ROUND 5: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 2021
- Number of laps: 50
- Circuit Length: 6.174 km
- Race Distance: 308.45 km
- Lap record: 1:30.734 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
- 2024 winner: Max Verstappen
FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Did we miss the incident with Lawson and Doohan? No way is what we saw on screen 2x as bad as Piastri and Verstappen
Was given leniency as it was the first lap. The penalties are a nonsense though. If anything, being so early in the race and there being no time limit when to take the penalty means the 5s is much much lighter than 10s in the middle of the race and pitstops. I would rather see consistent 5s penalties and they have 3 laps to take it in. So you can’t do a lunge, ignore the track limits and scamper off in clean air for 25 laps, which is what Max clearly wanted to do and almost managed it. That would have been a tragedy of the stewarding if it had happened that way.
Can’t remember seeing it, but I must admit to spending time here too when it looks slow because I am happy other people on Lemmy also like F1.
We saw an overtake where the car that overtook went maybe a tyre’s width over the white line. I wasn’t even sure they’d went off the track from the camera angle we had. That’s why I’m wondering if it was another incident the next lap maybe
Yeah what I saw for from Lawson going deep didn’t seem like a 10 second penalty, dude can’t seem to catch a break!
Classic FIA inconsistency.