Lewis purposely sent Max to Wall in Silverstone at 51G= Unlucky Max Accidentally or Aggressively putting his car on top of Lewis = Reckless and Bad Nice BS bro 😂
Hey Aldas can you do a similar list plz or ranking for Schumacher titles?? Or at least tell me which is your best. Many says neither of the 5 Ferrari titles, but one of the Benetton titles.
nobody has to agree, it's an objective fact. i really like max but even if i didnt, it's quite impossible to refute. he has 4 world championships. he's pure and simply one of the greatest ever even if he retired today
18 podiums in 22 races that year is the standout stat to me tbh. And the four occasions he didn’t finish on the podium were Hungary (had P9 with a damaged car) and 3 DNFs with Baku (super unlucky), Silverstone (infamous crash with Lewis at Copse), and Monza (another infamous crash with Hamilton)
He won 2021, he didnt win Abu Dhabi. Perfectly as Kmag said. Although I wanted Lewis to win, Max was amazing in 21. Im just lucky to have seen live the two greatest drivers of the modern era of f1 just duke it out across 22 races.
I really don't understand why people say 24 was his best !? 2021 was probably the most difficult/stressful F1 championship/season you can possibly have... specially in terms of pressure, yet Max delivered. I can only imagine what Lando or really any other driver would have done to Lewis with that 2021 Red Bull ( exactly. absolutely nothing. ) Compared to 2021 the "fight" against Lando this year wasn't really ever a contest and if people say otherwise they're really just hyping it up for no reason...
Pressure was far greater but his racecraft was atrioucious in 2021 he fell a few times under pressure. Also I just think every season was just as impressive equally,2021,23 and 24
in 2021 he had the second fastest car in 2024 he had the third fastest car except for the first few races and sometimes 4th fastest car whenever mercedes decided to win
They don't like the fact lewis lost the championship, the FIA made a wrong stewarding decision but it isn't max's fault he won and he drove a better season anyway losing points to no faults of his own like silverstone or azerbaidjan is what lead to that finale in the first place but they will never admit it because their egos got hurt when their golden boy got beaten
As I said I feel like Max as a driver was better and more well rounded in 24' compared to 21' as were his performances in a weaker car, the pressure element is the biggest difference but he and his mid-season performances are also a huge reason as to why Lando was never really in the title battle anyway.
I would rank lowest 22->24->23->21 I feel 23 dominance is something that will be talk about for a long time, unlike 24 or 22. 21 as well is a banger, the new kid challenging the old guard with both at their peak was just chefs kiss.
Interesting take but yeah in terms of historical significance it might even be 22-24-21-23 just because he was so far ahead that we have never seen such dominance before (even from Lewis)
@michielwaalboer3088 yes, alot of pundits just shrugged off 23, because it was boring. But to maintain such consistency itself is a work of art. I'm sure it will be talk about many years later, way after everyone forgets about other seasons
@@jiahuilai608 Vettel's most famous season was 2013 for his 9 in a row. Amazing that many consider a season where Max surpassed that his 3rd or 4th best championship.
@@As-qz5lrCrazy how unlike Schumi and Lewis where they pick one of the " Non-dominant cars" titles as the best, it's quite the opposite with Seb, maybe because in 2010 and 2012 Nando was considered the best driver that season, while Max was always the best in all 4 titles.
You can blame him for Mexico '24 but that actually prevented a Norris win and made it a net worth profit in points. THAT's the mentality you really need for a WDC title and haters seem to forget that. Nice guys finish last.
I bet you'd still argue he had a slower car..... The rules were broken to ensure his championship. Focus on that. Leading more laps does not mean you're more worthy.
@@marvinlawrencehe had a slower car tho. Where was Perez? The WCC was easily won by Mercedes despite Hamilton's underperformance in Imola, Austin, Monaco, Baku, Turkey, Hungary, Monza, Spa, and Austria 1. Both Toto & Allison said that Red Bull had the slower car. It's objectively a fact that Max was more consistent and made less mistakes than Lewis that year and yet Lewis still stayed in the title fight until the very end due to a combination of a stronger car and better luck. Max had the faster car in Bahrain on paper but what many people don’t know is that all Honda engines had reliability issues in the first week of the season, the Honda runners all faced vibrations in the engine which resulted in some engine issues/failures in the race, on top of that Max had to nurse a differential failure during the race which cost him around 3 tenths per lap according to Marko. Lewis never had such issues throughout the entire season. Honda also had to take precautionary measures with the engine until they fixed the issues which resulted in a less powered Honda engine until France. Lewis could have won Imola if he didn’t pull a Vettel Hockenheim 2018 but he still got saved by the perfectly timed red flag and recovered P2 at least. In Portugal & Spain the Merc was definitely superior. Was nowhere in Monaco eventhough Bottas was gunning for P2 until the pit stop disaster happened. Fumbled a guaranteed win delivered on a silver platter after Max' tyre blowout by overheating his tyres with the magic button and locking up after the red flag restart. Merc could have won France and scored a 1-3 according to the admittance of both Toto, Valtteri and Allison. Hamilton damaged his car due to riding the curbs too hard and finished P4 in Austria 1 because of it while Bottas finished P2. In Silverstone the cars were equally matched but Lewis only won because he drove into Max and sent him into the wall and got away with it. He fumbled Hungary by choosing to stay out after the first start chaos and then spent way too much time behind Alonso who drove a midfield car. Lost a win because of that. Got outqualified by George Russell in a Williams at Spa in the rain. Could have easily cruised to a victory from pole in Monza with how fast the Merc was on the straights there but he fumbled the sprint start and dropped several places and finished the sprint much lower than he should have, and since back then the sprint finish order determined the full race grid position, he put himself into a disadvantageous position for the race that actually mattered. And we know what happened later in that race. Crashed twice in Sochi Q3. Struggled against Perez in wheel to wheel and didn’t listen to his team's strategy advice in Turkey which cost him 2 places and a podium all the while Bottas gracefully lead from start to finish. Spent the rest of the race in Austin right behind Max' rear after losing the first pit battle and couldn’t find a way past Max despite having the pace to fight him. Got away with impeding/blocking Mazepin again in Abu Dhabi FP3, which according to the rules should have given him his 3rd reprimand and a 3rd reprimand would have resulted in a 10 place grid penalty. But the stewards looked the other way because they didn’t want to interfere with Hamilton's title charge in the final weekend. Then he got away with massive corner cutting in the race which he did again at the same spot against Sainz the following year but unlike against Max, he had to give the position back to Sainz. Merc already had an equal car in the first half but in the second half the Merc was way stronger on average.
24 may’ve not been his hardest in terms of comp., but it showcased the gulf between him & “could win a WDC in the right car” types more than any other season (e.g., drivers like LN, OP, GR, CS, etc.) CL for me exists between that category of driver and MV, FA, LH tier.
u right but building on top of that id say oscar piastri is a little different than the rest in your list because i'd say the other drivers like lando norris and george russell too emotional and cant really handle mental pressure at a top level but have the spped. but on the other hand oscar piastri doesnt quite have the racecraft yet but most definitely has the mentality. btw im not even an oscar fan
@ Oscar has the mentality and wheel to wheel skills. He just doesn’t have the raw speed. And that’s something that doesn’t improve with time. He consistency should improve though.
@@The_ZeroLine i think its more of his consistency than his raw speed. from this year i think u can take away that his qualifying is pretty good and up to par with lando on his day but its just very inconsistent. and during his race he struggles with managing tire wear more often than not which leads to him falling back
Charles Leclerc has the advantage of... well experiences in the front more than Lando and George. Though his seasons were nothing to really laugh at since the only mistakes I remember outside of his rookie seasons were 2019 Germany, 2022 Imola, and 2022 France (we could include 2021 Monaco during quali). After 2019 Austria, I think Charles was different when it comes to wheel to wheel, especially with Max, and 2019 Britain showed that. Charles, since Lewis is also declining and not getting any younger, is the only one that Max kinda has to think twice before being aggressive again since Charles showed he can be aggressive too (think 2019 Japan and of course 2019 Britain). For the sake of talent, I hope Lando adapts from that too, make Max think twice before being overly aggressive. 2024 Mexico should be his 2019 Austria experience where he starts to give Max a taste of his own medicine.
The competition was absolutely hard it's just that at the start of the season Max maximised every result when the car was the best still and then still went on to outscore Lando throughout the time when Red Bull wasn’t even the 2nd best car anymore on average.
Pretty much yeah, no one talks about the 2021 season anymore it's just abu dhabi because if they talk about the entirety of it they would know he deserved that title but it's far easier to fixate on a stewarding error
Still complaining about 2021? Max had most poles, wins, laps led. Tyre burst in Baku, Bottas went bowling. Lewis put him in hospital. Lewis got a lap back (for some reason) after putting it in the gravel in Imola. Yas Marina was crazy but I don't understand how any objective viewer could say Lewis deserved the championship.
What you said is exactly why they always focus on abu dhabi only because it's easier to be angry at a stewarding error than accepting your driver lost, it's the same if your team in the world cup final lost because of an unfair penalty kick in the last minute even though your team might have had a worse campaign overall than the opposition but no one would ever admit that
Also, Hamilton had a gap to pit for softs and still come out ahead of Verstappen. They had bearly any time to make the call, but considering that was the only way you could lose from that position... shame on Mercedes for not being sharp enough in the most crucial moment.
@@MrPOSHOMAN That's just BS we all know that race should have ended under the safety car with Lewis in P1. Masi literally broke the rules to make get the safety in a lap early and the FiA even admitted so. However that doesn't mean we can just strip Max of his hard earned first title. An error occurred and shit happened that's life. Also Max's dirty driving in Saudi could have easily gotten him a race ban so let's not forget that one as well.
@@cyan_oxy6734 Max dominated the season and deserved the title, imagine silverstone would have been the last race instead of abu dhabi with lewis almost murdering Max, how about that? SEASON makes Champions, not single races.
As SLH fan, 2021 season belonged to Max. Going toe to toe with SLH is more difficult than any other driver on the current grid. AD21 was FIA’s mess which Max capitalised upon. It takes sheer grit and nerves to overtake and keep the position in the last lap against a fierce HAM.
@@bonsai9069 yea but Mercedes could have pitted Lewis aswell. Nobody forced them to stay out. They chose track position and left him on used tyres... The only problem was safety car being left too late. Massi should have cleared out the cars 1 or 2 laps prior but Toto and Horner bickering over lapped cars made him react quickly. He lost major time in deciding because of them two shouting over the radio. So one can say that Toto and Christian were somewhat responsible in deciding of the finish. I also don't see Lewis winning if championship went into normal circumstances. Appart from Abu Dhabi he had a lot of luck during the season. All he had to do was finish behind Checo in Baku to take the championship later in the year but he blew it. We also can't forget his poor weekend in Monaco where he was stuck behind Gasly or when he got lucky in Imola with Red flag after he crashed. Max had only 1st or 2nd place finishes bar Hungary where he got crashed into and had car damage. Lewis didnt. P7 in Monaco and finishing out of points in Baku were entirely his faults. Max was better that year even with Abu Dhabi controversy as simple as that...
@@andrewmelton2686 Yes, all the 'fans' ignoring Max being torpedoed off the track by Bottas and Hamilton with impunity. If Schumacher would have done a silverstone 2021 in 94, he would have been getting a ban for 4 races.
@@andrewmelton2686do I have a sour aftertaste because of Abu Dhabi and how it was won by Max Verstappen (ie a mistake by the race director due to an imprecise wording in the rules)? Yes. Do I believe Max should have won 2021, looking at ALL the races? Because you know, 2021 wasn't just Abu Dhabi. Yes, most definitely. Hamilton made many mistakes that year, Verstappen was simply superior, overall. Imo
Wouldn't 21 be the most impressive? So many points lost through no fault of his own, the car dropping off at the end and such clutch moments like sochi and hungary when it looked like it could run away from him. Meanwhile hamilton fumbled baku, was nowhere in monaco and came so close to a disaster in imola before the red flag.
Hamilton also fumbled a win in Monza with bottling the sprint and not only losing points in the sprint but losing the opportunity to start from pole on sunday, several places lower instead. (back then sprint results dictacted the grid order for the main race) Also fumbled an easy win in Hungary after his main competitor was eliminated from win contention by being the only to driver who decided to stay out on track and then struggling to get past a midfield Alpine for several laps. Threw some points in Austria 1 away by riding the curbs too hard and damaging his wing. Threw P3 away and finished P5 instead by not listening to his team in Turkey and also got cooked by Perez in wheel to wheel. Failed to beat Max in Austin despite having a fast enough car to do so and starting from pole and leading until the first pit stops. Got outqualified by a Williams in Spa. Crashed twice in Sochi Q3.
