The Most Brutal Rivalry in F1 History 

Everybody is always talking about Silverstone and Monza... but let's not forget Bottas taking out the entire WDC top 5 in Hungary except for Lewis. I mean, if your teammate takes out 5 of your closest rivals in the first corner... than give that man a raise.

why is there no mention of Checo's brilliant defense on Hamilton to let Max catch up with them, that man played the ultimate team game in this sport

Looking back at the entirety of the season, Bottas was a much better wingman than Perez. People only remember Checo's defense in the finale cuz of short memories but Bottas actually took more points off Max than Checo took from Lewis. He made every strategic move asked of him and even slowed down Max at the risk of taking a penalty under safety car just to make the double stack pitstop clear for Merc. Checo was nowhere more most of the season. People who compare the two just piss me off tbh

"The team trusted the driver to deliver and the driver trusted the team strategy." said so well.

Hamilton should have been penalized for cutting corners in the early laps tho

When you hear it again like this, the amount of points Max lost because of Mercedes drivers is crazy. Would’ve been decided 2 weeks early otherwise

As a Lewis fan this hurt a lot, now the dust has settled I like to look back on it as one the greatest seasons of all time, it grabbed the attention of the world We should be thankful we were blessed to see 2 of the greatest of all time go at it head on and forget all the controversy

The years Mercedes were dominating were a snooze fest for racing but then we got this masterpiece, one of the most exciting seasons ever to watch with the title contenders being tied on points in the final race, one coming from a years of dominance, the other fighting for his first. Since that year its been Red Bull domination snooze fest, makes me wish we could have another season like that.

I wished you mentioned the race in in Baku on how Verstappen's Tire blew up and Hamilton's brake magic.

If Formula 1 can deliver another season like 2021, the fans would be grateful that's for sure

very "neutral" coverage!!!hahahaha,Lets all agree it was an exciting championship,probably the best in the last decade

The battle of the greatest of this era. Of course Hamilton fans didnt like the end result, but hey, this was an epic season and it needed a winner. Max did what you have do do to become a new worldleader. Overthrow the sitting 7 time champ. Thats what happened. With out of this world driving, a lesser car than the Merc and aggressive overtakes, he gave the world a run for its money. Whatever you think of Max, it takes talent, ambition and intelligence to beat a 7 time world champ. Respect for both guys!

Ngl both of them did a really good job they are still great drivers

It has been said that a man is judged by the quality of his adversaries. And this rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen definitely proves it for both racers. They definitely are worthy rivals to each other.

Aside from Hungary, Silverstone and Baku lost points, you forgot to mention Imola 2021 when Lewis got lucky with the red flag. Lewis deserves to win AD21 but Max deserves the championship.

Biased much??? Why didn't mention when Lewis' car got fixed in Imola under red flag and allowed him to unlap himself? Max showed a steady performance during the year making no mistakes while Lewis made plenty of errors especially at the beginning of the season eg. Imola, Baku, Monaco

hamilton hitting max in the back at saudi arabia, if he had known the rules you cant overtake a car you give position back to on the same strait. also in bahrein hamilton exeeding tracklimits 35 times and the moment max said i gonna do the same, stewerds are saying the gonna look out for that.

Both drivers were incredible that season and neither deserved to win or lose that title in the manner they did at Abu Dhabi. Can’t help but feel Masi failed them both to a certain extent

Senna v. Prost was a much more tense and bitter rivalry. Media and Netflix hyped up the Max v. Hamilton stuff more than it was in reality.

LANDO rolling the dice on fate N weather and watching him slide off track was HEARTBREAKING.

I think Max was more deserving. He fought the hardest, and nearly got killed in the process. And no, Max didn't nearly kill Hamilton in Monza. The halo is there for a reason. That Silverstone crash, though, was something else. Pushing someone off the track and into the wall at just under 300 kilometers per hour, then celebrating as if nothing happened? That's very disrespectful.

