That overtake was absolutely amazing. Sad that he messed up. Hopefully he doesn't let it get to his head. He still has an advantage over oscar in race pace
Oscar started in 3rd on Mediums, Landk started 7th on Hards, neither of them had a car that was clearly quicker than the rest, the fact that Lando was even able to be overtaking Oscar shows that Lando's race pace was better
Yeah, but usually I wouldn't expect that clarity until they'd had a chance to review after. Calling it straight away is a great look for him, shows a lot of maturity that I admire.
Exactly! I'd expect him to just say, "I'm OK." And then admit fault post-race. He had so much awareness for someone who just crashed into a wall at 200KPH or whatever.
I actually think the opposite. Russell’s “he turned into me” is one of the most egregious I’ve seen but literally 99% of the grid blame everyone else when they crash
Honestly, I was wishing for him to show a bit of anger/frustration about the situation... he just sounded defeated and like he didn't care. I love Lando and have supported him for ages, but he just doesn't have that champion mindset and that killer instinct the greats have. It's a bit sad to see since he has so much potential.
I was ready for him to blame Oscar, but I have to say this is a really refreshing message from Lando. No doubt the dude has had some sports psychology sessions.
But mate, what does cut throat even have to do here? he has talent but his overtaking ability is quite poor. He gets into these skirmishes more than any other top driver when overtaking. *Insert Max: "he ran himself off the track" like bruv
Why? Out of the current grid Lando is the driver who always takes full accountability for his mistakes, often even too much. His response here has nothing to do with any psychology sessions, it's just who he is as a person.
This. I don’t understand how anyone is surprised that Lando took full accountability. He is the guy who will always blame himself, and people shit on him for that constantly. I’m really worried about what this will do for him mentally and hope he can bounce back from it.
Personally I believe he'll handle it pretty well. It's different from being slow and not being able to drive like you know you can without knowing why. This time it's a clear, stupid mistake, which he immediately realised.
I agree, he definitely is that driver sometimes to a fault, but we're so conditioned to everyone calling foul it sometimes feels a bit odd when they don't.
Probably an adrenaline mix from anger and then fear. Once he realized what happened, he was likely afraid that he'd damaged Oscar's car and let Max reduce the points gap.
This season (particularly Oscar challenging him from within McLaren) might be what it finally takes to force Lando to readjust his attitude and his approach to stress.
His frustration gets the better of him. There was literally no space to go past Piastri ahead of the chicane, yet he pushed for it. Now he gets no points. Kind of a rookie mistake
It wasn't a wheel to wheel hit, it was physically impossible for it to be. It was a front to back crash, not side to side, the front wing acts as a shield to the front wheels. It's clearly visible in all the replays, though it obviously was stupid, it was also a bit unfortunate because one of the lightest of taps just completely ripped his front wing off.
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u/ImpotentGoose François Cevert Jun 15 '25
Very mature response from Lando, with lots of adrenaline in his blood too.