Max Verstappen wins the 2023 Bristish Grand Prix

Norris on hards defending against Hamilton on softs was some serious driving. Hell of a day for Lando.

Thought for sure McLaren made the wrong call there and Hamilton would fly by. But very impressed by Lando there. He earned that 2nd place. Hopefully they can keep this up.
- I still maintain it was the wrong call. It only worked because Lando drove perfectly. If Lando made even the slightest mistake, he would have lost that position.
  Expecting your driver to be prefect is not the right call.
Legit edge of your seat entertainment

Great race from McLaren, surprising the pace they suddenly have here!

I feel for Piastri, would have loved for him to get his first podium here.

Not only was he robbed P3 by a Ferrari engine, wtf is this DotD?!
Lando Norris - 45.5% Lewis Hamilton - 12.1% Oscar Piastri - 10.8% Sergio Perez - 8.1% Max Verstappen - 5.1%
10.8%?! That should've been in the 20s at least!
- Agreed. I would chalk it up to the British home crowd voting heavily in favor of their guys.
- How tf did Lewis get the second most votes for lucking his way onto the podium with a well-timed SC?
Yeah, a bit of bad luck with the safety car. Great drive to keep Russell behind. He's such a promising young talent.

I'm happy for Lando and McLaren, but wtf was that Ferrari strategy? They were even more clownish than usual

What was Plan B, Ricci? I forgot.
- He doesn't care anymore
- Bad decisions
- Part of me thinks that plan b was really bad and Carlos was daring them to say it on radio to make them think twice about it.
Their tyre deg is just too high

If you ignore Max this season is actually very competitive.

Merc, Aston, Ferrari and McLaren all fighting over 2 podium spots is cool! Perez is just chilling for a year.
- It's crazy how Perez has fallen this year. Towards the beginning, I thought he might be able to fight with Verstappen for the Championship. Now I'm not sure if he will still have a seat at Red Bull next year.
I said the same exact thing after the race. The rest of the field is so much more interesting. Without red bull this would be one of the best seasons.
Can't help but laugh because the camera's pretty much never showed max as its just a forgone conclusion and quite boring now.

Yeah, fuck I got spoiled by lemmy. That’s a first.

Ha! I can take that risk as it feels great to see this post have over 250 votes in six hours. Lemmy is getting more traction.
Same. I was being careful to slowly scroll so I could see if a post was from c/formula1 (my app shows the community at the top), but then something loaded and my feed jumped, putting this post right in the center of my screen. Oh well.
Yeah wish the title would omit the winner.
I've never understood the value of a thread that spoils the race results. I wish we could just post a race results discussion thread without putting the results in the title or image.
Community*
I just don't open Lemmy (or reddit, before), if I don't watch the race live.
- I had blocked the sub on Reddit from my homepage after being spoiled a couple of times. Hope we get that feature in the Lemmy apps someday.
- I agree but forgot there was a race this weekend as I had to work.

Brilliant driving from Lando, was really worried for mclaren when they put him on hards at the end but it worked out

Yes, he really had to wring out that podium step with some tough, but fair, defending while Hamilton killed his tyres. It's good that he trusted the team and then bloody well made the strategy work. Great combination. Hamilton was lucky to be up there, anyway.

Great race overall, probably equally as good as the Austria Sprint.

McLaren was the headliner and Norris rightly got all the plaudits for an amazing drive, but it's a shame more fuss hasn't been raised about Piastri. He would most likely have had a podium if not for the unlucky safety car and continues to show that the hype was not unwarranted. It's going to be very interesting to see what he can do in a car that can actually perform.

Aston continues to struggle, though this track was never going to be suited for them, and Stroll delivered a patented yo-yo performance by following up a solid showing in Austria by being very poor today. Alonso did what he could and displayed some great defensive positioning, but 7th was probably the best they could hope for here. Hungary should be a good track for Aston and so that's when we'll get a true measure of how far behind the pack they've fallen.

Shambolic race weekend by Ferrari, though their car seemed just awful here. Wasn't fast enough on the medium and couldn't get temps into the hards.

Not much to say about Red Bull, I feel like we've seen this race multiple times already this season from them. It was nice seeing Max at least briefly involved in battles, but otherwise it was another comfortable victory for him while Perez fucked his quali and executed an unremarkable bare-minimum recovery drive.

Shout-out to two drivers who will be forgotten this race. Gasly was doing really well until his car ~~did an Alpine~~ got Strolled, so it's unfortunate he probably won't get any credit, and finally a solid race by Sargent, but he didn't get any points so I imagine nobody will have noticed.

EDIT: thanks eroc1990 for pointing out the contact with Stroll was harder than I caught live and so Stroll was probably more to blame than Alpine.

Gasly's car didn't do an Alpine. It just got Strolled.
- Was the contact that bad? I know they touched but it didn't look forceful enough to break Gaslys suspension. I'll look at it again.

Incredible performance from both Norris and Piastri!

What a performance by McLaren! So impressed with Lando's driving in that last stint. Shame for Oscar, but P4 in his first F1 British GP as a rookie is nothing to be ashamed of.

