David Coulthard on F1's Most Boring Era
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- David Coulthard talks about the different eras of Formula 1 he raced in and which stood out to him as the bet of his 15 years in F1.
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David Coulthard was my favourite driver..I travelled from Greece to Italy (Imola 2001) in order to watch him racing live..I was wearing a t-shirt with his face & Mc-Laren's car & I had allong side of me an old but..strong lady from Scotland ! She was holding & waving 3 flags ! ! ! The Union Jack , the flag of Scotland & the Mc-Laren's flag ! ! ! An hour before the start of the race, I saw David Coulthard & Mika Hakkinen together on a stairwell ..It was a fantastic & unforgettable experience ! David was a real Gentleman & a Great Racer - Pilot in the Grid at his time..In my heart is a Real Champion because he managed to defeat all the champions..You are doing a great job ! You have my warm greetings from Greece ❤️!
Those t-shirts were amazing, when I was a kid I had one with Kimi in it back in 2008.
Allthough it was clearly a bootleg one with the Ferrari car having no sponsors, but I still wore it with pride haha
Great interview thanks Scott.
Coultard communicates really clearly, and concisely. Very easy to listen to.,
In the 70"s DFV era 500hp, aero and wings, deathtrap cars on deathtrap circuits, deadly fascinating and heroic, and slightly insane.
The death toll was horrific by modern standards, but seemed kinda normal probably because their fathers had fought in WWII.
Love the extra detail in this question, it's so fascinating to hear F1 drivers talk with such specificity about the mechanics of driving
Hated the groved tires … and the tire war when it came to them and the slicks …… but god did they make better intermediate and especially full wet tires!
Best era off F1 for me a a fan was from around 2005-2009 it was just awesome stuff.
Yeah that time between Schumacher and vettel dominance was the most unpredictable of my lifetime so far (born 96)
2010 and 2012 were two of the best seasons of all time
@@SirRobbins definitely especially 2012 a classic year
@@SirRobbinsthose years were extremely boring regarding overtaking. Yes they were unpredictable but insanely boring. There was no track action. Especially 2010 was awful in that regard
You must be young...take a look at 82 to 90...unbelievable
How have I been an F1 fan for 29 years and not found out about you! This is the F1 talk I find most interesting. Definitely subscribing! Thank you!
A very smart driver and so quick on his day
Almost never as quick as Mika or Schumacher, but he was always good in tyre management due to a smooth driving style.
I'm not disagreeing with you - and I was a big fan in his early days, but DC himself has stated on many occasions that he didn't have the mental capacity of the top line drivers.
Better than Barrichello for sure
was he ever better than team mate?
@@wolfgangvan-uber6515were you his engineer?
That era was great. On top of that, the quality of the tyres in the tyre war were SUPERIOR to any other. The Groove vs Slick argument is not such a big deal, because the quality of those grooved tyres were incredible due to the Michelin vs Bridgestone war.
tyre competition was ridiculous and unsportsman like. The big teams dominated the tyre design as they were made to fit their car perfectly like mclaren and ferrari and therefore the smaller teams that also used them had no engineering freedom and often their cars didnt suit the tyre or they had to copy the designs of others. No tyre wear in some races meaning only refueling overtakes so boring as fuck gps no matter how quick and agile the cars looked and behaved as there were no on track overtakes happening. Also if your supplier was to for some reason underperform, you had a disadvantage to all the teams that were using the tyres from the second manufacturer. 2002,2004 and a lot of races from 2000-2006 were some of the most ridiculous borefests in history. Modern f1 is in a way better place. Once the cars get better at following in 2022 it will be the start of the golden era. Honestly the early 2000s were a disasterous borefest in disguise behind the nostalgia and sound. Only kimi and alonso did anything crazy to spice up some races. If it wasnt for these 2 i wouldnt be even watching.
@@stathispapadopoulos7926 No it wasn't, it produced incredible tyres as every driver will tell you. An era of true innovation. Nobody wants to hear your bizarre reductionist point of view. Thanks.
