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Some factors making this possible:
-24 races -> the impact of a single race gets diluted by the other 23; winning 3 in a row does not give you an unrecoverable advantage
-High reliability -> strong drivers/cars still get many points on average even when not winning a race

This was the first #F1 season ever where two drivers won 3 races in a row but didn’t win the WDC! 💡

🟠PIA: Bahrain / Saudi Arabia / Miami (Season start)
🔵VER: Las Vegas / Qatar/ Abu Dhabi (Season end)

🟠NOR never won 3 straight, but delivered strong form all year

Idea/Image: u/ZeroStormblessed

This was the first #F1 season ever where two drivers won 3 races in a row but didn’t win the WDC! 💡

🟠PIA: Bahrain / Saudi Arabia / Miami (Season start)
🔵VER: Las Vegas / Qatar/ Abu Dhabi (Season end)

🟠NOR never won 3 straight, but delivered strong form all year

Idea/Image: u/ZeroStormblessed

Kimi Antonelli was just 4 when Jenson Button pressed the DRS *button* for the first time in 2011
Yesterday, he became the last driver ever to use it!

He activated it in the final DRS zone of the final lap, hitting 330 km/h (but still couldn’t pass TSU)

Goodbye, DRS 🫡
#F1 #AbuDhabiGP

At the end, Hulkenberg basically said: “Traffic? I don’t care”
*Proceeds to pass 5 cars in a DRS train in 8 laps*

Fatalities recorded: his teammate, one Mercedes, two Williams, and one Red Bull

“Traffic does not exist, it can’t hurt you!”
#F1 #AbuDhabiGP

RACE PACE 🏁

2 Stops:
1)Champion NOR quickest
2)LEC +0.11s/lap
3)HAM +0.95
4)HUL +1.05
5)ALB +1.16

1 Stop:
1)VER +0.16s/lap to NOR
2)PIA +0.35
3)RUS +0.95
4)ALO +1.28
5)OCO +1.29

Good recovery by HAM, solid races by ALO and OCO! #F1

Farewell to this car generation: as in ‘21, the final year of a cycle delivered one of the best seasons! 👌

And thanks to all of you for following my work: I hope my analyses made the season more enjoyable! 🤩

Norris beat his first two rivals (VER, PIA) through a clever drive: we’ll soon know about the third! (Plank wear)

The 3 points PIA handed him in Monza proved decisive: kudos to both and to the team!

Thanks Max for keeping the season alive

Ferrari closed the season on a positive note
#F1

🔵VER hid pace in FP2 by lifting early→Then took pole
He did 14 laps (far more than anyone else!) on high fuel (Source: Lambiase)→strong race pace? 👀

NOR quickest
[...]
VER +0.318s/lap
SAI +0.338 (SOFTS)
ANT +0.444
PIA +0.471
[...]
LEC +0.711
RUS +0.815
HAM +0.966
ALB +1.083
[...]
TSU +1.526
#F1

I wasn’t wrong 😁 #F1 #AbuDhabiGP

After skipping FP1, PIA trailed NOR on every metric!

FP2: 🟠NOR’s higher downforce beat 🔵VER’s top-speed edge!
He braked later and gained at every braking zone (T1, T6, T9), and in the fast corners (T1/T9)

🔵VER lifted before braking into T5, making his lap look slower (did the same at the lap end, dropping 10 km/h vs lap start)
Popcorn ready 🍿#F1

Laps 11–18 changed everything: McLaren went from looking untouchable to not fast enough to win! ⏳

At the SC restart, ⚫️PIA gained 2.1s/lap on 🔵VER, and the race looked over. For short, though: VER was managing, and improved his pace by 1.4s/lap over the next 7 laps. PIA lost 0.7s

Via JMP #YesJMPcan

By Lap 18, VER and PIA were on identical pace, making VER the clear favourite given he’d already stopped once!

🟠NOR was slower than PIA throughout the race

Who will win the WDC? Who are you rooting for? Comment!

Laps 11–18 changed everything: McLaren went from looking untouchable to not fast enough to win! ⏳

At the SC restart, ⚫️PIA gained 2.1s/lap on 🔵VER, and the race looked over. For short, though: VER was managing, and improved his pace by 1.4s/lap over the next 7 laps. PIA lost 0.7s

Via JMP #YesJMPcan

NOR was slower even before his floor damage

SAI is my DOTD: 4th-best pace despite damage → deserved podium!

HAD was faster than LEC before his unlucky puncture! (ALO even quicker)

ANT >> RUS

LEC had little pace; HAM had none

RACE PACE #F1 #QatarGP

In trying not to disappoint any driver, McL disappointed both: not splitting the strategy was shocking, and gifted VER the win!
If VER takes the title, McL’s collapse will be a case study...

PIA was 0.40s/lap quicker than VER: not enough to offset the extra stop

RACE PACE - HAM was slowest on average!

PIA quickest
RUS +0.20s/lap
NOR +0.21
VER +0.33
TSU +0.57
ANT +1.10
ALO +1.10

HAM’s poor top speed in Sprint Quali pushed him to switch rear-wing spec, costing a pit-lane start
He went from slowest to fastest (despite using DRS for only six laps), yet felt the car was overall even worse!

LEC, stuck in traffic, hit 339km/h
RUS held a 5 km/h edge over PIA (neither used DRS)

SPRINT QUALI ANALYSIS 🏁

🟠PIA on pole with an excellent package: fastest in the slowest and fastest corners, plus good top speed

⚫️Mercedes: least drag... but lacked downforce

🟢ALO could stay full throttle for >70% of the lap!

🔵RBR and 🔴Ferrari had no strengths: lowest top speed, bad in corners…

With two races to go, Albon's and Williams' top speed record (369km/h, '24 Las Vegas) for this generation of cars will never be beaten!

HAM and BEA ALMOST beat the 2025 record (365km/h by HAM in Monza). HAM was stuck in traffic for so long that he exceeded 360km/h on FIVE laps!
#F1

McLaren spotted the excessive plank wear far too late!

NOR lifted-and-coasted heavily in the last 4 laps, especially at Turn 10 (Fastest one → worst for wear), losing up to 52km/h! (~1s in one corner alone)
Still, by Lap 46, the damage was already done

PIA didn't lift at all
Via JMP #YesJMPcan #F1

Norris’ car was sparking massively on the last lap even though he was lift-and-coasting! 💥

*plank (typo)

If McLaren’s extreme tyre wear really came from porpoising, it should be track-specific and unlikely to reappear in the final two races.

If it’s a fundamental car issue, they’ll need to raise the ride height, losing key downforce… and Qatar is the worst track for that!

VER is now within a win’s distance from the WDC leader - his smallest gap in 15 races! (since Imola)

McLaren spotted the excessive plank wear far too late!

NOR lifted-and-coasted heavily in the last 4 laps, especially at Turn 10 (Fastest one → worst for wear), losing up to 52km/h! (~1s in one corner alone)
Still, by Lap 46, the damage was already done

PIA didn't lift at all
Via JMP #YesJMPcan #F1