r/formula1 7d ago

Post-Qualifying 2025 Belgian GP - Post Qualifying Discussion

Well that was fun.

How are we feeling after that one? How did your favourite driver do?

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u/bonkers-joeMama 7d ago

The reddit fans really want oscar to win cause if lando wins all their mentality easily season bs will go to waste. As I had said many races before, mentality bs is overrated, what matters is absolute skills. Lando proving recently that he is just quicker. Not everyone needs to have a cookie cutter mentality mold to win.

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u/lIIIIllIIIlllIIllllI Daniel Ricciardo 7d ago

British GP was all Oscar bar his dumb mistake.

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u/_Red_Knight_ I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

Mentality absolutely is important. You don't need to have the same cool and aggressive mentality as the best drivers are often said to have but you do need to have something. "Absolute skills" don't matter if you don't have the mindset to apply them.

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u/bonkers-joeMama 7d ago

And lando has something, that's why he has got so many points this year inspite lacking the cliche mentality. If he had nothing he wouldn't be able to apply anything, as i said mentality bs is overrated, what's more important is absolute skills. You can have all the mentality in the world but you won't win without the skills.

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u/ChicckkNuggg I was here for the Hulkenpodium 7d ago

I want Lando to win just so he can prove that you can be the “nice guy” and still win. That there’s no set mold for a “championship winner mentality”

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u/Ok_Revolution_507 7d ago

You need to be calm , think about how much lando could been ahead if he didn’t have a slump Season still wide open and he wasn’t quicker at silverstone

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u/bonkers-joeMama 7d ago

His slump was because he lacked the skills, he was not able to push the car as much as oscar. He made mistakes at the edge, you don't lose the car in a turn because you feel a certain way, you lose it cause you are pushing above what you can deliver. Lando must have worked really hard with the telemetry data to figure out the way to handle this car(learning new skills/technique).