I Agree with the Ranking, I also ranked his titles the same way as you, in 2021 he deserved his first championship more than Lewis, I don’t agree with the fact that the 2 equally deserved because Lewis was clearly more inconsistent than Max and did more proper mistakes, he was not on his Prime level until the last 4 gps were he was absolutely invincible and deserved to win those 4 races but not the championship, Max was impressively consistent that season if we don’t count his dnfs he finished every race 1st or 2nd and that’s impressive for a 1st attempt to fight for the title, we saw young talented drivers of his generation failing to be solid and consistent in their first attempt like Charles and Lando, we still have to see George what he’s gonna do in his first attempt, and we don’t have to forget that Max was super unlucky in mid season with the puncture in Baku, and taking out by the 2 Mercedes drivers in Silverstone and Budapest, he lost 70 points or more in those 3 races that costed him the possibility to win and secure the championship 2 or 3 rounds before the end, Lewis and Mercedes were so lucky that year to keep their 2 championships options until Abudhabi, despite that he drove like a Crazy and dirty in the last rounds and Lewis was better than him but on the other 3/4 of the season he was clearly the best. In 2022 he recovered a nearly 50 points disadvantage with Charles after a difficult beginning season with a lot of reliability problems and with some help of Ferrari and Charles and also his outstanding consistency and pratically never making proper mistakes by himself making him recover that gap he had in the first part of the campaign, so that title is maybe his less impressive but he had to work for it also and was brilliant all the year. 2023 is by far his most dominant season and the most dominant season that a driver ever did in F1, his car was by big margin the best but not as big like the Mercedes most dominant cars, Ferrari’s most dominant cars or McLaren and Williams’s most dominant cars, here the driver made also the difference and was 1 with the car in tune, he wants to always win even if he has already won the championship, he’s a machine and cyborg who is programmed to win without stop and this season shows clearly that. And finally 2024 is his best season and performance because of all the difficulties he past through since Miami not having the best car, 2nd car or even the 3rd car, and how he always knew how to get out from them and specially don’t make proper mistakes by himself, maximising always the performance of his car and even surpassing, he did some mistakes while fighting wheel to wheel but didn’t made proper mistakes as always since 2019 where his Prime began, and knew how to play psychologically with his maximum rival on track and off track, so in conclusion he’s already now one of the greatest even if I would still wait for him to change team and try to assume a new challenge making great another team and project winning with them like per example Schumi did after he left Benetton to join Ferrari and making them win again, and not failing badly the attempt like Seb per example did after his 4 consecutive titles with Redbull, for me he’s already better than Seb but to put him on the level of names like Senna, Schumacher, Prost, Fangio, Clark, Alonso, Hamilton or Lauda I would like to see him winning with another team to make it.
2021 is still undoubtedly his best title, everyone is fixated on Abu Dhabi but for that WHOLE season Max (and Lewis) was on another level, they pushed eachother to their limits and both had their moments of not being 100% fair on track. This 2024 championship is also up there but this year’s title also shows how weak the competition is if it is not Max, Alonso or Lewis challenging
I think 2024 is the best as it balances the "winning by dominance" with "winning by a margin". It shows Max at his best in both lights where 2021 was one extreme and 2023 another. So in 2021 some will argue Max isn't the real winner and in 2023 some will argue Max didn't win but the car did. With 2024 there is just no room left for debate.
@@Ronnet to be honest though, apart from the extremist fans on either side, I think the majority of Max and Lewis fans can admit that either deserved to win the championship that year due to the level of driving they both showed. I get what you mean though, this year was also very impressive due to the circumstances him and the team were in compared to McLaren and Ferrari. For the ones who doubted his skills and would always find an excuse to put him down, there are none left, in that you are 100% right.
@@Ronnet you are massively overreacting if you honestly think that in 2024 he didn't win because of the car. If you genuinely think the Red Bull car was that shit, you're deluded. It wasn't dominant. but it still was a very good car and a car that any competent driver would win with. There is no situation in F1 where a bad driver wins with a good car, or a good driver in a bad car. Did Alonso win in 2012 ? No. It needs to be good with good. Yeah the table says it's the 3rd fastest car. But is it really ? How is old Perez doing ? Put any good driver in that seat, Red Bull are easily 2nd in the constructors and potentially fighting for 1st. Perez is the reason why that car looks shite And yes. 2021 is his best title. You mean to tell me beating Lando Norris who has never had experience in a title fight is more noteworthy than beating a 7 time champion in his prime gunning for his 8th in competitive machinery ?
the 2023-24 championships from Max are similar to Vettel in 2011 and 2012.. 2023 and 2011, Max and Seb were a class of their own... top car, top qualifying and dominant races.. 2012, Seb did not have the fastest car in the first half of the season, in 2023, Max did not have the fastest car in second half..and funnily enough on both occasions Mclaren were the fastest.. But both maximised their points when not fastest.. Only difference between 2012 and 2023 was Fernando Alonso, who dragged the 2012 season to a title finale all by himself..
Fantastic analysis mate. And that is the difference between 2012 and 2024. A certain Fernando Alonso. A guy that Lando needs to really study if he is to be a more serious threat to Max. Also this championship is similar to 2009. First couple of races very dominant (Brawn, Red Bull). Then another team upgrades their car to make it more competitive (Red Bull, Mclaren)
Like GP said, Max is getting better every year, which is really scary bc of how good he is already. 2024 showed Max has almost no equal at this moment in time. Lewis is very inconsistent, Alonso is fed up, Charles is buckling even under inter-team pressure, etc. etc.
Honestly. Get over Abu Dhabi. It's getting really tiring seeing content creators having to qualify talking about the 2021 season with condemning Abu Dhabi every single time.
No joke, I would double down on AD21 instead. Max not only deserved the championship that year but also the race win in Abu Dhabi. People can cry all they want but technically Masi didn’t break any rule in the book and if the Masi shenanigans got Max the win in Abu Dhabi, then Masi shenanigans got Lewis the win in Bahrain. Something else not enough people mention is that Lewis should have started from P12 in Abu Dhabi according to the rules if the stewards enforced them instead of looking the other way that weekend. Lewis impeded Mazepin again in practice which would have netted him his 3rd reprimand and a 3rd reprimand leads to a 10 place grid penalty.
@@ZakDevine-edwards as a Max fan, I’m pretty confident he won’t purely because I can’t see him staying in F1 after 2028 (and I can see him quit before that even). At the end of the day records are there to be broken, I’m just glad we got to see that 2021 season of two all time greats battling toe to toe, I wonder which two will be next
2021 > 2024 > 2023 > 2022. Nothing beats going up against the GOAT and outperforming him over the entirety of the season. Yes Max got lucky in AD, but he was the better driver
Verstappen led more laps than every other driver combined in 2021 it’s clearly his best season but it gets diminished cause he lost 50-60 due to bad luck.
bro said 2024 was the best verstappen season ever even though it is basically a sighly better 2022. Ferrari/Mclaren being incomponent, Leclerc/Norris not being Verstappen's caliber, and Ferrari/Mclaren having a better car for at least some section of the season. Compare that to 2021 against a 7 time world champ in equal cars and being better than Hamilton. He was the better driver who happened to get nuked by both Lewis and Bottas throughout the season losing around 40 ish points. Even though the ending was controversial, the fact that max in his first championship campaign was better than Hamilton in the same season makes it number 1 without doubt
It's not just a slightly better season than 2022 because in 2022 Red Bull had the best car in 2024 they absolutely didn’t. The RB20 this year was arguably not even better than the Ferrari.
@@ey1615 I think ferrari had a better car at the beginning or at least they were luckier with max dnf. So mclaren had a better car for longer but the point stands that both mclaren and ferrari had better cars
@@darrenchen2668 The Red Bull was definitely better at the beginning but only in testing and in Bahrain, and only on paper. Because eventhough Red Bull had the fastest package in Bahrain, they couldn’t capitalise on it due to Honda facing reliability issues that week. The Bulls had engine vibrations and Checo also had electrical issues and Max lost 3 tenths per lap from a differential failure. Merc never faced such issues that year. In Imola Max only won because he bullied himself past Lewis and managed to keep the lead because Lewis struggled in the wet conditions, once the track started to dry out Lewis started gaining on Max but then had that Vettel Hockenheim moment and had to recover to P2 after the red flag. Lewis could have absolutely won that race if he raced better. Merc had the advantage in Spain & Portugal. In Monaco Bottas showed that the Merc was good enough to fight for pole and finish P2 at least, but Lewis underperformed heavily. Lewis is notorious for underperforming in Monaco. In Baku Lewis was ahead of Max until Max & Checo passed Lewis after the first pit stops of which Hamilton's was a bit slower. Lewis then kept losing time to Max by being stuck behind the hard defending Checo and then fumbled the restart later when he had the perfect opportunity to win. In France Merc had the faster car but Mercedes threw the strategy. Toto, Bottas and Allison admitted that. The Merc was definitely better in the early parts of the season than some people give credit for. Definitely the best car overall that season.
#1 2021. It was the most spectacular and important. No matter if you agree with the outcome or not, this will be remembered for a long long time. #2 2023 Almost a perfect streak. Many records broken. #3 2024 a well executed championship reminiscent of Prost. #4 2022 I've already forgotten about that one 😂
I agree 100 % with your rankings. In 2021 Max left almost nothing on the table and finished 1st or 2nd in almost every race with marginally the 2nd best car, he didn't really have any off-weekends. This year he had Baku where he decided to f the setup for some reason and just wasn't on it, and Monaco where he should have gotten a podium but got a P6 due to a quali crash. This year Max has actually been the least consistent of all his title winning seasons, it's just that the competition has been even less consistent.
Next season is gonna go crazy, a 3 way title fight? but it will be sure hella entertaining and might be more competitive than this season. Hope max makes it 5 titles next year
The redbull will be absolutely nowhere mate, I fear this will be max's last title for a little while. No newey, old wind tunnel, bad correlation between simulations and the track, bad understanding of the car, lots of money wasted on upgrades and fixing the car because of checo = bad 2025 car
@@issammelzi728 Like I said earlier... All that you are saying here is more "hating" than reality... Because if I was at Red Bull I could use Checo to test for next season, which would make up for the wind tunnel loss and not getting the constructors is helping with testing allocation as well. This is why there isn't any harsh comments from Red Bull about his performance this season... But it's all down to how you see things I guess! 😎
Are we still pretending that the Austria crash was Max's fault? Let's get real... Squeezing the car onto the outside kerb there is a tale as old as time, and is the best way to defend that corner. Everyone does it
Yeah even after Lando admitted his fault, people still treat Max like the sole offender of that race. Not to forget Lando's constant reckless divebombs that didn’t work.
24 was very interesting for Max. I've thought he was the best driver since 2021, but this season proved it to an inarguable degree. That being said, in 22&23 people have been saying that Max has matured and got cleaner and calmer since 21, and this may be slightly true but he showed in races this year when the championship was truly in doubt (Austria-Mexico) that when under proper pressure he will revert back to 2021 Brazil&Saudi. I don't think this will ever go and it is what makes Max, Max
Austria wasn’t even Max fault, at least not entirely, as Lando even admitted he fucked up after reviewing the footage. Max left enough room for Lando but he didn’t take it out of stubbornness.
I still think that 2021 was greater than 2024. The fact that he went toe to toe with prime Lewis, with slower car, is something that will always be the reason why i think 2021 was his best title
@@lilxtasy4936yes it was. Not only that but slightly less reliable too. Honda and Red Bull faced engine issues in Bahrain and had to tune the engine down until they introduced fixes some races later. Max also had a differential failure in Bahrain which cost him 3 tenths per lap. The cars were evenly matched in the first half, after Silverstone Merc was clearly faster on average.
I'm gonna need the haters to watch the entire 2021 season again, and not just Abu Dhabi. Max won that title FAIR and square. Lewis was always favored by the FIA, Silverstone and Hungary was on his favor (unfairly took Max out and almost cost Max's life in Silverstone). Max truly deserved to win the 2021 championship and the years after that. 2022, Max had to deal with a lot of bullying from the tifosi. They were throwing things at his car while he was on the race track (Monza) and still you don't hear him crying about it. He kept his focus. 2023, he broke a lot of records. People may say it's because he had the fastest car but he MAXimized everything in that car and really pulled a big gap. He lapped his own teammate and won the constructor's on his own. Max did not even have the fastest car in the first couple of races. 2024 is a statement. This is for the haters who said he can't win in the fastest car and this is also for the new fans who think he can only win in the fastest car. They clearly never watched Max in 2021 and 2022 when he did not have the fastest car the whole season. They also did not watch past races where Max won races in the 3rd fastest car against the dominant Mercedes (faster than RB19).
What annoys me about current media & fan thinking in F1 is that a lot of people seem to be molly-coddling Norris and saying "well it was his first title fight, he did a good job, and he won a few races". Not even close to good enough imo, he's had the best car. In Max's 1st title fight in 2021 (where he was younger than Norris), he went toe-to-toe with statistically the greatest driver ever who was gunning for his 8th world title. He even had a slightly slower car than Mercedes over the season as a whole, and yet without the ridiculous bad luck, he'd have won that championship with 2 races to spare. Norris put up probably one of the most piss poor title fights I've ever seen in my ~16 years of watching F1, and yet he'll get a free pass from the British media. Norris is in his 6th season right now, and he's 25 years old, Max beat Hamilton at 24. I remember watching Hamilton in 2008, when he was 23 and only in his 2nd year of F1, and I have no doubt he'd have won the 2024 title in the McLaren. Norris is just nowhere near the level of guys like Max & Lewis, and if he's not there now, he never will be. There's a chance he'll win the title in 2025 and the narrative will be that he overcame Max, and the demons of 2024, but that won't be true. The only way he beats Max is in a car that's consistently dominant, week in week out. And I have no faith in the British media pointing that out
To cut Lando some slack, Lewis was just as inconsistent in his second! title fight and only won by 1 point because he didn’t have an all time great as title rival that year and still relied on luck.
