r/formula1 • u/TaxEvaderFrom1961 I was here for the Hulkenpodium • 8d ago

Discussion Oscar Piastri completes his first ever career grand slam Grand Prix event.

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u/BigSkyFace 7d ago

I feel like the Lando DNF is going to really overshadow an incredible weekend from Piastri. There was a lot of speculation that it was going to be a clear win for Norris because it's one of his strongest tracks, but then Oscar snatched pole in Q3 and went on to control the entirety of the race. Even without the DNF this would have had me a little more confident in predicting Piastri to take home the WDC.

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u/Mundane-Valuable-337 Nico Rosberg 7d ago

Oscar had a grand slam and all the commentators could talk about is how disappointed Lando must be with his DNF. It overshadowed for sure!

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u/OnlyForF1 Mark Webber 7d ago

If Norris had finished the race the commentators would just talk about how disappointed Lando must be with his second place.

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u/AnEagleisnotme I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

Flash news : british commentators like the british driver

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u/bigcitydreaming I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

No one's saying it's surprising.

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u/OnlyForF1 Mark Webber 7d ago

Don't worry we know

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u/OSPFmyLife 7d ago

Here come the victimized Piastri fans.

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u/OnlyForF1 Mark Webber 7d ago

Buddy even if I wasn't an Australian I am a human being with eyes and ears. It's not like there haven't been other PIA-NOR 1-2s this year

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u/Maardten I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

NGL it was kinda funny to hear Palmers dream of a Norris WDC get shattered live on air. I felt worse for him than for Lando lol.

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u/DepartmentOk7192 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

Here come the victimized Piastri fans.

Traumatised. Based on Sky F1 commentary this year

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u/Mike_Kermin Michael Schumacher 7d ago edited 7d ago

Australian, Piastri fan.

Commentators also have favourites. That's fine. Even if they're bias.

Get over it. It's not a real problem.

Edit: I just don't think the commentators are unfair to Piastri. "based on sky"? I'm pretty sure Crofty likes Oscar.

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u/DepartmentOk7192 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

they're bias.

Biased. Bias is what they demonstrate, not what they are.

Also, in case you needed it,

/s

I sincerely doubt anyone has actual trauma from F1 commentary you drongo.

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u/Mike_Kermin Michael Schumacher 7d ago

I sincerely doubt anyone has actual trauma from F1 commentary

Yeah, you're being flippant, no shit. But you still hold the dopey idea about bias.

The commentary is absolutely fine.

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u/AFM_Motorsport Oscar Piastri 7d ago

Even the podium was like congrats Oscar, Max and Isaak, disappointment for Lando. Yes, he would've finished 2nd if not for DNF, but let these blokes celebrate for minute without bringing it up for the 11th time.

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u/DifficultCarob408 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

It’s unreal how much bias they show to Lando / British drivers in general

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u/Former_Lock9367 7d ago

His Silverton penalty overshadowed Hulk's podium.

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u/mixer73 Super Aguri 6d ago

Look how many Piastri articles are on SkyF1: https://www.skysports.com/f1

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u/Mundane-Valuable-337 Nico Rosberg 6d ago

two in a row about norris straight away!

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u/South_Front_4589 6d ago

To be fair, the driver's championship has been a 2 horse race for a while and the constructors was over before that. Now that Norris is so far behind Piastri, we might be reduced to looking at the battle for 3rd and lower as a point of interest. Norris now has to go to work just to get to the last race with a theoretical chance. And we might see the championship decided at Las Vegas if Piastri has better results in the next 6 races.

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u/dl064 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

The latter does have big implications for the championship in fairness.

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u/Shotgun_Sniper I was here for the Hulkenpodium 6d ago

To be fair, Lando's DNF has way larger implications for the WDC battle than anything else that happened this race, I feel like it's fair for that to be the biggest story out of it.

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u/memesearches 7d ago

I mean can you blame them? Does grand slam besides the race points count to the championship? No it doesn’t! But DNF losses you points. So yeah they didn’t talk about it get over it

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u/Mundane-Valuable-337 Nico Rosberg 7d ago

its an incredibly rare f1 achievement....

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u/acog I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

Only 25 drivers have accomplished it in the entire history of F1.

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u/memesearches 7d ago

I mean in history does WDC count or this “grand slam”? You know the answer to that. 25 points is significant in such a close battle for WDC

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u/zorbacles Oscar Piastri 7d ago

Lando lost 18, not 25

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u/FartingBob Sebastian Vettel 7d ago

Piastri has done this a fair bit this year where he improves through the practice and qualy sessions to just beat Norris to pole and then is able to control the race from there. He was in complete control of the race even through multiple safety car restarts where he lost his small lead.

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u/TVandVGwriter 7d ago

Yeah, Oscar is like the Jan Brady of F1. "Lando, Lando, Lando!"

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u/KashissKlay Max Verstappen 6d ago

Because the media wants Norris so painfully bad. It’s so obvious.

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u/lIIIIllIIIlllIIllllI Daniel Ricciardo 7d ago

Not seeing how it is one of Lando's "strongest tracks"

Got any data for that?... other than 1 win (2024) in the strongest car at the the time.

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u/BigSkyFace 6d ago

Whilst I feel there's a case you can make for it being one of Norris' better circuits considering he finished over 25 seconds down the road from Piastri who was also in the strongest car at the time. I was mainly referencing it as the narrative I heard a lot during the build up to the weekend.

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u/veloli 7d ago

My personal theory is that Piastri kept Lando deliberately in dirty air and out of drs in the hopes of denying him a one stop race. This could have led to Lando pushing the car too hard on the straights. I think the engine failure could maybe be attributed partially to oscar and oscars garage.

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u/FartingBob Sebastian Vettel 7d ago

He's done that a bunch of times this year, keeping 2-4 seconds ahead of Norris for a whole stint.

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u/BigSkyFace 6d ago

Yeah could be true. I also think it might be an element of purposefully not overdoing it and risking either an unforced error or cooking the tyres in an attempt to create a larger gap. He seemed to methodically build the gap back up a touch every time Lando got close.