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MIGHTY MAX!

  ITALIAN GRAND PRIX 2025 photo credit: formula1.com THE DUTCHMAN DOMINATED! AND McLAREN HAD NO ANSWER AT ALL! At the start of the race Max had to give the lead to Lando due to him cutting the turn 1 chicane but within a few laps time Max took the race lead back and never saw back. He dominated from start to end and continually increased his lead lap by lap and Mclaren just did not have the pace to ever catch up to him. He won with ease and took the whole grid by storm with the sudden pace he got over the McLarens. Well for the McLaren team they just did not get the result they expected. They got outpaced by Max and had no strategy, not even the softs in the end to catch up to Max. On top of that the pit stop mayhem during Lando's pit stop caught up more attention. Oscar was given the first pit stop on the condition that Lando will retain P2 and Oscar will be able to cover off Leclerc but the 6 second pit stop for Lando caused the positions to invert after the pits which due to whi...

TWO ENDS OF A COIN!!

  DUTCH GRAND PRIX 2025 photo credit: reuters.com Oscar wins...but Lando did not even finish!! Oscar secured his 7th win of the season by winning in Zandvoort. At the same time, his main rival for the championship, his teammate Lando Norris did not finish the race due to a mechanical failure in the closing stages of the race. Both had been close throughout the race with Lando being within 2 seconds throughout the whole race but in the end all in vain as he even lost the 18 points he would have got for P2. Now, Oscar has a 34 point championship lead which seems quite the impossible task for Lando considering both the drivers have the same car and are at top form in this season.  At the end of the day, McLaren will be happy that they are still the car to beat and are at top form as a team and with their drivers but will like to review where they went wrong with Lando.  The next big talking point of the race was Ferrari and their miseries. It was Ferrari's worst race of the ...