@@ciaronsmith4995 pfffff lol. Those seasons together had less on track overtakes than 2012 alone. If you ask in the paddock everyone knows that there was basically zero overtaking back then and innovation is irrelevant when the rule itself is unfair to smaller teams. If rules stayed like that McLaren and ferrari or maybe Williams would win the next 15 years too as they did since the early 90s all the way to 2005. The rules were unfair to smaller teams, bias on the side of the tyre manufacturers was ridiculous and everyone hated the tyres aside from kimi maybe because he won races in them. 2020 alone brought more innovation than the entire 98 to 03 seasons combined. The cars barely changed at all. If you take away the sound and agility and nostalgia those seasons had very little interest. Also retirements every 2 races for every driver cause they can't fucking produce reliable engines and tyres. Refueling probably was the worst thing to happen to f1 in its history. Eliminated basically all on track battles. Also who the hell cares about tyre performance overall. Look at the points i made. It doesn't matter how fast the tyres were. The competition was horrible.
@@stathispapadopoulos7926 1998, 2003, 2005 were great seasons. If you like passing so much go drive on the highways, thanks. F1 is more than that.
@@ciaronsmith4995 Some seasons were good (I enjoyed 2000), but by god 2002 was just awful in every way, and 2004 wasn't much better.
I love deveral time periods, but 99-05 was great. The V10 era was the best.
Awesome stuff, hate those grooved tires.
Loved them because it forced the drivers to correct more
How can you hate a tyre ?
Grand Prix car should never run on anything other than slicks in dry weather conditions
@@tonywright8294ask ayrton
My first favorite was Hakinnen, so I suffered through the Schumacher era.
The Mercedes 1-2 era was horrible too, glad that's over and we can enjoy another huge talent.
The new rules seem to work, a lot of different teams at the top, but Max is just at a different level. That may annoy some people, but we're witnessing history being made.
I also remember the hate Vettel got when he won, they called him the finger, because he would put up his kndex finger when he won. Now everybody loves him all of a sudden.
That era wasn't that long when you consider the Mercedes and Red Bull domination since. The 98-2000 period was competitive as was part of 2001. Again 2003 was competitive and 2006. That era was still more unpredictable because of the reliability factor. Cars are near bullet proof now.
@@GK-qc5ry 2010, 2012, 2017, 2018 and parts of 2019 were competitive too. In 2012 and 2017-18, the McLaren and Ferrari respectively were outright quicker cars and failed to capitalise due to team and driver error.
Always enjoy listening to DC, communicates brilliantly and always very engaging. Get interview Scott.
The 1990's and early 00's was F1s best era. After that it became a highly regulated Formula that became much less exciting and less innovative, with drivers managing instead of driving fast, vaccum cleaner engines and rubbish-tyres.
Those must be rose tinted glasses. Passing was very hard, there wasn’t much passing in the late 90s. 2010 and 2012 were probably the best years we’ve had since the 90s.
@@kevinprengemann7456 Thats what I always say, you cannot have battles nowdays, specially since DRS. Funny how in the F1 channel they call "battle" when two cars are together for three corners and then one passes the other. Without DRS you had trains yea, but it was more spectacular to see a driver risk it to attempt a pass after laps and laps of trying. Racing now could be, at least I see it as artificial, you are overtaking the guy ahead cause you have a speed advantage plus less drag (DRS), you are no longer passing on equal conditions, raw pace or based on car differences. I believe DRS makes the dominant car even more so. At least back in the day, even if you had Schumacher in the F310B and you in a Jordan, you could defend your position if you were good at it, with DRS impossible, Schumacher would have passed you in matter of seconds. There goes my little rant
No way! I strongly disagree with that.
It was highly regulated then - that's the whole point of it being a formula 😂😂 Ask any engineer, often tighter regulations push innovation
I read an interview with an old Ferrari mechanic from the F1 team during the 1970s. He said "modern f1 is basically a radio controlled car with a driver"
2021 was probably the best year in the last 30 years in terms of intense battles of the teo front runners. In years gone by there was only 2 to 3 top drivers. Today there are at least 6 drivers at world champion level.
Lmao give over. 2021 was pony and the political nature of it was the worst year since 1994 or 1976.
