From Miami, Max treated Lando as someone who could steal his crown, while Lando/McLaren treated the championship as something they could merely get close to.
@@scottb9868 Ngl but after his first win he has become very arrogant.... his ego has skyrocketed like chill dawg even Kubica was a winner(no offence to GIGAKUBICA)
@@Md.WasiHasan I agree with what your saying but i also think some of that was him trying to mentally hype himself up to try to take on Max. Its not just a physical battle its the mental battle you have to fight with Max thats really tough.
People forget that even after Miami, Max has more points than Lando. So it isn't really all about his early lead. He has just been that much more faster and consistent.
Finally, someone who gets it. "The red bull was fastest at first, no way he'd win without that" he literally would still be winning if the season started in Miami.
also people tend to forget all the problems going on during that early wins in the redbull garage with horner controversies and people leaving the team etc. he wasn't distracted.
By my count Max 293 - Lando 282 without the first five races. There would be a fun finish upcoming as the Maclarens were very quick last year at Qatar. A Lando win, fastest lap and a Max 3rd would have them going into the finale tied. So yeah, his early lead matters a lot. Almost as much as all the points (31) that Lando lost to Max in the six races after Miami.
If you delete the first 7 races, and you start counting from monaco: VER 242 Poinits NOR 239 Points PIA 215 Points LEC 206 Points That consistency without the best car is why Max absolutely deservingly won that title, no debate.
But the fight wouldn't be over. 5 points could be made up with a Norris win next race. Plus, there is the one incident that was not Norris' fault that would put him in the lead of this title, Austria. Had Lando not been taken out by Max and gone on to win, he would have gained 7 points on Max, instead of losing 10. That is a 17 point swing thay would put him in the lead of the title by 14 points in this scenario. The point I am trying to make is this, if you take away those first 7 races, all it would take is 1 single mistake of 1 bad performance for Max, or just 1 bit of luck to go Lando's way (not getting taken out in Austria) for him to take the lead in the championship. Thus, that 60 point gap Max had after the first 7 races played a huge part in why he won the title. With those first 7 races, Max could score zero points for 2 races and Lando could get 26 in both and he would still be behind by almost 15 points. That gap, coupled with Max still getting a lot of points, meant Lando would have had to finish 1st or 2nd in the last 17 races to catch up, which was impossible. The Ferrari and Mercedes, and even RB were faster than the Mclarens in several of the race weekends. For Lando to catch up, it would have required something his car was not capable of, but it was something the RB was capable of in the first 5 races, as it had the same gap to the field that it did during 2023.
@@Mr.X2188 bruh, that is an endless list of "if's" and "maybe's", where you seem to be forgetting that Max has clearly shown that he is the MUCH better driver (from P17 to P1 with 19 seconds lead in Brazil, Norris: From P1 to P6...)
@@rientsdijkstra4266 Don't get me wrong, Max is the better driver. But he was never under the amount of pressure Lando was because he had a 3 race points lead. The only way Lando could have realistically brought it down was with 2 DNFs from Max, which didn't happen. Now it was incredibly impressive that he still outscored Lando after his car was no longer the fastest, but if you take away those first 7 races, Max could lose the championship leand in Qatar. All of the pressure would be on him to not make a mistake, and to finish ahead of Norris. If he somehow came through, which he certainly could, probably would, then it would be maybe the greatest Championship win of all time. I just can't view this title as impressive as other people view it because it could have been because of that gap. We will see these last 2 races
I say Max had the fastest car for 5 races (and I am a Max-fan). However, that means that Max did NOT have the fastest car (by a long shot) for 3 quarters or more of the season.
The whole point is that after rb loose their dominance, there wasn’t a single consistent challenger. The fastest car changed almost every race. Combine that with the early dominance and on balance rb had the fastest car die the entire season
@@fixxa6455 it wasn't though was it? It was a couple of tenths quicker or even on par (Imola, Spain, Canada, etc) and also had times where Ferrari or Mercedes was quickest or joint (Monaco, Mexico, COTA, Britain, etc). So many people act like Lando had an RB19 equivalent when he clearly didn't
Yes, it's like Jenson Button. But the bigger question is why and why Lando can't be dominant in the fastest car just like Max and Lewis or Alonso could.
I don't think Lando has what it takes to be a champion but to be fair to him the team as a whole did not perform well with some woeful strategy calls. Perhaps Piastri will do better but I have my doubts. He's really great on his day but he only seems to be awake for half a dozen races in the season
They made some mistakes, but the mclaren is certainly not as dominant as the Merc and Red Bull had been. It was just averagely the best car and dominant at some tracks.
Norris wasn't ready for the challenge and he's simply too inconsistent. I believe he'll learn from the mistakes and be much more aggressive next year. I think the one thing that is very underrated from Verstappen is the tenacity in maxing out results with a bad car.
Yes he built a massive lead in the beginning but lando had 17 or so races to catch up. He literally had to outscore max by less than 5 points per race weekend when he has a faster car. The argument that he only won because of an early lead is bull. Especially considering as of Miami he has still outscored lando in total points.
He won because he was the best driver, but it is dissingenous to suggest Lando&Oscar had the quickest car for 17 races. The RB was faster then MCL for (BAH,SAU,Australia,JAP,CHI,MIA,LAV) and equal for (IMO,CAN,SPA,USA) and Brazil was just crazy (and Max was incredible, but I don't feel in that race car performance was that impactful look at Merc). And in the races RB were quicker it was mainly for a guaranteed 1st, whereas when MCL were quickest it was often clos with FER and Lando also has a more competitive teammate to share the top points with. Lastly, RB were operationaly so much better than MCL this year (Lando has to take some blame for that)
Exactly. If we give the best McLaren results on each race to Lando, he will gain 65 more points which brings him to 405, two points ahead of Max. For being the champion you definitely need to be much better than your teammate.
@@samoht-k2g Red Bull was definitely slower than McLaren in Miami and Austin.That makes Red Bull quicker 6 races this year and McLaren quicker on 9 races. That is if we consider the McLaren drivers to be as quick as Verstappen. It's probably more reasonable to assume that Verstappen made that Red Bull look better than it was.
Max will be remembered as one of the best drivers in the sport, this season was a clear demonstration of his skill and ability to drive a car that simply shouldn't have placed where it finished. There's no denying that the inital race wins helped alot, as well as Mclaren/Lando's shortcoming's, but Max really had to show his worth for the title to come to fruition as the season shifted out of RedBull's favour.
Yes, but also as a world champion who never really got challenged except for his first title that was filled with controversy and wrong decisions in the final laps of the final race. He did not have any real challenging team mate and also had the best car on the grid for 3 of his 4 titles. Max never had a world champion as his team mate. Pretty much every one of Lewis team mates with exception of George and Valtteri were world champions and he beat them all. Charles had Seb as team mate and beat him every season while coming off of 2 times P2 in standings. Nico had Michael as team mate, Alonso had world champions as team mates.
To be fair it's very difficult to suddenly get unexpectedly thrown into a title battle mid-season because you have to change your whole mindset and approach to the season whereas a driver like Verstappen went into the season expecting to be in the title picture. I don't even think the team seriously thought the title was on until after the summer break so weren't working to maximise his chances.
I mean i agree. But people act like redbull was slow at the beginning of the year and mclaren was just extremely dominant. By everyone logic Oscar isn't very good either
Congratulations to Max showcasing he's one of the greats. Maximised having the fastest car early on, then his skill, and Norris and McLaren incompetence saw him to the end.
I think we can all say is 2025 is gonna be wild. All 4 teams are gonna be super strong at the end of these regulations and it really is gonna be a toss up on who will win. You have Verstappen, Norris, Piastri, LeClerc, Hamilton, and Russell all gunning for a championship.
What about checo, it’s not like he forgot how to operate a race car, the rb19 was a difficult shitty car to drive this year, checo finished 2nd last year
This season sealed Verstappen’s legacy as one of the greatest to ever grace the sport. Past years deniers have the excuse that he has the better car, and it’s all the car and not the driver; but this season overall McLaren had the better car, if Max and Lando swapped places he probably would’ve secured the championship a couple races earlier, it really shows his race craft and resiliency to win with this car and without a teammate.
We already had 2021 when he won without the fastest car, and with horrendously bad luck. Isn't it ironic that it's often the LH44 cultists that call Max a car merchant for having a dominant car for a couple of seasons, where as Lewis had the dominant machinery for at least five years of his career.
There's nothing controversial about Verstappen's clashes. At least, when you understand the concept of sports in general. Like other really great drivers in the history of F1, he knows the rules and how to use them to get an advantage. Nothing different than in football, for example (soccer for that part of the world where football is mainly played using hands). A player commits a foul and will happily take a yellow card for it when the objective, preventing the opponent to create a situation from which their team can score, is reached. In F1 the time penalty is the equivalent of the yellow card in football. As a bonus, in F1 two yellow cards will not lead to a red card, a black flag. F1 pundits or F1 fans should not blame a driver for using the rules to gain an advantage. When they don't like it, they should direct their anger to the FIA who made the rules and demand a change. Any driver that doesn't understand it or refuses to do the same, isn't going to get far in the WDC and shouldn't even be on the grid.
Max won two of his four world championships with a car that was not the clear benchmark. That speaks to his talent. Although his defending style is on the edge and sometimes over, there is no denying his pure driving skill. One of the greatest, although I do hope he get's challenged even more next season.
@@vintatsh I agree, so far only Lewis has gone toe-to-toe with Max, as well as Leclerc at least on race craft alone, would be great to see how Charles performs over a whole season of title fighting instead of just a couple races.
What does over the edge mean? I am curious. If all of the max haters ganged up and overtook F1 management, there wont be another F1 where you can watch a guy like max compete at the highest level. I played waterpolo professionaly. I was really good. Not because i was the ''sportsmanship pinnacle''. I remember after i learned the rules, i did everything in my power to do ''anything'' that is allowed to win. And then i got drafted into the national team. Senna and Schumacher are legendary drivers in F1 and if you watch them today, you ll see your narrow opinion on verstappens ''over the edge'' driving. They are the same, its just F1 fans are little snowflakes now.
