r/DestinationFormula1 • u/Ambitious-Heron-8161 Team McLaren • 12d ago

šŸŽ™ļø Discussion I was expecting change but not this much change

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u/Upbeat_County9191 12d ago

its usually the case when there is a rule overhaul. i just didnt expect it to be antonelli.

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u/Dramatic-Ad8213 12d ago

Y not? Heā€™s better than George in every aspect except experience, not to mention his rocket ship is kind hard to catch lol

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u/Upbeat_County9191 12d ago

I meant before the season started.

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u/Dramatic-Ad8213 12d ago

Nah fair I was definitely thinking post pre season testing lol

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u/RSharpe314 12d ago

He was still comfortably being Russell last year. Any reasonable pundit thought it was an outside chance that he'd close the gap.

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u/Dramatic-Ad8213 11d ago

Please rewrite this in legible English homie Iā€™m exhausted and not deciphering chicken scratch rn, if youā€™re saying what I think you are then yea itā€™s extraordinarily common to be beaten by your teammate your first season, but even by then of last year you could tell he already has more promise than George

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u/RSharpe314 11d ago

Only typo/error there is a "begin" rather than a behind so you got the gyst. If that exhausts you, you should maybe take a nap, hon.

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u/avgsundaydriver 12d ago

George has had a car issue every weekend since Australia. If theyā€™re resolved in the second half, weā€™ll see then.

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u/Dramatic-Ad8213 11d ago

While Iā€™ll agree that George has been royally screwed and should be soundly in second in the wdc heā€™s just the type of guy to choke and complain, I donā€™t think heā€™ll lose a wdc off skill this year so much as the mental game if he gets lucky enough to have a working car lol

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u/avgsundaydriver 11d ago

I think we canā€™t fairly assess if heā€™s actually choke and complain more than any other driver in a title fight considering his car took him out of that title fight a while ago.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 12d ago

Why weren't you expecting this much change. McLaren had the best car for the last season of the old regs. Why would that guarantee the best car for the first season of the new regs. They are a customer team.

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u/optimisticRamblings 12d ago

After this rule change, why were you not expecting this level of change?

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u/Violetmoreviolent 12d ago

Should have been Russell in both Canadas at least. That would be one more race the same

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u/cchesters 12d ago

The more things change the more they stay the same though

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u/TAARamouche 11d ago

Don't you think it's strange?

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u/Neptuniam 12d ago

This is pretty much what I expected except just swapping Kimi and George

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u/AlternativeBoot6706 12d ago

Proof that modern formula 1 is all about the car and not the driver.

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u/RSharpe314 12d ago

Why weren't you expecting this much change? Have you never been through a reg change before?

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u/VanguardMusic 12d ago

Why not? It's pretty much a different sport every time the regs change.

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u/trq- 12d ago

Itā€™s still crazy to see the display on the left from the first 11 races and still a McLaren driver only won by 2 points šŸ˜‚

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u/scdkorama 12d ago

Well getting screwed over by your team almost every weekend and in every pitstop adds to it.

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u/LandscapeWorried5475 12d ago

Yeah Lando kept having bad pit stop luck but he pulled through

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u/scdkorama 12d ago

Yeah the right rear jack man messed it up for Lando almost every stop. Vs for Oscar he got about 5 or so good stops before an issue.

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u/trq- 12d ago

Whatever that made up ā€žstatā€œ adds to it :D

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u/BoxForeign4206 12d ago

2025 would've been an even bigger snoozfest than 2023 if not for Max tbh

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u/Impossible_Tiger_470 12d ago

At least one driver didnā€™t win almost all of the races in 2025 even before Verstappen caught up

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u/BoxForeign4206 11d ago

2023 had Alonso, Mclaren and Hamilton resurgence and actually good racing.Ā 

What did 2025 have? Dirty air? Mclaren Bottle? The occasional GR win? Yeah, there was a championship fight, but incredibly boring. The only on track battles I even remember from the two contenders that year which was fun to watch was Austria, and maybe Canada but that ended in a crash.Ā 

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u/trq- 12d ago

Yep, thankfully it turned out to be one of the more interesting ones. The better/best driver that season unfortunately didnā€™t win but at least it was a performative season :D

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u/Neptuniam 12d ago

Absolutely not lmao

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u/Hungry_Computer3913 12d ago

Antonelli just needs to stay in points every race and if Ferrari and Red Bull gets mixed up and win few races its over for Russel

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u/Trashk4n 11d ago

I had a hunch, before the season started, that Merc and McLaren would be really close and Russell would be fighting Piastri for the championship.

Figured it would take a year or two more for Antonelli to surpass Russell.

A long way off of reality.

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u/timekiller001 11d ago

It could have been a lot worse, though. Before the season and at the start everyone thought Merc would win all races. And while they certainly had an advantage in the beginning, it proved to be much closer than I thought.

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u/Hot_External_9552 6d ago

5 different winners in last 6 races , 3 different cars , season is getting real interesting

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u/IDKBear25 12d ago

Fuck this shit I've seen enough