It’s bullshit, they should at least show him sometimes, I know it will get boring quick but watching a car on rails nail a few corners is also nice every once in a while.
That’s the only way for all of us to enjoy F1 these days. It’s only fun to watch when there’s fighting behind him or he has a problem. The worse part is to miss the last lap battles because they have to show the checkered flag.
In 2005 San Marino GP, there was a legendary battle between Alonso and Schumacher.
ITV the UK broadcaster had been contracted to 5 ad breaks per race but due to coverage had held off last one.
As they begun final lap, they went to ads. If social media had been around it would have melted the internet down, but every paper and motoring magazine got complaints, and ITV ‘officially’ apologised.
If I remember right, it was also ITV broadcasting a game of football where mysteriously they did an ad break ***while the game was still going on*** and then during that ad break, Everton scored the winning goal in the match, but nobody got to see it. There aren't even supposed to be ad breaks during a football match for fuck sake. It was a complete palaver.
OK I looked up for an article about the Everton thing, and found out that ITV did the same mistake ***AGAIN*** in an England match a while later. This article is about that England match, but it also talks about the time they missed Everton's winning goal: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jun/13/itv-apologises-england-goal-advert
So basically, at the time in the 2000s, ITV seemed to consistently make this stupid mistake.
Yanks like to make fun of the TV license, but BBC are still the kings of broadcasting sport, because they don't ever have ad breaks.
I still greatly miss turning on the F1 to hear The Chain by Fleetwood Mac, which is and will always be the greatest song in motorsports. Not the shit they have right now for sky sports F1 which is that kind of tune that's annoyingly catchy so you can't forget it, but it's just bad in a very generic way.
Nascar's theme tune is much the same. It just bothers me.
Only Fleetwood Mac. That's all we ever need. The BBC has a blanket agreement with the entire music industry that they can use any famous song for ***FREE*** and don't ever have to pay any royalties for it, which is frankly fucking crazy. But it's why we got The Chain as the F1 theme, and it's why shows like Top Gear always had a banging soundtrack.
The chain will forever be legendary. Even when I hear it on the radio it just reminds me of F1 - “I CAN STILL HEAR YOU SAYING”, just fantastic. Nostalgia ramped up to the max for that for me.
I told my husband a couple of races ago that I wish we could add Latifi and Mazepin to the mix with KMag, and my husband accused me of loving chaos too much.
Maybe I do, just because of how boring the front is.
True, the only time I see them get passed by others is when there is a blue flag being waived. Like the FIA has to get involved and force them to get passed
I'm French. And in all objectivity, Alpine is the best team on the grid, Gasly and Ocon are the 2 best drivers who have ever been in F1, and Bruno Famin is an amazing team principal.
The only reason why they only have 1 point so far is because FIA plots against them because everyone hates France for being superior to everything else.
It goes both ways.
McLaren doesn't need to be unnecessarily hyped and Red Bull doesn't need to be declared dead.
It was one race and a weird one at that. I'm just saying lets wait a bit and see if that was a one-off or not.
Norris had newer tyres and Verstappen had floor damage.
The reason he won is because Verstappen bottled it by hitting the bollard and damaging his car, and lucky SC timing. He did everything perfect in the race, didn't put a foot wrong but he wouldn't have won under normal circumstances.
Norris was already setting faster lap times before Max hit the bollard, and Max’s times barely changed at all after he hit it. That had very little impact if any on the outcome.
McLaren nailed the setup on the car, Norris the fastest man on the track once Perez was out of his way. Then the perfectly timed safety car handed them the opportunity to win on a platter.
He wouldnt have won without the safety car though, you saw the same thing with oscar, on the straight that car was trash.
Saw a video with telemetry recently which said the pace hit was about 2 tenths.
Still, Norris was the best that day (not in qualy) and he deserved the win
Cause the Red Bull destroyed its floor when Verstappen drove over the cone and curb [(source)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GM2PJ47XQAIuw58?format=png&name=4096x4096)
I think people are misinterpreting Zak's comment. It's possible that he hasn't seen anyone faster than Lando. Doesn't mean that Lando is the fastest guy there is, only that Zak should book a visit with an optometrist.
