<b><span class="theme-aware-color" style="--user-color: Red;"><span style="display: inline-block; font-size: 113%; line-height: 1.45;"> F1 2025: Abu Dhabi GP - Yas Marina (Dec 7)</span></span></b>

M5Rick wrote

Hoping for a hat trick of errors by the papaya to conclude that MAX takes the crown so..
1.MAX
2. PIA
3. SAI (on a roll
4. NOR (either this or a DNF
5. LEC
6. HAM
7. TSU
8. BEA
9.HUL
10. RUS

GuidoK wrote

So what are your predictions?

After the race in Qatar where Max Verstappen won in a fabulous way and McLaren made a very expensive mistake by not pitting during the SC this season got even crazier than it already was. Max managed to turn around the performance of the car completely and closing the gap to Lando Norris to only 12 points. This means that if Max wins, and Lando finishes 4th, Max is WDC 2025.
However, if Max wins and Lando finishes on the podium, Lando is the 2025 WDC.
This means it is fully up to Lando's performance whether or not he gets the 2025 WDC. He has the fastest car (something that Max has emphasized in various interviews) and he just has to make no big mistakes. Can he do that?

This is my prediction:

1. VER
2. NOR
3. PIA
4. RUS
5. LEC
6. ANT
7. SAI
8. HAD
9. TSU
10. BEA

...yes this means in my prediction Lando will be the 2025 WDC, I think the Yas Marina Circuit will favour the McLaren cars quite a bit
However, I'm all right with that, Max has given us a fantastic season to watch and in the end that's what it's all about

For people who don't place predictions: please refrain from giving negative comments after the race on predictions other members have given. Nobody makes perfect predictions, and if you don't make predictions yourself, you're not showing you know better.

///M Power-Belgium wrote

McLaren still runs with their 'old SPA Mercedes PU (!)
When will they finally break ? Or are they indestructible ?
It they run it at Abu Dhabi , then they have 12 races + sprint races on the clock...

And last weekend they ran still extremely strong at Qatar. It's just incredible (!?!?)

M5Rick wrote

This is another of the unusual Larenthings that don't make sense, are they using alien technology of some kind or is something else up.

GuidoK wrote

So what are your predictions?

///M Power-Belgium wrote

Yeah . It must be something like this =>

Artemis wrote

July 9, 2025: “Red Bull has released Christian Horner from his operational duties with effect from today and has appointed Laurent Mekies as CEO of Red Bull Racing"

Mekies allows Verstappen more freedom to overrule RBR engineers regarding car setup.

G30M wrote

you know what? i actually don't know who's going to win.
i wonder if McLaren has another SNAFU in them or we've seen all they've got.

toxik wrote

i predict oscar takes lando out and completes the villain arc by helping max win wdc.

Artemis wrote

McLaren squandered the chance to change the power units prior to the Qatar Sprint.

During the Qatar GP, Piastri and Norris pushed hard their PU's to attempt, in vain, to catch and beat Verstappen. In cycling, that's called "une chasse patate" (litteraly: 'a potato chase/hunt') (also in Flanders we use that French term).

McLaren may pray to the race gods that their PU's won't give up the ghost in Abu Dhabi. That would be three strikes: Las Vegas plank wear DSQ, 'we don't need a Safety Car pit stop' hubris in Qatar and a blown PU in Abu Dhabi.

G30M wrote

you know what? i actually don't know who's going to win.

i wonder if McLaren has another SNAFU in them or we've seen all they've got.