If max were to win this championship it would truly make for a dramatic season. Lewis would have to fight in a new era for his 8th title, new challengers like lando and Charles will be challenging at wins too. very interesting stuff
@@jbgamers1627 Even if Mercedes have a really competitive car next year I think a young Russell would be too much to handle for a old Hamilton. I can definitely see a Vettel - Leclerc situation.
@@luciniho1 the difference is Mercedes will always favour Lewis regardless if Russell joins or not. With Ferrari you could sense they were favouring Leclerc massively
@@elianioriofarrell nope only 1st half for some of the races and up till Monza, Ferrari spoiled their development and went backwards as Mercdes had the confidence after captilizing on Ferrari and Vettel's mistakes to be a better car overall at the end of the year and beating Ferrari soundly in the 2nd half.
@@elianioriofarrell Faster or not Ferrari had the faster car in the 1st half of the season and Vettel bottled it with lock ups, crashing out while leading. Ferrari too. This season despite the faster car, Verstappen has achieved 1-2's all the way and DNF's not to his fault and has a clean license and looked untouchable and not giving Lewis an inch or cracking under pressure despite the DNF in Baku, he went on to win more races up till Britian when Lulu crashed into him. Now Lewis cracked under pressure when not getting the faster car despite a solid team behind him. At Imola, Baku, Britian. For now you can see who is the slightly better driver and the one with confidence
I don't think the Redbull the first half of 2021 is better than the Ferrari the first half of 2018 compared to the Mercedes. What ultimately decided the championship 2018 was Hamilton getting extremely lucky around the summer break. Vettel crash in Hockenheim, the rain in quali at Hungary etc. Then followed up that luck with incredible performances in Italy and Singapore (those weekends are the best I've ever seen from Hamilton I believe. Super impressive). Then from Russia onwards Mercedes took a huge step in car performance, and combiened with Ferrari errors, it was smooth sailing from there.
Ferrari were their own biggest rivals, they didnt support Seb enough on and off track and the entire team was in shambles especially after Sergios death
@@silentnight1805 that’s what I mean by “it didn’t matter” he could have driver like a robot perfectly and would have lost. Car was not good enough all season, taking risks and coming out on top each time. Was amazing to watch, Ferrari let him down
IMO, he had to take those risks in 2018 after Hockenheim. The car development went backwards from SIngapore (they had to remove their upgrades) and due to Hockenheim, the points deficit was quite large. Had those risks paid off, he would've managed to take it to the final round. He definitely deserved to win a title in red after those amazing seasons in 15 and 17 though.. :( Just goes to show how good Alonso was in 2012.
@@ctsports__ The car was built around him, and that allowed him to over perform, but the base car was still really good. Had it not been for 3 races in which he had mechanical problems, he surely would've won.
Y’all forgetting that Vettel never had a car with Ferrari that won races by 40+ seconds with Hamilton finishing the race. Verstappen is without a doubt the best currently but don’t underrate Vettel’s performance with the internally toxic Ferrari. Honestly, I think 2017 might be a better example of a better challenge just because Vettel led for like. 14 straight races till Monza.
yeah, tottally agree with u. 2017 is by far seb´s best season with ferrari. Its really a shame what happened in singapore, japan, malasya and etc. 2018 lewis was the better driver and had the better car
@@eduguntzel06 I think 2015 might've been better. But it wasn't a title challenge so it often gets overlooked. I mean he almost got Nico Rosberg in the Championship and this was back early in the hybrid era when Mercedes lapped everyone else.
@@akhilsamavedam7089 Boom I rate the 2015 season as Seb’s best at Ferrari. Like Michael Schumacher in his first Ferrari season, Seb won 3 races in 15. Unlike Michael, who won in the rain in Spain, lucked into wins at Spa and Monza, Seb absolutely stood up in that car and beat the faster mercs fair and square.
@@akhilsamavedam7089 Yeah, its a good one also and i agree with you on this season being overlooked. But in 2017, despite baku, i don´t remember a single big mistake he made, just as 2015, when he made a simple mistake in mexico . BTW in singapore 2017 it was a racing incident in my opinion.
Ya 2017 was way closer throughout. 2018 was nightmarish for Seb even during China, baku, Spain, France, Austria with the grid penalty. That’s before the hellish end to the year. 2017 Seb had a chance to win all of the first 15 races besides maybe England.
If anyone thinks that the number one/two driver thing is new, or even recent, I've got news for you. Go back to the start of F1 in 1950. It started then and was even more obvious. The second driver had to sometimes give their car over to the number one if necessary - mid-race. So this is nothing new. It is also necessary. We don't have to like it, we do have to accept it.
The thing that I find amazing is that even though fans and pretty much everyone says vettel's best chance of winning the title was in 2018, vettel himself said that 2017 was the best chance and closest they got to winning the title. Even though the car in 2017 was slower, vettel was driving perfectly and had it not been for a puncture in Silverstone, the crash in Singapore or the retirement in Japan they could have won. 2018 I do believe the car in the second half was worse in most of the tracks visited, I think vettel has no confidence in the car. Which is why he thought 2017 was better than 2018. Verstappen seem's unstoppable and it seems like Hamilton is the one making the mistakes this time. Can't wait to see the conclusion. I just want the title fight to be close and go down to the very last race.
That's something noticeable when watching Vettel's onboards in 2018. Even in the pole laps, he always seems to countersteer and fight the car to control it. For example, in his Bahrain pole lap, he countersteers constantly, especially in the exit of Turn 8 and 14. On the other hand, he seems much more comfortable in 2017 when it comes to the corner exits. Obviously, I might be speaking nonsense here for I am not an F1 driver, but it's something to think about nonetheless.
Honestly 2017 was his best year to challenge Mercedes to win drivers and constucters but Ferrari were making mistakes and the car was unreliable. Seb was an absolute beast in 2017, going in to 2018 tho confidence was lost a bit.
@@Aurantius_ yeah you right and I think his mistake in Germany clearly put the last touch on breaking his overall confidence in the car and himself as well
I think a lot comes down to Max’s confidence as you say. His performances seem to get better and better, and gains more confidence through that. Vettel had already been the best but had lost that title, so his confidence probably took a beating from that.
People who think the Ferrari was the best car that year are just outright wrong. The Ferrari was the best car in a single race, not across a season. It was a car that was harder to drive and required the utmost concentration to remain in control. Over a season a car that is slightly slower but more driver friendly is going to win, because less of a chance of a lapse in concentration. Vettel had to push that car and himself hard to bring a fight to Mercedes and Lewis. Max has a car that is on equal footing that he can drive just as he is and it is making mercedes have to work for it the whole time.
@@BType13X2 and the main point in my oppinion is that Max has a team behind him. rememver Vettel in his time had a in team fight between Mattia and Maurizio
Bro can I have request as a fan I really regret not watching f1 in early years when schumi was dominating so if you could make segments such as the chapman one and lotus one telling f1 s untold stories it will be great
@@kaustavkapur5532 no, you just can't remember back to when he was dominating the sport. A driver that holds the joint record for wins in a season and sole record for consecutive wins in a row isn't mediocre.
I think it would be very interesting to see how Seb would do in this year's RB, instead of Max. Even if he wouldn't be in his old RB form I think he would still drive more comfortable. Without the Ferrari politics, with a team clearly favoring him and with a more reliable pitcrew I think he'd do better than in 2018. I wouldn't go so far and say that he would win the title undoubtably, but I think we would see a much more confident Sebastian Vettel.
I think that old Seb is gone and now we can just be happy to see him scoring the points. It's really good to see this beautiful things that he does outside the track (cleaning Silverstone, built hotel for bees etc.) and maybe he is not a champion but he became a idol and inspiration for a lot of people.
@@Miriam-ok9ee I don't think he is gone, but I also do not know if we will ever see him again (for a whole season). But for me he is still there and showed it last year in Turkey and of course this year in Azerbaijan. To me the question is if he is going to be able to keep that form over a whole season. But yes you are right, he definitely became an inspiration already.
Ferrari politics is the biggest killer. They shoot themselves in the foot everytime. Ferrari wont get out of their own way. Even then i saw redbull as a better overall TEAM. Redbull mechanics have saved the day several times and ferraris just dropped the ball. Becuz of that i think mclaren beats ferrari this year.
