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Race report: Robust Sunday for the workforce at Imola (Mercedes)
Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin: ‘Our greater concern is across the tempo. It has been one other scorching race, and we have been giving the rear tyres an excessive amount of of a tough time. We subsequently suffered from poor grip and degradation all through. We have got to get on high of that rapidly as there are quite a lot of scorching races developing and we will not proceed to carry out at this stage.’
Race recap (Haas)
Oliver Bearman: ‘We have been in a extremely good place going for a one-stop race so when the VSC got here out, we switched onto the medium tyre, and I used to be popping out behind Russell and he was (seventh), so we have been on for a great race, however my wheel wasn’t hooked up correctly within the pit cease.’
Sunday fightback (Ferrari)
Frederic Vasseur: ‘Within the closing levels, we requested Charles to present again place to Alex Albon, as a result of it was very shut and if he had been given a penalty, we’d have misplaced 4 or 5 locations.’
title (supply)
‘A promising one-stop technique was undone by the timing of the Digital Security Automotive which dropped each Fernando and Lance exterior the factors. With hindsight, we might have pitted once more beneath the VSC, however we didn’t need to sacrifice observe place.’
The debrief (Aston Martin)
Andy Cowell: ‘A promising one-stop technique was undone by the timing of the Digital Security Automotive which dropped each Fernando and Lance exterior the factors. With hindsight, we might have pitted once more beneath the VSC, however we didn’t need to sacrifice observe place.’
Race report (McLaren)
Andrea Stella: ‘With Oscar (Piastri), we deviated to a two-stop technique. Had the onerous tyres behaved just a bit bit higher, this might have been a robust technique, however that’s one thing we’ve got to evaluate with hindsight.’
Sunday (Sauber)
Nico Hulkenberg: ‘Sadly, the security automobile in direction of the tip of the race was of no assist for us. On the restart I used to be surrounded by sooner vehicles, and I used to be unable to maintain Yuki (Tsunoda) or Fernando (Alonso) – on more energizing tyres – behind me. Ultimately, every little thing mixed to forestall us from scoring factors.’
Function race: Dunne fights his solution to second win of 2025 (Components 2)
‘The McLaren Improvement Driver went from fifth on the grid and made a number of necessary passes all through the race in essential moments to earn the victory. Hitech TGR workforce mates Luke Browning and Dino Beganovic rounded out the rostrum locations.’
Function race: Ramos endurance pays off with Imola victory (Components 3)
‘The Van Amersfoort Racing driver made the decisive transfer three laps to the tip of the race to attain his first Components 3 function race win and his second victory of the season. Camara wound up in third behind his late-charging workforce mate Noah Stromsted in (second).’
Autopolis (Tremendous Components through YouTube)
Tokyo race two (Components E through YouTube)
Spa-Francorchamps race two (Components Regional Europe through YouTube)
Scott McLaughlin with a MASSIVE affect 😬
The No. 3 automobile hits the Flip 2 wall in #Indy500 observe. pic.twitter.com/eXBunUAhKp
— NTT INDYCAR SERIES (@IndyCar) Could 18, 2025
Unbelievable respect and dedication to all of the drivers this yr. Tough situations all week, vehicles extra on edge than earlier years. Everybody pushing the boundaries repeatedly with out giving up. Love the spirit of this race #500
— Callum Ilott (@callum_ilott) Could 18, 2025
ROBERT SHWARTZMAN IS YOUR POLE SITTER FOR THE 109th #Indy500 https://t.co/Y2LO4HMP6O
— Indianapolis Motor Speedway (@IMS) Could 18, 2025
Robert Shwartzman’s first 5 #IndyCar qualifying outcomes:
18th27th24th24th27th
And now he is on pole place for the #Indy500!
Unbelievable end result for him and Prema on their debut within the race.
— Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine.bsky.social) 18 Could 2025 at 23:58
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