2025 US Grand Prix at COTA

[superchuck500]

Sprint weekend.

Also, Pirelli bringing C1, C3, C4 - with the med and soft each being one rung softer than last year to try to bring 2 stops into play.

COTA bullet

 

[FLRacingFan]

Verstappen nabs Sprint pole away from Norris by .071 at the buzzer. Really nice lap from Hulkenberg to start P4 tomorrow.

Piastri has to be really disappointed, he was nowhere close to either Max or Lando on the final run.

 

[Doc Austin]

I'm impressed with how Red Bull has turned it around.

 

[superchuck500]

I'm impressed with how Red Bull has turned it around.

Yeah agree - and Max continues to be D1 without question.

But they have to get that second car sorted out

 

[FLRacingFan]

Drama!

 

[FLRacingFan]

Piastri got help from Hulk.

Need a safety car for all this debris, Jesus.

 

[Tony_K]

At the start I was thinking they might take it easy being it's a sprint race. Boy was I wrong!

 

[Doc Austin]

Papaya rules!

 

[Hotrod]

Just when you want to call these guys the best
drivers in the world , they revert back to rookie
club racers ......... at best. Frustrating.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Even by Stroll standards, that’s one of the dumbest divebombs imaginable. Jesus Christ.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Max isn’t going to win this thing, but he’s going to apply enough pressure to keep things interesting. Tensions are mounting within the papaya gang.

 

[Doc Austin]

Max isn’t going to win this thing, but he’s going to apply enough pressure to keep things interesting. Tensions are mounting within the papaya gang.

It looks very unlikely but so did 1976.

After the way Piastri complained last week, what's he going to say to Lando now?

 

[donthaveanickname]

I said before that I didn't expect McLaren to fall apart completely but today was a solid attempt at doing so.
One more of these during an actual race and Max will be right there.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Piastri qualified 6th for the main event. Starting to think he’s shook.

 

[FLRacingFan]

 

[Doc Austin]

I have a weird feeling we are going to see something epic today.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Trying to think of something more useless than watching Lando try to pass someone.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Ferrari have zero idea how to be a functional team on race day.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Leclerc held up Norris for a third of the race and Piastri was nowhere to be found. No ground made up whatsoever. Yikes.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Ollie was lucky to lose only one spot there.

 

[donthaveanickname]

That was surprisingly decisive by Lando, maybe he got the memo now.

 

[FLRacingFan]

One-stop race using only mediums and softs shouldn’t be possible. Nuke Pirelli.

 

[donthaveanickname]

The battle for 17th and 18th was perhaps the highlight of the race.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Snoozy race.

Another abysmal performance from Piastri. I don’t want to get my hopes and expectations up too much, but this championship looks drastically different than it did four races ago. Things are getting tight towards the top.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Red Bull kept developing their car when everyone else had stopped and it's paying off big time.

Ferrari finally had a good race again, glad to see Chuck back on the podium.

 

[Doc Austin]

Verstappen is going to make McLaren miserable.

 

[superchuck500]

Red Bull kept developing their car when everyone else had stopped and it's paying off big time.

Ferrari finally had a good race again, glad to see Chuck back on the podium.

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