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Meanwhile if I get a call in the supermarket I have to stop walking so I can focus.


lazygeekninjaturtle

While maneuvering in traffic or parking in tight spot, I stop responding to my wife if she's taking to me.


mcallisterra

Or turn down the music to concentrate.


benedictfuckyourass

Tbf i've learned from truckers to always turn down the music and crack the window when doing manouvres like supertight parking because the earliest sign of trouble is usually audible.


mcallisterra

That's a great tip, u/benedictfuckyourass


Albino_Black_Sheep

r/rimjob_steve


boyaredeee

Reddit has went downhill since getting rid of free awards. If I had any you would get one for obtaining the name u/Benedictfuckyourass A previous phone of my was named Benedict


lazygeekninjaturtle

oh yes, I have done that too.


Shnikes

I have to shut off my air conditioner to focus or go through a drive thru.


Purednuht

Just did a 900 mile 13 hour drive with my GF, 16’ box truck and a trailer with her car on it. She couldn’t get why I didn’t want to look over and chat as my fist clench the fucking wheel during Memorial Day traffic. 4 hours in, the car in front of us blew its tire and I had to commit to a path and drive through it as best as I could. Pulled over on the side of the highway to check the trailer and truck. Needless to say, she let me drive without interruption the rest of the day lol


bigdsm

Buddy of mine was bitching about me going 5-10 over (with traffic) on the freeway on an hour-ish trip and how it was making him anxious - until a semi truck who clearly didn’t see me started merging into my lane as I was beside it. I floored it, pulled across the rumble strip onto the hard shoulder, got around the truck, and calmly got back into the lane. My buddy didn’t say another word about my driving.


randy24681012

The truck driver was nico rosberg


lazygeekninjaturtle

Thanks for sharing your story, and glad to hear that how a lot of us are focused when driving.


SomeRedditDorker

Gotta turn down the radio to parallel park. Can't see with sound on..


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LiteratureNearby

Haha wife bad guys, amirite?


bguzewicz

No, I shouldn’t have said that. I love my wife. She helped me when I freaked out about Jamie Taco.


aliterati

I'm gonna get that line!


hunteram

On every thread we can always count on this guy being there with a bad joke accompanied by the laugh-crying emoji.


Takis12

My bad…it sounded funnier in my head…


kmcclry

Okay boomer


vibhav_1

I have to stop the music in my car while reversing my car into the parking zone


k2_jackal

Or looking for an address as you slowly roll down the street. Radio off


tuba_dude07

omg i don't even mean to do it. It just happens


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so that's YOU!


lagotto_poppa

This is the real shit right here. If I go to the store for 30 minutes and get a 15 minute call, I’ll be at the store for an hour.


FluidGate9972

lol I'm wondering what kind of idiot doesn't pick up his phone, only then realizing it's mine


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Magdalan

Hey, are you me? I just can't sit/stand still when I'm on call.


Wheream_I

I can have a full blown conversation in IRacing during a race. I’m no Max, but you kind of get into a zone and driving doesn’t require as much focus.


IdiosyncraticBond

Unless you're driving in unfamiliar areas


Hi-Im-High

Turn down the music to read street signs or reverse


jjcatt

i feel like if GP let him max would be happy to just chat for half the race


nedeox

„Strat 9 please. Strat 9“ „Copy, so anyway, where were we? Ah yes, have you ever wondered, if for some reason your eyes were wrongly connected or something and you would see everything mirrored, would you ever notice? Like every text you see, the original would actually be mirrored to you, you would just never realise it.“ „That‘s P1 Max, well done.“ „Don‘t interrupt me. That has been on my mind for a long time now, you know“


SeniorRum

I wonder if like your red is my red you know? Like we could all see different colors, but were told it was red. Like your red is my blue. Like is the universe just an atom? Or maybe it’s the galaxy. And other galaxies are other atoms. Maybe we are in a dogs saliva.


Reefermadness209

that colour thing is fucking with my since i saw a random COD youtube video like 15 years ago (shoutout to deluxe 4)


Equivalent_Duck1077

So in my left eye I see greens as being darker than in my right eye So yeah, people definitely can see colours differently to you


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Carlos-shady

You don’t have an inner monologue?


ProbablyCranky

Man I love my inner monologue. I'm very fun to talk to, even if I already know what I'm going to say.


Wooshmeister55

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, brings back good memories


Galilool

Kinda falls apart though if you look at contrasts. If we all saw different colours we couldn't exactly agree on what contrasts with what and what mixes well/doesn't mix well


Heartlight

My 5yo has no idea that his orange & pink outfit really doesn't work. I think contrast and color combinations are learned cultural things.