My opinion: 4th: 2022 - The performance of Max, even though record breaking at the time, was immediatly overshadowed in 2023. After the summer break Max didn't really have competition anymore either. Still, a pretty flawless season from his side but the competition wasnt very high because Ferrari were imbeciles and Mercedes was quite slow. 3rd: 2024 - Amazing start to the season and maximalised his points most of the time after he lost the fastest car but he has made mistakes this year. Austria was partially Lando's mistake but you could also see Max as responsible, Hungary (even though the team messed up aswell) was also a poor race from him and Mexico was just unnaceptable driving. McLaren although they had the fastest car for most of the races after around Imola, made a lot of mistakes aswell and Lando was far from perfect. 2nd: 2023 - Most dominant season by a driver ever. Yes he had the fastest car but we will never truely know if the RB19 was THAT dominant or that Max IN the RB19 was that dominant since Checo is the only one to compare him to. To have the will and mentality to keep winning even after winning the WDC is something even Lewis never had. Almost faultless season. 1st: 2021 - First time in a truely competitive car and showed his talent against a "prime" LH immediatly. Was at times and especially in the later parts of the season too agressive (probably because of the brutality of this season) especially Brazil and Saudi stand out. Yes the ending was "lucky" and highly controversial but if Silverstone and Hungary never happened he would've already won the WDC in Saudi or even sooner.
Max definitely had competition in Singapore, Mexico and Brazil after the summer break in 2022. Mexico 2024 was a great race from Max actually when it comes to race IQ because the way he raced there kept Lando from winning the race which netted him more points than racing Lando normally and getting overtaken by the faster McLaren sooner and watch him catch Sainz. He also let Sainz pass without a fight because he knew he was not going to win the race against Ferrari & McLaren and executed a great plan to ensure Lando doesn’t win either. Everything was intentional. The 20s penalty (way too harsh imo) was still tanked and with his masterful recovery drive he lost less points that way. Also Max wasn't more aggressive than Lewis in 2021 Jeddah. Both left no room for each other that race.
2021 in my opinion is the greatest WDC performance I've seen from any driver since watching in 96. The only other one that comes close is Alonso in 2006. Both times they went up against the greatest driver team combination and came out on top, under the most extreme pressure and withstand some of the greatest performance from two of F1's best ever drivers. What stands out for me is Max was 1st or 2nd in everyrace bar Hungary where he had a damaged car. Alonso wasn't as consistent although his drive in Hungary would have been the greatest win ever and Turkey was as good as his San Marino win. Even China 2006, he was well on his way to a fantastic wet win but for a terrible pit stop. In 2021 Hamilton had the luck of 1) having his car re-built in Imola after he ran wide due to the timing of a red flag, 2) the Baku tyre blowout, 3) Silverstone where he took out Max and had his car re-fixed due to the red flag he caused, 4) Bottas taking out Max in Hungary. That is 18+25+18+18, i.e. 79 points minimum gained through luck, yet the biased Brits only talk about Abu Dhabi, a 14 point swing. Hamilton was fantastic that year, but he had all luck bar the last moment of that season
In the world of sport you can't win without some luck as well... The course of 2021 led to Abu Dhabi and the reason why people will forever talk about it is because that was the race where the championship was to be won. Simple. No buts, no ifs, no maybes. I don't give a damn about stats. Both drivers were equally deserving. Both had their misfortunes and both showed an incredible mentality to overcome the odds when their backs were against the wall. To say that one deserved it more than the other, it diminishes what an epic year that was and it diminishes the truly incredible achievement of Max, to beat a 7 time champion, at the very top of his game, gunning for his 8th.
2021 was really one of the most amazing seasons ever, and as you said, Max and Lewis were on a class on their own. What Max did that year, being toe to toe all the way through all the season, is something only the absolute greats can do. Any other driver would have have had errors or mistakes here and there which would have given Lewis that difference for him to win. I really see no other of the current drivers being able to do what Max did on 2021. The level of both was amazing, an Max had bad luck at Baku and when Bottas torpedoed him at the start of hungary I think which made max to go with a damaged car all race. Max big mistake was Monza but he ended out with Lewis, but besides that Max made no errors through all the year. Lewis made a huge mistake on Baku and on Silverstone that was his mistak and he was extremely lucky there cos the penalty was nothing compared to the mistake he made considering there was a red flag. If you add all the points max lost, NOT BEING HIS FAULT on baku, hungary and silvertstone, coming into the last race he would have been champion already. don't ge me wrong, Lewis was amazing too, but Baku was 100% on his own, and Monza Max didnt won 25 points over him, were silverstone that was like the opposite he did won 25 points there. At the end of the season Lewis was like a monster, no doubt about that, but 2021 both were for sure worthy to be champions, BUT overall the entire season Max has the edge for me and totally deserve it that year. Last race was weird and yeah didnt like it but he really deserved it. I think just drivers like Senna, Schumacher, Alonso would have been able to do what Max did, but still, what I was incedibly amazed on 2021 was the consistency Max had through all the season with little to no mistakes, even less that Lewis had. I really now see no driver being able to challenge max, considering they both are on same machinery. Senna has always been my favorite driver, but Max really has become my other favorite as well. I was never fan of Schumacher or Hamilton myslef. I now they are geat, but not my favorites.
2021 showed just how much of a better driver max was than everyone else Including lewis. Lewis is good, but not consistent enough. Even with all the bad luck he had throughout the season, max was still tied on points in the final race. And no matter how much hamilton fans cry, he got beaten on track
Hamilton should have lost 21 because he drove straight off the track at the Baku restart after Max's tire blew up , or when he drove into the gravel in imola and the red flag saved him or when he didnt send max flying into the wall at Silverstone. It should have been over before the last race.
We all know this, but unfortunately it isn't talked about enough. The only response you hear is "wHaT abOUt MAx'S DiRTy dRiViNg?!", as if Lewis lost barely any, let alone 70 points due that, the rough amount of points Max lost due to bad luck.
24,23,22,21. 21 was his most impressive, but Abu Dabhi is the reason the others slightly edged it. Max was the best driver in 2021, but this is the only championship that he didn't win soley on merit and had alot of FIA help for (in the last 4 GP, not due to favouratism but because he was in a slower car in the end when F1 wanted a final race where they were as close on points as possible) 22 was great, but I feel it was more Ferrari that lost 23 Extraordinary, but no competition- since RB refuse to get a decent 2nd driver (if LEC,SAI,NOR,PIA,HAM,RUS,ALO were in that RB next to Perez they all win comprehensively, not as well as Max but still easilly) 24 Max was perfect, aside from his dirty tactics (but that is the FIA's negative not his) He only had 2 poor races
Regardless about what you think about who “deserves” to win the 2021 championship, if Masi doesn’t break the regulations to allow one more racing lap or Latifi doesn’t crash, Lewis is world champion
He didn’t break any regulations though. Otherwise they wouldn’t have been needed to be revised after 2021. The rules explicitly allowed Masi to do what he did.
@@ey1615 he didn’t follow the regulations as they had been applied previously, that’s why they were amended, if this was a common occurrence then it wouldn’t be controversial
2021: champion at first attempt against a seven-time champion in a slightly superior car and with worse luck 2022: difficult start (faster Ferrari, reliability, discomfort with understeer...) that ends in the biggest WDC comeback in history, multiple records 2023: total domination, the best individual season in history 2024: silencing the haters, proof that it's not the car by winning with the third fastest car PS: Honestly, for me it's 2021>2024>2023>2022, I don't understand exactly what Masi did wrong, the track was clear and it didn't make sense to finish the race under SC. The regulations were very lax and subject to interpretation, but it contemplated the decision that was finally made. The only thing he did wrong was delaying the decision on the lapped cars for so long, but this, far from favouring Max, harmed him by delaying the restart of the race (he could have restarted the race after 2 laps instead of one).
I disagree with the third fastest car statement. It's a very subjective thing mate. You call it that because it is reflected by the standings. But if you actually watch the races, it's far from the third fastest. It's competitive enough and certainly a capable car to win the championship with. Checo is just not as good. A more competent driver and they score more points than what the table says. So yeah. It's the car as well as the driver. You can't win a championship with a sh.t driver in a good car and you can't win a championship with a good driver in a bad car.
A lot of people say 2021 was his best season, but I totally agree 2024 was his best season. In 2021 Max had to fight Lewis and Mercedes. In 2024 Max had to fight Lando and McLaren, but later in the season Ferrari and at times Mercedes as well. Meanwhile serious issues in his own team were going on. Max has been a very stabilizing factor in that struggle and also has put in great effort in the factory to improve the car. All of that and not the fastest car and still winning the championship before the end of the season is just stunning.
My ranking: 4: 2022 3: 2024 2: 2023 1: 2021 In 2021 Max left almost nothing on the table and finished 1st or 2nd in almost every race with marginally the 2nd best car, he didn't really have any off-weekends. This year he had Baku where he decided to f the setup for some reason and just wasn't on it, and Monaco where he should have gotten a podium but got a P6 due to a quali crash. This year Max has actually been the least consistent of all his title winning seasons, it's just that the competition has been even less consistent.
Aramco Championship Ratings 1) 2021 - 9.8 2) 2023 - 9.7/10 3) 2024 - 9.5/10 4) 2022 - 9.4 Most of Max's 'errors' were tactical fouls against opponents at crucial stages. Count how many 'off weekends' and unforced errors Max vs other champions. Max after Monaco 2018(since 20yo) is 1st. Hamilton is clearly 2nd. Alonso is 3rd. Everyone else like Vettel, Rosberg, Button, Raikkonen, Hakkinen and even Schumacher (feel free to watch 94-95, 00-04 and see) all had far more off weekends and errors.
Max won 2021 with the second best car. Max won 2024 with what is now the fourth best car, third at best. Max is on a level few champions ever reach. Lewis, Michael, Ayrton, Clark, Fangio, Vettel. Verstappen is Senna reborn and we can look to his career as an indication of what Senna would have attained had he lived. Senna-Prost/Verstappen-Hamilton...Verstappen may be the true GOAT.
As a Max fan myself I have to disagree that he had the second best car. It was actually pretty matched, the first third of the season Red Bull had the best car, in the second third it was leveled I could go any ways, some tracks favoring Mercedes and others Red Bull and of course in the final third Mercedes had the best car.
@@elChirrinChirriondelDiablo Merc had the better car in Imola, Spain, Portugal and France, and an equal car in Baku, what are you talking about? Even in Bahrain when Red Bull was faster on paper, they faced reliability issues that cost Max and Checo the race. Merc never faced reliability issues that season. All Honda powered cars had vibrations that race and some even retired. Max also had a differential failure that cost him 3 tenths per lap.
My rankings of Max’s world titles- from best to “worst” 1. 2024- Max’s consistency when the car declined after Miami, dragging the most and then some out of the RB20 consistently was astronomical. 2. 2023- Consistently Dominant. Record Breaking and Historical. The fact that everyone celebrated Max finishing P5 in Singapore says it all. 3. 2021- Beat Lewis because of his consistency. Did not finish out of the podium outside of Hungary and his DNFs. Team LH fans please DO NOT discredit this season because of Abu Dhabi 2021. 4. 2022- Max was consistently great in this one but it doesn’t hit the same looking back now. Ferrari that season made so much errors it puts McLaren this year to shame. In this list 2 and 3 could be interchangeable for me.
For me: 1. 2023 - Unprecedented greatness 2. 2024 - Won the title with the 3rd fastest car on average and in a competitive field with no teammate help 3. 2021 - Took LH further than he’s ever been before and beat him, deservedly 4. 2022 - Overturned a big points gap but was aided by having the quicker car and Ferrari being immensely stupid
People always remember Abu Dhabi 2021, but forget that Max was the best overall over the course of the season If it hadn't been for that tyre failure in Baku, and for Silverstone 2021, he could have won the WDC more comfortably.
Hi Aldas, I just want to point out some things about 2021 that I never heard anyone mention; 1. In the season opener, Lewis cut a corner on twenty nine occasions, gaining a net 5.8 seconds. Red Bull noted it and Max began to do it. On the second occasion Max was told by the stewards not to do that and when RB protected Lewis was told not to as well. At this point Lewis had gained a net 5.4 seconds. He won that race by 0.7seconds. what if that 5.4 seconds were added to his time? What would have been the situation in Abu Dhabi? 2. Early in the Abu Dhabi race Lewis passed Max off the track and was not instructed to give the place back...the stewards ruled he supposedly slowed down enough to give back the advantage; utter trash! What would have been the situation at the end of the race if he had given the place back? 3. Silverstone was premeditated by Lewis! In more than one interviews prior he stated that one and could swing the championship back in his favour...you can go back and look at the videos before telling me I'm wrong!
