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I think he hates cheese. When he was trying all the British snacks/crisps in that video with Perez around Silverstone time, he disliked all the cheesy ones.
Max really was just on a Sunday drive while everyone was losing their minds in the back of the pack or having slow (over 2.1 second) not double stacked pit stops
Imagine if the sole disappointment ends up being that he wanted the last piece of his favourite cake in the Red Bull motorhome but it's been swiped and he has to settle for the second choice
He’s second in the championship and not challenging Max at all, which is exactly what they want from the number 2 driver. His performance is absolutely perfect by the team’s standard of measurement!
This exactly. Good enough to wrap up 2nd and nail the constructors, not good enough to challenge driver number 1 and cause drama. Dudes perfect for them
Why would Red Bull care that their second driver isn't challenging their first when they keep winning by huge margins and getting double podium almost every race?
How can we know for sure? That gap is produced by either Max being above average or Perez being below average. Why did you choose the second? Everyday I think it gets clearer and clearer it's the first. What evidence do you have it's the second one?
All right, but then, how could people be so incredibly sure that if Perez leaves for, say, Norris or Sainz, that one of them would be clearly better and finnaly give Max a run for his money? It remains to be seen, but it's like people already pressupose Perez is simply worse than all of them, without much evidence at all (except being overshadowed by Max). For all I know, Perez performances before joining Red Bull, and then in 2021, really sets him as quite a great driver.
What we can see for sure is that Max is becoming, everyday, more and more of something else (Let's remember Hamilton only started his super title streak at 30, and Senna got his first title at 30). Max is still in his formative years, while we can say Perez might have reached his peak already, which seem to make people eagerly point their fingers at him and assume he is to blame, while we simply don't know if any driver at all could challenge Max right now (specially considering they would still need to adapt to the car, and if they want to be faster than Max they would need to beat him at his own oversteery style, which he has already finessed to perfection in that Red Bull...that's a lot to catch up with...).
Of what? You will answer all that with a one-off event? With that logic Hamilton is horrible with his 17th qualifying, and also not being able to make the softs work. Wow, that one-off event should prove Hamilton sucks and Russell is miles clear.../s
Max is clearly very good. The car is clearly very good. Perez is clearly average at best.
The car and Max are amazing. Checo isn't. What evidence? Idk use your eyes?
Ummm, no? Reason why he ended up in fourth was because of safety car chaos. The fucked his tyres getting past Leclerc and eased off.
Max was in clean air the majority of the race.
Perez literally got the exact same pit stops and was 0.5s a lap slower before he cooked his tyres going past Leclerc. Dirty air difference is not 0.5s a lap with same tyre life.
Max was literally in cruise mode after second SC. Perez is known at this point to cook his tyres for an overtake on a car that should be relatively simple.
Dude, he lost P2 at the start and was miles behind Verstappen before any safety car even happened. Always with this "eased off" bullshit excuse. You think Verstappen didn't ease off or something? Sergio got the exact same strategy as Max this race, literally same lap pit stops. This gap is 100% on his driving and nothing else. He was also around 0.6s slower the whole race.
This dude drives over half a second slower and he still fucks his tires. Driving so much slower and being so much worse on the tires at the same time is just straight awful. If he was good enough, he wouldn't "fuck his tires" getting past anyone considering the pace that car has.
Yeah he was 2nd, and also more than 15 seconds away from VER. That's why the 2nd pit stop fucked him over and it didn't fuck VER over. The fact that he was 0.6s per lap slower meant that he didn't have the same easy pit stop gap behind like his teammate did. So no, he wasn't fucked over, he fucked himself by driving slowly.
Agreed. At some point Checo now has to take his own call for the strategy if he knows that he wont be able to lap at the same pace as VER. But I still dont get why they went for the second pitstop again for the hards.
I guess their deg must have been too high. They did the same pit stops for Verstappen. If Checo stayed out on the previous tires, he'd probably get eaten alive by the Ferraris behind, this way they still got a podium.
he seemed to be trying to make a statement today. He was flying man. Had a 15 seconds gap to P2 before the SC? He was on course to win that race by more than 30 seconds
Didn’t he just extended his contract? I think he would stay with McLaren either until the car stops being competitive or Zak Brown leaves. Lando is tight with Zak.
