2:10 is a completely different situation compared to the first two, at 2:10 Verstappen had 1 lap old warm tires, while Lewis had new cold tires, so obviously Max was way way way faster at that moment and had much more grip, he could easely brake way later and Lewis was essentially just not doing a smart move and steering into Verstappen on top of it all. 0:40 Lewis probably didn't expect Max do shift this perfect, the Mercedes was the faster car, Lewis probably expected to only give Max a free slipstream if he moved in front of him. Max somehow managed to speed up perfectly and braked later on top of it, then there's only one way, back of. I think that Lewis should have given him the slipstream, then Max would probably have had to back of himself and then Lewis had an easy pass. 1:26 - 1:31 Max was in front the entire time, Lewis trying to overtake him on the outside just ain't a smart move (all over again), anyone with a bit of racing experience should know that, it seems like Lewis is simply not used to overtaking or beïng overtaken, he really drives like an unexperienced driver.
@@AAb-xy6et i mean, just because "it isnt a smart move" doesnt mean a driver isnt allowed to try, nor that the defending driver is allowed to shut off the door
Hamilton fans, F1 Sky Sport employees and DTS newbie idiots on full throttle to hate on Max Verstappen. These people really are pathetic and is making this sport worse than ever before
@@justlovelyaintit there's a big different between real life and game if you didn't know that. Max always drive like he's the only one on track, another one is George Russell he caused a collision many times and just blame another driver at false.
@@p_m_a That’s a great point and I hear you but in my opinion it looks as if the wheel if the halo had not been there would’ve landed straight on Lewis’s head, in fact I think slightly makes contact with the very top of his helmet even with the halo
@@ShaggyRodgers420 it's clear that once Max's car is underperforming he gets his elbows out and that's ok i mean that's why he is one of the best, but sometimes he makes "Back off or we both crash" decisions which is something that works just fine in karting, but in F1 you might actually kill someone you dimwit, now watch how the FIA will discipline both Red Bull and Max.
From what I see, Hamilton seems to put a lot of trust on his clean air pace and their pit strategy that he’s always “just trying to survive Verstappen” first half of 2021 season.
Except for Silverstone 2021, where he saw in the sprint race, if he let Verstappen got away on round one, he will never see him again. He therefore understeered into Verstappen, the Red Bull ender up into the wall, Verstappen to the hospital, and Red Bull overspending their budget to fix the car, something that they are still paying for today. For his trouble LH got a 10 sec penalty in a car that could easily win that race by 30 seconds
@@beerstein7137 Lewis causes a collision and got the necessary penalty lmao what are you crying about, in fact 10 seconds is quite high for a causing a collision penalty
@@beerstein7137 Max could have avoided that crash (like lewis did in brazil 21), but Max fans cant stop crying a river since 2 years about something he was partly to blame.
@@beerstein7137 and then hamilton celebrate like he win through a really hard race meanwhile george the one that hamilton fans deemed as evil doer after causing crash on silverstone 2022 he get out the car to check zhou is okay meanwhile hamilton : HE HIT US FIRST
verstappen did it many times in 2018 ~ 20, the difference is that hamilton knew that his car was much better so there was no reason to be agressive too if in some laps he could overtake him easily, from 2021 it was not the same anymore and if he kept letting max by he would lose the championship, now i think its the opposite, max know his car is much better so he is less agressive, a example of this is australia 2023 when lewis was agressive but max overtook him without any difficulty with drs because of this car difference. So (in my opinion) they play their games relative with the machinery, now its lewis turn.
Australia '23 wasn't even an agressive move, Max left the door open. Lewis overtook him and left him space on the exit. Compare this to some of the clips from this video and it's a night-and-day difference. At the end of the day, the way you overtake is a conscious decision, Hamilton's early years in F1 weren't agressive (particularly when battling Vettel and Webber's RBs or Kimi and Massa's Ferraris) and even now with, on average, the 3rd/4th fastest car, I haven't seen him send any kamikaze moves on anyone. It's can be frustrating to watch Max pull off a kamikaze overtake on a driver you support but I don't think Max should be blamed as, at the end of the day, the FIA's ruleset allowed (and still allow) Max to drive in the way he does. All annoyance should be directed to them. Edit: This comment was written in response to Jonathan's opinion that drivers only drive agressively when their cars are slower than the people they're racing with. In it, I refer to the seasons Lewis competed for the WDC at McLaren ('07, '08, '10, '12) as evidence that (imo) Jonathan's take is wrong and that this trend is more specific to Max than anyone. [Alonso @ Ferrari '10, '12, Kimi @ Ferrari '07 are other good examples]. Hamilton wasn't fighting Massa for the championship in '11 and so comments pointing out that they collided a lot aren't a relevant rebuttal to my comment.
