After this video it is easy to understand how Raikkonen managed to win his first race for Ferrari. It was Schumacher`s car last years, and they had similar driving style, making it relatively easy to adopt to his style. And that is why he struggled so horribly when Alonso was his team mate. Ferrari always has been clear that they are team and work towards what is best as team, often supporting 1 driver at cost of another. I fully approve of that, but it did mean that car was built to fit Alonso, making it horrible for Kimi.
Exactly the same thing happened with Lewis Hamilton the same year. He declared recently that when he started in 2007 in the McLaren he was given Kimi's suspension and settings and he loved it cause they have very similar styles and that partially explains why Hamilton was so strong from the beginning.
Honestly man, it's more because Ferrari had such a car advantage in Melbourne. Kimi hated the 2007 and 2008 cars (especially over one lap, in the races it was better). Near the end of 2007 they made some steps forward in the setup, but in 2008 it was difficult again. They had too much understeer and crucially the Bridgestone tyres were VERY different from the Michelins he had used at McLaren.
Alonso has one of the most unique driving styles. The way that he purposely generates understeer to aid him in cornering is something that not many people do.
He knew that he needed to extract every bit of potential that the Renault car (R25 and R26 in particular) had with the unique characteristic of rear-biased weight distribution (almost 40/60). So while the front is more loose than the rear, he forced the tire wall to bounce around by intentionally under-steering the car and hit the apex early, because he knows that the rear is planted really well that he only needs to worry about the front side, which also aided by "tuned mass damper" that he perfected the technique and won both championship in '05 and '06.
Seb is just like Button while Max, Lewis and Leclerc all drive like Schumacher and Raikkonen and Ricciardo is similar to Alonso but slightly different. He makes the car slide a little more on exit in order to build greater momentum.
Seb is more known to prefer cars that are heavily planted on the rear and often likes to get on the gas early when exiting which somehow explains on some of his spins given how powerful the current hybrid V6 are
@@RB747domme the thing that really amazes me is that not only is he driving an F1 car (which is, well, expected of an F1 driver but not necessarily easy) and commentating, but he's also driving it in different styles that don't necessarily come naturally to him. He's a super sharp driver to do that, whew.
Using the rear to get around a turn is arguably the fastest way to do it. Like Raikkonen and Schumacher does it. But it demands incredible car feel and reflexes. Perhaps that is why Schumacher is struggling a bit now. Because of his age that little extra edge got lost down the line. Just a guess.
Can't imagine the crew's reaction to it raining on their day of shooting for this video. Lucky for them they had Brundle who is just a top notch professional all around, bet he didn't even bat an eye.
azynkron please don't compare the worst f1 driver ever to Montoya :) JPM was agressive but very talented. Maldonado should be banned for life, it's maybe 2 years or more he didn't have a single CLEAN race
JPM fought for a world title in 2003......way better than Sato in that regard. In a Williams he was one of the fastest and most consistent. from 2001-2004 he was extremely good. Made mistakes but we all do.
@@ciaronsmith4995 they litterally fucking said why they picked jenson its not because he's british its because he uses the textbook driving style A.K.A the racing line in the f1 games
@@ciaronsmith4995 nah mane button at that time was already a racewinner and was a prominent name in f1 as one of the best in the sport and also correlation is not causation back in the grooved tires pretty much noone else who is actually fast and in contention used the same style textbook style of Jenson alonso had different steering kimi and schumi used the rear of the car to get around corners
@@imissvine6737 No he wasn't. The big 3 were Kimi, Fernando and Michael. By far. He won a single race and was lucky to win that race. He wasn't considered elite at all. If you actually watched F1 back then you would know that, but you're clearly a relatively new fan or didn't watch live, in the tyre war. Cheers.
one with schumacher winning half or the races and raikkonen having to help out as number 2 schumacher, until his first retirement, made sure to have the entire team centered around him and that noone within the team could be a danger to him there is a reason why raikkonen came to ferrari after schumacher had stopped driving for them, and why montoya was not considered and alonso not until multiple years later
taveeeee ferrari already had brilliant engineers like brawn and an experienced number 2 driver giving feedback as well, so i"d guess there would not have been a development advantage with raikkonen instead of barichello but it could have been an advantage compared to choosing massa
AnarchistMetalhead Yes it't true and Kimi wouldn't had agreed to be number 2 in the team. It was all built around Schumacher and the other driver was basically driving for max second place. But what I meant in the first place was that with Kimi+Schumi they didn't have (but they wouldn't had needed to since we can assume here that Schumi was all that mattered) to develop two different cars as they pretty much had to do (but they can't) now sice Alonso and Räikkönen prefer so different cars. PS. My head hurts for my grammar errors.
Brundle: And Lance Stroll likes to evaluate the durability of the tyre walls at relatively low speeds in order to benefit from the turbulence caused by the waving of red flags
There are 3 driving styles here: what I call the Prost style (likes understeer, as few hand movements as possible; Button and currently Vettel are like that); the Senna style (very aggressive, throws car into the corner, moves the car around; Alonso and Hamilton are both like that); and then the Schumacher style (very pointy front end and loose back end, likes the back end to steer the car; micro-corrections through fast corners, you can keep the car at 100 percent grip for longer through fast corners; Raikonnen is also like that)
good analogy, i think Max Verstappen falls into the Schumacher style aswell, since its told thats not just how he races in F1, but also how he sets his car up in sims. But in which of these 3 does leclerc fall?
Well yeah, as with any other sport your only good for a few years, then your out. Especially nowadays, given the cars are so much faster in the corners, nowadays.
