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

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  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    14 hours ago

    Unlike Max though, they don’t let off the brake pedal to be “side by side” they are genuinely there… This is another part of the equation that doesn’t get factored in.

    If Max doesn’t let off the brakes, he doesn’t even look in contention for the corner at all (clearly behind) but since he does let it off, he cannot make the corner. Choose 1 - make the corner or don’t let off brakes.

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      If that helps you sleep, go ahead and don’t continue reading.

      But if you look at how Piastri took the corner in the quali vs how he took it in the race it’s pretty clear he deliberately ran wide. Why would he run wide and compromise the exit of T2 if he thought Max would never make the corner? Maybe his post race interview gives a hint, where he explicitly states “if it was roles reversed it probably would’ve looked identical”. It’s almost as if Piastri knew he couldn’t leave Max any space because Max would make use of that space the same way he would’ve used that space if the roles were reversed and Max had left him space. I wonder who is more right? A random F1 viewer on Lemmy stating Max would’ve have made the corner, or Max (who decided to try to take the corner) and Piastri (who clearly cut him off to make sure he couldn’t make the corner) thinking he would’ve made the corner. Definitely a tough choice here.

      Oh and thank you for proving my point about how it’s always Max’s fault.