The Funniest Tweets from the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 

See you next year Matt and Tommy

I'm so glad you do this after every race. It's the perfect end to any race weekend. Can't wait until 2024 :) Also, perhaps a 'funniest tweets for the 2023 season' videothingy? please?

Logan Sargeant - a 21st driver in a 20-driver grid Nyck De Vries closer on points to Checo than Checo is to Max Max driving RB 19 to 19 wins Checo doing Checo things...even ruining other team's result

So glad that the year was such a success for you two. Well earned!

Looking forward to 2024 already … Goodluck on your live show later this week. Next year do one in the US

No he actually asked to stay out himself for the safety car

What was the ulternative brain box?

@@mikasr.5 He said he was actually lost regarding the team strategy... that's when he got that reply.

@@mikasr.5 no he didnt wtf - he just didnt know what their intent was which fair enough since they straight up forgot about him even tho at some point he was in the points and then of course... dnf. classic ferrari.

​@@sv-bd5emHe was nowhere near in the points. They had to pit because like everybody else he was on a 2 stopper. He was 19 laps stuck behind Stroll who also was on the hards. Would he pitted on mediums he would have again been behind stroll in p13. People blaming Ferrari and not putting it on Sainz is such a Sainz move. He QUALIFIED P16. The one weekend they need him and he bottles it

I think it's a bit more nuanced than this. We don't see what's happening on the pitwall. They will undoubtedly talk there, and make a decision and stick to it. But we don't hear or see anything of that. Charles did make a more proactive tactic, but most strategists on the wall are mostly conservative. Could it be more proactive from the wall? Maybe.

Wow, he let Perez through: this is surely worth more than all the degrees you need to become an f1 engineer.

​​@@thekyuwaA good engineer does not necessarily make a good strategist. Ferrari's strategy has been a clown show since Arrivabenne left.

Which is funny because the lack of strategic acuity (when compared to Carlos) is one of the main things people usually throw at him.

@@D.H.1987 how?

Same from max right after winning, it’s crazy how many current and former F1 drivers Franz has mentored

😇 tha was lovely!!!!

@@hunterreeves6525 I totally agree! I think Yuki just imprinted on me a little more because it's never really been heard from him. I'm not sure why but him saying thanks for all the Advice just got me, it's an acknowledgment of respect and the lad actually learning cause he recognises the help and changes the man helped him make. And yes, amazing how many have been mentored and appreciate him.

Max’s title are indirectly bought by Franz because of his trust in Honda when nobody believed is commendable

@@hunterreeves6525are there any other current drivers other than Yuki, Danny, Max, and Carlos?

lol 😂❤

Red Bull gonna Red Bull, Ferrari gonna Ferrari.

We are checking...

Ferrari are checking if they are waiting or not...

So we are doing plan safety car? Question

Yesss the Constructors Meme! I miss that

updoooooot

I'm all for Constructor's Meme & Prediction graphics!

@@frankhuurman3955 yep I'm all in for #1 and #3 here! Not adverse to trying somethin new with #2 either

Norris was on 12 points when Alonso was 117 Ended with 205/6

Norris nanana

Yeah, McLaren impressed me the most this season. Ferrari and Mercedes just floundered around like a bunch of fish. Aston somehow blew an amazing lead.

But mclaren was faster more consistently unlike ferrari who was fighting for p5 and p6 most of the time,overall mclaren was the faster car this season but lando bottled p4 by some bad quali performances,still great season for him

​@@greenfj1466He needs to trim out those qualifiying errors to take the next step. Too many mistakes have been creeping in lately.

Paul de Vries is a Estonian professional racing driver who is currently competing with the Trident Racing Team. 🇪🇪

@@RadityaPramanaPutra2001 I was like: "I have seen the trident racing in the other formula classes, but a round of applause for the TV directors for apparently missing trident also participating in the F1 class!"

@@MsMarty07 😮😆

I wanted to tweet this to them, but i refuse to make a Twitter account

@@matthies1775 well that's a relief! Now you can just make an X account! 😜

I mean 8 SC out of 15 races make it seem like a coin flip though you would need to make adjustments for the likelihood at a given stage of the race. In any case, a realisation of an unfavorable event doesn't prove that your strategy was bad or wrong. In the end, we just don't know what the other strategy options have looked like.

@@t3ss33 They still left him out WAY too long to point where even getting a shorter pitstop loss from under SC wouldn't have benefited them due to how much time he lost on those old tyres, and wouldn't of had enough time to claw back through the pack. It would have been better to pit around lap 42-45 for Mediums and go from there, they really wouldn't have gained much if anything from a late safety car. For reference, Stroll who was one place ahead of Sainz before the first round of pitstops did this exact same strategy - Hard, Hard, Medium - and finished 10th. There was no guarantee of points by sticking to a regular strategy, but it was their best shot at it and they threw it away along with their chances of fighting for 2nd in the championship. Keeping him out for ages hoping for a late safety car was just silly

prediction points*

By that logic: do lapped cars also not ever finish the race?

@@Thund3rstorm They finished the race, if you look at the results: Sainz DNF.