Why are F1 fans, or sports fans in general, only ever seeing things in black and white? What point are you even trying to make that Red Bull was "not the clear benchmark" in two out of his four titles? They were still the benchmark. Just not "clear"? And that speaks to his talent? Verstappen is the best driver on the grid, we all know that. But to use the narrative that he had a non-dominant car is just ridiculous. Someone has to win the title, even if there is no dominant car. The title fights were close. Just because someone came out on top in a tight battle does not make them sooooo much better than had they won it with a major margin in a dominant car. Why that narrative?
it was kinda an ok explaination but you failed to mention one thing. since norris had piastri as an headache but piastri also cost max points with him being ahead of verstappen. Perez was nowhere and didn't take a single point off of mclaren boys. so it's kinda unfair that if piastri didn't exist it would have helped norris. his existence alone helped norris with a lot of points as well
I don’t like when they mention that the borderline move in defence in Austin went unpunished. Yes, of course there was no punishment because it was within the rules!
It was not within the rules. It is actually against the rules. You are not allowed to go off the track without a good reason, defending a position is not one. However the issue is the omission from the guidelines relating to certain rules. But the stewards don't have to adhere to the guidelines rigidly.
@@3rdStoreyChemist Lando was punished because he committed the bigger offence by overtaking off the track. Punishing both drivers for the event makes no sense so the bigger offender gets the short end of the stick. Max took a huge risk to set a trap and Lando took the bait.
@@joshuagleeson4776 The rules should be applied. They both broke the rules, they both benefited by breaking the rules in some way, therefore both should be punished for their individual actions.
Saying that not having a competitive teammate helped Verstappen is a wong argument. Piastri didn't cost only Norris points, but Verstappen as well! if Perez had been faster throughout the season, then yes, he might have outscored his teammate a few times but, crucially, he could have hampered Norri's and Mclaren's progress in each and every race. Verstappen's had to fight, on his own, against 2-3 or even 6 cars on his own many times this season.
He won 7 of the first 10 races in what was then mostly the fastest car. After that, wins were split between multiple teams & drivers so there was no one driver who could catch up.
By imola the McLaren was at worst equal machinery. Also after that regardless of multiple teams fighting up front, the McLaren was always faster than the red bull so Norris should have at the very least been chipping away at the lead, but that never happened. The gap now is bigger than it was when the red bull was still dominant. Max outscored everyone in a slower car since Miami
After Lando said that Max couldn't have come back from the same deficit if they switched cars, I calculated the amount of points Norris threw away and it's at least 70 points (also accounting for points Max gained by Lando dropping places). If Max was in the McLaren he'd be ahead in the championship and on his way to a title in the final race.
@ultrascreens5206 there's that race and at least two others that were a minimum 14 point swing. It's crazy cuz you don't even have to dig deep for hypotheticals. Spains a great example, qualified pole, down to p3 in one corner lol. Max would never.
@ it could have been even at the Brazil GP i reckon tbh had all went more smoothly and been handled better, even occasions where Norris dominated and Piastri wasnt there to finish ahead of Max in P2
@@krigogsmerteSome of those were through no fault of Norris, like Austria (a 17 point swing), Hungary (a 7 point swing), and Cota ( a 6 point swing). If you just take those 3 races, Norris would only be 33 points behind. Still a 2 race gap, but considerably closer. I won't give him the points for his own mistakes, and I didn't even include Silverstone with the terrible tire strategy which would have been +15 points on Max. Yes, Norris lost a lot of points, but if you just take 3 races which weren't becaus of Norris' mistakes, that 60 point gap opened at the start of the year is the primary reason Max won the title.
Average Bri'hish fan when Lewis wins a title with Bottas as the team mate and a car 1.5 seconds a lap quicker than the others: "OMG HE ONCE AGAIN PROVED THAT HE IS THE GOAT" Average Bri'hish fan when Max wins his 4th straight title while driving the 3rd best car after beating Lewis in 2021 with the 2nd best car: "I mean at the end of the day he didn't really do anything super special because (pathetic excuse n°1, pathetic excuse n°2 and so on...) And no, I am not a Max's fan
They said that Max had a head start with 7 wins. There were 24 races including Sprints in 2024. They always trying to diminish Max's accomplishments. You're telling me that Max's competition needs more than 17 races to best him? Stop it with the headstart garbage.
Your analysis is flawed. Of the 14 races that MV didn't win, two drivers (CL, LN) got 3 wins each and 4 drivers (LH, GR, CS, OP) got 2 wins each. With the competition so wide, all he had to do was coast to the championship
Mclaren has a front flexi wing and a Mini DRS shenanigans for a large part of the season and FIA just turns a blind eye with such an obvious illegal parts and FIA want to address it for the next season which will give Mclaren the best car all season and good thing Red Bull and Ferrari lobbied for it to be banned
As I am a Leclerc and Ferrari fanboy I never thought it would be a fight at all, nonethless Charles having any chances. Im just greatful for a really exciting seasons, breakthroughs for Piastri, Norris and Russell, Lewis getting some wins and Ferrari 5 in total. Im looking forward to 2025 because when RedBull isn't able to win so many races in the beginning the championship is wide open for maybe 3 or even 4 drivers Its been since 2012, 2013 that we had so many teams and drivers be able to win one or even a couple of races. The future of the sport looks bright guys
MV collected all the points the car was capable, while everyone else threw away points and traded wins. He can be Senna when that’s needed he can be Lauda when that’s needed.
People also need to remember that at 3rd race in Australia where people still counts redbull has the fastest car, max got DNF which make him score 0 points. but still winning WDC with 2 races left.
@@sviniciusbraga True. It was small enough to be track specific advantage for the car. However, the W12 did come out as the outright fastest car in the last few races.
@@Khan-ts2jiit was a bit faster at the start of the season as well but RB was faster in most of the mid season races. I think the cars were pretty equal overall but Max also had a ton of bad luck.
@@Khan-ts2ji It was mostly faster because Hamilton received a fresh PU every race at the end. The 5 position grid penalty for that is just laughable, but they played their cards very well. I still consider it an unfair advantage through a loop hole, but the FIA apparently does not think it will be abused again (I doubt it). It just does not make sense to me that the first time going over the allowed PU count is a 10 place penalty and each subsequent time is only 5. It should be a progressive penalty to avoid people just completely taking the p*ss, but oh well.
@@askeladden450 Yeah, it’s crazy how many times Max suffered from things out of his control. Yet, people still say that Max was not a deserving champion. Honestly, Lewis is an amazing driver as well but a large part of his fan base is just so short sighted.
I know a lot of people are saying this was a hard one but I honestly don't see that. To me personally it'll always be the '21 fight with Lewis. At any given race there was literal combat on track with the cars. Lewis didn't back down like Lando and Charles did and would and will still do. It came down to the very last race (granted ugh...) but still he fought the literal GOAT of F1 for that title. And fought hard for it. Him and Lewis tested each other to limits even we don't see today. I can't wait for next year because I want to see Lewis and Max go at it again. Its like putting two Lions in a cage with 1 steak between them.
Also for all the talk about Norris bottling the championship it would still have required a record points overhaul so it was probably never going to happen.
2021 it was Max vs Lewis. Red Bull vs. Merecedes. There was really no strong contenders for any other team. Vettel was in a bad AMR, LeClerc/Norris/Sainz were still coming to grasp in F1 and very inconsistent. Russell was in a very slow Williams. Alonso was in a bad Alpine. Almost every race result was a 1-2 for Versteppan or Hamilton with third being Bottas or Perez.
@@lukew6725 it wasn't just Lando. Yes his challenge was weak but Mclaren as a whole failed to maximise their potential. Look at all their woeful strategy call in races like Silverstone. Max set himself up to win but Mclaren just left the door wide open for him to go through
It's same as Button 2009. He had the best car thr first half of the year. In thr 2nd half he Maximized his results in what was usually the 2nd or 3rd best car while McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes traded wins.
Button didn’t maximize his results in the second half. Brawn was absolutely dominant the first half, then Button took it easy after and just prioritized making it to the flag. Barrichello outperformed him in the second half of the season. And ultimately Brawn was 1-3, while Webber was far away in 4th.
Another thing is that even when Lando dominated a race with a huge car advantage, he made 3 huge near race ending mistakes, as seen in Singapore. If he cannot keep it together when he has no competition, no surprise he lost to someone as consistent as Max.
It seems so, from what we saw this season, even bottom half of teams now seem to get the grips of the ground force setups. And with Newey gone from RB, next season should be a banger. Even if Newey would lift Aston Martin up several notches, they have one driver who seem to have stopped taking his daily vitamins. So there's that.
Maybe, but if Mclaren don't learn anything from this season I can see Ferrari being the team to beat. Mclaren as a whole seem like a team that has forgotten how to win. They seem so used to being the underdog midfielders that never seem to have any belief they can win
@FabledGentleman Newey would be focusing on the 2026. Not much will change in 2025.. Maybe a battle between RB and McLaren (or like 2016 between Piastri and Norris). I don't consider those red clowns, their strategy will fck up everything even if Sir Lewis does a perfect drive, and
@@BryPTuCC Actually, Newey's main focus will be the 2027 car, as the work on the 2026 car will be 3 months in when Newey is allowed to weigh in. But he can still come with inputs from March/April, on both the 2025 car and the 2026 car. but what we are currently looking at, is the 2027 car, what will be Newey's next creation.
The video title was not something I was expecting from The Race. I’ve seen so many people disagree and say he did have the best car so props for being what I think is honest.
Fantastic effort from Max this year, but ultimately what saved him was Merc, Mclaren and Ferrari all taking points from each other. If there had been a clear 2nd fastest driver and car, they'd have capitalised a lot more on Red Bull's drop in performance after the good start.