Extremely interesting choice of drivers. Two of the chosen drivers were already champions (Alonso and Schumacher) and two of them became champions later (Button and Raikkonen).
I think this is the main reason for Kimi's problems this year. Alonso and Räikkönen have drastically different driving styles and this year's car just won't cooperate with Räikkönen. He has said himself that he needs something specific with the car and that ain't just happening right now.
+Ciaron Smith also remember the tyres and aero are completely different since 2009. all the drivers have changed their styles since Martin did this video
I envy you :) I was a Prost fan myself due to his calculated and non-risk taking way of driving (as he himself once stated "I try to win by driving the slowest as possible"), but I did respect Senna for his sheer speed and his gift to drive fast. It was like he was the exact opposite of Prost :)
You could do that with TC, yes. But thats also was not fast. Not at all. Back in these days you did not loose traction. But still you could not just go full throttle and let traction control do everything. Thats slow. You need a some wheel spin to accelerate best. So a driver could still make a huge difference how he used and set-up TC and the good ones prefered less TC.
Let me tell you my favourate styles 5. Fucking up the corner 4. Angle albon (hitting almost every barrier around monaco) 3. The verstappen ( max max super max max divebomb) 2. The checo ooooooooo (how the fucc is that car so thicc) 1. The mick shumacher system operator (penetrating the barrier at almost every track)
Raikkonen is just a freak of nature. I finally understand this guys talent. He needs a car that has literally no under steer, to get it to the apex unhindered, and then relies on his reactions to catch and re catch an errant rear end. No wonder he hates this current era of understeering heavy, annoyingly slow cars with concrete tyres - harder to rotate the car and make it bite. The complete OPPOSITE of Fernando Alonso. Amazing!
You are probably spot on, Karting and (even though I never heard of him do Rally) Rally style. I don't agree with Brundle about Schumacher though... when he did drive like shown by Brundle he's car was not setup right for him. Schumacher did do a Jenson style driving but actually left of throttle and pushed throttle slowly around the corners while a lot of other F1 drivers just released the throttle and pushed hard when leaving the corner.. and that is why he was a king when wet and did really good overall...
@TheEqualTester ok I think I remember what I meant and I put it quite badly. Kimi likes a good front end on his car. However current cars Have a lot of torque and probably too little rear downforce. Also being heavy theyre very snappy on the rear end. A larger rear wing would give him more rear grip out of the corners. But again I'm contradicting myself because the Ferrari he drives is front limited and suffers more from understeer. Maybe that's the problem for him.
@@le-coup-détat What I mean is that the car he's driving here has a metal side-guard on the brake pedal preventing his left foot from moving sideways, also of course blocking the access to the brake pedal for his right foot.
button and damon hill fangio, and senna, wurz all drove perfectly smoothly to the ideal line. schumacher, coulthard, hamilton, raikkonen turn in on the brakes.. hakkinen, pryce, (Gilles) villeneuve, (keke) rosberg, petersen, frentzen, herbert, montoya, alonso, turn in on the throttle and 'drift' the car.
Tyres that didn't fade, and the R25 and R26 which both loved to get roughed about and ragged to death, were perfect combos for Nando to win 2 world titles
Wow, at 3m52s when they cut away the cockpit and you can see right down the drivers legs as he screams around is spectacular and not something I’ve ever seen done before, brilliant work folks, thank you, simple, elegant, exceptional, thank you 😎👍
Driver61's video on Alonso's driving style complements this well, he's got one of the most aggressive driving styles in recent history, which contrasts with his mostly fair racing ironically
@FranklinMarshalSpain His style we saw in the old generation Renaults came about because of their huge rear weight bias and how the car was built around the tyres. He employed his massively aggressive style back then because that was the fastest way (at least for him) to drive the car. He doesn't drive that way anymore because the cars are no longer designed that way, as well as (correct me if I'm wrong here) weight bias having been standardised by the FIA.
It's funny I used to prefer my setup similar to Schumacher but a couple years later I have been more similar to fernando. I actually like the car to understeer a bit coming off the apex, and use the throttle to increase the car to slight oversteer while excelleratinf away from the apex. I found I get better launch out of corners this way, as opposed to the way Schumacher does it
Brundle was actually Schumacher's strongest team mate. I don't count Schumacher's comeback he was to old muscles to weak. But even at 43 Rosberg only beat him due to multiple mechenical failures, Brundle deserves a lot of respect as a driver
Hamilton is very smooth with the car like button, vettel is aggressive with the car but not as much as Alonso but for verstappen and ricciardo I don’t know
Gee Gee Maldonado is a bit like Alonso in his driving, except he doesn't seem to know when to tone down the aggression, so he tended to bin it an awful lot.
After watching this in F1 games I’m more like Schumacher and Kimi. Alonso’s is quite impressive considering he’s less tidy but does not lose the car it’s incredible. Button is impressive to because he’s so smooth at 200 MPH. Michael and Kimi are also incredible because they’ve got more oversteer and work to do but handle the cars beautifully. Man these F1 drivers are something.
Awesome video!! Interesting how a given year on a particular set of regulations favors a certain type of driving style. This year seems to favor Button's style over Hamilton's because of Pirelli's quick tire wear. Schumacher's style is favored now probably because of less downforce from banned blown diffusers. Alonso is a great suprise, he adapted and it's paying off for him. I've always wondered how Senna would do in today's cars. My guess is he would still be great whatever he drives.
First debut was at Spa-Francorchamps driving for the Jordan team although he set a good qualifying but ended shortly in the race after 700 m with a blown clutch, a year later he had his revenge and won his first grand prix at Spa-Francorchamps in a Benetton-Ford.
dude i swear theres 2 nascar fans that dislike every obscure f1 video! This is the 2nd f1 clip i find 2day with hundrets of likes, that has 2 dislikes. on both ocassions i couldnt find any faults to them.
