2025 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Team

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https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/lambiase ... f-it-claim
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Lambiase provided a very positive debrief of how the first day of on track action had gone.
"So it was a very busy day here in Monza during both practice sessions. We were able to complete our programs as we intended. Both cars ran reliably so we've accumulated a lot of data," the British-Italian engineer began.
"Obviously a lot of work went into this weekend off the back of last year which wasn't quite as competitive as we would have liked," added Lambiase acknowledging the tricky situation in the 2024 Italian Grand Prix.
"But this year we do look much more competitive. The cars are working in a really good window.
"We're on top of the tyres at this stage so there's no major dramas, but we are investigating further to try and improve matters to make sure we're on top of degradation as we need to be to to complete Sunday's strategy."
Nevertheless, despite the positive outlook, Red Bull and its Head of Racing eye further improvements to maximise the result across the weekend of racing on Italian soil.
"There are always a few tweaks that we're looking at on the setup particularly as we're running such a low downforce level stability is key.
"So we're trying to make the drivers even more comfortable to be able to attack those medium high-speed corners further," indicating there's still time to find for the Austrian racing outfit.
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The car does look a lot better than last year in terms of competitiveness and Max agrees. Hopefully they take another step today, maybe even putting them in striking distance of mclarens. Still think it'll be difficult.
Looking at onboards the car looked decent on long runs, pretty well balanced.

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Is Max silly or something?

Gets a huge tow from Ocon down the back straight and main straight, reaches 354km/h, goes top by a mile yet he somehow feels he got impeded and does his usual teenage stuff afterwards…

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McLarenHonda wrote:
06 Sep 2025, 13:08
Is Max silly or something?

Gets a huge tow from Ocon down the back straight and main straight, reaches 354km/h, goes top by a mile yet he somehow feels he got impeded and does his usual teenage stuff afterwards…
Legend. 8)

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McLarenHonda wrote:
06 Sep 2025, 13:08
Is Max silly or something?

Gets a huge tow from Ocon down the back straight and main straight, reaches 354km/h, goes top by a mile yet he somehow feels he got impeded and does his usual teenage stuff afterwards…
It "looked like" Ocon blocked Max through the whole of parabolica and then until turn1 as well. Those two have a long standing ego war that started in Brazil 2018.

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From what I saw from the TV streaming (didn't watch onboards) , Max is leaving a lot of room at the entry kerb (T8 left) of Ascari chicane , plus he is lifting in the middle (T9 right) ever so slightly as well. Not sure whether this line through Ascari is a car limitation or whether this is a 'margin left in practice' trump card that he wants to show only in Q3. The car seems well balanced and doesn't look 'disturbed' anywhere, hence my doubt.

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What a driver.
It doesn't turn.

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What a turnaround to last year! Absolutely phenomenal lap from Max!

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Mamma mia what a lap by Max. A record also. What a driver, even though we lost the title this year he will bring that extra performance every race with a lot of motivation still left. Maybe 2026 wouldnt be that bad.

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Red Bull had no qualms about throwing Tsunoda under the bus, just to get the other drivers onto the track.
It was clear that they also had no desire to put Verstappen out right behind him.

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No other drive can squeeze the maximum of the car like Verstappen, with clockwork consistency, it's so awesome to watch.

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The have found something on the slow speed corners. But may have come too late to rescue the championship

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McLarenHonda wrote:
06 Sep 2025, 13:08
Is Max silly or something?

Gets a huge tow from Ocon down the back straight and main straight, reaches 354km/h, goes top by a mile yet he somehow feels he got impeded and does his usual teenage stuff afterwards…
Congrats on the pole.

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venkyhere wrote:
06 Sep 2025, 13:40
McLarenHonda wrote:
06 Sep 2025, 13:08
Is Max silly or something?

Gets a huge tow from Ocon down the back straight and main straight, reaches 354km/h, goes top by a mile yet he somehow feels he got impeded and does his usual teenage stuff afterwards…
It "looked like" Ocon blocked Max through the whole of parabolica and then until turn1 as well. Those two have a long standing ego war that started in Brazil 2018.
Ocon as beat in EVERY duel they had in F3, car to car. Brazil 2018, where Ocon took New tires and smoked them up in 3 laps, just to try and back Max up into Lewis. Ocon is and always will be.

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Was Max out on used softs in his final Q3 run? I saw it for a split second only when he turned out of the box, but didn't look shiny.