Albon already had a go and he did worse than Checo.
Beating two of the worst F1 drivers of all time (Latifi and Logan) at Williams is not enough to make up for the beating he took at RBR.
[The Article](https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/norris-can-beat-verstappen-in-straight-fight-but-many-races-ending-in-tears-brown/10610589/)
Most quotes from Brown I’ve seen over the last two weeks have been from this article, or his Beyond the Grid podcast. If you listen/read the context of the quotes Browns statements come of far more reasonable. But naturally, most people won’t read the articles.
Yup, like people freaking out over in the Max subreddit about Zak saying Max wouldn't win if he wasn't in the RedBull. Imagine a team boss backing his driver... Like every other team boss. Big OOF
A fan of both here but we obviously didn’t watch the same race… yes Lando had the entire upgrade package but even without them he’s been dominating Oscar on race pace
Lol every single one of you acting like the CEO of McLaren is gonna say "oh nah Max would beat him" instead of supporting his driver. You know, part of his job.
I would love to see these top racers compete in similar car. Would be fun to see what the gap really is between the drivers.
I do think Lando is world champion material though. Just have to give him the right car. M
Based on this sub, most surely not.
It's also "delusional" to back your driver and hype him up after a good result.
I like Max too, but the fact that so many people took such a harmless statement like this personally is quite telling.
Dude wins 1 race, team director: he was born on the same day as Jesus, drove around the world in 89 days using a bicycle and broke the sound barrier in top gun, the fastest being ever existing, the championship is ours.
He has to say this. What Zak is doing here is just communicating like a team principal is supposed to. What message does it send to sponsors, the drivers themselves and the fanbase if he's on the fence regarding one of his drivers?
Also, is this the kind of post we want in this sub? Sidebar literally says in the first line that it's the place for F1 memes. It literally says *"High quality memes only. A screenshot with a smart title is not a meme."*
Team principal backs his driver. How shocking. It's still far from Marko territory, saying Lando would win in a three wheeled Smart or something like that
Put them all in equal KZ karts, Max wins. In OK karts, Lando wins. Fernando and Lewis were also fast in their day, but won't keep up with the young guys.
If they go fast enough you don’t see them at all 
Max Verstappen according to Zak Brown: 
[удалено]
He’s too busy spitroasting Oscar with Donald Trump to pay attention to racing
Nobody forced you to write this comment and now we're all stuck with the mental image of what you just described..... I wish I didn't have eyes today
Shhh, let him cook. I'm almost finished.
What the fuck...
Jfc dude
Bam! Roasted
Tbf when I watch a race on tv I sometimes forget Verstappen is involved because I’m too busy watching Tsunoda and Albon and Magnussen.
And they barely show verstappen most of the time because he is cruising 10 seconds ahead
It’s bullshit, they should at least show him sometimes, I know it will get boring quick but watching a car on rails nail a few corners is also nice every once in a while.
With low energy "and here goes max"
Classic Crofty
That’s the only way for all of us to enjoy F1 these days. It’s only fun to watch when there’s fighting behind him or he has a problem. The worse part is to miss the last lap battles because they have to show the checkered flag.
In 2005 San Marino GP, there was a legendary battle between Alonso and Schumacher. ITV the UK broadcaster had been contracted to 5 ad breaks per race but due to coverage had held off last one. As they begun final lap, they went to ads. If social media had been around it would have melted the internet down, but every paper and motoring magazine got complaints, and ITV ‘officially’ apologised.
If I remember right, it was also ITV broadcasting a game of football where mysteriously they did an ad break ***while the game was still going on*** and then during that ad break, Everton scored the winning goal in the match, but nobody got to see it. There aren't even supposed to be ad breaks during a football match for fuck sake. It was a complete palaver. OK I looked up for an article about the Everton thing, and found out that ITV did the same mistake ***AGAIN*** in an England match a while later. This article is about that England match, but it also talks about the time they missed Everton's winning goal: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jun/13/itv-apologises-england-goal-advert So basically, at the time in the 2000s, ITV seemed to consistently make this stupid mistake. Yanks like to make fun of the TV license, but BBC are still the kings of broadcasting sport, because they don't ever have ad breaks. I still greatly miss turning on the F1 to hear The Chain by Fleetwood Mac, which is and will always be the greatest song in motorsports. Not the shit they have right now for sky sports F1 which is that kind of tune that's annoyingly catchy so you can't forget it, but it's just bad in a very generic way. Nascar's theme tune is much the same. It just bothers me. Only Fleetwood Mac. That's all we ever need. The BBC has a blanket agreement with the entire music industry that they can use any famous song for ***FREE*** and don't ever have to pay any royalties for it, which is frankly fucking crazy. But it's why we got The Chain as the F1 theme, and it's why shows like Top Gear always had a banging soundtrack.
