re: 2025 Formula 1 Season Thread

What do the Yuki fans want see? Would you rather see him get called up to Redbull now and drive a difficult car that doesn’t have the overall pace, or would you rather him have a solid year driving for racing bulls and then potentially find a new team in the offseason.

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After answering the question, Tsunoda was whisked away by a Racing Bulls PR person.

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It's faster than his RB, barely, with Max driving it.

A driver has to be confident, but the likelihood of Sushi lapping faster in the Red Bull than his current ride is fairly remote in my opinion.

#Piastri : in Q2 the machine was not working, in Q3 the machine came alive
#Russell : very messy session, nothing was working, I was about to go out in Q1 and then everything went together on the last lap
#Verstappen : inconsistent grip, very difficult to take references
#Hamilton : we changed a few small things, nothing big, but the car became very difficult to drive, maybe the wind became more gusty and the car became more difficult
etc etc there is not one happy... The #F1 has become incredibly difficult, with windows for everyone so narrow that all it takes is 1 degree of track, 1 gust of wind, a click of the wing and the tires behave differently, the car becomes easy or difficult, becomes alive or nothing works... it is truly a nightmare, it was already like this in the last seasons but it is increasingly so, session after session. In my opinion, a very personal opinion, technically it is the most difficult F1 ever.

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Is anyone else going to watch the race live? It's only midnight for me.

I for one love the high tire deg at this track. I much prefer races that need at least two pit stops.

Last year at China:

P1 Max - medium > hard > hard strategy, pitted on Lap 13 and during safety car on Lap 23
P2 Lando - medium > hard strategy, pitted on Lap 22 during the initial VSC
P3 Checo - same as Max
P4 Sharl - same as Lando
P5 Carlos - medium > hard strategy, pitted on Lap 17

P7 Fernando - medium > hard > soft > medium strategy, a three stopper!

P9 Lewis - soft > medium > hard strategy, odd decision to start on softs!

Lewis was one of four cars to start the race with a soft tyre, all of whom had pitted by Lap 12. Kevin Magnussen was the only driver to start on a hard tyre.

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This year, everyone has saved both of their hard tyre sets for the race, and the smart money is on those being used. medium > hard > hard looks like a strong favourite for the preferred strategy, with pit windows between Laps 14-20 and 32-38.

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Well the wife got a call to go to work and now I'm up.

Here we go.

Alonso slowing, brake fyre

At the moment it looks like Albon, Stroll, and Bearman are going for one-stoppers.

How is Charl with a broken front wing much less so much faster than Lewis? I am watching the free Spanish broadcast on ESPN and have no idea what the commentators are saying.