@@F1Unchained Albon’s style is super fascinating. i’d love to see how he extracts performance out of this year’s williams cuz it’s So bad in the corners. at one of the quali sessions at Abu Dhabi, albon was like 2 tenths up on the fastest time on the board, going into sector 3. he came out 3 tenths behind. man lost half a second in the section which has the most turns.
@@F1Unchained max talent does not come from himself,if you had a father who already was in formula 1,he tortured max so much,poor boy could not live his childhood,he owns everything to his father,at the young age driving in formula 1 never heard before,lewis had not such a racing father..lewis talent comes from himself..
I feel like your channel and "Hockey Psychology" (NHL/ice hockey) have a lot of similarities, and in a very good way imo. For example both are clearly passionate and educated on their topic, providing deep dives and interesting trivia, and engaging with the community. Keep up the nice work (:
I remember when the tyres are still those durable Bridgestones, Hamilton is able to snatch poles by braking to the absolute limit or even past the limit as he lock up ever so slightly into the corners and yet still hits the apex perfectly everytime. Some even say that he has natural ABS in his feet, clearly better than an actual ABS because he brake so late to the point of lock ups.
That was the closest I’ve seen anyone came at describing Hamilton driving style. But again, it’s not even covering half of what he’s capable of doing. Throwing fastest laps at the end of a GP with 20+ laps old tyres, taking a car on three wheels to complete a whole lap to win a GP. His qualifying at Styria where he blitzed the nearest competition by 1.2 seconds, his qualifying lap in Singapore 2019 where beat a super computer simulator. And so many more genius moments that no other drivers came even close to. He’s the best driver of all time. Kudos for this video. You need to do an in-depth analysis of his driving style by analysing his performances throughout his career. Multi-chapter episodes.
@@quentinhirschfeld9382 Again, anything specific that he "lied" about? because you're just repeating what you said before with this comment. Again on paper and statistically he is the best driver of all time, and if you look at it subjectively with evidence rather than opinion he is one of the all time greats and has proven himself. It's ironically your "personal preference" when you say he isn't the greatest of all time
Having confidence in the car either when braking, on the power or just leaning on the front or rear through some corners makes a huge difference to lap times. Hamilton style of driving and how the car gives you confidence has shown that over the past 2 years, imagine not being able to trust the braking performance or rear end at 200mph. All that whilst trying to get the maximum out of the car, must be difficult when it does feel planted underneath you.
Yeah, exactly! It's like the W13 was the polar opposite to what suits Hamilton's driving style! With that in mind, it's truly incredible how well he managed to adapt to driving it!
Lewis has the knowledge to drive fast, brake late and hard, yet somehow he is more gentle on the tyres than most other F1 drivers and can get more laps from a set of tyres than are expected. That is true driving talent. It is about treating race driving as a flow, almost like water in a stream, and the more it flows the quicker and longer you can go.
I thought Spain 2021 was a good comparison between Lewis and Max's driving styles because the cars we pretty much even there unlike the other tracks where it was one car or the other. Imola qualifying where multiple cars had a shot but Lewis still came out on top by a couple of hundreths as well like in Spain.
@@nobody5372 yeah but hamilton even at 2021 was not his prime, prime was 2017/2018, being good on the brakes kinda fades as you get old as your reactions leave you
@@GhostonRU-vid201xdon’t understand this comment. The reaction times that we get at the start of the race when the green lights signal go are the same for Lewis and Fernando as for everyone else. In fact they are often the fastest starters and reaction times. 👀
You have the best F1 website because of who you are. Your extremely objective in your analysis of Teams, cars drivers etc. and it's refreshing to listen to your opinions. My favorite driver is Jimmy Clark who has been universally hailed as the greatest natural driver ever. Jackie Stewart would say Jimmy could never explain the way he drove because it something he just did he was never trained. A F1 driver stood at a turn and observed all the drivers braking at this turn and said that Jimmy would start braking after everyone else stopped braking and you would never hear his calipers clasp because he was so light on his brakes. Graham Hill was his teammate in 1967 and changed his brake pads after every race but Jimmy could go 3 or 4 races without changing pads. The Lotus mechanics would brake down the transmissions after every race and Hill was shifting at the Max RPMs was 10,000 and Jimmy was shifting at 8500 and would still drive the car faster than Hill. A Dunlap engineer said Jimmy was the only driver that all 4 tires would wear evenly and Jimmy driving style was to turn the car in early. Your analysis of Lewis is great and the people in the paddock know who the best drivers are. I believe Max drives against Lewis hard because he actually knows that Lewis has a style that can beat him.