Reading all the Kimi fanboys trying to use this video as a scapegoat of his performance against Alonso. This video was a few years pre Alonso/Ferrari time. Back then Alonso adapted this understeer technique especially for the Mildseven Renault because it was the fastest way to drive. In the Ferrari days and after he never applied the technique. Understeer or Oversteer, Alonso is the master of adaption and an all around talent unlike Kimi and many others who struggle more.
Once he switched to Mclaren and to Ferrari his style was smoothed out compared to his Renault days. Still was just as successful which is a testament to his ability to adapt.
You don't need to be in F1 to have a driving style that is similar to F1 drivers, you can understeer like Alonso with any car, overtsteer on exits like Schumacher with any RWD car and so on. After all, F1 cars have 4 wheels and an engine like the rest.
@david40686 I think he meant that they like to get on the power early before they are fully out of the corner, letting the back end step out to help them get the car pointing in the right direction. A smooth driver like Jenson will not "floor the throttle", they will gradually ease the power on to get a smooth and tidy exit from the corner.
In a simulator game like Assetto Corsa. I'm naturally in a Schumacher/Raikkonen style. Then I tried to adapt in Alonso's style. It's way harder than I thought.
Alonso's driving style was only like that in 2005 and 2006 because the way the car and tires were set up, he has said it was very difficult to adapt to that style of driving because of how wrong it felt. That is a terrible way to drive unless you have a specific car setup and specific tires.
yeh I've various things for almost 20 years now (and I'm not even 27 lol). I did ten days testing recently out in India for a new series called MRF. The tracks out there are so incredibly bumpy and have very little grip. The tyres also have very stiff sidewalls so it makes them incredibly difficult to drive fast as the tyres give you no warning. The only way to get round it is to brake all the way into practically every corner, totally different to the fast sweeping bends of the UK!
It was only a matter of time, both Raikkonen Button was marked as future world champions and super natural talent when they came in to F1 in 2001 and 2000
On games I usually drive more like alonso because its more intersesting and challenging to brake as late as possible, take really agressive lines and spend the whole of long corners trying to edge it to the point where you can just slam the gas, I'd say its a kind of impatient driving style and quite often results in me missing the apex, losing the back from hitting the gas too early, stuff like that. On games it is more fun but I can not believe that he gets so much speed driving like that IRL
Very interesting comment. I also think Raikkonen's style has changed now with his rallying experience. He's not as smooth with the wheel as he used to be in the McLaren days. I wish we could see more of the drivers' movements behind the wheel.
yeh this is true, the old kent engined cars are rather lacking in the power department... You're right actually, I even drive slightly differently from circuit to circuit depending on the level of grip, corner radius, how bumpy a corner is etc... although for single seaters the same basic principle normally applies. But in hindsight that guy seems to have a very simplistic view on driving a car ;)
The beauty about Alonso's style is he uses the momentum of the car on turn in to place the car perfectly on the apex. His driving style is less steering and more momentum, i.e a balance between grip and throttle, which is why he gets so much out of the car than anyone else. He doesn't do anything that is unnatural to the car but he can still be aggressive as hell. This allows him to have a car that is both race ready and also performs quite decently in qualifying. Glad that he is reckoned as one the top 10 best of all time and the best in his generation. A phenomenal and unique talent!
He doesn't get more out of the car than anyone when the likes of Kimi and Michael like their car. This is the key point. Their ultimate speed is much quicker than that of Alonso. It's just that Alonso is great at manhandling cars with a poor balance because he has insanely aggressive steering inputs and basically forces the car to do what he wants. Ugly but massively effective. But nowhere near as quick as Kimi, (softest inputs), Michael or Lewis in a car they love.
@@ciaronsmith4995 Not to be rude but everyone has an opinion on the definition of what getting everything means. Michael and Kimi have never performed well in cars that were not outright fastest cars. What Alonso did in 2010 and 2012 is pretty much unmatched in the history of the sport. Michael, Lewis and Kimi have outright pace when they have the quickest car. Alonso on the other hand drives thur car to its absolute physical limit on the Sunday.
@@Asdfqwerty1243 What?!. That is completely false! Kimi Raikkonen nearly won the 2003 WDC in the third or fourth fastest car scoring over 40 points more in the old system than his teammate. McLaren failed to launch their car for the 2003 seasons so Kimi had to drive the 2002 McLaren all season. They customized the steering for Kimi and he ust took off like a rocket. Michael Schumacher did the same in 1997 in a piece of junk that was probably the third or fourth fastest car as well and outperformed his 1996 and 1998 cars as well. Alonso meanwhile got beaten by Trulli in 2004 (Trulli left after Monza) and failed to win a race that season in a GREAT Renault car.
@@ciaronsmith4995 TBH I am really sick and tired of this crap! Here, this is what is math gives you, not your opinion, not my opinion, but straight up freakin math (this is on Red Bull's own website and given the crap that Alonso has got from Horner you can bet your behind that it is NOT biased in any way) - www.redbull.com/gb-en/fangio-the-greatest-formula-1-driver-ever If you disagree with this then you should take it up with your reasoning as to why Kimi needs to be above Alonso and see if they buy your argument, cause right now it is in my favor. Michael would be 8th if his drive in the Merc was included. Kimi's 2003 Mclaren was a race winning Mclaren. One in which Coulthard won in the first round of that season. It was Coulthard that fell back and not just Kimi rising above him. I am sure anyone reading this can see it on Wikipedia themselves!