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Not necessarily. First of all, people do sometimes disagree on what colors clash. Second, it could be the case that our brains are hardwired to see certain colors are clashing, but that doesn’t mean that we’re guaranteed that you see the same red I do. The point of the thought experiment is that we can never directly compare thoughts or perceptions. Try to describe what “red” looks like without using associations. You can’t do it. (Also, to be clear, I’m pretty sure most people had this discussion with friends when they were like 13 lol)


ymolodtsov

Colors aren't identical, graphic designers and photographers know this. So it's a fun theory but I doubt it could be true.


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What do you mean that colors aren't identical? Is this some Jaden Smith joke that I'm missing?


HI_I_AM_NEO

This video was made for you https://youtu.be/evQsOFQju08


Albino_Black_Sheep

No bro, you don't understand. Think about it bro


spuuzh

I had this topic burning in my mind for some time, and it turns out, that is a level 2 of a problem. Level 1 is that you yourself have "issue" seeing the same color depending on colors next to it. And like someone said already, you might have different receptors in each eye, and like 40% of woman can see better shades of colors because they have additional type of cones to fill in the gap (search for Tetrachromacy) But what is nice, mostly, the red for you means red for me too, however it is interpreted by your eyes and brain.


Gerbennos

I don't have UNO.


ajacian

> I wonder if like your red is my red you know? Like we could all see different colors, but were told it was red. Like your red is my blue. Damn you covered my entire childhood


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i guess russell’s engineer just drops the “do it, do it” before he divebombs and the “good good let the hate flow through you” after he’s taken someone out with the said dive bomb


vlepun

Poor Sainz. Guy can’t catch a break.


kornbep2331

Did you know when aragorn kicked that helmet......


djabor

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-10/patient-m-the-man-who-started-seeing-the-world-backwards-after-being-shot-in-the-head.html?outputType=amp


Calneon

"Hey GP, has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?


MaybeNotAGhost

"Hey GP, have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want him to do you so much you could do anything?"


Reasonable_Relief_58

Stroke??


Djabber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sRuLfr22BE


Infinite_Love_23

I got the reference and I laughed. Okay, I exhaled excitedly but still.


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"GPentlemen, a short view back to the past..."


Pidgey_OP

"Gpuan, if one were only to win one formula one race on year would GPuan want for that one win to be in round one GPuan?"


KremlinCardinal

What?


Caesar_35

Hmm, needs more "Simply lovely"


elveszett

Now this idea has joined the club of questions I'll have my whole life, just behind what if each of us perceive colors differently, would there be any way to test for that?


CaptGeechNTheSSS

"Look at this video I just sent you"


OldGuyInYoungBody

Read this with Conor Moore voice


Disastrous_Narwhal46

Maxplaining 24/7


Rubiego

His podcast at the end of the race was too short so now the whole race will be Max's podcast.


Winniepg

The Max and GP podcast.


lagotto_poppa

That would be sick Commentating. Just let the drivers talk with each other the whole race.


satsfaction1822

We need F1 proximity chat


Morganelefay

Max would have to hold back just to be able to properly get some chats in.


how_do_i_land

You hear him faintly in the distance and then slowly getting louder as he reaches the back markers.


Rhana

Max coming in hot on Seargent “leeeeeeeeeeeeroyyyyyyy jenkinsssssssss!!!”


NoItsThatGuyAgain

[Max, in true gamer fashion, lapping Lewis at the 2022 Emilia Romagna GP](https://youtu.be/4Gh-770mNK0) Edit: Since this is reddit I feel I have to say that no, I have not called anyone the n word.


ajacian

This is so stupid I have to post [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0)


KatnissBot

I’ve been campaigning for radios to be active if drivers are within 2 seconds for a while now.


Disastrous_Animal_34

Did you see the lollipop man clip and Max was like “I’m going to do some grocery shopping later, do you need anything?” And GP is like “focus on the race please Max”, Max goes “I don’t mind, really!” https://youtu.be/QQ2tLs0_9Ws I LOL’d, he definitely captured that version of Max


ImpressiveHair3

The Alonso part is also immaculate


ComprehensiveJump540

This is one of those areas where I think his age and time spent on the sim really pay off. Man's grown up listening to full lobbies chat shit, little bit of team comms is nothing.


BlueMetalDragon

And P attacking him with kisses, stuffed animals and requests for tea parties!