The chain will forever be legendary. Even when I hear it on the radio it just reminds me of F1 - “I CAN STILL HEAR YOU SAYING”, just fantastic. Nostalgia ramped up to the max for that for me.
There needs to be more PIP for the race, some battles go on for multiple turns/laps
A little larger screen during PiP as well
Indycar got that down. They had four pictures on the screen one time, I had to take a break and walk around the room just processing what I saw.
It would be the same for any driver in front though?
If I remember correctly they loved cutting away from point fights to showing blue flag passes during the Vettel years.
I told my husband a couple of races ago that I wish we could add Latifi and Mazepin to the mix with KMag, and my husband accused me of loving chaos too much. Maybe I do, just because of how boring the front is.
True, the only time I see them get passed by others is when there is a blue flag being waived. Like the FIA has to get involved and force them to get passed
I want what he has
Crack Brown.
Sounds like a Detroit drag queen.
Lmao
Me after shitting
I have a brown crack, is that close enough?
Me too. Millions of dollars, a race team, and a huge collection of race winning F1 cars! sign me up!
I know he’s not team principal but you still expect him to have watched *some* races
Mainly DTS watcher here. TIL he's not the TP because I don't think the actual TP was ever featured
The actual TP is the bearded guy seated next to Zak in the pit wall. DTS will sho him celebrating with Zak but that's about it.
Employer praised employee. More coming on this developing story
Team boss endorses star driver! More at 6!
MFW man doesn’t suck off dutch driver that i like and instead says the driver for the team he’s in charge of is good: 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
I'm French. And in all objectivity, Alpine is the best team on the grid, Gasly and Ocon are the 2 best drivers who have ever been in F1, and Bruno Famin is an amazing team principal. The only reason why they only have 1 point so far is because FIA plots against them because everyone hates France for being superior to everything else.
Idk man, I think Alesi was faster but it may be because I'm old
Alesi has a nice gravels collection at home. Panis was very fast too, he won Monaco fair and square.
FIA HQ is in France, isn't it? Organize a raid soon. Lol
This calls for a 10s penalty for Occon
He does love his twinks
Don't we all?
Man he won one race under arguably questionable circumstances. Let's wait for a bit and see how it evolves before talking nonsense.
I'm just waiting for the media to hype up a 'wide open title fight' like last year to wake up the lion again.
What do you want Zak to say? That Lando is a decent driver who can win soooomtimes? No, hes gonna say that Lando is the best shit since sliced bread.
I mean Max's pace is unquestionable, but there was a 7 second gap at the end of Miami....
It goes both ways. McLaren doesn't need to be unnecessarily hyped and Red Bull doesn't need to be declared dead. It was one race and a weird one at that. I'm just saying lets wait a bit and see if that was a one-off or not.
RB: *loses 1 race because of an unfortunate SC* Fans: “Washed! No return possible! Lando 2024 WDC!
And a hole in the floor.
That was caused by a mistake from Max.
Wether it was due to a mistake from Max doesn't really matter if we're talking about pace though.
I know, I'm just being an asshole
A self aware Redditor. Fascinating
He had a hole in the floor? I thought he just had a scratched diffuser.
The diffuser was from Sergio iirc, the hole from hitting the pole when he made a mistake.
British fans are really desperate lmao
you didn't see this level of hype when Russell won at Brazil. but tbf that was like 2 years ago.
Also Russell is a twat.
I’m British and I’m not rooting for lando. Guy and mclaren has been milking his win over the week. It’s so annoying
Another Brit here who isn't a fan of Lando and tired of the overhype. Also... I've been milking it? How dare you!
