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Max’s friendship bias whenever he has to comment on another driver (or interact with them) is so funny, because that man has FAVOURITES and they are very, very OBVIOUS

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what is your most specific f1 fanfic related pet peeve?

I’ll start with mine 😇

Whenever they make a driver that, like, never crashes end up in a serious accident for plot device. I get the need for angst but it takes me sooo out of the story

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OSCAR PIASTRI POLE TO WIN IN BAHRAIN!!!

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maybe it was impractical for Oscar to actually overtake max (Andrea Stella explained) butttt I do think it’s funny how some fans are claiming “there was no team orders! Oscar was free to race.” Like obviously— if Oscar is asking for permission and support from the team it certainly isn’t a free for all. Oscar seemed understanding of McLarens reasoning (more so than he did in the AusGP). I feel like a lot of their calls are just gonna boil down to their qualifying order. I’m mostly just happy Oscar seems like a much stronger driver this year. Now if he keeps getting fucked over tho….

I think they were free to race, but logically if you’re wasting tires on overtaking your teammate (who’s in the same car, which makes overtaking even more difficult since they have the same characteristics and kind of performance on straights and corners) then you have even less of a shot at overtaking Max. At first Oscar wanted to have a go at Max, not Lando, which is why he asked for a swap so he could save his tires as much as possible. Maybe there was some kind of agreement like in Hungary 2024, where after the second pitstop they weren’t allowed to fight, but that we won’t know.

From my understanding of how the race went, the first time Oscar got into DRS, which is when he asked for the swap, he wasn’t trying to overtake Lando, but just show that he had more pace (he hovered at 0.7s ish from Lando). His priority was putting pressure on Max and at that point Lando would’ve been a waste of his tires’ life. I’d need the radio transcripts to be sure but he didn’t get an answer on swapping for a while, so he just waited and then dropped back a bit.

Then he got into DRS a second time, which I think was probably to actually try and overtake Lando this time, because if he’s not gonna save his tires for Max then he definitely still wants to finish as high as possible 😂

I’m also very happy with how strong Oscar’s looked so far this year! Especially since aus, chi and jap were all races he’d finished pretty far off Lando last year, so seeing his pace this time around is very encouraging

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but if it didn't work they would lose the constructor's championship that's why they didn't let oscar do that.

I’m not sure what you mean. Do you think it would’ve ended with a Max/Oscar collision? Personally I think the team should trust Oscar to not make moves he doesn’t think he can stick, because visibly he’s pretty good at those aggressive overtakes

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I think people aren’t really grasping why Oscar fans are disappointed in McLaren’s strategy. It’s not about the team sabotaging Oscar, secretly wanting Lando to be their number 1 driver, unfair treatment or whatever. It’s about the inconsistency.

Look at Australia, Lando is in front, Oscar 2nd, and they’re told to hold position to avoid any risk of losing their 1-2 and not maximizing points. Fair. In China, Oscar is in front, Lando 2nd, and they’re told to wait until they’ve built a gap to George before fighting, to avoid any risk of losing their 1-2 and not maximizing points. Also fair, and consistent.

Now in Japan, Lando is in 2nd and Oscar in 3rd, with seemingly faster pace. Lando hasn’t made a dent in the gap to Max, but Oscar has on Lando and a swap could help him keep enough tires to maybe have a shot at Max. And this time they’re not prioritizing maximizing the points and giving the faster driver a chance of getting a 1-3 instead of the 2-3? Now there aren’t team orders, when there is an actual potential to gain more points than in the positions they started in?

Honestly, I’m an advocate for no team orders and letting drivers fight for positions at all times. However, seeing how McLaren have set the scene in Australia and China, prioritizing maximizing the team points, it’s just extremely frustrating to not follow this mantra this time around. Was the swap likely to work? No. But did they have anything to lose trying? Also no, Lando wasn’t doing anything, Oscar had some pace, maybe a McLaren within the DRS of the RedBull would’ve been able to overtake, being different cars with different levels of performance throughout the track. At worst they swap back, and at least they’ve tried something to maximize the points.