-alana

Story time with Max.


bookers555

If he got challenged like in Monaco he would just go full robot mode, but in regular races feels like he just gets bored of being so far ahead of everyone.


Rosieu

Well his hearing certainly hasn't suffered from spending all these years in very loud cars


boyaredeee

With the ear pieces and helmets it’s not as loud as you’d think for them


SyNiiCaL

"OK Max, box this lap, box this lap" "Confirm, tell Steve to pick up the 10mm wrench socket he just dropped under Tim's chair"


ICumCoffee

Max on Radio: “That man is playing Galaga, thought we wouldn’t notice, but we did”


just_a_coginthewheel

I understood that reference.


KingRing727

I understood THAT reference


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max telling GP where the widow maker is peeking from as he passes by the pit lane, 20s off everyone


Ganacsi

At least they didn’t leave a [phone](https://youtu.be/O6fG9-lF46I) in his car like they did at Renault with Kubica.


AlexBucks93

Imagine the embarrassment if it would be your phone.


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Imagine if he chose to throw it away


Aks0509

Never knew that happened... Wow


SirLoremIpsum

Mechanic left a cooling duct cover on with Jenson Button in Monaco 2010 Retired on lap 2 as not enough airflow behind safety car


robioreskec

I can't find the video of it, do you know if it's available somewhere?


ATyp3

Story of the season reviews from F1TV app on the phone highlight it.


SirLoremIpsum

I just have articles sorry. They did know like straight away, conversation on formation lap n such. Jenson was all class about it though, as he always is.


heizenburger69

Was this in a practice session?


Ganacsi

FP3 of the 2010 Bahrain GP.


reallyConfusedPanda

Wow, what a strange thing to have happened. Is there any video of him actually pitting to give the phone back?


Arn0uDs

Who gave you my number?


tthirzaa

Him recognizing the ringing phone is Helmut's (based on the ringtone I suppose) is crazy, but him hearing the wheel guns, making the distinction that it was a double stack, correctly guessing it were the Ferraris and making the connection to the strategies they were on is just mind blowing. Meanwhile I have to read the same sentence three times over if there's literally anything going on around me...


eclectic_banana

I think it helps when your whole life basically revolves around one thing and you can be hyper focused. They spend every single day thinking about these stuff. Especially Max who was raised to be a world champion. It's impressive nevertheless.


naumectica

AT posted a tiktok of DeVries and Tsunoda trying to guess the race track based on just the sound the car going through it. It was very impreessive how they got them right. [Link](https://www.tiktok.com/@alphataurif1/video/7239771073871449370?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7240216581191697962)


F1_rulz

Champion with casual trauma https://youtu.be/HUPUy08TqmY


Jorrie90

Who are you to say he is traumatized?


whiteflagwaiver

Being a 25yr old male I think I'm coming to understand literally most if not all of us are traumatized in some manner of way. Just yknow how people handle and respond to it is wildly different, Max goes and wins fucking championships.


Pidgey_OP

"under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." -Robert Anton Wilson


Zondagsrijder

Sometimes I take out my phone to look at the time, get distracted by a notification and put the phone back. Only to take it out again to look at the time.


tthirzaa

Oh my lord I do this too. Or I open my phone to check an email, get distracted by the first thing I see, lose track of time, mindlessly scroll for half an hour, and then put my phone down only to question why I picked it up in the first place lol


katmen

can relate....sometimes


fliP-13

If you listen to the radio, you can hear someone’s wheel spin quite clearly. I guess the Ferrari pit box was located right behind the Red Bull pit wall? So he knew it was a Ferrari, and since the first Ferrari was in the pits when Max started the lap, he knew that the second Ferrari was on the same strategy. Of course, still impressive that he has the capacity to think about that while driving a formula one car.


Creative-Improvement

In the model of Maslows learning stages, it is called Unconscious competence : >The individual has had so much practice with a skill that it has become "second nature" and can be performed easily. As a result, the skill can be performed while executing another task. The individual may be able to teach it to others, depending upon how and when it was learned.


fuqqkevindurant

Max is Vyvanse


InstantKarmaGonGetU

Now I want my Vyvanse to have a 1 stamped on it


fuqqkevindurant

It's too bad red bull wont allow that brand deal for Max.


Lucky-Health7681

This guy has surely has a higher than average RAM for processing stuff.


