ROUND 5: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 2021
- Number of laps: 50
- Circuit Length: 6.174 km
- Race Distance: 308.45 km
- Lap record: 1:30.734 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
- 2024 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
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“Cya nerds” ~ Max Verstappen
Piastri going for an undercut seems super sketchy. They need to find clean air for him and this puts him in traffic no? Even without the slow stop. I feel like possibly the overcut would have been better today?
Sainz smooth opearting for Williams right now
Bwoah
Welcome back Kimi Raikkonen.
The classic go off track turn one to keep position manoeuvre by Max there. F2 was full of it as well.
While I agree he should have given it back, Piastri also either steered into him/lost control and went deep into the corner further than a normal racing line. So curious what the stewards would think.
I agree with the stewards here that it’s on Max. Though he will happily keep track position and try to make a gap. This is a classic Max move, one of his signatures tbh. Wasn’t it Mexico last year as well for example? Really kind of tired of this stuff from him honestly.
Did you see that replay on the international feed just now? Piastri was going to
divebombforce contact if he didn’t go off. I think both their behaviours are fair play to try in racing, but saying this is classic unsportsmanlike behaviour seems like you’re being influenced too much by British commentators.I’m not British and I don’t listen to the British feed, but I have admittedly seen this move from Max enough that I might admittedly carry some prejudice from that.
Fair enough, I do listen to the British commentators since they are just more pleasant to listen to vocally for me than the Dutch speaking ones. But their commentating is just always anti-Verstappen. Yet even they ceded after the replay of the incident that Piastri is lucky he just barely got control of his car in time.
Sky or F1? If you have access to the official F1 colmentators, they tend to have a much more neutral view.
Also, I’m currently watching the F1 stream synced with audio from Grand Prix Radio (Olav Mol & Jack Plooij). So, less glorifying of Max. (I’m currently watching with my mother whose level of English is much lower, so prefers Dutch commentary.)
F1TV international feed with Palmer etc. I know they’re not the most neutral and I don’t expect them to be. I just enjoy the hype they’re good at bringing. But I do think many people let their opinion on the race be influenced by them. (Just like if you watch MMA you’ll be influenced by the often very dumb opinion of Rogan).
I’m Flemish, so the accent of any Dutch person grates too much for me. ;-) (‘g’ doesn’t have to sound like a failed gear change every damn word ;-) )
All champions we had in the past 30 or so years were willing to play dirty. It’s part of the sport really… or rather, soap opera where occasionally some cars drove around.
I absolutely know why he does it and it’s very smart. Like I said, taking the 5 seconds is absolutely worth it.
I’m still kind of tired of it though.
Yeah, the penalty is almost a “tut tut”, especially considering the pace Max currently shows. He’s adding tenths per lap to everyone behind him.
Quite an optimistic move from Gasly
So who do we think is causing the inevitable safety car/red flag? Any bets?
Tsunoda getting a bit overconfident, maybe? Hope it won’t be him, though.
Ding ding ding! (Doesn’t look likes it’s his fault but still involved)
I wonder if this is the first time Gasly and Tsunoda have ever collided, given their teammate history
Stroll my man never disappoints 😂
Verstappen and Piastri, leaving Norris to win after a luck safety car caused by a Stroll crash. (Crazy predictions cost nothing!)
Well they didn’t completely fuck up the national anthem so that’s nice
Well that was a quick safety car.
Sheesh Lando, falling to the same trick twice in under 90 seconds.
Wow! Great overtake for Piastri. And thank you Hamilton for holding up Verstappen
Is it just Max or the Red Bull is fast here, that 5s penalty doesn’t look that threatening to Max’s race.
The 5s penalty does almost nothing for anyone. It’s way too low a penalty for anything. Regardless of how good your car is. It’s only annoying if you got lucky earlier with a car where you’re actually out of position where your car should be.
Commentary here speculated it was probably 5s because of Piastri being partially responsible for pushing Verstappen off, where Lawson took full blame and got 10s.
Sounds like a weird way to reason though, no? That’s what should be called a race incident if they’re both partially at fault.
Stewards and consistency 😅
Lewis schooling Lando.
Making him look silly honestly. Gotta be smarter than that if you want to be WDC.
What’s Red Bull’s game here? I think they lost 2-3 seconds to Piastri already by pitting late
Probably expecting Hamilton to box a lap earlier.
Bwoah that was close for Alonso
