2025 Formula 1 Season Paddock

Live look at Verstappen fans

 

Max caught on the wrong tire is reminiscent of Lewis at Abu Dhabi then his reaction is reminiscent of Toto at Abu Dhabi.

The touch with LeClarc was on Charles. The bump with Russell was hilarious and worthy of the penalties (time and 3pts on his License).

Sadly it could come down to bad team decisions and a safety car.

Finally some excitement in a race.

 

Careened lol

we understand your dislike for Max, but come on. That was a minor incident.

Careened into George for sure though

 

Driver of the Day - Max Verstapen

 

How do you figure?

 

Well the recovery was good, beyond good - but he was careening!

 

Anthony Davidson did a very good breakdown on the Skypad and Charles has admitted that one was on him. Charles turned into Max hitting him hard enough to cause Max's head to hit the side supports.

 

Did not look like that on the tele but if you say so. Max was penalized for his real screw-up, so all is fair.

 

It looked like Max held a straight line and Leclerc drifted into him. The rest with Russell was all on Max.

 

If Ocon had done that he would've been black flagged immediately, 3 race ban and he'd have to spend the entire summer break detailing MBS's car collection.

 

Wait no more. In addition to the ten second penalty he was handed three penalty points. He will need to be a good boy for the next two races or catch a ban.

 

The official releace from the FIA is the earlier incident with Russell required no further investigation. As Anthony Daividson showed on the Skypad, Russell got loose in Leclarc's dirty air.

The Red Bull garage erred in asking Max to give the place back, though at that time the FIA hadn't made their call. Max's giant FU is little different than George's FU in Monte Carlo resulting in his drive through penalty.

 

After watching all the replays and analysis Leclerc drifted into Fishlips then Russel went in too hot and drifted into Fishlips. RB wrongly telling Fishlips to give the place back was the last straw and he went into road rage. There is no place for that at kind of amateurish, and more importantly dangerous, behavior at the top level of open wheel racing. He should have earned a race ban.

 

When Vettel shoulder barged Hamilton in Azerbaijan he received a 10 second stop/go and 3 points. Max definitely got off lightly.
Would have been nice if he got the drive through as Lawson would then have got a point.

 

Because of the late safety car the 10sec penalty dropped him to 10th place! So while it seems a 10sec penalty at the end of the races is a slap on the wrist, in this case that was big hit to him. Stupid but yea a bit of rage going on there. He'll be on probation so to speak.

 

The bigger question is why did Red Bull pit Max under the safety car to put on hard tires instead of leaving him out for track poison with his used tires.

LeClerc turning into Max at 300kph mid straight is far more dangerous.

 

Eleven penalty points
Max Verstappen

• Two points: Expire 30th June 2025. These were awarded for causing a collision with Lando Norris at the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix.
• Two points: Expire 27th October 2025. These were awarded for forcing Lando Norris off track during the 2024 Mexico City Grand Prix.
• One point: Expires 1st November 2025. This point was awarded for being under the minimum VSC delta time during the 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix Sprint.
• One point: Expires 1st December 2025. This point was awarded for driving unnecessarily slowly on a cooldown lap during qualifying for the 2024 Qatar Grand Prix.
• Two points: Expire 8th December 2025. These were awarded for causing a collision with Oscar Piastri during the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
• Three points: Expire 1st June 2026. These were awarded for causing a collision with George Russell during the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix.

 

Coincidence most of his points are either wrecking or running off the road his number one competition….

 

Stands to reason, he is up front.

 

Max’ “fucking idiots” message was funny as hell when Lawson and another driver were messing around in front of the leaders