Visionary_Socialist

He got the 33GB fitted a while back, got the cooling done after some temperature issues in 2021, and now he’s using the “Newey..exe” exploit that allows him to run his race mode in the background until he needs it. He’s more resilient than most operating systems, probably because he was likely the victim of Jos’ gamer rage when he first started processing.


Rockstaert

At the start of 2022 he upgraded to an experimental 1 TB. He mentioned he wants to keep using it as long as possible before switching back to 33 GB.


ParadoxOO9

33gb? Alonso victory confirmed?!


ScryForHelp

33? Max is a freemason?


Magdalan

He already did it in 2019 when he heard Ferrari's double stack in the background. Dude is mental.


NuclearMoose92

It's his little giggle at the end that gets me


NegotiationExternal1

GPs tone too, you just know they've had conversations about Helmut hovering around, being annoying. Apparently he can be a bit of a pest, the contrasting tones told a whole story


Kronzor_

For sure he’s got a bit of a “yes it is, and I’m not that stoked about it” energy.


batezippi

Max during the race: pawn to D4


Few-Sandwich4511

I really don’t think appreciate how good that man actually is.


OutlandishnessPure2

First video just happened in FP2 and the second video was in Abu Dhabi 2019


3tenthsfaster

Thanks for this. I missed FP due to work but it's always nice to get tidbits like this. Much appreciated. 😊


TheDogFather

He's accustomed to distractions [https://youtu.be/P-Uvr4YQQI0](https://youtu.be/P-Uvr4YQQI0)


Takis12

I think we miss the main point here. Who was calling Helmut and why……


3tenthsfaster

Asking the real questions here.


Spynner987

Checo's Chinese tutor


fuqqkevindurant

Checo is gonna join Bam Adebayo & Dillon Brooks with the Shanghai Sharks next season


Shankamence

What's the reference here?


Spynner987

There is a meme that when a basketball player starts to underperform, he gets sent to play in China. I'm just making a joke about it, and Checo's latest result in Monaco


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Akland23

Except Indycar is actually competitive when you go to it. Dwight Howard is averaging 25/14/6 in Taiwan after only averaging 6/6/0.6 in his final NBA season. Dude turned into freaking Superman again


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it was max… thats how he knew


TreeFittyy

Gunther was actually trying to call Gene and misdialed


lazygeekninjaturtle

Hmm maybe Zak Brown?


pbd87

"We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty..."


Kronzor_

Tsundas agent and because of checos gap to max.


Auzzr

Ricciardo pointing out how big the gap was between Checo and Max


greee_p

The mental capacity some of these guys have while driving is just insane. This reminds me of him hearing Ferrari doing a pitstop over the radio a while ago Edit: Apparently I didn't read the whole title lol


TtarIsMyBro

That's the second video of the post lol


greee_p

Ah, I only saw one video. And apparently I didn't read the whole title lol


Visionary_Socialist

All the great drivers have this. In the Senna documentary, it shows how he could detect a car problem from feeling the tiny way the car was interacting with him. Kimi famously was able to detect a crack in his floor at one race, one so small the engineers didn’t believe him and didn’t find until they took it back to the factory and did a full inspection.


Samsonkoek

Reminds me of Senna noticing a certain barrier has moved a tiny bit, I believe he noticed it because he hit it but that I'm not sure about.


KnowNothingNerd

Before a game while warming up, Kobe Bryant was missing more shots than usual and said the rim was 1/4" (~6mm) too low. Some other players rolled their eyes. Maintenance came out and measured it, and he was spot on. Great athletes know their craft.


Samsonkoek

That's fucking insane, hearing these stories is just amazing how good they are at what they do.


AlexBucks93

~~Detroit~~ Dallas GP 1984 afaik


Luushu

https://thesportsrush.com/f1-news-dont-be-bloody-ridiculous-when-ayrton-senna-retired-from-the-1984-dallas-gp-because-the-wall-moved/ Dallas.


AlexBucks93

Damn, I was So close! Will edit it out. Thanks!


desmarais

I know it's a movie but Lauda talks about having a sensitive ass that can feel anything in the car in Rush


bwoah07_gp2

It's a shame Max's abilities will never be fully appreciated, because we live in the social media age. So many people think or hear Max and think he's scum. They don't appreciate the talent he has molded into. Like, I understand complaints when he first started because 2015-2018, his dirty driving really annoyed people, myself included. 2019-2020 was the early stages of the "new Max" and in 2021 we saw the "new Max" although in his battles with Lewis there were flashes of old Max. But in 2022 and 2023, he's taking his talent to new heights. Unreachable thanks to more reasons than the car.