@@ciaronsmith4995 WTF are you talking about? Alonso beat Trulli in 2004! He was right up his tail and was going to beat him in the next round of pit stops in Monaco when Alonso crashed trying to avoid Ralf in the tunnel. What? You're going to leave those kind of details out just to suit your argument? With that he would have been even further ahead of him! Where do you get your facts from mate? He even got more points than Kimi that year even though Kimi won a race that year. Even the race that Kimi won that year, Alonso was in the lead when he had an oil leak and fell out of contention while in the lead! Seems to me that you are either extremely forgetful or rather deceitful in your arguments.
Yes, which is exactly what Brundle says in the video "in high speed corners the downforce and grip, is so good that the driver input will be similar for all"
Very cool, i use Schu and Raikkonens style in racing games! Try the Mclaren F1 LM in PGR 4, its exactly how they have their car set up! Jenson Button for WDC 2011
Brundel giving live commentary while driving that monster in the rain, what a legend.
It is, but because the track is wet, it is also useless because driving in the wet is completely different to driving on a warm dry race track.
Mate, thats a Red Bull, not a Monster
@@ReedReed999 Bad Dum Tsk.
@@C42ST3N yes but he isnt driving anywhere near the limit and so the effects of the rain wont make a difference
Those cars had TC and less initial torque. They are not nearly as snappy as the modern cars are in the rain
After this video it is easy to understand how Raikkonen managed to win his first race for Ferrari. It was Schumacher`s car last years, and they had similar driving style, making it relatively easy to adopt to his style. And that is why he struggled so horribly when Alonso was his team mate. Ferrari always has been clear that they are team and work towards what is best as team, often supporting 1 driver at cost of another. I fully approve of that, but it did mean that car was built to fit Alonso, making it horrible for Kimi.
Exactly the same thing happened with Lewis Hamilton the same year. He declared recently that when he started in 2007 in the McLaren he was given Kimi's suspension and settings and he loved it cause they have very similar styles and that partially explains why Hamilton was so strong from the beginning.
Kimi Minkionen ye and the guy had very frightening pace for a rookie equally with a championship worthy car underneath him
Fascinating thanks, it's fitting as he said he used to play as kimi when he played the game as a teenager
Honestly man, it's more because Ferrari had such a car advantage in Melbourne. Kimi hated the 2007 and 2008 cars (especially over one lap, in the races it was better). Near the end of 2007 they made some steps forward in the setup, but in 2008 it was difficult again. They had too much understeer and crucially the Bridgestone tyres were VERY different from the Michelins he had used at McLaren.
@@ciaronsmith4995 That is possibly true as well, though i don't think it negates my point.
Alonso has one of the most unique driving styles. The way that he purposely generates understeer to aid him in cornering is something that not many people do.
He knew that he needed to extract every bit of potential that the Renault car (R25 and R26 in particular) had with the unique characteristic of rear-biased weight distribution (almost 40/60). So while the front is more loose than the rear, he forced the tire wall to bounce around by intentionally under-steering the car and hit the apex early, because he knows that the rear is planted really well that he only needs to worry about the front side, which also aided by "tuned mass damper" that he perfected the technique and won both championship in '05 and '06.
Alonso is truly the greatest driver of all time (in terms of pure talent and pace)
@@imissvine6737 tf 😂😂😂😂
@@oscardom__ He is
Wtf are you smoking 🤣🤣🤣
@@imissvine6737 He is not the best qualifier. He’s ok on Saturdays but great on Sundays. The whole Alonso worship is bizarre.
Need an update showing Lewis, Seb, Max, Danny Ric, etc.
Seb is just like Button while Max, Lewis and Leclerc all drive like Schumacher and Raikkonen and Ricciardo is similar to Alonso but slightly different. He makes the car slide a little more on exit in order to build greater momentum.
Martin: Kvyat likes to slow the car by dissipating his cars energy in to the sidepod of another car.
@@blackflagqwerty lol!
@@colejones6312 I thought Lewis liked a car that is more rear heavy?
Seb is more known to prefer cars that are heavily planted on the rear and often likes to get on the gas early when exiting which somehow explains on some of his spins given how powerful the current hybrid V6 are
And of course Brundle repeats each at full pace in the rain.
Anthony Dykes What do you expect? He's a Formula 1 driver. And a class act.
Now he's a top communicator, and a brilliant commentator.
@@RB747domme Nah he is way to biased
@@EAGYSL Murray Walker was massively biased towards Damon Hill, but I dont see you complaining against him
@@benl1799 because this comment chain isn't about Murray...
@@RB747domme the thing that really amazes me is that not only is he driving an F1 car (which is, well, expected of an F1 driver but not necessarily easy) and commentating, but he's also driving it in different styles that don't necessarily come naturally to him. He's a super sharp driver to do that, whew.
Using the rear to get around a turn is arguably the fastest way to do it. Like Raikkonen and Schumacher does it. But it demands incredible car feel and reflexes. Perhaps that is why Schumacher is struggling a bit now. Because of his age that little extra edge got lost down the line. Just a guess.
Desdirodeabike Schumacher was struggling because the Mercedes was very understeary
Tyre management
Or D. All of the above
you guess is absolutely spot on, as confirmed by guys in mercedes. Raikkonen however doesnt drive like that. He needs a planted rear.
reading this in 2022 almost thought mick is using his dad's setup
Can't imagine the crew's reaction to it raining on their day of shooting for this video. Lucky for them they had Brundle who is just a top notch professional all around, bet he didn't even bat an eye.
Now explain Montoya's and Maldonado's driving style.
