Is Max Verstappen UNDERRATED?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Verstappen’s dominance of F1 since 2022 is unprecedented. His 75.9% win rate since the start of the new ground effect era is almost unbelievable. He pulled off a previously unimaginable season in 2023, winning all but three races and scoring more than double the points of his second placed teammate, Sergio Perez. However, for the past three seasons, we’ve been told that Red Bull have the best car by a long way and if any other half decent driver had been in that Red Bull seat since 2022, they would have done just as well as Max. Now I’m no Max Verstappen fan, but that narrative always surprised me. So today on don’t at me, I’m going to ask you the question, is Max Verstappen underrated? I’m George, this is F1 Reverse, and please don’t at me.
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English media is unashamedly biased to the core. The likes of crofty and sky Sports, etc is sickening
And Ted Kravitz!
It's because at any moment in time there is a Brittish driver was fighting for the wins. They are spoiled.
The brits…. Fok m
@@GTE_Channel They can be spoiled as they want. They're supposed to at least PRETEND to be unbiased.
@@Quazi-moto yes but the fear of being cancelled is bigger than having journalistic integrity
Max is the best driver of his generation! One of the greatest of all time !
absolutely and a great person
Not one of, he IS the best of all times.
Would be my exact wording.
His cars are designed around him, that's why his team mates look so poor and make him look better.
That should be factored in, although unquestionably, he is a great driver.
@@chrisclark4813 Father Jos once got the chance to drive the Benneton of his teammate Michael Schumacher. The car appeared almost 'undrivable'!
There are very objective metrics to judge Max's achievements. If you check the F1 stats, you'll see that the grid has never been closer, and still Max gets on top. When was the last season that a team that ended second in the constructors championship didn't win a race? Even when this team had a seven times world champion riding for them.
I've been following F1 since the mid seventies, and I've never seen a driver like Max!
Senna lost races to Prost, Schumacher was beaten sometimes by Barrichello, Lewis lost to Rosberg but Max dominates like there are no other competitors!
Max had 28 wins before 2022. That is against Mercedes at their peak.
Before he was 24.
For reference
Charles 6 wins in almost 7 years
Lando 1 win in almost 5 years
Carlos 4 wins in 9 years
Perez 6 wins in 12 years
Max had more wins in 2023 than the top 5 drivers combined over their entire careers. That takes some serious skill.
Well you're not including Hamilton or Alonso in that. I wouldn't say TOP 5 without including those 2.
I believe that if Lando wasn't so stubborn about MC which was a midfielder for a looooong time that results would be different
@@gk863 if RedBull did not have a shitty Renault Engine, Verstappen would have been WC much sooner. If if if if if
I think Max started the '21 season with 10 victories and added 10 more by the end of '21. So he had 20 victories and not 28 behind his name at the start of the 2022 season
@@markintosh9281true but the point still stands. Nobody other than Schumacher has done that in what is the second quickest car
Typical example of British exceptionalism. Max not doing miraculous overtakes? Ever watched him on Spa? Or in Brasil? Geez.
I'm an old git F1 fan. This is my opinion lol. Verstappen has the Schumacher, Hamilton Senna problem of being very successful. When he first came about I wasn't a fan, he didn't drive for my team. That's it. What I will say, is that we have to remember that he is still very young!! It's bonkers how talented he is and how much success that has brought. Unfortunately, a lot of greats aren't truly appreciated until they've left the sport.
Just noted that we have the same surname & like you, I'm an old git at 61 years of age. My first GP was the South African GP at Kyalami in 1967 at age 3. I've been following the sport ever since.
_"Unfortunately, a lot of greats aren't truly appreciated until they've left the sport."_
True. But it's really the fans' loss for not appreciating the (potentially untouchable) history that is being made in front of their eyes.
I, for one, soak up every second of track time I possibly can.
@@Quazi-moto it is a loss for fans, your quite right, but as the saying goes 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone'.
@@GaryHerbert-g5g howdy fellow Herbert!! 👍
@@andrewherbert7108 Where are you from distant (very) cousin?