Well Christian Horner told Vettel that he needed to wait with signing with Aston Martin, so there was a real possibility that he could have been driving for RB this year but he signed with aston martin before anything could be done
09:42 Signs of starting to crack under pressure: Locking up into turn 1 at Baku throwing away the win; crashing into the back of another car. Other signs of pressure: Ecstatically celebrating winning the qualification for the sprint, when your opponent subsequently reacts to winning pole position with "yeah good. good job."
Someone at Red Bull needs to tell Max that. But suspect Max would not take too kindly to such advice. How many times do we hear his engineer telling him "to calm down and focus".
If you count 0 points in Imola without red flag (maybe 1 or 2) and 26 for Verstappen, 26 for Verstappen in Baku and another loss of 10 point for Lewis, and maybe a victory at Silverstone, another 7 points. If you want to include Baharain it would be another 7 points, so we get 66 points more for Verstappen and the championship fight would be over with -84 from max
Not to mention his luck in the past. Move to Mercedes Germany 2018 Canada 2019 Bahrain 2019 Russia 2019 Italy 2018 Those are the only recent examples I can think of Glock
Very true. That move on Verstappen was sheer madness on Hamilton's part in the hope that Verstappen would politely move aside and let him pass saying "after you Sir Lewis"! It's evident that Red Bull have a car this year which is nearly on level terms with Mercedes and Verstappen's series of wins has clearly unnerved Hamilton. He's realised that it's not going to be a walk in the park to win the championship this year unlike his previous 6 WDCs with Mercedes.
Red Bull and Verstappen have been very impressive this season but you can never count out Mercedes and Hamilton. The most dominant run of any era in F1 history and a top 5 driver all time no questions asked
Even if he finished p10, then RB would also just get 1 point relatively to merc. The same as taking away the fastest lap. Plus it helped verstappen since it took a point from hamiltons. Safe and logical option.
Yes!!! I was thinking about this and young Sebastian and Max have a similar characters- they are fast, ambitious and confident. I like young Seb more than current Max because Sebastian has better sense of humor 😂😂😂
I wouldn’t blame Seb for taking all these “unnecessary” risks in 2018. I mean how many points Ferrari has costed him in the 3 years prior due to poor strategy and reliability. That’s gotta be in the hundreds
@@isaacmillen8789 he never had the best car. the closest ferrari had to the best car was the first half of 2018 where the ferrari was leveled with the merc. but as soon as monza happened, merc outdeveloped ferrari.
@@marco3943 Merc outdeveloped Ferrari, but Ferrari still had the better car as they started with a significant lead and advantage in development over Mercedes
@@isaacmillen8789 how can ferrari have the better car when merc outdeveloped them throughout the season? ferrari never had any significant advantage over mercedes in the first half. the only issue merc had was the rim and tire issue. but they were able to fix in just a few races. and even with issue they were still pretty much equal with ferrari in the first half. you're not a real f1 fan if you put all the blame on seb. it is true that seb cracked, but he had to risk things in the 2nd half. plus you guys turn a black eye when it comes to ferrari's never ending politics and drama. at the end of the day, ferrari had drivers like prost, massa, alonso, and seb failing to win a title with ferrari. i don't think the drivers are the problem here are they? remember seb was still ahead of rosberg in usa 2015 until rosberg woke up and decided to seriously fight lewis. but remember seb was in an inferior ferrari while lewis and rosberg were in a merc. also 2017, seb committed minimal errors. except for singapore where it was purely a racing incident. but still that ferrari was nowhere near the merc. he dragged that ferrari 40 points near lewis despite the multiple mechanical issues in the 2nd half. don't forget max who also sabotaged seb's race in canada dropping him to the back of the field and forcing him to a comeback to p4. seb would've easily finished p2 there. give seb credit for still giving his best in 2015, 2017, and at least half of 2018. your hatred for seb is biased, as if drivers are supposed to be perfect.
With Mercedes fighting Red Bull and McLaren fighting Ferrari, it is not expected they will stop developing the current cars for a while. This can be really handy to the likes of Aston Martin and Alpine who can write off this season and fully focus on next year's cars while others are in a closer battle and can't simply stop developments.
My take: Seb in 2017 was brilliant, this confidence was par with what max has now. He was performing with a less powerful car, was pulling the team forward, and would have eventually won without the three reliability issues and of course Singapore, which to this day I don't think was a mistake but a racing incident and seb was unfortunate. In 2018, seb was in extra pressure from himself, for full filling his childhood dream, pressure naturally comes from a team like ferrari as well and that Germany crash brought more pressure and then all those crashes/spins were a consequence of taking risks to reduce the gap brought more and more pressure and ultimately lost the fight. I also believe that no matter how good any driver has been, no one can match 2013 seb.
PsYcHoLoGiCaL MoNsTeRs, true that. Punt a fellow driver off in one race and then complain about it being dangerous when someone else holds you up in the next one. A-grade psychological warfare right there.
Exactly what I think, I don't get why people hate on him so much, he's doing everything to win, drivers push limits on the track, directors push limits on the tables
@@60mshexa50 Had he not had reliability and some luck issues, it would have been much more. He didn't have lesser points because of poor performance. He was way more consistent than Seb in the second half.
Great video and great analysis, I Think you did very well in explaining how different situations and Environments seb and max where in. Seb was sorrounded by imo pretty incompetent People, had a ridiculous amount of pressure on him and a car that was good but not consistant enough. Ferrari also made many poor strategy mistakes. And something i suspect also happen is that Seb never could get out any of his frustration due to the Ferrari politics Max on the other hand is sorrounded by some of the best People in f1 history with horner, Albon ( he is working the simulator and picking out max's setups) and Newey. He has a car that is very Good and can perform on all typed of tracks and Most imprtantly suits him. He has a teamate that isn't capable of challenging him and Will sacrifice his own race for max and he has a leader that isn't afraid to use checo like that. And max is young and hungry like Seb in 2010. I Think this is the best chance so far for anyone to beat merc in the turbo hybrid era
I don't think people realise how pivotal that mistake by Hamilton in Baku really was. If he picked up 1st or 2nd there this season would have a completely different feel right now
It is actually for MV to lose this year. He needs to be told he is got the car and skill so he does not take risks or push the car too much like when he had the puncture.
I really don't understand how people think that puncture was Max's fault. Let me give you a timeline. After FP 1 Pirelli examined the tyres and decided to raise the minimum pressure. They knew. Pirelli says the hards will last anywhere between 35 and 40 laps. Strolls tyres explode without any sign of massive wear or drop in pace after about 30 laps on the hards. Verstappen has the same thing happen to him. 32 lap old hards that show no sign of wear just explode on the straight. It wasn't even the right rear that takes most of the load in Baku, but the left rear that went. After this the RB engineer told race direction: "Michael I know you're busy at the moment, but we had zero warning of that. We reccomend letting all teams switch their tyres during red flag for safety purposes". Pirelli even said it wasn't Max's fault.
Progress with Max and Red Bull has brought them to this 2018 like position. The two things that make me feel that RB is winning is that they feel like how HAM and Merc felt in 2018, while HAM and Merc feel like how Ferrari felt in 2018
Even if he wins the title it will mostly be down to luck. To me he has to finish at least 50 points clear for me to acknowledge that he deserved to win. (Unless verstappen finishes a close second while making lots of mistakes and being lucky in the 2nd half)
@@johnayomide4793 Saved from 0 points by 2 red flags (imola and silverstone), which allowed him to get 44 more points. And verstappen DNF'd twice through no fault of his own, which allowed hamilton to jump 50 points. And those are just the major lucky moments.
lewis has been WDC 7 times and a title contender more than 9 times, I really think it would be immature to underestimate him. The first half was bad for him this year, but we have seen him bounce back a lot of time, Max got massive talent now provided a car and the team of course has a big shot at winning this, but still, I think it is due to Lewis's experience, skill and his raw talent( which people now don't give credit for) is still a force to be reckoned with.