2005 to 2009 were pretty intense as well
@@Matthew-bu7fgok Lewis....
2021 is awful year because blatant dirty driving is allowed.
2012 season is way better because you never know who is going to win races and multiple teams actually had a solid shot at winning from pure pace like how Williams won with Pastor Maldonado and Raikkonen in Lotus. There were 8 different winners that year and cars actually can follow and fight for positions.
How about intense battles with 3 or more front runners? Occurred several times from 2005-2012.
Man...imagine the 2004 rocket ships with proper slicks on them...Barrichello STILL owns the race lap record at Monza...on GROOVED TIRES! I wouldn't doubt the 2004 cars would own many more lap records to this day, if they were allowed proper slicks.
Not really. The W11 is an outright grippier car. At all but the most top speed-heavy and traction-heavy tracks, the W11 would still be quicker.
Grooved tire era was a lot more entertaining in wet conditions. Now it's intermediate or red flag.
I'm not sure if that's actually true or if we just felt that way because dry races were so bad in comparison. We did have races like Fuji 2007, where we had to sit through 45 minutes of cars following the safety car before the actual action could start.
@@simonbrunner3062 No it really is true, and it's not because of the grooves - old wet tyres have similar grooves to them compared with new ones. It's because of the larger tyres kicking up so much water that visibility is next to zero.
Best years 1979 to 1986 , in 1982 there were 11 different race winners. Engines went bang more often than not and the 😮unlimited turbo power era u did not know come Sunday who was going to be the race winner
David Coulthard belongs in the Team of LEGENDS of Formula 1 !
Great chat! So much better than these new F1 podcasts who've only been following since 2021 and know next to nothing besides memes
DC my favorite pilot for all time!
The current era of cars are utterly horrendous and the biggest shadow hanging over them is the direction is only going down due to sustainability, cost-saving, and an increasing to demand to have cars built to run equal.
Nostalgia bias is mad
oh you mean because Lewis isn't winning. Neutrals are enjoying it
The cars do have issue but literally none of them are what you have pointed out. The main issue is the weight and size of the cars. While the racing is tight and good in this new era the cars are massive and this makes tracks like Monaco difficult to race in due to the lack of room for overtaking. There is also the issue of dominance to the sport but that is nothing new and is more a result of teams adapting regulation changes better then others. Formula 1 will have an issue in the future with sustainability but thats due to the 2026 regulations and how the car functions with Max saying its faster to downshift on the Monza straight which to me personally should never be the case and the added weight is also a concern for the future as it will make overtaking especially without drs far more difficult.
@@soilentgreen7 I’m literally wearing a Red Bull suit in my profile photo.
@@djskillx7008I think what he listed is valid as well
I started when Lewis won. Then seb. Then Lewis. Kinda weird I've only known Lewis, Jenson seb nico max as champions and that's over like 16 years
Great video! Thoughtful questions!
It's Fascinating that this was uploaded 2 years before the *Most Boring Season In F1 History* 2023
You mean the Most Boring Season in F1 History SO FAR!
Max is too good for the rest
People seem to be commonly forgetting Mercedes dominating like Red Bull is this year for EIGHT YEARS IN A ROW lol
@@ArousedRatJones probably Lewis fanboys..
@@ArousedRatJonesyou seem to forget that there were other teams or teammates battling Hamilton during his dominance period. Rosberg, Vettel at Ferrari, even Bottas would occasionally beat Hamilton on pace. Compared to Max and the RB currently, no one can get close to him at all, Perez is nowhere near and Max is too good.
Dominated by tires? Started watching seriously in 2010 and remember many fiascos related to the Pirelli tyres
The worst generation of cars has to be this hybrid era. I will never forget tuning in to watch practice 1 of the Australian GP in 2014 and being so disappointed in the awful noise the cars were making and how sluggish they looked going around. It has been F1’s single most expensive mistake ever made.
If you've ever driven the cars you would feel why they're superior in every way compared to any other era
@@RubensBarrichello. have you driven any of them?
@@sir_ian-z77 Yes I drove for Jordan from 93-96. Stewart from 97-99. Ferrari from 00-05. Honda from 06-08 which was renamed Brawn in 09 and finished my career at Williams in 2011.
