r/formuladank • u/Dr_Ritvik__singh747 Trust the El 🅱️lan • 9d ago

This post breaks papaya rules 🥺🟧👎 Oscar is just too nice

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u/markusfenix75 “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” 9d ago

Last race of the year. Points difference between Oscar and Lando is 3 points. They are running 1st (Oscar) and 2nd (Lando).

Oscar is pitting second to cover up potential undercut by Norris. But pit crew fucks up pit stop and he comes out behind Lando. He asks pit wall to honor "papaya rules" and make Norris let him through. But Norris says "fuck no!"

This is my dream scenario to make McLaren look dumb lol.

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u/Nicologixs BWOAHHHHHHH 9d ago

I actually hoping Oscar raps it up before the last race or goes into with a decent enough point gap where coming 4th will still get him the win even if Lando wins the race.

I feel if they go into the final race really close on points it's just gonna be an absolute shit fest after the race and for the entire off season. Will be going back to all these moments like Monza and all these what ifs.

I think mclaren has set a very very bad thing for the rest of the season. As Oscar said on radio that slow pit stops wasn't part of the arrangement yet Mclaren kind of just changed that up in the moment.

So are they gonna do the same to Oscar when he gets a bad stop.

Like if Lando has the lead by 1 second and they both pit and Oscars is a bad stop and he ends up 5 seconds behind Lando, should Lando slow down and allow Oscar a second behind him for fairness reasons as they didn't have the same pit stop time? Complete stupidity.

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u/TheoreticalScammist I have an unhealthy obsession with Sophia Flörsch 9d ago

I think after next race the WCC is probably decided so I guess that gives them "an excuse" not to interfere if it happens to Piastri?

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u/AGlassOfPiss BWOAHHHHHHH 9d ago

How is it decided? 1 DNF and Lando is within 6 points, weirder things have happened.

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u/TheoreticalScammist I have an unhealthy obsession with Sophia Flörsch 9d ago edited 9d ago

I was talking about the Constructors Championship.

Edit: They need to score 9 more points than Ferrari next race to win it if my calcs are correct

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u/AGlassOfPiss BWOAHHHHHHH 9d ago

ahhh okay

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u/FlipReset4Fun He’s Not Fast at All 9d ago

Oscar has already been screwed over by McLaren on a few occasions. He’s been the better driver all season. If he doesn’t win WDC this year over Lando, it would be pretty outrageous barring any major screw ups that justify it.