​@@lmr4403did you know you can edit your own comment?

@@lmr4403 ah. Maybe then because he didn't drive the 2nd tyre compound.

Been the worst season of all time if you're wanting a title fight. Rest of the 19 drivers was interesting.

@@TheYorkshireGeordieeven as a Max Fan i have to agree that the title fight was boring even for me because of course im happy he won but i want him to fight for the title or at least have more fights for p1 at least (tbf few races were good like quatar and monza but yeah) BUT everything behind him was actually pretty good and probably the closest racing we had in a long time

One can only hope this dreadful season is never repeated. Might be top worst season in the history of the sport. I've been watching for 27 years and this was the first season I just stopped watching races multiple times.

@@joshn1678 Yeah, it was Boring. But nontheless has Max shown that he and RB are the best Package you could get at this moment.

Don’t think we’ll ever see someone lead 1000 laps ever again, that’s insane

unless we get a 30 race calendar of course@@Duval-In-The-Wall

But on hards he was slower than Stroll. At best he would only taken him, no one else.

they shouldve gone hard medium or ideally started with mediums so he could get some pace since he was starting from p16

@Kaspa My brother in christ, he was 19 laps stuck behind Stroll in a Ferrari. He drove like Stroll against Stroll

​@@Almin88 but do you know the difference they had in these tires, aka, how many laps each had on them. Seems like not...

​@@biljancaninYour excuses for sainz are illogical 🤣🤣. I'm glad leclerc beat sainz in the drivers championship 🤣🤣.

That car had no pace, no strategy would have helped Sainz

@@fingerprints2983 hard - hard - pit lap 57 💀

@@sv-bd5em Maybe P9 was possible, but that's it, after the crash the the car was f***d up

​@@fingerprints2983Maybe it was just sainz who was slow,leclerc really pushed the car beyond its limits and carlos could not,thats how i see it

@@greenfj1466 Just stop with "beyond it's limits" crap - it's impossible to push the car over cars theoretical performance capabilities.

Not really questionable, Perez caused a collission, I’d argue its as stonewall as Russell’s penalty last week.

@@deeznoots6241 If that's the case then Lando would have gotten the penalty. Last week George turned in on Max. My argument is not that it was a bad call. I think it could have been called a racing incident or a penalty. Its more how that penalty played a big deciding factor into Merc finishing position and of course silence.

@@jonathanm3108 Lando was ahead and did not turn in on Perez. Perez took too much speed in the corner and was unable to take the corner without either causing a collission or forcing Lando off the track. The impact a penalty may have on championship positions should absolutely never be considered, for that leads to the possibility of biased decisions in favour of preferred drivers/teams and letting drivers drive dirty.

Nah, Checo didn't even try turning into the corner. You can see it on the stearing wheel input. He could have turn in before and not cause the collision, but he threw his elbows out and therefore got penalized. Fair decision. Even as a Ferrfan for over 25 years, it was the right decision. Unlike the 10 grid penalty to Carlos in Vegas...

That's Checo's role in Red Bull: Catch any curse aimed at Max like a lightning rod.

MATT, never do that again please! No curse can stop my fellow countryman Max and it only affects my guilty pleasure!!! we can't have thát! 🤣

Perez started performing again? Did you watch races in the another reality? Perez always been mediocre and It is his maximum. He did bad job for the last 3 races too. His quality results was awful. He should have fired from the team.

@@kakhak hmm mediocre.. 6 GP wins, 35 podiums, DS 2020 & 2021 P4, 2022 P3 and 2023 P2 sounds pretty mediocre... right?

​@@SuperPassionflowerin an RB that has won all but 1 race and so many mistakes and not even having half the points of the other driver, he may not be a mediocre driver, but it was a very disappointing season.

C est une légende pour Sainz

It s Sainz stratégie listen his radio

It was 100% worth the 5 sec penalty. He just didn't want to turn and hit Lando. Im a Ferrari fan for over 25 years and even tho it did cost Ferrari the 2nd place, it was 100% Checo's fault

They take past incidents into consideration, Checo is running into someone every race, so they aren't going to give him a break.

I love how people think they know more than the stewards lol. Checo missed the apex by a mile, wasn't ahead and crashed into Lando lol. Of COURSE he deserved a penalty, he deserved a much bigger penalty because he continues to do it.

@coast2coast00 Ah, I did not account for that. Checo has been rather bumper car'ish. Max and Ocon have been late on the brakes and didn't leave space much a few times this year. Maybe this is a statement that Era has ended.

@joshn1678 yeah, the broadcasters did question the stewards either, right? Oh wait, they did.

glad he did it, but hard to ignore a driver with the best season in history and probably at this stage already the highest peak in history (last 3 seasons).

@@daarom3472 There are many within British media and social media who do ignore this because Max isn’t their favourite driver

Indeed. I've just left a very strongly worded comment on another video from someone who would rather drink bleach than praise Max and Red Bull.

@@AZBCDE tbf it's hard for me to judge. I never followed the British media during Lewis' dominance so I have to take people's word for it that the media mostly praised Lewis rather than the car (which seems insane given that car was significantly more dominant than the RB this year).