I was so lucky to see the most INCREDIBLE FORMULA ONE SEASON IN THE HISTORY OF MOTORSPORT. Super lucky to witness it and for all the fans out there who were watching the live race in Abu Dhabi, still gives us literal chills!!!

I’m firmly on the side of Max Verstappen here. A lot of people seem to forget that Formula One is a sport, and every sport at its core is a game. Both Max and Lewis played their hearts out in the 2021 season, and both of them put everything on the line and pushed each other to the limit. But at the end, in the final race, it all boiled down to those final five laps in the final race at Abu Dhabi. Max and Red Bull won the 2021 WDC fair and square given the circumstances that were created by the bad calls made by the FIA. Those bad calls after Latifi’s crash and the Safety Car affected everyone, but Red Bull and Max played it to their advantage. Red Bull pitted Max and gave him softs, which ultimately gave him the best chance at overtaking Lewis. It should also be noted that Lewis wanted to pit for fresher tires but Mercedes didn’t let him because they were hesitant to give Max even the slightest advantage and the potential lead, blinding them to the fact that Max on fresher tires could easily overtake Lewis. In the end, Max and Lewis gave it their all, and fair play to both of them despite everything. But I really think that the clincher here is that Red Bull gave Max everything he needed to win, and Mercedes failed Lewis in the end by being overly cautious and by not equipping Lewis with the best strategy and car. This is a trend that continued to 2022 and 2023, where the formerly indomitable and invincible Mercedes has been relegated to the midfield. It’s sad to see how far Mercedes have fallen, and even sadder to see Lewis struggling with a subpar car. I’d also just like to say that I find it so ironic that Lewis questioned why Max didn’t check on him if he was okay after their collision at Monza. Did he check on Max after his collision in Silverstone? Apparently not. Also, a bit of unsolicited advice from a subscriber and fan. I love your content, but I think you should refrain from using clickbait thumbnails and titles to draw viewers in. Let your content speak for itself. You do good work here, and fans might not take you seriously if you resort to using such underhanded and deceiving tactics to draw in more viewers and subscribers.

If a scriptwriter in Hollywood would've written a story like this he would've been sacked because of it being too farfetched.

honestly, would love to hear some f1 recaps from non british youtubers for maximum unbias, but I guess you did your best.

It was a beautiful season, one of the best ever.

Too much pro Hamilton on this video don't you think ? 😊😁

Hopefully we get to see Max And Lewis duels in the near future.

I'm a max fan, but i have to say that season Lewis showed up some of the best driving he has ever done, truly a capable driver.

The most brutal rivalry was Senna vs Prost.

That was the best championship year in F1 for the last 40 years since I’ve been watching F1

You can clearly see which driver he likes more lmao

Had it not been for Bottas being Mercedes' battering ram and Lewis NOT being penalized the multiple times he should've, Max had a clear win. For anyone to say FIA favored RB that season, it wasn't until the last lap of the last race that they did. Rest of the season was AGAINST RB

even though the crybabys on both sides ruined that season afterwards this was a historical season and i enjoyed every second of it the final no matter what side you were on was pure nail biting drama absolutely crazy year

No, Michael! That was so not right!

Ah.. the 2021 season! Masi's first and only F1 Drivers Title!

Abu Dubai 21 will go down in history as one of the most memorable moments in F1 history.

If it was Schumacher, they would I’d never “interpreted” the rules that way.

"The most brutal rivalry in F1 ... If you only started to follow F1 since 2019."

"From Michael Massi giving the championship away to Max...."-Blood starts to boil in my veins...

