I would go as far as to say that in qatar, the McLaren were on pace with the red bulls. Also like you said the McLaren car works even better in short quick fire stints. This also explains why they were fast in the main race, because it was basically 3-4 sprint races stuck together. But this is also where maxes ability and experience comes in to play.
@@ShakAKA12don’t think so, remember McLaren had a terrible quali and RB is handicapped due to Perez. Mercedes is still behind McLaren and far off RedBull.
Max isnt just the quickest on the grid, he’s also the most consistent. I don’t think Leclerc or Hamilton would have won as many Max has in this RB this year
Easy when you have a number 2 driver like Perez. Lewis had better teammates. Even Bottas was allowed to compete with Lewis more than Perez is allowed to compete with Max.
@@joeconcertshd3451 "allowed to compete with Max" This here tells me all I need to know about your position regarding Perez and that 2nd seat. As if he is not allowed to drive to his best abilities. Absolute nonsense and it is absurd to even hold this opinion. Truth of the matter is, Perez is just not as good as Max, not even close. This angers and frustrates Perez fans I think, hence the wild theories and conspiracies they see. Please tell us how that car is 'different' to the one Max is driving, I'm sure you have some wacky theory about that as well? Hint: even Perez admitted that the cars are the same, but I have a feeling that Perez stating as much is not going to deter you from clinging onto absurdity.
See, you're so blinded by your bias that when Bottas competes with Hamilton you assume it's because Bottas is better than Perez (no evidence of that) and not because Hamilton is worse than Max. Let's not forget Perez had excellent moments, specially in 2021 fighting the very Hamilton. He would also be ahead of Bottas if it weren't for a technical retirement in Abu Dhabi...All these "what if" questions are loaded and full of bullshit... @@joeconcertshd3451
I mean even when RBR had 3rd best car on grid he was taking it to Merc/Lewis and right up there top 3 consistently. Even stealing some wins here and there, even from the vaunted W11.
@@mrsensei8878 In '19 RBR was 3rd best on the grid and Max was still on podium consistently and stole a few wins from Merc and the W10, which was almost as good as W11. '20 was when Ferrari fell off and RBR moved up to 2nd. This was also the year of the vaunted W11 and Max was trading blows with both Merc drivers, which was saying alot as the performance gap between W11 and well everything else was quite a lot. What I was getting at as even when Max didnt have the best car, he was trading blows with the GOAT in the GOAT car.
You mean a dominant car or a good teammate. His own teammate beat him over 3 combined seasons before they started brining a rotating cast of nobodies starting in 2019.
@@The_ZeroLine Ricciardo amassed more points over teenage Max Verstappen over 3 years, but he was clearly not the faster guy. And that was peak Ricciardo who beat Vettel the year prior.
He's not 0.200 quicker than Hamilton, Alonso, Leclerc, George or Lando. If these guys have a quicker cars they will beat him. Equal cars, yes, I would say Max. Remember he has the best car and no challenge from his teammat, so his excellence is exaggerated. People are starting to think Hamilton and George are far less. They are cancelling each other out and dont have a dominant car to stand out. Their excellence is muted under the current circumstances.
it's like saying the RB19 isn't dominant, only verstappen is. while there is some truth in that especially if it is only verstappen who could extract that potential, it'd be like saying hamilton won 2008 in the 5th best car.
@@wayne1da121 uh no, the only reason we even think that the RB19 is the best car is because of how good max is. you cant say its the greatest car and thats why anyone would win when the only reason to think so is max's performance. again look at perez, a good driver, barely holding down 2nd place.
@sudazima Really 🙄 at the end of the day. Perez is nowhere near the league of Hamilton or Alonso. And he has a healthy lead over both. There! It is very easy to prove you wrong. Perez would be world champ this year in that red bull. Whilst Lando, Lewis, George, Leclerc, are all a cut above, and we say it's the best car because of Max? What are you smoking. Its on course for being the most dominant car in F1 history. If you chose to @ me explain which part of my statement is not fact.?
Nice vid! Although some remarks. The 2021 rule change was anticipated to hit the high rake cars. About challenging Max, to beat him in a championship fight, it's not about the other driver winning while Max doesn't. It's about being consistent over a season with maximising every single point. If Max isn't winning, then he is most likely to be second (or at least in the top 3 given the car), Lewis learned that the hard way in Sochi 2021.
Weird that you mentioned Sotchi 2021 because, in a season when Max and Lewis were constantly 1-2 in pretty much every race on pure pace, in Sotchi they both lucked out on that 1-2.
@patepulkkinenvtec2403 Luck definitely played a part. Lewis would've got p2 if Lando (and especially Mclaren) used his head and switched to inters on time. Max started in p20 due to engine penalties and got up to p6/p7 before the rain. He got lucky, but he made the right decisions at the right time that race, which granted him p2 while Lewis won the race. I remembered quite well that the celebrations of Lewis's 100th win weren't exuberant, Max wasn't supposed to end up in p2 starting dead last. This was Lewis's opportunity to create a good gap in the standings, but it didn't pan out that way.
Ye the rule change point needs to be said more by bigger personalities in the F1 sphere - the amount of people who have the revisionist view of it is outstanding
The rules for 2021 were absolutely not targeted at Mercedes. If you're talking about the floorboard rules, they were put in place because Pirelli used the 2019 tires for a 3rd year and after Silverstone, they were worried the cars were getting too fast for them, and they even expected it to hit high rake cars harder, it just happened to be the opposite. If you mean the DAS, then yes, they made a loophole in adjustable suspension illegal, but they were aware of that one basically before even racing it. And it was banned before 2022 because it was originally banned with the 2022 cars (at the time intended to be 2021 cars before corona) and they left the ban on DAS in place for budget reasons since the budget cap was not delayed
True, I remember toto smirking😏 in a zoom interview, during the winterbreak in dec’20 when asked if he thought the new floor regs would hurt rbr bc of their high rake concept relying heavily on downforce from the floor, and then later on in the season, around spain, when they realized it actually didn’t, they quickly changed the narrative to ‘it was done to hurt us’. It was toto who kinda pressured pirelli into changing something after multiple tire failures, pirelli then asking fia to do something bc the tires couldn’t handle aero loads, and fia coming up with the floor regs.
Smooth-brain take on his part. Anyone whos been in the sport longer than the DTS crowd, knows all the action and best part of F1 is the mid-field. WHo cares about the lone driver driving off into the sunset 30+ seconds ahead of 2nd place who is themselves usually 20 seconds ahead of the rest.
@@lars3712 DR beat Max when max was still basically a rookie and a rash, impatient, hotheaded rookie at that. Lewis beat Max when RBR were still 3rd best car on the grid. I believe Max has become more patient, mature and consistent in the last 2.5 years. He's gone from raw unbridled talent to a perfectionist. I mean sure, yea, RB18/19 has played a large role in some of that, but Im talking about him as a person and driver.
That would instantly fill up asylums with brain worm infested team LH (RPM) who have been waiting for LH 8th title or Max getting dethroned ... It would be epic to a whole new level ...
You talk the way I feel!! This is such a good video 😄 This is absolutely a build up year. The more Max continues his dominance and proves himself, the more interesting it will be to see who can step up to match that level.
The 2021 rules were not designed to intentionally slow down Mercedes. It was initially thought that Mercedes would be faster than what it eventually was and that high-rake cars wouldn't have the advantage. The rules were requested by Pirelli due to the insane levels of downforce that f1 cars had in 2020. Merc just couldn't design a good enough car for Lewis to win the championship, the rule change was no excuse for their shortcomings.
What are you talking about? Mercedes absolutely did design a car good enough to win the championship - the FIA just decided who was going to be champion that year instead of leaving it up to the drivers and their teams #8worldchamps
@@NickyDusse Mercedes designed a good enough car to win the championship, but not good enough for Lewis who was more focused on running into gravel and pressing wrong buttons in his steering wheel than being the deserving champ. Also, would you like to talk about the things that happened in Silverstone and Hungary? Tell me only then who was the real and deserving champion after all.