@@RubensBarrichello.lol 🤣🤣🤣
@@RubensBarrichello. *RUBENS IT'S LAST LAP, LET MICHAEL PASS FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP*
I am pretty sure that the combination of groved tires, high down force and + 800HP on those V10's, made one of hardest times to drive a f1 during a race. It was so normal to see drivers missing their braking points, spinning and losing control even on dry tracks. Glad nobody died during that time.
The difference is, back then when teams were dominant or the rules were wanky, it was still fun to watch the cars and drivers go around... Nowadays, all the fun aspects and the spectacles of the sport are very much dead due to marketing and societal preaaure, so when a race is slightly boring and void of racing, we are instantly angry about it
Newer fans see the boring aspect of the sport now and are annoyed, because there is nothing to cover it up now... But the truth is, it's always been boring
@@fidan2fast I watched some of the older races from 2004-06. The cars were exciting to watch, a dominant driver could always have a reliability issue which could open up the playing field, and without DRS, overtakes weren't garunteed, which sounds like a bad thing, but it was about whether a driver could get past him not when. Seeing a driver defending for 20 laps is way more enjoyable than a driver breezing by on the straight imo.
@@potatogirlcultist19 OMG YES, thank you! Every time I see people counting how many overtakes they had in a race I die inside... We don't want overtakes, we want battles, some that wr can memorize maybe, if there weren't like a 1000 races pwr season
Between 1995 and 2001, DC was 2nd once and 3rd four times in championships - not many people achieve such results!
But in that same period his teammate won 2WDC’s…
@@dirkdiggler5763 And? When your teammate is someone like Max, your performance will look terrible without actually being. For example, David is much better than Sergio.
2014-2020 Worst era 2005-2012 Best era. F1 in the 20s has been great so far
Grooved tyres; the wasted years. Couldn't agree more.
We can only wonder how they impacted on the life and career of Alex Zinardi.
Alan McNish is another driver whose dreams were blighted by these aboninations to the sport.
I apologise to the numerous other great drivers who could not adapt to these reprehensible race wreckers.
This is so interesting - I'd always thought of the tyre war as a good thing - diversity, competition; Bridgestone leaving for the hideous Pirellis in 2010 was it? I'd assume was a problem for everyone.
But I guess having too complicated a tyre war, with grooves was a nightmare for drivers to set up their cars.
F1 has always been relatively speaking boring if you arent into it. I have been watching for close to 15 years and have rewatched most of the 90s and 00s and i can say people are extremely biased towards the former eras. Nowadays track action is so much more and much better. You get so many more overtakes. Races are generally more pleasant to watch. Especially years like 2017/18/21/22 had super exiting races and battles. You rarely had any overtakes back in the day. Especially in 2010 i remember there were literally no overtakes. But thats it for the modern era. Everything else goes to the old era. Better looking, sounding, agile cars with cool sponsors, drivers with personalities, many big teams, fantastic engines etc. Also the fans were much cooler. Qualy was super unpredictable and also title fights were usually much closer. There were many variables like fuel loads, tire wars, engine blowouts etc. Nowadays you can kinda expect what will happen and the cars are super consistent. Thats what makes it boring. Even though the races arent really boring
modern overtakes arent exciting when 90% of them are just DRS on straights lol. yes, there were less overtakes back then, but they were much better overtakes. more overtakes=/=more action. the only thing modern f1 has going for it is driver safety
22 was boring af apart from first 2 races.
Amen
@@littletweeter1327yeah better not having overtakes at all cause cars are 30 secs distant each other
@@Palmacry95 I'd rather have that than DRS.
Great interview
The current era is the worst era. The only overtakes are DRS overtakes. There are no long, drawn out battles. A driver can drive a Red Bull or Mercedes, make a mess of qualifying yet still get a podium. Never has F1 been in a worse state.
The quality of racing in MotoGP is so much better.
Nonsense, nonsense and outright fictitious nonsense. Embarrassing little comment.
The best chin in F1 history
Since F1 is switching to 100% sustainable biofuel, the rare metals in the hybrid batteries are the most environmentally damaging parts. Therefore, for the benefit of sustainability and being woke and green, F1 must return to the V10s.
