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a whole 15 kph higher than checo in t4 is absolutely insane to think about

Best f1 channel in my opinion. No stupid opinions etc., just very interesting and carefully analyzed facts.

It's like "Schumacher shatters the morale", in Suzuka, too.

Love the table that you added in the bottom left. With the other comparison videos (eg. Australia) it's sometimes hard to compare the different numbers, I have to go back and forth a lot, so this is the perfect solution for presenting the speeds.

Vettel once asked Schumacher "is there a certain line you take in the Esses?" Michael said "not really you just go for it". Hope we keep Suzuka forever, proper F1 track

Bro I just watched 50seconds of this video and it’s more interesting and informative then 99% of F1 channels. You are him! Keep it up

I think its safe to say that max is safely in the top 3 best drivers of all time

Glad somebody did a proper analysis on Verstappen’s pole lap. That was a Vettel or Schumacher level masterclass in the esses and it should be massively praised.

When people talk about driver skill in racing, they usually talk about flashy stuff, like saves from massive slides, or driving a car with massive oversteer and constantly correcting it. While that looks very cool and takes some skill, all professional drivers can do this without even thinking. In reality, the most impressive driving doesn't look impressive at all. It looks smooth and easy, even though it's faster than everyone else. Just like Max is doing here. The only giveaway of Max's level is Checo's inability to keep up with him.

2019 lap was done by seb , who absolutely loves suzuka

That car looks glued to the racetrack. It's insane how it takes the esses. Something interesting is also Leclerc's approach to the corner, he sacrifices T5 for a faster T6 and he is a lot faster in that corner than anyone else, even Verstappen.

Honda shouldn't have left RB

honestly i think verstappen is gonna smash his own pb and the 2019 t4 - 6 this week!! but I hope ferrari can get there!

Absolutely love your videos, but in this specific case (as you also mentioned at the end of the video) I think a T7 speed comparison would have been appropriate, as T6 is very much a "setup corner". As you said Alonso and Verstappen were able to go flat-out in T7 because they sacrificed their T6 speed, while Leclerc had to lift substantially because his T6 speed was so high. Anyway, great content! These ultra-level detail videos are so good!

I fuckin love this channel. F1 is all about the details and you can’t really find any in depth videos like these. Thank you!

Tracks where Verstappen is very good: suzuka, spa, zandvoort and red bull ring

He just has a smoother line, more centered, still hands, steady throttle and he enjoys the speed.

That’s insanity. T5 is possibly my favorite corner on the track on sim. In the 2000’s cars you can take a ton of curb and just launch yourself up the hill it’s fun

He knows that car, amazing. He approaches turns 3,4,5 with such confidence it‘s almost frightening

Max Verstappen, Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna are the holy trinity of F1.

Am I the only one absolutely VIBING to the background music??

max has incredible feel when transitioning between throttle, lift, and brake inputs. his footwork is perfectly synchronized with the tempo of the corner complex. he's also excellent at managing understeer by shifting the load around with the throttle. checo's inputs are so clunky and abrupt in comparison. he arrives to each corner off beat and is forced to play catch up.

Thanks for the music

Very nice video. Commentary would prob be a nice add on for future vids.

This man has done so many underrated and incredible things. People talk about Hamilton’s lap in Singapore ‘18 but forget about laps like this and Monaco ‘23..

great content!

I love ur channel man

Its funny to see Alonso there with the worst car of all them with difference and still giving them battle, im curious to see strolls one

Here's the thing, to get that speed in turn 5, you Must have the speed through turns 2,3,&4. Its all skill (and minimal braking) to accomplish that.

incredible work keep going

It’s interesting to watch with the telemetry. The downshift and letting off the accel feels like it loaded the front just enough to get more bite into the last portion of T4 to set up a nice run into T5. I appreciate the telemetry! I suck at Suzuka, this might help.

you deserve more sub

Verstappens stint looks so peaceful, very under control, very smooth.