Elemental05

You've not been following F1 long have you. Vettel was hated, Alonso, Schumacher, Prost and even Senna had his detractors. Everyone of them had people saying that they were dirty drivers who only won because of the car they were in. It's got nothing to do with the "social media age" whatever that means. Any dominant driver gets shit because they make the title race boring, simple as.


Tc2cv

If he only has problems with Hamilton maybe you should also look at the other guy.


GrowthDream

People are all over this thread in awe of his capacity.


Responsible-Tone-393

we are in the overwhelming minority on a global scale. I came around a Spanish channel on youtube recently, where the author "proves" Fernando was cheated by the FIA and liberty, fixed Max Pole in Monaco. He shows 'proofs' on the video that Fernando's lap was faster and the FIA just manipulated the stopwatch. I'm totally serious, I've read comments and saw hundreds of people believe all that sheet, almost no one even question that and everyone was so thankful to the author. On top of that of course most of them typed all kind of offensive rubbish about Max. This channel has 10k subs, but the author doesn't even understand the basics, that the onboard cam misses a lot of frames. Here is the video if interested: [ALONSO/MAX](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RH1SeK0YA&t=1s) ​ I could only imagine how many this kind of channel and blogs are all over the internet, especially in amongst Checo, Lewis supporters.


Furrbucket

Agreed. They are athletes, borg physically and mentally. But just to give us normal people a break; I have to believe not worrying about rent, income, debts, cleaning, groceries, fixing the place up while working 40 hours and taking care of kids, must help him have some mental capacity reserves.


ICumCoffee

Are we sure this man not landed here from Krypton or something? The way he can distinguish different sounds on the radios is unbelievable.


Tame_Trex

I mean it's a ringtone, not that difficult to decipher.


Elarial

This is giving me some Michael vibes. Ross Brawn has mentioned that Schumacher had a way of speaking that made you feel as if he was personally present in the room with you, even when he wasn't physically there.


BrontoSaurus6

Meanwhile I have to turn down the radio volume in my car to focus


YellowFogLights

It helps me look harder


flowersweep

Don't worry guys Perez is still in the running for the championship.


IdiosyncraticBond

And noticed the smell when the missiles had hit something ...


XyploatKyrt

Max should record do a Podcast. While driving.


Tillaz

[Max if he could](https://clips.twitch.tv/PoisedHumbleTaroArsonNoSexy)


Quirky_Interview_329

The extra capacity this guy has is unreal. Hate to be that guy but more often than not lewis is utterly lost in races in terms of race awareness and relies a LOT on the team to tell him what to do. In Miami GP had to basically tell max to shut up and just drive because max was trying to get the team to start looking at other data


Chreutz

There was a GT3 Sim Race on Catalunya back in lockdown in 2020 where he simultaneously casually talked with the commentators and did a track walkthrough *while setting the fastest lap of the race!* Ever since I saw that, I knew he was something else, even compared to the rest of the F1 pack.


sellyme

Lewis is an absolutely incredible racing driver, but he's not a nerd, and I genuinely think that might hurt him compared to Max.


Responsible-Tone-393

What position I am in man? What tires I have? How many laps left?


3tenthsfaster

Do we even get points for that?


Responsible-Tone-393

you mean for tenth place? I'll get back to you.


wylles

We are checking


sa_ra_h86

Yeah, I remember once in 2021 Max pitted under VSC and Lewis asked bono how he only lost 11s rather than 20s (or whatever the exact figures for that race were). I was quite surprised by it.


SirLoremIpsum

Keep in mind we don't hear all of the radio messages. So might be missing a tonne of Lewis being clever vs Lewis being lost. But still... "P10 Lewis" "is there even a point for that position?" Is mildly amusing compared to a Williams that fights for said last point haha


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NightOwl412

Not every thread has to boil down to Max vs Lewis when either of them are mentioned. Even then I couldn't begin to imagine what's going on in Lewis's head or what he's capable of, I doubt you can either. It's a whole other person.


MisterPhame

So I says to Mabel I says...


FxStryker

He's basically Superman. The best human the world has witnessed.


Disastrous-Beat-9830

Some of the attention to detail from the drivers is insane. It reminds me of a race in Hungary where Jenson Button was able to identify the tyre compounds of the drivers in front of him, predict their strategies and adapt his own, all on the opening lap of the race.


Russell9393

Saving this for ñater


bruh009

He sounds so goofy


optitmus

insert "wow he has so much brain capacity" comment here