"where you feel you have taken another step forward compared to other years?"
lando: "there's two things. one, is my ability to adapt to more situations and read them better. from how to drive these cars this year, understand the tyres, the balance. drive a car that i don't like as much. two, just becoming more relaxed and more confident in myself"
stella: "i think we should have given it a go because lando ultimately lost some time being overtaken while staying out.. it was very much a 50-50 [decision], we wanted to avoid lando losing the time of the double stack at the pitstop. in hindsight, it was probably better to pit"
andrea stella just explained how important every lap of practice is with these 2026 power units, pointing out that oscar missing around 20 minutes last weekend could have cost 1–2 tenths. since the software is constantly learning and optimizing from every run, every bit of running matters.
for context, lando has had 8 of the 22 FP sessions this season heavily disrupted by reliability or technical issues, with most costing him 30–50 mins of track time.
it puts into perspective how much he’s had to find from his side to extract performance from the car, and how much more he could have unlocked with consistent running these PUs require
(lando coming up with questions to bait the f1 driver) "who deserved the world championship out of lewis and max?"
n2: max deserved the championship, lewis deserved the race win
n1: i don't want to say, i'm friends with both
n3: it's objective
Spain confirmed Kimi Antonelli’s title 😳
2010
• Spain wins World Cup 1-0 after Barcelona player scores in 2nd half of ET
• Sebastian Vettel becomes youngest F1 champ ever
2026
• Spain wins World Cup 1-0 after Barcelona player scores in 2nd half of ET
• Kimi could become youngest F1 champ ever