I have been watching F2 since 2019, a little over a year after I became an F1 fan, and this is where I learned where most new F1 drivers come from. I've seen the likes of Nyck de Vries, Nicholas Latifi, Mick Schumacher, Yuki Tsunoda, Oscar Piastri and Logan Sargent make the step up to F1 from F2. I have grown to become a fan of Prema Racing in both F2 & F3, and I know I'm a Mercedes & McLaren fan, but I actually do support drivers from the Ferrari driver academy racing for Prema! Speaking of Ferrari, with Lewis Hamilton (my favourite driver) moving there next year, I might even become a Ferrari fan too, but who knows?
It was the Verstappen we had seen before. Changing lane under braking and going to the absolute limit and even over it! I am on Lando's side and i really really do not like how Max does his infights it is not how a Gentleman does things! Okay okay i see i see what you mean and yes both could have done better but Max really that was to much "again"! Remember he was really a crash kid in his first few years!
This is some of the best F1 in ages and people are complaining, talking about cracking down on this type of aggresive driving. Why do you want more boring racing? In that case we might aswell make a rule that cars arent allowed within 1 meter of eachother, just let them race and let shit happen. The penalties are there to compensate if something wasnt quite right and Norris divebombs were also borderline illegal and defintaly looked like an amateur
When you do your 'This is what would happen in (insert season here) without (insert team/driver here)' video at the end of the year, and if it has no Red Bull in it, your probably gonna say 'Lando & Verstappen collided here in real life, that does not happen here, and so it's Lando Norris winning the Austrian Grand Prix with George Russell 2nd and Oscar Piastri 3rd.'
10 Years ago 2014-2016: Hamilton vs. Rosberg, The Silver War = Friendship ended Now 2024-????: Verstappen vs. Norris, The Orange War = Friendship not so near its end but it’s near the end
After the two made their final scheduled pit stops on lap 52, my eyes were GLUED to these two for the last 20 laps until they clashed at turn 3 on lap 64. I was disappointed that Lando Norris (one of my favourite drivers), was out of contention, but at the same time, delighted that Verstappen had no chance of winning either, and that George Russell was going to win the race!
@@ItsMaryWork Yep! And now we have 5 different race winners this year from 4 different teams, this season is turning out to be just amazing in my opinion! And I think Max Verstappen just ignited a title fight with Lando Norris
Finally some sensible opinion. I agree that lando was desperate and his attacks were trash. Attacks were the same when I play the f1 game. And point to be noted is that turn 3 is not exactly just a right hander. The circuit goes to slightly left and then turns 80 degrees. See any battles everybody goes a bit left before turning right otherwise you will lock up and go wide like Lando did. It was a racing incident and both were at fault. Lando fans have to understand that. He has to learn planning a move. Look at Charles vs max they both battle so great cause they plan and play moves not just dive bombs.
Verstappen was certainly jinking over to squeeze Norris wide and off the track on a few occasions and I suspect there may now be a crackdown on this kind of overly aggressive driving. The whole thing put me in mind of Schumacher versus Hill/Villeneuve, desperately trying either to win or eliminate both from the race and we don't want to see any retirn to that nonsense. What I feel is highly ineffective is the current system of time penalties. A ten second time penalty at this stage of the race had zero effect on Verstappen. I would like to see the FIA move towards an actual finishing position demotion, moving the driver a few places down the finishing table rather than a simple time penalty which may turn out to be no penalty at all. I also think the "stakes" of the offence need to be taken into consideration with championship-deciding deliberate accidents penalised far more heavily than infringements further down the order. As it stands, Verstappen was really permitted to drive Norris off the track then recover to fifth place while Norris parked in the garage rather than winning the race.
Max is just a machine rn. Even in the sprint race, Norris had the pace and that McLaren should've been a winner but Norris made mistakes and Max capitalised on it, including Piastri also. When competing with Max, there is no room for error.
I’d just reverse the grid for the race. Though that would make it more interesting than the race and detract from it even further. Not a massive fan of sprints.
This reminds me, I've seen people make videos on what their dream F1 calendar would like, and that got me thinking, you should make a video on what YOUR dream F1 calendar would look like, with where you would go, how many rounds etc
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Lewis back on the podium was good! I am a lil bit older than him but it feels good to have Gentleman Driver up there and not only young boys p.s: Like i said before i feel the same as you. Constructors with 2 good drivers Ferrari could do it get your bs together!
I’ll say this, Leclerc is better than Sainz due to his ability to think long instead of short. Leclerc has this thing where initially he’ll save his tires at the start of the race. This is why he is able to do his long runs and it even leaves some people going well Ferrari should let Sainz through. Sainz on the other hand will start the race (usually right behind Leclerc since they’re not far off from one another in qualifying) and make it his mission to pass his teammate. It usually doesn’t work and he’ll just relentlessly push Leclerc even though Leclerc himself isn’t pushing. This then puts Sainz in a loop where he’ll end up with a bad strategy, his fans end up blaming Ferrari for a bad strategy, and then he doesn’t learn and does the whole thing all over again. It’s been an endless loop since 2021.
@@quentinhirschfeld9382 Great pace means absolutely nothing if you aren’t beating the person ahead on strategy. Ask yourself, why did Lewis finish ahead of Russell and why did Charles finish 10+ seconds ahead of Carlos?
Now I dó like Carlos, but still, his move wasn't the best idea; Add to that the fantastic Ferrari strategies.. it's even difficult to determine how good that car really is.
@@ItsMaryWork It will be interesting to see what happens when Lewis enters; everyone expects improvement, but I'm not so sure about that yet.. Even with Fred at the helm Ferrari still shows an uncanny ability to sabotage themselves..
Look at a photo of George Russell. Now look at a photo of Fallout actress Ella Purnell. SAME PERSON. Seriously though, George has always been a great driver. Like the similarly terrific Alex Albon is doing now, he kept Williams respectable all on his own.
Smaller and lighter cars is a welcome move but as you say, they are still colossal compared to previous years. If the FIA are really committed to carbon neutrality then surely the 100% sustainable fuel has this covered and we can ditch the MGU-K and the heavy batteries as well? Moving aero and the "push to pass" sound interesting but it remains to be seen whether the 2026 are sufficiently well thought out to achieve the desired results. That said, I'm sure Adrian Newey will get his head round everything and produce a championship winning Ferrari for Lewis (or Williams for Alex)
