Norris' BIG qualifying mistake: How far ahead was he really? 

slow in fast out

He does the opposite. He drives shorter corners.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@FormulaDynastyhe turns early, and so he is on full throttle very early to… thats why he is so fast but his main priority is to extend his the coming straight

@@Acque__Minerali He creates a angle wit his short cornering driving style to rotate the car earlier than other drivers, it also allows him to get on the throttle earlier yes. Max is all about carrying more corner entry speed and taking a shorter line (short cornering). Longer cornering is much slower (doesn't have a higher potential ceiling in terms of performance). Max, Oscar, Lance use short cornering but its the combination with creating an angle with the car with, trail braking and braking at the exact perfect spot that allows max to create these times; comparing to stroll he can't do that but he drives a shorter corner. Take Alonso for example, probably drives the longest corner out of anyone but he has mastered his driving style but it's not as fast as someone who has mastered short corners (max)

Not really. You could look at any 2 laps like this (even in sim racing) and say the same thing. If they are at least a few meters apart, it will always look like the gap shortened under braking and extended at the exit. Even if they went through that corner identically. Same thing as the pit lane. Before the pit lane they can look far apart while in the pit lane they are much closer because of the reduced speed (same as in the middle of the corner)

He would be def p2 the mclaren is also very good in last sector

Actually the Mercedes of George Russell had the fastest final sector of Q3

​@@LucasDiep was he forecasting a podium?

Not taking all credit away from him, but when you are in the fastest car, you dont really need to push as hard as others. Lewis made less mistakes from 2014-2020 then he did in the last 2 seasons alone. Max was also making a lot of mistakes before he had the fastest car.

Verstappen overshoot at the hairpin after S1 but still end up launching.

Hard to make mistakes when u have a car that planted to the ground and u don’t need to push it to the complete limit

@@askeladden450 ''the fastest car'' where is perez. if it was the fastest car by far (as many would love to claim: teamLH), the 2nd driver would always qualy in P2, and would finish in P2. just like we saw from 7 years Mercedes dominance. it was always a definitive p1-2 in qualy and race, the question was by how much. right now, its the DRIVER making the difference. all the cars are so incredibly close together, never ever in formula 1 history has the ENTIRE grid been this close together in qualy and race. and its the drivers making the difference. and as Dennis said after driving verstappens car, there is nothing special about the car. it drives like a normal racecar. both redbull rookies in both cars where really close together in FP1. to counter your 2014-2020 argument, lewis car was SO FAST, he could make a free pitstop after only 10 racing laps in every single track. together with his teammate. he was literally doing time trial with 100HP more than the rest of the field. but what a very clear example is, that now that hes actually having to race other drivers, he makes mistake after mistake. hes really terrible at wheel to wheel racing, and is only able to overtake with DRS. whenever he goes side by side into ANY corner, one of the drivers will end up in the gravel. the redbull cant make a free pitstop in any race so far. and it takes about an entire race distance for him to be 5-10 seconds in front of P2. he is sstill having to fight other drivers, unlike the mercedes drivers from 2014-2020

@@wildwilco my comment went straight over your head didnt it? Missed my point by about 5 nautical miles.

I think it has to be said that it’s the RB driven by Max. His style is so smooth and precise.

You can see that Max vees off some of the corners more than Lando, which is why Lando gets ahead in the mid corner due to having a higher minimum speed, but drops back under acceleration because Max has a straighter run out of the corner.

@@slartibartfast2649 True, much shorter corners, but the Mc isn't as good at getting on the power generally, whereas braking it looks rock solid.

The McLaren is faster on this track. At least in a single lap. Max just slightly lowers the speed into the corners, so he can get on the throttle sooner. This gives him more control and less chance of losing the rear. Lando would have taken pole without his mistake.

​@@davidc.w.2908good point, and I think Max drivestyle also helps to wear tyres a bit less, lower speed in search for a bigger angle sooner (V corners instead of U corners). His cars are designed to be massive oversteered (which Checo struggles), to turn-in fast to do the V corners, exactly the way he is driving in this video.