It’s not even like the swap is some sort of novel, unheard of idea. McLaren themselves put a swap in place in Australia 2024, when Lando was behind Oscar despite being faster. To give Lando the best shot at catching the cars in front, they asked Oscar to let him by so he wouldn’t waste his tires on overtaking a slower teammate. Because instead of finishing 3-4 they had a shot at letting Lando go up to the Ferraris and maybe turn the race result into a 2-4. At the end of the day he didn’t catch the Ferraris, but that doesn’t matter because they had nothing to lose at that point and it was worth swapping to try and gain as many points as possible.

In Japan 2025, it was a win on the line. Against their main wdc rival. I cannot comprehend for the life of me how a team whose priority is maximizing the team’s points would not deem the swap worth a go. If Oscar doesn’t get Max, they swap back, and nothing has changed from their initial position. If Oscar does get Max, they put 7 more points on the board for the wcc, and Lando only loses 3 points to Max instead of 7 in the wdc (whilst also bringing Oscar back into the fight). There is literally no bad outcome, so if they’re gonna make us endure team orders this season, they may as well do it correctly and consistently.

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why do you, as a man, have such a cinched waist?

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why Oscar Piastri will win every race left of the 2025 F1 season:

a very, very realistic and totally objective post 😇

Suzuka: the birthday boy gets whatever he wants on his birthday, so here’s the win

Bahrain: his first ever F1 race that ended with a windows error screen DNF, it only makes sense for it to be a win this time around

Jeddah: he always slays on this track, so it obviously will be a P1

Miami: karma adores Oscar (look at Alpine and Sainz) so this time the safety car will be in his favour and he will get the dub 🤗

Imola: his 3/16th Italian carries him to victory here

Monaco: adoptive home race! Australia was so bad he wins all his other home races 😍

Spain: he has to make up for last year’s performance by winning I don’t make the rules

Canada: I’m Canadian so this win will be for me 😁

Austria: would be the 10th race of his winning streak, tying Max for the all time record which means it is bound to be a victory

Silverstone: he’s been robbed of podiums twice already on this track, fate has to turn around this time

Spa: HIS FAVORITE TRACK!!! OBVIOUSLY IT’S A DUB!!!

Hungary: he’s gonna get this one to make up for the bittersweetness of his first win at Hungary trust 🙂‍↕️

Zandvoort: as the newly anointed friend of Max Verstappen (as declared by the man himself) he will win this one through the power of friendship

Monza: in honour of his most heinous (sexy) overtake of 2024 he’ll get his most heinous (sexy) win of 2025 at the temple of speed 🫦

Baku: duh. Of course it’s P1astri at Baku. I mean, he’s never lost a race that he’s won previously in F1 (yes, this only holds because of the Qatar sprint) so…

Singapore: he looked supremely hot all sweaty on the podium last year but he’d look even better on the top step

Cota: dedicated to Danny Ric, fellow Aussie, honorary Texan and number on the RedBull cap of Oscar’s youth

Mexico: he’d look very cute with the sombrero Max had in 2023 🥰

Brazil: he got his first penalty points ever here last year, so as the birthplace of Track Terror Oscar Piastri this will be where he gives birth to a São Paulo victory in 2025

Las Vegas: to conclude this masterful winning revenge streak at the American races (who’s always done him wrong in the past smh) he will also get the win here

Qatar: the breakthrough weekend of his rookie season, winning this race on his WDC campaign would be poetic

Abu Dhabi: he won his F2 championship at the yas marina circuit so concluding his F1 WDC with a win there is written in the stars 😌

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kid: "i like lando because he is kind and respectful for other people. your so kindness"

oscar: "i like your so kindness too"

lando: "oh yeah? well thank you oscar!"

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"i've been part of mclaren for 8 years, driving now for 6... *turns to oscar* you'll get there one day" 😭😭😭

huge shoutout to the anon who let me know about this, you're a gem 🫶🏻

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OSCAR PIASTRI CHINESE GP WINNER!!!!!!