@@patepulkkinenvtec2403 You seem to be as salty as Max whenever Ted Kravitz would drop truth bombs on his Mickey Mouse Championship lmao (he couldn't handle the truth, much like you it seems), and I got a better question - Tell me has the FIA ever done anything like what they did with Max and Lewis last lap at Abu Dhabi? Of course not. They wanted a spectacle for the fans and prioritized the viewer over the racer and subsequently threw the rules in the bin. Lewis absolutely did enough to win the championship (mistakes and all), but unfortunately he was racing against RB *and* Masi at the end. Even with that incredible drive by Checo Max still couldn't hang with Lewis and needed assistance from outside the racetrack lmaooo.
@@NickyDusse And you seem just as salty as Ted. If Lewis really did everything he needed to win the championship, explain why would Max have won the title with multiple races to spare if luck was equalled?
@@patepulkkinenvtec2403 Of course I'm salty! Who wouldn't be when you see someone who deserves 8 world titles only have 7 because the FIA cares more about making money than fair racing. You're salty because you don't like it when people correctly call out Max's mickey mouse championship lmao. And that's besides the point - what happened up until Abu Dhabi was "fair" in the sense that they were just racing each other hard and making mistakes. What makes Max's 2021 championship so dubious is that "the *FIA* got involved and directly changed the outcome of the race. I know you're super biased (btw I hated Lewis up until the 2022 season where he started sucking lol) towards Max and he's your boy and all, but to be so blind to the obvious fuckery that happened is kinda sad tbh. Hope you take off the blinders.
Maybe it's been frustrating and boring for you...but not everyone else. In fact i would have guessed that someone with your love and passion for the sport, you would have appreciated and in fact been excited by all the other racing up and down the grid and not have your assessment of the season dictated by one driver dominating.
Yawn, Most racing fans up front want a challenge for the title regardless if theres great racing in the midfield. Only DTS fans like you are a bloody joke. We all appreciate Max's abilitites but we dont like domination is this sport. Im gonna bookmark your comment and come back in 2026 if he dominates the new regs, then we will see whos the real F1 fan. What a tosser
There's definitely been lots of the season that I've enjoyed like the rise of Aston Martin and Piastri, but i'd be lying if I said I don't miss seeing more than one driver fighting for wins. It doesn't mean that I'm not also enjoying seeing Max have success because he throughly deserves it and the way he's winning is something I've never seen. After 2021 and early 2022 I'm just greedy and want to see another title fight haha
100% agree with this comment. If you love racing, formula 1 is never "boring". I don't care if I'm watching the midfield battle for 15th or the top teams battling for the podiums behind Max. I just want to see good racing.
@@turbski666 exactly! F1's focus should be on the full grid. There are often (and this applies to just about every season I've watched since the early 1970s!) much better fights for the last point than for the win.
Lewis was only in the 2021 race because he crashed Max out at Silverstone and the race after Bottas crashed straight into Max's car - Max would likely have won both races and his lead before Silverstone was 34 points, he had been closer to 50 points ahead of Lewis, but due to the deliberate collisions from Mercedes drivers, Lewis was in fron after the Hungarian with a 14 point lead. It was criminal! Max was only outside second place in that season in Hungery and when he had a DNF. He was the best driver by far.
He will be stopped when a consistent championship quality driver has a car 5 tenths faster than him, or has one as fast but significantly more reliable. I really don't think anyone is capable of going toe to toe with Max in equal machinery.
I love max don’t get me wrong he’s forever the goat for toppling mercades, but unfortunately, I can’t help but agree 😭 gotta jus wait till he join wec or something else
@@lars3712 Sainz is way too slow(hilarious you even suggested that, even Bottas is above Sainz) , Leclerc would end up crashing due to the pressure, Lewis and Alonso are simply too old, and Lando is way too inexperienced and inconsistent to be a serious challenge over a season's length, one race sure but a season no way. No one would stand a chance in equal machinery for a full season. Nico beat Lewis on his prime in 2016 on equal machinery, Max is way better than Nico and Lewis is 8 years older now.
This season boring to watch? No, no and no! Just take MV out of the equation and you'll see the most competative season and most diverse podium in ages. So definately not boring. Who says that F1 needs a different winner every time. This is not Nascar of Indycar, this is F1, the pinnacle of motor sports: domination by one brand and catch up by others have been and will be inevitable, despite what FiA, FOM or Netflix fans want or try. Proof me wrong in the comments please!
I genuinely believe Max to be one of those rare beasts, a master of his profession who can extract extra performance from a car that isn't there when looking at data and testing. Senna was another, able to run his car consistently not just on its level of performance but over it too. If he's in a top 6 car, he's winning races no doubt. The 2023 season has been a stroll for him, but in a less competitive car he'd still be in the mix I reckon. He's so fast and consistent, and more importantly still brimming with the drive and determination required to be as successful as he is...
@@kingdodongo4126 Ah, 2021, the gift that keeps on giving. Whatever LH fans say or try to imply, I will always smile gleefully and remember that all that rage, misinformation and trying to downplay comes from an intense pain and sadness 🙂
Honestly put Nando in that Red bull. This old goat will suprise everyone. Fernando alonso World champion in 2005 2006 2024 That would just look stupidly insane
Am I the only one actually enjoying having a race winner and a champion that is not named Lewis Hamilton? Honestly, I think the only reason people are hating on Max is because he is head and shoulders above everyone else at the moment. I am kind of bored of the comments saying that this is the most boring period for F1, when there was at least 5 or 6 years where there was one team dominating everyone else.
I think its relatively safe to assume Max can win up to 5 WDC until 2025. 2026 seems like the most realistic chance for other teams and drivers to stake their claim.
8:11 McLaren still have the excuse of being a customer team. Personally, I don't expect them to ever challenge for a championship while they use customer engines.
Someone mentioned red bull bringing a zero pod design in 2024 as a joke, but just imagine if they did that. The rage would be biblical. I'd love them to do it in pre season testing for the first day as a meme
Fantastic assessments and insights sir. I’ve been saying for a while now that the worst thing that could happen to Max is for him to have a teammate that can actually challenge him. No, I agree with you RB does better with a clear number one and number two. But I do also think Checo needs to shake this case of the yips and score a little bit more than he is currently.
Max doesn't care, he will make short work of any challenge. Max is just that good, he doesn't care who drives that other car, his mission of destroying them does not change.
I really appreciate your videos. They are insightful and above the hypes of the day/week. You having a pleasant voice to listen to comes as a extra bonus. Having said that, could you please pronounce the letter T at the end of a word? Only in the last four minutes of this video I noted targeh, figh, ouh, ah, thah, sporh, ih and buh (instead of target, fight, out, that, sport, it and but). It would really improve your videos to toplevel quality!
I wasn't referring to everyday speech. Surely there is a difference between informal speech and being a reporter or providing a voice over. I seriously never before watched a program or listened to a podcast with this phenomenon.
I can't see 2024 and 2025 going to anyone else but Red Bull and Verstappen. I think (and hope) it will be much closer however with 3 or 4 constructors winning multiple races. Rivals are starting to understand their cars more and catch red bull but I doubt it will be enough to topple them until the next major rule changes. 2026 its impossible to know. but it's exciting its at least on the horizon making it unlikely for this RedBull era to last as long as the Mercedes for example.
Maybe im weird but i actually preferred this year to the last two and didnt find it boring or too predictable. Ok, so max won pretty much the whole thing... i agree that part is pretty dull. But, seeing Aston Martin in 2nd place at the beginning, then an equal fight between ferrari and mercedes over that space and now McLaren gunning for it at the end... is that not the definition of a competitive season? Its fun when you have a title fight between two top drivers like in 2021 but it can also be annoying as all the focus goes to those two to the detriment of everyone else.
Mate if it was only that easy, Max is next lvl in that RB. They maybe will win a race or two but Max is consistent like a robot right now and he only gets better, colleting records like its falling off a conveyer belt.
@@Reaz399 Except in 2021 when they were last in roughly equal machinery and human error gave Max the championship over Lewis. There's no evidence for your statement.
Except old and current world champions, the other drivers haven't been tested on the mental pressure they will be under once really fighting for the championship. That's a quality we have to see if they have it. We saw Charles putting it in the wall once leading the championship. Max consistency will wear down most others.