2 things I think. RB still builds a better chassis than Ferrari, even in 2018. The RB was just under powered compared to Merc and Ferrari. Secondly, Ferrari just makes way more bad strategy calls than RB does. I blame the team for Seb's wreck in Hochenheim. Forcing Seb to burn up his tires racing his teammate for 20 laps leaving him vulnerable to Lewis on fresher tires that could manage the partly wet and dry track that day. Ferrari just gets it wrong too often.
Sometimes it feels like toto and lewis are more about the mind games, it must be really irritating for them to see max not budging from this , and i really love max’s mental strength i guess that is really needed in this kind of championship fight and this will also help him going further 🦁 🚀
>Max is making less mistakes than Vettel. >Red Bull as a team is making less mistakes than Ferrari. >Hamilton himself is making more mistakes than in 2018 (which was his best season in his career). >In 2018, the Red Bulls were also competitive in some tracks and would get in the way (most of the time of Ferrari) of the 2 contenders from getting more points. While on this season, it's clearly just Red Bull vs Merc. McLaren and Ferrari are not going to fight for victories unless incidents or reliability issues happen to either RB and Merc, where in 2018, the Red Bull ocasionally did have the pace (Brazil, Monaco, Mexico, Austria). Until Monza, Ferrari was the better car in: - Bahrain; China; Baku; Canada; Austria; Germany; Belgium and Monza. Which is 8 tracks out of 14. Monaco and Hungary they were even and Mercedes was better in Australia, Spain, France and Silverstone. And even in all of these tracks, both Ferrari and Merc were still neck and neck. It was only after Singapore where the Merc upgrades kicked in. Singapore, Japan, Russia, Brazil and Abu Dhabi, the Mercedes was better, in most of these by a larger margin than what Ferrari had in the 1st half. Ferrari was only better in USA and Mexico, but Ferrari, in a few tracks where it was better than Mercedes (Mexico and Monaco for example), it wasn't the best car either, it was Red Bull, so getting that bigger 7+ point advantage over Mercedes was going to be harder. Vettel made the car count in Bahrain, Canada and Belgium and also capitalized in Australia and Silverstone. However, Vettel had bad luck in a race he was dominating in Baku with the timing of a SC that allowed Bottas to move in front of him, which led to his mistake happening. In China he was crashed by Max and then the Red Bulls also saw a huge advantage with a safety car for a tyre change that allowed them to win. Vettel crashed in Germany... Vettel got a penalty in Austria qualifying (more of Ferrari's fault for not warning him) and then he had the incident with Hamilton in Monza and even in USA, he qualified 2nd but got a penalty for speeding in red flag during qualifying which demoted him to 5th or 6th, in Japan they sent Vettel with inters when the track was still dry and then it was too late to put a good time on qualy because it started to rain... Pretty much all a combination of car/team/driver that simply was not what Red Bull has been showing this year. So far the RB has been better in Bahrain, Monaco, Baku, Austria/Austria and France. While Mercedes was better in Imola, Portugal, Spain and Silverstone. With the only big differences between them being in Austria (2x), the others were all neck and neck. So, it also looks like the RB, on top of being better in everything (driver form, team management), it also does seem to have a slightly better car against Merc compared to Ferrari in the 1st half of 2018. PS: Had Vettel kept his 2017 form, he would've won 2018 IMO. He had an even better, IMO MUCH better car compared to Merc than in 2017 but his form and mentality just were not up to par that season... He had 0 spins and even had among the best wheel to wheel and overtakes in 2017, yet it was the complete opposite in 2018. In fact, in 2018 Seb didn't even had to deal with reliabilities while he had massive ones in 2017, and again, he still finished a lot closer to Lewis in 2017 than in 2018, and Lewis himself had 0 DNFs in 2017 and suffered a reliability issue in 2018. So yes, driver form in 2018 was a big impact, but the all-around environment from Ferrari also has an impact on how the driver performs in the 1st place. 2018 was the 1st season I saw Seb making mistakes race in race out... Not a single season before have I seen Seb did as many mistakes as he did in 2018. Ferrari definitely had an impact on his performance... But again, that also shows his mental strength, which IMO is not better than Hamilton's. People can talk about Alonso in his Ferrari years still being "up there" and whatnot, but let's not forget that the Ferrari team was LITERALLY just for him... Ferrari made illegal team orders in 2010 to give Alonso a win... Ferrari in 2012 even went as far as to change a gearbox on Massa to give a better grid slot to Alonso. I never saw Ferrari dealing with Kimi on such EXTREMES to benefit Vettel like I saw with Massa during the Alonso years there in Ferrari.
Immagine how this title battle would look if Lewis did not have such amazing luck, he's been saved once by a safety car and once by a red flag after making race ending mistakes.
@@imtiredlmaooooooooo At Mercedes he has had some great luck but he wasn’t nearly as lucky in his McLaren days. It’s almost as if the luck he has now perfectly compensates for the bad luck he often had at McLaren 😂
@@giizodamulla7492 You can still give credit while pointing out something that isn’t false. I mean he has got lucky, but that doesn’t take away from all the times his skill was a major factor.
According to me:- 1. Ferrari were never there for seb when he needed their support the most 2. Mercedes' new rims which reduced tire wear by a lot and helped them significantly 3. Losing the front wing in germany before the crash 4. Binnoto's developments didn't help the car and they even started to develop the car according to Kimi by making it slightly oversteery. 5. Mercedes never lost their cool and were always there for Lewis. 6. Vettel was not happy (I had to include this xD) 7. Continuous development by the technical team of mercedes in a positive way.
The fact that you can justify the favoritism of RedBull towards Max, goes to show why the other drivers are struggling, because if we can see it from the distance of our T. V Screens, then inside RedBull it must be hard for them (other drivers)
Max is hungrier then Vettel, as he still has to win his first WDC. He is also younger and fitter with a better car package. Red Bull are also superior to Ferrari in the way they run their team. They have the technical and managerial staff, that Ferrari once had during Schumacher's era.
Glad to see this video, I feel like this is the first real challenge to Mercedes in the turbo hybrid era... and I think Max has more potential and better mental game than Seb did at his peak at Ferrari.
I think Max could have won every grand prix. In spain and Bahrain he was really close. In Portugal he was not far of the pace of the mercedes. And in Baku and Silverstone he got unlucky. Looking what Lewis could have done more, I don't think he could have done much more. Perhaps Monaco he could have done better. But for the rest he couldn't challenge Max. Imagine Max would have won in baku and finished on the podium in Silverstone. The gap could have been around 50 points. So in some way we are still lucky that it is so close.
As much as I dislike Lewis, this just goes to show how good he really is. He's just doing his thing while other drivers have to make superhuman leaps in performance to just barely keep him at bay.
Tbh, he has been lucky to be that close. He made terrible mistakes in imola and baku , understeered into max in british GP. Without considering his luck and max's bad luck, he would be 40-50 points behind max.
Nice video mate and some good points although I think you may have made it 1 race too early. We'll find out this weekend in Hungary if Max's really unbreakable like Seb (4 WDC). This race is going to be soooo importantly to the title challenge and I really can't wait.
Max is a better driver than Seb. I like Seb a lot but we’ve seen witih his struggles against Ricciardo in 2014 and LeClerc the last two year that he can only maximize a car that suits him. Max appears to be in a class with only Alonso in being able to maximize any car he’s driving. We saw it last year when the Red Bull was clearly slower than the Merc by 0.5 second or more but Max was able to split or outqualify the Mercs occasionally in qualifying which was remarkable. Max also is like Alonso in being on the podium consistently even when he is not in the fastest car on race pace or starting out of position. That consistency is key to winning the title.
@Avicii Forever Ricciardo won 3 races and Seb didn’t win any in 2014 which took a lot of the shine off his championships in my book. In the right car, Seb is a beast but he’s not as complete as Max or Fernando.