Great video, as always. Verstappen is so impressive. The gap between him and Perez is so big. Watching the onboard we can see Checo is doing more little corrections than Max even though I'm pretty sure Verstappen was carrying more front wing, making the car more reactive but more unstable in the back, more overteering. Imagine what it looked like from Checo's onboard if he was actually driving with Max's setup.

Most average verstappen turn

You're underrated man...

Very hard to compare Max to other drivers from different decades, but he is up there with the best! Many haters say that of course he wins because the car is setup to his liking, but they forget that this setup is the hardest to drive and only the best can do it!

2017-2021 maybe the cars with best perfomance, balanced aero and weight, a powerful engine, don't forget there were a lot of battles in track i.e. Germany 2019, what a race, for me 2022 to nowadays was a step back

Wooaooo this is where you understand a perfect fit between the man and the car … very interesting

best f1 fans content as usual.

In just T4 and T5 Checo was 27 kph slower than Max, that's at least 4 tenths.

Truly crazy, 2341 kmh, oh

Checo in quali already starting to save tires

Mighty car to perform that speed...

Would be interesting to see in 50 hours how much did 3 years of this new reg has improved the cars compare to the previous gen!

Notice how Norris not once touched the brake pedal, he lifted longer. Maybe he could reach Verstappen if he got a little bit more rotation by flicking the brake at corner entry at T5

Just watch his hands, so smooth

Excellent video

Would’ve been good to have 2023 clip here as well. With the note that it was a headwind in the esses. Think it would’ve added a little bit because 2023+ headwind is about equal in efficiency to 24 cars+ tailwind.

max just trusts the car fully and pushes it to the extreme limits

Also something to note, about that last run. I can clearly remember there being talk of the team adding more wing onto the front of the car before that last run, because Max was in the pits a little longer. From that, its fair to assume he probably felt he had all the grip in the world and just attacked turns 3-7.

This was when he was out qualified following the Singapore race 😂 Definitely had to redeem himself after that one

Alonso the only driver with max to go flatout and + with an aston martin

I’ve always been curious how the esses of the F1 calendar compare to each other, like Suzuka x COTA x Interlagos

What was the time gain in this corner alone?

The RB20 did really well. Adrian Newey will win another two titles this year.

Max knows when and how to hook up that car

Great video, but it might have been helpful editing-wise to update the speed table as the driver goes through each turn. I watched the whole vid but still don’t know which turn is turn 5.

Verstappen was so smooth on the wheel too, while Perez was having a lot of minor corrections. To do that with one of the fastest, but also extremely twitchy cars.....unbelievably refined, precise control of car rotation (his feeling for the braking limits, his precision on trail-braking, and his throttle modulation are unmatched) and perfectly tuned setups (courtesy of his hard work and willingness to try everything in simulators). I do remember since 2017, Hamilton's throttle control was very refined and precise (of course it would be for all drivers but I mean noticeable even relative to other drivers). He was great. But since we saw with the early 2021 Mercedes, he can't handle a twitchy car as well as Verstappen would. His braking is perhaps much more aggressive on entry (I am hypothesizing). Verstappen's refinement is unmatched in that department. In some medium speed corners where it's a partial lift, I can see Hamilton being close to Verstappen in equal cars (and if the setups are appropriately adjusted).

This year, if it doesn't rain, in the first sector we will probably see the same cornering speeds as 2019; cannot wait to see Q1,Q2 and Q3😃

Holy smokes

Hey bro, can you record comparison of AMR23 last year at Suzuka here, and AMR24 ? Because that almost 2 SECONDS difference is....fucking huge haha, AMR23 - 1.30.4 time in Q2, AMR24 - 1.28.6 in Q3

balls 🔥🔥

when red bull makes a good car it always shines at suzuka

GOAT

Now, it's not because I want to discredit Max's performance and spoil the good mood, not at all. It only requires basic logical understanding when it comes to a series of slope combinations that speeds do not tell everything. Although the minimum speed is certainly a good indicator, it does not tell you anything about the total distance traveled from start to finishof the section; Slower speed in a corner CAN in fact result in faster lap times in the end, as it is also about the shortest distance (been there myself, both real track racing 1990s-2010s, besides simracing since mid 80ies). HOWEVER, all that aside, Max also does the lines to perfection. He remains a tough nut to crack ❤

