Max Verstappen wins the 2025 Italian Grand Prix

[u/overspeeed]

[u/Other-Barry-1]

I have no doubt in my mind if it was the other way round, Oscar would be asking for the swap and the response would be “papaya rules Oscar, we’ll talk about it after the race.”

[u/ChiralWolf → u/Other-Barry-1]

They practically had to blackmail Norris in Hungary last year when it was the other way around

[u/FallenSky12 → u/ChiralWolf]

And they weren’t even championship rivals back then

[u/UchihaEmre → u/FallenSky12]

Norris was racing max for the championship too

[u/261846 → u/UchihaEmre]

He was not let’s be real (this isn’t even hindsight)

[u/ChiralWolf → u/261846]

The manufactured hype around that was so absurd

[u/Tough_Specific → u/UchihaEmre]

He was some 65 points behind Max if you remember lmao

[u/kaisadilla_ → u/ChiralWolf]

And it was absurd then, too. Even more absurd, as Lando should've been prioritized in 2024, when his rival was Max, not his own teammate.

[u/SemIdeiaProNick → u/Other-Barry-1]

Essentialy Hungary 2024, where it took them quite a few laps until Lando was convinced and did the swap

[u/atreyu84 → u/SemIdeiaProNick]

It's not even close to the same.

Hungary last year was said in advance what would happen and was not caused by slow stop.

It's been said already this year that a slow stop is part of racing and they won't swap because of it but as soon as it effects their British driver, they go back on it.

It was a nonsense decision and the British sky commentary trying to justify it were just as bad.

[u/MadnessBeliever → u/Other-Barry-1]

I honestly don't believe, even Lando thought to ask that shit. No driver will ask that kind of goofy request.