I think you are right , its a testament to LH that he could win the BGP , his 99th not having the best car. His execution of the dummy and chasing down Leclerc showed his talent is not in decline. RB have the better car and a great driver, Merc have the lesser car and the GOAT , RB should win the title this year .
but as we all know hamiltion first I am not hamilton fan (you might have heard this many times from many people) but he just delivers so consistently on every race (with a bit of merc assitance) that everyone has to face lewis to become the champion like every time a diffrent driver tries to challenge title fight lewis is the guy who is the biggest wall in fron of them like in 2014 danny then rest years seb now max lewis is still the no 1 tile contender with merc (every year) which is quite a big achievment
I think current Ferrari management and drivers would have won in 2018, they finally have a new strategist this year who's proven himself massively since France with great strategy. Also the majority of their pitstops this year have been maybe 3rd best overall. Also Laurent Mekies is great at weekend and personal management. Plus both drivers this year are performing on a high level. Say what you want about Mattia Binotto but he's finally put the right people in the right places.
Finally! A practical outlook to the number 2 driver position. Would redbull pit Checo had he been running 2nd behind Leclerc or even 1st after overtaking him? He's just not good enough tbh. For me, Bottas remains the world's best number 2 driver! And Toto would be working against the interests of Mercedes if they replace Bottas with Russel.
I feel like Verstappen has this attitude on track that "it is my position and you have to take it from me." This is clear by his elbows out driving style but Hamilton has the maturity to back out of a crash to possibly challenge Max later in the race. The mentality of a champion losing a battle to win the war. I am rooting for Max but acknowledge that he is the aggressor and will not back out for future possibilities during a GP. Add in the development of 2022 race cars and long term planning for success, in addition to creating a thrilling season.... Max will take the championship but Mercedes is looking long term. What a good sport to watch
this is why i have a little worry on red bull right now at this point after silverstone (both championships blown wide open). If red bull over develop this year's car causing next year's car slow as hell just like what happen in 2014, they are screwed
Lewis and Max are so so close talent wise that whoever has the better car will win, that simple. Mercedes’ wins have been from excellent strategy whereas whenever Red Bull mirror them, they end up winning with ease e.g. Austrian and Styrian Grand Prix
Max has got better conditions to fight because of his car and team than seb, but I believe the main difference is the driver. Max has been flawless and unstoppable this year, hope he bags it
I never truly believed Vettel would the title in 2017/2018 even though the car was good enough especially in 2018. See always had a bit of a tendency to make little errors even back in the Red Bull days when he was a bit immature and petulant. But he's much more mature these days and doing ok at Aston Martin. But max does look very good and made minimal errors so far this season. I can see the title fight going down to the wire, it's a shame the finale will be in Abu Dhabi and not Brazil.
ok but Vettel was stronger in 2017 than 2018 and brought an actual challenge up until Singapore where he lost all chances. And in 2017 the car of the Ferrari was the better chassis but the merc engine was much more powerful than ferrari’s. Vettel’s challenge was very different compared to Max’s this year
@@adampetten5349 Vettel also DNF’d at Singapore and Japan, he had to start from the back of the grid in malaysia due to the DNF at singapore cause his replacement engine didnt run properly, and had the tire failure at the British GP where he lost a lot of points. He could have been much closer than where he ended up. Another thing that has derailed both of Vettel’s title challenges is the way the Ferrari failed to respond to the Mercedes car developments
@@ransomsdp Vettel in his prime was possibly one of the best drivers to be in the sport so possibly, but as of now, Verstappen is the better driver, and he shows it with his incredible consistency this year he has finished either first or second in every race he has finished and the two races he dnf’d he would have won one and possibly won the second
Even after Silverstone and Hungary, I STILL think Max is the title favorite. Yes, Lewis leads. But he leads by a margin that can be closed simply by handling business. It's a 7 point swing from P1 to P2 in a race and we have almost half a season left. This might as well be a dead heat into the second half.
So, a thought exercise. If on the restart, Hamilton is the only one out there, and none of the other cars can go until he passes the pit lane because they all dove into the pits, and grands prix are fixed by time, what if Hilton had just stood at the start finish line and quite literally ran out the clock? Or a less extreme example, if he thought rain was going to come again, could he have sat there until it came again. And all his rivals are on slicks but he at least is on inters. The first corner would turn into a doozy.
Say what you will of the Silverstone incident and how much of it was caused by Lewis, Max would have benefitted from being a lot less aggressive and settling for second, at least in the first stint of the race where it was obvious Lewis was going to drive like a madman. it would have made his championship position a whole lot more comfortable not to mention better for his safety and the car.
The other factor is that Lewis is busy going to the phase after his prime. Not there yet but on his way. Max is still building to his prime. This WDC will come down to who makes the least amount of mistakes and who can capitalize when the other driver makes a mistake. Max couldn't capitalize at Imola because Lewis got lucky. At Baku Lewis made a mistake. At Silverstone Max got the short end of the stick and Lewis capitalizes
Luck is having the FIA remove DRS, the W12 would have wiped the floor with the RB16b with it. F1 should be about engineering first and close racing an after thought. Watch other series for the same spec boredom that has close racing.
Disagree with what you said about 2018 title fight, the passing of Sergio Marchionne was one of the reason. I do agree that Seb was bit down in 2and half but Ferrari updates made their car slow and they review it in US gp and then kimi fought for win
Hamilton has the best luck I have seen. I am pretty sure the luck will give him additional 20-30 points this year. Max will have to be "perfect" to win
Lewis is awesome under pressure but past championships have shown that Lewis believes his talent can overcome any deficit. When the car is slower like in the maclaren days against red bull, or this year with the Mercedes not quite as well rounded as the red bull, he will tend to overdrive the car and the errors start to creep in. So this is great for doing the odd unexpected pole position or win but when the competition is as close as max, a little bit of Alonso patience is in order. Alonso almost won two championship just racking up second places and watching other drivers bad luck and mistakes. Didn’t work though, he always missed the championship by a fistful of points in the end.
Imagine if Perez does exactly the same to Lewis what Lewis did to Max in future GPs in 2021 ... the moment Lewis takes the outer corner racing line and the Perez the inside corner-racing-line very close to Lewis, with some dirt on the road + under steer + maybe some tire issues it can “look like” unintentional ... then getting “10 seconds penalty” .... Lewis DNF and Perez & Max get the points ... let that sink in for a moment ... to realize HOW Lewis fans would react if this happens in GP Zandvoort The Netherlands and the Dutch Fans shout: “karma is bytch” ... to Lewis ...celebrating JUSTICE + playing the Music Video: “Max Max Max Super Max” with 2,4 million views already ... By the way who cares what anyone’s “opinions” are ... the verdict is GUILTY by the experts knowing about how to manage risks in a ±300 Km/hr corner ... otherwise they call it “just an incident” which it clearly wasn’t ... If it were in reverse like Max did exactly the same to Lewis they would call Max “aggressive” taking unnecessary risks etc. etc. Dutch Fans know the British fans hypocrisy all too well sir. Lewis Hamilton missed his own apex line that is a FACT ... NOT because Max was "aggressive" ... Lewis should have slowed down (because he was NOT in the lead, and try to pass Max elsewhere) Slowing down in a 300Kmph corner IS WHAT ALL DO if you are behind some one, but he didn't because he "felt the power of the 120,000K+ British fans" cheering for him and he KNEW if he did not what he did ... he would most likely not be able to win the race! Just like what happened in the Sprint Race. cheers, John Kuhles
If max were to win this championship it would truly make for a dramatic season. Lewis would have to fight in a new era for his 8th title, new challengers like lando and Charles will be challenging at wins too. very interesting stuff
This is Lewis last chance to win the 8th I believe
@@jbgamers1627 Even if Mercedes have a really competitive car next year I think a young Russell would be too much to handle for a old Hamilton. I can definitely see a Vettel - Leclerc situation.
@@jbgamers1627 George, Charles, Sainz Max, Lando
@@luciniho1 the difference is Mercedes will always favour Lewis regardless if Russell joins or not. With Ferrari you could sense they were favouring Leclerc massively
@@lukesheeeed You're probably right. But if Russell is as good as I think he is, Mercedes can't afford to favour Lewis.
Better car, less mistake from team and driver, better strategy
Exactly
2018 ferrari was the fastest tbh
@@elianioriofarrell nope only 1st half for some of the races and up till Monza, Ferrari spoiled their development and went backwards as Mercdes had the confidence after captilizing on Ferrari and Vettel's mistakes to be a better car overall at the end of the year and beating Ferrari soundly in the 2nd half.
