2025 McLaren F1 Team

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Good stuff from NOR lap 1 and also following and pushing VER for many laps, such a shame how difficult it is to overtake lately. Seems they always get stuck behind slower car. Poor quali is having huge impact on results.
Congratulations for WCC to everyone in the team. WDC next please.

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kc_f1 wrote:
05 Oct 2025, 16:12
Congrats Papaya fam! Great job to everyone in the team, Zak, Andrea, Lando and Norris.
Now we want more. Bring on 2026
Don't forget their other two teammates, Oscar and Piastri. =D> =D>

Wonderful job, McLaren. I hope they continue at the same pace with the new rules.

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Congratulations to Mclaren for a Back to Back championship and our 10th title. A Back to Back customer team humiliating factory teams and I'm not sure if it ever happened before. On other news it's time for Mclaren to help our drivers secure the WDC. This GP was a very good damage limitation but at some point they have to decide who to give priority.

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CONGRATULATIONS boys and girls! Incredible achievement. Let's savor this

I will also be surprised if Oscar harbors any I'll feelings in Austin after he sees the replay of T1

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Woohoo!!!! WCC!!!!!

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kc_f1 wrote:
05 Oct 2025, 16:13
PS - Oscar man, stop crying so much in public. The dude was literally sulking the whole race. Shake it off and get on with it.
Yep and given that twice this season he has made risky lunges from behind that risked taking both cars out, I think his whining was pretty hypocritical.

My take is that the pressure of the title battle is starting to get to Oscar.
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Nice Job Mclaren.

Now let's seal the double.
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congrats on WCC, the engineering teams deserves nothing less.

There is high probability for a double DNF, since the gloves are going to come off next race onwards. Piastri is pissed, he is questioning how come Norris is able to 'get away' by choosing to collide sideways, rather than brake and give up his attempt. When Piastri passed him in Imola, he didn't touch. IMHO he isn't "whining" , just questioning McLaren's 'iron-clad' papaya rules where "drivers shouldn't collide with each other" diktat is golden. Papaya rules no longer exist, in his opinion.

Not complaining, not mocking, not tarnishing. McLaren's 'driver policy' (it's given them WCC 6 races before end of season, which is also important, not just an excellent car) , is going to face a severe test - just an "evaluation" of mine.

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venkyhere wrote:
05 Oct 2025, 17:17
congrats on WCC, the engineering teams deserves nothing less.

There is high probability for a double DNF, since the gloves are going to come off next race onwards. Piastri is pissed, he is questioning how come Norris is able to 'get away' by choosing to collide sideways, rather than brake and give up his attempt. When Piastri passed him in Imola, he didn't touch. IMHO he isn't "whining" , just questioning McLaren's 'iron-clad' papaya rules where "drivers shouldn't collide with each other" diktat is golden. Papaya rules no longer exist, in his opinion.

Not complaining, not mocking, not tarnishing. McLaren's 'driver policy' (it's given them WCC 6 races before end of season, which is also important, not just an excellent car) , is going to face a severe test - just an "evaluation" of mine.
You spoke to him?

Anyway, they will debrief, discuss it, and all will be fine.

Oscar won't do anything rash, neither will Lando. Both very sensible drivers.

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Ben1980 wrote:
05 Oct 2025, 17:28


Oscar won't do anything rash, neither will Lando. Both very sensible drivers.
Everyone thinks "clearly" when the helmet is off. Lando almost took out both Mclarens in T3 today. That's what happens when the visor goes down, and a championship is on the line. Lando is getting desperate. Suddenly that 6 point fabrication in Monza could be decisive, and Oscar will rue many of the decisions he has made this year.

How will Mclaren make up for Oscar's bad pitstop today? He was only 2 seconds behind Lando at the line. He lost much more than that with the pit stop. This is why Mclaren shouldn't have done what they did in Monza.
It doesn't turn.

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Congratulations to McLaren! You guys should enjoy this moment! So many teams would give anything to be in your position. Job well done.

