It was Stroll's tear-off which affected Leclerc. It looked like Max's but some people did some "forensic" video watching and they said it was Stroll's. Personally, I couldn't tell either way, and it's not like it was on purpose, regardless of whose it was.

Best part of Spa was the last lap when Leclerc went for fastest lap only to get stuck coming out of the pit. Too funny.

Seeing the telemetry of Max’s performance was really interesting as well as not surprising. He really is on another level atm

For the record, Selling "Lord" titles in Scotland is a fraudulent scheme, since this type of mini-land sales are expressly forbidden by Scottish law. You don't even get to own that land, because the company you "bought" it from retains all rights to the land and can pretend to sell it again infinitely (they're skirting the legal boundaries on this). You can call yourself whatever you want under Scottish law, but that doesn't mean the title has any meaning, you might as well call yourself "Pokémon Master" and it'd be as accurate and legit. Please don't promote rip-offs.

A small correction: the tear off that went into Leclerc's air duct came from Stroll, not from Verstappen. F1 Insights on KZfaq did a frame by frame / side by side analysis of the onboards of Verstappen, Leclerc and Stroll and the tear off definitely came from Stroll.

Niki Lauda in 2016 about Max Verstappen (after his first F1 win) "This is a once in a century talent. There has never been a driver like him and if you ask me there will never be another with that level of natural talent"

That point about Max being patient and waiting for a safer moment to make an inevitable pass is the biggest sign of his improvement and growth. Young Max has an incident, current Max waits for a better moment. He is in a class of his own at the moment. Personally I don't support him but there's no denying he is just by far the best on the grid!

He has clearly a superb control over his rear tyre grip. He can balance between grip and drift like no other. This allows him to exit corners perfectly positioned for maximum acceleration. As well as extreme control in the wet.

4:28 Didn’t Ferrari themselves came out to say it was strolls? I wouldn’t be surprise, since everyone behind Lewis got sprayed.

When I noticed Max was P9 behind the safety car I said out loud, alone in my flat, "Oh, Max is going to win this race!"

I saw that when they saw that 1️⃣ from Max at their rear view mirror, they just let him overtake out of sheer terror. Or maybe respect. Max looks like Vettel from 2013. Absolute monster on track

It was Stroll's tear-off. It was a tear-off fitting Stilo helmets which only Bottas and Stroll use. Most of the field uses Bell and I think RBR + Schumacher use Schuberth. Arai was used by Max and Albon until a couple of years ago.

It was just the perfect storm for max. Little porpoising at the top speed, lesser down force setup, a very smooth steering and taking care of the tires. Just imagine if the rumors are true and the new chasis is on the way. It will be peak RB18.

3:14 8 tenths faster than the guy lapping 1 sec faster than everybody else. That RB 18 is a monster of a car.

it wasnt verstappens tear-off, it was from Stroll

Max has a different level of car/driver relationship over the entire grid. As you said, giving him an advantage managing tires, which is key for everyone.

Max was born to be a Red Bull driver. His driving style just perfectly suited for what RB wants in their car. He is also insanely talented. He is a world championship driver. Checo is almost fighting with the car because it really doesn't suit his driving style, giving him some level of discomfort. His high experience is what made him wrestles the car to P2. He's also the guinea pig; they're experimenting new stuff to his car while Max keeps the fastest ones (seeing as Checo gets a new floor while Max does not for Dutch GP).

My assumption is because built the car to suit his driving style. A driving style nobody else on the grid has. It’s the style that makes him unique. That’s only gonna make it 1000 times tougher for whoever partners for him.

It was Max who brought me back into F1 after I gave up when Schumacher retired. Something about him is exciting to watch. I know ppl bring up Seb but even when Max was driving a not so great RBR he was trying something & had the hunger to win!

Max going through the final chicane in qualifying was beautiful

Having a decent lead in points definitely helps Max. If it was like 2021, he more than likely would have taken more chances.

Dominant driver in a dominant car. Now we see why Mercedes and Lewis were so good for so long.

Driver 61 always a fan of your info. You can say Max pulled a Senna for that Spa Race! Keep up the great work and congrats on being a Lord!

I like this channel over other more opinionated but less informative channels so I don't know how fast you guys can churn out content but I'd be very interested if you guys could do a post race analysis or summary after every race weekend

It was strolls tear off 4:26

Max has proven himself beyond doubt, as has Newey. Together, and the rest of RB wow... What a team.. ohh and Christian and Helmut are ok too lol

Love this content Get this man 1m subs Keep up the good work Scott 👌

Top notch! To paraphrase, Max slows down in most corners, to get a faster exit speed, except for the final corner, as the run to the finish line is short. Brilliant!

Very unique driver imo, hope he continues his success

I'm also so curious what's happening in the back end. Checo looked very upset on his interviews for the last few races.

