F1 2022

[Ax^]

Max "why has the safety car not come in"


race Engineer "because the lapped cars have not passed"

 

[Ax^]

has "Ocon always been such a dickhead"



why would you not look at Alonso and see the issue

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Alpine are fighting McLaren in the constructors, right? Looks pretty conclusive today.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Did Max just disobey the team instructions to let Checo back through?

 

[Ax^]

hmm la clonk is told no as it would involved dropping over a second



and max goes fuck my team mate

 

[spitfire]

Did Max just disobey the team instructions to let Checo back through?

That's a bit off isn't it?

 

[Ax^]

jesus can you imagine if Russel ever has a kid


you'd think he just won a world championship

some passion

 

[Buddy Bradley]

It's weird how Mercedes seem like such underdogs to be finally getting a one-two this season.

 

[Ax^]

Massa to Lewis are finishing second place at Sao Paulo "You Feeling a Little Brazilian now"

 

[spitfire]

jesus can you imagine if Russel ever has a kid


you'd think he just won a world championship

some passion

He's a pretty intense young man.

 

[Ax^]

confirmed Radio Message from Verstappen


"I Do what i want, fuck my Team Mate"

 

[Ax^]

Toto not suggesting to Lewis at all

That Russel is the future

 

[spitfire]

Sure I just saw a fight break out in the crowd.

 

[Ax^]

no poppy for Russel


not serious mode btw

 

[spitfire]

no poppy for Russel


not serious mode btw

Is he even Brittish?!?!?

 

[Ax^]

He's a pretty intense young man.

did not know he was that intense of a competitor that really meant something more than i expected from him

 

[souljacker]

That was a fun race. Great result for Merc and much hilarity from Max being a little cry baby. Also thoroughly enjoyed Leclerc having a cry about Sainz not giving up the podium. Great stuff.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Yep, one of the better races this season.

 

[spitfire]

I think Max just got the bollocking of his life. hahaha.

 

[Ax^]

he deserves it


fuck the only other guy who helped me win a championship

aside from the race director

oddly Max has got a massive ego

 

[Ax^]

Max " i have my reasons "

Fuck my team mate

 

[spitfire]

Petulant twat.

 

[Ax^]

might watch C4 coverage as its max praising aligned reporting will be interesting in that last laps of the race...


is Mark Webber on Board this weekend

 

[Limejuice]

Webber will be commentating only if he can break the vacuum seal between his own lips and Max's arrogant, entitled pucker.

 

[Limejuice]

Today's race showed Max for what he is:

A dangerous, Schumacheresque, cheating, bullying shit with an arrogant, I'm-in-charge, I'm-more-important-than-the-team, attitude.

Even Whinger was visibly incandescent while saying Max would behave and do what he's told next race.

 

[MrCurry]

Great for Russell to win his first race. Will no doubt help him start next season with a clearer focus now that monkey is off his back. I was a bit surprised that Lewis, who drove from P2 starting position to P2 finish got driver of the day, when Alonso and others achieved far more.

On Max, the most succinct comment which says all that’s needed came from Checo via team radio after the finish line. “It just shows who he really is!”

 

[Limejuice]

So, here comes the final episode of The Max Verstappen Racing Show.

His Divine Verstappenness will graciously lower His Divine underpants, part His sacred cheeks, and allow the sun to shine forth guiding the Red Bull team to its sacred purpose to love, worship and obey Him.

The telly times in the UK will be (Max permitting):

Fri 18 Nov
FP1 - 10:00
FP2 - 13:00

Sat 19 Nov
FP3 - 11:00
Qual - 14:00

Sun 20 Nov
Race - 13:00

Let us all pray using the words taught to us by Max Himself:

"No. I told you already last summer. You guys don't ask that again to me, ok? Are we clear about that? I gave my reasons and I stand by it."

Amen, 2022.

 

[Ax^]

Nicked from Reddit because Brundle brought it and max hinted as his reasons was pay back for Monaco this year

Given all the furore that's erupted over Sergio Perez's crash in qualifying at Monaco, I've gone back and had a look at the collision to see if there was any evidence linking to something untoward.

I've looked at what motive Perez, who was in third position, behind Leclerc and Sainz and ahead of Verstappen, after the first runs in Q3, would possibly have to deliberately put his car into the wall at Portier. The only motive that would make sense is that he did it to protect his P3 on the grid. But for this to make sense, a number of key factors would need to be at play:

• He had no chance of improving on his third place on the grid
• He had no chance of improving his qualifying time
• He was at risk of tumbling down the grid as a result of others improving their time
• Crashing at Portier was the best way to cause a yellow/red flag

Taking the first two points together, I have gone back and looked at the footage at the end of Q3, and while Perez fails to set a personal best first sector time on his final lap, he is only 0.046 seconds shy of Leclerc's purple sector. Looking further at the onboard from the end of the first sector until the time he gets to Portier, there are no obvious mistakes that would suggest that he lost any further time. Therefore, he had every chance of improving on his previous time and, given he was only 0.028 seconds shy of Sainz after the first run, the possibility of moving onto the front row with a clean run was there (Leclerc was probably out of reach having gone 0.2 quicker in the first sector on his final run and been in a league of his own all session). Therefore, it doesn't make sense that he would throw away a potential front row start to secure P3.

Then, looking at the possibility that a poor lap could have lost him further positions on the grid, entering the final runs in Q3, the times were as follows:

3) Perez - 1:11.6294) Verstappen - 1:11.6665) Norris - 1:11.8496) Russell - 1:12.1127) Alonso - 1:12.2478) Hamilton - 1:12.560

Realistically, the only person who could have beaten Perez's opening time was Max. Norris was only 0.2 seconds off but had produced an absolute blinder to get there, and it's highly unlikely he could have extracted enough extra time out of the McLaren to top Checo's time. Mercedes and Alpine were nowhere near competitive enough to trouble a 1:11.6 either. It means that even a failure to improve his time would almost certainly have left Perez P4 on the grid, hardly a disastrous outcome. If, putting on a massive huge tin foil hat, Max had riled him to such an extent that he wanted to sabotage him, it's highly unlikely he'd have been at danger of being passed by anyone behind, so really, no matter what happens, you're looking at a Red Bull second row as a worst case scenario.

The other factor to take into account is why, if Perez was intent on causing a yellow/red flag, he would put the car into the wall at Portier. Doing a Rosberg and throwing it down the escape road at Mirabeau would have caused a yellow flag and ruined everyone else's laps without doing any damage to the car, as would going straight on at Sainte Devote, the Nouvelle Chicane or doing a Schumacher and getting it "wrong" at Rascasse. Why would you then choose to put your car into the wall and force your mechanics into a rebuild job?

Taking the above into account, it really makes no sense as to why Perez would have crashed deliberately. There has to be a key motive at play, like trying to protect something tangible (like a pole position), scupper a rival or carry out a team order, and in the case of Monaco, there just isn't anything that makes sense.

Max is still an arse for that short-sighted move of ruining your relationship with a good team mate unless he wants Dan Ric back

 

[Ax^]

Has Max said he Boycotting all media

because they are mean to him yet

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Verstappen needs to have a long hard think before carrying on as if he's bigger than Red Bull.

Max could not have won the title this season in any other car; Red Bull's lead driver would be champion whoever they are. They both want the partnership to continue, but when push comes to shove he needs them more than they need him.