So… what’s wrong with Red Bull winning 3 years in a row? Do you forget Mercedes winning for 8 years…. Turning their engine down every race. No one talked like this for Hamilton. F1 has, does and will always have a dominant team. If it didn’t, it’d be overweight Indy car.
People forget that this is a constructors sports they start giving more importance to drivers and call this season boring where as this season is interesting from Williams and McLaren upgrades to Aston Martin rise and fall
You can with any power unit on the grid, except for the Renault. lol Anyway, you can’t blame Ferrari or Mercedes. No one can beat Newey if his chassis has a good PU.
Easy answer my friend. Whenever Red Bull is also stopped. Max is at a super high level but until we can get other elite drivers (Fernando, Lewis and perhaps Lando nowadays) to have top tier cars, Max is going to steamroll.
The 2021 rule changes were made to slow down the cars, not Mercedes. In fact before testing everyone even Toto and Horner thought the rules would hurt high rake cars.
Why do people keep saying that this season has been boring ! 😂😂😂😂 There is an extremely engaging battle for second in both the divers and constructors championship.
Remember Vettel having one lap to qualify and nailing it first try. That was a pretty dominate Red Bull as well. Or leading by more than 30 seconds in clean air. It never lasts.
The rule change for 2021 was not blatantly to nerf Mercedes. In fact before the start of the season, the judges were still out whether these changes would benefit a low-rake chassis (Mercedes) or a high-rake chassis (Red Bull), Only during winter testing it became clear that these floor changes benefitted Red Bull more than Mercedes. But these changes were made to compensate for technical development and slow down the cars a bit to not give Pirelli more tire headaches.
Personally don't see him losing the championship until the next regs change in 2026, and even then we thought 2022 would massively hurt Red Bull and it didn't.
You keep on saying the 2023 season is BORING. The season is not boring at all, plenty of nice racing to see! That Max is in his own league doesn't make the season boring.
Where does this narrative come from that the 2021 rulechanges were made to slow down Mercedes? They were there on request of Pirelli to slow down everyone and Bacu showed why. Pre-season everyone even thought the chance would impact high rake cars more than low rake cars.. Mercedes just screwed up their design, just like they did in 2022. There were other rulechanges in 2021 that were targeted at certain teas like the change for pitstops, but none of those hampered Mercedes.
We’ll just have to see how much of an advantage Red Bull starts with next season. If they can keep re establishing the gap by solely focusing on next years design by the summer break no one will catch Max until the new regs are introduced in ‘26
I think next year we’ll see 3 teams win multiple races, but RB probably wins still. 25 will be a crazy year, and in 26 we’ll be back to having some team dominate the new regs. I think the papaya team nabs one of those two (25 or 26.)
When he doesnt have best car anymore. He is top 3-4 driver anyway and has by far best and most consistent car, so its not much of a question. It would be interesting if few cars were on par with redbull. Once the outcome is not known from the start, tension and pressure are much higher. And, as much as i think max can handle the pressure, it would inevitably result in a few mistakes on his end. Not saying he wouldnt still win on an even basis, but he wouldnt be nearly as dominant as this. Now he drives like he knows hes gonna win in any case, is relaxed and full of confidence. Would be nice to have more equal season and put top drivers to more pressure
While I don't fault like drivers like Schumacher, Hamilton, Vettel,max for the dominance they've experienced.I think that the sport could benefit from a tad more of some simplification and or standardization of some components to kinda make it like NASCAR or indycar in terms of getting the cars to parity and letting the drivers be more of a determinating factor. Don't get me wrong I have been a fan of Hamilton since 2007 and I respect Alonso I hope both take it to max and let the best driver win. Keep it clean😊
If anything I think they should relax regulations to some extent. The sport has become so overly regulated that its basically 20 of the same cars on the track, with just each team bringing a different aero package, for most part. Anytime a team trys to innovate, other teams rush to have said innovation banned.
It is Max's and Red Bull's consistency that make them so strong. So even if you give the other drivers mentioned a competetive car, the driver and the team altogether need to show a similar level of consistency in the next two years. Yes, even the driver's championship is a team effort as we experienced in 2022 with Charles Leclerc. He did make some mistakes, but who knows how his mental fortitude would have stabilized with a proper functioning team. And don't forget that Max also made mistakes in 2022: For example, out of the blue he spun in Hungary driving towards his next win on P1. He only regained first place because Ferrari put Leclerc (against his will and even seeing the performance of other hard runners) on hard tyres and therefore he was basically a sitting duck as Max easily caught up to him again. Or as Max binned quali in 2021 in Saudi Arabia in the very last corner as everybody thought he had that pole safe with that 2-3 tenths lead over Hamilton. Nobody is perfect und unbeatable. But the combination of Max, the car and the team Red Bull is surely a very hard and tough opponent to go against. And in 2026 we indeed don't know anything. The cards will be mixed anew.
@@hurronivich2652 To be fair, he had that clutch problem the whole race and he dealt with it just fine all the corners until that one time. I think RB just said that to honor his performance. Imo Max's concentration slipped away for a second. Which is still astounding dealing with that issue during slightly wet and cold conditions.
All things being equal; if Schumacher hadn’t crashed into Hill and Hill won that 94 title, Lewis would have the most titles in F1, and maybe 2021 wouldn’t be so contentious. I have no idea what got me thinking about that. Nice video btw.
If rosberg didn't retired after 2016 or a number two like valteri didn't join Mercedes Lewis wouldn't have won that mnay2 titles or if Lewis didn't choked at entering pit during 2007 and Massi didn't fucked up the rules at 21 abu dhabi LH would be 9 times champion or if Ferrari didn't fucked up alonso would be 2011 2012 and vettel would be 2017 2018 champion but guess what we can only assume not change anything
Adrian Newey is 64 and has already tried to retire from F1. He won't/can't stay forever, and losing him will be a huge blow to RBR dominance. Losing Honda engines are likely to create some issues, too. There is no denying Max has talent but stick him in a bad car and he's not going to keep winning.
Ppl forget Max is cruising after the first corner or when he gets in front. He's cruising and watching the big screens ppl, singing and joking. Apart from when he has car problems he's on easy mode. Not being challenged by anybody and least of all his team mate. We haven't even seen the Max squeezing everything out of this car yet. He wasn't joking about tire management starting the out lap.
I know it probably won´t happen but i want Hulkenberg to get the second Red Bull seat. He´s friends with Max. He would accept being a second driver at a team like Red Bull and he´s a good qualifier. In this Red Bull Hulkenberg would have done much better than Checo but then again it´s not hard to be better than Checo this season.
I don't get why you guys think it's boring, I had the same with any dominant season, why is everyone watching only the number one spot, that's like watching only the finals in football world cup, the field is closer than ever not counting RB and I'm honestly enjoying it a lot
It's already started. From here on in, it's going to get a lot more difficult for Max to 'win every race'. . . Really, it's inevitable. Max having the dominant car is 4-5 seasons tops.
Don’t be ridiculous, he had the second fastest car in 2020 and the third from 17-19 and he did everything that he could with those cars. Max is an ATG but no driver in history can overcome that deficit unless the top 4 cars are within a tenth of each other
@@jamespoole3531 my assupmtion was that they too 4 are within tenths of each other. Max these days makes no mistakes, and scarily consistent lap over lap.
@@jamespoole3531Did he have the 2nd fastest car in 2020 though? Albons performance hinted otherwise. Also, Verstappen is not even close to being the driver he is today in 2020. He was making mistakes and reckless manouvers. In addition, the car didn’t have the seemingly bulletproof reliability in 2020. Nah, there's more to winning than having the fastest car. Or the 2nd fastest.
Your point about "Red Bull not even trying to get a strong second driver/evenly matched pairing unlike Ferrari who tried to go for Hamilton-Leclerc" (which was complete conjecture btw) completely falls in the context of Red Bull trying to sign Norris as recently as within the last year and a half. I don't know how you give weight to the Hamilton-Ferrari rumours but not Norris-RBR, when the latter was at least acknowledged by Horner and Marko as true whilst the former had no support from either party. Gte out.