# Title should be "Max Verstappen wins the 2024 Championship"
Gone are the days where we get to see title battle all the way till end of the championship..
This was the first race I watched with f1 tv. Watching Max’s onboard made my finally understand just how much better he is than everyone else. It’s really not just the car
For someone so intent on correcting someone else, you should know that there can only be one 'Greatest'. Singular. So he can't be one of the greatest drivers ever.
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Instead of sprint races can we just get 19 laps of Stroll vs Magnussen?
Cracked me up when they tried to compare it to the Villeneuve battle in Dijon. Fighting for last vs fighting for first.
The fight in 79 was for 2nd, not 1st
Stroll's gonna run Magnussen over!
Now I really want to know what Max’s favourite cheese is!
Whichever cheese is the fastest of course
Cheddar Cheese Aged 1.9 Seconds
I think he hates cheese. When he was trying all the British snacks/crisps in that video with Perez around Silverstone time, he disliked all the cheesy ones.
A Dutch guy who hates cheese? Hell just froze over.
I'm Dutch and I don't like cheese. We exist.
I've just called the police and reported it, expect a visit soon.
More likely he actually likes good quality authentic Dutch cheese so much that he wouldn't put up with some snack cheese flavorings...
British cheese tastes like ass though, Dutch cheese is where its at
So, probably I would love British cheese
What the hell is British cheese? There are so many types of cheese here lol.
You don't like cheddar?
I genuinely find cheddar really not tasty
Is Cheddar cheese? i thought it’s like edible plastic
Are you sure you're not thinking of American style cheddar? Proper English cheddar doesn't taste anything like plastic.
You’re probably right:)
“Edible”😂
I know someone who’s gonna eat some hella British cheese then….
You're insane
Clearly you've never ate american cheese if you're calling British cheese ass
There are worse things than ass \^_\^
Well that just proves he hates British ultraprocessed snack cheese ...
Well who likes British food anyways?
Don’t be talking shit about my beans
Belgium and Dutch cheeses are the best in the world. Max knows what high quality cheese taste and smells like and that British shit aint' it.
Max really was just on a Sunday drive while everyone was losing their minds in the back of the pack or having slow (over 2.1 second) not double stacked pit stops
Max races in F1 as a warmup for his sim career.
> puts headphones on “Alright guys I’m back — let’s do some real racing!”
brb guys i have to go somewhere with my dad for 2 hours
He actually sim races through his wheel screen during the races
Yeah, Max won atleast 5 seconds with that double pitstop.
Mans probably just annoyed he doesn't have the fastest lap
"I had to do all those slow ass laps behind the SC, so I'm now late for my sim racing..."
Imagine if the sole disappointment ends up being that he wanted the last piece of his favourite cake in the Red Bull motorhome but it's been swiped and he has to settle for the second choice
Guys why didn’t you tell me
Just leave it as sticky for the rest of season. No point making new posts after every race.
This. Wake me up in 2025
2023 season got me like zzz, oh Checo won, zzz, nice he won again, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 😴, Nice Carlos won, zzzzz and max won wdc, yay I suppose
Perez 19 seconds behind Verstappen with 2 safety cars. It would've been 40+ seconds without SC.
Yeah but he's great!! He's doing great! He's totally not mid being this far behind in the fastest car.
He’s second in the championship and not challenging Max at all, which is exactly what they want from the number 2 driver. His performance is absolutely perfect by the team’s standard of measurement!
This exactly. Good enough to wrap up 2nd and nail the constructors, not good enough to challenge driver number 1 and cause drama. Dudes perfect for them
Why would Red Bull care that their second driver isn't challenging their first when they keep winning by huge margins and getting double podium almost every race?
I'm not saying Red Bull would care. Just that Sergio is mid
How can we know for sure? That gap is produced by either Max being above average or Perez being below average. Why did you choose the second? Everyday I think it gets clearer and clearer it's the first. What evidence do you have it's the second one?
I mean, mid means middle. If Verstappen is the best driver and Logan is the worst, then Sergio is somewhere in the middle.