Well after only a few seconds, we know how this is going to play out, HEAVILY BIASED TOWARDS LEWIS HAMILTON!!! I wasn't aware that Michael Masi was able to HAND the title over to anyone, and he did??? I thought Max passed Lewis on the race track to become the champion, oh that's right, he did 😂😂😂. Max won fairly because the championship should of been over before the last race, with Lewis hitting Max and sending him into the wall at 185mph and stopping Max from winning any points, while Lewis won the league race and claimed 25points. If Lewis hadn't of put Max out and still won the race, Max would of finished at the the very least 2nd and won 18 points, which would of been enough for Max to still win the title by finishing 2nd in the last race, which he was going to before the safety car. The main reason the points were even level before the final race was because Lewis had a BRAND NEW ENGINE for the final 5 races that was blowing everyone away because it had zero mileage on it. Here's the thing, when Lewis took Max out of the British GP, he didn't just gain 25points over Max, but Max lost that engine due to the massive damage caused in such a massive crash. So, at the start of the season, everyone has an allocation of 3 engines per season. Meaning that each engine has to last for 7 races and 1 engine has to do 8 races, but because Max lost that engine at Silverstone, he had only 2 engines that had to 11 races instead of 7. Now anyone with even the littlest of knowledge of formula one, knows that every time an engine races, it loses horsepower. When your engine has done 1,000 miles more than your NEW ENGINE, then it basically doesn't stand much of a chance, if any, of beating the new engine. Which was shown in the last 6 races where upto that point, Lewis had only won 5 races to Max's 9, almost double, which would of been if Lewis hadn't took Max out at Silverstone. Those last 6 races, Lewis got pole position at the USA GP, something he hadn't done since the Hungarian GP, which was 9 races ago. Now Max won that race, but it clear to see the impact of the "ROCKET ENGINE" as the Mercedes team referred to it, and obviously the more mileage that went onto Max's engine, the slower it became. Now in them last 5 races, where Lewis had only 5 wins in 18 races, all of sudden he won 3 races in a row and if not for a safety car, would of won the last 4 races. So not did Lewis deprive Max of scoring between 18-25 points in Silverstone, but compromised the rest of Max's season with taking 1 of his 3 engines out of the rest of the season. What always makes me laugh like crazy, is these simple single minded people who don't take anything into consideration except for the last lap of the last race 😂😂, which Max overtook Lewis on the track like he was supposed to, because Red Bull gambled with Max and brought him into put fresh soft tyres at the pitstop for when the race restarted. Mercedes made the wrong decision, and you could hear Lewis saying on radio that they should of came in for a pitstop too, but his engineer said to him that they thought that track position was the best strategy. They got it wrong, and Red Bulls gamble paid off, but to say Michael Masi gave Max the title is just absolutely plain stupid. Here's a side note-Mercedes cars hit Max 3 times and caused him 3 podiums where in 2 of the races Max would of finished NO LOWER THAN 2ND OR WOULD HAVE WON THE RACES! That's a minimum of 40 points and a maximum of 54 points lost because of a Mercedes car hitting him, and only in 1 of them 3 races did Lewis not score any points. So winning more races than Lewis doesn't warrant him being a worthy champion??? Are you seriously suggesting that??? The title would have been won far earlier than the last race had Max not of lost so many points by being hit badly both Mercedes cars and either had serious damage that say him finish only 8th when Bottas wiped Max out at Spa, i think, and the other 2 times was when Lewis hit Max and sent him into the wall at 185mph and Lewis went on to win, and at Monza where both of them didn't get any points, but if you add the points that Max lost by being hit by the 2 Mercedes cars, he would of been champion before the last race. Also to say Max was handed the title from the stewards, go back and Google it and see just who the stewards were showing the more favouritism too throughout the season, my god Lewis got away with 10 maybe 20 times as much. Max was getting penalised for far more than Lewis, and even when they did the exact same thing, Max would get a penalty and Lewis wouldn't. Full stop, the END! Now just bloody deal with it

Pure, unadultured race fixing. YOU HAVE TO UNLAP ALL CARS +1 Lap. End of story. The only legal end of AD21 was a safety car finish.

