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#3423594 10-Oct-2025 07:29

I’d need to look back but Oscar has done the same move on Lando earlier this year, with Lando having to move off track to avoid him (wasn’t a walled street track).

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#3423598 10-Oct-2025 08:08

I wonder if we will see Oscar and Lando take each other out in the Esses at Austin on the first lap? And Max goes on to win haha. Shades of Lewis and Nico Barcelona 2016.

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#3423637 10-Oct-2025 10:44

Jaxson:

Batman:

the best way to remain neutral is to let them race.

That's pretty much what happened here.

Agreed, but I reckon they should stop the Papaya insurance.

They are trying to play stewards and race director at the same time.

Just let the race director and stewards do their thing and let these 2 do what they need to do.

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#3425224 15-Oct-2025 23:23

Leclerc can still win the drivers championship if he wins every remaining race and Oscar, Lando and Max crash out and get no points basically every race - just saying :)

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#3425274 16-Oct-2025 08:07

Ragnor:

Leclerc can still win the drivers championship if he wins every remaining race and Oscar, Lando and Max crash out and get no points basically every race - just saying :)

More likely for me to win lotto

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#3425787 17-Oct-2025 15:32

Time to go racing again, sprint weekend, so two opportunities to bag some points for Lawson. I hope he has a better outing than last time out. Another track he should have fond memories of so fingers-crossed he can convert and get ahead of the 2-3 drivers ahead of him in the WDC.

As for the main competition, I hope it's elbows out from Norris, Piastri and Verstappen and the title remains alive or tightens up further, especially on Verstappen's end. Let's see who can handle the pressure.

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#3426139 19-Oct-2025 09:03

thermonuclear:

Time to go racing again, sprint weekend, so two opportunities to bag some points for Lawson. I hope he has a better outing than last time out. Another track he should have fond memories of so fingers-crossed he can convert and get ahead of the 2-3 drivers ahead of him in the WDC.

As for the main competition, I hope it's elbows out from Norris, Piastri and Verstappen and the title remains alive or tightens up further, especially on Verstappen's end. Let's see who can handle the pressure.

The odd elbow lol.

The Brit commentators all labelled Oscar's cutback as his fault, Danica Patrick, surrounded by them, toed the party line. Brundle, Brown and Stella all blamed Nico

More talk about Max contending for the Drivers, can't see that. Prior to this morning he needs to average a 12 point gain on average for every race weekend. 7 to catch Lando. Too much luck involved. Max could go on a winning streak, them McLaren have one great race weekend which is highly likely, then its over.

Race result will be tight. Oscars SQ3 was messy so he's there. Max drove great and only just got pole. Sprint race, RB21 wasnt as balanced, so he couldn't keep away from George. If there were two McLarens behind him he would have struggled to win. But they will tune the RB21 so it will be tight

Then there is turn 1...

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#3426265 19-Oct-2025 11:21

I think Lawson is inside Tsunoda's head , he is blaming him for all his troubles

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#3426274 19-Oct-2025 11:53

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I think Lawson is inside Tsunoda's head , he is blaming him for all his troubles

Yes, not the first time Ive heard that type of comment. On purpose??

What's going on Oscar?? Possibly tentative to avoid binning it, maybe holding onto his lead? Although in Q3 they were close, the average exit form Turn 15 cost a lot of time, made some back up in the last sector, so its there. Depends if its just one of those things or a trend.

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#3426518 19-Oct-2025 20:58

Asteros:

I wonder if we will see Oscar and Lando take each other out in the Esses at Austin on the first lap? And Max goes on to win haha. Shades of Lewis and Nico Barcelona 2016.

Close, how about first corner.

At this rate Oscar will win by just denying Lando and himself any more points.
Max to second place, Oscar to win by margin of his margin.
Lando is going well but for a variety of reasons, including full mechanical failure dnf, is failing to convert those into race points.

Yuki constantly blaming Liam, but Yuki is just not performing.

Weird Grand Prix qualifying saw a lot teams just not perform that well in the main race qualifying session. Track evolution just ended, I wonder if the temp dropped or wind changed direction significantly etc.
Lawson is a bit like Alonso in that he can get up to speed quite quickly, but can't seem to improve.
Works well on a sprint weekend where it's straight into qualifying.

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#3426566 20-Oct-2025 08:44

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Yuki constantly blaming Liam, but Yuki is just not performing.

Tsunoda is looking like he's driving for his career so far this weekend, mugged Lawson at the start and is solid in P7 at the moment. Meanwhile, riding with Lawson and Alonso in front is just driving off into the distance. Hope they are running some miracle strategy to bring him back into the fight but it just looks like it's going to be no points at this stage. Not the result he is needing if Red Bull are finalising the driver line-ups in a week's time.

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#3426623 20-Oct-2025 10:31

Not as good a race for Liam but still well ahead of Hadjar.
Yuki doing better this race.

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#3426651 20-Oct-2025 13:15

Pretty boring race to watch sadly.

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#3426652 20-Oct-2025 13:18

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Pretty boring race to watch sadly.

Yep - but that shows how optimised these cars are and how good the drivers are... they barely make mistakes, the cars energy deployment is scripted by the team, and they've figured out the aero rules to give outwash to generate the dirty air to negate some of the following.

I'm hoping the moveable aero solves the DRS issue and allows drivers to attack more but given the volume of computers doing back end work at factories and home bases they're so close to 'perfect' that there isn't much to call.

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#3426744 20-Oct-2025 15:20

The more technology has encroached into the sport, the more sterile it has become. Much like America's Cup, which has also lost it's way in my view. Next year sounds like the drivers will be throwing switches on the wheel endlessly, I'm not sure that's going to add anything positive to the spectacle. Showing my age obviously but what I wouldn't give for in-race refuelling to return, or multiple tire manufacturers.

FI has legislated all the soul out of the sport.

Great result for keeping the Verstappen WDC hype train rolling this morning but precious little else. Two tracks now that Lawson has previously scored points at but he's come away empty-handed this season. Does feel like Aston and Williams have the march on Racing Bulls now. Going to be difficult to find the top ten on the run home it seems.

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