2025 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix - [QUALIFYING] discussion thread ⏱️
ROUND 7: 🇮🇹 Italy
FORMULA 1 AWS GRAN PREMIO DEL MADE IN ITALY E DELL'EMILIA-ROMAGNA 2025
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 1980
- Number of laps: 63
- Circuit Length: 4.909 km
- Race Distance: 309.049 km
- Lap record: 1:15.484 Lewis Hamilton (2020)
- 2024 winner: Max Verstappen
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OH MY god lol this has been a wild Qualifying! Aston upsets the Tifosi at home?
Rare big brain moment by Aston to burn a set of mediums for a Q3 visit. This C6 tire can't even last a lap it seems.
Watching Stroll knock Hamilton out of qualifying did kind of break my heart a bit. Nobody deserves that 😅
If he had started his F1 career in Red Bull, he could have been a world champion. I feel so sorry for him.
Is this the Italian brainrot?
Safety in modern F1 is at such a high level I genuinely think fatalities are eliminated outside of complete freak accidents. Looking at stuff like this and the Zhou Silverstone crash and the drivers coming out unscathed in both instances is absolutely unbelievable.
At this point, it's probably more unsafe for track marshals and photographers who work up close and are always somewhat in danger of getting hit by a car or car parts
Give every marshal and photographer an F1 safety cell to sit in, safety taken care of! /s
Also Grosjean would have been dead if it happened 10 years earlier.
Huge whack for Tsunoda. Geez that second Red Bull car is cursed.
Oh shit he barrel rolled.
I was surprised myself before they showed the replay on why the car was that badly damaged. Luckily he got out unscathed.
Same. I was looking all over the gravel for the path he took in and there weren't any tracks from the first few angles they showed. When they showed the replay I understood why- He was in the air.
Omg both Ferraris out in Q2. Knocked out by both Aston Martins.
And where did that Sainz P1 come from.
Madness.
Another big crash yikes. Colapinto on Alpine debut noooooo..
Lawson didn't get an opportunity to set a better lap to get to Q2. Unlucky for him.
Russell on C5s 👀
Pole position? 👀
Flavio out here destroying careers
Ouch that looked really bad. These drivers are so brave to get back in and drive again after an accident like that
Good that that fence held properly, seems like the photographers and spectators behind were all unharmed (though that's always hard to tell from TV images, we didnt learn about the injured photographers in Monaco last year until after the race)
Happy to see Yuki out and walking away under his own power. Scary off, wow...
Ferrari gets Strolled
Lol Astons suddenly found pace
Being on the correct tyre helps
11th and 12th is pain. And Kimi...
Tyre management has been Kimi's biggest weakness so far (common for rookies) and with the C6 tyre not even lasting a lap without management it's no surprise he struggled a bit here.
Another fantastic Q3. Razor thin gaps between P1 and P2.
Russell's medium gamble seems to have paid off.
Finally a ray of hope for Aston Martin?
Yuki noooo.
Yes Saintz! Let's hope he can do it again for Q3!
Oof thats a big one
Oh no oh no oh no
5th and 6th for Alonso and Saintz! They did so well!
Wurz is saying that Colapinto's mistake is similar to the mistake he made in Las Vegas last year, which is not good since it suggests he didnt learn from that
Can someone please delete that whole Alpine team? Maybe sell it to some Lotus guys again?
Shame about Hamilton, but I'll definitely take it for Saintz and Alonso's laps!
Haas still trying to argue that Ollie's lap should count.. imo the light was red before he crossed the line
Fuck it, 16 people in Q2, why not.
I think he crossed the line before the red flag. Please look at the caution panel and not the lights that indicate the end of the session.
Nope, watch the replay. Gantry lights are session end. Marshal flag LED panel didn’t light until after he crossed the line, meaning marshals and/or race control didn’t throw the red u til after he crossed the line, and even the FIA’s own timing system agreed.
The only explanation is that the lap was disqualified for track limits anyway (would explain the delay while the stewards review) but there should be a statement about that if that’s the case; it also should have been apparent to Haas without holding ready until green.
Holy shit another big shunt.
I thought softs were mandatory in Q3?
I think it's only mandatory in Sprint Qualy
Yeah fair enough, I checked sporting regulations afterwards and compound choice is only restricted in sprint quali.
Only sprint quali has the mandatory tires. Normal quali has free selection.
No, softs by choice in Q3, a fresh set just for Q3 that is turned in after the session. Q1, Q2, and optionally Q3 is the medium tyre; which I believe comes from the team’s 13 allocated dry weather tyres
Ferrari doing Ferrari things.
The Williams bookend Q2, what a lap from Carlos!