2025 Race 20 - Mexico

**N. Jones** · 26th October 2025, 22:14

Absolute mayhem. That VSC saved Charles' 2nd place.

**N. Jones** · 26th October 2025, 22:15

Originally Posted by airshifter

Yep, Oscar on the back foot and Lando making it happen in Mexico City. That was a fantastic lap for pole by Lando, and he seems confident in his race pace. With the Ferrari drivers and George in front of Max, and even more drivers in front of Oscar, this is the type of weekend Lando needs to get back on top of the championship fight.

It will be interesting to see who gets to the first corner first, with that long start straight it can be dicey.

Hoping the mixed up grid provides us with some good racing.

Everybody got to the first corner first! Hahahaha

**airshifter** · 27th October 2025, 18:17

Well that one got interesting quickly. Four wide into the first turn!

Action through most of the race due to the differing strategies and strange qually results. George moaning got old really quick, he was at least a couple car lengths back by the braking zone and then expected to advance due to it. I'm not sure what got into Jolyon Palmer on the F1TV coverage, he kept saying Max was screwed and going to be way down when he was on the mediums. I could see everyone not running fast on the mediums, why he couldn't I don't know. But it all inverted at the stops, and Max was quick again.

I think that VSC saved either Charles or Ollie, maybe both. I haven't watched back as I never noticed where Sainz car ended up, since I never spotted it while watching the first time.

Amazing job by Bearman. He ran a solid race and took that Haas to a finish most of us wouldn't have predicted. The VSC might have saved him a position, but either way he worked hard to get it there. As for Lando, cruising out front in clean air he made it almost look easy. But he seemed really positive this weekend and he was right, complete control of the race start to finish.

Only 1 point now in the WDC between Lando and Oscar, and Max is 35 points farther back. I have a feeling that the end of the season could get spicy!

**Bagwan** · Today, 17:35

Big change in the Mac camp , with Oscar not able to cope with the direction they've taken with the car to keep it competitive , and Lando seemingly making the right moves to justify it .

I'm not surprised that Lando is happy about it but I am a little amazed by how much wind it seems to have taken out of Oscar's sails .
I kind of expected a little defiance from him , but he just sounded plain beaten .

George whined , and maybe he had a point , but , as I said to the Trophy wife during the broadcast , by the point Kimi let him by , it would have helped the situation for the whole team , had he stayed in DRS range for the lad to help him fend off his opponent , rather than the futile run up he tried .
George's team has apologized , which is , I hope , just to appease his ego .