@@danielo7985 i mean tbf his early years at mclaren were pretty aggressive nonetheless, especially during the silver war era when he was battling against nico too (2014-2016). Im not saying one is worse but they both definitely drive aggressive till they have a good car under them
@@arFung0420 oh yeah without a doubt i mean if you name one champ like that then id give you $100 because it takes EVERYTHING to win especially coming from nothing with nothing. People are the most dangerous when they have nothing to lose. Im not saying one is worse than the other im just stating that they gave it there all, there was aggression, there was battles, etc.
@@danielo7985lewis in his early mclaren days specially in 2011 was even worse than max, he crashed into massa like 6, 7 times in a roll with kamikaze moves, in this case was not even a machenery thing because his mclaren was pretty decent, was just moves that didn't make any sense, max was like this in 2016~2020 specially in 2018 so they are no angels, probably they created a different mindset about being relative with the scenario and knowing that they shouldn't be that agressive all the time
The thing I find most humorous is that Max is the first one to start crying when someone does exactly the same to him. In a few years Max will be mature and some other upstart will be the aggressive one everyone is talkin about. It's been that way since the 70s
Of course when max leaves no spaces (which he does really often) it's totally fine for him and the other driver has to back of, but when he gets no space, the thought backing of doesn't even go through his brain, causing a collision
Well he’s smart while executing it though. He only did it against his championship rival and when he has the championship lead 😂 basically saying “I don’t mind crashing if you don’t back off”
@@SuperWillEvans Not even remotely. No one considers Lewis a dangerous driver .... if Max has any remote form of competition... there will be a crash if they don't back off. He's a TERRIBLE wheel to wheel racer.
I like how somewhere in the season, lewis said enough. And they started colliding every race almost. Lewis should have been aggresive from the season start. But he let himself get bullied in the first half.
@@travisfubu9053 couldn't agree more and even though the consequences of that crash could've been catastrophic, I had little sympathy for max, he had been doing this for years, he was crashstappen in '17-'18 ffs, people forget
@@j2jwhatsapp Yes Max had some crashes when he was young but so had Lewis. People forget about it. Even last year in Spa with Alonso and remember the collisions with Albon. So don't blame Max, Lewis was an aggressive driver as well when he was young.
@@yoran1784 ofc Lewis is aggressive and he's had crashes, but to compare that to max is stupid. Never in his career has Lewis been accused of being dangerous like max though and there isn't a debate. I mean Adrian newey confessed that max brake tested Lewis in Saudi '21 and you're here defending what exactly ? Every F1 driver at some point is guilty of being aggressive, but very few had the reputation of being dangerous like max.
If Max raced himself in 2021 he would've crashed way more times. It's visibly obvious that most times it was Lewis who avoids Max's aggressive moves, especially at the starts, and the few times where he decides he's going to be aggressive too, they end up crashing, and that's what F1 fans focus on
“It's not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.” - José
i cant stand hamilton, but he is very much the more mature driver for obvious reasons. but if everyone backed off at every corner, then f1 would be even more boring. we need drivers like verstappen as well as the old heads
@@mowvu5380I feel like we will see a lot of collisions involving Lando and Russel v Verstappen. They don’t have the cool head and experience of Lewis and they won’t back out when Verstappen does his usual
We all know Lewis almost always not trying to defend the inside line, because he like his "Switch-back" move which is very effective in the past especially againts Rosberg
yes, i actually agree with this. i believe it never against max because max was much better at maintaining his speed out of the corner than rosberg. even to this day, you'll see max always prioritizing corner exit speed, even at cost of a much slower entry than normal.
@@fruitygranulizer540 Not really, the switch back almost never works on Verstappen because he blocks the other car. It's not illegal, since he owns the corner, it's just annoying to the other driver since he is giving space.