On the other hand, with just one clear competitor it would have been much easier for Max to finish 2nd. Think the resukt would have been the same in a straight Lando vs. Max this year.
Pace aside, this season showed why Max is a four time champion and Lando is not yet championship material. Max took any sliver of a chance he got and maximised on opportunities that weren't even really there to begin with. Lando threw away surefire points lefty right and center. Say what you want about Max, but he knows how to perform when it matters most.
difference is when max had a bad weekend in 2021, Lewis was right there (besides baku) Lewis never let anyone other than max beat him all season, Lando just doesnt have that yet, maybe he will but not yet... in 2021 Max and lewis treated everyone else like extras in a movie, including their own teammates.
@@Alumnikiidand Toto Wolff said they had the better car overal. Ofcource a designer and technical responsible would defend his creation. Wolff on the other hand doesnt have a selfish reason to lie. And again WCC went to MERC.
The Red Bull led more laps in 2021 that all other cars combined.....the Merc was faster at the end. That does not make them the faster car all year. This effort to rewrite history to elevate Max to this mythical level is really weird for what I assume are grown men.
He did have the dominant car for half the season. Remember Bahrain he won by over 20 seconds. While the 2nd half of the season the top 4 teams all jockied for position and could win on any given week. If the 1st half of the season was like the 2nd, who knows who would have won
He built a commanding lead when his car's performance was ahead of everyone else. He wasn't much affected in the middle because the wins were being shared between the top teams so no single opponent was racking up all the points. He kept his closest opponent in check by doing everything to disrupt their races to prevent them from closing the gap.
People forget he was winning races by 30 seconds at the start of the season. Hopefully next year we finally have a level playing-field to see how's the best driver between Lewis, Max, Charles and Lando. It's easy to push other drivers off the track and take 10 second penalty when you have a massive lead in the championship, next year if cars have a similar performance from the start, Max can't afford to drive like he did in Mexico and accumulate penalty points on his license.
@@Euclides287 lol dude norris had the fastest car longer than max did he could have won many more races charles and lando arent constitent enough to compete with max and lewis
Max could outdrive the rest of the field in a Honda Civic if he had to. He'd probably qualify on the first row with a Kia Soul if push came to shove. With a Subaru Forester, he'd lap the rest of the field. The Red Bull team held him back with their crappy car. Just look at Perez. Perez is a great driver, and he would be on top if he was in a Williams. Red Bull is slow, Max is fast, deal with it.
Well, partly. Max Verstappen has shown masterclass in driving this season, for those who might have been doubting if it was all the car. But now there is no doubt anymore, not only has Verstappen performed some of the all time greatest races, he has also shown an impeccable knowledge of current rules and how to properly utilize them to his advantage. He is one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time, love him or hate him, this is just facts.
By having the best car for the first 7 races, maximising his points from them all (one DNF and one second place due to a safety car), then just picked up points whilst the other teams decided who had the best car on a race by race basis and aggressively defending the lead when needed. People really underestimate how big an advantage being in the lead is. RB was the best car for the the first 3rd of the season and it wasn't really until austria that the car really started not being on par with some of the others. By that point that title was sown up, you don't throw a lead like that unless your a pretty shit driver, and you can say what you like about Max (I'm not his biggest fan) but you cannot say his anything less one the best drivers to race an F1 car. If Jenson could sail a car that was great for the fast part of the season and progressively got more dogshit throughout the season to a victory, then Max was obviously going to.
First 5 races. After Adrian Newey left (end of contract 1 may, after the 5th GP in China) It went south quite fast with the RB. You can see this from the fact that Perez dropped from scoring 4 podiums in the first 5 races to 8th places or worse and eliminations before Q3 after China. It was only Max's extraordinary talent that produced more wins and podiums after that.
The key is that when the Redbull was the best car then Verstappen would win and when it wasn’t he’d get the best result available, at least more often than any other top driver. I think he’d probably have won this title of he was a Redbull, a McLaren or a Ferrari this year, he’d just maximise results. All those cars could’ve won the constructors this year, they’re not far off being the best car over the year as a whole. He wouldn’t have won the title in a Merc because they’re just too far off, no one can win a title in a non-title contending car.
I would disagree about the Ferrari, but agree with the sentiment. Also it helped that he was not splitting any points, where as if he had NOR,PIA,LEC,SAI,HAM,RUS,ALO he would've split points (he would've still won the teammate battle, but maybe not the whole championship)
It’s simple, he built an early lead at the start of the season because the car in the first 5 or 6 races was basically just the RB19B, combined with his maintained consistency even after the car became a total shitbox, the mistakes from Norris, the championship Max’s to win. We knew Max would win his 4th title from the very start, but we didn’t expect him to win it in the way we expected him to.
Lies. Max drove better than Lando in a slow car. From Austria to Brazil, Max and Lando both scored 160 points each. Max would've won the Championship by 1 point in Vegas.
Max had the fastest car for the first 10 rounds and took advantage with 7 wins. That is where he gained his massive lead and then just maximized every result there after. However if Max, Lewis, Charles or George were driving that Mclaren, they would have won the title. Lando just couldn't deliver consistently on race day but it is what it is excited for 2025 for sure.
Adrian Newey left after the 5th race in China, and all the drivers and experts agree that after that Max had only the 3d or 4th fastest car. Also after that Perez suddenly dropped from Podiums to 8th places and worse. But Max kept winning and scoring podiums, and gave a *masterclass* in Brazil
Stop this narrative that he won without a dominant car. He had a dominant car for one-third of the season. For another one-third, he had the same car as everybody else, and in the last one-third of the races, three different teams had the fastest car. If McLaren had had a dominant car like Red Bull had at the beginning, it would have been a different story. Not to mention that there is a huge point gap between first and second. He won more races then everybody else this season, thanks to that dominant car. That should be enough to build a big margin for the rest of the season. To be honest, apart from Brazil, Ver made many errors this year when he found himself to confront "in the same machinery" so I don't even know what people is talking about. Not a McLaren fan here, but I've been watching F1 for 25 years and I'm so tired of these DTS-kind of BS.
The RB was the fastest car only for 5 races. After that Adrian Newey left and the RB quickly fell back to 3d or 4th fastest. You can see this in the performance of a good to average experienced driver like Perez, who was on the podium for 4 of the first 5 races, but after China fell back to P.8 and worse, dropping out in Q1 or Q2, and flying of the track (overdriving in a slow car...). And the other drivers (who know better than you, trust me) also admitted that Max had a slower car for much of the season.
Interesting comment! I asked ChatGPT to apply the old point scoring system of 2003 - 2009 (10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 for the top 8 finishers) and apply to the 2024 results. This is the outcome: I’ve gathered the results from all Formula 1 races in the 2024 season up to the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Using the old scoring system from 2003-2009 (10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 for the top eight finishers), I will calculate the drivers' standings accordingly. The old system rewards only the top eight finishers in each race and provides less disparity between first and second places compared to the current system. Using the 2003-2009 point scoring system applied to the 2024 Formula 1 season results up to the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the drivers' standings are: Max Verstappen - 160 points Charles Leclerc - 144 points Carlos Sainz - 132 points Lando Norris - 113 points Oscar Piastri - 94 points George Russell - 78 points Lewis Hamilton - 72 points Sergio Perez - 57 points Fernando Alonso - 7 points Nico Hulkenberg - 1 point You're welcome!
As a Hamilton fan (I was devastated in 2021 lol), he deserves this and has proven every doubter wrong. He's one of the best to ever do it! I cannot wait to see him fight Leclerc and maybe Hamilton one more time in another close battle.
@@KTLam Don't get me wrong, I get a bit frustrated when he beats Leclerc and Hamilton and my favorite drivers (usually, with the exception of times like Brazil where it is just a gift to watch that guy drive), but at the end of the day don't we all just want to watch drivers race cars?
I have a feeling. Max is to redbull like Marquez is to honda motogp. Once max leaves. Red Bull will fall. Perez isn't slow. The car is just that bad. Max is just that good. Red Bull will be searching for a second driver again. Yuki is going to have to give it 200%
After Imola title was basically sealed, score gap was massive already (even with Australian DNF), McLaren competitive car was a little late to the party.
If you delete the first 7 races, and you start counting from monaco: VER 242 Poinits NOR 239 Points PIA 215 Points LEC 206 Points (not my comment but you get the point) Max was just better overall
The argument that his early lead won him the championship is absolutely false as he still outscored Lando after his winning streak. People really need to let that go lmao.
@@riquelmeonewhat are you smoking man McLaren were the fastest for most of the faces, in other races ferrari were the fastest with even Mercedes having the fastest car for a couple of races. In which race, if you could point out, were redbull the fastest?
Because he did have the fastest car for the bulk of the season where he built the lead with which he won? Like what are we doing here? Max is incredible but let's not paint incorrect narratives.
I think you need to check back. Miami, Norris won, this was race 6. That is not the bulk of the season. Next race Verstappen only won by 0.7 sec. Monaco 6th, Canada won by 3.8 sec. Max won by 2.2 sec race after. For the bulk of the season the Mclaren was the better car.
He had the fastest car for the first 10 races of the season. Lando won in miami with the second fastest car because of a well timed safety car. The redbull was the fastest car after miami and it wasn't really until mercedes had their mid season hot streak that you could say red bull definitely didn't have the fastest car. And then mclaren had to contest with mercedes and ferrari while redbull only had to contest with mclaren for some part of that first part of the season.
The RB was the fastest car only for 5 races. After that Adrian Newey left and the RB quickly fell back to 3d or 4th fastest. You can see this in the performance of a good to average experienced driver like Perez, who was on the podium for 4 of the first 5 races, but after China fell back to P.8 and worse, dropping out in Q1 or Q2, and flying of the track (overdriving in a slow car...). And the other drivers (who know better than you, trust me) also admitted that Max had a slow car for much of the season.