They drive like shit? Is that enough for you?
azynkron please don't compare the worst f1 driver ever to Montoya :) JPM was agressive but very talented. Maldonado should be banned for life, it's maybe 2 years or more he didn't have a single CLEAN race
Dimas Wira JPM was good.
Ciaron Smith ..but not consistent enough....like sato now that i think of it...
JPM fought for a world title in 2003......way better than Sato in that regard. In a Williams he was one of the fastest and most consistent. from 2001-2004 he was extremely good. Made mistakes but we all do.
Martín Brundle imitating different driving styles while commenting ir in the rain
And we struggle tonput a decent lap un our simrig
Interesting driver choice.
2 current champions- Schumi and Alonso
And 2 future champions- Kimi and Button
It was more because Alonso, Schumi and Kimi were the 3 best drivers in F1 and Jenson was British.
@@ciaronsmith4995 they litterally fucking said why they picked jenson its not because he's british its because he uses the textbook driving style A.K.A the racing line in the f1 games
@@imissvine6737 Yes the british tend to do that. Justify shady things in a nice way.
@@ciaronsmith4995 nah mane button at that time was already a racewinner and was a prominent name in f1 as one of the best in the sport and also correlation is not causation back in the grooved tires pretty much noone else who is actually fast and in contention used the same style textbook style of Jenson alonso had different steering kimi and schumi used the rear of the car to get around corners
@@imissvine6737 No he wasn't. The big 3 were Kimi, Fernando and Michael. By far. He won a single race and was lucky to win that race. He wasn't considered elite at all. If you actually watched F1 back then you would know that, but you're clearly a relatively new fan or didn't watch live, in the tyre war. Cheers.
thats why i love alonso, so damn aggresive
Excited for this season?
@@SIXITHS man honestly i havent watcfhed in a couple years, it just got to be the same story every year lol
@@gulinotm last race was pretty good, this season seems to be a good one
@@gulinotm trust me 2021 is a season worth to witness
Very good video. What a team would had Räikkönen and Schumi made.
one with schumacher winning half or the races and raikkonen having to help out as number 2
schumacher, until his first retirement, made sure to have the entire team centered around him and that noone within the team could be a danger to him
there is a reason why raikkonen came to ferrari after schumacher had stopped driving for them, and why montoya was not considered and alonso not until multiple years later
AnarchistMetalhead You might be right (or a troll), but I meant more like car development wise.
taveeeee ferrari already had brilliant engineers like brawn and an experienced number 2 driver giving feedback as well, so i"d guess there would not have been a development advantage with raikkonen instead of barichello
but it could have been an advantage compared to choosing massa
AnarchistMetalhead Yes it't true and Kimi wouldn't had agreed to be number 2 in the team. It was all built around Schumacher and the other driver was basically driving for max second place. But what I meant in the first place was that with Kimi+Schumi they didn't have (but they wouldn't had needed to since we can assume here that Schumi was all that mattered) to develop two different cars as they pretty much had to do (but they can't) now sice Alonso and Räikkönen prefer so different cars. PS. My head hurts for my grammar errors.
Ben Dover hey Kenneth
Martin Brundle just casually controlling every racing style is something else... underrated af
Brundle: And Lance Stroll likes to evaluate the durability of the tyre walls at relatively low speeds in order to benefit from the turbulence caused by the waving of red flags
1:14 dammn brundle, drifting it out of the garage like a boss
And putting his visor down as well
Freaking legend
I mean he was a f1 driver once. Hes damn skilfull
There are 3 driving styles here: what I call the Prost style (likes understeer, as few hand movements as possible; Button and currently Vettel are like that); the Senna style (very aggressive, throws car into the corner, moves the car around; Alonso and Hamilton are both like that); and then the Schumacher style (very pointy front end and loose back end, likes the back end to steer the car; micro-corrections through fast corners, you can keep the car at 100 percent grip for longer through fast corners; Raikonnen is also like that)
good analogy, i think Max Verstappen falls into the Schumacher style aswell, since its told thats not just how he races in F1, but also how he sets his car up in sims. But in which of these 3 does leclerc fall?
@@Crbn46 same as max i would say, strong front end
prost drove with oversteer, one can be very smooth and still drive without understeer
neutral setups: button, russell, rosberg
understeer: prost, alonso, senna, hamilton
oversteer: kimi, msc, verstappen, leclerc
12 years from now , and all the drivers are retiring...
kimi is still around which is the only thing that matters atm.
Well yeah, as with any other sport your only good for a few years, then your out.
Especially nowadays, given the cars are so much faster in the corners, nowadays.
Just Minus 1 and There will be still a lot of driver here.
Alonso is coming back, and Kimi is still here, but yeah the majority of veterans have retired...
Button: smooth and precise through the corners
Alonso: fuck it! I'll break the steering wheel off for maximum speed
Extremely interesting choice of drivers.
Two of the chosen drivers were already champions (Alonso and Schumacher) and two of them became champions later (Button and Raikkonen).
I think this is the main reason for Kimi's problems this year. Alonso and Räikkönen have drastically different driving styles and this year's car just won't cooperate with Räikkönen. He has said himself that he needs something specific with the car and that ain't just happening right now.
It's the same with Vettel
Turrican4D Yeah, and that's why Kimi also isn't a very good driver in an F1 Car. It looks totally different in a WRC-Car...
NFreund Kimi is the fastest. Unfortunately his operating window is smaller with these cars.
+Ciaron Smith also remember the tyres and aero are completely different since 2009. all the drivers have changed their styles since Martin did this video
Kimi is overrated. I think a great driver needs to learn to adapt.
