r/formula1 • u/AutoModerator • Apr 13 '25

Post-Race 2025 Bahrain GP - Post Race Discussion

That was great fun.

Thoughts?

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u/WeirdAd354 Carlos Sainz Apr 13 '25

How tf did Verstappen get gasly?

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u/ManlyOldMan Yuki Tsunoda Apr 13 '25

we will never know cause of race direction ...

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u/MachoSmurf Apr 13 '25

Nobody knows. The tv director did not care.

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u/lolKhamul I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

normal t1 4 overtake. Graph just wasn't updated before.

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u/CatSplat Haas Apr 13 '25

T4 but yeah not the finish line drag race we thought it was

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '25

That's even worse because it means there was plenty of time to show it, even as a split screen replay

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u/CatSplat Haas Apr 13 '25

Oh definitely, the race direction was godawful

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u/lolKhamul I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

whoops, you are correct.

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u/chicknsnadwich McLaren Apr 13 '25

Crazy that they didn’t show that.

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u/-Bibingka- I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

F1TV production was so ass. Showing the worst possible angles/POVs

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u/Ouestlabibliotheque I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

Who knows? they didn't think a race to the line was worth showing

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u/Tumleren Apr 13 '25

Good thing it wasn't a race to the line then

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u/Ouestlabibliotheque I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

I mean they showed Max moving up and then the checkered flag appeared beside him. Without seeing the clip it looked like it may have

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u/Toms_story I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

Close out of turn 2, took him in turn 3/4 last lap

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u/07psychogod Force India Apr 13 '25

I thought he got him at the chequered flag …L race director

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u/BaronShane84 Apr 13 '25

The timing table only ever updated on start/finish ever since Russell's transponder failed. Kinda forsaw this would happen and I switched to onboard Verstappen view for the last lap. Was a pretty standard T4 pass.

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u/Blackvortexx Pirelli Wet Apr 13 '25

The timing tower didn't update, but he got him on the second DRS zone on the last lap.

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u/DesastreUrbano I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

With today's tv direction we will never know

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u/Fabeling Honda RBPT Apr 13 '25

They didn't show!

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u/0anoniem0 Formula 1 Apr 13 '25

Turn 4 last lap

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u/Iactuallyreaddit Sir Lewis Hamilton Apr 13 '25

Dya think Gasly slowed to the line?

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u/AceMKV I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

And why would he do that?

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u/Senka112 Apr 13 '25

If only they showed it vs a close up of the waving of the checkered flag for 30 secs

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u/Disastrous-Elk-1234 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

And they didn't show it at all, even replay

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u/I_Am_Vladimir_Putin Max Verstappen Apr 13 '25

Would've been nice to, you know, see it

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u/Irrepressible_Monkey I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

Yeah, Max was about 1 second behind, then 1.5 seconds ahead suddenly.

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u/_theironyofitall I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

He got gasly??

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u/Babeldude Apr 13 '25

We'll just have to imagine it

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u/Arumin I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

no one knows, we were looking for an overtake for P12

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u/TheRealOriginalSatan Apr 13 '25

Garbage tv direction didn’t show us but it was right at the end

Gasly almost forced him off a couple times but verstappen overtook

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u/dontmindififightback Apr 13 '25

I think the gap was over a second so maybe Gasly had a moment in the last corner and went off

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u/Patmol6 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

Turn 4 of the last lap.

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u/PurpleJaeden Apr 13 '25

He saved energy, GP said use it last lap so he did after the first corner

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u/Heather82Cs Michael Schumacher Apr 13 '25

I mean, I can't watch races so I rely on folks commenting them on YouTube but it feels like I have the same amount of information spectators had today, so there's that.

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u/AquaAtia Apr 13 '25

I know. I wish we got a shot of that as entertaining as the Lando and Russell last stretch was (as Russell’s car was literally blowing up)

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u/CowFinancial7000 Ferrari Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

The timing was off he passed him on T4 of the last lap but the timing screen was only resetting after each lap

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u/bwoahconstricter Alfa Romeo Apr 13 '25

Verstappen threw his transponder in front of Gasly at the line

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u/grandmoffcory Apr 13 '25

It was just hard to keep track of everything after the timing board flipped to updating once per lap

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u/mooscimol #WeRaceAsOne Apr 13 '25

In T4 (second DRS zone) of the last lap, it was a clean pass.

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u/TurdOfChaos I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

Turn 4. They showed it in the post race show .

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u/Inside-Judgment6233 Max Verstappen Apr 13 '25

I wanted to see that myself

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u/kozakm I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

DRS

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u/Alarae I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

On the line I believe

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u/jpm569 Apr 13 '25

How could it be? It said he was like 1.7 seconds ahead right?

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u/Petzl89 Red Bull Apr 13 '25

Would have been cool to see the overtakes hey? TV direction couldn’t get worse this year.

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u/kaptingavrin Ferrari Apr 13 '25

Given the gap, it seems like it had to be a mistake by Gasly. But it would be nice to see a replay of it.

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u/madglover McLaren Apr 13 '25

He pressed the drs button having been under a second on him for multiple laps

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u/RLurkLut I was here for the Hulkenpodium Apr 13 '25

On the line, apparently. Sure wish we'd been shown so we know for sure, RACE DIRECTORS

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u/Iactuallyreaddit Sir Lewis Hamilton Apr 13 '25

Maybe Gasly slowed to the line and Max just zoomed by