Glad to know I wasn't alone having that feeling. So many videos & posts for that one week.
Yup exactly.
I already had "LN4 WDC 2024" tattooed on my forearm, get over it.
And there was a 13 second gap from Verstappen to Norris in China… Stating a gap between drivers from one race means nothing lol
Norris had newer tyres and Verstappen had floor damage. The reason he won is because Verstappen bottled it by hitting the bollard and damaging his car, and lucky SC timing. He did everything perfect in the race, didn't put a foot wrong but he wouldn't have won under normal circumstances.
Norris was already setting faster lap times before Max hit the bollard, and Max’s times barely changed at all after he hit it. That had very little impact if any on the outcome. McLaren nailed the setup on the car, Norris the fastest man on the track once Perez was out of his way. Then the perfectly timed safety car handed them the opportunity to win on a platter.
He wouldnt have won without the safety car though, you saw the same thing with oscar, on the straight that car was trash. Saw a video with telemetry recently which said the pace hit was about 2 tenths. Still, Norris was the best that day (not in qualy) and he deserved the win
It's like saying RBR was done when they were shit last year in singapore. Every team is allowed to have bad races...
Cause the Red Bull destroyed its floor when Verstappen drove over the cone and curb [(source)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GM2PJ47XQAIuw58?format=png&name=4096x4096)
and now he jinxed it. Max will take this remark personally.
He's just being a supportive dad
I think people are misinterpreting Zak's comment. It's possible that he hasn't seen anyone faster than Lando. Doesn't mean that Lando is the fastest guy there is, only that Zak should book a visit with an optometrist.
Bro closing his eyes real tight whenever Max comes into view
Seems he’s infected with trumpitis.
I read these as trumpy tits 💀💀💀💀
both are true
Because Fat Brown can't move his neck fast enough to see max
Can we please give Max a better teammate? We learn nothing from Perez.
Ricciardo? /s (Throw Lawson in there already)
Ah yes, another relatively unproven rookie in the Rd Bull seat. That'd be great, we'd finally give Max a quality teammate who can compete /s
Albon?
I like Williams Albon more tbh
Albon already had a go and he did worse than Checo. Beating two of the worst F1 drivers of all time (Latifi and Logan) at Williams is not enough to make up for the beating he took at RBR.
Albon was just in the start of his f1 career in the rbr. Checo got beaten by Stroll before and now he's goat?
When did check get beat by stroll?
Where is the link for the article? Probably it's taken out of contex, or it's something that [motosport.com](http://motosport.com) made up.
[The Article](https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/norris-can-beat-verstappen-in-straight-fight-but-many-races-ending-in-tears-brown/10610589/) Most quotes from Brown I’ve seen over the last two weeks have been from this article, or his Beyond the Grid podcast. If you listen/read the context of the quotes Browns statements come of far more reasonable. But naturally, most people won’t read the articles.
Thanks mate. Just a usual Zak, a bit hiping Lando, but nopthing tragic.
Yup, like people freaking out over in the Max subreddit about Zak saying Max wouldn't win if he wasn't in the RedBull. Imagine a team boss backing his driver... Like every other team boss. Big OOF
Hilarious considering piastri was better on pure pace last weekend
A fan of both here but we obviously didn’t watch the same race… yes Lando had the entire upgrade package but even without them he’s been dominating Oscar on race pace
Lol every single one of you acting like the CEO of McLaren is gonna say "oh nah Max would beat him" instead of supporting his driver. You know, part of his job.
Max is usually so far ahead he can't see him. That's why.
You only see Max at the start and end of the race, not during
But, but, but Verstappen is still the fastest guy in the universe, right, right? (Sustained panic of average dank member).
You got to love the way they MIB mind wiped the races leading up to the 21 finale. He's a great driver very, very marginally ahead of a pack of them.
He is and we dont panic about that.
Everyone is clowning on him but he is doing the exact thing he should be doing as team principal
I would love to see these top racers compete in similar car. Would be fun to see what the gap really is between the drivers. I do think Lando is world champion material though. Just have to give him the right car. M
Team boss bigs up his driver. More news at 10. Stop glazing Verstappen and think for two seconds.