He still might have made pole or 2nd

@@zenthous9568 He already went wide at turn 12, zero chance he would have a better turn 13 than Verstappen. So he would not have had pole even without that moment.

@@razinroslan1473 still 2nd then

@@zenthous9568 Possible that the compromised entry would have lost him quite some time still since his exit would have been quite bad, so can't be too sure either honestly.

@@razinroslan1473 yeah, I think he would’ve made either p2 or p3

That are different driving styles. Max is pushing more at the exit, Norris more on the entry. Both hurts the tires.

Besides, in the previous corner, max had a better exit to prepare for the corner in which Lando slipped.

Leclerc had purple minisectors there and the fastest S3 though.

@@Alonso_The_GOAT that's because he did a better lap

That was in a time where mercedes made up 0,7 seconds on the straights in a single lap compared to redbul, here it is like 0,1 or 0,2 sec max.

Merc was THE DOMINATING ENGINE, with the RB19 is the dominating AERO DESIGN….huge difference!!!

It only makes time up on the straights because Max prioritzes corner exit speed over corner entry speed. Just think about it for 5 seconds before you post stuff

It doesn’t make up time on the straights. All the time is made up on corner exit.

Bruh.... keep crying

McLaren has come a long ways in two years. Development in the second half of this season has really improved the pace on some tracks.

you're sounding as if Norris was in Bahrain McLaren spec.

The McLaren isn’t much slower in the QF setting. The rb 19 strength is the race trim, I.e. taking care of the tires while being fast on the straights without as much downforce as others. They are difficult to overtake and extremely strong in clean air. In the QF Ferrari and McLaren aren’t much slower if at all when we look at checo. You can’t tell me that max isn’t getting that extra tenth by himself.

@@Keagan1007 the development you are talking about is literally making a RB19 knockoff. I love mclaren but I hoped they would resort to a original solution instead of making a orange bull. If not they will never beat reb bull for the 1st place

I think "dominance" is a great exaggeration for a few thousands. Quicker, yes. Dominant? If we slap together all the long runs and there is a definitive difference, then perhaps, maybe yes.

@@FrancisFjordCupola I think you didn't understand. What I mean is that, when the dots move through the track map, leaving a coloured trace behind them with the color of the car that is going faster at any given point gives us a good idea of each driver/car combo strengths and weaknesses. It's a graph commonly shown by AWS on the F1 broadcast

@@FrancisFjordCupola "track dominance" is just a term for which parts of the track a certain car is ahead of the other.

even if we all know who will win the race

Why is it counterintuitive? It has always been "slow in, fast out" for faster lap times. Also I completely agree with your second point, he is a smooth mf

@@crabnix well, let me rephrase, it feels good to enter the corner with speed. In that way I meant intuitive. You have to go against your own urges to keep it going till the last moment.

@@twigsagan3857 oh okay makes sense. Yes it's a bit counterintuitive if you think of it from a "non-racing" point of view. But that is one of the reasons we enjoy this sport :)

LOL, he needs a lot less corrections because of the car he's driving. The Ferrari is nowhere near as stable.

@@boostav Eh, corrections should never be needed, you need to stay within the limits of your car as that is the fastest. A correction is ALWAYS slower. Max is staying within the limits of his car. LeClerc would be wise to do so too.

Correct. And this is something Max himself addressed, when talking about making sure he had enough tires for the last sector.

Watch this video again. There was no pole there.

"possible wins" ☠️

@@darkraig7378 in Qatar 100%, he had the possibility to win starting in front position, remember that he fought his way till he was behind piastri(and he was faster), in Qatar Max was very vulnerable from McLaren (just remember the sprint)

@@MohamedLamkhizni in Qatar yes, in the others it's more like a maybe

@@wreagfe he was side by side in a sector in which McLaren was on par(or even slightly faster) with the RB, and even if he was P2, that's still a chance for the GP.