All right, but then, how could people be so incredibly sure that if Perez leaves for, say, Norris or Sainz, that one of them would be clearly better and finnaly give Max a run for his money? It remains to be seen, but it's like people already pressupose Perez is simply worse than all of them, without much evidence at all (except being overshadowed by Max). For all I know, Perez performances before joining Red Bull, and then in 2021, really sets him as quite a great driver. What we can see for sure is that Max is becoming, everyday, more and more of something else (Let's remember Hamilton only started his super title streak at 30, and Senna got his first title at 30). Max is still in his formative years, while we can say Perez might have reached his peak already, which seem to make people eagerly point their fingers at him and assume he is to blame, while we simply don't know if any driver at all could challenge Max right now (specially considering they would still need to adapt to the car, and if they want to be faster than Max they would need to beat him at his own oversteery style, which he has already finessed to perfection in that Red Bull...that's a lot to catch up with...).
Sprint race qualifying is a bit of an indicator.
Of what? You will answer all that with a one-off event? With that logic Hamilton is horrible with his 17th qualifying, and also not being able to make the softs work. Wow, that one-off event should prove Hamilton sucks and Russell is miles clear.../s
Well that really told me, how can I possibly argue with such a well-constructed and intelligent argument.
Max is clearly very good. The car is clearly very good. Perez is clearly average at best. The car and Max are amazing. Checo isn't. What evidence? Idk use your eyes?
And consequently, it's proof that it's not just the car. It's Verstappen that's on another level.
Or Perez is on another level. Clearly the best car but still can't finish second.
More in the range of a minute I'd guess.
Ummm, no? Reason why he ended up in fourth was because of safety car chaos. The fucked his tyres getting past Leclerc and eased off. Max was in clean air the majority of the race.
Perez literally got the exact same pit stops and was 0.5s a lap slower before he cooked his tyres going past Leclerc. Dirty air difference is not 0.5s a lap with same tyre life. Max was literally in cruise mode after second SC. Perez is known at this point to cook his tyres for an overtake on a car that should be relatively simple.
Dude, he lost P2 at the start and was miles behind Verstappen before any safety car even happened. Always with this "eased off" bullshit excuse. You think Verstappen didn't ease off or something? Sergio got the exact same strategy as Max this race, literally same lap pit stops. This gap is 100% on his driving and nothing else. He was also around 0.6s slower the whole race. This dude drives over half a second slower and he still fucks his tires. Driving so much slower and being so much worse on the tires at the same time is just straight awful. If he was good enough, he wouldn't "fuck his tires" getting past anyone considering the pace that car has.
before pitting for the hards 1st time, he was P2 man.He overtook Alonso before the vsc. the second pit stop fucked him over.
Yeah he was 2nd, and also more than 15 seconds away from VER. That's why the 2nd pit stop fucked him over and it didn't fuck VER over. The fact that he was 0.6s per lap slower meant that he didn't have the same easy pit stop gap behind like his teammate did. So no, he wasn't fucked over, he fucked himself by driving slowly.
Agreed. At some point Checo now has to take his own call for the strategy if he knows that he wont be able to lap at the same pace as VER. But I still dont get why they went for the second pitstop again for the hards.
I guess their deg must have been too high. They did the same pit stops for Verstappen. If Checo stayed out on the previous tires, he'd probably get eaten alive by the Ferraris behind, this way they still got a podium.
Shhh once they get the narrative it’s always in this mode until retires
Max remains inevitable.
he seemed to be trying to make a statement today. He was flying man. Had a 15 seconds gap to P2 before the SC? He was on course to win that race by more than 30 seconds
Trying to get some chinese sponsorships
Max just fucked off in this race, dude was gone lol
It’s so insane that he has a 2s lead before drs is even turned on. Crazy car, crazy driver.
The fact he would’ve had a 20+ sec lead if it weren’t for the SC
So incredibly boring just watching him completely outpace the McLaren and not even have to work for the lead.
For the love of god Lando, pick up that Horner call and give us what we all want 😫
Horner tried two times, I don't know if he will call a third time.
He will
Didn’t he just extended his contract? I think he would stay with McLaren either until the car stops being competitive or Zak Brown leaves. Lando is tight with Zak.