@@elianioriofarrell Faster or not Ferrari had the faster car in the 1st half of the season and Vettel bottled it with lock ups, crashing out while leading. Ferrari too. This season despite the faster car, Verstappen has achieved 1-2's all the way and DNF's not to his fault and has a clean license and looked untouchable and not giving Lewis an inch or cracking under pressure despite the DNF in Baku, he went on to win more races up till Britian when Lulu crashed into him. Now Lewis cracked under pressure when not getting the faster car despite a solid team behind him. At Imola, Baku, Britian. For now you can see who is the slightly better driver and the one with confidence
I don't think the Redbull the first half of 2021 is better than the Ferrari the first half of 2018 compared to the Mercedes. What ultimately decided the championship 2018 was Hamilton getting extremely lucky around the summer break. Vettel crash in Hockenheim, the rain in quali at Hungary etc. Then followed up that luck with incredible performances in Italy and Singapore (those weekends are the best I've ever seen from Hamilton I believe. Super impressive).
Then from Russia onwards Mercedes took a huge step in car performance, and combiened with Ferrari errors, it was smooth sailing from there.
Ferrari were their own biggest rivals, they didnt support Seb enough on and off track and the entire team was in shambles especially after Sergios death
The politics at that team have always been toxic. Enough to even push Nikki Lauda, Nigel Mansell, and Alain Prost away.
Vettel had a poor season in 18’. Risked far too much, but he was absolutely on it in 17 when it didn’t matter how good he was 😞
It did matter. The 2017 season was lost on reliability in three straight races. No mistakes from Seb all season.
@@silentnight1805 that’s what I mean by “it didn’t matter” he could have driver like a robot perfectly and would have lost. Car was not good enough all season, taking risks and coming out on top each time. Was amazing to watch, Ferrari let him down
IMO, he had to take those risks in 2018 after Hockenheim. The car development went backwards from SIngapore (they had to remove their upgrades) and due to Hockenheim, the points deficit was quite large. Had those risks paid off, he would've managed to take it to the final round. He definitely deserved to win a title in red after those amazing seasons in 15 and 17 though.. :(
Just goes to show how good Alonso was in 2012.
2017 seb was in his prime at ferrari
@@ctsports__ The car was built around him, and that allowed him to over perform, but the base car was still really good. Had it not been for 3 races in which he had mechanical problems, he surely would've won.
Y’all forgetting that Vettel never had a car with Ferrari that won races by 40+ seconds with Hamilton finishing the race. Verstappen is without a doubt the best currently but don’t underrate Vettel’s performance with the internally toxic Ferrari. Honestly, I think 2017 might be a better example of a better challenge just because Vettel led for like. 14 straight races till Monza.
yeah, tottally agree with u. 2017 is by far seb´s best season with ferrari. Its really a shame what happened in singapore, japan, malasya and etc. 2018 lewis was the better driver and had the better car
@@eduguntzel06 I think 2015 might've been better. But it wasn't a title challenge so it often gets overlooked. I mean he almost got Nico Rosberg in the Championship and this was back early in the hybrid era when Mercedes lapped everyone else.
@@akhilsamavedam7089
Boom
I rate the 2015 season as Seb’s best at Ferrari. Like Michael Schumacher in his first Ferrari season, Seb won 3 races in 15. Unlike Michael, who won in the rain in Spain, lucked into wins at Spa and Monza, Seb absolutely stood up in that car and beat the faster mercs fair and square.
@@akhilsamavedam7089 Yeah, its a good one also and i agree with you on this season being overlooked. But in 2017, despite baku, i don´t remember a single big mistake he made, just as 2015, when he made a simple mistake in mexico . BTW in singapore 2017 it was a racing incident in my opinion.
Ya 2017 was way closer throughout. 2018 was nightmarish for Seb even during China, baku, Spain, France, Austria with the grid penalty. That’s before the hellish end to the year. 2017 Seb had a chance to win all of the first 15 races besides maybe England.
If anyone thinks that the number one/two driver thing is new, or even recent, I've got news for you. Go back to the start of F1 in 1950. It started then and was even more obvious. The second driver had to sometimes give their car over to the number one if necessary - mid-race. So this is nothing new. It is also necessary. We don't have to like it, we do have to accept it.
Yes I've seen old footage of Fangio swapping cars with teammate when his broke down.
Very correct.
No we don't have to accept shit it's forbidden
But but I would like to see checo wins championship like nico when he was driver for Mercedes
Precisely history already showed best way to fight for championships is to go with a clear no.1
The thing that I find amazing is that even though fans and pretty much everyone says vettel's best chance of winning the title was in 2018, vettel himself said that 2017 was the best chance and closest they got to winning the title. Even though the car in 2017 was slower, vettel was driving perfectly and had it not been for a puncture in Silverstone, the crash in Singapore or the retirement in Japan they could have won. 2018 I do believe the car in the second half was worse in most of the tracks visited, I think vettel has no confidence in the car. Which is why he thought 2017 was better than 2018.
Verstappen seem's unstoppable and it seems like Hamilton is the one making the mistakes this time. Can't wait to see the conclusion. I just want the title fight to be close and go down to the very last race.
That's something noticeable when watching Vettel's onboards in 2018. Even in the pole laps, he always seems to countersteer and fight the car to control it. For example, in his Bahrain pole lap, he countersteers constantly, especially in the exit of Turn 8 and 14. On the other hand, he seems much more comfortable in 2017 when it comes to the corner exits. Obviously, I might be speaking nonsense here for I am not an F1 driver, but it's something to think about nonetheless.
Honestly 2017 was his best year to challenge Mercedes to win drivers and constucters but Ferrari were making mistakes and the car was unreliable. Seb was an absolute beast in 2017, going in to 2018 tho confidence was lost a bit.
@@Aurantius_ yeah you right and I think his mistake in Germany clearly put the last touch on breaking his overall confidence in the car and himself as well
in the 2017 season he was 40 points behind hamilton and in 2018, he was over 100 points behind, so that pretty much sums it up
I think a lot comes down to Max’s confidence as you say. His performances seem to get better and better, and gains more confidence through that. Vettel had already been the best but had lost that title, so his confidence probably took a beating from that.
People who think the Ferrari was the best car that year are just outright wrong. The Ferrari was the best car in a single race, not across a season. It was a car that was harder to drive and required the utmost concentration to remain in control. Over a season a car that is slightly slower but more driver friendly is going to win, because less of a chance of a lapse in concentration. Vettel had to push that car and himself hard to bring a fight to Mercedes and Lewis. Max has a car that is on equal footing that he can drive just as he is and it is making mercedes have to work for it the whole time.
@@BType13X2 and the main point in my oppinion is that Max has a team behind him. rememver Vettel in his time had a in team fight between Mattia and Maurizio
Can you do a video of the silent battle for third in the championship
yup, i’d love an insight into the perez vs norris vs bottas battle
Do you mean third in the drivers championship (Lando v Checo v Bottas) or third in the constructors championship (Ferrari v Mclaren)?
@@afonsodinis6346 I would like both.
@@cppienaar8951 me too..
@@afonsodinis6346 I would like both, but i was referring to the constructors battle
Bro can I have request as a fan I really regret not watching f1 in early years when schumi was dominating so if you could make segments such as the chapman one and lotus one telling f1 s untold stories it will be great
Better car with a situation where Mercedes can't outdevelop the other.
Simple as Fuck that just the problem.... It not like Mercedes are weak all of a sudden they aren't developing that car..
better driver, sebastian is mediocre for a champion.
@@kaustavkapur5532 golf is a great sport
@@carlolongobardi3369 what the hell?
@@kaustavkapur5532 no, you just can't remember back to when he was dominating the sport.
A driver that holds the joint record for wins in a season and sole record for consecutive wins in a row isn't mediocre.
I think it would be very interesting to see how Seb would do in this year's RB, instead of Max. Even if he wouldn't be in his old RB form I think he would still drive more comfortable. Without the Ferrari politics, with a team clearly favoring him and with a more reliable pitcrew I think he'd do better than in 2018. I wouldn't go so far and say that he would win the title undoubtably, but I think we would see a much more confident Sebastian Vettel.
