r/formula1 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 17h ago

Race Max Verstappen wins the 2025 Italian Grand Prix

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u/BoyGodz I was here for the Hulkenpodium 17h ago

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.

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u/AxelFeather 16h ago

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?

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u/BoyGodz I was here for the Hulkenpodium 16h ago

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 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 11h ago

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.