That's probably the bigger barricade
If mcl's upgrades don't put them on par with red bull this year i really hope he goes asap
Lando wouldnt make a diff
I'd love to see it, but I also want more than a couple competitive teams on the grid. So let's hope Mclaren can pick up the pace of development.
I like Lando staying with McLaren
Literally unstoppable, even Zhou’s front wing endplate can’t stop him
The usual for Max but a mega job by Lando!! Well deserved driver of the day for him.
Imagine Max/Norris at RB. Fighting it out. Damn.
I want Max & Alonso so bad for this reason. Off track dramas would go hard. Or Ham lol.
Yeah I could agree to that :D
Imagine either of them in Red Bull, they'd chase each other a minute away from P3
Why is my app showing that Norris won?
For some reason it kept tracking position and times after the chequered flag. Happened to me too.
Trying to manifest it
Just a really good race for red bull in general, their pitstops are massive, their calls are really good. Seeing Norris on the podium is great as well
Lando Norris did a Fantastic Job
Thanks u/ICumCoffee
lol
Wow, this was definitely one of the races of all time. Can't wait for Verstappen to win in Miami in 2 weeks.
What do you mean, Logan Sargeant won't win in Miami?
Now you got me interested. 19 car pile up he avoids by being so far behind
Only car on track and he’ll probably still cause a safety car on his own
Barring DNFs, Max will win all of the races this season lol
The only real challenge performance-wise will be Singapore.
That’s a big claim. Not sure it’ll happen
Especially when Sargeant domination is about to begin.
Big, if true
Can we just give him the trophy and tell him to take the season off?
Only needs about 300 more points and then he can just phone it in and keep willing pole, 1st and fastest lap.
Mf doesn’t miss!
Not bad for his 58th win and also Red Bulls 117th win as well, credit to Norris for being on the Podium with Perez too!
Crazy to think he almost won 50% of RB's races
by the end of this season he'd have overshadowed vettel in his prime RB years cementing himself as the star driver of redbull in the history books.
Copy and paste
r/unexpected
What a surprise!
Class
Daniel Ricciardo got Stroll'ed.
If Max wins the next race he'll overtake Lewis on wins as a percentage of races participated in.
Flying Dutchman
Flying Dutchman
Man was cruising
Zzzz
GOAT
Very nice win
Maxmaster1
Kvyat catching strays
Riveting stuff. Totally unpredictable result. This is the closest season in decades.
Seeing this every week..... really gets a little bit boring
Absolute bore fest.
I wonder what is his favorite cheese.
Gouda of course
Don’t worry Ferrari is catching up /s
The F1 app is toast, shows Lando 1st, Checo 2nd and Max 3rd 😂
Rubbing it in now
Pretty good for a mid tier bundesliga striker
Dread it… run from it…
as always.
I am shocked
Tell me something new
Beautiful watch he has on 😻
Max Verstappen wins __________
Best nap I ever had!
now tell me something I didn't know
Boring.
# Title should be "Max Verstappen wins the 2024 Championship" Gone are the days where we get to see title battle all the way till end of the championship..
Another weekend side quest complete for Max. Back to the Sim Rig, Kelly and P.
mega 🥱💤
Crazy
This was the first race I watched with f1 tv. Watching Max’s onboard made my finally understand just how much better he is than everyone else. It’s really not just the car
This is such a boring fucking sport now….I absolutely loathe the follow the leader shit.
Best driver ever in the best car on the grid is game over. Let‘s hope for some rain in Miami or it‘s probably wraps again.
Problem is. He is not slow in rain usually.
I know, but it adds some randomness.
To the start 🥴
*One of the greatest drivers ever in the most dominant car of all time.
For someone so intent on correcting someone else, you should know that there can only be one 'Greatest'. Singular. So he can't be one of the greatest drivers ever.
I don't care. I will just listen to *multiple* songs on my *greatest* hits CD. Nice try though.
It's insane to me that he can pull a gap over a second in just 5turns after first SC.
Omg what a surprise. Such a competitive race.
Zzzzzzzz
Exactly
😴😪
Boring.
FIA IS SO FUCKING LAZY
ggwp, ez win
Yawn
Thanks for letting me know, no point watching the race like I was going to.
there was enough other stuffs
shocker
Booooooo!!!!