefore imposed a 10 second time penalty on Car 1."
Hülk 🎉

I have to say I'm happy seeing Sauber haven't fallen completely off the face of the earth this season given how last season went.

Just need Bortaletto to get some points on the board. 👏
Liam went full torpedo this race, was interesting to see.

Max should've gotten longer than 10s for that, it was stupid.

Happy that team papaya is doing so well ❤️

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