This .
Or 4+ rotaries
@@paultapper9388 we want engines not vacuum cleaners
@@t3hgir You wouldn't say that if you'd heard a Mazda 787B! They sound way better than modern F1 cars.
@@paultapper9388 And you wouldn't say that, if you knew how hard rotaries are to develop.
Worst era came after 2013…the cars straight up suck. They’ve become too big. Racing also sucked…no more racing in the rain as well.
Just like with other sports, movies, music and culture in general.. debates about different eras are just irrelevant arguments between different age groups.. everyone always thinks everything was best when they was in their prime..
I'm 22 and I personally think F1 peaked between 1990 and 2012.
that's a 22 year zone spanning multiple eras some of which were exciting and some which were boring, it's only been 10 years since with several championship fights down to the wire and some amazing races @@ey1615
90s until 2005 was the best time to watch f1 and after 2013 it wasn't f1 anymore. especially nowadays with those hybrids bs trains on tires - the most boring motorsport in history.
Starting with 1987 untillthe Schumi dominance time was the greatest. Schumi dominance made F1 totally boring.
Best era of F1 was 2000-2007.
Stretch that to 09 and you got me
@untrolleuranonyme5404 no, I might stretch it to 08 pending the outcome of Massa's legal challenge. #forzaferrari
2000-2008 cars were great even when the races weren't
then 2009+ ugh...
your opinion is based on personal preference of champion and, as such, is pretty worthless
@@Matthew-bu7fg and if we were to run away and do our own thing, like we nearly did for so long, with V10's, Bridgestone tyres, in race refuelling and monstrous aero packages, it would make FOM's current product worthless.
We are more valuable than the other teams, even without Michael on the top step of the podium. After all, which team had veto vote rights the longest under Bernie?!
There's no question The hybrid V6 Mercedes era. Nothing even comes close to how boring that was
The coverage of f1 made it boring the racing is still the same id even argue the personality of the drivers was more entertaining in the 00s so many different characters coultard both schumachers montoya alonso kimi jenson mika villenuve truli
The first boring year I remember was villeneuve and hill. Then 2013 with seb, then 2014-16 with merc. This year is not on par with how boring and predictable those other years were. AT LEAST it's not RB 1&2 every. Single. Qualy. And. Race...
It was all over by the mid 1970's.
Worst era was Mercedes dominating that was boring as hell
No, because teammate battle, Ferrari and Red bull Was Way worst
Best time im formula 1 90s
2045 when they put robots in the cars and build race tracks on the moon
Very cool this Nigel's son podcast
No relation
Lost interest for years after groved tires. Seemed like anti F1 dream of how fast cars could go. Too many great era of f1, this one could be forgotten
What causes these cars to have such high revs?
Short stroke and really strong springs and lifters
Limited on capacity so more revs can lead to more power.
2012 was the last good modern era season.
for me the best era was 1967-1978... just the best drivers and always with the thought that if you die, you lose your life while doing something you love. none of todays drivers have this and would be scared to drive in such cars and old tracks. also dtm and le mans is just beautiful. f2 and f3 and regional formulas is better and even karting is better than f1
what a gruesome take... I can't imagine wanting to watch a race in which there was a high likelihood that a wreck would result in a death. I thought that was a NASCAR thing.
@@ChuckHickl yeah im also tired of the real men didnt fear death bullshit
So you’d prefer F1 to be more about a lack of regard for one’s own life than actual talent? Pretty fucking weird if you ask me. Where’s the glory to be had in dying as a fully grown man driving a car in a loop for sport? I love driving and motorsport as much as anyone but get real, it’s not that deep.
The best era was 1980s and before.
F1 has been boring for years it's a parade. Cars are too wide, generally tracks too narrow. Sound like hair dryers. DRS takes a skilled overtaking and defending. Źzzzz plenty of other shit too.
1994-2008 were the best. F1 went downhill in case of good lookings from 2009-2016.
Glenn Quegmire is in da house.