Lewis loves inside line so that the can conveniently understeer and take someone out, with himself gain positions often his own car intact. Whereas Max, often either crash himself alone, or take someone out with him, don't from the crash benefit himself. Max really need to learn from Lewis how to take opponent out and gain advantage at the same time, that's why Lewis is GOAT, able using all tricks to his advantage, super good at politics and off grid media propaganda. Max still got a lot to learn from Lewis (who is a more complete package). Max is still naive, pure love of racing (hobby is still Sim Racing lol), and bloody direct that spit out anything he thought.
You have to see all these situations in the context of the championship standings etc.. If you do then it all makes sense why Lewis did and did not back off and why Max didn't back off at Monza.. Same with the Silverstone 2021 incident, that crash had everything to do with what happened a day earlier in the sprintrace.. Same with Senna vs Prost in Japan 1990 and I could go on and on.. Context is everything to understand why drivers act like they do..
Why Tsunoda got a penalty for a similar maneuver is beyond me. This clip shows easily how Zhou could have made the corner. And Max came in way harder than Tsunoda did.
@@DevilWolf000 they're basically alongside in the corner. Max breaks too late because he goes deep into the corner. If lewis didn't give up max was going to crash into him. No skill issue, it's called having brain cells.
"drives like lewis"? What that is supposed to mean? He doesn't take risks? That's not what I saw in Monaco a few days ago. You are forgetting 1 big thing: Max does improve in Sims, that's nothing Lulu ever liked to do. So he's in constant improving and learning what he can do next, and with the fastest car, it's an easier job. It's not the same driving when he had less power/performance car, but even that he's still dominant and not only by his car.
@@thatfunnykekguy6377 imagine if Lewis left all this celebrity stuff and focused on sim racing and racing 24/7 like Max,imagine he went karting a lot,he would beat everyone easily lol,Lewis is arguably the best driver on the grid rn,or 2nd and thats without him being 100% invested in racing he does a lot of stuff out of it
He’s always driven a lot like Hamilton. In his 2015-2021 days he drove like Hamilton from 2007-2016. Now he often drives like Hamilton from 2017 onwards.
I know exactly why Lewis backed off in Spain, in 2016 Nico did a similar start, Lewis however covered the inside allowing Nico to go around the outside of Lewis. Learning from his mistake then he learned holding the inside line may not have been his best option I guess.
i dont think that the mistake. nico just braking late and go futher ahead than lewis on that turn..then lewis got better traction on that turn 2 and got better speed on turn 3 while nico engines in incorrect setting. derated..
If Lewis gives Max the inside for 1, and Max races fairly (aka, leaving a car's width on the outside), Lewis would have the line for 2. Defending the inside isn't always better in a fast chicane like that. Look at the move Checo pulled on, I think it was Carlos? when he braked later on an outside line and just plum drove round him.
2021 was the most intense season i've watched. Just crazy. I'll get it why Max was so agressive. He finally had a winning car. It should've been less exciting if: 1. If he didn't had that exploding Tire at Baku 2. If Hamilton didn't collide with him at Silverstone 3. If Bottas didn't play bumper cars at Hungaroring
If max didn't aggressive on Monza If redbull doesn't have flexible wings If max did got penalty on Emilia romagna If lewis didn't back off in that track
@@tedfromyt6523and if hamilton hadn’t gotten lucky with the russel bottas crash he wouldn’t have scored any points and the red flag in silverstone saved him since his car wouldn’t have survived and therefore dnf instead of 25 points
Implying there was no race where Hamilton was losing out because of factors he couldn't influence himself or simply got super lucky on. Hamilton btw. got no points in Baku either, maybe one can say it's his fault, but you could argue as well that mercedes could have prevented this from happening with a design where you can't hit the magic button when just driving lol. That's just racing.
You lot have no idea what you are talking about, you've watched 30 seconds of them taking each other out at the end of a season and think you can write a book - fools! Max is an arsehole, look how he disrespected his entire team on the radio then backs it up in the press as if he gets nothing wrong ever... Pure ballbag in the Monza clip, how does he expect to get through the chicane like that, idiot.
