168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s victory at Imola brought McLaren’s winning streak to an end and breathed new life into the F1 2025 title fight.

F1 continues its se๊cond triple header of 2025 with the Monaco Grand Prix. The world championship’s most famous race marks the second of three straight European rounds and is set to be another crucial weekend.

Here are some of the biggest talk♏ing points heading into F1’s jewel in the crown…

Will mandatory two-stop have desired effect?

A significant rule change could spice up this yea✱r’s Monaco Gr🍸and Prix, which will be a mandatory two-stop race.

With overtaking near impossible around the tight stree🔴ts of Monte Carlo and growing criticism surrounding the classic race, F1 bosses decided on a change which will see drivers forced to make at least two pit stops this year.

This is an attempt to create “better racing” a🌌fter the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix saw the top 10 start and finiﷺsh in the same positions.

F1’s teams and drivers have largely ಌwelcomed the change, but it rem♑ains to be seen just how much excitement and jeopardy will be caused.

“I think it's interesting,” said McLaren team principal Andrea Stella. “A♐fter the race we had last year, a little bit of change is an interesting aspect. So, I welcome these kinds of chꦏanges.

“I think it will be trickier in wet conditions. So, for dry conditions, I think it's just interesting. For wet, it could create s🐭ome situations that may be a little awkward. But we look forward to it and I welcome the 🗹change.”

Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur, whose driver 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc claimed a memorable home win 🐠last year, said: “Let’s see after Monaco, because strategy in Monaco is very difficult – it's also driven by the Safety Car. So, it will be two times ꧟more difficult for this.

“The downside could be also that if you have an early Safety Car, I think everybody will jump into the pit lan🌺e, and the pit lane is very narro💃w – it can be an issue.

“But let’s do Monaco like this. I think we were clever enough to do the experimentation, and๊ we’ll see after Monaco what we can do and where we can improve the situation.”

The worst-case scenario is that nothing changes, so it🅷 feels like a worthwhile attempt to improve the show.

Has Max Verstappen made it a three-way title fight?

Verstappen was unbeatable during Sun꧟d💧ay’s 63-lap race at Imola.

The four-time world champion was only just pipped to pole by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri, but outfoxed McLaren in the race by sweeping around the outside of the pole-sitter with 🐲an audacious pass, and was in total contr💮ol from there. 

Des💜pite his Red Bull not behaving as he would like all weekend, Verstappen produced a dominant drive to beat the McLarens and reduce his deficit to Piastri in the championship standings to just 22 points.

It was a hugely timely win for Verstap🎀pen and Red Bull. Not only did it end a purple patch of form for McLaren and Piastri, it has keﷺpt the Dutchman in touching distance in the title race during a critical phase of the season.

The question now is whether Verstappen can translate his form at Imola to the upcoming races at🌟 Monaco and Barcelona. The nature of Monaco being a slow-speed circuit should play into McLaren’s hands.

"Monaco is, of course, very, very𝕴 different,” Verstappen sa🅰id. So, let's see how we are going to perform there. You know, last year was very difficult for us. I don't expect it to be a lot easier this time around because there's, of course, a lot of low speed, but we'll see."

Another false dawn for Ferrari?

Ferrari appeared to be set for another disappointing weekend at Imola after Leclerc and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton qualifiedꦡ 11th and 12th on a miserable Saturday for the team.

But Ferrari’s SF25 came alive on race day as Hamilton impressively fought back to fourth, marking his best result in a grand prix for Ferrari and also the first time this year he has finished ahead of his teammate (sprint races aside). Leclerc came home sixth to cap off a strong Sunday for Ferrari, who salvaged a respectable result at their first race in Italy this season♋.

A buoyant Hamilton insisted there is “more to come” from Ferrari but the seven-time world c🌠hampion acknowledged the Italian outfit still needꦓ to “unlock the potential” of their 2025 car in qualifying, which has been the biggest factor in a lacklustre and frustrating campaign so far.

Leclerc won his home race in M🀅onaco last year but believes a repeat of that result ꦿis highly unlikely and is expecting “a very difficult weekend”.

“I think Monaco is exposing quite a few weaknesses of our car, so I don't know, but there are also many things that you cannot really expect,” he added. “The amoun💟t of risk you take in qualifying, the car is set up in a very different way, so I hope we will be surprised.”

Will McLaren regret driver position?

McLaren squandered a chance to potentially challenge Verstappen for t🌊he win by deciding against swapping their drivers🍎 at the final Safety Car restart.

Piastri was running second on the road on worn hard tyres, while teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris was third on fresh rubber, having stopped under the Safety Car like Verstᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚappen.

McLaren considered telling Piastri to let 🐲Norris past so that he could put Verstappen under pressure but ultimately decided against it, instead allowing their drivers to battle it out fairly without the need for team orders.

Norris would go on to pass Piastri and take se🔴cond, but by the time he completed the overtake, Verstappen had already pulled too far 𝐆clear.

In hindsight, McLaren may have missed a ch𓄧ance to stop Verstappen collecting extra points which could prove crucial come the end of the season.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner suggested that Piastri and Norris 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:might start to act selfishly in their respective bids for a maiden world title amid McLaren’s reluctance to back one driver over the o🤪ther.

This could play into Red Bull’s hands given they only have one horse iꦉn the race and are putting all their efforts behind Verstappen’s quest to win a fifth successive world title in 2025.

How much pressure is Yuki Tsunoda under?

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda came away from Imola salvaging a point in a respectable recovery drive from the pi✃t lane, but only after wrecking his Red Bull in a monster qualifying shunt.

Tsunoda made no excuses for the terrifying crash and admitted he was “stupid” to push so agg𒈔ressively on his first qualifying effort right at the start of Q1. 

The 25-year-old Japanese driver gave hi𓂃s mechanics a huge repair job, with Horner revealing the crew had worke𓃲d beyond 2am to rebuild Tsunoda’s car.

Tsunoda is faring better than his predecessor, but with168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Isack Hadjar continuing to shine f📖or Racing🌳 Bulls, Tsunoda is not helping his case to remain in the Red Bull hot seat.

So far there has been ไno public criticism of 🐭Tsunoda’s performances, but if he doesn’t make progress soon, and Hadjar keeps impressing, the spotlight on him will surely increase.