For me as fan . The entire turbo hybrid era as been disaster
2014-15 was the worst era of F1 tbh cars, the cars all were so ugly and horrendous
Merc dominance also didn't help
Grooved tires, raised floor, narrow tracks, longer cars, smaller wings, and other
banalities in the name of "Safety" and "Competition." The only stupid rule never
introduced was a heavy ballast for the top 5 cars. That would have killed F-1.
DRS has ruined F1 so easy to overtake
the 2023 F1 Vacum Cleaners are boring
2014-2023. 2021 was the only good year and that was incredible to be fair.
really ?
Last few races of this season have been some of the best I've seen in a long time.
I honestly don't know how people say 2014 was boring when the WDC was decided on the last race. So was 2016. 2017 had a great fight and so did 2018.
2002, 2004, 2011, 2013 and 2015 were much worst years than the Mercedes period and 2022 and 2023 have been miserable to watch for the most part.
I am sorry, but how is today's era not by far the most boring of all. Since 2009 (and the testing ban), we have only had 1 single season in which the constructor's championship came down to the last race (2021), illustrating just how uncompetitive F1 has become. After the 2009 season, where Brawn ran away with the championship, 4 years of Red Bull domination, 7 years of utter Mercedes dominance we are now in year 2 of Red Bull's second reign of terror. This 2 horse monotony was only exacerbated by the unequal driver pairings of Vettel/Webber, Hamilton/Bottas and now obviously Verstappen/Perez.
Best era for competitiveness was by far 2005-2013. Pre 2005 Ferrari domination for 5 years. Some years of Williams in early to mid 90's. Early 90's to late 80's of Mclaren domination. F1 has always and will always have eras like these
2010 to 2013, were awesome seasons.
@@stephencrowley1983 You missed the point of my comment. I was talking about the competitiveness between constructors, i.e. when the WCC decided.
When groove tyres came in was the start of the downfall.. f1 has forgot good or bad it's all about theatre .Sadly no more I quit
Grooved tires were shameful
Bro looks fantastic at the age of 52
Best era in F1 is 1989-2005 it had everything, screaming engines 3.5 3.0 v12 v10 19k rpm top speeds 360 370kmh without help, never knowing when 1 will explode, real fighting, real overtaking, the most beautiful cars and liveries, real fuel, real wheel banging, people dying(even though how sad it was) don't forget the best drivers ever. This all made the greatest era of F1.
They began making mistakes 2006 when they went to 2.4 v8, it went more downhill 2011 introducing drs and fake overtaking, the cars already were ugly as H, only good thing was the blown diffusor, then 2014 all this sh!t with more horrible things, v6 1.6 forced induction can make 1500hp easely, help from 2 electric motors making 300hp and endless torque and no sound, fuel made from flowers and still very ugly cars, this all the total destruction of F1. Still thanks very much woke f1 and woke millenial fans!👏👏👏
"people dying" like thats a positive lmao
@@whitegoodman7465 yes, exactly! even my f1 hero Ayrton Senna.
from 90's to present.
I dont think it was the worst even if ferrari dominated...i think the worst era was 2014-2016...the cars were good for racing but the engines were a joke...
Schumacher era was the most boring for me. Started watching in 89 and the schumacher era, after hakinnen+montoya left, made me stop watching. Eventually got back to f1 when he left the 1st time and not stopped since athough the vettel era and part of Hamilton era was trying
Nothing more boring than the Mercedes era
F1s most boring era was easily 2017-2020
I switched over to Indycar for the most part and found just how much more exciting racing can be. F1, especially now is a snoozefest. They should just have races with Mercedes, Ferrari and Redbull, thats it.
back there even william can be a threat
Coulthard😍
Schumacher was best placed to take advantage of the 94 on refuelling era. He was left foot braking, and this uses loads of fuel but doesn’t matter in the refuelling era as it turns it into a series of sprints. He was embarrassingly fast in ‘94 and the fia had to slow him down . Coulthard was an average driver who still couldn’t master lfb by 1999. He doesn’t talk much about the fiddler brake I think hakkinen was better simple as.
DC's trapz are HUGE 😂😮💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
F1 has mostly been boring from a sporting and a media point of view, since 1991
F1 has turned into K pop for Reddit neck beards
Isn't it now?