I think if they didn't coward out on the hards than Piastri could have gotten his first podium. I'm honestly kinda angry at the McLaren pitwall.
- They 100% should not have been on the hards, but in the end the softs did wind up falling away from those that used them, so it wasn't completely boneheaded.

Albon holding off LeClerc while fighting with Alonso was something else

I really wish spoilers weren’t in the headline

We went through this back in the day on r/Formula1, banning spoilers restricts the conversation.
I get that sometimes you're not able to watch live, restrict the Formula1 content you consume during that time.
You can't have the entire F1 community tiptoe around you because you've not watched the race.
Having said that, other race series should be spoiler-free in this community.
- How does making headline being ‘British Grand Prix results discussion’ restrict the conversation?
  This stuff is being federated across multiple instances in the ‘All’ feed
I agree, or in the thumbnail!! So frustrating when you're waiting for the highlights show on TV and scrolling only to have it spoiled for you!! 🙄
- The admin of the sub claimed earlier today a mod team is being put together so I hope we'll have clearer rules and better enforcement soon. This sub is much more lively right now but !formula1@lemmy.ml is better moderated. Bit of a shame.

Max topping the WCC with only his WDC points really sums of 2023 thus far…

Selfless Max keeping Checo in a job.

Is McLaren going to fight at the top now or it's a fluke?

We'll have to see.
Hungary is a totally different track, so if they're also quick there then we may be in for some fun!
- The interesting part is that McLaren were fast in the corners, so that's a good sign for Hungary.
The fight with Hamilton showed that their car is doing great on top speed and high speed corners, but not low speed corners. I won’t be surprised if slower circuits will see them dropping back around front of midfield.

Really enjoyed that one. Great to see McLaren show pace like that again, makes you wonder what might have been possible if they were able to deliver this car at the start of the season. Really happy that Lando has been given a car worthy of his talent, hopefully it works well at other high-speed circuits. Also Max talking about praying Oscar didn't understeer into him as they went side by side through Copse was hilarious.

We really gotta slap a nsfw blur to these things

Some great battles in that race. Very enjoyable.

RIP Alpine

So happy for McLaren and Albon. Mercs weren't too bad either tbh. Ferrari nothing to say about them, won't be long until they wouldn't finish in the top 10 lol.

Great win, very nice to see Lando doing well and got some enjoyment out of the British public having to listen to the Dutch anthem (you could feel the pain sweep over the crowd 😀)

This is my least favorite track on the calendar though so all-in-all a meh weekend F1 wise

Every time I see Max win I always think it's saying. Thax for stoppin, and letting me take first.

VER NOR HAM sounds like a cozy little German town with a great pub

Multi viewer or bust.

Sad to see c/formula1 spoiling the race result plainly in the title just like r/formula1. Some things never change...

How do you propose this is solved?
- I don’t think the problem is the title… it’s expecting the whole world to wait while you catch up. Just don’t visit forums till you’ve watched the race…
- By letting us filter the subs in the homepage. So I can still visit the sub but don’t see any posts on the homepage to avoid being spoiled. Or, not have the results in the title and add a NSFW tag to the picture.
- By making the title literally anything other than "[drivers name] wins race". "British Grand Prix Post-Race Discussion" would be literally the same thread in all but name. But people who didn't get to watch it live for whatever don't have to worry about spoilers that don't need to happen

One of the rare races that enjoyed this season.Redbull dominance continues to killing my passion for this sport.

Did you have any passion left? Because if this current dominance is depleting your passion I wonder what was left after the 2014-2020 period. Are you still a F1 fan or are you clinging on and 1 more year of dominance will ruin F1 for you? Because I have some new for you if this is the case: Max will dominate some more years I think.
Or some other team starts to dominate. Say if that was your team/driver, would you also lose interrest in F1?
- dont support any of the teams.I love competition and i know that this is not first time history we see dominant teams but I just want to see 1st and 2nd drivers competing for race win.

Okay amazing race but this is way out line for a spoiler title and image. I’m glad I didn’t pick up my phone in the middle of watching or before I started, there are plenty of us in this community that have to watch races not live and we deserve to not have the results ruined like this. This should be a clear rules violation and the post deleted.

If you aren't going to watch live, block the community from your feed until you watch. r/formula1 went through this same debate years ago and found that censoring all posts during and after a race stifled the discussion, and it would be the same result here.
- Literally all that's required is not have it plastered on the title and in the thumbnail. "British Grand Prix 2023 Discussion" is perfectly fine, and btw, is what the other formula 1 community is doing, and it doesn't appear to be stifling discussion over there.

Idk man, it's like a hokey action movie. You know the outcome from the start, and all the threats are superficial, but that's kind of what's fun about it. Gets passed by nearly 2 McLarens (🤡🌎) off the start, Lando gets just over a second margin right before DRS is enabled and the crowd thinks "Let's see how long it takes him to get out of this one" rather than "Will he get out of this one?"

Fuck max but a great race. So happy for Lando and Lewis.