"He's not too clever this guy" - Perez 2019

You would expect every professional F1 driver to understand this and prepare for it.

Perez sells merch. That's enough

As a Max fan who also supports Checo and Red Bull, it was so frustrating to see how Checo couldn't get past Sainz with a car that had 0.5 seconds a lap over the Ferrari at that track. He was committing the same mistake with the DRS detection zone over and over again, I was like: dude, don't you realize it???

3:35 - interesting to see how the dirty air affects the front wing elements and make them vibrate, up until Perez pulls out to the side and into the clean air. Then the air is smooth again and no more vibrations.

This says much more about Perez's bad racecraft, than Verstappen's good execution. You would expect an average F1 driver to execute much better than Perez.

Bruh even i know how to use drs tactics in the f1 game😂

Bro waved goodbye to Sainz 💀

Everyday I admire Max more and more...there are so many little tactical prowesses that sometimes are buried under his domination. He will certainly be more recognized once he retires, as right now he is the guy to be defeated and everyone is blinded by their love of the "underdogs"

0:53 Verstappen waving during the race, like he´s doing sidequests

It's so weird that Perez knew how to wait to get DRS while defending against Lewis in 2021 Abu Dhabi but doesn't wait for the last drs here...

While the DRS tactics is more obvious, what is less obvious is the brilliance of Verstappen's other decisive and smart moves. One example is when he has large overspeed on the car defending and he is given the inside line, he will close the DRS and lift way early not to overtake before the corner and not to give the defensive driver chance for slipstream and switch back sides and create problems. He just slows down enough to be side by side, just slightly ahead, giving him a commanding position to turn in from pretty wide, and give no chance of counter move. Makes the move quick, safe and decisive. Example comes to mind was on Russel turn 1 Qatar.

0:53 Verstappen just doing Verstappen things

0:52 aint no way bro just waved at him

But according to the Mexicans, Bird is a problem And Red Bull is sabotaging his car 😡

Three consecutive long DRS zones are insane. There isn't enough corners to pull away from DRS range too. Now that cars got closer in performance, I genuinely think staying behind another car will be more advantageous this year. Norris used that effect behind Sainz last year to pull away from Hamilton. I expect some slower teams to run slightly higher Df package to make use of that.

The engineer coming in is like when you suck at a video game and it gives you a hint to get past your obstacle

Max learnt this in the Charles school of racecraft in Bahrein and Saudi 22! All jokes aside it's clear that Max is on a whole different level than Checo, even in the racecraft department which is supposed to be Checo's strength.

0:52 look at max' hands, celebrating his move

i feel like perez hit his peak in 2021 when he 1v1 lewis in turkey 2021 and abu dhabi 2021 , after that he just went in a downward spiral

Cant wait for this weeks race😎🔥

Interesting to see aerodynamics at work, the front wing wobbling a lot after a car, and when shift to the side, the front wing is more stable.

0:54 anyone see his little wave

This what makes some drivers stand out compared to others.Its not all about how fast you are as a driver, its about using each individual aspect of racing to your advantage

Your comparison videos always win my heart❤❤❤❤

I think it's the mindset of being in the best team (speaking purely technically) and the best co-driver at the given moment. I'm not defending Checo but I guess it can be devastating, especially when your teammate delivers and you are left behind. It has a snowball effect and it is guttering. Many great drivers have succumbed to that pressure and I guess, that's is the real deal that keeps champions from the rest of the pack.

max gave a little hi to sainz xD

this is my favorite track of the season and it’s the one I play constantly on F1 23, I have no prior racing knowledge and even I recently discovered this tactic by myself

Speaking of DRS usage, please make a video about that time Charles & Max were both locking up in Jeddah trying to let each other ahead for the detection zone

It’s not that clever it is actually an obvious tactic. Actually doing it though is insanely difficult so massive respect for making it work so many times

Your F1 videos are always on point m8! Subscribed! :)

What Max did to Sainz here was much more of a violation than overtake 😅

Great and inciteful content but the text boxes that obsure the screen need to be either clear or located differently.

