Was McLaren’s Austrian GP Dominance a sign F1 2025 already finished?

Lando Noris‘ And Oscar piastryAustrian Waltz level any hope McLaren The 2025 Formula 1 can still be caught in the championship, but the results flatter its real dominance and does not dismiss those who challenged the front.

Red bull was particularly disappointed after being tired in his house race, in terms of speed and quite literally Andrea Kimi Antoneley Torpedo an inauspicious Max Verustapane Inauguration on the lap.

A Stoic Verustapane soon proceeded and tuned in Spa broadcast 24 hours to watch His newborn GT3 team won its class. But it inspired the team’s principal Christian Horner to use some color imagery as they evaluated the benefits of McLaren with a mixture of praise, jealousy and amazement.

On the potential of the piastry to stick to the Noris despite the dirty air, Horner said: “He is originally Love your f ****** exit pipe For lap after lap, and tires are not dying. I cannot see any other car that is able to follow that closely and do not waste the front tires or back tires. I really don’t understand. ,

The best car got better

There is no doubt that McLaren was the supreme influential. It brought its latest batch of upgrade to the red bull ring, with an aerodynamic update for both its front suspension and its front and rear corners, the 2025 car was more efficient and significant, offering more significant improvements than the new sculpted edge wing curls seen on the red bull.

A lot of teams must have turned it into a boring race, so despite the events in Canada, McLaren Kudos to race for two of their drivers.

In the lap of such a 64-second, Noris was very big for the qualifying gap lakeler of half a second, and on Sunday he and the piastry just touched their hats. Ferrari The driver and farewell said, Noris took Monegaska to 20 seconds.

But we have come here before. Yes If you are not driving a papaya car then the championship is overBut similarly questions were asked ahead of time whether McLaren was starting to be caught after a podium-less weekend in Canada, we might not be overcome after the return of papaya dominance in Austria.

Especially when the track was always going to be a strong circuit for MCL39, with its favorite long corners in the second part of the 4 km loop, which gives real punishment to Pirelli’s tires that were increased by heat.

The greatest unknown, of course, actually the Verustapane would have ended in its historically successful red bull ring with a clean weekend. After being out of the situation due to the yellow flag in Q3, the four -time champion did not complete a single racing lap on Sunday. But in Spielberg Padock, the consensus was that he would probably have fought with Lakeler for the third.

Combined with Yuki Sunoda‘Fall and Mercedes’ well in the warm race in well -written struggles, which left Ferrari to chasing on Ferrari, which is the lakeler and Lewis Hamilton Were not equipped for the bus.

Even with a second lap for Vastapane, a defective Noris was likely to be a poll gap, but in the race trim it was not even the most prominent race of McLaren’s season. We have previously come here in Miami, when McLaren completed the competition.

The qualifying errors by both papaya drivers left the door open to take a pole for Vastapane, but then, both Piastry and Noris dropped Vastapane and Australians won the race for 37 seconds on McLeren’s closest Challenger Russell and 40 seconds on Dutchman.

In severe, it was a straight road fight between all heavy hits, which was not the case in Spielberg.

McLaren’s best merit and race results indicate a deficit, bold, compared to its nearest rivals.

Silver lining for a race-by-run fight

At intervals between McLaren and its closest challengers on the first 10 race weekends, a look at late security cars and other factors, but it still underlines a tendency, ie Andrea Stella’s apple and pear theory (Or apples and oranges if you are an English speaker).

Austria belonged to the category of apple, along with Miami, Bahrain and China, while McLaren has come under more pressure in the race with a lot of high-speed changes in the direction of very low speed, where he cannot deploy his hot weather tire management to the same extent.

Given the remaining part of the pre-summer brake campaign, there are no awards to guess who is a favorite on Twisti Hungering, which became an easy victim for McLaren in 2024.

Silverstone can throw a separate picture, however, especially if cool and variable weather is being predicted. And the spa is also a more balanced circuit that should benefit the red bull’s aero efficiency and can throw out the results of surprise, as we saw last year. Both the race beyond, Mercedes Will there be no doubt that he would be dancing a rain in an attempt to improve his opportunities.

Yes, the title of constructors may end, but not every race will be like Austria. wishful thinking? Stopwatch will have the last word.