Reading that title while Max is casually gapping 2nd place by .5 in qualifying... yes.
I just watched the highlights. He is f***ing nuts at the Red Bull ring. Almost 9 tenths faster than Checo as well
@@F1REVERSE It has to be said that Checo didn't have any new soft tyres in Q3, but still...
The new softs where used to make it to q3 for checo
@@Danman1974because Checo needed all his new sets in Q2 to even make it to Q3 , Checo is the joke of F1 together with Lance
@@Danman1974 Checo had new softs but only 1 set. He did 65.5 s run on old soft as the 1st Q3 run and did 65.2 s run on new soft as the 2nd run in Q3. Main problem with Checo is, he has no confident to attack high speed corners
Anytime they ask a current/former F1 driver or team member they’ve made it clear Max is an incredible talent. He’s only underrated by people on the internet who have never touched an F1 car.
Gotta be honest, Max is a generational talent, but you are right, people are unappreciative of what he is doing.
If you look at Perez in the same car he is doing horrible while Max is still doing great.
Just thinking about Brazil 2016 where Max in the wet presented himself as a superb driver as he overtook more than half of the field in a way that made the others look like amateurs
We even had the pleasure of watching him do all that overtaking twice in Brazil 2016… If I remember correctly, the pit wall botched his race by switching to inters, only to have to switch back to the extremes in those torrential rain showers.
It's utter ridiculous that in spite of his flawless driving, he's never driver of the day where he should be every race. He's the only flawless driver...
I am sure he does not care about that :-)
@@HansKeesom Agree
driver of the day shouldnt be given to the people on the podium. they already got rewarded, yknow with the podium. dotd is for those driver further back that did well but couldnt get on podium for w/e reason.
Not gonna lie. I wasn’t a huge Max fan but this season has changed my mind.
I’ve seen so many recent interviews with him and he’s been so much more humble and also super sarcastic that he’s been growing on me.
@@F1REVERSEif you hated Max just because he kept / keeps on winning and the rest of the grid couldnt / cant keep up with him , then YOU are clearly a part of the TOXIC problem F1 is facing these days !! Max didnt make one single race boring , the 19 others made the races boring because they clearly lack the talent to (consitently) beat Max. even this season when McLaren has the quicker car , mark my words , Max will keep winning dispite he doesnt have the best car this year
but 7/8 years of Merc dominance was not boring or hatefull ?? quite biased !!
@@guidodj8456 they are a bunch of delusional islanders , they just cant stand that their british drivers dont win
imho he was always humble. When was he ever cocky?
Max hasn't changed...
Peter Windsor and Cameron were very biased towards Max in his years until 2021. After that they started to see the real Max and what a talent he is. Now they rate him among the best.
They are both goofies, we dutch knew max would be a legend
Biased ‘against’ ?
Max is underrated by the biased british media who still cling on to Hamilton.
No Verstappen ever underestimated Max.
The Verstappen called "Jos" was the first one to recognize what this MV phenomena is, and Jos shares his knowledge with the entire world.
I think what Verstappen had against him was (is?) that all F1 media is dominated by British journalist, tv-hosts and guests (like the pre-and post shows, F1 web site columns and the official F1 live commentary).
Only recently more non-Brits are invited as guest or co-host in media shows.
Max is also obsessed with improving himself, the car and the team. one example: the race start. A few seasons back this was a weakness. behind the scenes all have worked to make it a strong point for this driver/car combination.
Been watching since 84. Huge Schumi fan …… I’ve watching many of the latter greats….saw Senna do things …well only Senna could do. Hammy is on Mount Rushmore, let’s just get that out of the way. Prost is legendary as well, but all…. Have never done things like this kid. We are blessed to see Ver & here’s the kicker, only 26 & not even in his prime!!!!!! Cray.
Yes, Max is underrated, particularly by the British racing press. I would argue that Max is the next Jim Clark. No other driver has the same laser focus on racing since Clark. When other drivers are pursuing side projects, Max is in a sim, racing, racing, racing.
he's got a whole lot more than that.