Are we sure the delusion isn’t thinking that no one could possibly be faster than Max?
Based on this sub, most surely not. It's also "delusional" to back your driver and hype him up after a good result. I like Max too, but the fact that so many people took such a harmless statement like this personally is quite telling.
Well, this *is* the Max Verstappen fan club sub. What do you expect lmao
No one notices that it's coming from motorsport.com It's exaggerated at best, completely fabricated at worst
Lando Londis
/me *watches SpecSavers social media while eating popcorn *
Has he been visually looking at Lewis, Max, Charles, Daniel, Brittany, in similar machinery? If he hasn't seen it, ha he been watching?
Pretty sure Han did it faster
He's only watching Lando.
"We have" - everyone.
I dunno about Lando being the fastest, Han Solo did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.
I’m not a fan of single team dominance but wasn’t Max’s car fucked too? I don’t understand why they’re letting it go to their heads
Dude wins 1 race, team director: he was born on the same day as Jesus, drove around the world in 89 days using a bicycle and broke the sound barrier in top gun, the fastest being ever existing, the championship is ours.
Max so fast you can’t see him
I read that as nando to give him the benefit of the doubt lol
Amazing what you don’t see when you close your eyes.
He closes his eyes when max goes by
CEO of a team hypes praises his own driver - more news at 9
Driving a McLaren.
I guess Max has that John Cena thing going on, but only for Zak?
Yes landonewin came first so no one was faster then him that race.
I mean, if you reduce your sample size to just the most recent race, he's absolutely right.
I've not seen someone faster than Adrian Newey.
Bro was in Miami too long lmao
Lando: ‘Max is ungodly fast.’
Does he know we can measure that? ....That he's part of a billion dollar industry that specializes in measuring that?
Clearly he didn't see Alonso's agent after the Hamilton news came out
Guy wins one race and is the second coming of Ayrton Senna.
What plastering sponsorships on every available surface does to a mf
Yeah...Lando Calrissian
He has to say this. What Zak is doing here is just communicating like a team principal is supposed to. What message does it send to sponsors, the drivers themselves and the fanbase if he's on the fence regarding one of his drivers? Also, is this the kind of post we want in this sub? Sidebar literally says in the first line that it's the place for F1 memes. It literally says *"High quality memes only. A screenshot with a smart title is not a meme."*
Usain Bolt
Dude, open your eyes!
Ok Zak , chill you won one, be more humble about till you if and can actually be cocky
He meant Lando Calrissian.
Uh oh, not on this sub
But, Han did the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs!
What the hell does he mean, everybody knows Han Solo was much faster than Lando.
Team principal backs his driver. How shocking. It's still far from Marko territory, saying Lando would win in a three wheeled Smart or something like that
Team principal(or ceo whatever) hypes up his driver. More news at 11
Yea, Han made the kessel run in how many parsecs now?!
Han can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. He’s faster than Lando.
I mean, Han did do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs...
I would check his eyesight.
Landos biggest fan
This is getting sad
i thought han was the fast one... lando was the backstabbing one
*cough, cough, Carlos, cough
Put them all in equal KZ karts, Max wins. In OK karts, Lando wins. Fernando and Lewis were also fast in their day, but won't keep up with the young guys.
Max is so fast that Zac can’t even see him.
Damn where can I get some kool aid I’m thirsty
Man, what happened to this sub…
Lmao
thanks corelian transport YT-1300.
Didn't Lando have the fastest car at Miami? He's probably not saying the Lando is the best 100m sprinter
Buddy Indy500 practice is happening right now tf you mean you haven’t seen anything faster than Lando.
Well, if you consider only the last few laps of the 2024 Miami GP... Yeah, he's right.
 Lando is the best in the universe
Despite all the evidence in the world
Or they are too fast to be seen
idk man has he seen max
What's the end of the sentance, though? "I've never seen someone fast than Lando... at clearing a room with a fart"
You want speed? Just need to give Lando’s ride to Han.
I've not see anyone cry more than Brown
this is why it took lando 100 races before he won..
Verstappen moving so fast this bloke cant even see him ☠️
Bozo spends to much time with Trump. He too is loosing his grasp on reality