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PORSCHE PENSKE NO. 7 (F. Nasr, N. Tandy & L. Vanthoor) ☆ Overall Winners of the 2025 12 HOURS OF SEBRING.
Porsche Motorsport: Le Mans: Mr Tandy explains the "Pesage"
The 24 Hours of Le Mans traditionally begins on the weekend before the actual race with the 'pesage': the technical scrutineering of the race cars in front of numerous spectators on the Place de la République in the city centre. This is also where the world-famous team photos are taken. But what exactly happens there? None other than 'Mr. 24 Hours' Nick Tandy takes us along and gives us a rare glimpse behind the scenes...
📸: porschepenskemotorsports
South America, Australia, (Jim) France, Germany!
It's a stretch and a half of a title but it's a good bit so I don't care. Let's talk about this last weekend of racing.
We'll start chronologically with the 12 Hours of Sebring last Saturday, where Porsche Penske Motorsport took a 1-2 finish for the German manufacturer. It wasn't the most exciting Sebring race, but we got a little bit of everything with Lamborghini leading at one point only to be caught napping on a restart and retire, the BMWs got pole for the race but fell back, and we saw the debut of the new V12 Aston Martin, which is cool.
Ultimately though, nobody could hold back Porsche today.
Felipe Nasr, Nick Tandy, and Laurens Vanthoor won both opening rounds of the season, winning the big endurance races of Daytona and Sebring.
With this, Nick Tandy has not only won the Triple Crown of endurance racing with his 2015 Le Mans win and these two 2025 wins, but also won the 2015 Petit Le Mans overall - in a GTLM car, no less! - along with the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring and the 2020 Spa 24 Hours.
Tandy has won so many big endurance races that they've made a new name for it.
So long Triple Crown, it's now about the Big Six.
Porsche has given us the Germany aspect, now we'll move onto the Australian Grand Prix, which fell on Saturday for us Americans.
I know I've shat on F1 a lot on this blog, but I'm legitimately happy with the Australian Grand Prix and this is the most interested I've been in Formula One in a couple of years.
The reason is simple: we had competition, we had changeable conditions, and we had something truly rare in modern F1: the teams were legitimately caught off guard.
McLaren ran 1-3 in the early stages of the race, with Max initially threatening Lando in the Red Bull, but he was having to push it to the limit. We saw Max lockup just ahead of Oscar Piastri, lose the position, run over a puddle, and then completely lose pace as he couldn't make the tyres work, dropping fourteen seconds off the McLarens.
This left the McLarens in a dominant position, and Piastri was gaining on Lando for the lead. However, with a 1-2 in the rain, McLaren made a very Jordan-at-Spa-1998-esque call and told Oscar to hold position.
An annoying but understandable choice - nobody wants to lose a 1-2 because their drivers crashed into each other.
What was less understandable is that Oscar then had a snap of oversteer and nearly crashed while Lando opened up a three second gap, at which point McLaren told him they could now race.
Bit late for that, eh?
In any case, around lap 33, they all start pitting to make a brave switch onto the dry tyres. On the line, this is the fastest way around the circuit, but just off the line, there's still a lot of water around the circuit. Not only that, but there's more rain on the way.
They have to pit because the dry line is burning the intermediate tyres away, but they'll need the inters again before the race is done.
Then Fernando Alonso lost it through the fast sector two and brought out the safety car, and that SC brought them all the way up to 42...right before it started raining.
The perilous moment of the race came at the end of lap 43, when both McLarens went off at the end of the lap and into the gravel and the grass. Lando managed to recover and rejoin the track before pitting, but behind him...Piastri lost traction in the penultimate corner and spun off into the wet grass, spending the next lap beached before finally reversing his way out of the grass and back into the race.
All of this gave Max the lead, but with slick tyres on a wet track, he was crawling like Marco Andretti at Belle Isle that one year.
Max pit, but the Ferraris stayed out despite a spin for Leclerc, putting Lewis in the lead while Charles in second. For a brief moment...it looked like it could be a fairytale start to Hamilton's Ferrari career...but it kept raining.
The safety car came out due to a crash by Liam Lawson, but Ferrari had to pit regardless, dropping to 9th and 10th.
Up front, it was Lando Norris leading from Max Verstappen and George Russell.
