his results are underwhelming with a decent car compared to russell who isnt even that good. other rookies this season like hadjar and borto have been achieving standout results putting their cars in places where you really wouldnt expect it, meanwhile antonelli routinely bins it or makes embarrassing mistakes
Him being a competent Italian driver on lower levels is the main thing driving scrutiny and not verstappen comparison…
Will be interesting to see how Max fares. Going from open wheel racing to GT racing (or any form of closed wheel racing) isn't as straightforward as it sounds, and few drivers manage to successfully transition from one to the other. Either way, it's great to watch a race with without Crofty's passive-aggressive commentary whenever Max is doing well.
I don't even like Russell but to say he isn't that a good driver is crazy to me. I would easily put him in the top 6 drivers on the grid.
Max has already been racing GT cars in sims for years.
More that the class it's the car. He his Runing a overweight undertuned porshe
Verstappen was one of the few who never knelt during the 2020 summer of love. Like Leclerc. I think Verstappen said something along the lines of "I don't do this symbolic stuff"
Yes, I said during the hype he needs another year in F2 before getting that promotion. He was going well in F2 but not up to ready to step up levels. Toto was just scared to death of having the same happen again as did with Max.
V8 but with 2.5 meter wide cars that weight 1.5 ton. Asking for anything good to happen in F1 these days is wishing on the monkey paw.
Those specs are good, but I'd make it so that while they can start with a spec gearbox they would allow development on own designs after 2032 with the only shared thing being standardized mountings and no fixed gearbox ratios so teams can actually sort out what gearing they need from weekend to weekend rather than find some compromise set-up at the start of the year and be locked to that for the rest of it.
As much as I hate the current PU’s, I’d take smaller cars over V8s. So many tracks don’t have areas to overtake anymore cause the cars are so fucking big….
Was bloody obvious it was a racing incident. Hopefully they don’t use Stevie Wonder as a steward again.
The size of the cars is mostly due to the lack of refuelling, which means the cars have to carry a race length's worth of fuel plus the safety stuff required to make it the car not explode in a crash. The only way to decrease the car size significantly is to bring back refuelling.
The reason why the cars can't pass isn't due to their size, but rather due to the amount of dirty air they make.
If any driver is going to succeed in any racing car they're given to drive, it's Max.
Then explain how the 1990 cars (before 1994) were able to race without refueling and at the same time being way smaller and lighter. And that was the era with the heavy weight V12's too (of course there were also V8's and V10's)