Yet you cry about Lewis in all your comments… hypocrisy from max fans is crazy Demanding respect all the time otherwise burst into tears

And he passed Lewis in the statistic of average points per race...

@@Saiko-Johnny when you have zero competition that's easy to do lol.

Absolutely pointless when you need competition to have RACES. WE NEED RACES.

​@@joshn1678oh he had competition after qatar and he won anyway.

Absolutely! Max was fantastic and it was an honor to be able to one day tell my grandkids about the time I watched Max win dam near every record F1 had. 🎉

Also some non-"netflix fans" need to understand this apparently. I think most people get that this was a special season from Verstappen, but still there are quite a few just dismissing it by saying "the RB is a second quicker than any other car". Which is bullshit (especially later in the season) and even if it were true, it still would be an outstanding season by Max.

well, no, he does not have a teammate that is any good. If Lewis had Perez as at teammate between 2014 - 2016, he would have won almost all the races. The fact that Max got lost a couple of races to Perex shows he is not anything special. RB must put a proper competitive teammate in the other seat.

​​​@@ddha0000"proper competitive teammate" So that means lewis is not on the conversation here😂

@@ddha0000Don’t drown in your own tears you CLOWN

Perez has been absolutely crap this season and is still comfortably P2. Max did all he needed to, but other drivers had much better teammates when they were dominating.

I still think race win percentage is a bigger statistic. Point scores haven't been equal throughout the years.

@@MsMarty07 I’ve applied the current point system to every season.

@@lukemontgomery1774 that's a lot of data analysis 😅 props.

@@MsMarty07 cheers lol

@@lukemontgomery1774 but whichever way you look at it. Verstappen obliterated the season. Did it ever happen before that the number 1 driver, got more than double the amount of points than the number 2 in the championship?

1000% agree with you!

As a fellow Max fan, I don’t know what anyone’s complaining about, I had a GREAT season watching Max! 😅😂 no complaints here! 💪🏆🏆🏆

@@mamavswild Yer i thought it was the best season ever personally 🤣

I don’t think Max’s record will ever be broken because no top team will have a second driver as bad as Perez.

@@paperplane-db8qf. That’s the thing though, he is NOT a bad driver, you’re just bad at judgment. And have to be as sour as you possibly can at every single opportunity

I actually thought the same that Perez was a bit of a mid-tier driver@@paperplane-db8qf but then I started watching back older seasons on F1TV, like the 2012 season and Perez was actually quite good most of the time! taking the car into the top 5 often during the race and that without being in a top team.

No he wouldnt. He had no pace this weekend. Spent the whole first stint couple of seconds behind Stroll and Stroll finished p10.

@@furkanalbayrak5129 yes he would since at some point he was in the points. he never shoudlve started with hards tho.

​@@sv-bd5emBrother what do you mean. He was in the points because he didnt pit yet. Its like saying Yuki could have won because he was in front for a few laps.

​@@Almin88 so that means if he did pit, for like Mediums at like 20 laps to go, he wouhave been in the points easily since everyone else was in Hards. Do the math, fresh Mediums against few laps old Hards... Ferrari F-ed it up with the strategy

@@biljancanin You dumbass, Everyone was on a 2 stop strategy. Medium Hard Hard, Ferrari went with Hard Hard Medium. At the end of the second Hard stint they have seen that Sainz is way too slow to box for mediums, he probably would have been outside of the points. Thats why they waited for the safety car. it was their ONLY choice. His race pace was abysmal.

His P2 in the race was safe

@@soundscape26 yeah but if he backed George too much then he could've lost the podium place

@@banathey he should've take the risk imo

and how did that work out with russell in p3

did you watch todays race? he was the one making the decisions lol so if he doesnt do well its because of him and today he wasnt able to do just that

@@sv-bd5em You ought to watch the season, sure he makes some mistakes but overall the biggest hindrance at Ferrari is the entire team and culture there. They've been the main reason why their drivers haven't had the level of success that they should've had by now. It's 100% a culture thing too because they changed team principles and still it's the same poor decison making and mistakes. Poor management, poor strategist and even at times poor pit crew. When your driver has to make common sense suggestions such as trying to find a way to get perez ahead so that they can win the constructors, that is honestly sad. Ferrari should've had a strategy for that a long time ago.

​@@sv-bd5em it's not HIS job to make strategies, there's a whole pit wall ffs.. he was doing everything to get the best results

Let's see if Checo turns up at the start of the season again to break it in Bahrein or Azerbaijan. If not, I can see it not be broken until we arrive at Singapore again

Will everyone see me next year?

I think the permutations in the standings was what made it exciting, not so much the racing itself.

The Mexico GP was more exciting Lol, there were probably more overtakes in Monaco than Abu Dhabi

It was good, but it never looked like it was going to bubble up into a crescendo.

Which race did you watch? There was good racing for most of the race.

the point was to give Perez clean air to gain a gap... it's much slower following close...

He did give him the slipstream and since Perez was behind before the DRS line, he actually gave him both

@@RickCocco not on the straight. he let him by just before the first hairpin

Shame we missed those moments because we were watching Max's last corners.