Max set himself up to win but Mclaren and Lando also made it so much easier for him. I think no matter who you support Mclarens "title challenge" is very disappointing because I think everyone would have liked a last race title fight.
Max has been unbelievable this season, Brazil proved just how great the gap between him and the rest of the grid is. Even with an RB20 short of pace his race craft has proven the difference. (McLaren Fan)
People forget that max had the fastest car for the first 7 cars then ferrari mclaren and sometimes merc were fighting for wins so theyd be taking points off of one another since the pace difference was minimal maybe half a tenth some races so that did really help max in retaining his title
The RB was the fastest car only for 5 races. After that Adrian Newey left and the RB quickly fell back to 3d or 4th fastest. You can see this in the performance of a good to average experienced driver (multiple GP Winner) like Perez, who was on the podium for 4 of the first 5 races, but after China fell back to P.8 and worse, dropping out in Q1 or Q2, and flying of the track (overdriving in a slow car...). And the other drivers (who know better than you, trust me) also admitted that Max had a slower car for much of the season.
Max did a good job and saying that as a McLaren supporter but everyone can see that Max is a ruthless driver with years of experience and Lando is still coming. We’ll do better next year 🧡
Lando Norris is not as good as he thought he was. His inexperience in race winning scenarios cost him a huge amount of points. Letting Piastri undermine him as also costly. He needed to be assertive to get close to this title
Sometimes it's just like that. Sometimes it's basically the driver and not the car. And sometimes it's your opponents making mistakes that can be crucial to anyone who challenges for the title. The constructors title is still up for grabs.
Just like Vettel wasnt experienced enough to beat Jenson , this was the same with Lando this year. An experienced driver like Hamilton, Alonso, maybe even Leclerc could have maximalised his points and ultimately win the championship, but even that would have been incredibly difficult because of Red Bull total dominance at the beginning of the year and Maximilian's consistency, he deserves the title
Max mentally won it in Brazil, you could tell that by his celebration as well. I haven’t seen max like that since 2021. Winning the championship in Las Vegas his celebration was so chilled compared
😂😂😂people thinking max would be pressurised if not for the point buffer shows they don’t get the driver he is, max lewis alonso they all have one thing in common their performance only gets better under pressure ❤
add charles also to that list because of ferrari his results in f1 so far have not been there even if red bull car was not fastest redbull race engineer and strategy team is top notch compared to ferrari
It's amazing what RB team could figure out on the car when they effectively only had 1 driver to validate their tweaks, as compared to McL, Ferrari and Mercedes. RB was competing from a significant disadvantage. Kudos to that team.
The problem is that Max destroys all is his teammates, simply by A.) being that much faster, and B.) demanding a car they can't drive (very pointy and nervous) There are only 2 or 3 drivers in the current field who would stand a shred of a chance (Hamilton, Alonso, LeClerck) But they all are leading drivers in their own teams..
Lando is not a rookie, he was given a car ready to win Championship in his 6th yr in F1 and he dropped the ball, In 2021, regardless of what people think about AbuDhabi, it was Max’s 6th year and he was given a car to take on the mighty Mercedes and 7 time WC Lewis and he maximise what he can out of the car and won 9 races before AbuDhabi, just shows Max and Lando is never in the same level. This video states “Lando’s inexperience”, its his 6th F-n year!
To suggest that, in order to have Norris have a shot at the championship, they need to sometimes command Piastry to be behind Norris is quite telling. Thank God that didn't happen too much, for everyone involved.
The RB was the fastest car only for 5 races. After that Adrian Newey left and the RB quickly fell back to 3d or 4th fastest. You can see this in the performance of a good to average experienced driver like Perez, who was on the podium for 4 of the first 5 races, but after China fell back to P.8 and worse, dropping out in Q1 or Q2, and flying of the track (overdriving in a slow car...)
@@rientsdijkstra4266 why would you use Perez as an argument when making a point about Verstappen? Verstappen being good has nothing to do with Perez's performance. And the Red Bull was fast. Very fast. Over the year Verstappen had the best car. There is no denying that. Just because Perez cannot handle the car does not make the car slower than the others. And even 4th fastest?? Are you joking? Verstappen is the best driver on the grid. No need to make up such a nonsense narrative about Red Bull being slow.
I agree, I don't think McLaren and Lando were ready for a title fight this year which makes next year quite interesting. Unfortunately, I don't think Max wins it next year, if car development doesn't improve
I've said this for moto and it applies here. The fastest guy usually wins. It sounds too simple but overwhelmingly raw talent is able to perform even when the machine isn't on par
It's a bit like 2021, Lewis had a Dominant car for majority of the season. But he made lots of mistakes and the team screwed up with race tactics. Meanwhile RBR made no such mistakes and Max was on it getting the most out of each race and making no mistakes. He is the closest anyone comes to the GOAT, Michael Schumacher. Schumi only won 2 titles in Dominant cars, the rest came in cars that only he could have won in. Even in 3rd best car in 2002.
From Miami, Max treated Lando as someone who could steal his crown, while Lando/McLaren treated the championship as something they could merely get close to.
Max has been driving at a high level consistently since like 2019 or mid 2018. Ppl just forget easily
Lando misses that killer instinct. Good lad good driver just not championship material.
@@scottb9868 Ngl but after his first win he has become very arrogant.... his ego has skyrocketed like chill dawg even Kubica was a winner(no offence to GIGAKUBICA)
@@Md.WasiHasan I agree with what your saying but i also think some of that was him trying to mentally hype himself up to try to take on Max. Its not just a physical battle its the mental battle you have to fight with Max thats really tough.
@@scottb9868 obviously he is 🏆 material. The key thing here is that Max is on. With him on, no one is champion material
People forget that even after Miami, Max has more points than Lando. So it isn't really all about his early lead. He has just been that much more faster and consistent.
Finally, someone who gets it. "The red bull was fastest at first, no way he'd win without that" he literally would still be winning if the season started in Miami.
also people tend to forget all the problems going on during that early wins in the redbull garage with horner controversies and people leaving the team etc. he wasn't distracted.
Thank you. I thought I was missing something.
By my count Max 293 - Lando 282 without the first five races. There would be a fun finish upcoming as the Maclarens were very quick last year at Qatar. A Lando win, fastest lap and a Max 3rd would have them going into the finale tied. So yeah, his early lead matters a lot. Almost as much as all the points (31) that Lando lost to Max in the six races after Miami.
If you delete the first 7 races, and you start counting from monaco:
VER 242 Poinits
NOR 239 Points
PIA 215 Points
LEC 206 Points
If you delete the first 7 races, and you start counting from monaco:
VER 242 Poinits
NOR 239 Points
PIA 215 Points
LEC 206 Points
That consistency without the best car is why Max absolutely deservingly won that title, no debate.
Indeed! With Norris in the FASTEST car and Max only in the 3 or 4 th fastest car...
But the fight wouldn't be over. 5 points could be made up with a Norris win next race.
Plus, there is the one incident that was not Norris' fault that would put him in the lead of this title, Austria. Had Lando not been taken out by Max and gone on to win, he would have gained 7 points on Max, instead of losing 10. That is a 17 point swing thay would put him in the lead of the title by 14 points in this scenario.
The point I am trying to make is this, if you take away those first 7 races, all it would take is 1 single mistake of 1 bad performance for Max, or just 1 bit of luck to go Lando's way (not getting taken out in Austria) for him to take the lead in the championship.
Thus, that 60 point gap Max had after the first 7 races played a huge part in why he won the title.
With those first 7 races, Max could score zero points for 2 races and Lando could get 26 in both and he would still be behind by almost 15 points.
That gap, coupled with Max still getting a lot of points, meant Lando would have had to finish 1st or 2nd in the last 17 races to catch up, which was impossible. The Ferrari and Mercedes, and even RB were faster than the Mclarens in several of the race weekends.
For Lando to catch up, it would have required something his car was not capable of, but it was something the RB was capable of in the first 5 races, as it had the same gap to the field that it did during 2023.
So close, next year would be exited!
@@Mr.X2188 bruh, that is an endless list of "if's" and "maybe's", where you seem to be forgetting that Max has clearly shown that he is the MUCH better driver (from P17 to P1 with 19 seconds lead in Brazil, Norris: From P1 to P6...)
@@rientsdijkstra4266 Don't get me wrong, Max is the better driver. But he was never under the amount of pressure Lando was because he had a 3 race points lead. The only way Lando could have realistically brought it down was with 2 DNFs from Max, which didn't happen.
Now it was incredibly impressive that he still outscored Lando after his car was no longer the fastest, but if you take away those first 7 races, Max could lose the championship leand in Qatar. All of the pressure would be on him to not make a mistake, and to finish ahead of Norris. If he somehow came through, which he certainly could, probably would, then it would be maybe the greatest Championship win of all time.
I just can't view this title as impressive as other people view it because it could have been because of that gap. We will see these last 2 races
Haters say "Max had the fastest car for 5 races." That would be a great argument if the season was 8 races long.
I say Max had the fastest car for 5 races (and I am a Max-fan). However, that means that Max did NOT have the fastest car (by a long shot) for 3 quarters or more of the season.
The whole point is that after rb loose their dominance, there wasn’t a single consistent challenger. The fastest car changed almost every race. Combine that with the early dominance and on balance rb had the fastest car die the entire season
@@Jay-nk6dmMclaren was significantly faster then RB since the Miami race though
@@fixxa6455 it wasn't though was it? It was a couple of tenths quicker or even on par (Imola, Spain, Canada, etc) and also had times where Ferrari or Mercedes was quickest or joint (Monaco, Mexico, COTA, Britain, etc). So many people act like Lando had an RB19 equivalent when he clearly didn't
@@TwinBornWolf the mclaren was definitely the fastest car at silverstone, and should have won mexico if it wasn't for verstappens "antics"
Yes, it's like Jenson Button. But the bigger question is why and why Lando can't be dominant in the fastest car just like Max and Lewis or Alonso could.
It's pretty obvious to me. Lando isn't as consistent as Max, and that's it.