1-2024 2-2021 (He led over twice the laps of everyone and won every statistic, I don’t want to hear it) 3-2023 4-2022 (Best individual performances, but was very lucky)
Overreaction much? Disgrace? Never seen anything like it in sports? Wasnt the safety car needed in the first place? Wasnt the track ready to race when it went back in? Wasnt there a lap left? Doesnt it make sense to get lapped car out of the way? To this day, I dont understand why this was such a huge drama. Hamilton was unlucky, and thats it. He also could have put up a better fight against verstappen (without drs), just like perez did with him half an hour earlier
For me, Max is already a top 5 drivers of all time, his 2021 season is brilliant, greats like Alonso and Vettel had trouble With Lewis in Equal machinery, but Verstappen, in his first real shot defeated one of, if not, the most complete driver of all time.
At first I would think that 2021 is the best one since it was the better and more enjoyable battle. He deserved completely considering his great performances all year. Yet, with the controversial way that the FIA messed with Lewis at the end, and how impressive his dominance this year was in a lesser car, I would give the edge to 2024.
i think he is the single best driver ever when it comes to not making mistakes under pressure. He just gets the maximum possible all the time the last years
Sayinh austria as poor driving from Max and to put that blame on him is just wrong. Only in Mexico he made a stupid move. I find cota to be his most impressive race with how he managed to keep norris behind in a slower car. That was just ridiculous
2021 takes it for me. What a season. What a fight. Max, through and through deserved to win it. Only reason it went till the last race was Bottas bowling in Hungary and Lewis’ murder attempt on Max. Still sounds crazy to me that Max won 19 races, 19 DAMN RACES in a single year. That sounds just absurd. Unbelievable. Greatness personified, MAX EMILIAN VERSTAPPEN. Don’t fall into the trap, I was exaggerating stuff but man, what a driver Max Verstappen is! (No hate to the goat of f1, Lewis Hamilton)
2022 Had Max’s best individual performances (Hungary/Spa/Japan), but overall it was his least dominant in a good car, it had his smallest gap in laps led, and outside of Silverstone he didn’t really get any bad breaks in races he was going to win.
IMO 2021 would of easily been his best if it wasn’t for his terrible luck that season. First ever title fight at age 23 against a 7 time champ we’re he built up a 30 point gap going into Silverstone and it was all taken away from him by getting crashed into in back to back races [Silverstone and Hungary] were both were caused by Mercedes drivers.
That’s not even mentioning Baku puncture while leading comfortably and Hamilton getting one of the luckiest red flags you will ever see in imola after he put in the wall.
@Aldas001 I still think that 2023 is his best season, because he was absolutely perfect. In 2024 he made a few mistakes, but 2023 was the closest to perfection anyone ever got in Motorsports. I still remember Schumi in 2004 winning 12 of 13 races and then Ferrari got a bit too relaxed and also unlucky. For me it would be: 1. 2023 2. 2024 3. 2021 4. 2022 2021 was absolutely amazing, but I still consider Lewis the GOAT with 8 Titels, even though Max definitely deserved it. For me the style of racing is very important and in 2021 Max crossed the line in combat multiple times and it felt like Prime Senna or 90s Schumi. In 2024 he was less extreme and a bit more refined.
Max was already an animal in 2021. To win your first title in equal, maybe even slightly inferior machinery against the unbeatable combination of Lewis, Mercedes and Toto in the middle of their historic dominance was almost impossible. Seb was in his prime, experienced, and he failed that same task by a mile.
I agree that 2024 is his best win. Its the best as it balances the "winning by dominance" with "winning by a margin". It shows Max at his best in both lights where 2021 was one extreme and 2023 another. So in 2021 some will argue Max isn't the real winner and in 2023 some will argue Max didn't win but the car did. With 2024 there is just no room left for debate
2021 was far better than 2024. Max of 2021 was on a totally different level. The Redbull this 2024 season was easily the fastest car for like the first 5 to 7 races. That help build a huge margin. And then a couple other races too. Ferrari and Mecerdes chipped away McLaren’s potential win by the time they came into their own. With two races to go I’d say. Redbull has been the fastest car in 10 races. McLaren 7, Ferrari 4, Mercedes 2.
You said "title protagonists in 2018 like Nico Rosberg", Nico retired after 2016. If you meant IN 2016 then totally understandable, Rosberg, Lewis, and Sebastian were definitely scary protagonists.
Gotta be insane not putting 2021 as his best. That’s some British bias right there. Not only did he outperform Hamilton over a course of a season but had the worst of luck while Lewis was saved so many times to make up points on Max which eventually led to that tight finish at the end. We were treated to the most intense season and finale in the history of the sport and people still complain. I never had my heart beating so fast as I did on that final lap in my 25 years of watching F1.
Toto wolf was a bigger disgrace by immediately calling and yelling at Michael to force him to finish the race under the safety car. He’s the exact reason why team principals can’t call the race director anymore and also Toto doing that caused the clean up of latifi’s wreck to take longer than it should .
Hamilton's win in 2021 would not have been deserved, because he intentionally pushed Max out in more than 1 race. It was justice that we had this last lap and by that the most exciting finish ever in F1 history. And Hamilton fans can say what they want, the fact this happened brought millions and millions of people back to watching F1. The fact that they immediately changed a couple of rules after that to make things boring again (safety car ending rule when Max showed us how AMAZINGLY exciting such a restart can be) was a HUGE MISTAKE and big shame.
Max is the best F1 driver for years, with the highest level of consistency, skill and hunger. I just hope that he is in the second and third fastest car in 2025, and we will have an epic season.
for me it is season 23. because he broke the impossible record of ascari in percentages. he broke jims clark of most laps lead in a season in percentages , broke vettels record of most wins after each other.
The abu dhabi thing really came in handy for all those max haters because they can discard everything else that happened during the whole season which is actually the reason why we got to abu dhabi with both of them level on points. Hungary and silverstone are the best examples . I wont mention baku here because thats just unlucky and he didnt lose points anyway in that sense.
Max has been incredible this year, but I do wonder how it would have looked if Ferrari and Merc had been closer to McLaren when Red bull was struggling.
Masi did the right thing, the teams agreed to do everything possible to not let races end under a safety car, let alone a championship.. he had to do what he had to do and did it
I mean he broke the rules. Literally. Why can't we say Max earned his first championship and Masi made a mistake? My take is: Max has no fault so it's unfair to strip him off his title. Masi made a career defining mistake and lost his job and Lewis just got so unlucky it's really sad.
Bull..hit take. The right thing would have been to red flag the race and allow all drivers to change from hards to softs and have a 5-4 lap sprint to the end. Like in Baku that same year. I don't want to sound like a broken record or a fanboy or whatever, but you want a win to be earned fair and square. How is it fair and square that Masi's decision allowed Max to have such a tyre advantage on Lewis is beyond me.
C'mon! The pressure on max vs a defending 7 time champion and GOAT level lewis. Almost 0 mistakes that season (I'm not counting his aggressive moves as mistakes as they were deliberate). 2024 is not even close in comparison. Lando and mclaren made mistakes just like ferrari in 2022. The dominant start meant max was barely under pressure. Also, certain tracks favoring merc and ferrari meant they were taking points off each other in the latter half of the season. I just cannot justify 2024 as a better season for max than 2021.
No way wasn't the Red Bull the best car this season. Okay, it didn't have domination as in other seasons, but for the first seven races it was comfortably ahead (yes, Norris won Miami, but he did that on the luck of SC timing) and after that point, the balance shifted back and forth between the other cars, with the Red Bull usually being 2nd or 3rd best. Because none of the other teams were consistently first, the advantage that Red Bull carried from the first third of the season meant that it was still the best car overall.
However controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi was, that was some of the best times I've ever had watching F1. Regardless of whether it was fair or not, it definitely was an incredible show. Michael Masi destroyed his career for our entertainment that day.
Max now has two championships when not having the best car. Not many champions can claim even one. Two is unheard of. In 22 the Ferrari started better and then faded, so it was a pretty straight fight. Max might be "known" for car dominance....but he's really only has a dominant car once so far. LH cant really claim that unfortunately.
Thanks so much for the amazing video! Totally agree with your ranking! Would it be a good idea to have more videos ranking championships of other multiple world champions? Thanks!
2021, 2023, 2024, 2022 in that order. 2021 was an all-out war to end Merc dominance and a well deserved victory from Verstappen, 2023 was an utter show of dominance from Red Bull themselves, 2024 was hard fought with an underperforming car for half a season and 2022 just wasn't that memorable imo.
Nah, it's this, from best to least: 23 as he simply approached perfection as close as a driver could ever dream of getting, breaking a record number of records, some having stood from essentially the beginning of the sport. Norris and McKaren have shown just how easy it is to muck it up and not win races, both Max and his team were essentially flawless. Then comes 21, with all the pressure and Max having to fight on a very skewed playing field. Max did not only have to beat Hamilton and merc, but he was also fighting the FIA itself with their stewards clearly being on the Hamilton/merc side. Yet he still came out on top despite all of that. This last season only comes after that, since it is just a weaker version of that season. Weaker opponent and far less pressure, also because this time it wasn't Max' first rodeo. And yeah, 22 was indeed the least one, because both ferrari and Leclerc together make sure to throw away points and wins at any opportunity they could get.
Surely 2021 pips 2024 no? He didn't make a single error the whole year in his first WDC fight. Drove with blurry and won in COTA. Without the bad luck (Imola Red flag, Baku tyre pop, Hungary mishap and Silverstone) he would have won comfortably. Also it put an end to an 8 year long Merc dynasty in the last year of the costcap. IMO nothing beats 2021
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Lewis purposely sent Max to Wall in Silverstone at 51G= Unlucky
Max Accidentally or Aggressively putting his car on top of Lewis = Reckless and Bad
Nice BS bro 😂
Hey Aldas can you do a similar list plz or ranking for Schumacher titles?? Or at least tell me which is your best. Many says neither of the 5 Ferrari titles, but one of the Benetton titles.
You gotta agree that max has become one of the greatest of all time
nah he's been one of the greatest of all time 1-2 years before, people are just now accepting him
He was already the greatest of all time when entering F1 on 17 yrs of age. He had to need some time to prove it to most people.
Delusional
nobody has to agree, it's an objective fact. i really like max but even if i didnt, it's quite impossible to refute. he has 4 world championships. he's pure and simply one of the greatest ever even if he retired today
@@Tronex333true
Max only finished 1st or 2nd in 2021 apart from Hungary with half a car. Fully deserved that championship
And Baku with his tire failure too
Here before delulu army **grabs popcorn😊**
@@ShawnFX you are gonna wait for a while i think lol
That title was a case of whoever won deserved it. And max won, so he deserved it. :)
@@BananananananannanananannaLewis made so many mistakes that season, I think Verstappen had a much better form
If you look at the whole 2021 season, Max won that fair and square.
18 podiums in 22 races that year is the standout stat to me tbh. And the four occasions he didn’t finish on the podium were Hungary (had P9 with a damaged car) and 3 DNFs with Baku (super unlucky), Silverstone (infamous crash with Lewis at Copse), and Monza (another infamous crash with Hamilton)
True!
He won 2021, he didnt win Abu Dhabi. Perfectly as Kmag said. Although I wanted Lewis to win, Max was amazing in 21. Im just lucky to have seen live the two greatest drivers of the modern era of f1 just duke it out across 22 races.
lewis deserved it with his experience, vs max's dirty tactics
Dont get me wrong, max was very good that year
absolutely not *fair*
I really don't understand why people say 24 was his best !?
2021 was probably the most difficult/stressful F1 championship/season you can possibly have... specially in terms of pressure, yet Max delivered.
I can only imagine what Lando or really any other driver would have done to Lewis with that 2021 Red Bull ( exactly. absolutely nothing. )
Compared to 2021 the "fight" against Lando this year wasn't really ever a contest and if people say otherwise they're really just hyping it up for no reason...
Pressure was far greater but his racecraft was atrioucious in 2021 he fell a few times under pressure. Also I just think every season was just as impressive equally,2021,23 and 24
in 2021 he had the second fastest car in 2024 he had the third fastest car except for the first few races and sometimes 4th fastest car whenever mercedes decided to win
Opinions are like assholes, everyone have one.
They don't like the fact lewis lost the championship, the FIA made a wrong stewarding decision but it isn't max's fault he won and he drove a better season anyway losing points to no faults of his own like silverstone or azerbaidjan is what lead to that finale in the first place but they will never admit it because their egos got hurt when their golden boy got beaten
As I said I feel like Max as a driver was better and more well rounded in 24' compared to 21' as were his performances in a weaker car, the pressure element is the biggest difference but he and his mid-season performances are also a huge reason as to why Lando was never really in the title battle anyway.
I would rank lowest 22->24->23->21
I feel 23 dominance is something that will be talk about for a long time, unlike 24 or 22. 21 as well is a banger, the new kid challenging the old guard with both at their peak was just chefs kiss.