He absolutely is THE MOST underrated driver on the grid by dar. At this point this is ridiculous how underrated he is. and no, I'm not joking.
🤮. To quote a goat “stop it, get some help” Michael Jordan.
Max Verstappen is either insane, or Perez is absolutely a meme. As per all things, the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Max Verstappen is one of the absolute great and the Red Bull isn't halfway where it was last year. Which means Verstappen is quite underrated.
@@HerveMaas Cheo is a well known quality, has always been well respected driver. He's had a lot of teammates, quite strong amongst them before Max. and his record, both in qualifying and races is not a secret as well. If Checo was a complete and utter meme, Red bull would've never signed him in 2020 to start with. And if you go back in time, and read on the internet what were, all casual fans, experts and aficionados asking red bull to do, it was basically to dump Albon and put a great driver Checo in his seat, who would run Max a lot closer.
Now of course a lot of clowns start changing history, making a total idi*ot who could never drive a car fast out of Checo, with only one Idea at back in their mind - to diminish Max and downplay what he is doing in that car. Though he was destroying all his previous teammates without single exception.
Max outqualified not only teammate Sainz by 0.8s on a dry track as a rookie in Austria 2015, but both Red bull drivers. Someone tell me it was the car as well!!!!
No surprise much stronger Max was able to outqualify Checo by similar 0.9s in Austria, where it all just clicked, setup wise, and he could truly drive the car as he wanted.
Max is unbelievable look how far off Perez is with same equipment.
Remember last year when Checo won a couple races and thought he could even beat Max? Ha😂
Perez is nothing more than a test driver. They put stuff on his car and use him to test it throughout the season so that Max can benefit from all the good stuff. I mean, Max won the WDC and the WCC all on his own last season and when you have one driver who can bring home all the goodies, why would you spend all that money on a second car ?
The most consistent
In my opinion, Lewis is a has-been, or rather a never-was! He may be the most successful driver of all time statistically, but he is by no means the G. O. A. T. He was molly coddled by Ron Dennis from the beginning of his career. Make no mistake, he has talent, but there are very few instances where he pulled off an amazing win, against the odds.
You'll see plenty of videos of Senna, Schumacher, Raikonen, Hakinen & others doing so, but never Hamilton.
As for Max, he is fortunate to be in a great car, but with McLaren, Mercedes & Ferrari now, all being at the same level of performance & pace, he is still outperforming them. In my 57 years of following the sport, I have never seen another driver as consistently good as him.
Agreed that a handful of drivers would've easily been able to win the WDC in '23 in the RB19, but how many would've won 19/22 races?
I think the shear level of dominance that season just made it far too easy to completely overlook what he actually did
Max drives to perfection every lap of a race! He is the most consistent driver of all time…. Nobody has been or is as metronomic as he is. Also mentally he is far ahead of the rest of the grid.
12:25 -- _"Getting everything out of a lap is incredibly challenging, still. And that's what Max does. It doesn't_ look _that impressive..."_
That's the mark of a master of his craft, regardless of what that craft may be. They're so good at what they do that it appears easy, like any-old-body could do it.
MAx Verstappen is the best F1 driver to ever race.
He’s only underrated but the biased British media and the Scumiltons
Scumilton😂, the internet wins again 😂
It's not just the British Commentators but many fans are guilty of the same, just count how many DOTD Max won. Now, Lando is hyped as if he's the better driver by just coming close to Max or winning. During Max's dominance, RBR's CTO Adrien Newey has become a permanent subject in every race win, which isn't a bad thing though another purpose for this is just to take some shine away from Max.
I've been a Max fan since he entered F1. Mostly because I thought it was cool that some kid who is a few months younger than me could jump into F1 and perform fairly well out of the gate. I've enjoyed watching him hone his craft. Watching him chase down the Mercs for a couple years, and now win some championships.
Honestly, I have always thought the voice narration of this channel was AI generated until I see you speaking in person 😂
I dont even know how people forget that in 2021 the Mercedes was by far the fastest car on the grid. One example of Ves genius was the pit entry at Paul Ricard, when he had a perfect pit entry, leaving Ham with his mouth open.