I don't think Lando has what it takes to be a champion but to be fair to him the team as a whole did not perform well with some woeful strategy calls. Perhaps Piastri will do better but I have my doubts. He's really great on his day but he only seems to be awake for half a dozen races in the season
They made some mistakes, but the mclaren is certainly not as dominant as the Merc and Red Bull had been. It was just averagely the best car and dominant at some tracks.
Max, Lewis, and Fernando are/were each the best driver of their day. Norris is not on that level.
Norris wasn't ready for the challenge and he's simply too inconsistent. I believe he'll learn from the mistakes and be much more aggressive next year. I think the one thing that is very underrated from Verstappen is the tenacity in maxing out results with a bad car.
Yes he built a massive lead in the beginning but lando had 17 or so races to catch up. He literally had to outscore max by less than 5 points per race weekend when he has a faster car.
The argument that he only won because of an early lead is bull. Especially considering as of Miami he has still outscored lando in total points.
@@Redswipe No... Take away the first races and Lando still would have lost.
He won because he was the best driver, but it is dissingenous to suggest Lando&Oscar had the quickest car for 17 races. The RB was faster then MCL for (BAH,SAU,Australia,JAP,CHI,MIA,LAV) and equal for (IMO,CAN,SPA,USA) and Brazil was just crazy (and Max was incredible, but I don't feel in that race car performance was that impactful look at Merc). And in the races RB were quicker it was mainly for a guaranteed 1st, whereas when MCL were quickest it was often clos with FER and Lando also has a more competitive teammate to share the top points with. Lastly, RB were operationaly so much better than MCL this year (Lando has to take some blame for that)
Exactly. If we give the best McLaren results on each race to Lando, he will gain 65 more points which brings him to 405, two points ahead of Max. For being the champion you definitely need to be much better than your teammate.
@@Redswipe NOPE Verstappen outscored the whole field including Norris since Miami, your argument is false. Try again!
@@samoht-k2g Red Bull was definitely slower than McLaren in Miami and Austin.That makes Red Bull quicker 6 races this year and McLaren quicker on 9 races. That is if we consider the McLaren drivers to be as quick as Verstappen. It's probably more reasonable to assume that Verstappen made that Red Bull look better than it was.
Max will be remembered as one of the best drivers in the sport, this season was a clear demonstration of his skill and ability to drive a car that simply shouldn't have placed where it finished.
There's no denying that the inital race wins helped alot, as well as Mclaren/Lando's shortcoming's, but Max really had to show his worth for the title to come to fruition as the season shifted out of RedBull's favour.
Yes, but also as a world champion who never really got challenged except for his first title that was filled with controversy and wrong decisions in the final laps of the final race.
He did not have any real challenging team mate and also had the best car on the grid for 3 of his 4 titles.
Max never had a world champion as his team mate. Pretty much every one of Lewis team mates with exception of George and Valtteri were world champions and he beat them all.
Charles had Seb as team mate and beat him every season while coming off of 2 times P2 in standings. Nico had Michael as team mate, Alonso had world champions as team mates.
@@PhillyEagles993 The RB car wasn't the best on the grid in 2021, and also wasn't the best in 2024.
@@JohnWikuthe best car in the first half of both seasons where he made all the gains with minimal mistakes. Great driver nonetheless
@@PhillyEagles993 You sound like a little child "No.. I don't want him to be a goat whaaaaaa"
@@PhillyEagles993 Yes but ..... the toxic Hamiltoncult just cannot cope with it and keeps being toxic about it all. Get lost.
Lando fumbling races left and right did Max some huge favors
Max is "just" so lucky to have L'Norris as his antagonist.
To be fair it's very difficult to suddenly get unexpectedly thrown into a title battle mid-season because you have to change your whole mindset and approach to the season whereas a driver like Verstappen went into the season expecting to be in the title picture. I don't even think the team seriously thought the title was on until after the summer break so weren't working to maximise his chances.
Both drivers made errors this season. Just that Lando couldn’t afford to make errors while Max could.
You could simulate this season 1000 times, Max would have been the winner 99% of the time.
I mean i agree. But people act like redbull was slow at the beginning of the year and mclaren was just extremely dominant. By everyone logic Oscar isn't very good either
Skills as well as killer instinct. And also adapting the strategy to what's going on around on track.
Congratulations to Max showcasing he's one of the greats. Maximised having the fastest car early on, then his skill, and Norris and McLaren incompetence saw him to the end.
Max imised.... I see what you did there lol
I think we can all say is 2025 is gonna be wild. All 4 teams are gonna be super strong at the end of these regulations and it really is gonna be a toss up on who will win. You have Verstappen, Norris, Piastri, LeClerc, Hamilton, and Russell all gunning for a championship.
The Constructors gonna be wild too.
Ferrari vs McLaren vs Mercedes vs Max Verstappen 😁
Nice if true, but history rarely shows such consistency between seasons.
What about checo, it’s not like he forgot how to operate a race car, the rb19 was a difficult shitty car to drive this year, checo finished 2nd last year
@@joannehong358 not a world champion material
@@joannehong358 Perez will be lucky to last 6 races before Lawson or Tsunoda take his car in 2025. The guy simply has lost it.
Max won the title in Brazil. One of the best performances ever shown in an F1 race
Yeah, the lucky red flag made it one of the best performances, cuz without it he doesn’t win. I don’t know why people praise luck.
@@patrickwhite4449 You will never know, do you?
He was gifted the title in Brazil.
Red flag happen and the current rules suck, but that wasn’t his best drive…
@@patrickwhite4449Lando, is that secretly you? Are you using a fake name to call people lucky online
@@patrickwhite4449 Luck works both ways. Max was unlucky in the qualy. Plus, he finished far enough ahead, he could have stopped and still won.
Make no mistake, it was Max's brilliance that won him the title. He became a champion in spite of the team rather than because of them.
the car was the problem, his team was excellent! good strategies + GP the goat.
The RB team performed the best it was only the car that was deficient.
Make no mistake? Watch the season again specially when rb starting to slow down pressuring him HAHAHAHA
Horner and GP admitted because of Max, the team never gave up.
You make it sound like he is driving a Haas or something. He won 7 of the first 10 races and then the other teams caught up
It must have been awful for Scott to make this video. His hate of Max is palpable.
This season sealed Verstappen’s legacy as one of the greatest to ever grace the sport. Past years deniers have the excuse that he has the better car, and it’s all the car and not the driver; but this season overall McLaren had the better car, if Max and Lando swapped places he probably would’ve secured the championship a couple races earlier, it really shows his race craft and resiliency to win with this car and without a teammate.
We already had 2021 when he won without the fastest car, and with horrendously bad luck. Isn't it ironic that it's often the LH44 cultists that call Max a car merchant for having a dominant car for a couple of seasons, where as Lewis had the dominant machinery for at least five years of his career.
There's nothing controversial about Verstappen's clashes. At least, when you understand the concept of sports in general. Like other really great drivers in the history of F1, he knows the rules and how to use them to get an advantage. Nothing different than in football, for example (soccer for that part of the world where football is mainly played using hands). A player commits a foul and will happily take a yellow card for it when the objective, preventing the opponent to create a situation from which their team can score, is reached. In F1 the time penalty is the equivalent of the yellow card in football. As a bonus, in F1 two yellow cards will not lead to a red card, a black flag. F1 pundits or F1 fans should not blame a driver for using the rules to gain an advantage. When they don't like it, they should direct their anger to the FIA who made the rules and demand a change. Any driver that doesn't understand it or refuses to do the same, isn't going to get far in the WDC and shouldn't even be on the grid.
Best analogy I have seen. Comment should be pinned on god
Max won two of his four world championships with a car that was not the clear benchmark. That speaks to his talent.
Although his defending style is on the edge and sometimes over, there is no denying his pure driving skill. One of the greatest, although I do hope he get's challenged even more next season.
@@vintatsh I agree, so far only Lewis has gone toe-to-toe with Max, as well as Leclerc at least on race craft alone, would be great to see how Charles performs over a whole season of title fighting instead of just a couple races.
Newey said RB was faster in 21. And Masi handed him the title.
@@rikudotenin9773 and Toto said Mercedes was faster. Someone is lying.
What does over the edge mean? I am curious. If all of the max haters ganged up and overtook F1 management, there wont be another F1 where you can watch a guy like max compete at the highest level.
I played waterpolo professionaly. I was really good. Not because i was the ''sportsmanship pinnacle''. I remember after i learned the rules, i did everything in my power to do ''anything'' that is allowed to win. And then i got drafted into the national team.
Senna and Schumacher are legendary drivers in F1 and if you watch them today, you ll see your narrow opinion on verstappens ''over the edge'' driving. They are the same, its just F1 fans are little snowflakes now.
Why are F1 fans, or sports fans in general, only ever seeing things in black and white? What point are you even trying to make that Red Bull was "not the clear benchmark" in two out of his four titles? They were still the benchmark. Just not "clear"? And that speaks to his talent?
Verstappen is the best driver on the grid, we all know that.
But to use the narrative that he had a non-dominant car is just ridiculous. Someone has to win the title, even if there is no dominant car. The title fights were close.
Just because someone came out on top in a tight battle does not make them sooooo much better than had they won it with a major margin in a dominant car.
Why that narrative?
like he said "2023 was for fans and 2024 is for doubters"
I like that; I’m stealing it
it was kinda an ok explaination but you failed to mention one thing. since norris had piastri as an headache but piastri also cost max points with him being ahead of verstappen. Perez was nowhere and didn't take a single point off of mclaren boys. so it's kinda unfair that if piastri didn't exist it would have helped norris. his existence alone helped norris with a lot of points as well
Lando is amazing. He beat 18 other excellent drivers. Max is just on another planet.
Ppl just skip this reasoning
this is a surprisingly refreshing take on an otherwise hate-filled approach to talking about so many drivers this year.