F1 2023 season being boring??? Obviously must be joking!!!! Yes!! RB / Max has given us a mind blowing driving experience in how to maximize the teams ability to provide the best race car in F1!!! But .......... RB/ Max's performance aside, all F1 fans have been spoilt for life as they are witnessing unbelievable performance from the RB / Max team while watching one of F1's hotly contested inter team completion between all the other teams.
Carbon free fuels? That means not a single Carbon atom. Nah. You mean carbon neutral. As using carbon sinks elsewhere to compensate for the emissions. This season has been greater to watch than the Mercedes years where you have one driver, Hamilton, twitching his party mode knob as dictated by the pits and "Valtteri, it's James..." calls that make him the #1 driver. Hamilton has been greatly propped up by a hugely dominant car. You can see how Hamilton cannot even perform overtakes. Ruining the races of Piastri in Monza or Russell in Qatar. Nah. Hamilton should have quit. He is far removed from Max' caliber. There are better people on the grid. Like indeed Alonso. Piastri is more championship material than Norris, though. Can see that throughout the last few GP clearly. Leclerc can't deal with pressure and prone to make mistakes. Cost him 2022. In conjunction with Ferrari unreliability and Ferrari's reliably poor strategy.
Completely agree, some people would probably bring up ‘07 ‘wHeN LeWiS bEaT AlOnSO’, only to forget they were equal in points and Hamilton got a preferential treatment by Ron Dennis.
RB should go after Fernando for their second car. They’ll still favor Max but add to his legacy (if they’re as invested in that as it seems they are) by giving him a champion as a teammate to beat.
I don't see Lando, Charles nor George being able to beat Max over a season, especially when you look at the mistakes they have made and ruined great achievements (although Lando hasn't made any huge mistake in a while now). Can it be Piastri? Maybe. He hit the ground running and is really close to Norris in his first season, but at this very moment, I think only Lewis and Fernando can put up a fight, and still, it's gonna be very ugly. As long as he is at least three tenths behind the fastest car, he's good enough to win.
Never heard so many complaints about dominance or boredom when Hammi was winning.. Such bias! The entire Red Bull/Honda operation are functioning at likely the highest level of consistency we will ever see in F1. Shame the complainers keep themselves from appreciating the remarkable accomplishments we're witnessing the lastast couple years.
I think Max is the great differentiator at this point, a few others for sure caught up, Mclaren most def are on pace at times and sure predict Piastri too to become extremely hard to beat in the future? Max is just mature now combined with that raw speed, super fast I don't think anyone at the grid can beat him in that second RB19, was not always the case. I used to think Lewis, Fernando are on pace and hated it haha, now I just have no choice but wonder at that young mans pace. Leclerc is not up there imho, neither is Lando, don't get me wrong the yare super good drivers, not at Max level though he is just one of these one in a gen and perhaps then some? Piastri is imho the next hope, Fernando too is mentally strong and refuse to drop pace but Max is Max, combined with a car like that no wonder
I just hope Max isn't dethroned the way Lewis was by an FIA regulation change. I'm convinced that that regulation change back in 2021 specifically targeted the low rake cars. It's not like that's the first time that the FIA has nerfed the team that dominated.
they worked theeir ars very hard 4-5 years to build the team that got them 2021 and with that knowledge + newey brilliantness they have all for all untill next rules changes. unfortunatelly for the rest of us :))
He will be stopped when FIA decides to Look at everyone in history, Schumacher/Ferrari 2000-2004, Hamilton/Mercedes 2014-2020 When they will release new rules and changes affecting them directly, which I suppose will be around 2026 Then he will be stopped
The FIA can't, because RB has built a car that does not rely on gimmicks like merc, ferrari and even previous domination RB. And since the new regs are not even known yet, there is no saying what 2026 will bring. Might well be RB acing their engine with all those merc and Honda engineers they hired for RBPT and continuing the domination.
Realistically Mercedes weren't stopped until 2022 with the ground effect. They still won the constructors title in 2021 and depending on the circuit still had the fastest car on the grid.
Prost was at the top for six or seven years. Shumacher was at the top for six or seven years. Hamilton was at the top for six years or so. Vettel was at the top for five years or so. Verstappen has been on top for two years. He's got two to four years to go. And I don't think the next "big thing" Is even in F1 today.
When he gets bored or wants to tone down. I don't think his goal is to stay at the top for a long time. He's here for a good time. If 26 cars aren't fun I see him likely hopping off and going into endurance racing within a few years.
- Driver who will make it to Q3
- Is fine being as number 2
- Has lot of experience
- Wont challenge Max
Valtteri Bottas
Hülkenberg
This would settle the debate between Hamilton and verstappen 😂😂.
Valtteri its Hannah, let Max through
valtteri isn't fine with being number 2 he just isn't quick enough to truly challenge lewis or max etc
I don't think you need to worry about anyone challenging Max, I truly believe there is no driver who could beat him in that car over a full season.
McLaren have definitely closed up the gap on Saturdays & short runs, but overall in race pace Max in the RedBull is still far ahead.
I would go as far as to say that in qatar, the McLaren were on pace with the red bulls. Also like you said the McLaren car works even better in short quick fire stints. This also explains why they were fast in the main race, because it was basically 3-4 sprint races stuck together. But this is also where maxes ability and experience comes in to play.
It‘s just heavy Max tax. Give Max that McLaren and the McLaren drivers the RB and he still wins Qatar. He‘s simply always there.
@@l_poci_I think Mercedes and Russell were on pace with them as well
@@ShakAKA12don’t think so, remember McLaren had a terrible quali and RB is handicapped due to Perez. Mercedes is still behind McLaren and far off RedBull.
For Now...
It is a great time to be a Red Bull Racing and Max Verstappen fan.
Now we wait for the inevitable fall.
Indeed
Max isnt just the quickest on the grid, he’s also the most consistent. I don’t think Leclerc or Hamilton would have won as many Max has in this RB this year
Even when Lewis had the best car on the grid, by a mile, he still couldnt get 10 wins in a row.
Easy when you have a number 2 driver like Perez. Lewis had better teammates. Even Bottas was allowed to compete with Lewis more than Perez is allowed to compete with Max.
@@joeconcertshd3451 "allowed to compete with Max"
This here tells me all I need to know about your position regarding Perez and that 2nd seat. As if he is not allowed to drive to his best abilities. Absolute nonsense and it is absurd to even hold this opinion. Truth of the matter is, Perez is just not as good as Max, not even close. This angers and frustrates Perez fans I think, hence the wild theories and conspiracies they see.
Please tell us how that car is 'different' to the one Max is driving, I'm sure you have some wacky theory about that as well?
Hint: even Perez admitted that the cars are the same, but I have a feeling that Perez stating as much is not going to deter you from clinging onto absurdity.
See, you're so blinded by your bias that when Bottas competes with Hamilton you assume it's because Bottas is better than Perez (no evidence of that) and not because Hamilton is worse than Max. Let's not forget Perez had excellent moments, specially in 2021 fighting the very Hamilton. He would also be ahead of Bottas if it weren't for a technical retirement in Abu Dhabi...All these "what if" questions are loaded and full of bullshit... @@joeconcertshd3451
@@reddwarf666 Think you may need an early night tonight 🤣🤣
As long as Verstappen has a competitive car, nobody beats him over a season.
I mean even when RBR had 3rd best car on grid he was taking it to Merc/Lewis and right up there top 3 consistently. Even stealing some wins here and there, even from the vaunted W11.
@@junkiexl86
The 3rd best? Ferrari wasnt as fast in 2021. Or what do you mean?
@@mrsensei8878 In '19 RBR was 3rd best on the grid and Max was still on podium consistently and stole a few wins from Merc and the W10, which was almost as good as W11. '20 was when Ferrari fell off and RBR moved up to 2nd. This was also the year of the vaunted W11 and Max was trading blows with both Merc drivers, which was saying alot as the performance gap between W11 and well everything else was quite a lot.
What I was getting at as even when Max didnt have the best car, he was trading blows with the GOAT in the GOAT car.
You mean a dominant car or a good teammate. His own teammate beat him over 3 combined seasons before they started brining a rotating cast of nobodies starting in 2019.
@@The_ZeroLine Ricciardo amassed more points over teenage Max Verstappen over 3 years, but he was clearly not the faster guy. And that was peak Ricciardo who beat Vettel the year prior.