He's the GOAT
The best thing about Max and how those English reporters with their fans say or think about him. He don't give a shit about it and will win most of the races this season and probably a lot of seasons after this year. When he is on the track, he will do anything to win. That's why he is a champion. Deal with it. I enjoy his driving and remember him for a long time, because he will be the best driver in history, if he not already is. You better all enjoy what he is doing, because you will probably never watch a driver like this again. I'm Lucky, I'm witness Senna, and now I can enjoy what Max is doing.
By the way, Lando was the rookie in this clash, he could avoid it. Max did it 2 times before with him.
I can't doubt Max's talent. He is really good, and I think Red Bull will really suffer from the loss of Newey.
I also really like Piastri for the near to longer term. He has won everything he could in the lower categories; he is humble and thought-full; he plays for the team; and looks ready to win in the right team and car. My guess is that he will overtake Norris in the next year or two as he gets more experience. That is my pick anyway.
Does anyone have a better pick?
I'm not sure he will overtake Norris, Lando looks a real talent. But he'll definitely pose more of a challenge
@@F1REVERSELando is extremely overrated , doesnt have the champion / winner / fighting mentality!! Lando is a decent driver nothing more nothing less
@@F1REVERSE lando is good in pushing, but he doesnt think in advance. he saw iam eating maxs 10s, iam better then him and then pitwall broadcast to max "push" and lando cant go closer. max knows what he needs to do to win, lando doesnt, he isnt mature drivere as max is. lando isnt champion material yet,
Charles with a better ferrari car, maybe......antonelli in the future? Thats about it. Ocon also won everything, but that doesnt mean anything
@@SWOTHDRA Charles is overrated just like Lando , Charles is a good driver but when the pressure builds he keeps making to many mistakes
Wow. Nothing better to talk about huh? You gotta ask if the back, to back, to back world champion is underrated? The guy leading the world championship this year and by a large margin? Yeah that guy that was dominating every race, winning by 30 seconds while his teammate in the same car can’t hold a candle to him? Yeah that guy is totally underrated.
All of Max’s laps today (Austria 2024 GP quali) were good enough for pole, including 2 laps that were in softs!?!?!? Efff that is ridiculous!
Max is totally underrated because he makes his achievements look so easy. ha-ha
We think he is the only F1 driver who has remained grounded 'on track' and 'off track'.
Wealth has not changed him at all.
It’s sad that everyone says it’s just the car. He is insanely talented look at how he gaps his teammate in a very similar car.
You could also have analysed the races in bad weather. Bad weather is the great equalizer with respect to car performance. Max is one of/the best drivers in the rain.
I would love to see all the other drivers drive the red bill car and see what time they can actually do in it because Max is mental
Underrated mostly by British media.
They keep hyping up a certain British driver instead, whom I think is overrated. Even his teammate doesn’t nearly get enough credit even though he’s consistently outperforming him. Just look at the performance and the performance vs their teammates, that tells you to all you need to know on driver vs car.
Both he and the team make very few errors, that's their strength.
Serigo cant make mistakes at the slow speeds he drives. Very safe
Max fan. I think people ate starting to see just how good he is. I think Lando is overrated and Oscar is underrated. Once Oscar finds his footing look out.
Oscar is great man he has a long bright future and a big potential
yes Lando is extremely overrated , doesnt have the champion / winner / fighting mentality , Lando is a softy. Lando will get frustrated in the coming races and then Oscar will take over the nr 1 spot at McLaren
Piastri's a huge threat to Norris, and they both know it. I'm surprised they haven't been banging wheels and having a Hamilton/Rosberg situation.
He is underrated by the haters.
Max is dominating a really close field with way smaller gaps and margins than Lewis did. It's definitely different.
More honestly, max has maintained this peaceful balance, but that also means that whilst being number 1, he is already prepared to defend and accept any challenge to his title, In the quest to become the greatest ever
I think max will be the greatest driver in f1 history. He will continue to dominate as long as the car is competitive. But even as the other cars become as quick or quicker, he will continue to win, his race craft is literally unmatched. He makes no mistakes even under pressure. Imo He will break every record.