Ofc he had a faster car than the 18 other drivers(let's just say 17 for piastri)
Don't count the chickens before they hatch. Charles is coming for P2!
17 drivers and lance Stroll
I don’t like when they mention that the borderline move in defence in Austin went unpunished. Yes, of course there was no punishment because it was within the rules!
It was not within the rules. It is actually against the rules. You are not allowed to go off the track without a good reason, defending a position is not one.
However the issue is the omission from the guidelines relating to certain rules. But the stewards don't have to adhere to the guidelines rigidly.
@@3rdStoreyChemist Lando was punished because he committed the bigger offence by overtaking off the track. Punishing both drivers for the event makes no sense so the bigger offender gets the short end of the stick. Max took a huge risk to set a trap and Lando took the bait.
@@joshuagleeson4776 The rules should be applied.
They both broke the rules, they both benefited by breaking the rules in some way, therefore both should be punished for their individual actions.
Saying that not having a competitive teammate helped Verstappen is a wong argument. Piastri didn't cost only Norris points, but Verstappen as well! if Perez had been faster throughout the season, then yes, he might have outscored his teammate a few times but, crucially, he could have hampered Norri's and Mclaren's progress in each and every race. Verstappen's had to fight, on his own, against 2-3 or even 6 cars on his own many times this season.
Yes! So glad you said this
He won 7 of the first 10 races in what was then mostly the fastest car. After that, wins were split between multiple teams & drivers so there was no one driver who could catch up.
Lando couldn’t maximize
Imola, Spain, Canada he had no business winning.
By imola the McLaren was at worst equal machinery. Also after that regardless of multiple teams fighting up front, the McLaren was always faster than the red bull so Norris should have at the very least been chipping away at the lead, but that never happened. The gap now is bigger than it was when the red bull was still dominant. Max outscored everyone in a slower car since Miami
The fact that he has a bigger point lead now then what he had after Miami says enough, no? Completely invalidates your argument.
Average american response. Back to nascar you go, learn how to turn a wheel
Norris throwing away points consistently over the season certainly helped.
By my count he's lost well over thirty (+30) points.
After Lando said that Max couldn't have come back from the same deficit if they switched cars, I calculated the amount of points Norris threw away and it's at least 70 points (also accounting for points Max gained by Lando dropping places). If Max was in the McLaren he'd be ahead in the championship and on his way to a title in the final race.
Also Austria he could have been more patient and gained a further 25
@ultrascreens5206 there's that race and at least two others that were a minimum 14 point swing. It's crazy cuz you don't even have to dig deep for hypotheticals. Spains a great example, qualified pole, down to p3 in one corner lol. Max would never.
@ it could have been even at the Brazil GP i reckon tbh had all went more smoothly and been handled better, even occasions where Norris dominated and Piastri wasnt there to finish ahead of Max in P2
@@krigogsmerteSome of those were through no fault of Norris, like Austria (a 17 point swing), Hungary (a 7 point swing), and Cota ( a 6 point swing). If you just take those 3 races, Norris would only be 33 points behind. Still a 2 race gap, but considerably closer. I won't give him the points for his own mistakes, and I didn't even include Silverstone with the terrible tire strategy which would have been +15 points on Max.
Yes, Norris lost a lot of points, but if you just take 3 races which weren't becaus of Norris' mistakes, that 60 point gap opened at the start of the year is the primary reason Max won the title.
Average Bri'hish fan when Lewis wins a title with Bottas as the team mate and a car 1.5 seconds a lap quicker than the others: "OMG HE ONCE AGAIN PROVED THAT HE IS THE GOAT"
Average Bri'hish fan when Max wins his 4th straight title while driving the 3rd best car after beating Lewis in 2021 with the 2nd best car: "I mean at the end of the day he didn't really do anything super special because (pathetic excuse n°1, pathetic excuse n°2 and so on...)
And no, I am not a Max's fan
3rd best car in the 2nd half of the season only. Get your facts right.
They loved bottas but hate Russell and piastri etc 😂😂
Do you really think that thousands of years of inbreed would be without any consequences?
Average max junkie, making standard bs arbitrary statements on Internet. Yawn
@@EH1942 Average brit (I dont even need an additional insult)
They said that Max had a head start with 7 wins. There were 24 races including Sprints in 2024. They always trying to diminish Max's accomplishments. You're telling me that Max's competition needs more than 17 races to best him? Stop it with the headstart garbage.
Your analysis is flawed. Of the 14 races that MV didn't win, two drivers (CL, LN) got 3 wins each and 4 drivers (LH, GR, CS, OP) got 2 wins each. With the competition so wide, all he had to do was coast to the championship
I feel like this video is a bunch of excuses for Lando
This title by Max was almost as good as 21 , The Race team keep up with great work ❤
Let's be honest, the Lando'es car got a chance to win, not him.
Mclaren has a front flexi wing and a Mini DRS shenanigans for a large part of the season and FIA just turns a blind eye with such an obvious illegal parts and FIA want to address it for the next season which will give Mclaren the best car all season and good thing Red Bull and Ferrari lobbied for it to be banned
As I am a Leclerc and Ferrari fanboy I never thought it would be a fight at all, nonethless Charles having any chances. Im just greatful for a really exciting seasons, breakthroughs for Piastri, Norris and Russell, Lewis getting some wins and Ferrari 5 in total. Im looking forward to 2025 because when RedBull isn't able to win so many races in the beginning the championship is wide open for maybe 3 or even 4 drivers
Its been since 2012, 2013 that we had so many teams and drivers be able to win one or even a couple of races. The future of the sport looks bright guys
MV collected all the points the car was capable, while everyone else threw away points and traded wins. He can be Senna when that’s needed he can be Lauda when that’s needed.
People also need to remember that at 3rd race in Australia where people still counts redbull has the fastest car, max got DNF which make him score 0 points. but still winning WDC with 2 races left.
Two with the best car, two without the best car. I have to believe the Miami technical directive dragged down RB and Max knew it.
The performance gap between Red Bull and Mercedes in 2021 was much smaller than Red Bull vs McLaren this year though
@@sviniciusbraga
True. It was small enough to be track specific advantage for the car. However, the W12 did come out as the outright fastest car in the last few races.
@@Khan-ts2jiit was a bit faster at the start of the season as well but RB was faster in most of the mid season races. I think the cars were pretty equal overall but Max also had a ton of bad luck.
@@Khan-ts2ji It was mostly faster because Hamilton received a fresh PU every race at the end. The 5 position grid penalty for that is just laughable, but they played their cards very well. I still consider it an unfair advantage through a loop hole, but the FIA apparently does not think it will be abused again (I doubt it). It just does not make sense to me that the first time going over the allowed PU count is a 10 place penalty and each subsequent time is only 5. It should be a progressive penalty to avoid people just completely taking the p*ss, but oh well.
@@askeladden450
Yeah, it’s crazy how many times Max suffered from things out of his control.
Yet, people still say that Max was not a deserving champion. Honestly, Lewis is an amazing driver as well but a large part of his fan base is just so short sighted.
This channel really knew how to get sparks between each other fan to get better view
Good job guys
I know a lot of people are saying this was a hard one but I honestly don't see that. To me personally it'll always be the '21 fight with Lewis. At any given race there was literal combat on track with the cars. Lewis didn't back down like Lando and Charles did and would and will still do. It came down to the very last race (granted ugh...) but still he fought the literal GOAT of F1 for that title. And fought hard for it. Him and Lewis tested each other to limits even we don't see today. I can't wait for next year because I want to see Lewis and Max go at it again. Its like putting two Lions in a cage with 1 steak between them.
Also for all the talk about Norris bottling the championship it would still have required a record points overhaul so it was probably never going to happen.
2021 it was Max vs Lewis. Red Bull vs. Merecedes. There was really no strong contenders for any other team. Vettel was in a bad AMR, LeClerc/Norris/Sainz were still coming to grasp in F1 and very inconsistent. Russell was in a very slow Williams. Alonso was in a bad Alpine. Almost every race result was a 1-2 for Versteppan or Hamilton with third being Bottas or Perez.
@@lukew6725 it wasn't just Lando. Yes his challenge was weak but Mclaren as a whole failed to maximise their potential. Look at all their woeful strategy call in races like Silverstone. Max set himself up to win but Mclaren just left the door wide open for him to go through
One lion is getting gray manes though... It will be interesting to see if he can still find his roar quickly in a new car/team, so to speak :)
Fangio is the goat
Max has matured and without the pressure of getting that first title he has been showing how great of a driver he is!
I think the psychology of being that far ahead was important too
It's same as Button 2009. He had the best car thr first half of the year. In thr 2nd half he Maximized his results in what was usually the 2nd or 3rd best car while McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes traded wins.
The difference being Vettel atleast tried his best to deliver with a lot of mechanical issues that year. While lando cries for position swap
Button didn’t maximize his results in the second half. Brawn was absolutely dominant the first half, then Button took it easy after and just prioritized making it to the flag.
Barrichello outperformed him in the second half of the season. And ultimately Brawn was 1-3, while Webber was far away in 4th.
Another thing is that even when Lando dominated a race with a huge car advantage, he made 3 huge near race ending mistakes, as seen in Singapore. If he cannot keep it together when he has no competition, no surprise he lost to someone as consistent as Max.
I hope there's a tougher fight next season 💪💪
It seems so, from what we saw this season, even bottom half of teams now seem to get the grips of the ground force setups. And with Newey gone from RB, next season should be a banger. Even if Newey would lift Aston Martin up several notches, they have one driver who seem to have stopped taking his daily vitamins. So there's that.
Maybe, but if Mclaren don't learn anything from this season I can see Ferrari being the team to beat. Mclaren as a whole seem like a team that has forgotten how to win. They seem so used to being the underdog midfielders that never seem to have any belief they can win
@FabledGentleman Newey would be focusing on the 2026.