Lewis has the better overtaking style on max 100% and I love how you explained everything about jimmy I have to do more research on him because that sounds so interesting. Thank you so much for watching im glad you feel this way ❤️❤️
Really appreciate your channel and all the knowledge and effort you put into researching your topics. This was a great analysis of Hamilton's driving style.
This is why when people saying driving styles comes down to understeer or oversteer only I shake my head There’s so much more to driving styles, Lewis style has never been oversteer/understeer biased but braking confidence and feeling of the brakes If he doesn’t feel confidence under braking he loses lap time the W13-W14 suspension layout was not the best hence some 1 lap inconsistencies
I find that a lot of the people that oversimplify the two styles in this binary, non nuanced way are usually indulging in fandom to argue one style is better than the other therefore driver A is superior to driver B. The key takeaway word from this video is adaptability.
@@Enzoblueblood Yup exactly this, generally oversteer is faster than understeer but there’s so many nuances to driving fast The quickest way to make time in a lap is your braking performance and exit speeds it’s all about trade off the two to generate lap time Oversteer might help you rotate the car better and understeer might help you achieve a higher apex speed Many try break down a 3D problem into only oversteer and understeer Adaptability as you said is key as well because rarely will you have the car exactly where you want
Lewis can adapt to both oversteer and understeer easily, it don’t make a difference for him but his braking technique is like senna’s throttle technique, out of this world While Schumacher and Verstappen are kings of consistency Clark and Prost are intelligent smooth operators
I’ve seen other channels do videos of this kind, but this one’s the most comprehensive, and the most well written i’ve seen. kudos man, you’re doing good work
@@F1Unchained ofcourse man. i know how hard content creation is, i do it over on instagram. New quality content like yours is few and far between. i’mma be around for as long as you make stuff
On point, as usual. Excellent video. This should become a series, driver by driver and also covering other categories the driver races - if any. Driving styles is very important and most often under estimmated. ** Danny Ric also has similarities to LH style driving.
Danny ric's driving style is completely different from Lewis. He like to drive an oversteer-ish car and prefers an oversteery set up. Basically, he and max has the same driving style
@@shaikhanis3193 You are completely out of context dude. Very little dealt with over/under steer. It was about BRAKING .... LATE BRAKING, amlost extreme late braking. There are 2 GOATs on the grid for this, LH and DR. But to take your comment inclusively, both drivers prefer a balanced car that is centered from the driver rather than displacing the center according to weight or aero pressure - ie where the most assumed stable grip is.
Good stuff. You should do one on Nigel Mansell. He basically pinoneered the trail braking line, the fast tight in, lower apex speed, fast tight out line. Overall time is about the same, but the line is physically shorter. Lewis drives similar (but not the same of course). One of the reasons Mansell was so good at overtaking and drafting (faster exits, less time loss following another car through corners). Senna had his own technique but would adapt the Mansell line when required after following him in Jerez 1986.
I never forget the 1992 Monaco where Mansell caught but couldn't pass Senna, who had a slower car. You could feel Mansell bear down on Senna, two implacable, indomitable F1 spirits. Mansell drove the fuck out of his car that day!
This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for. Thanks. The understeer method is very interesting, but clearly works. What’s ur driving style preference F1Unchained ?