I will admit, given the tricky conditions and that Lando no longer had Oscar Piastri to act as a rear gunner, I figured that Lando was screwed. Max was gonna take the lead and drive off into the sunset like he did in Brazil.
Only that's not what happened, Lando and the McLaren weathered the pressure, and in fact, on the initial laps, it seemed like Max was more defending from Russell than threatening Norris for the lead.
This didn't last though, as Max got up to pace and pressured Lando again, especially after Lando made a mistake in turn six, giving Max DRS again.
This time I thought Lando was surely going to crumble...but no.
Lando held on, he took the win, and Max had to settle for second. George Russell was third after barely getting any camera time whatsoever during the race, while Andrea Kimi Antonelli made an audacious pass on Alexander Albon on the last lap. Initially, Antonelli was penalized and dropped to fifth, but Mercedes appealed successfully, and the Italian's fourth place was reinstated.
Still, fifth place for Albon was Williams' best race in years, giving the team something to celebrate in spite of Carlos Sainz's opening lap crash in the final corner.
Lance Stroll was sixth, Nico Hulkenberg was seventh, scoring more points in one race than Sauber did in all of 2024 and being the highest Ferrari-powered car. Leclerc was eighth having drawn first blood over Hamilton in the teammate battle - not that either of them will be particularly happy with that race - while Piastri was ninth in an impressive recovery drive. Lewis Hamilton was tenth, scoring the last point in a race of increasingly unhinged radio transmissions between Ferrari's drivers and Ferrari's engineers.
A race so crazy it's ended with McLaren and Mercedes tied for the lead in the constructors' championship.
A very fun, old school chaotic Australian Grand Prix.
Onto South America for the Argentine Grand Prix.
Yes, MotoGP is still a thing this year, but with Marc Marquez dominating by winning every race while Alex Marquez has finished second in all four races - two sprints, two GPs - this year, your opinion on the season will vary based on what you think of the Marquez family.
If you're a Marquez fan, you're having the time of your life.
If you're a Marquez hater, you're gonna be miserable.
If you're a neutral, well...it ain't much of a show.
Perhaps that's harsh given that this time around, Alex Marquez was in the lead for most of the race and Marc was having to push hard to pass his little brother, but in the end Marc did, and then he ran away with the win.
Franco Morbidelli was third, getting his first podium since Jerez 2021 and the first since that massive leg injury in 2021 that reduced Morbidelli from 2020 championship contender to a bit of a joke on the 2022 and 2023 Yamahas.
So there is that.
Onto Las Vegas, with its Eifel Tower, much like France. Get it? It makes the David Bowie joke work, right? No? Well, what about Jim France? Jim France runs NASCAR, so can we use that gag? No? Well screw it, I'm gonna do it anyway - I want my blogpost to be a Dancing in the Street reference, dammit!
I won't spend too much time given this is already a long blogpost, but I'm very happy for Josh Berry. This is a driver who has clawed and struggled to get into NASCAR to begin with, then he finally got his big break at Stewart-Haas Racing just to find out that the team has gone to shit and they're gonna sell their charters at the end of the year.
Berry found a landing place at the Wood Brothers for 2025, and he's made the most of it. He's been consistently running with the other Penskes even if he doesn't have the finishes to show for it, but he's made it all worthwhile with a win in Vegas.
It was a deserving win too, because he kept finding his way into the top ten all day long, battled with reigning champion and pseudo-teammate Joey Logano for position multiple times, and in the end, he was up front when a caution with twenty to go reset the race for everybody.
Everyone took fresh tyres, with Daniel Suárez leading the bottom line while Josh Berry was on the top. Daniel had his teammate Ross Chastain behind him, so it looked like Trackhouse had this one, but Berry rallied back, passed Suárez on track, and led the last sixteen laps on his way to victory in the Pennzoil 400.
It was Wood Brothers' 101st victory and the first time they've won in consecutive seasons since 1986 and 1987.
Talk about a feel good story.
On a weekend of four races, it looked like F1 was going to be my favorite of the weekend for a long time, and it probably still is, but that's the happiest I've been at the end of a NASCAR race all season.
It feels nice to be legitimately happy at the end of a racing weekend.
NICHOLAS TANDY YOU 🫵 ARE THE FIRST EVER MAN TO ACHIEVE A GRAND SLAM OF 24H RACES ‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🍾🍾🥳🥳💖💖
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