I think that old Seb is gone and now we can just be happy to see him scoring the points. It's really good to see this beautiful things that he does outside the track (cleaning Silverstone, built hotel for bees etc.) and maybe he is not a champion but he became a idol and inspiration for a lot of people.
@@Miriam-ok9ee
I don't think he is gone, but I also do not know if we will ever see him again (for a whole season). But for me he is still there and showed it last year in Turkey and of course this year in Azerbaijan.
To me the question is if he is going to be able to keep that form over a whole season.
But yes you are right, he definitely became an inspiration already.
Ferrari politics is the biggest killer. They shoot themselves in the foot everytime. Ferrari wont get out of their own way. Even then i saw redbull as a better overall TEAM. Redbull mechanics have saved the day several times and ferraris just dropped the ball. Becuz of that i think mclaren beats ferrari this year.
@@pranc236 so true man
Well Christian Horner told Vettel that he needed to wait with signing with Aston Martin, so there was a real possibility that he could have been driving for RB this year but he signed with aston martin before anything could be done
09:42 Signs of starting to crack under pressure: Locking up into turn 1 at Baku throwing away the win; crashing into the back of another car. Other signs of pressure: Ecstatically celebrating winning the qualification for the sprint, when your opponent subsequently reacts to winning pole position with "yeah good. good job."
Well observed..max seems so calm and mature..as if he expects it's normal to win ..champion attitude 👌🏻
Imola and Silverstone beg to
differ.
Would love to see Leclerc in this title fight aswell. He is as good as Hamilton and Verstappen.
Still some time for that i think
Sainz is by far a better driver
But that tractor is not allowing him to bit sad
Leclerc is good but he hasnt proved he's as good as Lewis and Max yet, at least consistently
2022
Imagine being a car maker and getting outperformed by some drinks company led by a guy who married a spice girl
Imagine being the most Historic, and Famous Team with the biggest budget, and not having won a championship since 2008!!!😂😂😂
@@gds0574 McLaren are definitely not the most historic team
@@snowmc7991 no hes talking about ferrari
@@snowmc7991 -Ferrari
imagine being mercedes and call yourself a car maker
Redbull should focus on every sprint and try to bag that 3points......those are very important
Consistency and lack of mistakes is everything.
Max just has to avoid personal errors like Hockenheim 2018..just finish each race
Someone at Red Bull needs to tell Max that. But suspect Max would not take too kindly to such advice. How many times do we hear his engineer telling him "to calm down and focus".
Brilliant! I hope Max can keep this momentum going. Really looking forward to seeing him in Hungary now more than ever
Hamilton has been insanely lucky this season, max should've been 75 points clear already.
He’s been saved by two red flags, one of which he caused himself. The track limits in bahrain also helped him massively
@@syndicategaming1668 and verstappens baku tyre
If you count 0 points in Imola without red flag (maybe 1 or 2) and 26 for Verstappen, 26 for Verstappen in Baku and another loss of 10 point for Lewis, and maybe a victory at Silverstone, another 7 points. If you want to include Baharain it would be another 7 points, so we get 66 points more for Verstappen and the championship fight would be over with -84 from max
Not to mention his luck in the past.
Move to Mercedes
Germany 2018
Canada 2019
Bahrain 2019
Russia 2019
Italy 2018
Those are the only recent examples I can think of
Glock
Very true. That move on Verstappen was sheer madness on Hamilton's part in the hope that Verstappen would politely move aside and let him pass saying "after you Sir Lewis"! It's evident that Red Bull have a car this year which is nearly on level terms with Mercedes and Verstappen's series of wins has clearly unnerved Hamilton. He's realised that it's not going to be a walk in the park to win the championship this year unlike his previous 6 WDCs with Mercedes.
I cant believe Charles has the same amount of poles as lewis this season
he had the most poles in 2019
He's just a beast
We’ll see how Hamilton performs after the break and then we predict
THey will keep crashing rbr lol
Red Bull and Verstappen have been very impressive this season but you can never count out Mercedes and Hamilton. The most dominant run of any era in F1 history and a top 5 driver all time no questions asked
Perez in Silverstone hadnt any chance to finish p10 in order to take the 1 point. He was at least 8 secs behind when he pitted for the fastest lap
He didn't get that one point, but he took one point away from hamilton.
Even if he finished p10, then RB would also just get 1 point relatively to merc. The same as taking away the fastest lap. Plus it helped verstappen since it took a point from hamiltons. Safe and logical option.
Max is literally the next Vettel... Look at Vettel when he was Max age...
Yes!!! I was thinking about this and young Sebastian and Max have a similar characters- they are fast, ambitious and confident. I like young Seb more than current Max because Sebastian has better sense of humor 😂😂😂
don't jinx him, max is a verstappen in the rain like Jos the b0ss
Well let’s see:
Mistakes by max:
Monza ( Debateable)
Mistakes by Lewis:
Sochi : hitting wall in quali
Imola : hittting wall
Baku: brake magic
Monaco : just crap overall
Silverstone : hitting max ( debatable)
I wouldn’t blame Seb for taking all these “unnecessary” risks in 2018. I mean how many points Ferrari has costed him in the 3 years prior due to poor strategy and reliability. That’s gotta be in the hundreds
Basically none tbh, he had the best car and just bottled it
@@isaacmillen8789 he never had the best car. the closest ferrari had to the best car was the first half of 2018 where the ferrari was leveled with the merc. but as soon as monza happened, merc outdeveloped ferrari.
@@marco3943 Merc outdeveloped Ferrari, but Ferrari still had the better car as they started with a significant lead and advantage in development over Mercedes
@@isaacmillen8789 how can ferrari have the better car when merc outdeveloped them throughout the season? ferrari never had any significant advantage over mercedes in the first half. the only issue merc had was the rim and tire issue. but they were able to fix in just a few races. and even with issue they were still pretty much equal with ferrari in the first half. you're not a real f1 fan if you put all the blame on seb. it is true that seb cracked, but he had to risk things in the 2nd half. plus you guys turn a black eye when it comes to ferrari's never ending politics and drama. at the end of the day, ferrari had drivers like prost, massa, alonso, and seb failing to win a title with ferrari. i don't think the drivers are the problem here are they? remember seb was still ahead of rosberg in usa 2015 until rosberg woke up and decided to seriously fight lewis. but remember seb was in an inferior ferrari while lewis and rosberg were in a merc. also 2017, seb committed minimal errors. except for singapore where it was purely a racing incident. but still that ferrari was nowhere near the merc. he dragged that ferrari 40 points near lewis despite the multiple mechanical issues in the 2nd half. don't forget max who also sabotaged seb's race in canada dropping him to the back of the field and forcing him to a comeback to p4. seb would've easily finished p2 there. give seb credit for still giving his best in 2015, 2017, and at least half of 2018. your hatred for seb is biased, as if drivers are supposed to be perfect.
@@isaacmillen8789 merc out developed them and still they had the better car , your own statement is contradictory.
With Mercedes fighting Red Bull and McLaren fighting Ferrari, it is not expected they will stop developing the current cars for a while. This can be really handy to the likes of Aston Martin and Alpine who can
write off this season and fully focus on next year's cars while others are in a closer battle and can't simply stop developments.
My take:
Seb in 2017 was brilliant, this confidence was par with what max has now. He was performing with a less powerful car, was pulling the team forward, and would have eventually won without the three reliability issues and of course Singapore, which to this day I don't think was a mistake but a racing incident and seb was unfortunate.
In 2018, seb was in extra pressure from himself, for full filling his childhood dream, pressure naturally comes from a team like ferrari as well and that Germany crash brought more pressure and then all those crashes/spins were a consequence of taking risks to reduce the gap brought more and more pressure and ultimately lost the fight.
I also believe that no matter how good any driver has been, no one can match 2013 seb.
All we gotta remind of is that mercedes and Hamilton are true monsters (psychological monsters) on and off track
Who fucking cares.
PsYcHoLoGiCaL MoNsTeRs, true that. Punt a fellow driver off in one race and then complain about it being dangerous when someone else holds you up in the next one. A-grade psychological warfare right there.