Not much will change in 2025.. Maybe a battle between RB and McLaren (or like 2016 between Piastri and Norris). I don't consider those red clowns, their strategy will fck up everything even if Sir Lewis does a perfect drive, and
@@BryPTuCC Actually, Newey's main focus will be the 2027 car, as the work on the 2026 car will be 3 months in when Newey is allowed to weigh in. But he can still come with inputs from March/April, on both the 2025 car and the 2026 car.
but what we are currently looking at, is the 2027 car, what will be Newey's next creation.
The video title was not something I was expecting from The Race. I’ve seen so many people disagree and say he did have the best car so props for being what I think is honest.
Fantastic effort from Max this year, but ultimately what saved him was Merc, Mclaren and Ferrari all taking points from each other. If there had been a clear 2nd fastest driver and car, they'd have capitalised a lot more on Red Bull's drop in performance after the good start.
@@Kempy89 spot on. Not one clear competitor
What a dumb argument.
On the other hand, with just one clear competitor it would have been much easier for Max to finish 2nd. Think the resukt would have been the same in a straight Lando vs. Max this year.
Pace aside, this season showed why Max is a four time champion and Lando is not yet championship material. Max took any sliver of a chance he got and maximised on opportunities that weren't even really there to begin with. Lando threw away surefire points lefty right and center. Say what you want about Max, but he knows how to perform when it matters most.
Max did the same work all along 2021 beating HAM with an inferior overall car, so this is not the first time.
difference is when max had a bad weekend in 2021, Lewis was right there (besides baku) Lewis never let anyone other than max beat him all season, Lando just doesnt have that yet, maybe he will but not yet... in 2021 Max and lewis treated everyone else like extras in a movie, including their own teammates.
Except in 2021 RB had tracks that suited it better than the Mercedes. Adrian Newey “We had the better balanced car throughout the year.“
@@Alumnikiidand Toto Wolff said they had the better car overal. Ofcource a designer and technical responsible would defend his creation. Wolff on the other hand doesnt have a selfish reason to lie. And again WCC went to MERC.
The Red Bull led more laps in 2021 that all other cars combined.....the Merc was faster at the end. That does not make them the faster car all year. This effort to rewrite history to elevate Max to this mythical level is really weird for what I assume are grown men.
AD21, human error.
He did have the dominant car for half the season. Remember Bahrain he won by over 20 seconds. While the 2nd half of the season the top 4 teams all jockied for position and could win on any given week. If the 1st half of the season was like the 2nd, who knows who would have won
Nope. all the drivers and experts agree. After the 5th GP in China, when Adrian Newey left, the car was only 3d to 4 th fastest. MAX got those 9 poles
He built a commanding lead when his car's performance was ahead of everyone else.
He wasn't much affected in the middle because the wins were being shared between the top teams so no single opponent was racking up all the points.
He kept his closest opponent in check by doing everything to disrupt their races to prevent them from closing the gap.
And he was just the plain better driver in every single race.
wanst affected due to incompetence of norris
People forget he was winning races by 30 seconds at the start of the season. Hopefully next year we finally have a level playing-field to see how's the best driver between Lewis, Max, Charles and Lando. It's easy to push other drivers off the track and take 10 second penalty when you have a massive lead in the championship, next year if cars have a similar performance from the start, Max can't afford to drive like he did in Mexico and accumulate penalty points on his license.
@@Euclides287 This was the most level playing field in f1 history, you're just coping.
@@Euclides287 lol dude norris had the fastest car longer than max did he could have won many more races charles and lando arent constitent enough to compete with max and lewis
Max could outdrive the rest of the field in a Honda Civic if he had to. He'd probably qualify on the first row with a Kia Soul if push came to shove. With a Subaru Forester, he'd lap the rest of the field. The Red Bull team held him back with their crappy car. Just look at Perez. Perez is a great driver, and he would be on top if he was in a Williams. Red Bull is slow, Max is fast, deal with it.
"How did Jenson Button win the 2009 championship without the fastest car?"
Same vibes. The RBR was dominant until mid season. That's it.
Thank you! He had the fastest car until mid season.
Well, partly. Max Verstappen has shown masterclass in driving this season, for those who might have been doubting if it was all the car. But now there is no doubt anymore, not only has Verstappen performed some of the all time greatest races, he has also shown an impeccable knowledge of current rules and how to properly utilize them to his advantage. He is one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time, love him or hate him, this is just facts.
Only the races before Miami. That’s 5 out of 24. In which he had a car failure in Melbourne as well! So basically the best car in 4 out of 24 races. 😂
not really , if you look at the points gained after miami or spain , Max gained nearly identical amounts to Leclrec and Norris.
Max was dragging the car to top points when they were slow. Otherwise both lando and charles would have easily beat him.
By having the best car for the first 7 races, maximising his points from them all (one DNF and one second place due to a safety car), then just picked up points whilst the other teams decided who had the best car on a race by race basis and aggressively defending the lead when needed.
People really underestimate how big an advantage being in the lead is.
RB was the best car for the the first 3rd of the season and it wasn't really until austria that the car really started not being on par with some of the others. By that point that title was sown up, you don't throw a lead like that unless your a pretty shit driver, and you can say what you like about Max (I'm not his biggest fan) but you cannot say his anything less one the best drivers to race an F1 car. If Jenson could sail a car that was great for the fast part of the season and progressively got more dogshit throughout the season to a victory, then Max was obviously going to.
First 5 races. After Adrian Newey left (end of contract 1 may, after the 5th GP in China) It went south quite fast with the RB. You can see this from the fact that Perez dropped from scoring 4 podiums in the first 5 races to 8th places or worse and eliminations before Q3 after China. It was only Max's extraordinary talent that produced more wins and podiums after that.
The key is that when the Redbull was the best car then Verstappen would win and when it wasn’t he’d get the best result available, at least more often than any other top driver.
I think he’d probably have won this title of he was a Redbull, a McLaren or a Ferrari this year, he’d just maximise results.
All those cars could’ve won the constructors this year, they’re not far off being the best car over the year as a whole. He wouldn’t have won the title in a Merc because they’re just too far off, no one can win a title in a non-title contending car.
I would disagree about the Ferrari, but agree with the sentiment. Also it helped that he was not splitting any points, where as if he had NOR,PIA,LEC,SAI,HAM,RUS,ALO he would've split points (he would've still won the teammate battle, but maybe not the whole championship)
Brazil was match point. Which is brilliant. Because the pressure was huge. Verstappen gave despite a master class racing.
It’s simple, he built an early lead at the start of the season because the car in the first 5 or 6 races was basically just the RB19B, combined with his maintained consistency even after the car became a total shitbox, the mistakes from Norris, the championship Max’s to win. We knew Max would win his 4th title from the very start, but we didn’t expect him to win it in the way we expected him to.
Basically 2009 Yenson without charging Vettel
His points gap after vegas is bigger than the gap after miami.
Yes sir!
Lies. Max drove better than Lando in a slow car. From Austria to Brazil, Max and Lando both scored 160 points each. Max would've won the Championship by 1 point in Vegas.
No max drove better in a worse car, lando bottled it many times
Max had the fastest car for the first 10 rounds and took advantage with 7 wins. That is where he gained his massive lead and then just maximized every result there after. However if Max, Lewis, Charles or George were driving that Mclaren, they would have won the title. Lando just couldn't deliver consistently on race day but it is what it is excited for 2025 for sure.
Adrian Newey left after the 5th race in China, and all the drivers and experts agree that after that Max had only the 3d or 4th fastest car. Also after that Perez suddenly dropped from Podiums to 8th places and worse. But Max kept winning and scoring podiums, and gave a *masterclass* in Brazil
Like even Sky Sports is now saying: the best driver on the grid!
They've only just caught up? They're so pathetic, Max has been the best driver on the grid since 2019.
This show us he is true champion.
Stop this narrative that he won without a dominant car. He had a dominant car for one-third of the season. For another one-third, he had the same car as everybody else, and in the last one-third of the races, three different teams had the fastest car. If McLaren had had a dominant car like Red Bull had at the beginning, it would have been a different story.
Not to mention that there is a huge point gap between first and second. He won more races then everybody else this season, thanks to that dominant car. That should be enough to build a big margin for the rest of the season. To be honest, apart from Brazil, Ver made many errors this year when he found himself to confront "in the same machinery" so I don't even know what people is talking about.
Not a McLaren fan here, but I've been watching F1 for 25 years and I'm so tired of these DTS-kind of BS.
The RB was the fastest car only for 5 races. After that Adrian Newey left and the RB quickly fell back to 3d or 4th fastest. You can see this in the performance of a good to average experienced driver like Perez, who was on the podium for 4 of the first 5 races, but after China fell back to P.8 and worse, dropping out in Q1 or Q2, and flying of the track (overdriving in a slow car...). And the other drivers (who know better than you, trust me) also admitted that Max had a slower car for much of the season.
least delusional max hater:
Verstappen really did a number on you 😉
Interesting comment! I asked ChatGPT to apply the old point scoring system of 2003 - 2009 (10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 for the top 8 finishers) and apply to the 2024 results. This is the outcome:
I’ve gathered the results from all Formula 1 races in the 2024 season up to the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Using the old scoring system from 2003-2009 (10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 for the top eight finishers), I will calculate the drivers' standings accordingly.
The old system rewards only the top eight finishers in each race and provides less disparity between first and second places compared to the current system.
Using the 2003-2009 point scoring system applied to the 2024 Formula 1 season results up to the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the drivers' standings are:
Max Verstappen - 160 points
Charles Leclerc - 144 points
Carlos Sainz - 132 points
Lando Norris - 113 points
Oscar Piastri - 94 points
George Russell - 78 points
Lewis Hamilton - 72 points
Sergio Perez - 57 points
Fernando Alonso - 7 points
Nico Hulkenberg - 1 point
You're welcome!
@@rientsdijkstra4266it was only 3rd fastest for a few races. Closer to the end they were atleast 2nd. And McLaren as a whole got slower
Your guys opinion on the monza pass is wild.