That version of Lewis just came off after a very dominant 2020 season, that's why we often see him allow himself get manhandled through the braking zones and corners by Max because he conditioned himself to a car that can easily do its job well but when he realized he needs to be his old aggressive self and take risks again just like how he made Massa lose his mind in Monaco in 2011, it's too late because every risk he takes will always favor Max's favorable championship position. Sometimes, period of dominance will always have that pattern for a driver, the aggressive rise (Lewis' 2014-2017 season), absolute peak (2018-2020), and signs of weaknesses and cracks (2021-2022). He was so used to winning that he still believed at that point that the Red Bull car is still inferior but not anymore, like the Roman Empire, he didn't adapt that quick late in his era of dominance
I used to think Monza '21 was Hamilton's fault, but the point that Verstappen put Ricciardo in the same exact situation earlier in the race and Danny backed out made me change my mind
@@kondjedes4866 100 % verstappens fault even if hamilton gave him room, which he wasnt obligated to do he was still way too deep from T1 and going to launch off the kerb and across the track, and i like both drivers tbh
Max’s style is similar to a Senna and sometimes Schumacher. Thing is Lewis doesn’t always drive like that. In order to beat Max you have to adjust your style to be more aggressive. It would have been amazing to see Max Vs Senna and Schumacher. Actually they all won’t give an inch and might just crash every race 😅 I’m actually cheering on Max for the championship and will say Alonso is someone who will race Max like Max does if given the chance. That would be fun to watch.
Yet when Russell gave the same treatment to Max in the recent Baku race Max complained he was too aggressive in the first lap. I mean come on. Zero self awareness. He likes to give it but doesn't like taking it back.
@@isaacm2374 That is pure bs and you clearly don't know what you're talking about. The difference is that Max was on the inside line and was ahead while hitting the apex. George in Baku was behind, went too fast and completely missed the apex.
Have u ever seen a race of Michael or Senna ? Dude ur comparison is really really wrong. A lot of f1 fan nowadays just mention Senna like a kid in highschool mention his cool "friend".
It comes down to who has more to lose or the perceived more to lose, a driver isn't going to give a lesson if they don't want to lose the position they are in even if they let him pass.
that didn't happen. Lewis just didn't back off after that and Crashmax simply drove like a mad man anyway. I mean even Silverstone didn't stop him he just cried to his dad who cried to Horner who cried to the FIA who tried to tell Lewis that HE was being too aggressive . Hamilton said Fucyou too.
hamilton drove the exact same way from 2007 until 2013-ish and probably wouldve done it the years after as well if there was any non-merc competition lol, they're both dirty drivers that win by pushing the edge of whats allowed and then blaming the fia when theyve clearly both been hugely favored throughout their careers. compare their driving style to other world champions like vettel, raikkonnen and button and you see a clear difference
They were matched in quali but it was nearly impossible for the RB to pass a merc with the straight line deficit in the dirty air era, without draining the battery or being on a different tyre strat. Catching Bottas in Russia being the notable exception. The car that's quicker in the corners is more affected by front deg because fronts are crucial in extracting its laptime and are pushed more, whereas the car with better top speed doesn't lose a massive amount of laptime due to front deg.
That applied to all the cars. Recently re watched the 2021 season and both Max and Lewis were stuck behind the McLaren cars in the Monza race. They couldn't get past for the entire firsts stint. And of course that is why they had to put Max and that famous collision happend. The same in Sochi when Hamilton was stuck behind Norris for 20 laps and Lando would have won if the rain didn't come. It's was just harder to follow in those cars with the dirty air without a huge pace deficit.
i kind of stopped watching F1 after 2016 until 2021. so im not sure if this was an actual thing during those years. but technically a car that has higher downforce (being faster in turns, but slower on the straights) has lower degradation of the tires in the turns because you slide less. unless the mercedes willingly backed off during turns and made that time back on the straights. that wouldnt be a car characteristic but a driver tactic though.
A different comment from me. We all know the aggressiveness of MV, and how tha pace of Mercedes for LH worked for him so he could avoid any clashes. Don't forget that in 2021 due to covid, it was an extra year in old rules, clearly favoring the high-rake (Redbull), smaller (Redbull) monocoques. It was a year that the laws were bent to stop mercedes streak. So it was an extra motivative factor for RB and MV to be more and more aggressive. If 2021 was a Mercedes trophy again, that would be devastative for RB which got whatever they asked to become title competitors.