Interesting take but yeah in terms of historical significance it might even be 22-24-21-23 just because he was so far ahead that we have never seen such dominance before (even from Lewis)
@michielwaalboer3088 yes, alot of pundits just shrugged off 23, because it was boring. But to maintain such consistency itself is a work of art. I'm sure it will be talk about many years later, way after everyone forgets about other seasons
@@jiahuilai608 Vettel's most famous season was 2013 for his 9 in a row. Amazing that many consider a season where Max surpassed that his 3rd or 4th best championship.
@@As-qz5lrCrazy how unlike Schumi and Lewis where they pick one of the " Non-dominant cars" titles as the best, it's quite the opposite with Seb, maybe because in 2010 and 2012 Nando was considered the best driver that season, while Max was always the best in all 4 titles.
@@michielwaalboer3088 And even from Michael??
how did bro not even mention the race in brazil this year
British bias. Can’t say I’m surprised
@@RegionalRadioShackManagerpretty sure aldas isnt british (might be wrong)
@@salvations01 he is, thats why he didnt talk about silverstone 2021
@@railguncs he's Lithuanian, and he's always said that his favorite driver is Alonso. nothing to do with british bias, just someone's opinion so relax
@@romansmusic1722 Lithuanian bias !!!
You can blame him for Mexico '24 but that actually prevented a Norris win and made it a net worth profit in points. THAT's the mentality you really need for a WDC title and haters seem to forget that. Nice guys finish last.
‘21 was his best title undoubtedly
Sensational performances
Max lead more laps than the rest of the entire field did in 2021.
That's absurd. More than a worthy champion!
I bet you'd still argue he had a slower car..... The rules were broken to ensure his championship. Focus on that. Leading more laps does not mean you're more worthy.
@@marvinlawrencelol....
@@marvinlawrenceits been like 3 years bro no one cares anymore 💀
@@marvinlawrenceSo you define a season by a single lap rather than the 22 races that were held? Typical Hamilton fanboy logic.
@@marvinlawrencehe had a slower car tho. Where was Perez? The WCC was easily won by Mercedes despite Hamilton's underperformance in Imola, Austin, Monaco, Baku, Turkey, Hungary, Monza, Spa, and Austria 1.
Both Toto & Allison said that Red Bull had the slower car.
It's objectively a fact that Max was more consistent and made less mistakes than Lewis that year and yet Lewis still stayed in the title fight until the very end due to a combination of a stronger car and better luck.
Max had the faster car in Bahrain on paper but what many people don’t know is that all Honda engines had reliability issues in the first week of the season, the Honda runners all faced vibrations in the engine which resulted in some engine issues/failures in the race, on top of that Max had to nurse a differential failure during the race which cost him around 3 tenths per lap according to Marko. Lewis never had such issues throughout the entire season. Honda also had to take precautionary measures with the engine until they fixed the issues which resulted in a less powered Honda engine until France.
Lewis could have won Imola if he didn’t pull a Vettel Hockenheim 2018 but he still got saved by the perfectly timed red flag and recovered P2 at least.
In Portugal & Spain the Merc was definitely superior.
Was nowhere in Monaco eventhough Bottas was gunning for P2 until the pit stop disaster happened.
Fumbled a guaranteed win delivered on a silver platter after Max' tyre blowout by overheating his tyres with the magic button and locking up after the red flag restart.
Merc could have won France and scored a 1-3 according to the admittance of both Toto, Valtteri and Allison.
Hamilton damaged his car due to riding the curbs too hard and finished P4 in Austria 1 because of it while Bottas finished P2.
In Silverstone the cars were equally matched but Lewis only won because he drove into Max and sent him into the wall and got away with it.
He fumbled Hungary by choosing to stay out after the first start chaos and then spent way too much time behind Alonso who drove a midfield car. Lost a win because of that.
Got outqualified by George Russell in a Williams at Spa in the rain.
Could have easily cruised to a victory from pole in Monza with how fast the Merc was on the straights there but he fumbled the sprint start and dropped several places and finished the sprint much lower than he should have, and since back then the sprint finish order determined the full race grid position, he put himself into a disadvantageous position for the race that actually mattered. And we know what happened later in that race.
Crashed twice in Sochi Q3.
Struggled against Perez in wheel to wheel and didn’t listen to his team's strategy advice in Turkey which cost him 2 places and a podium all the while Bottas gracefully lead from start to finish.
Spent the rest of the race in Austin right behind Max' rear after losing the first pit battle and couldn’t find a way past Max despite having the pace to fight him.
Got away with impeding/blocking Mazepin again in Abu Dhabi FP3, which according to the rules should have given him his 3rd reprimand and a 3rd reprimand would have resulted in a 10 place grid penalty. But the stewards looked the other way because they didn’t want to interfere with Hamilton's title charge in the final weekend.
Then he got away with massive corner cutting in the race which he did again at the same spot against Sainz the following year but unlike against Max, he had to give the position back to Sainz.
Merc already had an equal car in the first half but in the second half the Merc was way stronger on average.
24 may’ve not been his hardest in terms of comp., but it showcased the gulf between him & “could win a WDC in the right car” types more than any other season (e.g., drivers like LN, OP, GR, CS, etc.) CL for me exists between that category of driver and MV, FA, LH tier.
u right but building on top of that id say oscar piastri is a little different than the rest in your list because i'd say the other drivers like lando norris and george russell too emotional and cant really handle mental pressure at a top level but have the spped. but on the other hand oscar piastri doesnt quite have the racecraft yet but most definitely has the mentality. btw im not even an oscar fan
@ Oscar has the mentality and wheel to wheel skills. He just doesn’t have the raw speed. And that’s something that doesn’t improve with time. He consistency should improve though.
@@The_ZeroLine i think its more of his consistency than his raw speed. from this year i think u can take away that his qualifying is pretty good and up to par with lando on his day but its just very inconsistent. and during his race he struggles with managing tire wear more often than not which leads to him falling back
Charles Leclerc has the advantage of... well experiences in the front more than Lando and George. Though his seasons were nothing to really laugh at since the only mistakes I remember outside of his rookie seasons were 2019 Germany, 2022 Imola, and 2022 France (we could include 2021 Monaco during quali). After 2019 Austria, I think Charles was different when it comes to wheel to wheel, especially with Max, and 2019 Britain showed that. Charles, since Lewis is also declining and not getting any younger, is the only one that Max kinda has to think twice before being aggressive again since Charles showed he can be aggressive too (think 2019 Japan and of course 2019 Britain). For the sake of talent, I hope Lando adapts from that too, make Max think twice before being overly aggressive. 2024 Mexico should be his 2019 Austria experience where he starts to give Max a taste of his own medicine.
The competition was absolutely hard it's just that at the start of the season Max maximised every result when the car was the best still and then still went on to outscore Lando throughout the time when Red Bull wasn’t even the 2nd best car anymore on average.
All these british media try to downplay max's 2021 title as his greatest title just because they can't accept hamilton lost that one.
Yep he was just better that season with way more bad luck.
Same reason no one can admit that Russel is good
Pretty much yeah, no one talks about the 2021 season anymore it's just abu dhabi because if they talk about the entirety of it they would know he deserved that title but it's far easier to fixate on a stewarding error
I'm actually not British I'm Lithuanian lol but I get what you mean
@Aldas001
You definitely sound British! At least tell me you're living in England for over a decade!
Still complaining about 2021? Max had most poles, wins, laps led. Tyre burst in Baku, Bottas went bowling. Lewis put him in hospital. Lewis got a lap back (for some reason) after putting it in the gravel in Imola. Yas Marina was crazy but I don't understand how any objective viewer could say Lewis deserved the championship.
What you said is exactly why they always focus on abu dhabi only because it's easier to be angry at a stewarding error than accepting your driver lost, it's the same if your team in the world cup final lost because of an unfair penalty kick in the last minute even though your team might have had a worse campaign overall than the opposition but no one would ever admit that
and not to forget the very first race in 2021 were lewis went over track limits 50+ times before the FIa at last did something about it.
Also, Hamilton had a gap to pit for softs and still come out ahead of Verstappen. They had bearly any time to make the call, but considering that was the only way you could lose from that position... shame on Mercedes for not being sharp enough in the most crucial moment.
@@MrPOSHOMAN That's just BS we all know that race should have ended under the safety car with Lewis in P1. Masi literally broke the rules to make get the safety in a lap early and the FiA even admitted so.
However that doesn't mean we can just strip Max of his hard earned first title. An error occurred and shit happened that's life.
Also Max's dirty driving in Saudi could have easily gotten him a race ban so let's not forget that one as well.
@@cyan_oxy6734 Max dominated the season and deserved the title, imagine silverstone would have been the last race instead of abu dhabi with lewis almost murdering Max, how about that? SEASON makes Champions, not single races.
Max’s championships have been so impressive that his lowest rated one was technically the greatest comeback of all time (in terms of points deficit)
As SLH fan, 2021 season belonged to Max. Going toe to toe with SLH is more difficult than any other driver on the current grid. AD21 was FIA’s mess which Max capitalised upon. It takes sheer grit and nerves to overtake and keep the position in the last lap against a fierce HAM.
There was no grit or nerves about it, Max had fresh soft tyre and Hamilton did not... it was always going to be an easy pass
Stop calling him SLH 😂
@@bonsai9069 yea but Mercedes could have pitted Lewis aswell. Nobody forced them to stay out. They chose track position and left him on used tyres... The only problem was safety car being left too late. Massi should have cleared out the cars 1 or 2 laps prior but Toto and Horner bickering over lapped cars made him react quickly. He lost major time in deciding because of them two shouting over the radio. So one can say that Toto and Christian were somewhat responsible in deciding of the finish. I also don't see Lewis winning if championship went into normal circumstances. Appart from Abu Dhabi he had a lot of luck during the season. All he had to do was finish behind Checo in Baku to take the championship later in the year but he blew it. We also can't forget his poor weekend in Monaco where he was stuck behind Gasly or when he got lucky in Imola with Red flag after he crashed. Max had only 1st or 2nd place finishes bar Hungary where he got crashed into and had car damage. Lewis didnt. P7 in Monaco and finishing out of points in Baku were entirely his faults. Max was better that year even with Abu Dhabi controversy as simple as that...
Couldn't disagree more
New soft tyres vs old hard tyres overtake
Are we still crying about 2021? Move on man..
Ah yes the "don't remind me of how he won in 2021 because I hate to be reminded of it" classic 😂😂
He won by scoring the most points, while winning the most races. Stop crying. All lewis had to do was defend for a lap. Couldn’t even do that😂
@@antiwokehuman Not to mention Silverstone and Baku
@@andrewmelton2686 Yes, all the 'fans' ignoring Max being torpedoed off the track by Bottas and Hamilton with impunity. If Schumacher would have done a silverstone 2021 in 94, he would have been getting a ban for 4 races.
@@andrewmelton2686do I have a sour aftertaste because of Abu Dhabi and how it was won by Max Verstappen (ie a mistake by the race director due to an imprecise wording in the rules)? Yes. Do I believe Max should have won 2021, looking at ALL the races? Because you know, 2021 wasn't just Abu Dhabi. Yes, most definitely. Hamilton made many mistakes that year, Verstappen was simply superior, overall. Imo
Wouldn't 21 be the most impressive? So many points lost through no fault of his own, the car dropping off at the end and such clutch moments like sochi and hungary when it looked like it could run away from him. Meanwhile hamilton fumbled baku, was nowhere in monaco and came so close to a disaster in imola before the red flag.
Hamilton also fumbled a win in Monza with bottling the sprint and not only losing points in the sprint but losing the opportunity to start from pole on sunday, several places lower instead. (back then sprint results dictacted the grid order for the main race)
Also fumbled an easy win in Hungary after his main competitor was eliminated from win contention by being the only to driver who decided to stay out on track and then struggling to get past a midfield Alpine for several laps.
Threw some points in Austria 1 away by riding the curbs too hard and damaging his wing.
Threw P3 away and finished P5 instead by not listening to his team in Turkey and also got cooked by Perez in wheel to wheel.
Failed to beat Max in Austin despite having a fast enough car to do so and starting from pole and leading until the first pit stops.
Got outqualified by a Williams in Spa.
Crashed twice in Sochi Q3.
I Agree with the Ranking, I also ranked his titles the same way as you, in 2021 he deserved his first championship more than Lewis, I don’t agree with the fact that the 2 equally deserved because Lewis was clearly more inconsistent than Max and did more proper mistakes, he was not on his Prime level until the last 4 gps were he was absolutely invincible and deserved to win those 4 races but not the championship, Max was impressively consistent that season if we don’t count his dnfs he finished every race 1st or 2nd and that’s impressive for a 1st attempt to fight for the title, we saw young talented drivers of his generation failing to be solid and consistent in their first attempt like Charles and Lando, we still have to see George what he’s gonna do in his first attempt, and we don’t have to forget that Max was super unlucky in mid season with the puncture in Baku, and taking out by the 2 Mercedes drivers in Silverstone and Budapest, he lost 70 points or more in those 3 races that costed him the possibility to win and secure the championship 2 or 3 rounds before the end, Lewis and Mercedes were so lucky that year to keep their 2 championships options until Abudhabi, despite that he drove like a Crazy and dirty in the last rounds and Lewis was better than him but on the other 3/4 of the season he was clearly the best.
