BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2025

A chaotic, fantastic race with rain making for very exciting mixed conditions. You couldn’t take your eyes off the screen! Constant upsets and pit stops and changes. There was a chance Stroll was going to get a podium, but the biggest highlight was that Hulkenberg got his first podium after finishing third. Oscar would have won but for the penalty given to him after a safety car restart where he braked to cause over 100 mph of speed loss and also ruined Max’s race. It was a miserable race weekend for the commentary, but I haven’t seen a race this exciting in a long time. 

Practices

• black and white flag for Liam Lawson for driving erratically 

• Red flag for debris on track 

• Bortolero has a suspension failure and red flags 

• Ollie crashes on his way to the pit lane 

Qualifying 

• Ollie Bearman gets a 10 place grid penalty and 4 penalty points after his crash going into the pit lane speeding under the red flag 

• Colapinto crashes in Q1 and keeps it going but it looks bad 

• Out in Q2: Sainz, Yuki, Hadjar, Albon and Ocon 

• Max on pole!! Then Oscar and Lando 

Race

• Colapinto was supposed to start from the pit lane but then he never started 

• Liam Lawson creases into Ocon and virtual safety car 

• Max keeps the lead at the beginning

• The track is wet so lots of question about which tires to be on

• Bortoleto gets on slicks too early and crashes and then second virtual safety car

• Rain is looming and this is chaotic 

• Oscar passes Max for the lead

• Charles goes straight over a bunch of grass when water gets into his helmet

• Safety car for heavy rain which allows Max to catch back up to Oscar in the lead 

• Hadjar crashes after the start of the second safety car and then crashes to trigger the third safety car. He hit Kimi 

• Oscar slowed to basically a stop suddenly behind the safety car to restart and Max went a little ahead of him and was angry and it wasn’t okay to stop that much

• Max slides on restart after Oscar stopped too fast and loses about 10 places

• Ollie Bearman slides but keeps going

• Tsunoda hits Antonelli and Antonelli has to retire so now 5 of the 6 rookies are retired 

• Oscar under investigation for stopping too erratically behind the safety car 

• 10 second time penalty for Oscar for the safety car infringement 

• Yuki Tsunoda gets a 10 second time penalty for hitting Antonelli

• There’s a chance that Hulk will get a podium after like forever for the first time 

• Sainz says Charles was reckless passing him

• George goes onto the slicks too early and spins around 

• Ocon and Bearman hit each other in the Haases and then keep going

• Lando wins, Oscar in second, Nico Hulkenberg in third after 239 races without ever getting a podium!!! 

• Oscar is distraught in the post-race interview and barely says anything and it’s so painful