ROUND 12: 🇬🇧 Great Britain
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 1950
- Number of laps: 52
- Circuit Length: 5.891 km
- Race Distance: 306.198 km
- Lap record: 1:27.097 Max Verstappen (2020)
- 2024 winner: Lewis Hamilton
Red Bull won the steward appeal this race. I don’t think Max could have avoided shooting past Oscar when this happened, and normally that shouldn’t have happened, but I think in this case the wet conditions and poor visibility were a mitigating factor.
Oscar had the right to control the restart and had to do it with very little notice, if overshooting or avoiding action needs to be avoided then it should be up to the drivers behind to maintain a safe gap. Personally I think they should have just called it a racing incident and penalized no one.
He did not have the right to drive erratically. It’s literally described in the ruling what the rule was he was punished under.
https://www.fia.com/system/files/decision-document/2025_british_grand_prix_-_infringement_-_car_81_-_safety_car_procedure.pdf