"im going to imitate jenson's smooth style" *1:14 comes out with opposite lock*
What a golden video i’ve found here. Would be cool to have more of these insights
I wonder how Senna's driving style would have evolved/adapted if he still raced in the 2000s
Stop this Senna overhype
@@sarang99monu How exactly am I overhyping?
I envy you :)
I was a Prost fan myself due to his calculated and non-risk taking way of driving (as he himself once stated "I try to win by driving the slowest as possible"), but I did respect Senna for his sheer speed and his gift to drive fast. It was like he was the exact opposite of Prost :)
It’s funny how loud he’s shouting while driving around, shows you how much work these things involve
Yea this is back in 2006, when they could just slam the throttle and not lose traction
Mmmm yes, traction control
And everyone had a good start because launch control
You could do that with TC, yes. But thats also was not fast. Not at all. Back in these days you did not loose traction. But still you could not just go full throttle and let traction control do everything. Thats slow. You need a some wheel spin to accelerate best. So a driver could still make a huge difference how he used and set-up TC and the good ones prefered less TC.
Let me tell you my favourate styles
5. Fucking up the corner
4. Angle albon (hitting almost every barrier around monaco)
3. The verstappen ( max max super max max divebomb)
2. The checo ooooooooo (how the fucc is that car so thicc)
1. The mick shumacher system operator (penetrating the barrier at almost every track)
0:13-the dude was wearing a shirt! 1950s F1 drivers had balls!
Raikkonen is just a freak of nature. I finally understand this guys talent. He needs a car that has literally no under steer, to get it to the apex unhindered, and then relies on his reactions to catch and re catch an errant rear end. No wonder he hates this current era of understeering heavy, annoyingly slow cars with concrete tyres - harder to rotate the car and make it bite. The complete OPPOSITE of Fernando Alonso. Amazing!
Raikkonen actually prefers oversteer to understeer. I think he just misses the downforce of the old rear wings
You are probably spot on, Karting and (even though I never heard of him do Rally) Rally style. I don't agree with Brundle about Schumacher though... when he did drive like shown by Brundle he's car was not setup right for him. Schumacher did do a Jenson style driving but actually left of throttle and pushed throttle slowly around the corners while a lot of other F1 drivers just released the throttle and pushed hard when leaving the corner.. and that is why he was a king when wet and did really good overall...
It is a bit frustrating to watch him driving even a good ferrari nowadays
@TheEqualTester you're right, I can't remember what I meant. Must have been having a moment 😊
@TheEqualTester ok I think I remember what I meant and I put it quite badly. Kimi likes a good front end on his car. However current cars Have a lot of torque and probably too little rear downforce. Also being heavy theyre very snappy on the rear end. A larger rear wing would give him more rear grip out of the corners. But again I'm contradicting myself because the Ferrari he drives is front limited and suffers more from understeer. Maybe that's the problem for him.
I wish we could all take a few laps in an f1 car just to see what all the fuss is about.
Nigel Mansell Well for you Sir Nigel it is.
You have to left foot brake, notice it's not possible for Martin to get his right foot across to the brake pedal.
@@le-coup-détat What I mean is that the car he's driving here has a metal side-guard on the brake pedal preventing his left foot from moving sideways, also of course blocking the access to the brake pedal for his right foot.
Assuming people's usual car is 100 hp 1500 kg, F1 cars have 10 times that engine and 2/3 times less of a car (weight)
button and damon hill fangio, and senna, wurz all drove perfectly smoothly to the ideal line. schumacher, coulthard, hamilton, raikkonen turn in on the brakes.. hakkinen, pryce, (Gilles) villeneuve, (keke) rosberg, petersen, frentzen, herbert, montoya, alonso, turn in on the throttle and 'drift' the car.
Not to forget Jim Clark, the master of smooth driving.
Raikkonen and Schumacher style are the most spectacular.
Tyres that didn't fade, and the R25 and R26 which both loved to get roughed about and ragged to death, were perfect combos for Nando to win 2 world titles
Whoever was responsible for the music, is certainly a huge Wipeout fan!
Not that im complaining!
So what I learnt is that Jenson Button has the same driving style as Charles Leclerc.
Fernando Alonso has the similar driving style to Max Verstappen.
Except for when Alonso had some sort of electronics glitch in Malaysia 2010. He was rev-matching on the downshifts! In a Formula 1 car!
Awesome!
Wow, at 3m52s when they cut away the cockpit and you can see right down the drivers legs as he screams around is spectacular and not something I’ve ever seen done before, brilliant work folks, thank you, simple, elegant, exceptional, thank you 😎👍
Driver61's video on Alonso's driving style complements this well, he's got one of the most aggressive driving styles in recent history, which contrasts with his mostly fair racing ironically
Alonso with the blue Renault is my favorite style. Just gotta love how throws the car into the corners.
I would love another one of these for the current cars 😂 brundle behind the wheel as well
@FranklinMarshalSpain His style we saw in the old generation Renaults came about because of their huge rear weight bias and how the car was built around the tyres. He employed his massively aggressive style back then because that was the fastest way (at least for him) to drive the car. He doesn't drive that way anymore because the cars are no longer designed that way, as well as (correct me if I'm wrong here) weight bias having been standardised by the FIA.
Alonso adapted to that style because that was needed for those Michelins, hes a very smooth driver and has proved to have talent to adapt
Mmmmm, lovely insight ❤️❤️❤️
That "x-ray" camera showing his pedal work fuckin' awesome!
Sad part about UK car shows is the best episodes are spoiled by the rain.