"legends like Senna and Montoya" I loved JPM, but don't think he's quite in the same legendary category as Senna et al. That said, I have a very fond memory of the day that Montoya taught F1 that it's smart to pit under safety car. This was when safety car was still kinda new to F1, the full-course yellow came out and JPM immediately dived for the pits, being familiar with the idea from NASCAR and Indycar. The commentators didn't get it, they were all "oh! it must be a problem for Montoya!....wait no, he's on his way, what was that all about?" and then as the stint wore on and the track position sorted itself out to JPM's advantage, then they were like "that's actually worked out rather well for Montoya". Not often you get to see strategic doctrine in F1 evolve before your very eyes like that.
Very good analysis.... Spot on about the similar drive style comparison of Ayrton Senna and Juan Pablo Montoya... Lewis Hamilton is an awsome F1 driver... Probably the best ever
Great video , they are complete opposite and are both adaptable and are able to create a stable platform in the car (same with Charles ) which sets them 3 apart from the rest of the grid.
I think the best way to demonstrate this would be to paint a line where a wheel went through the turn between Lewis and Max that is color coded with the speeds to tell the differences.
Hope he has more success at Ferrari next year, as this season is pretty much a bust unless something drastic happens. It’s pretty clear Merc is tailoring their car to George now, especially so with Lewis leaving.
the W14 is better than the W13, but it's far less predictable (the W13 was just slow), which means it needs to be set up right to get the most out of it
I'm a bit confused. Isn't the late braking style also the V-shape cornering style? I say this because on both occasions, the minimum speed is lower than the U-shape cornering technique. Or are you referring to the long and short corner style coined by people like Peter Windsor?
Good video, cool delve into "ONE" of Hamiltons many talents/skills....because if you really think that its just "Late Braking" that has earned Lewis his 7 championships (and many others records/achievements), you know nothing about racing or competitive motorsports in general lol. But good video
Very nice and well-made video, thank you for your efforts and well done. Although I'm a big Fernando fan and don't agree with some of your points, I have to admit that over one lap, Lewis is the fastest driver I’ve ever seen in the past two decades or so! In my opinion, in these past few years, only Charles came close to him.
All his points are valid you just don't want to believe it lmao this dude is an engineer and everyone in the paddock knows Lewis is the latest on the brakes just watch his early career when he locks up to rotate the car and gets the car stopped. He was known as the Abs master in his Bridgestone days.
@@flintey360 slow down dude, how do you know I don’t agree with what part?!!! I don’t have any problem with what he said about Lewis and if you read my comment correctly you could see I praised him as the best! FYI I’m a racing driver myself!!! Lol Lewis Fanboys 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️😅
Fernando driving style meanwhile might be the most unique style to ever work lol I’ve never seen a driver want to induce a lot of understeer in a high level formula car before him that plus the Michelin was perfection Also shows how good Michelin were at tires when you had two drivers with the most completely different driving styles in Alonso and Kimi thrive
Watching F1 since 1984 and no other driver I've seen up until now has ever sent shock waves through out the motorsports world and F1 unlike this guy Hamilton nobody does F1 or knows how to drive better than him with a raw natural talent as you have got to be born with it and that Lewis guy from England is the best goat driver guy and it even goes without saying
dude most of the things you said is wrong sorry. 1. his style never been aggressive. Lewis is one of the smoothes steering wheel input drivers since early stages. 2. he is not a front tires eater or something never been. 3. front tires work more cause he enters corners earlier while carrying speed while a having a slight understeer. 4. he still takes shorter lines like in karting. 5. he doesnt use front brakes mostly even if he trail brakes. there is something brake migration. if not he d locking everywhere. thats why he keeps adjusting brakes during a lap. 6. its alOnso not alAAnso. hope you have a broad back.. cheers.
Hey! Tried looking for videos on your channel as you seemed to speak as though you know what you’re talking about. Are you gonna make a video arguing your points ?
