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[Liquid]

Congrats to Lando Norris. He was consistent when he needed to be, especially in the latter third of the season. McLaren made it way tougher for themselves and their drivers than it should have been though.

 

[Bram Turismo]

I don‘t think Max Verstappen is arrogant at all and he is certainly not whiny. He just has a win at all costs mentality which is the reason why he‘s won four world titles.

Oh you have no idea... How about you rewatch a race where things don't go Max' way, and then say he doesn't constantly complain about it over the radio. When things go south, he literally is one of the worst drivers to listen to during a race.

 

[Mc_Yavel]

Congrats to Lando, it's so nice to see the WDC won by someone who isn't in a Red Bull or Mercedes.

True, quite a long time.

 

[hakhan]

Oscar couldn't won the championship this season but he will win it soon.

 

[Sum1s2pid]

My brain was so fried from waking up at 4:30 am to have my nerves shot from Lando barely holding on to the WDC, that I forgot about the WCC! Congrats to Mercedes P2, Max's P3, Williams P5, and Haas's P8! 😤 😅

 

[Fezzik]

More than one way of winning. As Lando said, he did it his own way and that's great.

Now it's Oscar's turn (or George's). Hopefully next year's McLaren and the new Mercedes engine are up to the challenge.

 

[sillybilly]

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More than one way of winning. As Lando said, he did it his own way and that's great.

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Now it's Oscar's turn (or George's). Hopefully next year's McLaren and the new Mercedes engine are up to the challenge.

Haha didn”t he get off the brakes and knock Piastri in Singapore?

Congrats well done, wdc deserved as its maths that he had the most points.

Did Piastri bump into a rival, oh Brazil I guess?

as much as Piastri did struggled in the later parts of the season, it is super frustrating the BS penalty in Brazil took 8 points and McLaren took away 7 in Qatar with their strategy disaster… I know this sounds like grapes from a Piastri fan but it really looks like things out of the drivers control had massive impact within in the final 4 rounds.

Edit, and 3rd place seems underwhelming after he dominated the first half of the year, and considering it only his 3rd season in f1.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Haha didn”t he get off the brakes and knock Piastri in Singapore?

Congrats well done, wdc deserved as its maths that he had the most points.

Did Piastri bump into a rival, oh Brazil I guess?

as much as Piastri did struggled in the later parts of the season, it is super frustrating the BS penalty in Brazil took 8 points and McLaren took away 7 in Qatar with their strategy disaster… I know this sounds like grapes from a Piastri fan but it really looks like things out of the drivers control had massive impact within in the final 4 rounds.

Edit, and 3rd place seems underwhelming after he dominated the first half of the year, and considering it only his 3rd season in f1.

Wow it's amazing, you didn't even need to tell us you haven't watched the onboard from Norris's start at Singapore and yet you have perfectly displayed that.

 

[Grand Prix]

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More than one way of winning. As Lando said, he did it his own way and that's great.

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Now it's Oscar's turn (or George's). Hopefully next year's McLaren and the new Mercedes engine are up to the challenge.

I'm happy for him. I also found it very satisfying to see someone win the championship while not having the most GP race wins, in spite of the way the current points system was designed.

 

[sillybilly]

Wow it's amazing, you didn't even need to tell us you haven't watched the onboard from Norris's start at Singapore and yet you have perfectly displayed that.

I don't really follow.

It really looks like he eased off the breaks so that the two McLarens front tyres were side by side at the apex never mind his car was too tight and too sharp an angle to go round the corner on the inside with the same speed as a car on the outside. It was a textbook Max Verstappen move in my book - so based on the quotes above I might keep an opinion that Lando's Max moment is what won him this championship.

If it was unintentional contact more intense from countersteering to save the car it is even more of a driving error rather than a malicious push - however he intentionally went in too hot (from the overhead his angle is very aggressive and I thing he is going to snap over steer or run into Piastri even without clipping the RedBull- and it still resulted in Piastri yielding and almost ending up in the wall..

If "papaya rules" were applied he should have redressed and swapped positions back.

If he is a clean and "never runs his rival off to take advantage" then he should have taken this mighty moral high ground and redressed and swapped the position back.

Edit: Here's an interesting breakdown video with good overhead and onboard incase you are remembering through rose coloured glasses.

Singapore start breakdown videos

Look here at his left hand position, he is steering to the right in the middle of a left hand turn. That checks out. If he has not eased off the brakes, ended up too hot in and a bit out of control and caused a collision trying to regain control of the car then I don’t know how else this could be explained.

 

[Pupik]

Oh you have no idea... How about you rewatch a race where things don't go Max' way, and then say he doesn't constantly complain about it over the radio. When things go south, he literally is one of the worst drivers to listen to during a race.

Max has matured a bit, since 2025 was the year of overly-whiny George Russell.

Farewell to Yuki, the Alpine engine and the Sauber name.

There's been a Renault-built/engineered engine on the grid in some form or another since 1989.

I get the idea that Sauber will somehow come back when Audi gets bored of F1 in 5-10 years.

 

[sillybilly]

Max has matured a bit, since 2025 was the year of overly-whiny George Russell.

It's interesting that the papaya pantomime and other theatrics have proved a to be undesirable aspect to so many fans and Max becoming underdog because of McLaren team dominance had endeared him to many more people this year.

However. Spain 2025 seems to easily fade from memory for many, I think it was one of the worst bits of driving in F1 for many years. It was truly abhorrent lack of respect and absolute lack of any modicum of sportsmanship from Max so while he has mellowed and matured in some ways, when he is under particular pressure or stress he is still capable of resorting to behaviour befitting a teenage prematurely dropped into a powerful vehicle.

 

[sillybilly]

Here a shot from the start of the Austin sprint… Norris has a poor start and here is behind Piastri approaching the braking zone… never mind he just eases off the brakes to make sure he is ahead at the apex, well he doesn’t bump his rival but he also doesn’t get anywhere near the apex because he is driving against the other car instead of driving the corner… he got none of the blame even though he created the situation where Piastri cut back to avoid losing positions but being run out by Norris.

Super clean. Textbook modern guidelines driving. The guidelines are a bit broken in my opinion.