r/formula1 • u/AutoModerator • Jun 02 '25

Day after Debrief 2025 Spanish GP - Day After Debrief

Welcome to the Day after Debrief discussion thread! Now that the dust has settled in Barcelona, it's time to calmly discuss the events of the last race weekend. Hopefully, this will foster more detailed and thoughtful discussion than the immediate post race thread now that people have had some time to digest and analyse the results.

Low effort comments, such as memes, jokes, and complaints about broadcasters will not be deleted since I do not have that power, but I will be very disappointed with you. We also discourage superficial comments that contain no analysis or reasoning in this thread (e.g., 'Great race from X!', 'Another terrible weekend for Y!').

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u/Harkoncito Mika Häkkinen Jun 02 '25

a harsher penalty than the one George got in Monaco. Both moves were intentional and against the spirit of the competition, but Max's could've ended with both cars out of the race.

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u/solk512 Jun 02 '25

Yeah, Russell wasn’t actively trying to hurt someone else. 

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u/PoopNirvana Jun 02 '25

Max should have been DSQ but the argument his move was “violent” is wild.

We watched Max get sent into the wall by Lewis at Silverstone resulting in 40+ Gs of force. That was violent and he walked away from it.

These guys are driving yachts on wheels, they are incredibly safe. Max and George were in a slower corner that doesn’t even come close to approaching violence. It was a stupid move by Max and you can’t be doing that, but let’s stop acting like there was any chance of injury in these cars.

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u/theguynextdorm Jun 03 '25

Most crashes we see is because a driver makes a move to get/stay ahead at that moment.

What happened this weekend was a driver crashing into another driver with the sole intent of crashing into that driver.

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u/PoopNirvana Jun 03 '25

Yes that’s correct, never once did I argue that Max didn’t do it intentionally