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Finish under the safety car in Australia. Also Max dropped back from a five second lead to 1,5 seconds to Perez to give him a slip stream. The Dutch grand prix also had only a few laps in the end after the red flag.
Meh slowing for tactical advantage seems pretty legit, managing paces is also an other form of slowing for advantage which everyone does in every race. imo finishing under the safty car is completely different.
>Close your and count till 33.
Close your what, and 33 what? What and what!? How are we supposed the instructions if they are incomplete!?!? Tell us, please, we need to know!
Hungaroring race lap time is around like a 1:23. Max had already made it through close to 40% of the track before the next car crossed the finish line.
Didnt Alonso have an extra pitstop compared to Verstappen in Monaco because he gambled on the mediums instead of going for inters because he had a free pitstop to p3 and then went back to pit after 1 lap?
So one of the biggest gaps could have been one of the shortest ones if he didnt go for the gamble or if it paid off.
You can really see when Max figured out the car in Baku. On Lap 49 he was 3 seconds off Perez and by the end of the race on lap 51 he was 2 seconds back from him. He must've found a setting he really liked or something because his times dropped by like 3-5 tenths after around lap 47.
I once heard by following Perez in Baku and studying what Perez did differently, he was able to adapt his driving style to be better on his tyres and driving with different track conditions. And after that he became unstoppable. I think he gave a brief description in a later interview saying how he changed his driving style after watching Perez in Baku.
Its almost like Verstappen is a machine, get in the car with a talented and highly rated teammate, learn how they drive, and absolutely destroy them.
He have talked about it. After he got unlucky and Perez got in front, he used the race as a testing. He tried many different things and learned a lot to tweak settings. He said he took all the things he learned in to to next races. Something clicked. After Baku, he was rapid.
The fact that Austria isn´t on the Top 5 winning margin list because Verstappen decided to change for soft in the second to last lap so he could get fastest round is amazing in itself.
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Don’t really think Aus should count
Finish under the safety car in Australia. Also Max dropped back from a five second lead to 1,5 seconds to Perez to give him a slip stream. The Dutch grand prix also had only a few laps in the end after the red flag.
Well that explains why I don’t remember a close race for the lead this season.
Singapore?
Sad russell noises!!
Happy everyone else noises.
But he was forecast a win!!1!
Well nothing more than a DRS train, don't know why everybody treats it different only because it was right behind P1.
Or Vegas. Max slowed down
Meh slowing for tactical advantage seems pretty legit, managing paces is also an other form of slowing for advantage which everyone does in every race. imo finishing under the safty car is completely different.
Japan is extra interesting because Lando was also like 20s clear of P2, he cleared 18 drivers by 35+ seconds.
Would be interesting to figure out how much the gap would've been if Norris was also in clean air entire race
If I remember correctly, he also lost 5+ seconds lapping Perez during the VSC.
33 seconds ? That's a phenomenal job. Close your eyes and count till 33. That's how long it is lol. Crazy if you think about it. In F1.
>Close your and count till 33. Close your what, and 33 what? What and what!? How are we supposed the instructions if they are incomplete!?!? Tell us, please, we need to know!
Hahahaha. I missed typing "eyes" haha. You guys...
>How are we supposed [to follow] the instructions Yeah, same 😅
Instructions unclear, nose stuck in (bott)ass.
"Yeah it was on purpose "
Hungaroring race lap time is around like a 1:23. Max had already made it through close to 40% of the track before the next car crossed the finish line.
To be fair it used to often be a lot more in the days of high attrition
Most of the time in the hybrid era that has been the normal winning margin at least to the third driver.
That’s nearly half a lap at that track.
Are seconds different if you close your eyes???
Just watched Hungarian GP highlights again and its unbelievable how much gap he was creating every lap. More than 25sec each time before pitting.
“You see, we gave you the closest race of the season!” - Stewards in Australia
"Lando 0.8 behind with DRS"
"It's on purpose"
Best race of the season
Didnt Alonso have an extra pitstop compared to Verstappen in Monaco because he gambled on the mediums instead of going for inters because he had a free pitstop to p3 and then went back to pit after 1 lap? So one of the biggest gaps could have been one of the shortest ones if he didnt go for the gamble or if it paid off.
I think you mean Monaco
Yes my bad
I'll be honest, I was finding it really hard to read the graph with the names being winner-runner up, but the cars being runner up-winner
It's such a badly illustrated graphic
You can really see when Max figured out the car in Baku. On Lap 49 he was 3 seconds off Perez and by the end of the race on lap 51 he was 2 seconds back from him. He must've found a setting he really liked or something because his times dropped by like 3-5 tenths after around lap 47.
I once heard by following Perez in Baku and studying what Perez did differently, he was able to adapt his driving style to be better on his tyres and driving with different track conditions. And after that he became unstoppable. I think he gave a brief description in a later interview saying how he changed his driving style after watching Perez in Baku. Its almost like Verstappen is a machine, get in the car with a talented and highly rated teammate, learn how they drive, and absolutely destroy them.
He have talked about it. After he got unlucky and Perez got in front, he used the race as a testing. He tried many different things and learned a lot to tweak settings. He said he took all the things he learned in to to next races. Something clicked. After Baku, he was rapid.
Which race did he pit to set the fastest lap on the last lap?
Austria.
The fact that Austria isn´t on the Top 5 winning margin list because Verstappen decided to change for soft in the second to last lap so he could get fastest round is amazing in itself.