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ahhhh I’m so happy for Oscar! That was such a great weekend for him, clean and measured in all sessions, no mistakes, very well managed! Considering how rough China had been for him last season, and the weight of Australia on his shoulders, he really showed what he can do :) First pole, in fact no more than 0.08s off pole in every quali so far, solid tire management, even in the sprint when he backed off Max a bit to save his tires.. he’s improving! He can be very proud of himself <3

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omg that grid order for the sprint is SO fun! Lewis and Max front row? Chills. I’m expecting terrorism of the highest degree there. Oscar in third? Who knows what kind of devious overtakes he can pull tomorrow. Lando in sixth, I’m very excited to see how the pace of the McLaren will look and how far he can climb up the ranks 😈

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The team did tell him that they were waiting to pass Lawson on the radio. I don't have the telemetry either but I'm pretty sure there was a bigger gap between the Red Bull and the next car. I've also seen that they were talking at that point about managing their tyres because they were starting to go off so it would also make sense that, since they were lapping almost 2 second faster than the back markers (as the race commentators said in my retransmission), to manage the tyres and wait until they passed Liam.

They told him about Lawson, but only on lap 30. On lap 28 he was told that bearman and ocon were the cars ahead. Had he known there would also be a Lawson to pass a bit later I’m sure he wouldn’t have pushed as hard, and seeing how he reacted to getting past the haas he really did think he’d have his opportunity on lap 30.

Tires discussion seemed to be happening on Lando’s side from the transmissions I saw; he was talking about the intermediates being like slicks which probably didn’t help the team’s confidence in allowing racing.

As I said waiting to get past Lawson at that point was the easier decision, but it still took them 2 laps to get it done. 2 crucial laps where Oscar was at his peak pace, within DRS and hungry for an overtake opportunity, but not allowed to race. The fair decision imo would’ve been to allow racing as soon as the haas are cleared, until Lawson becomes a problem 2 laps later.

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Btw I know the team orders ended up not mattering that much because they both went off later in the wet anyways, so sorry about ranting about it in this post, but I needed to get it out there because I hate team orders in general with a burning passion 😅

I’m actually curious how people feel about team orders. For me they’re like, one of the worst things to ever grace F1 because they are ultimately anti-racing. As much as a team can want to secure their positions, the driver wants to secure the highest position he can and since it’s an individual sport for the big prize, the wdc, I think individual priority should always override team priority.

At the end of the day, the goal of the wdc is to determine the best driver over the whole season, not the one who could amass the most points during the first half in order to cruise to the title with 1st driver priority in the other half. If their teammate is performing better than them on a given weekend then that’s on them for not doing as well, it should never go down to stopping someone from earning a position or giving away a well-earned position.

As for “safety” team orders, as we saw this weekend, I believe they’re also pretty useless. Especially in McLaren’s case, because it’s not like they don’t know their drivers. They’ve had them for 2 years. I can’t even remember a single time they didn’t race cleanly, not even sure it ever happened. As long as they know what’s happening around them, so that two haas are in front at delta x and a redbull at delta x, they should be allowed to do what they want in their best interest. The lapped cars will get out of the way either way. They might be hungry to pass/defend but they’re not stupid, if they think something is too risky they won’t go all in. And the excuse of “going off the racing line to go w2w being too risky because of the wet�� is null when we saw Oscar overtake Lewis by doing so.

Idk, in my opinion every decision that benefits the driver in front at the expense of the driver behind is shameful. An embarrassment to the sport, a disrespect to what racing is about.

The only time I can see them being somewhat acceptable is when one of the drivers’ race is already done, so like Checo in Abu Dhabi 2021 or swapping the faster driver to the front to attack other drivers and swapping back if he doesn’t succeed. And to be fair even those are awful because you’re still giving someone something they haven’t earned, but at least they’re not antithetical to teammate rivalries.

Urgh, I just wish the team aspect didn’t play such a big role in a championship designed for individuality. Maybe attributing prize money for wdc positions instead of the wcc would actually do some good to the sport. Because we’re in a weird place right now where despite the wdc being the ultimate goal of a formula 1 season, it’s the wcc that attributes money. It would force teams to take the best drivers in. And instead of simply prioritizing one driver they’d have to be careful with both because both’s positions would bring money in.