He will break every record because he doesnt care about beating every record.
No shit, after 3 championships you understood that😂😂😂
Max is another class of Driver, the first of the prodigal drivers, probably one of a few.
When F1 started, it was mostly rich guys and then one or two actual race drivers, I'd call these guys Celebrity Drivers because while good at racing, they weren't treating it like they were a part of a sport team. Yes they were good, but do you really think they were preparing and training like they did today or even as far back as the 90's?
Then over time the sport gave way for more celebrity drivers and less rich dudes who want to drive. We moved into an era of celebrity drivers populating the field and then the profession drivers started popping up. You have people like Prost, Senna, Lauda who were great drivers and took the sport seriously. The treated it like they were athletes, until you get to Schumacher who was THE professional driver. He treated the sport like a career and was probably one of the few who can say that they had a career in F1 rather than a few year stint and won a Championship. Then we don't forget those who came after Schumacher too. Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton they are all Schumacher's in a post Schumacher era of F1.
Now we have Max the first of the prodigal drivers. These are going to be the children that are treated like science experiments by their parents. We may not get many of these guys, we may see only Max or we could see someone else who follows in Jos Verstappen's shit laden footsteps and whip their kid just the right amount to become another Prodigy. I bet we'll also hear stories about parents either abusing their child to extreme lengths to imitate Max's upbringing or the kids snap and end up taking out their anger on their parents. It's a scary thought really what Jos did to Max and how well it worked.
Then we look to the future. Would there be another tier to eclipse these Prodigals? Is it possible that in the future some rich asshole would make a designer baby that was genetically perfect for F1? Could children's childhoods move from spending a weekend at the track and getting interested in karting to growing up in a lab and practicing as soon as they're able? I know it sounds crazy, but there will always be a first for everything before there are laws limiting actions like these.
Elon Musk has a company under his belt, which develops a human machine interface. Its called Neuralink. They had their first humans trials in putting a microchip the head of a disabled person, to move prosthetics with the mind.
Some eccentric madman might actually implant such a chip into the head of a newborn, and feed it with all the information about a certain topic. Make it learn while sleeping. Simulate things inside the mind.
This is not only for racing, its for everything. New Albert Einstein? New Michael Jordan? New Tom Brady? Hybrid humans are the future, with technology that is directly connected to human bodies.
Yes
I am a Max fan he won me over in 2019 and I’ve been supporting him ever since, he is GOD TIER and your just butt hurt at this point if you think he’s not everything he’s proving himself to be.
Also underrated and under appreciated are the same thing said differently. Kinda like “Is there too much crime, no people are just getting robbed too much” that’s the same thing.
Sitting here thinking the same really but he's got my begrudging respect 🙏 proving he really does have skill oh and has anyone else noticed Max used to be relaxed in the car but so tense out of it but now its reversed, more tense in the car but more relaxed around the paddock?
Im not a huge fan boy but man am I happy someone pointed this out. Great video!
Under-appreciated. When you're one of the more successful drivers on the grid and you have a large fan base your garunteed to have a few bad eggs and with how toxic they can be f1 social media seems to be an echo chamber of max fans, lewis fans, charles, Carlos fans all whining at eachother. It's why im glad my favourite driver isn't likely to win anything soon
And this isn’t whining you say?😂
@@TheRyanpullen what's whining about that? It's just factual information. Please. Tell me where the lie is.
Max needs the respect he's due. He's clearly the best driver in the field at the moment.
If you say max is only as good as he is because he has the best car then, you HAVE TO say the same thing about Hamilton because everyone knew it was by far the fastest car for years and still to this day remains one of if not the fastest.
Most of peole recognize his consistency since 2021, but check his results and stats since 2018 Monaca crash. That's where all began. He is redefining the consistency at the moment.