I seriously worry that as long as Max’s car is within a couple tenths of the fastest on the grid, he’s going to win.
Exactly, even if he doesn't have the fastest car, just a good car, his pure raw talent alone is gonna get him so many podiums and wins
He's not 0.200 quicker than Hamilton, Alonso, Leclerc, George or Lando.
If these guys have a quicker cars they will beat him.
Equal cars, yes, I would say Max.
Remember he has the best car and no challenge from his teammat, so his excellence is exaggerated.
People are starting to think Hamilton and George are far less.
They are cancelling each other out and dont have a dominant car to stand out.
Their excellence is muted under the current circumstances.
it's like saying the RB19 isn't dominant, only verstappen is. while there is some truth in that especially if it is only verstappen who could extract that potential, it'd be like saying hamilton won 2008 in the 5th best car.
@@wayne1da121 uh no, the only reason we even think that the RB19 is the best car is because of how good max is. you cant say its the greatest car and thats why anyone would win when the only reason to think so is max's performance. again look at perez, a good driver, barely holding down 2nd place.
@sudazima Really 🙄 at the end of the day. Perez is nowhere near the league of Hamilton or Alonso. And he has a healthy lead over both.
There! It is very easy to prove you wrong.
Perez would be world champ this year in that red bull.
Whilst Lando, Lewis, George, Leclerc, are all a cut above, and we say it's the best car because of Max?
What are you smoking.
Its on course for being the most dominant car in F1 history.
If you chose to @ me explain which part of my statement is not fact.?
Can't see him not winning until at least the regulation changes in 2026... unless McLaren keeps the momentum going
every 0.05s gets progressively harder to achieve.... And RB isnt sitting on their hands doing nothing.
@@gameofender4463you are so correct people think lando is the next max lewis George or leclerc or Oscar
But I don't think he is
@@gameofender4463You don‘t get tired of shitting on Lando in every comment section you can find do you?😂
@@gameofender4463so you are a sheep?
Nice vid!
Although some remarks. The 2021 rule change was anticipated to hit the high rake cars. About challenging Max, to beat him in a championship fight, it's not about the other driver winning while Max doesn't. It's about being consistent over a season with maximising every single point. If Max isn't winning, then he is most likely to be second (or at least in the top 3 given the car), Lewis learned that the hard way in Sochi 2021.
Weird that you mentioned Sotchi 2021 because, in a season when Max and Lewis were constantly 1-2 in pretty much every race on pure pace, in Sotchi they both lucked out on that 1-2.
@patepulkkinenvtec2403 Luck definitely played a part. Lewis would've got p2 if Lando (and especially Mclaren) used his head and switched to inters on time.
Max started in p20 due to engine penalties and got up to p6/p7 before the rain. He got lucky, but he made the right decisions at the right time that race, which granted him p2 while Lewis won the race. I remembered quite well that the celebrations of Lewis's 100th win weren't exuberant, Max wasn't supposed to end up in p2 starting dead last. This was Lewis's opportunity to create a good gap in the standings, but it didn't pan out that way.
@@Kyanureevesdid u just blame McLaren even though lando was the one who acted like a baby and refused inters?
Ye the rule change point needs to be said more by bigger personalities in the F1 sphere - the amount of people who have the revisionist view of it is outstanding
@WilliamStephanusArriel to some extent, certainly. Lando knows what's happening on track. The strategists know the influences outside Lando's control.
The rules for 2021 were absolutely not targeted at Mercedes. If you're talking about the floorboard rules, they were put in place because Pirelli used the 2019 tires for a 3rd year and after Silverstone, they were worried the cars were getting too fast for them, and they even expected it to hit high rake cars harder, it just happened to be the opposite.
If you mean the DAS, then yes, they made a loophole in adjustable suspension illegal, but they were aware of that one basically before even racing it. And it was banned before 2022 because it was originally banned with the 2022 cars (at the time intended to be 2021 cars before corona) and they left the ban on DAS in place for budget reasons since the budget cap was not delayed
Can't blame aldas here. The British media has revised history to suit themselves and many have eaten their bait 😂😂😂
True, I remember toto smirking😏 in a zoom interview, during the winterbreak in dec’20 when asked if he thought the new floor regs would hurt rbr bc of their high rake concept relying heavily on downforce from the floor, and then later on in the season, around spain, when they realized it actually didn’t, they quickly changed the narrative to ‘it was done to hurt us’.
It was toto who kinda pressured pirelli into changing something after multiple tire failures, pirelli then asking fia to do something bc the tires couldn’t handle aero loads, and fia coming up with the floor regs.
The bloody nerve of these people to say the rules were being deliberately targeted at Mercedes just to fit this perpetual underdog narrative, I swear.
@@sulphurous2656same rules for everybody
Why would you call the season boring just because of there being a clear winner? There has been so much good racing for p2 and down.
Smooth-brain take on his part. Anyone whos been in the sport longer than the DTS crowd, knows all the action and best part of F1 is the mid-field. WHo cares about the lone driver driving off into the sunset 30+ seconds ahead of 2nd place who is themselves usually 20 seconds ahead of the rest.
Can you imagine the anticlimax when Max just leaves to WEC and the moment of "someone finally beating Max" doesnt happen
I think that will mostly be the reality in future
Lewis beat him. Even Danny Ric beat him two seasons. Dont worry mate
@@lars3712 did thy watch the video and know how to place my comment into context
@@lars3712 DR beat Max when max was still basically a rookie and a rash, impatient, hotheaded rookie at that. Lewis beat Max when RBR were still 3rd best car on the grid. I believe Max has become more patient, mature and consistent in the last 2.5 years. He's gone from raw unbridled talent to a perfectionist. I mean sure, yea, RB18/19 has played a large role in some of that, but Im talking about him as a person and driver.
That would instantly fill up asylums with brain worm infested team LH (RPM) who have been waiting for LH 8th title or Max getting dethroned ...
It would be epic to a whole new level ...
Aldas: At some point RB will be hitting the ceiling
Some old guy with a pencil: "You underestimated my power"
You talk the way I feel!! This is such a good video 😄
This is absolutely a build up year. The more Max continues his dominance and proves himself, the more interesting it will be to see who can step up to match that level.
The power unit reliable yes but the rb19 went through a lot of gearboxes
they keep calling it a red bull succes but fact is Max is what makes red bull a succes
The 2021 rules were not designed to intentionally slow down Mercedes. It was initially thought that Mercedes would be faster than what it eventually was and that high-rake cars wouldn't have the advantage. The rules were requested by Pirelli due to the insane levels of downforce that f1 cars had in 2020. Merc just couldn't design a good enough car for Lewis to win the championship, the rule change was no excuse for their shortcomings.
What are you talking about? Mercedes absolutely did design a car good enough to win the championship - the FIA just decided who was going to be champion that year instead of leaving it up to the drivers and their teams #8worldchamps
@@NickyDusse Mercedes designed a good enough car to win the championship, but not good enough for Lewis who was more focused on running into gravel and pressing wrong buttons in his steering wheel than being the deserving champ. Also, would you like to talk about the things that happened in Silverstone and Hungary? Tell me only then who was the real and deserving champion after all.
@@patepulkkinenvtec2403 You seem to be as salty as Max whenever Ted Kravitz
would drop truth bombs on his Mickey Mouse Championship lmao (he couldn't handle the truth, much like you it seems), and I got a better question - Tell me has the FIA ever done anything like what they did with Max and Lewis last lap at Abu Dhabi? Of course not. They wanted a spectacle for the fans and prioritized the viewer over the racer and subsequently threw the rules in the bin.
Lewis absolutely did enough to win the championship (mistakes and all), but unfortunately he was racing against RB *and* Masi at the end. Even with that incredible drive by Checo Max still couldn't hang with Lewis and needed assistance from outside the racetrack lmaooo.
@@NickyDusse And you seem just as salty as Ted. If Lewis really did everything he needed to win the championship, explain why would Max have won the title with multiple races to spare if luck was equalled?
@@patepulkkinenvtec2403 Of course I'm salty! Who wouldn't be when you see someone who deserves 8 world titles only have 7 because the FIA cares more about making money than fair racing. You're salty because you don't like it when people correctly call out Max's mickey mouse championship lmao.