It's funny I used to prefer my setup similar to Schumacher but a couple years later I have been more similar to fernando. I actually like the car to understeer a bit coming off the apex, and use the throttle to increase the car to slight oversteer while excelleratinf away from the apex. I found I get better launch out of corners this way, as opposed to the way Schumacher does it
I look forward to rooting for COL in future years :)
The more aggressive drivers, the better
I like how they're all current F1 drivers who have won world championships. Their styles have all worked for them.
watching this in 2020 i wish we had a camera angle like in this where u can see the pedal work
This is was an amazing short, they need to do more of this kind of stuff on the preview shows.
Martin could do again this video, by including Hamilton and Kubica; and comparing old styles as Clark, Fangio, Senna, Prost, Stewart or Villeneuve
Brundle was actually Schumacher's strongest team mate. I don't count Schumacher's comeback he was to old muscles to weak. But even at 43 Rosberg only beat him due to multiple mechenical failures,
Brundle deserves a lot of respect as a driver
People critisized ITV's coverage of F1 for the adverts but no other broadcaster has given us such fascinating insights.
2006 alonso drives it like a rental kart.
It is strange how driving styles can differ between drivers. It helps me understand why I’m slow in certain cars and fast in others on the sim.
Thanks, you gave a very nice and detailed explanation and I agree with you in everything you said. Cheers
How do Hamilton, Vettel, Max Verstappen and Riccardio drive?
I would love to see that.
Vettel at least nowadays has a more Button kind of style as i see,when he was the champion,he sort-of had a different approach
I would say Verstappen is more like Alonso.. Likes to have an aggressive approach to the turns and turns a lot earlier.
Hamilton is very smooth with the car like button, vettel is aggressive with the car but not as much as Alonso but for verstappen and ricciardo I don’t know
Gee Gee Maldonado is a bit like Alonso in his driving, except he doesn't seem to know when to tone down the aggression, so he tended to bin it an awful lot.
Great video, I'd also would like to see mr.Brundle explain Prost's and Senna's driving styles
After watching this in F1 games I’m more like Schumacher and Kimi. Alonso’s is quite impressive considering he’s less tidy but does not lose the car it’s incredible. Button is impressive to because he’s so smooth at 200 MPH. Michael and Kimi are also incredible because they’ve got more oversteer and work to do but handle the cars beautifully. Man these F1 drivers are something.
F1 games 😂😂
@@abyss18 what
@@sergeantsupreme4395 ok “sergeant supreme”.
@@abyss18 you got me there abyss
@@sergeantsupreme4395 i know i did
Alonso's driving style with that big sharp turn was weird to watch but got good traction
Gotta love it when half the video is the intro lmao
Would be interesting to see such an video with the driving styles of Vettel and Hamilton, too.
Awesome video!! Interesting how a given year on a particular set of regulations favors a certain type of driving style. This year seems to favor Button's style over Hamilton's because of Pirelli's quick tire wear. Schumacher's style is favored now probably because of less downforce from banned blown diffusers. Alonso is a great suprise, he adapted and it's paying off for him. I've always wondered how Senna would do in today's cars. My guess is he would still be great whatever he drives.
It seems I may have a similar driving style to Schumacher and Räikkönen. I very much like the car to have a snappy front end
excellent video, thank you for posting
So cool
First debut was at Spa-Francorchamps driving for the Jordan team although he set a good qualifying but ended shortly in the race after 700 m with a blown clutch, a year later he had his revenge and won his first grand prix at Spa-Francorchamps in a Benetton-Ford.
Schumacher didn't race with a turbo car. Turbos were banned in 1989 and Schumacher started in F1 in 1992.
They need to incorporate that “ghost” nose that shows the foot cam in the broadcasts. Thats cool!!
thanks been looking for this
1:14 one hand driving and sliding epic
well Schumacher's style is the most effective but the most dangerous
dude i swear theres 2 nascar fans that dislike every obscure f1 video! This is the 2nd f1 clip i find 2day with hundrets of likes, that has 2 dislikes. on both ocassions i couldnt find any faults to them.
Reading all the Kimi fanboys trying to use this video as a scapegoat of his performance against Alonso. This video was a few years pre Alonso/Ferrari time. Back then Alonso adapted this understeer technique especially for the Mildseven Renault because it was the fastest way to drive.
In the Ferrari days and after he never applied the technique.
Understeer or Oversteer, Alonso is the master of adaption and an all around talent unlike Kimi and many others who struggle more.
Once he switched to Mclaren and to Ferrari his style was smoothed out compared to his Renault days. Still was just as successful which is a testament to his ability to adapt.
Ok Fernando
You don't need to be in F1 to have a driving style that is similar to F1 drivers, you can understeer like Alonso with any car, overtsteer on exits like Schumacher with any RWD car and so on. After all, F1 cars have 4 wheels and an engine like the rest.
This is very true. In fact, I would go all out in saying he would not be able to keep up even when he was at his best in today's cars.
@david40686 I think he meant that they like to get on the power early before they are fully out of the corner, letting the back end step out to help them get the car pointing in the right direction. A smooth driver like Jenson will not "floor the throttle", they will gradually ease the power on to get a smooth and tidy exit from the corner.
Rocket Ronnie, the King of drift.. RIP Superswede...
In a simulator game like Assetto Corsa. I'm naturally in a Schumacher/Raikkonen style. Then I tried to adapt in Alonso's style. It's way harder than I thought.
Alonso's driving style was only like that in 2005 and 2006 because the way the car and tires were set up, he has said it was very difficult to adapt to that style of driving because of how wrong it felt. That is a terrible way to drive unless you have a specific car setup and specific tires.