As a Hamilton fan (I was devastated in 2021 lol), he deserves this and has proven every doubter wrong. He's one of the best to ever do it! I cannot wait to see him fight Leclerc and maybe Hamilton one more time in another close battle.
F1 needs more supporters like you who can get it over with and who can acknowledge greatnesses of any driver.
@@KTLam Don't get me wrong, I get a bit frustrated when he beats Leclerc and Hamilton and my favorite drivers (usually, with the exception of times like Brazil where it is just a gift to watch that guy drive), but at the end of the day don't we all just want to watch drivers race cars?
@@inspiredglue2056 We watch as one, we cheer as one, we laugh at Lance Stroll as one 🤣
@@KTLam You would say that as a Max fan who benefited from the biggest disgrace in sport.
I have a feeling. Max is to redbull like Marquez is to honda motogp. Once max leaves. Red Bull will fall. Perez isn't slow. The car is just that bad. Max is just that good. Red Bull will be searching for a second driver again. Yuki is going to have to give it 200%
After Imola title was basically sealed, score gap was massive already (even with Australian DNF), McLaren competitive car was a little late to the party.
If verstappen was on Norris shoes, he would it have won it for McLaren.
@@debendragurung3033 maybe, maybe not. dont forget that in this case Max would have had a at least a competitive teammate.
@@Ki-Bi how many points do u think 2-7 on the grid managed to steal because Max had no competitive teammate?
If you delete the first 7 races, and you start counting from monaco:
VER 242 Poinits
NOR 239 Points
PIA 215 Points
LEC 206 Points
(not my comment but you get the point)
Max was just better overall
Max’s drive in Brazil was on of the greatest drives of all time
Yep, together with his drive in Brazil 2016 and several others
The argument that his early lead won him the championship is absolutely false as he still outscored Lando after his winning streak. People really need to let that go lmao.
Well put together video
Massive amounts of cope in the comments from Norris simps.
Amazing content as always.
people forget he had the best car for the majority of the season, also helped that his teammate was never a threat and didn't steal points
Bruh, all the F1 drivers agree that after Adrian Newey left (after China = 5th GP) Max had only the 3d or 4th fastest car.
But how many points did the competitors get because his teammate was so bad that he couldnt steal points from them while in the best car?
@@rientsdijkstra4266 literally no one agrees to Red Bull being the 3rd or 4th fastest car. Are you joking?
@@riquelmeonewhat are you smoking man McLaren were the fastest for most of the faces, in other races ferrari were the fastest with even Mercedes having the fastest car for a couple of races. In which race, if you could point out, were redbull the fastest?
1:03 Hoping next year's season looks like this graph 🔥🔥
I’m too good
max verstappen
There is no one better then max
Because he did have the fastest car for the bulk of the season where he built the lead with which he won? Like what are we doing here? Max is incredible but let's not paint incorrect narratives.
Bulk=7 races?
7 races is not the bulk of the season, not even close.
Correct let’s not paint incorrect narratives lmao. Not bulk
I think you need to check back.
Miami, Norris won, this was race 6. That is not the bulk of the season. Next race Verstappen only won by 0.7 sec.
Monaco 6th, Canada won by 3.8 sec. Max won by 2.2 sec race after. For the bulk of the season the Mclaren was the better car.
@ thats the new uk narrative. Sunday it was 10, now its Bulk.
He had the fastest car for the first 10 races of the season. Lando won in miami with the second fastest car because of a well timed safety car. The redbull was the fastest car after miami and it wasn't really until mercedes had their mid season hot streak that you could say red bull definitely didn't have the fastest car. And then mclaren had to contest with mercedes and ferrari while redbull only had to contest with mclaren for some part of that first part of the season.
The RB was the fastest car only for 5 races. After that Adrian Newey left and the RB quickly fell back to 3d or 4th fastest. You can see this in the performance of a good to average experienced driver like Perez, who was on the podium for 4 of the first 5 races, but after China fell back to P.8 and worse, dropping out in Q1 or Q2, and flying of the track (overdriving in a slow car...). And the other drivers (who know better than you, trust me) also admitted that Max had a slow car for much of the season.
Max set himself up to win but Mclaren and Lando also made it so much easier for him. I think no matter who you support Mclarens "title challenge" is very disappointing because I think everyone would have liked a last race title fight.
Max has been unbelievable this season, Brazil proved just how great the gap between him and the rest of the grid is. Even with an RB20 short of pace his race craft has proven the difference. (McLaren Fan)
2024 season is kind of similar to 2018 where both max and lewis did not make mistakes and capitalize every bit of points in every race weekend
People forget that max had the fastest car for the first 7 cars then ferrari mclaren and sometimes merc were fighting for wins so theyd be taking points off of one another since the pace difference was minimal maybe half a tenth some races so that did really help max in retaining his title
The RB was the fastest car only for 5 races. After that Adrian Newey left and the RB quickly fell back to 3d or 4th fastest. You can see this in the performance of a good to average experienced driver (multiple GP Winner) like Perez, who was on the podium for 4 of the first 5 races, but after China fell back to P.8 and worse, dropping out in Q1 or Q2, and flying of the track (overdriving in a slow car...). And the other drivers (who know better than you, trust me) also admitted that Max had a slower car for much of the season.
How did he get it? Max got a champion mindset, something that Norris, even with the best car, just don't. Simple as that
Max did a good job and saying that as a McLaren supporter but everyone can see that Max is a ruthless driver with years of experience and Lando is still coming. We’ll do better next year 🧡
Lando Norris is not as good as he thought he was. His inexperience in race winning scenarios cost him a huge amount of points.
Letting Piastri undermine him as also costly. He needed to be assertive to get close to this title
Norris is talented, but immature.
Sometimes it's just like that. Sometimes it's basically the driver and not the car. And sometimes it's your opponents making mistakes that can be crucial to anyone who challenges for the title. The constructors title is still up for grabs.
Just like Vettel wasnt experienced enough to beat Jenson , this was the same with Lando this year. An experienced driver like Hamilton, Alonso, maybe even Leclerc could have maximalised his points and ultimately win the championship, but even that would have been incredibly difficult because of Red Bull total dominance at the beginning of the year and Maximilian's consistency, he deserves the title
Max mentally won it in Brazil, you could tell that by his celebration as well. I haven’t seen max like that since 2021. Winning the championship in Las Vegas his celebration was so chilled compared
Next year is shaping up to be very interesting and an even tighter fight for the championship.
😂😂😂people thinking max would be pressurised if not for the point buffer shows they don’t get the driver he is, max lewis alonso they all have one thing in common their performance only gets better under pressure ❤
add charles also to that list because of ferrari his results in f1 so far have not been there even if red bull car was not fastest redbull race engineer and strategy team is top notch compared to ferrari
Max is an absolute F1 monster
It's amazing what RB team could figure out on the car when they effectively only had 1 driver to validate their tweaks, as compared to McL, Ferrari and Mercedes. RB was competing from a significant disadvantage. Kudos to that team.
Mclaren needed a high caliber racing driver to challenge Max. Can't see many beside LH who can do that if he had the machinery
He drove like a champ that’s how… the RB team behind him was better as well
It would be interesting to have another teammate with him to understand how good the car is and how much Max is making the difference
The problem is that Max destroys all is his teammates, simply by A.) being that much faster, and B.) demanding a car they can't drive (very pointy and nervous) There are only 2 or 3 drivers in the current field who would stand a shred of a chance (Hamilton, Alonso, LeClerck) But they all are leading drivers in their own teams..
Max kept the pressure on, even with a slower car, and Norris shattered under it. Legendary 👌
Lando is not a rookie, he was given a car ready to win Championship in his 6th yr in F1 and he dropped the ball, In 2021, regardless of what people think about AbuDhabi, it was Max’s 6th year and he was given a car to take on the mighty Mercedes and 7 time WC Lewis and he maximise what he can out of the car and won 9 races before AbuDhabi, just shows Max and Lando is never in the same level. This video states “Lando’s inexperience”, its his 6th F-n year!
Interesting. Good video. Thanks.
To suggest that, in order to have Norris have a shot at the championship, they need to sometimes command Piastry to be behind Norris is quite telling.
Thank God that didn't happen too much, for everyone involved.
Verstappen takes "Consistency is key" to another level in 2024.
He won the title in the first half of the season.
The RB was the fastest car only for 5 races. After that Adrian Newey left and the RB quickly fell back to 3d or 4th fastest. You can see this in the performance of a good to average experienced driver like Perez, who was on the podium for 4 of the first 5 races, but after China fell back to P.8 and worse, dropping out in Q1 or Q2, and flying of the track (overdriving in a slow car...)
@@rientsdijkstra4266 why would you use Perez as an argument when making a point about Verstappen? Verstappen being good has nothing to do with Perez's performance.
And the Red Bull was fast. Very fast. Over the year Verstappen had the best car. There is no denying that. Just because Perez cannot handle the car does not make the car slower than the others. And even 4th fastest?? Are you joking?
Verstappen is the best driver on the grid. No need to make up such a nonsense narrative about Red Bull being slow.
This was one of best season
I agree, I don't think McLaren and Lando were ready for a title fight this year which makes next year quite interesting. Unfortunately, I don't think Max wins it next year, if car development doesn't improve
I've said this for moto and it applies here. The fastest guy usually wins. It sounds too simple but overwhelmingly raw talent is able to perform even when the machine isn't on par
Undoubted skill by Max, aided in no small part by McLaren's quite unbelievable ability to shit the fucken bed.
It's a bit like 2021, Lewis had a Dominant car for majority of the season.
But he made lots of mistakes and the team screwed up with race tactics.
Meanwhile RBR made no such mistakes and Max was on it getting the most out of each race and making no mistakes.
He is the closest anyone comes to the GOAT, Michael Schumacher.
Schumi only won 2 titles in Dominant cars, the rest came in cars that only he could have won in.
Even in 3rd best car in 2002.
3:10 is a perfect illustration of the gap between Lando’s current form and being a champion