Nice video. Though I would suggest that you do the overlay information just as a floating text. Not with the box that blocks the entire video. Thats weird

that looks like a quite fun circuit

This year is going to be an ameazing gp im sure

It’s easy to see this in hindsight and wonder why Perez didn’t realize sooner, but making these split second decisions while driving as hard as you can at 200 mph with razor thin margins between cars would make my head explode. Props to all the drivers

Details like this is exactly what differentiate champions with second drivers. Imagine Verstappen doing and realizing details like this in every corner like the time gained adds up quickly. And I think it shows on his lap times anyway.

Yeah I remember this. Checo's engineer had to tell him when and where to use DRS.

Verstappen is the last guy on the grid you wanna play DRS tricks or mind games with. He's literally so master in that. Even timing the sc restarts he's absolute best on timing it

i didnt know as well that the detection zone was before t3

Kinda reminds me of Brandon Hartley in Spa. He was overtaking on the main straight, just to get overtaken on Kemmel LOL

These are things that you learn at simracing.

Max is tactical in the car dam was this during/after the pit stops?

Max to Charles "Get gapped, bye"

I’m not an F1 fan, but I admit that this channel has premium material, watching all your videos 👍🏽

He got the easy mode hints

When you car is a second faster you have this luxury

This is a surprisingly simple problem.

I think Formula One has an issue when you have a system that gets the commentators all excited about the driver "getting the DRS" followed by an overtake that is generally inevitble and not exciting DRS as a concept is fine, but only allowing drivers to use it as a push button overtake system sucks the life out of racing. Then again, it allows Liberty Media to claim "over a hundred overtakes!!" compared to maybe 5 to 10 overtakes Hopefully the new system in 2026 allows a return to proper non-assisted racing

I remember catching this live and completely facepalming myself how perez couldn't realize this

Crazy how selling t-shirts and merchandise is most important than good race craft.

Super interesting video.

It's crazy how you can be an F1 driver and make blatant mistakes like that when many people at home just casually watching even see the problem during the race. That said it was also Hamilton in AD 2021 that made the mistake of giving Perez DRS out of turn 7, which allowed Perez to overtake him and block him the entire lap and we know how that ended up.. there is a lot of talk about that race but that rarely gets mentioned, and I believe that's where he really lost the title, a rookie mistake.

Those blue lights on the steering wheel, those are for full ERS deployment indication?

We're not joking when we say Max is a pure Racing Demon. He's 26 year old but has a Racecraft of 36 year old or older

After a near decade of drs you'd think you'd have a solid foundation of strategy and tact

Just a bit of context: Of course you can overtake cars in Turn 3, and even defend if the overtaken car has DRS and tries to regain the position. Perez had been overtaken most the cars in that turn because he trusted his car's power to defend. He even overtook Norris with DRS open between before Turn 4. Perez's mistake was to be overconfident with his car and understimate Sainz's, and that's why he got desperate. The thing is that Perez's engineer was too late with the recommendation. Remember that is group work. I am sure that Giapiero Lambiase would have alerted Perez earlier. There is no discussion who is better Perez vs Verstappen. It is more than demonstrated that Verstappen is the best driver in the world in recent history.

Verstappen learned this hard way in his battles with Leclerc in previous years.

This is like the Fast and Furious first movie in the desert: Too soon, boy 😂

Perez is certainly not the biggest brainiac on the track. Brasil '23 was another one of those "duh, what do I do" moments. Change your racing lines to get all the benefits you need. Last years Red Bull was fast, but not "outdrag a Ferrari with open DRS" fast...and definitely not when you are Perez. If one really sifts through things, you can easily say that of the current grid nobody even comes close to the attacking/ overtaking style of Verstappen. He'll do it at the first possibility and he'll make sure you can't do a switch back or something. Other drivers know this and that's why hardly any of them defend against Max, since you'll only smoke your tires.

The title make the situation be that the rebulls were racing eachother which couldn't be any more wrong

Maybe Marko was right about Perez being slow, and I don’t mean in a car

Thank you for this yelistener, now i dont have to ram my opponent in f1 every corner😁

I'm Max's fan, but to be fair, back in 2022 Leclerc did the same thing to Max in Bahrain and it took Max until Jeddah to finally realise what's Leclerc doing.