And that's besides the point - what happened up until Abu Dhabi was "fair" in the sense that they were just racing each other hard and making mistakes. What makes Max's 2021 championship so dubious is that "the *FIA* got involved and directly changed the outcome of the race. I know you're super biased (btw I hated Lewis up until the 2022 season where he started sucking lol) towards Max and he's your boy and all, but to be so blind to the obvious fuckery that happened is kinda sad tbh. Hope you take off the blinders.
I think we're about to enter a 2017/18 style era where Verstappen is still gonna win but the field will win more than 6 races in 2 years
You mean 2022? Yeah
nope that's not likely, i can bet
Maybe it's been frustrating and boring for you...but not everyone else. In fact i would have guessed that someone with your love and passion for the sport, you would have appreciated and in fact been excited by all the other racing up and down the grid and not have your assessment of the season dictated by one driver dominating.
Yawn, Most racing fans up front want a challenge for the title regardless if theres great racing in the midfield. Only DTS fans like you are a bloody joke. We all appreciate Max's abilitites but we dont like domination is this sport. Im gonna bookmark your comment and come back in 2026 if he dominates the new regs, then we will see whos the real F1 fan. What a tosser
There's definitely been lots of the season that I've enjoyed like the rise of Aston Martin and Piastri, but i'd be lying if I said I don't miss seeing more than one driver fighting for wins. It doesn't mean that I'm not also enjoying seeing Max have success because he throughly deserves it and the way he's winning is something I've never seen. After 2021 and early 2022 I'm just greedy and want to see another title fight haha
100% agree with this comment. If you love racing, formula 1 is never "boring". I don't care if I'm watching the midfield battle for 15th or the top teams battling for the podiums behind Max. I just want to see good racing.
@@turbski666 exactly! F1's focus should be on the full grid. There are often (and this applies to just about every season I've watched since the early 1970s!) much better fights for the last point than for the win.
@@turbski666I understand where you are coming from, but isn't it the most exciting scenario to watch a battle for the lead when the stakes are high?
Lewis was only in the 2021 race because he crashed Max out at Silverstone and the race after Bottas crashed straight into Max's car - Max would likely have won both races and his lead before Silverstone was 34 points, he had been closer to 50 points ahead of Lewis, but due to the deliberate collisions from Mercedes drivers, Lewis was in fron after the Hungarian with a 14 point lead. It was criminal! Max was only outside second place in that season in Hungery and when he had a DNF. He was the best driver by far.
He will be stopped when a consistent championship quality driver has a car 5 tenths faster than him, or has one as fast but significantly more reliable. I really don't think anyone is capable of going toe to toe with Max in equal machinery.
I love max don’t get me wrong he’s forever the goat for toppling mercades, but unfortunately, I can’t help but agree 😭 gotta jus wait till he join wec or something else
As a Max fan I say that in equal car at least Lewis and Alonso can
Many riders can beat him. Lewis and Alonso are better. Lando is equal to him. Sainz and Leclerc would have a solid chance. Russell too
@@lars3712 HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
@@lars3712 Sainz is way too slow(hilarious you even suggested that, even Bottas is above Sainz) , Leclerc would end up crashing due to the pressure, Lewis and Alonso are simply too old, and Lando is way too inexperienced and inconsistent to be a serious challenge over a season's length, one race sure but a season no way. No one would stand a chance in equal machinery for a full season. Nico beat Lewis on his prime in 2016 on equal machinery, Max is way better than Nico and Lewis is 8 years older now.
This season boring to watch?
No, no and no!
Just take MV out of the equation and you'll see the most competative season and most diverse podium in ages.
So definately not boring.
Who says that F1 needs a different winner every time. This is not Nascar of Indycar, this is F1, the pinnacle of motor sports: domination by one brand and catch up by others have been and will be inevitable, despite what FiA, FOM or Netflix fans want or try.
Proof me wrong in the comments please!
The point you make about Redbull's reliability is a great one, such an underrated aspect of a dominant car and driver pairing.
WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ALDAS, THIS IS THE BEST SEASON EVER!
I genuinely believe Max to be one of those rare beasts, a master of his profession who can extract extra performance from a car that isn't there when looking at data and testing. Senna was another, able to run his car consistently not just on its level of performance but over it too.
If he's in a top 6 car, he's winning races no doubt. The 2023 season has been a stroll for him, but in a less competitive car he'd still be in the mix I reckon. He's so fast and consistent, and more importantly still brimming with the drive and determination required to be as successful as he is...
Buckle up haters. The ride has just begun.
I bet you were crying in 2020
@@kingdodongo4126 Not as much as you lulu loser cultists have been doing for almost three years now.
@@kingdodongo4126bet you where crying after Abu Dabi in 2021 lmao
@@kingdodongo4126 Ah, 2021, the gift that keeps on giving. Whatever LH fans say or try to imply, I will always smile gleefully and remember that all that rage, misinformation and trying to downplay comes from an intense pain and sadness 🙂
@@kingdodongo4126 why cry? The inevitable was coming.
As soon as Lewis Hamilton gets a car as good as his.
Honestly put Nando in that Red bull. This old goat will suprise everyone.
Fernando alonso
World champion in
2005
2006
2024
That would just look stupidly insane
Redbull oversteer car characteristics probably wouldn't suit Nando's driving style, but he would make an unbeatable team.
Am I the only one actually enjoying having a race winner and a champion that is not named Lewis Hamilton? Honestly, I think the only reason people are hating on Max is because he is head and shoulders above everyone else at the moment. I am kind of bored of the comments saying that this is the most boring period for F1, when there was at least 5 or 6 years where there was one team dominating everyone else.
I think its relatively safe to assume Max can win up to 5 WDC until 2025. 2026 seems like the most realistic chance for other teams and drivers to stake their claim.
Not at all, RB could very well ace their engine in 2026 and with their superior aero, keep dominating the field.
8:11 McLaren still have the excuse of being a customer team. Personally, I don't expect them to ever challenge for a championship while they use customer engines.
Someone mentioned red bull bringing a zero pod design in 2024 as a joke, but just imagine if they did that. The rage would be biblical. I'd love them to do it in pre season testing for the first day as a meme
And then it would be revealed that Newey somehow made zero-pod design work and Red Bull actually starts to use it and dominates even harder 😂
Daily reminder that the only other driver to win so far in 2023 won by not being faster but rather slower enough
Whenever stroll stops declaring himself world championship (stroll 21, stroll 22, stroll 23, stroll 24)
Honestly I feel like piastri will be a major competitor in the future
Fantastic assessments and insights sir. I’ve been saying for a while now that the worst thing that could happen to Max is for him to have a teammate that can actually challenge him. No, I agree with you RB does better with a clear number one and number two. But I do also think Checo needs to shake this case of the yips and score a little bit more than he is currently.
Max doesn't care, he will make short work of any challenge. Max is just that good, he doesn't care who drives that other car, his mission of destroying them does not change.
We need Michael Masi back as race director, it's been boring ever since he left the sport because of that one little incident in 2021.
Great Video! Most people forget that this domination wont last forever and that the season will come where another team challenges Max for the title.
I really appreciate your videos. They are insightful and above the hypes of the day/week. You having a pleasant voice to listen to comes as a extra bonus.
Having said that, could you please pronounce the letter T at the end of a word? Only in the last four minutes of this video I noted targeh, figh, ouh, ah, thah, sporh, ih and buh (instead of target, fight, out, that, sport, it and but). It would really improve your videos to toplevel quality!
Sorry but that's how you normally speak English.
I wasn't referring to everyday speech. Surely there is a difference between informal speech and being a reporter or providing a voice over.
I seriously never before watched a program or listened to a podcast with this phenomenon.
@@wouterkok9610 I dunno, for me it's all the same how someone pronounces words as long as I understand what they are saying.
whats the music on the backround? name?
I can't see 2024 and 2025 going to anyone else but Red Bull and Verstappen. I think (and hope) it will be much closer however with 3 or 4 constructors winning multiple races. Rivals are starting to understand their cars more and catch red bull but I doubt it will be enough to topple them until the next major rule changes.