In 2022 he recovered a nearly 50 points disadvantage with Charles after a difficult beginning season with a lot of reliability problems and with some help of Ferrari and Charles and also his outstanding consistency and pratically never making proper mistakes by himself making him recover that gap he had in the first part of the campaign, so that title is maybe his less impressive but he had to work for it also and was brilliant all the year.
2023 is by far his most dominant season and the most dominant season that a driver ever did in F1, his car was by big margin the best but not as big like the Mercedes most dominant cars, Ferrari’s most dominant cars or McLaren and Williams’s most dominant cars, here the driver made also the difference and was 1 with the car in tune, he wants to always win even if he has already won the championship, he’s a machine and cyborg who is programmed to win without stop and this season shows clearly that.
And finally 2024 is his best season and performance because of all the difficulties he past through since Miami not having the best car, 2nd car or even the 3rd car, and how he always knew how to get out from them and specially don’t make proper mistakes by himself, maximising always the performance of his car and even surpassing, he did some mistakes while fighting wheel to wheel but didn’t made proper mistakes as always since 2019 where his Prime began, and knew how to play psychologically with his maximum rival on track and off track, so in conclusion he’s already now one of the greatest even if I would still wait for him to change team and try to assume a new challenge making great another team and project winning with them like per example Schumi did after he left Benetton to join Ferrari and making them win again, and not failing badly the attempt like Seb per example did after his 4 consecutive titles with Redbull, for me he’s already better than Seb but to put him on the level of names like Senna, Schumacher, Prost, Fangio, Clark, Alonso, Hamilton or Lauda I would like to see him winning with another team to make it.
He has already shown that he is better than most F1 legends were. imo the only ones who are still above are Schumacher and maaaybe Prost.
2021 is still undoubtedly his best title, everyone is fixated on Abu Dhabi but for that WHOLE season Max (and Lewis) was on another level, they pushed eachother to their limits and both had their moments of not being 100% fair on track. This 2024 championship is also up there but this year’s title also shows how weak the competition is if it is not Max, Alonso or Lewis challenging
I think 2024 is the best as it balances the "winning by dominance" with "winning by a margin". It shows Max at his best in both lights where 2021 was one extreme and 2023 another. So in 2021 some will argue Max isn't the real winner and in 2023 some will argue Max didn't win but the car did. With 2024 there is just no room left for debate.
@@Ronnet to be honest though, apart from the extremist fans on either side, I think the majority of Max and Lewis fans can admit that either deserved to win the championship that year due to the level of driving they both showed. I get what you mean though, this year was also very impressive due to the circumstances him and the team were in compared to McLaren and Ferrari. For the ones who doubted his skills and would always find an excuse to put him down, there are none left, in that you are 100% right.
@@Ronnet you are massively overreacting if you honestly think that in 2024 he didn't win because of the car. If you genuinely think the Red Bull car was that shit, you're deluded. It wasn't dominant. but it still was a very good car and a car that any competent driver would win with. There is no situation in F1 where a bad driver wins with a good car, or a good driver in a bad car. Did Alonso win in 2012 ? No.
It needs to be good with good. Yeah the table says it's the 3rd fastest car.
But is it really ? How is old Perez doing ? Put any good driver in that seat, Red Bull are easily 2nd in the constructors and potentially fighting for 1st. Perez is the reason why that car looks shite
And yes. 2021 is his best title.
You mean to tell me beating Lando Norris who has never had experience in a title fight is more noteworthy than beating a 7 time champion in his prime gunning for his 8th in competitive machinery ?
max has 4 straight titles and 3 of the most impressive individual seasons of a driver in f1 history. truly legendary
the 2023-24 championships from Max are similar to Vettel in 2011 and 2012..
2023 and 2011, Max and Seb were a class of their own... top car, top qualifying and dominant races..
2012, Seb did not have the fastest car in the first half of the season, in 2023, Max did not have the fastest car in second half..and funnily enough on both occasions Mclaren were the fastest..
But both maximised their points when not fastest..
Only difference between 2012 and 2023 was Fernando Alonso, who dragged the 2012 season to a title finale all by himself..
Fantastic analysis mate.
And that is the difference between 2012 and 2024. A certain Fernando Alonso. A guy that Lando needs to really study if he is to be a more serious threat to Max.
Also this championship is similar to 2009. First couple of races very dominant (Brawn, Red Bull). Then another team upgrades their car to make it more competitive (Red Bull, Mclaren)
Like GP said, Max is getting better every year, which is really scary bc of how good he is already. 2024 showed Max has almost no equal at this moment in time. Lewis is very inconsistent, Alonso is fed up, Charles is buckling even under inter-team pressure, etc. etc.
Honestly. Get over Abu Dhabi. It's getting really tiring seeing content creators having to qualify talking about the 2021 season with condemning Abu Dhabi every single time.
No joke, I would double down on AD21 instead. Max not only deserved the championship that year but also the race win in Abu Dhabi. People can cry all they want but technically Masi didn’t break any rule in the book and if the Masi shenanigans got Max the win in Abu Dhabi, then Masi shenanigans got Lewis the win in Bahrain.
Something else not enough people mention is that Lewis should have started from P12 in Abu Dhabi according to the rules if the stewards enforced them instead of looking the other way that weekend. Lewis impeded Mazepin again in practice which would have netted him his 3rd reprimand and a 3rd reprimand leads to a 10 place grid penalty.
Im a lewis fan and i cant lie in scared of max breaking lewis's records
Max doesn't care about records and will likely leave the sport before breaking any, you shouldn't be worried.
@@ZakDevine-edwards as a Max fan, I’m pretty confident he won’t purely because I can’t see him staying in F1 after 2028 (and I can see him quit before that even). At the end of the day records are there to be broken, I’m just glad we got to see that 2021 season of two all time greats battling toe to toe, I wonder which two will be next
2021 > 2024 > 2023 > 2022. Nothing beats going up against the GOAT and outperforming him over the entirety of the season. Yes Max got lucky in AD, but he was the better driver
Max never went up against Michael Schumacher last I checked 😁
Verstappen led more laps than every other driver combined in 2021 it’s clearly his best season but it gets diminished cause he lost 50-60 due to bad luck.
bro said 2024 was the best verstappen season ever even though it is basically a sighly better 2022. Ferrari/Mclaren being incomponent, Leclerc/Norris not being Verstappen's caliber, and Ferrari/Mclaren having a better car for at least some section of the season. Compare that to 2021 against a 7 time world champ in equal cars and being better than Hamilton. He was the better driver who happened to get nuked by both Lewis and Bottas throughout the season losing around 40 ish points. Even though the ending was controversial, the fact that max in his first championship campaign was better than Hamilton in the same season makes it number 1 without doubt
It's not just a slightly better season than 2022 because in 2022 Red Bull had the best car in 2024 they absolutely didn’t. The RB20 this year was arguably not even better than the Ferrari.
I would even say that the cars in 2021 weren’t equal and that the Merc was overall still better but Lewis was less competent.
@@ey1615 I think ferrari had a better car at the beginning or at least they were luckier with max dnf. So mclaren had a better car for longer but the point stands that both mclaren and ferrari had better cars
@@ey1615 I think the redbull was a tiny bit better in the beginning but the mercedes by the end of the season was a rocket
@@darrenchen2668
The Red Bull was definitely better at the beginning but only in testing and in Bahrain, and only on paper. Because eventhough Red Bull had the fastest package in Bahrain, they couldn’t capitalise on it due to Honda facing reliability issues that week. The Bulls had engine vibrations and Checo also had electrical issues and Max lost 3 tenths per lap from a differential failure. Merc never faced such issues that year.
In Imola Max only won because he bullied himself past Lewis and managed to keep the lead because Lewis struggled in the wet conditions, once the track started to dry out Lewis started gaining on Max but then had that Vettel Hockenheim moment and had to recover to P2 after the red flag. Lewis could have absolutely won that race if he raced better.
Merc had the advantage in Spain & Portugal.
In Monaco Bottas showed that the Merc was good enough to fight for pole and finish P2 at least, but Lewis underperformed heavily. Lewis is notorious for underperforming in Monaco.
In Baku Lewis was ahead of Max until Max & Checo passed Lewis after the first pit stops of which Hamilton's was a bit slower. Lewis then kept losing time to Max by being stuck behind the hard defending Checo and then fumbled the restart later when he had the perfect opportunity to win.
In France Merc had the faster car but Mercedes threw the strategy. Toto, Bottas and Allison admitted that.
The Merc was definitely better in the early parts of the season than some people give credit for.
Definitely the best car overall that season.
#1 2021. It was the most spectacular and important. No matter if you agree with the outcome or not, this will be remembered for a long long time.
#2 2023
Almost a perfect streak. Many records broken.
#3 2024 a well executed championship reminiscent of Prost.
#4 2022 I've already forgotten about that one 😂
I agree 100 % with your rankings. In 2021 Max left almost nothing on the table and finished 1st or 2nd in almost every race with marginally the 2nd best car, he didn't really have any off-weekends. This year he had Baku where he decided to f the setup for some reason and just wasn't on it, and Monaco where he should have gotten a podium but got a P6 due to a quali crash. This year Max has actually been the least consistent of all his title winning seasons, it's just that the competition has been even less consistent.
@@patepulkkinenvtec2403
Is it really Max being less consistent or the car being fundamentally flawed and at a clear disadvantage?
Next season is gonna go crazy, a 3 way title fight? but it will be sure hella entertaining and might be more competitive than this season. Hope max makes it 5 titles next year
This is a rookie comment 😂
We know NOTHING! Until testing for 2025 season...
The redbull will be absolutely nowhere mate, I fear this will be max's last title for a little while. No newey, old wind tunnel, bad correlation between simulations and the track, bad understanding of the car, lots of money wasted on upgrades and fixing the car because of checo = bad 2025 car
@@issammelzi728
Like I said earlier... All that you are saying here is more "hating" than reality...
Because if I was at Red Bull I could use Checo to test for next season, which would make up for the wind tunnel loss and not getting the constructors is helping with testing allocation as well.
This is why there isn't any harsh comments from Red Bull about his performance this season...
But it's all down to how you see things I guess! 😎
@@issammelzi728 I disagree. Checo will be gone at the end of this year. Liam will be in the second RB seat.
Max is gonna be relying on pure skill though, while Leclerc, Hamilton, Norris and maybe George will have fast cars as backup
Are we still pretending that the Austria crash was Max's fault? Let's get real... Squeezing the car onto the outside kerb there is a tale as old as time, and is the best way to defend that corner. Everyone does it
Yeah even after Lando admitted his fault, people still treat Max like the sole offender of that race. Not to forget Lando's constant reckless divebombs that didn’t work.
24 was very interesting for Max. I've thought he was the best driver since 2021, but this season proved it to an inarguable degree. That being said, in 22&23 people have been saying that Max has matured and got cleaner and calmer since 21, and this may be slightly true but he showed in races this year when the championship was truly in doubt (Austria-Mexico) that when under proper pressure he will revert back to 2021 Brazil&Saudi. I don't think this will ever go and it is what makes Max, Max
Austria wasn’t even Max fault, at least not entirely, as Lando even admitted he fucked up after reviewing the footage. Max left enough room for Lando but he didn’t take it out of stubbornness.
I still think that 2021 was greater than 2024. The fact that he went toe to toe with prime Lewis, with slower car, is something that will always be the reason why i think 2021 was his best title
slower car? really?
@@lilxtasy4936yes it was. Not only that but slightly less reliable too. Honda and Red Bull faced engine issues in Bahrain and had to tune the engine down until they introduced fixes some races later. Max also had a differential failure in Bahrain which cost him 3 tenths per lap.
The cars were evenly matched in the first half, after Silverstone Merc was clearly faster on average.
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I'm gonna need the haters to watch the entire 2021 season again, and not just Abu Dhabi. Max won that title FAIR and square. Lewis was always favored by the FIA, Silverstone and Hungary was on his favor (unfairly took Max out and almost cost Max's life in Silverstone). Max truly deserved to win the 2021 championship and the years after that.
2022, Max had to deal with a lot of bullying from the tifosi. They were throwing things at his car while he was on the race track (Monza) and still you don't hear him crying about it. He kept his focus.
2023, he broke a lot of records. People may say it's because he had the fastest car but he MAXimized everything in that car and really pulled a big gap. He lapped his own teammate and won the constructor's on his own. Max did not even have the fastest car in the first couple of races.
2024 is a statement. This is for the haters who said he can't win in the fastest car and this is also for the new fans who think he can only win in the fastest car. They clearly never watched Max in 2021 and 2022 when he did not have the fastest car the whole season. They also did not watch past races where Max won races in the 3rd fastest car against the dominant Mercedes (faster than RB19).