Love your videos some of the highest quality on youtube

Because Perez lacks Verstappen

The thing is Max requires a car with sharpy front end that works every time but this comes with a tricky rear end that hurts Sergio's confidence. Checo prefers a more balanced front and rear end. That's the reason why Red Bull's second drivers have not been able to match Max's pace. Bcs Red Bull produce cars that suit his style way too heavily. But when you have a close title fight it's a big disadvantage in the WCC like in 2021. It's like wearing someone else's shoes and trying to match him. That's a big advantage in a WDC fight but it will hurt you in the WCC bcs when you have a title fight this close as last year you need your second driver to do well.

Braking when straight means more rolling for the tyres to dissipate heat into brakes, if turning when braking, you end up with slight "drifting", which dissipate heat into the tyres Excess heating causes wear, for brakes VS for tyres is the same, but brakes can dissipate heat into the air from the cooling system, so it reduces wear that way. Late braking usually means ongoing braking whilst starting the turn, meaning that the front tyres are loaded on momentum and trying to turn on them will cause them to heat up and wear faster Early braking usually means that there's less braking whilst on the turn, so less loading on the front to cause excessive heating on the tyres, and the car's momentum is balanced on both front and rear wheels when turning, so less excess heating and wear Also, early braking means more heat dissipated into the brakes than into the tyres, allowing the tyres to be used for accelerating rather than braking It's better to use the tyres to accelerate because it is rolling friction rather than static friction when turning. All late braking drivers will suffer from this issue, getting cornering speed at the expense of their tyres early on, and then when the tyres are worn, not able to make the fast cornering later on. Tyres should be prioritised for accelerating over cornering rather than being forced to do both.

Its very interesting to see videos about how Max is on another level and other videos on how Hamilton is on another level...but what would be amazing is a direct comparison between both, preferably from years they weren't directly competing when they both still had winning cars, just an idea though

Brilliant video. Many thanks 👍🏻

On Hamilton's picture it seems like Mercedes tried a high rake concept! 🕵️

I thought Perez confirmed that RB made a Ferrari style new floor (based on some cut-outs) that makes the care more balanced. Which Perez has used, Max didn’t use that floor because he prefers the car slightly oversteering.

Great video. Always the best.

Nice analysis mate! Maybe you can do analyze Oscar Pistorius driving style and how it suits to Mclaren or does he struggle to change also style?

I think one thing that is really impressive is that at the start of the season Max was fighting for the title and was considered the best driver in a car that didn't suit his style at all.

Max engine has VTEC. 😂😂💪🏽💪🏽

4:09 this is one amazing photo. I'd love to get a print of it.

I've noticed that you guys seem to use the same animations a lot, have you heard of Chrono GP, they have some great animations for the 2022 cars, and some of the smaller details of these cars.

the answer is 'because RB tells Checo to get out the way' aka 'team orders'

The battle for both championships effectively ended at Spa. What's left is seeing if Mercedes or Ferrari can find anything to close the gap to Red Bull and how the midfield battle sorts out.

Are you going to make videos about your races in the Praga cup?

Beautiful stuff Driver61 makes for us. Cheers Thanks m8! Hmm call me weird but how Max approaches entry does remind me of Carl Fogarty. heh weird.

Thank you for this video, I spent a lot of time on f1-tempo trying to figure it out. Glad you came to the same conclusion as me: He is just ridiculously quick, with a few other things working in his favor. Must be so demoralizing for Perez.

No no no. It’s all Adrian Newey. Red Bull is the only automatic self driving car on the grid that can move without an engine or a steering. Adrian Newey is a genius. Since I quoted his name, I’m a formula 1 expert now.

Great to see you in the Praga.

I'm not a fan of red bull or Max Verstappen but I have to admit, the guy is in a league of his own at the moment. Makes driving a F1 car look easy

Bottas was an amazing driver with multiple wins and many pole positions, and he still sometimes finished 49 seconds behind Hamilton. Some people just get the better car setup and strategy calls.

the tear-off was from stroll, and landed in the rear brakeduckt

Awesome video!!!!

Where can I get more of those graph charts @3:39 for each race this year. Has some quite interesting data I would like to examine a bit more for my self

With equal machinary he was able to carry speed 10 km/h higher than Perez. What a beast.

I thought there was the engine mode change after Mercedes party mode. As I remember the cars cant turn up the engine and if they turn it down during the race they cant turn it back up. They can only play with the deployment of the electric motor. Did they remove that rule with the new cars?

Who needs scarbs? You are so much nicer to Listen to and watch!

Arent´t they forced to use the same engine mode from parc fermé onwards? Thought they changed this a couple of years ago

Because 1. he's very quick; 2. maximizing Verstappen's potential is the goal of the entire team including Perez (even if he disagrees... "but ok"). Sergio's strategy is usually dictated not by where he needs to be to win, but where Verstappen needs him to be in order to hinder Ferrari (or whoever is in contention). We've just seen this at Spa. That's how Red Bull has been operating at least since the late 2000s. We've seen a similar story with the likes of Vettel and Schumacher, who later failed to replicate anything similar to such a dominance within a different team that doesn't operate the same way.

