ROUND 5: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025

Circuit stats

  • First Grand Prix: 2021
  • Number of laps: 50
  • Circuit Length: 6.174 km
  • Race Distance: 308.45 km
  • Lap record: 1:30.734 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
  • 2024 winner: Max Verstappen

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  • DV8@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Did you see that replay on the international feed just now? Piastri was going to divebomb force contact if he didn’t go off. I think both their behaviours are fair play to try in racing, but saying this is classic unsportsmanlike behaviour seems like you’re being influenced too much by British commentators.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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      6 days ago

      I’m not British and I don’t listen to the British feed, but I have admittedly seen this move from Max enough that I might admittedly carry some prejudice from that.

      • DV8@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        Fair enough, I do listen to the British commentators since they are just more pleasant to listen to vocally for me than the Dutch speaking ones. But their commentating is just always anti-Verstappen. Yet even they ceded after the replay of the incident that Piastri is lucky he just barely got control of his car in time.

        • hagelslager@feddit.nl
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          6 days ago

          Sky or F1? If you have access to the official F1 colmentators, they tend to have a much more neutral view.

          Also, I’m currently watching the F1 stream synced with audio from Grand Prix Radio (Olav Mol & Jack Plooij). So, less glorifying of Max. (I’m currently watching with my mother whose level of English is much lower, so prefers Dutch commentary.)

          • DV8@lemmy.world
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            6 days ago

            F1TV international feed with Palmer etc. I know they’re not the most neutral and I don’t expect them to be. I just enjoy the hype they’re good at bringing. But I do think many people let their opinion on the race be influenced by them. (Just like if you watch MMA you’ll be influenced by the often very dumb opinion of Rogan).

            I’m Flemish, so the accent of any Dutch person grates too much for me. ;-) (‘g’ doesn’t have to sound like a failed gear change every damn word ;-) )

            • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 days ago

              As a Dutchie I feel this, whenever the feed glitches and it resets, it defaults to Dutch and it’s a race to turn it back to the English feed before I cringe at the commentary.

              You could try listening to the other English feed, there’s nothing like Croft and Brundle imo even though they are very likely to talk a lot about Hamilton and Norris

            • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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              6 days ago

              ‘g’ doesn’t have to sound like a failed gear change every damn word ;-)

              Fuck me, dead! Hahaha 😂.

            • hagelslager@feddit.nl
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              6 days ago

              Haha, I get that! And yeah, personally I prefer Alex Jacques and co of the international feed as well.