When you look at Max Vs. Lewis and compare it with his battles with Ricciardio, Leclerc etc. you can see how much Lewis lets himself get bullied. I feel like if he just covered his line a lot of the incidents and times he got overtaken wouldn’t have happened in 2021.
Yep, people talk about how much Max is a bully when overtaking, but ignore that Lewis is one of the most passive drivers when defending. He puts himself in these situations with Max, specially when you compare to guys like Charles or George that defend and block much earlier, and make Max have a way harder time overtaking
I feel like part of this is due to the fact that he got used to being so much faster than everyone else that he wasn't expecting red bull to be at an equal level.
I think they just have a different understanding on what's fair in a race. Not just Max vs Lewis, it's more like the new gen drivers vs older drivers. You watch how Kimi raced, even going through corners, if there's a car beside him, he'd leave enough space for both of them to get through. Max (and Leclerc) would just run you off track the moment (he feels) he is 1 inch ahead. I remember there were a couple times towards the second half of 2021 where Lewis did not back off and they really ended up crashing.
@@LeongGunners You mean like in Silverstone where Ham was half a car behind and on the wrong racingline and shunted Verstappen off to then go and win the whole thing? 0p for Verstappen 25 for Ham. Fair racing i assume.
funny how the Max fans think, when he does these moves to others it's not his fault he''s "racing" but when others do it to him they lose their minds. it's almost a blessing he's not having any close competition at the moment, him and hamilton could of had some really nasty accidents during that season.
Monza was the strangest crash I’ve seen in F1 in a long time. The low speed and the height the back of the car got. If you go back to even more recent crashes like this. Lewis lunges into Fernando at spa and ends up in the air although it was faster but not a great deal but I think it being the front end plays a large role in both of these. Where max hits the curb and pinches in the rear and of course lance cutting of Fernando at COTA for that wild ride although downforce played a huge role in that case. Still just a freak of a wreck
I have rarely seen Lewis being aggressive during starts. Aggressive in the sense risking dnf for a couple of positions whereas the likes of max and Alonso would absolutely go if there is even a slight chance. It’s just their driving style it seems.
As much as I love seeing Hamilton lose (only because of his dominance), I can't believe it's acceptable to run a driver off of the road just because you have the inside line. If someone is significantly along side than space should be left.
Also this is one of the reasons Hamilton took the escape route in Abu Dhabi on lap 1. Since they were level on points and Max was ahead in the standings and he definitely didnt mind a DNF. Also Max thinks the rule giving a car's width of space to others doesnt apply to him. He did the same in Brazil. Kept pushing Lewis out.
I'm not super attuned to the history and complexities of why the racing rules they way that they are, and I used to think the same as you, but the rules actually give favor to the car on the inside line, and that car does not have to leave space for the car on the outside. The outside car is expected to back off because the inside like car cannot possibly make the corner while leaving space. Check out 2021 Imola that F1 posted on their RU-vid channel. They actually discuss this exact scenario and how the rule favors the inside line, so given this, whether we believe it's fair or not, it's just strange how Lewis chose to not take that line and defend in these instances.
Lewis can't get 'pushed off' and cut the entire corner off, gain about a second ahead of max, and then get no repercussions for it. I guess losing the WDC was the repercussion.
I am glad at least one driver is sensible in that scenario. If both the drivers have the same mentality, probably one might go into the wall at high speed or one car might end up on top of another. Hmmmmmm
exactly, mental games. World is super competitive, you have to be ruthless to be the champion. 2016 how Hamilton drive last 15-20 laps ahead of Rosberg and rightly so.
No he wasn't, this is something people, who clearly havent watched Hamilton from the beginning his career, say to justify Max's style of overtaking. In his first *4* seasons on the grid, Hamilton was deemed at fault for 4 incidents ONLY (including a stupid one for "illegally" overtaking Kimi at Spa). Now compare this to Max's first 4 seasons... I'm not going to bother it's a night-and-day difference and to be fair to Verstappen that's to be expected, he got thrown into F1 at *16* , jumping from F3 to F1. Only a robot could make fewer errors in the same time period. Max is in his 9th year, even if you go season-by-season, Hamilton's been cleaner and not pulled off similar moves. In fact, Hamilton's only poor season, in terms of being over agressive and causing collisions, was '11, after that season he went back to normal. We all need to please stop comparing the two, especially those who want to create and use a fake narrative of Lewis' junior career to justify Max's driving style.