Naturally it's raining at Silverstone
The music is so 2006!
that guy actually has a very good idea... I would love to see that.
yeh I've various things for almost 20 years now (and I'm not even 27 lol). I did ten days testing recently out in India for a new series called MRF. The tracks out there are so incredibly bumpy and have very little grip. The tyres also have very stiff sidewalls so it makes them incredibly difficult to drive fast as the tyres give you no warning. The only way to get round it is to brake all the way into practically every corner, totally different to the fast sweeping bends of the UK!
Looks like everybody gets this recommended now xD
2:11....When other drivers warm up the tire and brake, Alonso is warming up the chassis and suspension...
Just realized how great the track and what part they used to test thus
It was only a matter of time, both Raikkonen Button was marked as future world champions and super natural talent when they came in to F1 in 2001 and 2000
On games I usually drive more like alonso because its more intersesting and challenging to brake as late as possible, take really agressive lines and spend the whole of long corners trying to edge it to the point where you can just slam the gas, I'd say its a kind of impatient driving style and quite often results in me missing the apex, losing the back from hitting the gas too early, stuff like that. On games it is more fun but I can not believe that he gets so much speed driving like that IRL
This guy commentates while driving an f1 car at good pace in the rain…
Very interesting comment. I also think Raikkonen's style has changed now with his rallying experience. He's not as smooth with the wheel as he used to be in the McLaren days. I wish we could see more of the drivers' movements behind the wheel.
yeh this is true, the old kent engined cars are rather lacking in the power department... You're right actually, I even drive slightly differently from circuit to circuit depending on the level of grip, corner radius, how bumpy a corner is etc... although for single seaters the same basic principle normally applies. But in hindsight that guy seems to have a very simplistic view on driving a car ;)
The beauty about Alonso's style is he uses the momentum of the car on turn in to place the car perfectly on the apex. His driving style is less steering and more momentum, i.e a balance between grip and throttle, which is why he gets so much out of the car than anyone else. He doesn't do anything that is unnatural to the car but he can still be aggressive as hell. This allows him to have a car that is both race ready and also performs quite decently in qualifying. Glad that he is reckoned as one the top 10 best of all time and the best in his generation. A phenomenal and unique talent!
He doesn't get more out of the car than anyone when the likes of Kimi and Michael like their car. This is the key point. Their ultimate speed is much quicker than that of Alonso. It's just that Alonso is great at manhandling cars with a poor balance because he has insanely aggressive steering inputs and basically forces the car to do what he wants. Ugly but massively effective. But nowhere near as quick as Kimi, (softest inputs), Michael or Lewis in a car they love.
@@ciaronsmith4995 Not to be rude but everyone has an opinion on the definition of what getting everything means. Michael and Kimi have never performed well in cars that were not outright fastest cars. What Alonso did in 2010 and 2012 is pretty much unmatched in the history of the sport. Michael, Lewis and Kimi have outright pace when they have the quickest car. Alonso on the other hand drives thur car to its absolute physical limit on the Sunday.
@@Asdfqwerty1243 What?!. That is completely false! Kimi Raikkonen nearly won the 2003 WDC in the third or fourth fastest car scoring over 40 points more in the old system than his teammate. McLaren failed to launch their car for the 2003 seasons so Kimi had to drive the 2002 McLaren all season. They customized the steering for Kimi and he ust took off like a rocket. Michael Schumacher did the same in 1997 in a piece of junk that was probably the third or fourth fastest car as well and outperformed his 1996 and 1998 cars as well. Alonso meanwhile got beaten by Trulli in 2004 (Trulli left after Monza) and failed to win a race that season in a GREAT Renault car.
@@ciaronsmith4995 TBH I am really sick and tired of this crap! Here, this is what is math gives you, not your opinion, not my opinion, but straight up freakin math (this is on Red Bull's own website and given the crap that Alonso has got from Horner you can bet your behind that it is NOT biased in any way) - www.redbull.com/gb-en/fangio-the-greatest-formula-1-driver-ever If you disagree with this then you should take it up with your reasoning as to why Kimi needs to be above Alonso and see if they buy your argument, cause right now it is in my favor. Michael would be 8th if his drive in the Merc was included.
Kimi's 2003 Mclaren was a race winning Mclaren. One in which Coulthard won in the first round of that season. It was Coulthard that fell back and not just Kimi rising above him. I am sure anyone reading this can see it on Wikipedia themselves!
@@ciaronsmith4995 WTF are you talking about? Alonso beat Trulli in 2004! He was right up his tail and was going to beat him in the next round of pit stops in Monaco when Alonso crashed trying to avoid Ralf in the tunnel. What? You're going to leave those kind of details out just to suit your argument? With that he would have been even further ahead of him! Where do you get your facts from mate? He even got more points than Kimi that year even though Kimi won a race that year. Even the race that Kimi won that year, Alonso was in the lead when he had an oil leak and fell out of contention while in the lead! Seems to me that you are either extremely forgetful or rather deceitful in your arguments.
Alonso really got dat drift car back then love it
i still have a lot to learn if one day i want to be a racing driver..
Second time I’ve seen someone explain what Alonso does. Seems insane to me
I would go with Schumacher and Raikkonen's style, I like the car to turn in nice and sharp.
that's for slower/mid speed corners, on high speed high downforce everyone try to take the ideal line
Yes, which is exactly what Brundle says in the video "in high speed corners the downforce and grip, is so good that the driver input will be similar for all"
Great stuff!
why couldn't the bbc have features like this
Very cool, i use Schu and Raikkonens style in racing games! Try the Mclaren F1 LM in PGR 4, its exactly how they have their car set up!
Jenson Button for WDC 2011
if this video clip was made in 2006,martin brundle seemed could predict who would be world champion. in this video clip, he predicted button.