2025 Race 21 - Brazil

[F1nKS]

Piastri is fighting back. On provisional pole. Here comes the final run...

[F1nKS]

Piastri is fighting back. On provisional pole. Here comes the final run...

Norris answers and takes the pole. Piastri drops to 4th.

[Steve Boyd]

How long before Max is on the phone to Marko asking for a transfer to the Racing Bulls?

[F1nKS]

Jos did not look very happy. I wonder if he will be at any more races after this weekend.

[airshifter]

Already kind of an unusual weekend.

McLaren looking good but not on top form, Merc is strong as well. Both Max and the Ferraris seem a bit lost. Alonso showing that AM can work at times.

Oscar bins it in the Sprint, and no big surprises otherwise in the Sprint.



And then qually happens. The reigning world champ is out in Q1, the other two world champs on the grid out in Q2, yet we have Bearman, Kimi, Isack, Nico, Liam, and Pierre in the top 10. I don't think anyone would have made such a prediction. And half a second covers the top 9 drivers, but Lando has 3/10 on Oscar who is in 4th.

As if the crazy grid isn't enough, it now looks like very little chance of rain during the race, but it might start with a little or at least still wet. Windy, gusty, and cool.

Max took an engine and setup changes and will start from the pit lane. Nothing much to lose there, and maybe he can get back to the points. But chances are his long shot at the title is done, and Oscar needs to up his game or his will go away as well.





As for Jos, he never looks happy. TBH having him in the pits does nothing to help.... ever.

[airshifter]

That was a fantastic race.

I'm not going to comment on anything until later to avoid many spoilers for people.

[airshifter]

I'm really shocked that nobody has commented on this race. From the start to the finish it stayed fairly busy.


The roll of the dice by RB with Max ended with a puncture and an extra stop, but if not for that he might have pulled off a win IMHO. But either way pulling off a pitlane to podium in that car was a really solid race, and after the weekend they had rather surprising. I'm not sure what they got wrong for the Sprint, but they made the right call to change the car and start from the pits.

Lando managed a great weekend as well, and stayed in control of the entire race. If he keeps up this type of racing he's going to be really hard to beat for the WDC unless he has some misfortune.

Both Mercs stayed solid, and both drivers had to fight off attacks from behind towards the end of the race. And both pulled it off very well, defending the faster cars behind them. I'm wondering if Kimi will step up to challenge George more often, or if it will be a rare event.

A nightmare of a weekend for Ferrari. Hamiltons race was messy from the start due to the Sainz contact, and to top it off he managed to bump Colapinto as well and lost his wing, along with gaining a penalty. Charles got the short end of the restart, and did nothing wrong but ended up with a DNF anyway.

Both Racing Bulls, as well as Nico and Pierre end up in the points. Well done to all of them.


And then there was Oscar, who didn't have the greatest weekend. But in all fairness the more often I watch the replay of the restart I think they were wrong to give him the penalty. There was clearly plenty of overlap while they were still on the straight, and even though he locked up some when Kimi turned in he hit the apex of the corner just fine. If anything Kimi moving caused both the lockup and the collision. But there was plenty of room on the outside between Kimi and Charles. I don't think Oscar was the one in the wrong on this one.