@@danielo7985 okay buddy. Step out of your delusion and bias. Every race driver that saw a chance for the championship and was willing to take it (Senna, Schumacher, Verstappen, Hamilton and the likes) had to drive aggressively so long as the other car was competing or beating them in pace. It's the only way to get ahead of them other than accidents you'd have to hope and pray happen.
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@@danielo7985 Lewis was 22 when he entered F1, Max 17 that also makes quite a difference
Driving styles aside, this crash will always be remembered as the day Toto Wolff changed his opinion about the Halo. Prior to this accident, he hated the Halo so much he was willing to cut it off with a chainsaw.
This is Max knowing the RB was not as good as the Mercedes. He knew he had to be in front. The last few years you've seen the other side of Max knowing the RB is the class of the field. Suddenly he became a much more patient driver.
@@groundedgaming lewis only did it once he was a clean driver that season. max did it many times with no punishement especially the brazil situation and break checking him in saudi.
Max knew that there was no way for him to otherwise win the championship in a slower car in 2021. I am surprised that no one does those divebombs versus him these days. It also has to be said that he drives extremely cautiously in the early laps.
He wasn’t in the slower car, from Bahrain to Turkey it was quicker machine. From Turkey to Brazil they were equal, then Mercedes went ahead for the final 4 rounds
I see lewis fans are still crying. Its called racing for a reason, because people fight for the lead not just sit back and let their opponents win. Max fights for the lead putting his and lewis' car on the line as he should.
In the first 2 Lewis just leaves the door open, there is nothing wrong with them. Also, these are with 2021 cars, dirty air had massive impact on these cars so leading the first lap was extra important, so he had to take more risks.
spain i agree, but imola was just too aggressive and in the wet, plus no real run off outside of the curb i think max pushed the limits and should have gotten a penalty
@@maxshefras2752 but imola is where he had a great drive off the line to be noticeably in front of Hamilton even before the braking point. the corner could well be argued to be his already, depending on which precedents or subsequent cases you refer to as a standard of judgement.
@@huwillysh i disagree, he had a great launch, but by the breaking point they are effectively side by side, both of them are obligated to leave room. and max knocked lewis onto the curbs which killed his speed and gave max a noticeable gap aswell. if there was a smooth run off i wouldn’t mind it, as hamilton could keep his speed and momentum and fight back
I find the way how Max quite literally bullied Hamilton absolutely fantastic. I guarantee you he knew what he was doing, he knew this was Hamiltons weakness, he was backing out of everything when there was a slightly bigger risk involved, Max used that to gain track position on him multiple times. Ham had a year in Mclaren when he was crashing left and right, something changed after that year. He had a few run ins with Rosberg after that too, but honestly, most of that was on Rosberg. Max probably watched a bunch of Hamilton onboards after that and noticed the pattern, he had years of examples of the same thing, then he used it to gain an advantage. Thats brilliant racing. Hamilton did catch up to this though, in the latter half of 2021 he didn't back out as much anymore, thats when their crashes started. Max was always quite aggressive in wheel to wheel racing but just a year later and even before he raced Leclerc completely differently, it was nothing compared to the insanity he did to Lewis. It was a calculated risk against Hamilton, and it worked most of the time.
Very clever tbf, he knew that the merc had a slight pace advantage on average so track position was so important. Pretty much put Lewis between a rock and a hard place because he either looses position or gets hit.
on average over a whole season is a retarded stat, rb definitely the edge of merc in the beginning, the stat only says otherwise because of the speed mec brought with their new engine lol
hamilton always backed out after silverstone he just couldn't continue or he will lose . the brazil situation was crazy where verstepan pushed him off the entire track and massi did nothing. he passed 19 cars without an incident only max
@@jasperli I think most people who say Max drove like Senna haven't actually watched Senna drive. They see that both were agressive and performed similar "suicidal" overtakes so conclude they were similar drivers.
