[Other Sport] F1 2025

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I got the impression that the drivers had been told by their teams not to say much - seemed unusual for none of them to comment on such an incident.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Max got 3 penalty points as well. That means he's now just 1 point away from an automatic race ban. He'll be treading the penalty points tightrope for much of the rest of the season.

Max now on 11 points (but some drop off in a couple of races)

Next come Lawson with 5 and a handful with 4. Including Piastri. Norris is on 3.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Did I miss a Zak Brown departure?

Italian geezer now McLaren team principle ...

 

[Flounce]

Did I miss a Zak Brown departure?

Italian geezer now McLaren team principle ...

Brown is the CEO

 

[Audax]

Max now on 11 points (but some drop off in a couple of races)

Next come Lawson with 5 and a handful with 4. Including Piastri. Norris is on 3.

Yeah. He's on 11 now. Of those:

* 2 expire on the 30th June (Norris collision Austria 2024)
* 2 expire on the 27th October (Forcing Norris off track Mexico 2024)
* 1 expires 1st November (VSC delta time breach Brazil sprint 2024)
* 1 expires 1st December (Driving too slow on a cooldown lap in qually Qatar 2024)
* 2 expire 8th December (Piastri collision Abu Dhabi 2024)

That means he'll race with 11 points for Canada (15th June) and Austria (29 June). Assuming he avoids triggering a race ban, he'll then by on 9 points for the next 9 races.

Magnussen is the only driver to actually trigger a ban for accumulating 12 points. Many of those points were gained from deliberate actions in order to help Hulkenberg score points last year, and the ban gave Bearman one of his starts last year.

Historically, we've seen the stewards get very wary of issuing penalty points once a driver gets close to triggering a ban (IIRC it was Gasly a couple years back who walked the tightrope and avoided a ban despite having a couple of incidents where precedent suggested penalty points were due).

There could be controversy if Verstappen does something in the next 2 races that has precedent for a 1 point penalty and then doesn't receive it (eg a VSC delta breach etc).

 

[Audax]

Did I miss a Zak Brown departure?

Italian geezer now McLaren team principle ...

Brown's never been TP at McLaren IIRC. CEO, yes (and still is), but not TP. Andrea Stella is TP for a few years now, and before him Andreas Seidl was TP (and responsible for bringing Ricciardo to the team).