So much Hamilton bias, not one single mention about the overpowered engine for the last four races of the season, no mention to Mercedes' disasterclass in Monaco (Ver 1st, Ham 7th), and surprisingly no mention at all about the Baku race. A race where Verstappen retired by a tyre failure and everything seems to align into Hamilton's favour. Though in a humiliating ridiculous error, Hamilton threw away an easy win though the "Magic Button Incident". That race haunts Hamilton's fanbase till this day, as it exemplifies how he crumbled under pressure and how much this rivalry hurt him mentally-wise. Baku 2021 means for Hamilton the same as Hockenhein 2018 means for Sebastian Vettel. The moment everything changed. It doesn't matter how much his fans try to bury this under a rock, we will always bring it to light until the "#robbed" crying babies stop kidding themselves and accept the truth. "MAX VERSTAPPEN, FOR THE FIRST TIME, IS CHAMPION OF THE WORLD!" David Croft, December 12th, 2021.

The wrong driver won in the Finale, but the right driver won the championship. Whether you like Max or not, he was incredible that year and has proven it since. Either way, that season was probably the best in my memory.

I watched the bahrain gp with my dad and when the race was finished i said: "This could be a championship fight"

If you look back, Max deserved that title far more then Hamilton. His bad luck in Baku, Bottas playing bowling in Hungary and Hamilton decided to crash Verstappen out of the race in Silverstone… Abu Dhabi was the payback for this all.

The most brutal rivalry in F1 history was Senna vs Prost...

Good video, the clear bias towards hamilton is a bit of a shame because it makes the video as a whole less pleasant to watch.

you forgot about Brazil 21 near incident where Verstappen didn't get a Penalty

Lets not forget Lewis was cheated out a championship in 2021 when the rules was changed to give Max a last min win

Lewis committed the most disgusting driving at Silverstone. Lewis didn’t deserve anything but a life time ban. Justice was done on the track instead.

"take the whole grid bowling" is crazy☠☠😂😂😂😂

For people saying the 2021 WDC was illegal and the results should be fair, it would be fun to invalidate the results of Abu Dhabi race which will still proclaims Max as Champion (based on Most Wins).... Deleting Abu Dhabi results would be the most fair outcome based on the events in the final laps of that race but Lulu Fans would revolt against that too coz he would lose out on the championship for good. This would pave path for Crashgate to be invalidated too lol making Hamilton a 6 times WDC Instead of 8times WDC that all the DTS Lulu fans wanted...

I'll never heal from how Lewis was robbed of his 8th WDC💔

The Hamilton bias in this video is crazy 😂

Not even 5 seconds in and i'm like lmao Selective memory once again

Allowing the cars to lap the safety car is a scam. Lewis and his victory robbed by the higher powers.

Senna Vs Prost was the greatest rivalry.

The fact that Max could beat Hamilton with an obviously inferior machine speaks volumes and brought out the #LH crazy’s.

I noticed no bias at all😂

I’m new to the addiction of F1. Starting with a focus RS, deciding that I want to track it this year, decided on a starter simulator. F1 23. Made me love the race, feelings of my former ski racing resurfacing. Learning about how complicated “actual driving” is. These guys are amazing human beings, extrodinary if you will. Amazing evolution and I SEEAM OF ATTENDING AN F1 EVENT! Abu Dhabi would me my choice. But Montreal is most likely as I’m Canadian. Thank you for making these videos there great!!!!!

Hear me out... Max and Lewis both didn't deserved that championship. Nicolas Latifi was the guy.

No F1 fan will ever name their son Mikey

tell me you're a hamilton fanboy without actually telling me

Yeah, that was the robbery of a lifetime. Lewis was the winner in that race. Michael Masi is rumored to be back in FIA? Did he ran out of Red Bull? I thought he at least got himself a lifetime supply?

Hamilton fought increasingly ludicrous odds throughout that season, the FIA's desperation to stop him was downright pathetic.

There was no “conundrum” with the safety cars. Common practice is that “ALL” lapped cars must unlap themselves.

1:40 … and the “Great White Hope”

For me it is rather simple, having watched the whole season. 1: Lewis should've won in Abu Dhabi. 2: Verstappen was the deserving champion. 3: It was a bloody brilliant season to be a spectator.

Nice and subtle, you sir have gotten +1 subs.. Smooth operator! Keep it up!!

