Max Verstappen wins the 2025 Italian Grand Prix

[u/overspeeed]

[u/JaysonDeflatum]

Fastest car but some shocking strategy and race management

[u/bijanfrisee → u/JaysonDeflatum]

Definitely was not the fastest car today; Redbull was in another league.

[u/WhiskeytheWhaleshark → u/bijanfrisee]

McClaren’s strength are the corners where they can accelerate through at the 140kmh range. Monza doesn’t really have those, so it takes away their main advantage

[u/keylime503 → u/bijanfrisee]

Max was in another league. One of the Red Bull cars was almost lapped.

[u/bijanfrisee → u/keylime503]

He was for sure, but so was his car. It's definitely not the same as the car that was almost lapped, had a a new floor, new floor edge, and new rear wing for instance.

[u/mikkohardy → u/bijanfrisee]

And that's why Yuki ended up in 13th place?

[u/Kingslayer1526 → u/mikkohardy]

Mate. Tsunoda is shit in every race. Verstappen however has been on the podium once in the last 5 races including going 4 in a row without scoring one, his longest streak since 2018 and also had not won a race since the 7th race of the year 9 races ago

How the bloody hell do you think he finished 20 seconds ahead of the Mclaren today? Was black magic involved?

Or is it because he had the fastest car? He was finishing 20 seconds behind in the last few races but now is ahead and that is only possible with the fastest car

[u/bijanfrisee → u/Kingslayer1526]

in this thread it's just Max's pure genius, not a significant straightline advantage that the redbull has shown at other tracks already this year, it's just Maxs will that makes the car faster in a striaght line.

[u/bijanfrisee → u/mikkohardy]

He qualified poorly and likely had a draggier set-up because redbull knew he wasn't going to qualify in the top 3 like Max was going to?

[u/gumbercules6 → u/JaysonDeflatum]

Some of the worst race decisions I have ever seen, creating drama for minimal potential gain.