2026 its impossible to know. but it's exciting its at least on the horizon making it unlikely for this RedBull era to last as long as the Mercedes for example.
Maybe im weird but i actually preferred this year to the last two and didnt find it boring or too predictable. Ok, so max won pretty much the whole thing... i agree that part is pretty dull. But, seeing Aston Martin in 2nd place at the beginning, then an equal fight between ferrari and mercedes over that space and now McLaren gunning for it at the end... is that not the definition of a competitive season? Its fun when you have a title fight between two top drivers like in 2021 but it can also be annoying as all the focus goes to those two to the detriment of everyone else.
When someone gets a competitive car, Hamilton, Leclerc, Norris, sainz, Russell, piastri
Mate if it was only that easy, Max is next lvl in that RB. They maybe will win a race or two but Max is consistent like a robot right now and he only gets better, colleting records like its falling off a conveyer belt.
Max beats all of them in comparable machinery.
Hamilton and Russell are just not going to win a wdc because Max will always pick up more points than them.
@@Reaz399 Except in 2021 when they were last in roughly equal machinery and human error gave Max the championship over Lewis. There's no evidence for your statement.
Except old and current world champions, the other drivers haven't been tested on the mental pressure they will be under once really fighting for the championship. That's a quality we have to see if they have it. We saw Charles putting it in the wall once leading the championship. Max consistency will wear down most others.
So… what’s wrong with Red Bull winning 3 years in a row? Do you forget Mercedes winning for 8 years…. Turning their engine down every race. No one talked like this for Hamilton.
F1 has, does and will always have a dominant team. If it didn’t, it’d be overweight Indy car.
People forget that this is a constructors sports they start giving more importance to drivers and call this season boring where as this season is interesting from Williams and McLaren upgrades to Aston Martin rise and fall
I hope so 🥲
You can with any power unit on the grid, except for the Renault. lol Anyway, you can’t blame Ferrari or Mercedes. No one can beat Newey if his chassis has a good PU.
I love your videos!
Easy answer my friend. Whenever Red Bull is also stopped.
Max is at a super high level but until we can get other elite drivers (Fernando, Lewis and perhaps Lando nowadays) to have top tier cars, Max is going to steamroll.
The 2021 rule changes were made to slow down the cars, not Mercedes. In fact before testing everyone even Toto and Horner thought the rules would hurt high rake cars.
2:55 STOP THE CAP
Why do people keep saying that this season has been boring ! 😂😂😂😂 There is an extremely engaging battle for second in both the divers and constructors championship.
Remember Vettel having one lap to qualify and nailing it first try. That was a pretty dominate Red Bull as well. Or leading by more than 30 seconds in clean air. It never lasts.
2026 regs got me nervous. Logan Sargent will stop them, you heard it here first.
The rule change for 2021 was not blatantly to nerf Mercedes. In fact before the start of the season, the judges were still out whether these changes would benefit a low-rake chassis (Mercedes) or a high-rake chassis (Red Bull), Only during winter testing it became clear that these floor changes benefitted Red Bull more than Mercedes. But these changes were made to compensate for technical development and slow down the cars a bit to not give Pirelli more tire headaches.
This is a positive comment for the TH-cam algorithm
im surprised you still havent milked the audi/porsche/sauber situation
Personally don't see him losing the championship until the next regs change in 2026, and even then we thought 2022 would massively hurt Red Bull and it didn't.
True. It always seems to be a 'changing of the guard' everytime there are major reg changes.
You keep on saying the 2023 season is BORING. The season is not boring at all, plenty of nice racing to see! That Max is in his own league doesn't make the season boring.
Where does this narrative come from that the 2021 rulechanges were made to slow down Mercedes?
They were there on request of Pirelli to slow down everyone and Bacu showed why. Pre-season everyone even thought the chance would impact high rake cars more than low rake cars.. Mercedes just screwed up their design, just like they did in 2022.
There were other rulechanges in 2021 that were targeted at certain teas like the change for pitstops, but none of those hampered Mercedes.
Like it or not it's max championship to lose. I'm sorry but Hamilton personally speaking isn't on max level. We are in a new era
We’ll just have to see how much of an advantage Red Bull starts with next season. If they can keep re establishing the gap by solely focusing on next years design by the summer break no one will catch Max until the new regs are introduced in ‘26
I think next year we’ll see 3 teams win multiple races, but RB probably wins still. 25 will be a crazy year, and in 26 we’ll be back to having some team dominate the new regs. I think the papaya team nabs one of those two (25 or 26.)
When he doesnt have best car anymore. He is top 3-4 driver anyway and has by far best and most consistent car, so its not much of a question. It would be interesting if few cars were on par with redbull. Once the outcome is not known from the start, tension and pressure are much higher. And, as much as i think max can handle the pressure, it would inevitably result in a few mistakes on his end. Not saying he wouldnt still win on an even basis, but he wouldnt be nearly as dominant as this. Now he drives like he knows hes gonna win in any case, is relaxed and full of confidence. Would be nice to have more equal season and put top drivers to more pressure
While I don't fault like drivers like Schumacher, Hamilton, Vettel,max for the dominance they've experienced.I think that the sport could benefit from a tad more of some simplification and or standardization of some components to kinda make it like NASCAR or indycar in terms of getting the cars to parity and letting the drivers be more of a determinating factor.
Don't get me wrong I have been a fan of Hamilton since 2007 and I respect Alonso I hope both take it to max and let the best driver win.
Keep it clean😊
If anything I think they should relax regulations to some extent. The sport has become so overly regulated that its basically 20 of the same cars on the track, with just each team bringing a different aero package, for most part. Anytime a team trys to innovate, other teams rush to have said innovation banned.
Nope, F1 is an engineering sport not a spec series
I was saying that in an effort to keep costs down,which in theory would make even lower tier teams competitive.
It is Max's and Red Bull's consistency that make them so strong. So even if you give the other drivers mentioned a competetive car, the driver and the team altogether need to show a similar level of consistency in the next two years. Yes, even the driver's championship is a team effort as we experienced in 2022 with Charles Leclerc. He did make some mistakes, but who knows how his mental fortitude would have stabilized with a proper functioning team. And don't forget that Max also made mistakes in 2022: For example, out of the blue he spun in Hungary driving towards his next win on P1. He only regained first place because Ferrari put Leclerc (against his will and even seeing the performance of other hard runners) on hard tyres and therefore he was basically a sitting duck as Max easily caught up to him again.
Or as Max binned quali in 2021 in Saudi Arabia in the very last corner as everybody thought he had that pole safe with that 2-3 tenths lead over Hamilton.
Nobody is perfect und unbeatable. But the combination of Max, the car and the team Red Bull is surely a very hard and tough opponent to go against.
And in 2026 we indeed don't know anything. The cards will be mixed anew.
For sure Saudi Arabia was a mistake on Max’s part but Hungary wasn’t - the team said it was a clutch issue that caused the spin
@@hurronivich2652 To be fair, he had that clutch problem the whole race and he dealt with it just fine all the corners until that one time. I think RB just said that to honor his performance. Imo Max's concentration slipped away for a second. Which is still astounding dealing with that issue during slightly wet and cold conditions.
Why do you want him to be stopped?
His incredible ability to drive an F1 car is just wonderful to watch…
…
Humans can't stop AI.
All things being equal; if Schumacher hadn’t crashed into Hill and Hill won that 94 title, Lewis would have the most titles in F1, and maybe 2021 wouldn’t be so contentious. I have no idea what got me thinking about that. Nice video btw.
If rosberg didn't retired after 2016 or a number two like valteri didn't join Mercedes Lewis wouldn't have won that mnay2 titles or if Lewis didn't choked at entering pit during 2007 and Massi didn't fucked up the rules at 21 abu dhabi LH would be 9 times champion or if Ferrari didn't fucked up alonso would be 2011 2012 and vettel would be 2017 2018 champion but guess what we can only assume not change anything
Adrian Newey is 64 and has already tried to retire from F1. He won't/can't stay forever, and losing him will be a huge blow to RBR dominance. Losing Honda engines are likely to create some issues, too. There is no denying Max has talent but stick him in a bad car and he's not going to keep winning.
This season isnt boring.
Those who care the most or only about who wins think its boring.
Change your mindset.
