Poll: Official 2025 Italian Grand Prix Race Thread - Autodromo Nazionale di Monza - Race 16/24

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Ferrari do this to themselves. They've clearly turned the engines up in P1 to get some headlines, then as everyone else turns theirs up through the weekend Ferrari will appear to slip backwards to their true pace. Cue stories in the press on Monday about Ferrari underachieving again.
SoliD said:
Williams looking quick!
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The Williams has always loved the high speed tracks.
 
chrismscotland said:
Personally I think I'd have done what Merc did with Russell; get him into Williams for a season or two and sign Albon or Sainz to partner Russell.
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I don't think Williams were up for it and I don't think the time in Williams did Russell much good: three years of trundling round at the back with the first being particularly poor and him being clearly ready for a top seat by the third. I'm not sure anyone would have been up for it this year, and I'm pretty sure he's learning more at Merc in F1 than he would be from another year in F2. I also think Kimi's being judged overly harshly -- take away two technical failures and Hadjar taking him out and his recent run looks much better -- and the bigger problem is that he's being overly cautious as a result of a few offs. He's much more inexperienced than the other rookies, and I'm confident he'll come good.

Edited to add I also feel like if they dropped the ball it was in rushing him into F2. He'd likely have won F3 last year, and be well placed to win F2 this year if they'd left his development arc normal. Having rushed him into F2, rushing him into F1 was the only choice left.
 
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Mr Jack said:
I don't think Williams were up for it and I don't think the time in Williams did Russell much good: three years of trundling round at the back with the first being particularly poor and him being clearly ready for a top seat by the third. I'm not sure anyone would have been up for it this year, and I'm pretty sure he's learning more at Merc in F1 than he would be from another year in F2. I also think Kimi's being judged overly harshly -- take away two technical failures and Hadjar taking him out and his recent run looks much better -- and the bigger problem is that he's being overly cautious as a result of a few offs. He's much more inexperienced than the other rookies, and I'm confident he'll come good.

Edited to add I also feel like if they dropped the ball it was in rushing him into F2. He'd likely have won F3 last year, and be well placed to win F2 this year if they'd left his development arc normal. Having rushed him into F2, rushing him into F1 was the only choice left.
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Driver 61 did a good video explaining how mercy have the car set up in a way that is particularly exacerbating Kimi's issues with the car.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Absolutely useless from Antonelli, which is becoming all too common for him.
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I didn't realise how awful his European stint of the season had been until I saw this Reddit comment earlier:

Imola: Qualified P13, DNF at the race because of engine failure.
Monaco: Qualified P15 after hitting the wall in Q2, put Bortoleto into the wall, finished P18.
Spain: Qualified P6, DNF at the race because of engine failure.
Austria: Qualified P9, took himself and Max out in Lap 1.
Silverstone: Qualified P7, hit by Hadjar from the back, DNF because of damage.
Belgium: Qualified P20, finished P17 for the sprint, qualified P18 and finished P16 for the race.
Hungary: Qualified P15, finished P10.
Zandvoort: Qualified P11, put Leclerc out of the race, then sped in the pit lane, 15 seconds penalty put him at P16.
 
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