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13 May
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Oranj
We've all seen this, right? bbc.co.uk

Some incredible photos from F1 down the years. The 1970s, and Lauda vs Hunt was where I really started following the racing. Hunt was my charismatic antidote to the mechanical Stuart/Lauda style. But I also love those images of a young Alonso in 2003, and Hamilton crowd surfing 2016 :-)
13 May
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Pothunter
When you look back it’s amazing how much the safety and reliability has improved
13 May
10:10pm, 13 May 2025
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larkim
Yep, the shots of the crowd on the inside of La Source etc. Nuts by today's standards!
14 May
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HappyG(rrr)
I didn't start watching until the 80s - Prost, Senna, then Schumacher, and Brits Hill, Mansell, Coulthard and Button. But Senna's death in 93 (?) was horrific shock and the big improvements towards safety after that have been great. :-) G
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minardi


plus having all his classmates at a GP 🤣
18 May
8:44pm, 18 May 2025
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Pothunter
I assume we’re clear to discuss today’s race? Spoiler tag just in case not!

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19 May
9:14am, 19 May 2025
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HappyG(rrr)
Yes, clear from after the UK Channel 4 coverage (i.e. free stuff, a few hours later, not the live watching of those who pay the extra, that was larkim's suggested guidance!).

Cracking indeed Pothunter. So much for "you can't overtake at Imola"! Some amazing moves, not least Verstappen's lunge on Piastri at the start.

Yeah, some luck around the VSC and full SC for some and bad luck for others, but yes Verstappen really does wring the most out of the car and situations at all times. Got to admire him for that, albeit grudgingly for me! ;-)

Great to see Ferraris have a bit of a better day, in Italy. Poor Antonelli though, at his "home" race.

Hope McLarens don't do that thing of a dominant car, but with two even drivers, carving up the points between them, but then letting Verstappen sneak through by picking up the pieces of the two McLarens battling each other?! :-O

I don't mind if Piastri or Norris win the championship, as long as it's not Verstappen. Just be nice to have a new champion. :-) G
19 May
1:44pm, 19 May 2025
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larkim
If McLaren had the dominant car, it wasn't on track yesterday! Norris couldn't close down Max in free air once Max had that large gap, though to be fair I think that surprised Max too.

Piastri could hang with Max at first, but a) destroyed his tyres trying to keep up and b) Max wasn't working his tyres as hard either, hence on for the solid 1 stop if the VSC / SC hadn't deployed.

I wonder what might have been if Max had pitted before the VSC and then Lando got the cheap pitstop afterwards; same tyres, close gap, half race distance still to go - could have been more of a tussle.

But all in all, not a bad race.

Funny to hear people talk about Imola disappearing. I've always viewed it as a surprisingly long stayer after it stepped in over Covid - always felt temporary, and then surprised me when it popped up on the calendar each year.

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Spoiler best practice
No quali spoilers until after (or during?) the Ch4 highlights show
No race spoilers until after (or during?) the Ch4 highlights show

Spoiler tags can be used - we're all grown ups so no need to click a Spoiler tag if we don't need to. But just make sure you type it correctly!!

So it needs to be (without the spaces, and all lowercase)

< spoiler >< /spoiler >
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