Ppl forget Max is cruising after the first corner or when he gets in front. He's cruising and watching the big screens ppl, singing and joking. Apart from when he has car problems he's on easy mode. Not being challenged by anybody and least of all his team mate. We haven't even seen the Max squeezing everything out of this car yet.
He wasn't joking about tire management starting the out lap.
I know it probably won´t happen but i want Hulkenberg to get the second Red Bull seat. He´s friends with Max. He would accept being a second driver at a team like Red Bull and he´s a good qualifier. In this Red Bull Hulkenberg would have done much better than Checo but then again it´s not hard to be better than Checo this season.
I don't get why you guys think it's boring, I had the same with any dominant season, why is everyone watching only the number one spot, that's like watching only the finals in football world cup, the field is closer than ever not counting RB and I'm honestly enjoying it a lot
You never really know in F1 look at Vettel and Hamilton a decade ago. Vettel had 4 to Lewis's 1 title.
It's already started. From here on in, it's going to get a lot more difficult for Max to 'win every race'. . .
Really, it's inevitable. Max having the dominant car is 4-5 seasons tops.
To stop max from winning, he will have to drive the 4th fastest car. With Anything better than 4th fastest he will still win half the races.
Would be great to see Max and Fernando in the Aston Martin from the beginning from the season. I think they both fighting for the title.
Don’t be ridiculous, he had the second fastest car in 2020 and the third from 17-19 and he did everything that he could with those cars. Max is an ATG but no driver in history can overcome that deficit unless the top 4 cars are within a tenth of each other
@@jamespoole3531 my assupmtion was that they too 4 are within tenths of each other. Max these days makes no mistakes, and scarily consistent lap over lap.
Mclaren start every season with a handicap for some reason 😂😂 So they won't compete, they have done it 2 seasons in a row
@@jamespoole3531Did he have the 2nd fastest car in 2020 though? Albons performance hinted otherwise. Also, Verstappen is not even close to being the driver he is today in 2020. He was making mistakes and reckless manouvers. In addition, the car didn’t have the seemingly bulletproof reliability in 2020.
Nah, there's more to winning than having the fastest car. Or the 2nd fastest.
Your point about "Red Bull not even trying to get a strong second driver/evenly matched pairing unlike Ferrari who tried to go for Hamilton-Leclerc" (which was complete conjecture btw) completely falls in the context of Red Bull trying to sign Norris as recently as within the last year and a half. I don't know how you give weight to the Hamilton-Ferrari rumours but not Norris-RBR, when the latter was at least acknowledged by Horner and Marko as true whilst the former had no support from either party. Gte out.
@3:00 You say that it doesn't matter if you have a RB power unit, or a Renault, you can still win 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes. That is true. But except for the Renault part of that statement. Those engines are pure shite.
F1 2023 season being boring??? Obviously must be joking!!!!
Yes!! RB / Max has given us a mind blowing driving experience in how to maximize the teams ability to provide the best race car in F1!!!
But .......... RB/ Max's performance aside, all F1 fans have been spoilt for life as they are witnessing unbelievable performance from the RB / Max team while watching one of F1's hotly contested inter team completion between all the other teams.
When another team gets a better car 🤷🏾♂️
I remember this same conversation when Lewis Hamilton was winning everything
Carbon free fuels? That means not a single Carbon atom. Nah. You mean carbon neutral. As using carbon sinks elsewhere to compensate for the emissions.
This season has been greater to watch than the Mercedes years where you have one driver, Hamilton, twitching his party mode knob as dictated by the pits and "Valtteri, it's James..." calls that make him the #1 driver. Hamilton has been greatly propped up by a hugely dominant car. You can see how Hamilton cannot even perform overtakes. Ruining the races of Piastri in Monza or Russell in Qatar. Nah. Hamilton should have quit. He is far removed from Max' caliber. There are better people on the grid. Like indeed Alonso.
Piastri is more championship material than Norris, though. Can see that throughout the last few GP clearly.
Leclerc can't deal with pressure and prone to make mistakes. Cost him 2022. In conjunction with Ferrari unreliability and Ferrari's reliably poor strategy.
Great post, nothing but correct statement after correct statement. If only more people had the knowledge that you do.
Completely agree, some people would probably bring up ‘07 ‘wHeN LeWiS bEaT AlOnSO’, only to forget they were equal in points and Hamilton got a preferential treatment by Ron Dennis.
RB should go after Fernando for their second car. They’ll still favor Max but add to his legacy (if they’re as invested in that as it seems they are) by giving him a champion as a teammate to beat.
I don't see Lando, Charles nor George being able to beat Max over a season, especially when you look at the mistakes they have made and ruined great achievements (although Lando hasn't made any huge mistake in a while now). Can it be Piastri? Maybe. He hit the ground running and is really close to Norris in his first season, but at this very moment, I think only Lewis and Fernando can put up a fight, and still, it's gonna be very ugly. As long as he is at least three tenths behind the fastest car, he's good enough to win.
When i turn off the tv. NOW!
Leclerc is not as good as Aldas wants to
Never heard so many complaints about dominance or boredom when Hammi was winning.. Such bias!
The entire Red Bull/Honda operation are functioning at likely the highest level of consistency we will ever see in F1. Shame the complainers keep themselves from appreciating the remarkable accomplishments we're witnessing the lastast couple years.
I dont think the reliability of the rb19 is anything special, there really hasnt been many reliability issues even for ferrari or alpine
I think Max is the great differentiator at this point, a few others for sure caught up, Mclaren most def are on pace at times and sure predict Piastri too to become extremely hard to beat in the future? Max is just mature now combined with that raw speed, super fast I don't think anyone at the grid can beat him in that second RB19, was not always the case. I used to think Lewis, Fernando are on pace and hated it haha, now I just have no choice but wonder at that young mans pace.
Leclerc is not up there imho, neither is Lando, don't get me wrong the yare super good drivers, not at Max level though he is just one of these one in a gen and perhaps then some? Piastri is imho the next hope, Fernando too is mentally strong and refuse to drop pace but Max is Max, combined with a car like that no wonder
Lewis, Alonso, Lando, Sainz, Leclerc would all beat him
It depends what they do in the future not what they do now
I just hope Max isn't dethroned the way Lewis was by an FIA regulation change. I'm convinced that that regulation change back in 2021 specifically targeted the low rake cars. It's not like that's the first time that the FIA has nerfed the team that dominated.
@@smoothsayer2180 It is.
they worked theeir ars very hard 4-5 years to build the team that got them 2021 and with that knowledge + newey brilliantness they have all for all untill next rules changes. unfortunatelly for the rest of us :))
He will be stopped when FIA decides to
Look at everyone in history, Schumacher/Ferrari 2000-2004, Hamilton/Mercedes 2014-2020
When they will release new rules and changes affecting them directly, which I suppose will be around 2026
Then he will be stopped
The FIA can't, because RB has built a car that does not rely on gimmicks like merc, ferrari and even previous domination RB. And since the new regs are not even known yet, there is no saying what 2026 will bring. Might well be RB acing their engine with all those merc and Honda engineers they hired for RBPT and continuing the domination.
Realistically Mercedes weren't stopped until 2022 with the ground effect. They still won the constructors title in 2021 and depending on the circuit still had the fastest car on the grid.
Prost was at the top for six or seven years. Shumacher was at the top for six or seven years. Hamilton was at the top for six years or so. Vettel was at the top for five years or so. Verstappen has been on top for two years. He's got two to four years to go. And I don't think the next "big thing" Is even in F1 today.
Its just two seasons and why you Englishmen are crying this muchhhh .
Were you people deaf up until 2020 ?!
I would like Nando to red bull so much
Fernando himself already said he does not feel like fighting Max in the RB, so that won't happen.
Honestly I don’t think if max is pair with Charles , he’s actually beat him
He just lacks that sauce , that extra scope to not make some mistakes
Can’t wait for all the people that think this season was boring to quit watching.
When he gets bored or wants to tone down. I don't think his goal is to stay at the top for a long time. He's here for a good time. If 26 cars aren't fun I see him likely hopping off and going into endurance racing within a few years.
If Max has the car, he will cruise
Verstappen is the only one to get 110% out of his car.