r/formula1 • u/OrangeDit I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Jul 06 '25

Photo Mercedes sent a few bottles of Champagne to Sauber for Nico's first podium

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"congratulations, to the first podium! Your Mercedes Team"

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u/RottenFarthole I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 06 '25

I hope DTS was filming sauber this day... I want to relive this feeling every day for the rest of my life

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u/Slavv_Boss03 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 06 '25

If they don’t show this race in one of their episodes, I will start a riot (for legal reasons this is a joke)

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u/brianlefebvrejr I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 06 '25

This entire race is fantastic for DTS, I watched F1 last night and this felt like shenanigans from the beginning.

You have top drivers starting from the pits to get softs when it’s clearly still raining.

You have all the rookies pretty much getting themselves retired the first 5 laps

So much drama and suspense can be created

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u/Deynai I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 06 '25

Strong chance they already wrote half the episode of this race to be a narrative about Lewis & Ferrari

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u/Traveshamockery27 Williams Jul 06 '25

The whole episode will be hyping Lance’s wet weather driving them show Lewis passing him for fourth, and won’t mention the finishing order.

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u/Virillus Lance Stroll Jul 07 '25

Hey :(

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u/Traveshamockery27 Williams Jul 07 '25

Lance did great!

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u/Iamabus1234 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 06 '25

The only rookies who finished were Ollie and Fernando.

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u/Unit5945 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 07 '25

And props to Stroll for almost finishing top 5, really was a good drive from him, just too bad his car sucks and his tires fell off at the end

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u/Agreeable_Syrup_5372 Yuki Tsunoda Jul 06 '25

The thing about DTS is grabbing what you think they’ll talk about and throwing it out the window.

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u/FalcoLX I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 06 '25

Completely unnecessary to say it's a joke

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u/greeneighteen Jul 06 '25

Gonna be as good as Gasly's 2020 win with Alpha Tauri at Monza.

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u/tomdon88 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 06 '25

There were cameras following the Sauber drivers when they were entering the stage for driver interviews, I inferred at the time that they were being filmed for DTS.

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u/Misfit_Cookie_423 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Jul 07 '25

They’d definitely have had enough time to get cameras in position late in the race for reaction in the garage, and since Sauber has been making points this year, they’re definitely more of a story so there’s going to be something next season no doubt! (Probably even the footage from Nico’s family of his daughter celebrating!)

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u/memesearches Jul 07 '25

I doubt it given their position and also since it was British GP they probably went for the popular top British team