@F1REVERSE why did you remove your own comment about hating Max ? that is just pathetic
Put Max in McLaren he is winning hell put him in RB sister car he scoring points which I would love to see what he could do in the second team be cool put tsunoda in RB 1 and Max in car 4 during sprint see what happens
we already have that from 2015 to 2020
Could any good driver have won in the 2022 Red Bull? Likely. Could any of the others have gone 19/22? No. Max be crazy.
Le mans is an amazing event and it keeps being great have also been there this year. Nice that you show the same interests of the cars and the racing that goes on outside F1. WEC is so much nicer in battles then F1. Would love to see Max drive in the WEC just to see if he is the driver that all people talk about. Because I think the DRS is taking some amazing battles and overtakes like in the WEC away.
Max and Lando are the first kind of successful racers with the sim-racers training advantage.
This new generation will outperform the "old" generation that did not like any sim-training. I'm sure in 10-20 years we are going to look back at this time and remember this shift.
At lemans the biggest joke was Kubica pushing the Bmw into the barrier for no reason
In Canada, how can you measure Lando's performance against Max when the RB team & Max were managing the race from lap 4?
Corrupt FIA backed Sir L.H. for 8years,he won the championship 7 times.
ABU 21 is somewhat puzzling. I guess FIA needed a new face at the top. Not the Max needed their help 😏
In F1 all driver achievements are the result of an extra ordinary team unity & effort.
people don't underestimate max. but they simply don’t want to praise him because of his constant victories. Of course everyone knows what the max costs. Max pisses everyone off)))
Damn, buddy. Are your notes at your neighbor's house, and writ large af?
The distance your eyes travel when you're reading from them is _wild._ 😆
Great to put a tache to the voice mate! 👍
Thanks 👍
He is underrated in the predictable english spoken bubble(10% of the world population), nothing new
I wonder if this video changes after the race in Austria today where we saw the real Max Verstappen show up ?
As was said by someone else, Max is okay when he has the car to do the job for him but when he has to do the job himself, he can't deal with it and has to resort to dirty tactics.
The man clearly has trouble dealing with direct competition. In this particular case, he unnecessarily cost himself a win, considering the penalty that was coming Landos' way, but he may just have destroyed a good friendship.
Way to go Max.
Greate video Bud
You know, Im a Sergio fan for life, have been since his GP2 days. It has always been ups and down for me as an F1 fan. Checo is my #1 driver and Charles is my #2. so this season is looking bad for me LOL. I was surprised Sergio got a contract renewal to be honest. But now that you mention his deficit is half what it was last season, i guess it makes more sense. It is crazy how Sergio is suffering so much AGAIN though. and annoying quite honestly. Every race i see his deltas slowly dropping no matter who is ahead of him. I think his time should have been up at the end of the season with RB. I don't like seeing him struggle like this. Really, that car has never suited Sergio, and so he is slow because he doesn thave the confidence to send it, when he does, it usually ends badly anyway. Id like to see him go to Merc or Aston. those cars suit his style 100 times better.
He races sims just for fun a day b4 a race he's insane andna robot
Good video. Goid there are some unbiased Brits around there! A true F1 fan can see how good he is. Biased Brits can't.
Max suffers from bad PR. Because of his personality as a winner
He does seem like a likable kind of guy
GEORGE, I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 3 YEARS!!!!
MAX SHOWS HE IS GOOD WHEN HE IS IN A GOOD CAR. HE SHOWS HE IS GREAT BECAUSE HE CAN STILL OUTPERFORM EVERYONE IN A BAD CAR!
When did he last get Driver of the day
People just really don't like him so he never gets the vote, even if he is perfect on the day
I think Max is good because he has this ability to look at the whole picture. He finely crafts his driving skill on the Sim. He practices relentlessly. He was trained to handle wet weather which really improves driver skill to another level. Because his father trained him on every aspect of the car by forcing him to assemble his own cart he is able to give proper feedback and get Red bull to build a car that will achieve the victories. Michael Schumacher was able to do this. Build a team around him. While Hamilton is a skillful driver, I don’t think he has the ability to really talk with the designers and engineers to make the car that is needed to win races the way Max can. Of course it helps to have a skilled race engineer like GP, amazing pit crew and an extremely well organized team. And while Adrian Newey is very good, I believe he also needs Max’s feedback to design the perfect car. Sergio has none of these skills.