Well I guess there's no doubt as to who the author of the video supported lol #blessed

I am a general F1 fan, not particularly a team or driver's fan but as a Dutchman I really enjoyed that season. Max and Lewis were fantastic. I never favored any driver more than the other. But both drivers made some mistakes. The one from Lewis pushing Max into the wall was odd, because with Max he pushed his car wide, making him touch Max's back wheel, but on other laps and in previous years, he stuck to his line, which made me think it was not an "Accident". Same for Max taking out Lewis on Monza. That was Max's fault for trying to stick it in when there was no room at all. On Singapore, Max tried to let Lewis pass whilst sticking close to the racing line, BUT, Lewis had enough room to pass, but instead drove into the back of the Red Bull. Also, MOST calls, I'm NOT saying all calls, but MOST calls from the stewards were AGAINST Max, favoring Lewis MOST of the time. I think Masi tried to favor Max in the last race. I think he wanted to make it up to Max and Red Bull or something for the kind of favoritism from the entire season and getting a final crucial racing lap is good for the sports recognision. All-in-all, this was my favorite F1 season so far. Both drivers deserved the Chip, but unfortunately only 1 driver can win it...

It was a wonderful year and a great last race.

i honestly dont understand how normal ppl can justify max driving-style in any way... idc who wins or not but this is clearly unfair, unsportsman-like and against a lot of rules. VAMOS CARLOS

3:29 Is how you kill a man 4:17 is how you overtake into that corner

Mate, the mercedes rear wing in the brazil was illegal, you can see the movement of the rear wing when lewis had DRS.

Looking at the season as a whole, Max definitely deserved his first title

He didn’t “give it away” they did the right thing. Yes they did backtrack on allowing Lewis no shame to just run straight in the first corner also not to allow lapped cars immediately to go around then and let them race. What FIA did was giving RACE A CHANCE. It was the gods of racing really

Left out the magic break incident in Baku. That’s what actually cost him the championship.

With the cost cap blown out by red bull and masi loosing his job over what he done, that season should not have ended at that race.

If not in a F1 car he would be attacking a church and blaming real humans.

The only reason Hamilton was able to win the championship in the last race, is because he pushed Max in the wall on Silverstone. But he still claims he was cheated out of the win.

Hamilton punted Max off because he wasn’t gonna win at silverstone. I believe that full heartedly.

a very biased video towards hamilton, but an insane season, shame i didn't follow F1 in 2021.

When mercedes was dominating no one had any problem but now that red bull is dominatting everyone is suddenly bored

Masi didn’t give anything away. Max won fair and square. Pilot against Pilot one lap showdown. The best man won.

Ur description of that Silverstone crash is embarrassing

i’ll never get over how insane 2021 was

Great video mate. Max, considering everything that happened during the season, is the legitimate champion.

Cutting corners is the name of the game! Not illegal

That was KARMA for Lulu not being punished for almost killing Max and celebrating while Max was in hospital!!

I watched every race in the 2021 season. I was hooked. Abu Dhabi was one of the most thrilling races I've ever seen. Great racing on both champions!

Massa won in 08 and i pray the courts award it to him!

This 2012, 2010 and 2008 were the best seasons I’ve ever watched

I have to say my look at Hamilton being the greatest of all time had really changed. How can you be the greatest of all time without being able to win in 2 years. It really shows you have to have the best car to win a championship. Lewis had long been in the by far the best car and does not have the records max does now. So I don’t think Lewis is as great as we all thought Atleast in my opinion

Villeneuve vs. Pironi will always be the most intense. Almost as bad as Senna vs. Prost but Villenueve literally died trying to stay ahead of Pironi

lewis lost the title by himself and only by himself....

Most brutal rivalry? Short memories

2 things. Shane that there was no mention of checos imposible defending after max made the pit stop allowing hin to catch up to hamilton. I believe hamilton should have been penalized for that corner as he you can see him accelerate allot to gain an advantage not just get back to the track as quick as possible.

The bias of the man who does the voice over creates a very unpleasant feeling when watching this video. It's a shame because a lot of effort goes into making it and then it gets ruined in this way.