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On 4/5/2025 at 11:45 PM, aggie08 said:

Lando is treated like the clear cut #1, and I don't understand why.

When I posted this, I didn't realize that that Lando out-qualified Oscar 21-3 last year. Obviously, it makes sense to prioritize the car that dominated Saturdays and always starts closer to the front. So far this year, Oscar is up 3-2. Going to make for a spicy paddock if that trend continues.

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28 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

When I posted this, I didn't realize that that Lando out-qualified Oscar 21-3 last year. Obviously, it makes sense to prioritize the car that dominated Saturdays and always starts closer to the front. So far this year, Oscar is up 3-2. Going to make for a spicy paddock if that trend continues.

Piastri is just a better driver right now.  

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They’re lowering the amount of flex the front wings can have by 5mm.  It’s predicted that it’s going to take most of McLarens speed advantage over Red Bull away.

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Does anyone else use the F1TV stream? The quality night and day better compared to the broadcast over Hulu, but the app is absolute garbage.  Very buggy and fast forward is a pain.

I use premium on Apple TV to get the 4K HDR feed. It’s been mostly alright aside from it not working last week for a bit.
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When I posted this, I didn't realize that that Lando out-qualified Oscar 21-3 last year. Obviously, it makes sense to prioritize the car that dominated Saturdays and always starts closer to the front. So far this year, Oscar is up 3-2. Going to make for a spicy paddock if that trend continues.
Oscar is the better driver.
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9 hours ago, Chewbacca said:
19 hours ago, aggie08 said:
When I posted this, I didn't realize that that Lando out-qualified Oscar 21-3 last year. Obviously, it makes sense to prioritize the car that dominated Saturdays and always starts closer to the front. So far this year, Oscar is up 3-2. Going to make for a spicy paddock if that trend continues.

Oscar is the better driver.

Lando has better pace and is better at preserving his tires, but none of that matters if he keeps screwing up qualifying and being bad in wheel to wheel racing. Lando would be walking away with the WDC if he could quit screwing up, but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen, so you’ve gotta go with Oscar at this point. 

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1 minute ago, Goofyboy said:

Max driving off track and keeping the place is bullshit.

Maybe if they keep penalizing him 1 out of every 10 times that he does it, he'll finally learn his lesson!

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3 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

No reason to give it back when the stewards let you keep 1st.

Pretty unlikely he builds a 5 second lead on a McLaren before pitting. To your point though, he'd probably be further behind Piastri after 20 laps had they restarted with Max in 2nd then he will be after serving the penalty.

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There is no way it's an easy choice. When was the last time a team had two contending drivers and the relationship didn't deteriorate in some way. Mismanagement benefits Verstappen the most.

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As I alluded to earlier, Saturday kinda makes the decision for them. Prioritize the car out front. Unless Max starts reeling off wins (certainly possible, even in a mediocre car), they probably have the luxury of alternating priorities.

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7 minutes ago, naija said:

There is no way it's an easy choice. When was the last time a team had two contending drivers and the relationship didn't deteriorate in some way. Mismanagement benefits Verstappen the most.

Theres no way around the ego of F1 drivers but right now Piastri is getting it done on Sunday’s. Like others have said, he’s just better wheel to wheel. 

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1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

As much as I love F1, I do wonder how many races are fundamentally decided on lap 1, turn 1.

Easy answer would be the number of races the are overly dependent upon the results of qualifying.  

If only they would reduce the size of the cars enough to make passing truly possible in most of the races. 

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better than a few of the previous races, at least you can pass here in a few spots.

Really wonder if Max had just immediately given the spot back he would have ended up winning.

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better than a few of the previous races, at least you can pass here in a few spots.
Really wonder if Max had just immediately given the spot back he would have ended up winning.

There is a very good possibility he passes Oscar on the restart.
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Max 100% wins this if he (or his team, not sure who is at fault here) would have given the place back. He was ripping that circuit to shreds - 2nd place on laps 2 thru 5 would have turned into 1st real fast and that looked to be a track where clear air made all the difference. He was forced to give up clear air and too much of a gap and that cost him.

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1 hour ago, dieucla98 said:

Max 100% wins this if he (or his team, not sure who is at fault here) would have given the place back. He was ripping that circuit to shreds - 2nd place on laps 2 thru 5 would have turned into 1st real fast and that looked to be a track where clear air made all the difference. He was forced to give up clear air and too much of a gap and that cost him.

I don't know. Oscar and Max were pretty dead even on lap times (which has to be encouraging for Red Bull). I think a stationary start was about the only chance either one of them had at passing each other on that track.

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49 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said:

Clean air also matters a LOT. Without it he probably would have fallen back.

Agree.  Oscar in the faster car has a good chance to build a lead if he's out in front with clean air.

Anyway, grand prix podium for Ferrari, molto bello.

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On 4/19/2025 at 2:22 PM, MadTrapper said:

Does anyone else use the F1TV stream? The quality night and day better compared to the broadcast over Hulu, but the app is absolute garbage.  Very buggy and fast forward is a pain.

They still haven't gotten that shit figured out? Wow.

 

14 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

I'm kinda liking this Kimi kid, and why can't Aston Martin get their shit together? They're disappointing me and Bond 

All in on 2026.

14 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

Max driving off track and keeping the place is bullshit.

Yep. I blame the penalty system. It's what they all do these days, even when they might be better off just giving the place back, as they would have been in this case. The problem is, most times they come out ahead by just taking the penalty.

I also still have a problem with the whole 'the inside car had a 6" lead at the apex, so he doesn't neeed to leave any room at all for the car on the outside' convention (no matter who is involved). As one of the commentators astutely noted during the race, 'If Oscar had been slightly behind at apex instead of slightly ahead, Max would still have had to leave the track. They were both committed'. I'll never understand why the same rule that requires you to leave room for a car that's alongside on the inside doesn't apply to a car on the outside. Change that, and/or require track design that enforces track limits, and the whole equation changes. It was also so close imho that neither driver had a slam-dunk claim to having been ahead at the apex. Again, require both drivers to leave room for one  another, and then each of them will change the way they race that corner, and it won't even matter who's ahead at the apex (in terms of legality or penalties).

6 hours ago, dieucla98 said:

Max 100% wins this if he (or his team, not sure who is at fault here) would have given the place back. He was ripping that circuit to shreds - 2nd place on laps 2 thru 5 would have turned into 1st real fast and that looked to be a track where clear air made all the difference. He was forced to give up clear air and too much of a gap and that cost him.

Yep, imho.

 

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