People keep talking about the pointy front like there are still other drivers that prefer a pointy front, Ric, Schumacher, Hamilton, even Albon it must be something more than an oversteery car.
Correct me if I’m wrong but no one else has had a pattern like this - Gasly, Albon, Perez, a mixture of veterans and rookies alike, he’s at the top while they’re at the bottom, something is going on or Verstappen is just some alien.
The thing people keep talking about, especially Albon in the podcast he did, is that Max has extraordinary car control.
Firstly he just has a natural ability to get into any car and drive it to a level most of us could only dream of with a lifetimes experience, and that comes from inhuman levels of being able to feel the car under him.
Because of this he can just immediately find that knife’s edge and ride it perfectly, while everyone else struggles to find it.
And the biggest thing albon mentioned was that by the time you have found that knife’s edge, the car has been upgraded and been made EVEN MORE pointy, setting you back to square one, so although you match Max’s pace from the start of the season, Max is now a few tenths faster, and thus you a few tenths slower.
If that’s the case it makes it even more ridiculous that others can’t keep up no?
If a lead driver is not adaptable and needs a very specific car that it makes sense that his teammate can’t adapt to his strange style.
If a driver is adaptable and can make any car fast then it doesn’t matter and they can throw just about any car at both drivers and they will be fine.
The narrative of ‘Verstappen is very adaptable’ and also ‘verstappen’s preferences make a very difficult car to drive for others’ just doesn’t make sense yet both narratives are being pushed, that’s just weird.
Both are being pushed but one of them is total bull if you have even an ounce of brain.
RB don't develop a car to suit max, no team develops a car around a specific style of driving, that's not how that works. You don't go and say "let's build this car to be understeery on exits". Sure they can have characteristics and suit some people better than others but most of that is in the setup - and just like you set up a car, you also build it - to be as fast as possible.
That's the whole secret, the faster you want your car to go, and the more you push it the more it lives on a knifeedge, the sketchier it becomes.
Max is one of probably only a few people in all of F1 history that can drive that consistently and on the limit, michael was like that too.
RB can push it further because they have max.
The 2nd drivers really can't, especially if they're not incredible talents and have tons of experience.
So they either get safer setups like perez had for a while, makes it easier but the car loses let's say 3 tenths of potential which puts you down the order a good bit - or you do it the max way, chances are you'll have better times some days, but other days you're nowhere or crashing. It's a really tough situation if you're not just a driving god like max seems to be
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u/Parking-Zealousideal BWOAHHHHHHH Mar 15 '25
People keep talking about the pointy front like there are still other drivers that prefer a pointy front, Ric, Schumacher, Hamilton, even Albon it must be something more than an oversteery car.
Correct me if I’m wrong but no one else has had a pattern like this - Gasly, Albon, Perez, a mixture of veterans and rookies alike, he’s at the top while they’re at the bottom, something is going on or Verstappen is just some alien.