I don't get what is wrong with the imola one....max was clearly ahead before the corner, lewis made it a difficult situation by also braking pretty late trying to go on the outside of max while max closed the door which was completely okay
He complains when someone crashes into him, both Russel and Lewis do this, they always have been doing this which is why you only see it when verstappen does this
It's not a guess, the faster side of the track with the most grip that opens up turn 1 is from the racing line, which Lewis started from... Max came left to open turn 1. It was smart.
Unfortunately as people know from karting, the fastest line isn't the best through the first corner at the start of the race, for the reason that Max demonstrates. You have to take a slower but more defensive line
The Mercedes was the better race car in Spain 2021. The issue was track position meant a lot more in the previous regulations. You needed either a significant tire advantage or just outright significant pace advantage to overtake, which is what happened at the end of the race with Merc doing the obvious strategy given their driver couldn’t overtake on track on the same strategy with a faster car. Verstappens move is completely justified. He made Mercedes earn the win. Lewis left the door open and Max ran down the inside to take the lead. If Verstappen doesn’t lead at this point, it’s another lights to flag win for Hamilton. This is unlike Silverstone where Lewis had an acre of space to drive into but still drove into Max and celebrated like he had basically solved cancer. Right guy won the title. He was a step ahead of Hamilton the entire year.
I think hamilton net defending the inside of 1 makes sesnse because he probably wasn't expecting verstappen to go as deep and then he would have had the inside line for turn 2 which followed right after
Respect to Sir Lewis for driving cleanly. These cars can be seriously dangerous and it was lucky that Sir Lewis wasn’t injured when Max’s car parked on top of the Merc.
@@mmartijn78 I take it you weren’t paying attention to the video. Sir Lewis backed out multiple times to avoid a collision. If it wasn’t for the halo Max would have snapped Sir Lewis’ neck and we’d be mourning another avoidable death in Motorsport.
@@sunizzoF1 used to be an battling arena. The posibility of dying has always been there and been accepted by the drivers. And cheered on for by fans. Now all fans favouring certain drivers want to see is "safe driving". If you want to stay safe then just stay home. Max is an Alpha knowing danger lurks in every corner. The one who backs out , loses. Lewis was a Senna fan he always claims , yet it is Max driving like Senna.
@@vennemans9113 This is the type of language that gets people killed/seriously injured. You can drive safely and be still be a fierce competitor, but Max fans can't seem to understand that.
That is why Verstappen is the best. He is a true racer who will not hold back and literally do whatever it takes to win. In that regard he is very much like Schumacher. And yes, both Shumacher and Verstappen did/do sometimes cross the line.
Its like he’s not changed his racing style since the karting days, because in karting this is exactly how it is, and everyone accepts it, that if you are on the outside you have to back out or else you get bumped off the track.
he has changed, quite a lot and if you look at how 2021 with Lewis went, with 2022 before Ferrari decided to torpedo themselves out of the fight, there were no crashes, but Leclerc still could fight Verstappen on equal footing driving wise (until like i said Ferrari torpedoed that chance) 2021 problems came from the two drivers, not just Max.
In general, most drivers with good cars will take less risks because they will have another opportunity to overtake, etc. When you don't have the best car, it is do or die if you want to go and stay ahead. Looking back at especially the last clip, Max should have chosen the exit route and cut the chicane, but he was desperate to try and stay on track. And Hamilton wasn't going to step aside either.. Gloves are off when it really matters and that year, it did!! And most of us, enjoyed every minute of it.. 😎
Lewis seems like he does not care at least until Austin 2021,sometimes he defends the inside line sometimes he doesnt and gets a P2 and be like great job guys onto the next one😀
did we see the same video? are people actually willing to just ignore max driving him off the track? max fans cried so hard during brazil 2021 for lewis "not respecting max's corner" but when max drives hamilton off its due to hamilton's imcompetence in defending... what a joke
@@sean-pl3us not sure what you're on about with Brazil 2021, I assume you're referring to T4 where Max pushed him off track. In which case most Max fans will agree that he should have received a penalty there. Going back to this video though, what I commented is 100% accurate, there's countless times where Lewis should have defended the inside but didn't, which allows Max to be aggressive and chuck it up the inside. Lewis is known for taking wide lines and not defending the inside. And it aligns with how the Merc used to be designed, long wheel base, straight line speed etc. Here are some examples I can think of; Spain 2021, Imola 2021, Abu Dhabi 2021 I could go on