Imo, Red Bull went with Max whilst developing the car, as he wasn’t comfortable at the start of the season. And then upgrades took the car away from Checo

They seems to struggle in zandvoort.. Hopefully they can sort it out

wasn't the tear-off incident before the race? I seem to remember hearing about it before the race had even started

Max is such a talented driver, he absolutely showed that when he had slower car and dominant when he has fast one , as a ferrari fan I just hope we'll beat him next year

So, could it be worth it, espacially for a top team, to take penaltys for swapping old engines for new ones at tracks like spa and monza (where overtaking is relatively easy) and then use these ‘extra’ engines for more power during other races.

Watched corner 8 at the Dutch GP last sunday. The drivers take that corner in many different ways all the time. Max is the only one taking that corner in exactly the same way, the entire race.

2:22 😅 Was very funny, Driver61!

Max put to shame every team mate he's had. He's in a league of his own.

very insightful. There are a number of races whereby Verstappen did not qualify as the fastest car but produced an amazing race pace during the race and win it. Your insights has shed light on this. Amazing insight.

Well, this is the easiest question to answer... Some drivers are BETTER than others. For a variety of reasons. And it always will be like this.

Max's Schuberth R1 helmet in the thumbnail looks like something from Transformers. Always loved the Schuberth R1 helmet ever since Schumacher used it in his latter Ferrari years...

I thought it was Stroll’s tear off in Leclerc’s brake duct.

Its so good to see Max improve everyday 🙌 he learned to manage his tyres properly !!

Quick question: I thought engine modes where locked since last year, but Scarbs mentions they run the engine with more or less power throughout the race? Did the rule change or was there something that I missed there?

What are these “higher engine modes”? (Strat?) tks :)

Perez just said yesterday that the cars are different plus you didn't mention the new engine. It was the same with Lewis in Brasil when he took a new engine nobody could stop him. Engines wear down a lot in a few race Max will be in the same range than Perez.

Max is the fastest driver in the grid.

9:04 funny how they show a merc engine in that shot haha.

yeah Max showed hes no longer a Rookie style driver at Spa. Hes showing patience and knowing when its good to take risks. very impressive!!!

Certainly having not just a setup but entire car designed around your drive style has some benefit.

It's good that this kind of heroics are apreciated, because when hamilton did similar we were so used to them that we treated them like "normality"

You can't change the engine settings from qualifying whatever you qualify you got to keep the same engine settings now

Where do you find all the high quality images showed in the video?

Its not allowed to change the engine strat mode during the Race scince 2020!!!! From Q1 to the end of the Race it is the same mode, they can only change the SOC mode

Max was born to race in the F1. His dad did everything he could to drill him for this moment in his life. The fact that he can deliver each week is something amazing to see.

The Hammy laugh 🤣 appreciated, I'm still giggling a week later ...

So how would recciardos style go with this redbull @driver61

Inasmuch as I have nothing but respect for Verstappen's overwhealming lead, a much deserved position he and Red Bull earned through merit, it is a disappointment that this very season, meant to bunch up the cars after the changes FIA established for drivers to race closer to each other, we are seeing another season like Schumacher 2000 thru 2004, or Vettel 2010 thru 2013, and Hamilton 2014 thru 2020 (yes, yes, Rosberg somewhere in the middle). In the end of the day, seasons like this get very boring, unless you are a fan of the winning driver.

Stupid question: If his line through La Source is so much quicker why don't more drivers use that line?

Basicly he's able to handle an extremely snappy car. Moving balance to the front makes his car rotate as hard as no other driver is confident to handle. Based on the later braking his trailbraking even must be completly on the edge. The ability to countersteer gives him the "force". Alien.

I believe some people analysed the of the race and found that it wasn't Maax's tear-off that got stuck in Leclerc's brake duct, but someone else's

Perez and Verstappen have been running different floors to each other for several races. Red Bull believe the Perez floor is theoretically faster, but the drivers didn't like how it made the car handle, so Perez has been doing the donkey work of trying to develop the idiosyncrasies out of it, while Verstappen keeps the one which is stable and predictable.

The fact that Verstappen can get this much performance out of a car that seemingly no one else at Red Bull can replicate just shows that it really isn't just the car.

I read on RacingNews365 that Checo is testing the new floor (from Hungary) which isnt delivering what they expect. So the cars are different; new engine-parts and the old floor. Still the general pace of Max is just a bit higher in general.

What do you mean with engine modes? I thought they weren't allowed to change those anymore after parc ferme.

Spicy new engine, remember how hamilton became unraceable last year at brazil.

Because Perez isn’t on his level. Lewis and max imo are just so far clear

@Driver61 Can you tell me where the Picture at 0:38 is from? I was at the Grandprix and can see me and our Group in the Background. I would like a high DPI Version of that Picture. Maybe you can give me the source. Thanks!

Max trusts his car despite the minor setbacks, he has a great engineer and team. Confidence is top tier