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As the season closes out I can really see the 3 drivers closing in on each other for the WDC. I dont think max will quite be able to do it but I think he will score the most points from now, with norris a close second.
Oscar needs to shake these last couple of weekends off and go win a race.
Can't wait for Austin, sprint weekend also

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venkyhere wrote:
05 Oct 2025, 17:17
congrats on WCC, the engineering teams deserves nothing less.

There is high probability for a double DNF, since the gloves are going to come off next race onwards. Piastri is pissed, he is questioning how come Norris is able to 'get away' by choosing to collide sideways, rather than brake and give up his attempt. When Piastri passed him in Imola, he didn't touch. IMHO he isn't "whining" , just questioning McLaren's 'iron-clad' papaya rules where "drivers shouldn't collide with each other" diktat is golden. Papaya rules no longer exist, in his opinion.

Not complaining, not mocking, not tarnishing. McLaren's 'driver policy' (it's given them WCC 6 races before end of season, which is also important, not just an excellent car) , is going to face a severe test - just an "evaluation" of mine.
Yep, gloves are off now, unquestionably. But it was always going to be like this way. It's every man for himself from here on in and the Papaya rules are almost certainly dead in the water.

Lando took too much speed in and Max and Oscar acted as the brakes, nothing wrong, ultimately, but he'll be right to be p*ssed and Mark Webber will be in his ear telling him to give no quarter from now on.
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AR3-GP wrote:
05 Oct 2025, 17:30
Ben1980 wrote:
05 Oct 2025, 17:28


Oscar won't do anything rash, neither will Lando. Both very sensible drivers.
Everyone thinks "clearly" when the helmet is off. Lando almost took out both Mclarens in T3 today. That's what happens when the visor goes down, and a championship is on the line. Lando is getting desperate. Suddenly that 6 point fabrication in Monza could be decisive, and Oscar will rue many of the decisions he has made this year.

How will Mclaren make up for Oscar's bad pitstop today? He was only 2 seconds behind Lando at the line. He lost much more than that with the pit stop. This is why Mclaren shouldn't have done what they did in Monza.
Why do they need to make up for it?? Getting close is one thing, getting past is another entirely.

Without the slow stop Oscar would still have been behind Lando. It's not like he immediately closed up, the gap was stable for several laps before he started to close it.

Lando would have been in Max's DRS so Oscar would not have been able to get past.

The slow stop changed nothing.
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mwillems wrote:
05 Oct 2025, 17:59
venkyhere wrote:
05 Oct 2025, 17:17
congrats on WCC, the engineering teams deserves nothing less.

There is high probability for a double DNF, since the gloves are going to come off next race onwards. Piastri is pissed, he is questioning how come Norris is able to 'get away' by choosing to collide sideways, rather than brake and give up his attempt. When Piastri passed him in Imola, he didn't touch. IMHO he isn't "whining" , just questioning McLaren's 'iron-clad' papaya rules where "drivers shouldn't collide with each other" diktat is golden. Papaya rules no longer exist, in his opinion.

Not complaining, not mocking, not tarnishing. McLaren's 'driver policy' (it's given them WCC 6 races before end of season, which is also important, not just an excellent car) , is going to face a severe test - just an "evaluation" of mine.
Yep, gloves are off now, unquestionably. But it was always going to be like this way. It's every man for himself from here on in and the Papaya rules are almost certainly dead in the water.

Lando took too much speed in and Max and Oscar acted as the brakes, nothing wrong, ultimately, but he'll be right to be p*ssed and Mark Webber will be in his ear telling him to give no quarter from now on.
As shown in the race coverage, it looked worse from Oscar's onboard than it did from other angles.

I think once Oscar sees the other views he will appreciate that it was a racing incident and no riskier than some of the moves Oscar has tried on Lando in previous races, such as his lunge in Austria.
"From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks, conclusions can be drawn." - Niki Lauda