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Grand Prix thread Imola - AWS GRAN PREMIO DEL MADE IN ITALY E DELL'EMILIA-ROMAGNA 2025

Discussion in 'Formula 1' started by ched999uk, May 13, 2025.

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Who will finish first?

Poll closed Saturday at 2:32 PM.
  1. Lando Norris

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  2. Oscar Piastri

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  3. Max Verstappen

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  4. Charles Leclerc

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  5. Lewis Hamilton

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  6. Yuki Tsunoda

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  7. George Russell

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  8. Andrea Kimi Antonelli

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  9. Fernando Alonso

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  1. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    Haas still moaning, it was red flagged for safety, everyone knows the red flag rules. Sometimes they work for you, sometimes they don't, Bearman was just unlucky in the timing of it, 5 seconds later he would've been good, but once a red is out, that is it.
     
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  2. Big Ern

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    looks like 2 or 3 stopper.
     
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  3. Julius Caesar

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    Staying out for the one stop is still the right strategy i think. Leclerc and Piastri are going to get murdered by the hard tyre starting traffic
     
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  4. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Leclerc shafted there. Was driving beautifully too.
     
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  5. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    VSC = Race over.
     
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    Striking that on a high tyre wear circuit that McLaren clearly don't have a race pace advantage. Game on for Max in the title race?
     
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    I certainly haven’t ruled him out at any stage so far this season !
     
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  8. Big Ern

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    SC = race back on.
     
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  9. Julius Caesar

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    Awkward for McLaren here. Ideally they should be ordering Oscar to get out of the way
     
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  10. Julius Caesar

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    Feels like a mistake for the guys who stayed out. That Mercedes is still on the track, probably only 10 laps once we restart. Surely even the softs can do that?
     
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  11. Mark Blow

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    This safety car period is taking the piss. No excuse for 7 laps of it.
     
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  12. Julius Caesar

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    I don't see how Leclerc can avoid a penalty by giving back the position when Albon lost out to Hamilton as well.

    Albon was on for a podium if he had got by
     
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  13. Mark Blow

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    Albon was never getting close enough to get past Piastri. Hamilton only got to within 1.5 seconds by the end.
     
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  14. Sportista

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    Good race from the Championship perspective with the top three finishing in reverse order. Decisive from Max at the start and from there - for the first time this year - the RedBull Max combination looked like the fastest out there.

    Hard to really comment on anyone behind Max because it was a very much luck of the draw with the two safety car periods, but it was notable that for the first time this year that Piastri really seemed to struggle with tyre wear.
     
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  15. Number 1 Jasper

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    OK .

    For those of you who don’t rate Crofty .

    What do you think of Harry Duzyaheadin :emoticon-0183-swear
     
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