Ex Star Sports commentator Steve Slater used to say, " F1 is a high-speed game of chess "

This DRS game is the only way to make this device fun, too bad it's super rare. I wish it was something they could do easier. But ideally F1 should have an algo that disables DRS as soon as it detects speed and closing distance rate is enough to go side by side so DRS won't behave like free pass ticket as it happens 99% of the time

Hell yeaah the song is back

Verstappen even has time to do a bye bye.

I think Max's racing iq goes quite unnoticed because he's had the best car in recent seasons. A guy who races as often and as much as him will have a great racing iq

To be fair, Verstappen had already been duped with this maneuver by Lercler multiple times in the first race of the year. Makes sense he would be particularly wise to it, although you'd think it would be high on RB's pre-race brief for both drivers.

Can you make a video of when verstappen slamed on his breaks and hamilton crashed into him. Showing telemetry?

Can’t wait for Vegas when he shows us Chuck and Perez

Perez should know about this...the fact hr doesnt or forgot or knew and did anyway shows why he is so much under verstappen

How the hell Perez didn't know about that? It's supposed to be the a basic rule that any driver needs to know, isn't it?

Think you would know after all his experience

The merchant

I get the point of the video but these sorts of counter-intuitive DRS tricks are detrimental to the actual racing. I'll be glad to see the end of DRS in 2026, though I'm not sure if what's replacing it is any better. And F1 still has a lot of other problems like overweight cars etc.

Sad to see this.

That is the difference between Verstappen and many other drivers. He is able to loose as little time as possible overtaking competitors or back markers. You often see him breeze by them first. And then the driver that is chasing him taking way longer to overtake them as well.

Esports players if they’re physically capable as irl drivers in stamina and experience, would smoke irl drivers

Just read an article on Checo's gap to Max in qualifying and in the main race. His gap is the largest amongst teammates of all teams. Only Sargeant's gap to Albon is comparable to Checo. In other words, no other driver is so much worse than his teammate besides Checo. Even Stroll is only less than 3-tenths away from Alonso. Checo is more than 6-tenths away in qualifying. And almost half a second away from Max per lap in the main race. It's such a shame!

I know this and i've only ever played F1 games and drove go karts lmao

Best no.2 on the grid, no danger to his teammate but has a car fast enough to block other teams.

Perez slowly becomming a living F1 meme.

Imagine if that stupid team radio rule from 2016 was still around. Perez's engineer couldn't have told him what to do (which should've been obvious for Perez too, but oh well, what can you expect from a pay driver), and he would've been stuck behind Sainz until the very end of the race.

Verstappen: If I don't give them DRS to pass me at T3, then they have no chance. Perez: If I use DRS more, maybe I can narrow the gap to my teammate

This is bad for DRS, drivers should fight for every corners but not waiting for DRS

need to remove drs and bring back old cars

Verstappen been doing that DRS bait for a few years now.

The DRS system is so dumb. No reason why a car shouldn't be able to be as fast as it can be just because it crossed a little white line a few moments before a different car.

This demonstrates more how DRS destroys the racing.

+19 seconds😂 2:13

notice how the rb front wing flexes ? horner had to whine when other teams did it better.

But but his engineer doesn't tell him anything 😞

DRS is one of the worst things to happen to F1. It is an inorganic tool given to drivers to allow more takeovers instead of going to the root causes of why overtakes started to dip down and solve the root causes. It created an unnatural racing atmosphere where nothing happens outside of DRS zones and drivers playing leap-frog according to DRS zones. Sad times for F1 😢

I remember this being the most frustrating race to watch, perez did the same shit 5 laps in a row, max took 1 lap both times.... completely different class of drivers

Checo also lost his P3 to Alonso because he wasn’t able to cope with this DRS tactic.

I don't understand the crossing DRS detection first situation. Does only one car get to use it?

DId I ever tell you the definition of insanity?