What annoys me about current media & fan thinking in F1 is that a lot of people seem to be molly-coddling Norris and saying "well it was his first title fight, he did a good job, and he won a few races". Not even close to good enough imo, he's had the best car. In Max's 1st title fight in 2021 (where he was younger than Norris), he went toe-to-toe with statistically the greatest driver ever who was gunning for his 8th world title. He even had a slightly slower car than Mercedes over the season as a whole, and yet without the ridiculous bad luck, he'd have won that championship with 2 races to spare. Norris put up probably one of the most piss poor title fights I've ever seen in my ~16 years of watching F1, and yet he'll get a free pass from the British media. Norris is in his 6th season right now, and he's 25 years old, Max beat Hamilton at 24. I remember watching Hamilton in 2008, when he was 23 and only in his 2nd year of F1, and I have no doubt he'd have won the 2024 title in the McLaren. Norris is just nowhere near the level of guys like Max & Lewis, and if he's not there now, he never will be. There's a chance he'll win the title in 2025 and the narrative will be that he overcame Max, and the demons of 2024, but that won't be true. The only way he beats Max is in a car that's consistently dominant, week in week out. And I have no faith in the British media pointing that out
To cut Lando some slack, Lewis was just as inconsistent in his second! title fight and only won by 1 point because he didn’t have an all time great as title rival that year and still relied on luck.
I would totally reverse the 2021 and 2024 order, 2021 was much more impressive than 2024 imo
My opinion:
4th: 2022 - The performance of Max, even though record breaking at the time, was immediatly overshadowed in 2023. After the summer break Max didn't really have competition anymore either. Still, a pretty flawless season from his side but the competition wasnt very high because Ferrari were imbeciles and Mercedes was quite slow.
3rd: 2024 - Amazing start to the season and maximalised his points most of the time after he lost the fastest car but he has made mistakes this year. Austria was partially Lando's mistake but you could also see Max as responsible, Hungary (even though the team messed up aswell) was also a poor race from him and Mexico was just unnaceptable driving. McLaren although they had the fastest car for most of the races after around Imola, made a lot of mistakes aswell and Lando was far from perfect.
2nd: 2023 - Most dominant season by a driver ever. Yes he had the fastest car but we will never truely know if the RB19 was THAT dominant or that Max IN the RB19 was that dominant since Checo is the only one to compare him to. To have the will and mentality to keep winning even after winning the WDC is something even Lewis never had. Almost faultless season.
1st: 2021 - First time in a truely competitive car and showed his talent against a "prime" LH immediatly. Was at times and especially in the later parts of the season too agressive (probably because of the brutality of this season) especially Brazil and Saudi stand out. Yes the ending was "lucky" and highly controversial but if Silverstone and Hungary never happened he would've already won the WDC in Saudi or even sooner.
I'm happy to see people giving love to Max's 2021 and remember that he has actually made quite a lot of errors this year
Max definitely had competition in Singapore, Mexico and Brazil after the summer break in 2022.
Mexico 2024 was a great race from Max actually when it comes to race IQ because the way he raced there kept Lando from winning the race which netted him more points than racing Lando normally and getting overtaken by the faster McLaren sooner and watch him catch Sainz. He also let Sainz pass without a fight because he knew he was not going to win the race against Ferrari & McLaren and executed a great plan to ensure Lando doesn’t win either. Everything was intentional. The 20s penalty (way too harsh imo) was still tanked and with his masterful recovery drive he lost less points that way.
Also Max wasn't more aggressive than Lewis in 2021 Jeddah. Both left no room for each other that race.
@@patepulkkinenvtec2403
Outside of Hungary what else?
2021 in my opinion is the greatest WDC performance I've seen from any driver since watching in 96. The only other one that comes close is Alonso in 2006. Both times they went up against the greatest driver team combination and came out on top, under the most extreme pressure and withstand some of the greatest performance from two of F1's best ever drivers.
What stands out for me is Max was 1st or 2nd in everyrace bar Hungary where he had a damaged car. Alonso wasn't as consistent although his drive in Hungary would have been the greatest win ever and Turkey was as good as his San Marino win. Even China 2006, he was well on his way to a fantastic wet win but for a terrible pit stop.
In 2021 Hamilton had the luck of 1) having his car re-built in Imola after he ran wide due to the timing of a red flag, 2) the Baku tyre blowout, 3) Silverstone where he took out Max and had his car re-fixed due to the red flag he caused, 4) Bottas taking out Max in Hungary. That is 18+25+18+18, i.e. 79 points minimum gained through luck, yet the biased Brits only talk about Abu Dhabi, a 14 point swing. Hamilton was fantastic that year, but he had all luck bar the last moment of that season
In the world of sport you can't win without some luck as well... The course of 2021 led to Abu Dhabi and the reason why people will forever talk about it is because that was the race where the championship was to be won. Simple. No buts, no ifs, no maybes. I don't give a damn about stats. Both drivers were equally deserving. Both had their misfortunes and both showed an incredible mentality to overcome the odds when their backs were against the wall. To say that one deserved it more than the other, it diminishes what an epic year that was and it diminishes the truly incredible achievement of Max, to beat a 7 time champion, at the very top of his game, gunning for his 8th.
2021 was really one of the most amazing seasons ever, and as you said, Max and Lewis were on a class on their own.
What Max did that year, being toe to toe all the way through all the season, is something only the absolute greats can do. Any other driver would have have had errors or mistakes here and there which would have given Lewis that difference for him to win. I really see no other of the current drivers being able to do what Max did on 2021.
The level of both was amazing, an Max had bad luck at Baku and when Bottas torpedoed him at the start of hungary I think which made max to go with a damaged car all race. Max big mistake was Monza but he ended out with Lewis, but besides that Max made no errors through all the year.
Lewis made a huge mistake on Baku and on Silverstone that was his mistak and he was extremely lucky there cos the penalty was nothing compared to the mistake he made considering there was a red flag.
If you add all the points max lost, NOT BEING HIS FAULT on baku, hungary and silvertstone, coming into the last race he would have been champion already.
don't ge me wrong, Lewis was amazing too, but Baku was 100% on his own, and Monza Max didnt won 25 points over him, were silverstone that was like the opposite he did won 25 points there.
At the end of the season Lewis was like a monster, no doubt about that, but 2021 both were for sure worthy to be champions, BUT overall the entire season Max has the edge for me and totally deserve it that year. Last race was weird and yeah didnt like it but he really deserved it.
I think just drivers like Senna, Schumacher, Alonso would have been able to do what Max did, but still, what I was incedibly amazed on 2021 was the consistency Max had through all the season with little to no mistakes, even less that Lewis had.
I really now see no driver being able to challenge max, considering they both are on same machinery.
Senna has always been my favorite driver, but Max really has become my other favorite as well. I was never fan of Schumacher or Hamilton myslef. I now they are geat, but not my favorites.
2021 showed just how much of a better driver max was than everyone else Including lewis. Lewis is good, but not consistent enough. Even with all the bad luck he had throughout the season, max was still tied on points in the final race. And no matter how much hamilton fans cry, he got beaten on track
8:01 Nico Rosberg wasn't a title protagonist in 2018 if I remember correctly
Yes he retired after his title in 2016
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Hamilton should have lost 21 because he drove straight off the track at the Baku restart after Max's tire blew up , or when he drove into the gravel in imola and the red flag saved him or when he didnt send max flying into the wall at Silverstone. It should have been over before the last race.
dont forget bottas going bowling in hungary
We all know this, but unfortunately it isn't talked about enough. The only response you hear is "wHaT abOUt MAx'S DiRTy dRiViNg?!", as if Lewis lost barely any, let alone 70 points due that, the rough amount of points Max lost due to bad luck.
24,23,22,21.
21 was his most impressive, but Abu Dabhi is the reason the others slightly edged it. Max was the best driver in 2021, but this is the only championship that he didn't win soley on merit and had alot of FIA help for (in the last 4 GP, not due to favouratism but because he was in a slower car in the end when F1 wanted a final race where they were as close on points as possible)
22 was great, but I feel it was more Ferrari that lost
23 Extraordinary, but no competition- since RB refuse to get a decent 2nd driver (if LEC,SAI,NOR,PIA,HAM,RUS,ALO were in that RB next to Perez they all win comprehensively, not as well as Max but still easilly)
24 Max was perfect, aside from his dirty tactics (but that is the FIA's negative not his) He only had 2 poor races
I still think 2021 was his best purely because of the insane amount of pressure he faced every single race
Lewis should have pitted. People are gonna have to grow up and stop crying about 2021.
Regardless about what you think about who “deserves” to win the 2021 championship, if Masi doesn’t break the regulations to allow one more racing lap or Latifi doesn’t crash, Lewis is world champion
There's alot of possibilities when you begin the "what if" game
Then what if bottas didn’t go bowling in Hungary or the tyre failure for max didn’t happen in Baku. Always the “what if”
He didn’t break any regulations though. Otherwise they wouldn’t have been needed to be revised after 2021.
The rules explicitly allowed Masi to do what he did.
@@Talka5555 what if Max didn’t get lucky and the rain came in Sochi, what if Max got a penalty in Brazil
@@ey1615 he didn’t follow the regulations as they had been applied previously, that’s why they were amended, if this was a common occurrence then it wouldn’t be controversial
I like how the max's in the title already show the ranking in the video. 2022 max, followed by 2023 max, followed by 2021 max and finally 2024 max
2021: champion at first attempt against a seven-time champion in a slightly superior car and with worse luck
2022: difficult start (faster Ferrari, reliability, discomfort with understeer...) that ends in the biggest WDC comeback in history, multiple records
2023: total domination, the best individual season in history
2024: silencing the haters, proof that it's not the car by winning with the third fastest car
PS: Honestly, for me it's 2021>2024>2023>2022, I don't understand exactly what Masi did wrong, the track was clear and it didn't make sense to finish the race under SC. The regulations were very lax and subject to interpretation, but it contemplated the decision that was finally made. The only thing he did wrong was delaying the decision on the lapped cars for so long, but this, far from favouring Max, harmed him by delaying the restart of the race (he could have restarted the race after 2 laps instead of one).
I disagree with the third fastest car statement. It's a very subjective thing mate. You call it that because it is reflected by the standings. But if you actually watch the races, it's far from the third fastest. It's competitive enough and certainly a capable car to win the championship with. Checo is just not as good. A more competent driver and they score more points than what the table says. So yeah. It's the car as well as the driver. You can't win a championship with a sh.t driver in a good car and you can't win a championship with a good driver in a bad car.
A lot of people say 2021 was his best season, but I totally agree 2024 was his best season.
In 2021 Max had to fight Lewis and Mercedes.
In 2024 Max had to fight Lando and McLaren, but later in the season Ferrari and at times Mercedes as well. Meanwhile serious issues in his own team were going on. Max has been a very stabilizing factor in that struggle and also has put in great effort in the factory to improve the car. All of that and not the fastest car and still winning the championship before the end of the season is just stunning.
My ranking:
4: 2022
3: 2024
2: 2023
1: 2021
In 2021 Max left almost nothing on the table and finished 1st or 2nd in almost every race with marginally the 2nd best car, he didn't really have any off-weekends. This year he had Baku where he decided to f the setup for some reason and just wasn't on it, and Monaco where he should have gotten a podium but got a P6 due to a quali crash. This year Max has actually been the least consistent of all his title winning seasons, it's just that the competition has been even less consistent.
Man, I remember all the muppets saying "it's just the car, it's just the car" for years. WHERE YOU AT NOW? WHERE ARE YOU AT?
Aramco Championship Ratings
1) 2021 - 9.8
2) 2023 - 9.7/10
3) 2024 - 9.5/10
4) 2022 - 9.4
Most of Max's 'errors' were tactical fouls against opponents at crucial stages. Count how many 'off weekends' and unforced errors Max vs other champions. Max after Monaco 2018(since 20yo) is 1st. Hamilton is clearly 2nd. Alonso is 3rd. Everyone else like Vettel, Rosberg, Button, Raikkonen, Hakkinen and even Schumacher (feel free to watch 94-95, 00-04 and see) all had far more off weekends and errors.
Max won 2021 with the second best car. Max won 2024 with what is now the fourth best car, third at best. Max is on a level few champions ever reach. Lewis, Michael, Ayrton, Clark, Fangio, Vettel. Verstappen is Senna reborn and we can look to his career as an indication of what Senna would have attained had he lived. Senna-Prost/Verstappen-Hamilton...Verstappen may be the true GOAT.
As a Max fan myself I have to disagree that he had the second best car.
It was actually pretty matched, the first third of the season Red Bull had the best car, in the second third it was leveled I could go any ways, some tracks favoring Mercedes and others Red Bull and of course in the final third Mercedes had the best car.
Schumacher was the best of them all
Verstappen is literally just a Schumacher reincarnate, but adapted to Pirellis that need superb tyre management.
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Merc had the better car in Imola, Spain, Portugal and France, and an equal car in Baku, what are you talking about?
Even in Bahrain when Red Bull was faster on paper, they faced reliability issues that cost Max and Checo the race. Merc never faced reliability issues that season. All Honda powered cars had vibrations that race and some even retired. Max also had a differential failure that cost him 3 tenths per lap.