You have to talk about the car in this equation too. Checo's struggles with the RB19 are well known. It was just too pointy for his liking and the team had to compromise the setup to give him a car he was comfortable with. Max on the other hand was able to exploit the downforce advantage the RB19 had over its competitors. Would a Charles or a Lando be able to drive the RB19 to the same limit that Max was without compromising the setup? We'll never know. We do know that this year the RB20 seems to have even more high speed downforce available, so we might see a similar story this year. Ferrari looks like they have a better overall car but are still lacking the overall downforce of the Red Bull, and McLaren might be close on overall downforce but they lack the efficiency. So I think things will be closer, but still Red Bull has a measurable advantage.

Image he do it again next week. Ugh emotional damage.😂

When you get to verstappens lap and all you're able to mutter is simply: WAAAAAOHW

why is your music deafening loud

thats some fucking goated content

and there are people who call verstappen overrated 🤦🏾‍♂️

Most dominant car in history+GOAT candidate driver+GOATed track+yelistener=perfection. PS: Mate, I really like him, but Checo is so mid, slower than most of the drivers in a car that was literally glued to the ground

With the previous video about degner, seems like Perez had a lower df setup than Verstappen. Even if the amount of driving skill differs, at this level of driving that doesn't explain the whole difference of speed thrpugh corners.

If this was the F1 games, people would be screaming Grip Hacks on Max

Imagine the W11 being driven here.

Had to put Verstappen 2019 too in this one imo

I hope that the 2026 cars are blistering fast

I hate the fact that the brakes bar is either on or off, why cant they show us how much theyre breaking?

How fast was Sainz?

But u compare also different cars with different performances

I find it also interesting that Norris was the only one that didnt brake

You don’t know what setups they were running. No doubt this turn is mighty but he didn’t end up beating Perez’s time by too much

I miss me boy Vettel.

As impressive as the RB19 was, it will never come close the black beast on rails in the W11 that never got to show it's potential at Suzuka 2020. Pretty sure it would smash all the high speed sectors. The mid speed sectors the RB19 and RB20 would expect to be more dominant with the shorter wheel base. So annoying that the fastest F1 car never got to show it's dominance in front of race fans. And at £400million a per car, it's too expensive to run just for fans to see what it's capable of driven in anger. The Williams was pretty rapid in the higher speed sectors in 2023 Pretty sure the Merc W09 and W10 was quicker in the mid speed but not sure about the high speed.

It's a long way to the top It's also a long way to fall down

We will never how Mercedes 2020 W11 Hybrid speeds in those corners !!!

Every other team "WRITE THAT DOWN" Sector 1 we are slow. How much you want to bet that's what happened especially Mercedes

So why is it that Max goes faster on Turn 5? What makes him be able to turn the corner at that speed vs everyone else?

😮

This is how you know I’d the car more than anything .. that car is on rails … also shows how Checo is an average driver at best.. he’s in the fastest machine going the slowest out of everyone

Concusion: Checo slow

iiiiiiiiiinsane

It's a function of the downforce in the car which RB have the most of. If anything it shows how bad Checo is. He's driving less well than slower cars around him.

This kinda sums up F1. You need a microscope to find anything interesting about it.

Sometimes the baby lift is the right tool for the job ;)

WTF, 15 kph higher than his teammate is insane

I know someone who was there and they said it was absolutely amazing how fast Max was he was visually much faster than anyone else. And in one corner don’t remember wich he drove a bit different than anybody else so after the very enthusiastic Japanese fans of course noticed that slight difference and everybody was gathered around one spot and were photographing it and it turned out to be a small bump of whatever that he found out if he didn’t hit it with his tyre he would gain a bit and nobody else noticed that until after all those fans noticed he drove it a bit differently. And btw they were photographing it to check if it is the sim aswell.

"Its the car" checo having the same car, yep, its the driver