From 2018 to Now is the most boring era ever. Its all about trying to save the world 🌎 its absolutely Pathetic
best era was untill 2009 after that f1 so change
maybe take off the rose-tinted glasses
@@MrSkeleton131 no.i dont need f1 now is boring
@@master-kq3nw based
@@t3hgir new rules destroyed f1
Anyone who doesn't say the current era is the worst is delusional lol
2014 was the worst. Cars drove like 2013 cars on a cooldown lap
@rizzo9325 Doesn't matter how slow the cars were, there was a title fight and the racing was better.
Yep the cost cap era where no teams stand a hope in hell of catching up to the leading team and the leading team is and has always been a 1 driver team so.we don't even get a fight between teammates
@@andrewmelton2686 Teammate fights are just going to become detrimental to any team wanting to win a world championship because the gaps between the cars are just extremely tight. If Hamilton or Alonso was Verstappens teammate right now, they would have tripped up one another at some point and Red Bull would have a much smaller lead in both championships. Red Bull are in a almost perfect situation now because they have a driver who can deliver the goods every weekend, a car that has a couple of tenths advantage and a teammate who isn't going to ruin his race.
@windrose5988 Nico Rosberg was a regular race winner who could routinely challenge Lewis on any given weekend and was able to take the lead of the championship multiple times without Lewis having any DNFs to help him. He clearly foughtfor the title all 3 of those years. He won 7 races in a row from 2015-2016 and was more than capable of beating Lewis on merit at times even if Lewis was clearly the better driver. You should try actually learning the history of the sport instead of parroting dumb memes and cliches you hear from casual fans lol
Wrong, hybrid era has been substantially worse
Pay TV killed live F1
The Schumacher era was by far the best 1994-2006
After that f1 was shite and still is now really
Schumacher era was by far the worst. No overtakes, no challenge... great cars but awful drivers overall and no competition. Irvine said it, Coulthard is now saying it and hakkinen already said it. But yeah, a nobody like you knows best. Sure you do...
@@DimitriMoreira
No competition, no challenge, awful drivers? Did you actually watch those seasons?
Those were the hardest ever F1 cars to drive and there was a lot of competition outside of 1996, 2002 and 2004.
Schumacher, Häkkinen, Villeneuve, Hill, Räikkönen, Coulthard, Montoya, Alonso, Button, Barrichello, Frentzen etc. were awful?
@@DimitriMoreirawtf are you spewing!? Utter nonsense
@@ey1615 "The hardest ever F1 cars to drive"
I can imagine the drivers pre traction control and flappy paddle gear changes reading this comment, hilarious.
Do you not realize there was a time where you had to heel 'n' toe, also no traction control?
Want some cake in your face DC? 😝
Max Verstappen *hold my beer* 🍻
Today is horrific. It will be remembered as a boring period with no competition.
david is a red bull bootlicker, modern day RB and max driving a car 1 second a lap faster than the field(plus useless team mate so we are robbed of a team mate battle ) is a million times worse than the era david is talking about.
ratings for races are down and most people find the modern day borefest
DC's neck though
still better than the hybrid era plus the american f1 shitshow we have to endue now..
Cheer's DC!!
Coulthard's head is a very odd shape.
Tire wars are rubbish
too many variables lead to confusion and stupidity
2017 - 2020 was most boring imo. I've been watching since 1994
He knows what he is taking about because he was probably the most boring driver after Barrichello
@karmakazi101 look what he did in Red Bull. Beat by Webber in all season and by Vettel in the Toro Rosso in 2008. Look what Schumacher did in Mercedes losing 3 seasons against Rosberg. Schumacher, Hakinnen & Coulthard were never at the level of Hamilton & Vettel.
Let's be clear, this year has seen a season that was effectively over in JULY. It has been by far the most boring season in history. FIA enabled/colluded in cheating and corruption with Red Bull and this is what we got.
F1 has become a rigged sport, irony being teams are now complaining about the inconsistent rule inforcement. These teams all stayed quiet when Lewis got robbed. Well, you reap what you sow.