My rankings of Max’s world titles- from best to “worst”
1. 2024- Max’s consistency when the car declined after Miami, dragging the most and then some out of the RB20 consistently was astronomical.
2. 2023- Consistently Dominant. Record Breaking and Historical. The fact that everyone celebrated Max finishing P5 in Singapore says it all.
3. 2021- Beat Lewis because of his consistency. Did not finish out of the podium outside of Hungary and his DNFs. Team LH fans please DO NOT discredit this season because of Abu Dhabi 2021.
4. 2022- Max was consistently great in this one but it doesn’t hit the same looking back now. Ferrari that season made so much errors it puts McLaren this year to shame.
In this list 2 and 3 could be interchangeable for me.
For me:
1. 2023 - Unprecedented greatness
2. 2024 - Won the title with the 3rd fastest car on average and in a competitive field with no teammate help
3. 2021 - Took LH further than he’s ever been before and beat him, deservedly
4. 2022 - Overturned a big points gap but was aided by having the quicker car and Ferrari being immensely stupid
People always remember Abu Dhabi 2021, but forget that Max was the best overall over the course of the season
If it hadn't been for that tyre failure in Baku, and for Silverstone 2021, he could have won the WDC more comfortably.
Hi Aldas, I just want to point out some things about 2021 that I never heard anyone mention;
1. In the season opener, Lewis cut a corner on twenty nine occasions, gaining a net 5.8 seconds. Red Bull noted it and Max began to do it. On the second occasion Max was told by the stewards not to do that and when RB protected Lewis was told not to as well. At this point Lewis had gained a net 5.4 seconds. He won that race by 0.7seconds. what if that 5.4 seconds were added to his time? What would have been the situation in Abu Dhabi?
2. Early in the Abu Dhabi race Lewis passed Max off the track and was not instructed to give the place back...the stewards ruled he supposedly slowed down enough to give back the advantage; utter trash! What would have been the situation at the end of the race if he had given the place back?
3. Silverstone was premeditated by Lewis! In more than one interviews prior he stated that one and could swing the championship back in his favour...you can go back and look at the videos before telling me I'm wrong!
1-2024
2-2021 (He led over twice the laps of everyone and won every statistic, I don’t want to hear it)
3-2023
4-2022 (Best individual performances, but was very lucky)
Overreaction much? Disgrace? Never seen anything like it in sports?
Wasnt the safety car needed in the first place? Wasnt the track ready to race when it went back in? Wasnt there a lap left? Doesnt it make sense to get lapped car out of the way?
To this day, I dont understand why this was such a huge drama. Hamilton was unlucky, and thats it. He also could have put up a better fight against verstappen (without drs), just like perez did with him half an hour earlier
For me, Max is already a top 5 drivers of all time, his 2021 season is brilliant, greats like Alonso and Vettel had trouble With Lewis in Equal machinery, but Verstappen, in his first real shot defeated one of, if not, the most complete driver of all time.
At first I would think that 2021 is the best one since it was the better and more enjoyable battle. He deserved completely considering his great performances all year. Yet, with the controversial way that the FIA messed with Lewis at the end, and how impressive his dominance this year was in a lesser car, I would give the edge to 2024.
i think he is the single best driver ever when it comes to not making mistakes under pressure. He just gets the maximum possible all the time the last years
Sayinh austria as poor driving from Max and to put that blame on him is just wrong. Only in Mexico he made a stupid move. I find cota to be his most impressive race with how he managed to keep norris behind in a slower car. That was just ridiculous
2021 takes it for me. What a season. What a fight. Max, through and through deserved to win it. Only reason it went till the last race was Bottas bowling in Hungary and Lewis’ murder attempt on Max. Still sounds crazy to me that Max won 19 races, 19 DAMN RACES in a single year. That sounds just absurd. Unbelievable. Greatness personified, MAX EMILIAN VERSTAPPEN.
Don’t fall into the trap, I was exaggerating stuff but man, what a driver Max Verstappen is! (No hate to the goat of f1, Lewis Hamilton)
2021 2023 2024 2022
2021 2024 2023 2022 better
2022 Had Max’s best individual performances (Hungary/Spa/Japan), but overall it was his least dominant in a good car, it had his smallest gap in laps led, and outside of Silverstone he didn’t really get any bad breaks in races he was going to win.
IMO 2021 would of easily been his best if it wasn’t for his terrible luck that season. First ever title fight at age 23 against a 7 time champ we’re he built up a 30 point gap going into Silverstone and it was all taken away from him by getting crashed into in back to back races [Silverstone and Hungary] were both were caused by Mercedes drivers.
That’s not even mentioning Baku puncture while leading comfortably and Hamilton getting one of the luckiest red flags you will ever see in imola after he put in the wall.
@Aldas001 I still think that 2023 is his best season, because he was absolutely perfect. In 2024 he made a few mistakes, but 2023 was the closest to perfection anyone ever got in Motorsports. I still remember Schumi in 2004 winning 12 of 13 races and then Ferrari got a bit too relaxed and also unlucky.
For me it would be:
1. 2023
2. 2024
3. 2021
4. 2022
2021 was absolutely amazing, but I still consider Lewis the GOAT with 8 Titels, even though Max definitely deserved it. For me the style of racing is very important and in 2021 Max crossed the line in combat multiple times and it felt like Prime Senna or 90s Schumi.
In 2024 he was less extreme and a bit more refined.
Max was already an animal in 2021. To win your first title in equal, maybe even slightly inferior machinery against the unbeatable combination of Lewis, Mercedes and Toto in the middle of their historic dominance was almost impossible.
Seb was in his prime, experienced, and he failed that same task by a mile.
I agree that 2024 is his best win. Its the best as it balances the "winning by dominance" with "winning by a margin". It shows Max at his best in both lights where 2021 was one extreme and 2023 another. So in 2021 some will argue Max isn't the real winner and in 2023 some will argue Max didn't win but the car did. With 2024 there is just no room left for debate
2021 was far better than 2024.
Max of 2021 was on a totally different level.
The Redbull this 2024 season was easily the fastest car for like the first 5 to 7 races. That help build a huge margin. And then a couple other races too. Ferrari and Mecerdes chipped away McLaren’s potential win by the time they came into their own.
With two races to go I’d say.
Redbull has been the fastest car in 10 races. McLaren 7, Ferrari 4, Mercedes 2.
2023 (sheer dominance)
2021 (sheer determination)
2024 (sheet damage limitation)
2022 (sheer consistency)
You said "title protagonists in 2018 like Nico Rosberg", Nico retired after 2016. If you meant IN 2016 then totally understandable, Rosberg, Lewis, and Sebastian were definitely scary protagonists.
2021 was the best title and I think Max would agree. It's his first + the title fight was actually on there.
Gotta be insane not putting 2021 as his best. That’s some British bias right there. Not only did he outperform Hamilton over a course of a season but had the worst of luck while Lewis was saved so many times to make up points on Max which eventually led to that tight finish at the end. We were treated to the most intense season and finale in the history of the sport and people still complain. I never had my heart beating so fast as I did on that final lap in my 25 years of watching F1.
Long time viewers will remember the "Well there you have it, another video wrapped up" sign off. Ngl lowkey miss that :')
Max fans saying that Lewis is trash for losing in 2021 are just undermining their favourite driver max lol. They dont even realise it.
Toto wolf was a bigger disgrace by immediately calling and yelling at Michael to force him to finish the race under the safety car. He’s the exact reason why team principals can’t call the race director anymore and also Toto doing that caused the clean up of latifi’s wreck to take longer than it should .
Hamilton's win in 2021 would not have been deserved, because he intentionally pushed Max out in more than 1 race. It was justice that we had this last lap and by that the most exciting finish ever in F1 history. And Hamilton fans can say what they want, the fact this happened brought millions and millions of people back to watching F1.
The fact that they immediately changed a couple of rules after that to make things boring again (safety car ending rule when Max showed us how AMAZINGLY exciting such a restart can be) was a HUGE MISTAKE and big shame.
Max is the best F1 driver for years, with the highest level of consistency, skill and hunger. I just hope that he is in the second and third fastest car in 2025, and we will have an epic season.
for me it is season 23. because he broke the impossible record of ascari in percentages. he broke jims clark of most laps lead in a season in percentages , broke vettels record of most wins after each other.
The abu dhabi thing really came in handy for all those max haters because they can discard everything else that happened during the whole season which is actually the reason why we got to abu dhabi with both of them level on points. Hungary and silverstone are the best examples . I wont mention baku here because thats just unlucky and he didnt lose points anyway in that sense.
Max has been incredible this year, but I do wonder how it would have looked if Ferrari and Merc had been closer to McLaren when Red bull was struggling.
Masi did the right thing, the teams agreed to do everything possible to not let races end under a safety car, let alone a championship.. he had to do what he had to do and did it
F1 bring the GOAT Michael Masi back NOW!!!
I mean he broke the rules. Literally.
Why can't we say Max earned his first championship and Masi made a mistake?
My take is:
Max has no fault so it's unfair to strip him off his title. Masi made a career defining mistake and lost his job and Lewis just got so unlucky it's really sad.
@@cyan_oxy6734 Masi's only mistake was not telling the lapped cars to unlap themselves a lap earlier when the track was completely clear.
@@cyan_oxy6734 Shut it lulu fanboi.
Bull..hit take.
The right thing would have been to red flag the race and allow all drivers to change from hards to softs and have a 5-4 lap sprint to the end. Like in Baku that same year. I don't want to sound like a broken record or a fanboy or whatever, but you want a win to be earned fair and square. How is it fair and square that Masi's decision allowed Max to have such a tyre advantage on Lewis is beyond me.
C'mon! The pressure on max vs a defending 7 time champion and GOAT level lewis. Almost 0 mistakes that season (I'm not counting his aggressive moves as mistakes as they were deliberate). 2024 is not even close in comparison. Lando and mclaren made mistakes just like ferrari in 2022. The dominant start meant max was barely under pressure. Also, certain tracks favoring merc and ferrari meant they were taking points off each other in the latter half of the season. I just cannot justify 2024 as a better season for max than 2021.
No way wasn't the Red Bull the best car this season. Okay, it didn't have domination as in other seasons, but for the first seven races it was comfortably ahead (yes, Norris won Miami, but he did that on the luck of SC timing) and after that point, the balance shifted back and forth between the other cars, with the Red Bull usually being 2nd or 3rd best. Because none of the other teams were consistently first, the advantage that Red Bull carried from the first third of the season meant that it was still the best car overall.
However controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi was, that was some of the best times I've ever had watching F1. Regardless of whether it was fair or not, it definitely was an incredible show.
Michael Masi destroyed his career for our entertainment that day.
Max now has two championships when not having the best car. Not many champions can claim even one. Two is unheard of. In 22 the Ferrari started better and then faded, so it was a pretty straight fight. Max might be "known" for car dominance....but he's really only has a dominant car once so far. LH cant really claim that unfortunately.
Max is the undisputed F1 GOAT. There's no debate.
The race that really cemented the season for Max was Brazil
Thanks so much for the amazing video! Totally agree with your ranking! Would it be a good idea to have more videos ranking championships of other multiple world champions?
Thanks!
2021, 2023, 2024, 2022 in that order.
2021 was an all-out war to end Merc dominance and a well deserved victory from Verstappen, 2023 was an utter show of dominance from Red Bull themselves, 2024 was hard fought with an underperforming car for half a season and 2022 just wasn't that memorable imo.
Nah, it's this, from best to least: 23 as he simply approached perfection as close as a driver could ever dream of getting, breaking a record number of records, some having stood from essentially the beginning of the sport. Norris and McKaren have shown just how easy it is to muck it up and not win races, both Max and his team were essentially flawless. Then comes 21, with all the pressure and Max having to fight on a very skewed playing field. Max did not only have to beat Hamilton and merc, but he was also fighting the FIA itself with their stewards clearly being on the Hamilton/merc side. Yet he still came out on top despite all of that. This last season only comes after that, since it is just a weaker version of that season. Weaker opponent and far less pressure, also because this time it wasn't Max' first rodeo. And yeah, 22 was indeed the least one, because both ferrari and Leclerc together make sure to throw away points and wins at any opportunity they could get.
I really love your videos and usually intend to agree with your opinions, but I feel like here you bottled it.
2021>2024>2022>2023 Imho.
Surely 2021 pips 2024 no? He didn't make a single error the whole year in his first WDC fight. Drove with blurry and won in COTA. Without the bad luck (Imola Red flag, Baku tyre pop, Hungary mishap and Silverstone) he would have won comfortably. Also it put an end to an 8 year long Merc dynasty in the last year of the costcap. IMO nothing beats 2021
The thumbnail is legendary hahaha laughing so hard
I don't think he had the quickest car over a whole season in 21 either. Close with Merc for most but Merc definitely quicker at the end
*Please do a Vettel vs Verstappen RB video*
Such Interesting Seasons :)
2010 vs 2021
2011 vs 2022
2012 vs 2024
2013 vs 2023
It takes a lot more than the driver to win a world championship, he is just one of a thousand parts
Alda’s could you do one about race engineers? Comparing engineers like
Bono, gp… xavi😂