10:34 is a Fernando 2012 reference😅😁. Loved it.
I respect the way Christian fights tooth and nail for his team. He is one the best leader's in the game.
Exactly what I think, I don't get why people hate on him so much, he's doing everything to win, drivers push limits on the track, directors push limits on the tables
this year want to see Red bull Honda winning the title after long domination of Mercedes
It might cuck their 2022 cause less time to develop the car
Me too. It would be a reward for all their efforts and also Max his efforts so far.
It will be a long time coming for Honda, excluding Brawn GP ofc (Honda made the plans but 2008 crisis happened)
I would argue Seb in 2017 had a better chance at the title than 2018
Vettel was practicing for dancing with the stars in 2018 with all the 360's he pulled when the slightest pressure was put on by Lewis.
And one top that if we're talking about driver performance, Kimi was much closer to Seb in 2018, than Bottas and Perez to Hamilton and Max nowadays.
How kimi had 251 points were vettel had around 330
@@60mshexa50 Had he not had reliability and some luck issues, it would have been much more. He didn't have lesser points because of poor performance. He was way more consistent than Seb in the second half.
@@artadhyay5462 Exactly Might be that year Kimi even much closer to Hamilton if he is the No1driver in the team
the gap was even bigger between seb and lewis after hungary 2017
Great video and great analysis, I Think you did very well in explaining how different situations and Environments seb and max where in.
Seb was sorrounded by imo pretty incompetent People, had a ridiculous amount of pressure on him and a car that was good but not consistant enough. Ferrari also made many poor strategy mistakes.
And something i suspect also happen is that Seb never could get out any of his frustration due to the Ferrari politics
Max on the other hand is sorrounded by some of the best People in f1 history with horner, Albon ( he is working the simulator and picking out max's setups) and Newey. He has a car that is very Good and can perform on all typed of tracks and Most imprtantly suits him. He has a teamate that isn't capable of challenging him and Will sacrifice his own race for max and he has a leader that isn't afraid to use checo like that.
And max is young and hungry like Seb in 2010. I Think this is the best chance so far for anyone to beat merc in the turbo hybrid era
Remember what happened to Seb in the title fight with Hamilton it also happened with Rosberg it’s starting with Max 🤨
I don't think people realise how pivotal that mistake by Hamilton in Baku really was. If he picked up 1st or 2nd there this season would have a completely different feel right now
Yes, Sod's Law "if something is going to go wrong, it will go wrong and at the worst possible time"
It is actually for MV to lose this year. He needs to be told he is got the car and skill so he does not take risks or push the car too much like when he had the puncture.
I really don't understand how people think that puncture was Max's fault. Let me give you a timeline. After FP 1 Pirelli examined the tyres and decided to raise the minimum pressure. They knew. Pirelli says the hards will last anywhere between 35 and 40 laps. Strolls tyres explode without any sign of massive wear or drop in pace after about 30 laps on the hards. Verstappen has the same thing happen to him. 32 lap old hards that show no sign of wear just explode on the straight. It wasn't even the right rear that takes most of the load in Baku, but the left rear that went. After this the RB engineer told race direction: "Michael I know you're busy at the moment, but we had zero warning of that. We reccomend letting all teams switch their tyres during red flag for safety purposes". Pirelli even said it wasn't Max's fault.
Man, i just cannot look at the picture in the thumbnail. It is so heartbreaking
And recently a lot of page on Instagram decided to remaind us this race 😂😂😂
@@Miriam-ok9ee yep😑😑
Progress with Max and Red Bull has brought them to this 2018 like position. The two things that make me feel that RB is winning is that they feel like how HAM and Merc felt in 2018, while HAM and Merc feel like how Ferrari felt in 2018
Everyone's a gangsta until Lewis Hamilton arrives grandly after the summer break .
Destiny is here or should I say I am
judging by past history, i'm not so sure
unless he is part of the McLaren master🅱️lan
Even if he wins the title it will mostly be down to luck. To me he has to finish at least 50 points clear for me to acknowledge that he deserved to win. (Unless verstappen finishes a close second while making lots of mistakes and being lucky in the 2nd half)
@@barbonson_richards 😂😂😂even if he finish 100pts fanboys like you still say luck! 🤣it obvious
@@johnayomide4793 Saved from 0 points by 2 red flags (imola and silverstone), which allowed him to get 44 more points. And verstappen DNF'd twice through no fault of his own, which allowed hamilton to jump 50 points.
And those are just the major lucky moments.
lewis has been WDC 7 times and a title contender more than 9 times, I really think it would be immature to underestimate him. The first half was bad for him this year, but we have seen him bounce back a lot of time, Max got massive talent now provided a car and the team of course has a big shot at winning this, but still, I think it is due to Lewis's experience, skill and his raw talent( which people now don't give credit for) is still a force to be reckoned with.
2 things I think. RB still builds a better chassis than Ferrari, even in 2018. The RB was just under powered compared to Merc and Ferrari. Secondly, Ferrari just makes way more bad strategy calls than RB does. I blame the team for Seb's wreck in Hochenheim. Forcing Seb to burn up his tires racing his teammate for 20 laps leaving him vulnerable to Lewis on fresher tires that could manage the partly wet and dry track that day. Ferrari just gets it wrong too often.
Reliability was horrible for RedBull
Sometimes it feels like toto and lewis are more about the mind games, it must be really irritating for them to see max not budging from this , and i really love max’s mental strength i guess that is really needed in this kind of championship fight and this will also help him going further 🦁 🚀
Max just couldnt be less bothered by lulu's mind games. perfect nemisis
@@aryanthacker 💯
Back in 2018, Lewis Hamilton had Niki Lauda around to keep his head cool.
Today, Max Verstappen has Jos Verstappen to keep his head cool and focused.
>Max is making less mistakes than Vettel.
>Red Bull as a team is making less mistakes than Ferrari.
>Hamilton himself is making more mistakes than in 2018 (which was his best season in his career).
>In 2018, the Red Bulls were also competitive in some tracks and would get in the way (most of the time of Ferrari) of the 2 contenders from getting more points. While on this season, it's clearly just Red Bull vs Merc. McLaren and Ferrari are not going to fight for victories unless incidents or reliability issues happen to either RB and Merc, where in 2018, the Red Bull ocasionally did have the pace (Brazil, Monaco, Mexico, Austria).
Until Monza, Ferrari was the better car in:
- Bahrain; China; Baku; Canada; Austria; Germany; Belgium and Monza. Which is 8 tracks out of 14. Monaco and Hungary they were even and Mercedes was better in Australia, Spain, France and Silverstone. And even in all of these tracks, both Ferrari and Merc were still neck and neck. It was only after Singapore where the Merc upgrades kicked in. Singapore, Japan, Russia, Brazil and Abu Dhabi, the Mercedes was better, in most of these by a larger margin than what Ferrari had in the 1st half. Ferrari was only better in USA and Mexico, but Ferrari, in a few tracks where it was better than Mercedes (Mexico and Monaco for example), it wasn't the best car either, it was Red Bull, so getting that bigger 7+ point advantage over Mercedes was going to be harder.
Vettel made the car count in Bahrain, Canada and Belgium and also capitalized in Australia and Silverstone.
However, Vettel had bad luck in a race he was dominating in Baku with the timing of a SC that allowed Bottas to move in front of him, which led to his mistake happening.
In China he was crashed by Max and then the Red Bulls also saw a huge advantage with a safety car for a tyre change that allowed them to win.
Vettel crashed in Germany... Vettel got a penalty in Austria qualifying (more of Ferrari's fault for not warning him) and then he had the incident with Hamilton in Monza and even in USA, he qualified 2nd but got a penalty for speeding in red flag during qualifying which demoted him to 5th or 6th, in Japan they sent Vettel with inters when the track was still dry and then it was too late to put a good time on qualy because it started to rain... Pretty much all a combination of car/team/driver that simply was not what Red Bull has been showing this year.
So far the RB has been better in Bahrain, Monaco, Baku, Austria/Austria and France. While Mercedes was better in Imola, Portugal, Spain and Silverstone. With the only big differences between them being in Austria (2x), the others were all neck and neck.