Most skilled driver of all time , he’d beat anyone else in a spec series
When people say, "it's the car", I think it's shorthand for all the things outside of the driver's control. Pit stop performance, strategy, teammate, etc.
I think Bottas was a more competitive teammate than Checo (not necessarily in pure skill, but Checo's tire whisperer style didn't gel as well with the car developed towards Max's preferences) and nobody can say that Red Bull hasn't been perfect in terms of strategy and pit stops.
I'd rate Max today in the same league as peak Hamilton, peak Schumacher, peak Senna, etc, so not underrated, but perhaps the narrative around him has him under-appreciated
Surprisingly the things you mentioned are factors that the driver has a significant influence over, and I think in Max's case, even control. I think a big reason why the RB team is so motivated and works as hard as they do is because of Max's uncompromising drive and motivation to win. I'd wager that inspires them to put in the extra effort, which might be missing in other championship contender teams. At the end of the day, these are factors we can only speculate about. But I do say these things based on interviews I've seen of team principals and Adrian Newey.
He is fairly rated. Niki Lauda rated him as "He is a talent of the century". I think it is fair
Max is I think only 0.1 sec faster per lap on average. The rest is not making the tiny mistakes others make. That makes him pull away.
Max could be the next James Borough. I don't know who that is but he could be the next. I don't mind. He should maybe check with James though.
Tbh Max is underrated AND underappreciated.
Yes. I say he’s a talent that racing has never seen. More than Prost and Senna, more than Schumacher and yes, more than Lewis.
Most of you dont even know that Max is a monster.
He is the best driver of ALL times period.
He will leave Schumacher and Hamilton as if they dont even exist.
All aspects, tires, corners and breaking points..a true master.
These drivers should be great full that the are witnessing this monster in their prime.
Max is a BEAST .. Period
Certainly the best driver in the current field, with great potential to be GOAT
I was always against Max, what happened in Abu Dhabi blah blah blah. But with his success has grown his humility and his humour. He is by far the most talented driver, the gap between him and his team mate is absurd, despite all the "excuses" he could use for slip ups or bad races or quali's he just takes care of business over and over again. He's the fastest over one lap, then the fastest over 50 laps, then goes home and is the fastest on the sim too! As a car nut I love everything to do with cars and F1, it's literally in my blood. Max is surrounded by assholes like his Dad and Horndog. But he has shown to be a fierce competitor, a loving step father and an amazing champion. Exceptional growth.
I really hope someone beats him soon though!
He is winning races with a 3rd or 4th fastest car.
No, he’s quite clearly not underrated. However there are many f1 fans that have absolutely no understanding of driving skills, so if you consider that as part of the evaluation, well it’s your error really
All i hear is that this is the best driver ever how is that underrated?
I dont think he is underrated he is probably the best driver on the grid at the moment like how lewis was during his dominance and so on. I also think he has had the best car for the last 2 championships but as much ad i did not like him i still admit he has been one hell of a driver since he got in f1
Not a Max fan? I don't believe you 😅😂
Great job 👏
Is Max underrated?
Not by the other drivers, I can guarantee that.
why does the pic and the tone just don't fit lol
I think Max is under appreciated due to the quality of the competition and Red bull raising the bar for other teams to catch in terms of the car. I feel the truest test of a legendary driver are seen in the examples of Schumacher going to Farrari (who were under performing at the time) and winning there also, thus negating any criticisms that it was all the car. I'd love to see Max test himself this way.
P.S. I also love Piastri and think that a little more expience is going to make him a real contender. He already pushes Lando to greater achievements. Without a doublt, the greateset pairing of drivers in the field at this time.
And he is only 26 See how he drives and conducts himself in the midst of a lot a whole F1 soap If you are not able to appreciate that well ..
I think underrating Max Verstappen is pretty much a British thing.
Most British phrase ever: "Don't mention the war".
Fancy a cuppa?
When you start a video with this question we all need to ask. Are you a real f1 fan?