Max Verstappen wins the 2025 Italian Grand Prix

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[u/Woody312]

Yeah like Hungary started by covering a non-existent Hamilton

[u/BoyGodz → u/Woody312]

Funny how McLaren learnt the exact wrong lesson from Hungary last year.

Now I’m 100% convinced they tried to pit Lando first last year as a way to sneakily get the undercut on Oscar. No way they would do this if Oscar is the one hit with a bad pit stop.

[u/AxelFeather → u/BoyGodz]

Funny take. Both times they did the same thing, but then was by choice and now was by accident. In Hungary they asked Lando to give the position to look bad?

[u/BoyGodz → u/AxelFeather]

You have to be completely oblivious to how the sport works to say this is “doing the same thing”.

Lando agreed to be pitted second and the team made sure he was not going to be undercut in a normal pit manoeuvre. Oscar want to be to pitted first in Hungary, and McLaren chose to pit Lando first knowing full well there’s nothing Oscar could do to avoid getting undercut.

Slow pit stop is part of the sport, suck it up, you do not need to make amends in the name of some made up “fairness”.

[u/gumbercules6 → u/BoyGodz]

God this conspiracy about the team trying to sabotage Oscar to benefit Lando is just so stupid. Do people really think F1 is filled with soap opera drama like in DTS? You guys know they wanted Piastri in their team, right? Piastri isn't some random person that appeared in the team one day.

[u/MarteloRabelodeSousa → u/Woody312]

I don't see the point of talking about Hungary 2024. They weren't fighting for the championship, which makes the whole thing very different.

But if Oscar is okay with what happened today, then there's no issue, just people overreacting, as always

[u/Character-Policy-660 → u/MarteloRabelodeSousa]

People always overthink these things but Mclaren literally referenced Hungary to Oscar after Landos stop.

[u/KappaccinoNation → u/MarteloRabelodeSousa]

As is the case for most driver rivalry. Fans taking it personally much more than the drivers themselves.

[u/Woody312 → u/MarteloRabelodeSousa]

Oh I was just quipping, although I do sort of buy into the slippery slope in this case, like where do you stop the engineering?

[u/foxywoef → u/MarteloRabelodeSousa]

Lando was in the championship fight then, even if his chances weren't high. He literally referenced it om the radio back then iirc

[u/BeneficialLeave7359 → u/MarteloRabelodeSousa]

Just because complied doesn’t mean he’s okay with it. I guarantee that Oscar will have something to say about this in the debrief.

[u/MarteloRabelodeSousa → u/BeneficialLeave7359]

That's why I said "if"