So, it also looks like the RB, on top of being better in everything (driver form, team management), it also does seem to have a slightly better car against Merc compared to Ferrari in the 1st half of 2018.
PS: Had Vettel kept his 2017 form, he would've won 2018 IMO. He had an even better, IMO MUCH better car compared to Merc than in 2017 but his form and mentality just were not up to par that season... He had 0 spins and even had among the best wheel to wheel and overtakes in 2017, yet it was the complete opposite in 2018. In fact, in 2018 Seb didn't even had to deal with reliabilities while he had massive ones in 2017, and again, he still finished a lot closer to Lewis in 2017 than in 2018, and Lewis himself had 0 DNFs in 2017 and suffered a reliability issue in 2018.
So yes, driver form in 2018 was a big impact, but the all-around environment from Ferrari also has an impact on how the driver performs in the 1st place. 2018 was the 1st season I saw Seb making mistakes race in race out... Not a single season before have I seen Seb did as many mistakes as he did in 2018. Ferrari definitely had an impact on his performance... But again, that also shows his mental strength, which IMO is not better than Hamilton's.
People can talk about Alonso in his Ferrari years still being "up there" and whatnot, but let's not forget that the Ferrari team was LITERALLY just for him... Ferrari made illegal team orders in 2010 to give Alonso a win... Ferrari in 2012 even went as far as to change a gearbox on Massa to give a better grid slot to Alonso. I never saw Ferrari dealing with Kimi on such EXTREMES to benefit Vettel like I saw with Massa during the Alonso years there in Ferrari.
If anything, I think it is Lewis who is under pressure this season. Max is just so relaxed and confident.
hmm yes
similar to 2016 and 2007 me thinks
Immagine how this title battle would look if Lewis did not have such amazing luck, he's been saved once by a safety car and once by a red flag after making race ending mistakes.
As much as he is super skilled and I’ll never take that away. Im his whole carrer he has been super lucky at times but he still deserves credit
@@imtiredlmaooooooooo At Mercedes he has had some great luck but he wasn’t nearly as lucky in his McLaren days. It’s almost as if the luck he has now perfectly compensates for the bad luck he often had at McLaren 😂
Seriously? A 7 time world champion?
Some people are just pathetic
@@giizodamulla7492 You can still give credit while pointing out something that isn’t false. I mean he has got lucky, but that doesn’t take away from all the times his skill was a major factor.
@@SchruteFarms has trying to say he's lucky to be a 7 time world champion. How stupid is that?
Max isn't looking like he's going to crack... but Horner already has.
Horny is a crackhead
According to me:-
1. Ferrari were never there for seb when he needed their support the most
2. Mercedes' new rims which reduced tire wear by a lot and helped them significantly
3. Losing the front wing in germany before the crash
4. Binnoto's developments didn't help the car and they even started to develop the car according to Kimi by making it slightly oversteery.
5. Mercedes never lost their cool and were always there for Lewis.
6. Vettel was not happy (I had to include this xD)
7. Continuous development by the technical team of mercedes in a positive way.
Imagine deleting ur reply ganesan :(
The fact that you can justify the favoritism of RedBull towards Max, goes to show why the other drivers are struggling, because if we can see it from the distance of our T. V Screens, then inside RedBull it must be hard for them (other drivers)
Max is hungrier then Vettel, as he still has to win his first WDC. He is also younger and fitter with a better car package. Red Bull are also superior to Ferrari in the way they run their team. They have the technical and managerial staff, that Ferrari once had during Schumacher's era.
Glad to see this video, I feel like this is the first real challenge to Mercedes in the turbo hybrid era... and I think Max has more potential and better mental game than Seb did at his peak at Ferrari.
Seb Locks up in Baku (cracking under pressure), Lewis locks up in Baku (just a mistake)
People’s minds
Aldas jinxed Verstappen after creating this video
Max lost another race and lead in championship.
Damn Aldas is badluck
I think Max could have won every grand prix. In spain and Bahrain he was really close. In Portugal he was not far of the pace of the mercedes. And in Baku and Silverstone he got unlucky. Looking what Lewis could have done more, I don't think he could have done much more. Perhaps Monaco he could have done better. But for the rest he couldn't challenge Max.
Imagine Max would have won in baku and finished on the podium in Silverstone. The gap could have been around 50 points. So in some way we are still lucky that it is so close.
The gap would have been 27 points to be honest. Do some math
You put your videos together very well man
I mean the structure
How you make the transitions
How you start how you end
Amazing
I think people really underrate Hamilton’s mental game which have won him most of his titles. He’s just a beast under pressure 🙌
I think everyone knows he does well under pressure. But so does Max. Excited for Hungary.
don't forget about his car
Agreed.
Never underestimate Sir Hamilton
Yeah We have seen how despo he become when someone is slapping his butt and crashing into max
@@GAMINGANDTECHGEEKGTG 🤣🤣🤣You think??
As much as I dislike Lewis, this just goes to show how good he really is. He's just doing his thing while other drivers have to make superhuman leaps in performance to just barely keep him at bay.
Idk man max is making it look easy so far
Tbh, he has been lucky to be that close. He made terrible mistakes in imola and baku , understeered into max in british GP. Without considering his luck and max's bad luck, he would be 40-50 points behind max.
Marko and Horner are winners. They make the right people cry
Nice video mate and some good points although I think you may have made it 1 race too early. We'll find out this weekend in Hungary if Max's really unbreakable like Seb (4 WDC). This race is going to be soooo importantly to the title challenge and I really can't wait.
If Ferrari knew how to manage the team and drivers they would have won in 2018 and seb would have been a 5 time world champion
And Hamilton would only be a 6x
I’d say they have a better shot at the 2017 title because seb led the championship up until Monza, after that reliability cost him the title
you make great videos. i realy appreciate them.
Max is a better driver than Seb. I like Seb a lot but we’ve seen witih his struggles against Ricciardo in 2014 and LeClerc the last two year that he can only maximize a car that suits him. Max appears to be in a class with only Alonso in being able to maximize any car he’s driving. We saw it last year when the Red Bull was clearly slower than the Merc by 0.5 second or more but Max was able to split or outqualify the Mercs occasionally in qualifying which was remarkable. Max also is like Alonso in being on the podium consistently even when he is not in the fastest car on race pace or starting out of position. That consistency is key to winning the title.
@Avicii Forever Ricciardo won 3 races and Seb didn’t win any in 2014 which took a lot of the shine off his championships in my book. In the right car, Seb is a beast but he’s not as complete as Max or Fernando.
Vettel is better than Verstappen and that’s a fact. Vettel (with a car suited to his driving style) would demolish Verstappen
So many good points were made in this video.
I dont agree with the fact that redbull got a better car. Because its only Max, his teamates never performed as well or even close
congrats on 100k!!!!!
Please don't use that 2018 germany vettel crash pic, it still hurt's man😣
Although i am lewis fan i think max is gonna win the championship! He’s been so good 💥
I think you are right , its a testament to LH that he could win the BGP , his 99th not having the best car. His execution of the dummy and chasing down Leclerc showed his talent is not in decline. RB have the better car and a great driver, Merc have the lesser car and the GOAT , RB should win the title this year .
but as we all know hamiltion
first I am not hamilton fan (you might have heard this many times from many people)
but he just delivers so consistently on every race (with a bit of merc assitance) that everyone has to face lewis to become the champion like
every time a diffrent driver tries to challenge title fight lewis is the guy who is the biggest wall in fron of them
like in 2014 danny
then rest years seb
now max lewis is still the no 1 tile contender with merc (every year) which is quite a big achievment
I think current Ferrari management and drivers would have won in 2018, they finally have a new strategist this year who's proven himself massively since France with great strategy. Also the majority of their pitstops this year have been maybe 3rd best overall. Also Laurent Mekies is great at weekend and personal management. Plus both drivers this year are performing on a high level. Say what you want about Mattia Binotto but he's finally put the right people in the right places.
Yeah agree
Finally! A practical outlook to the number 2 driver position. Would redbull pit Checo had he been running 2nd behind Leclerc or even 1st after overtaking him? He's just not good enough tbh. For me, Bottas remains the world's best number 2 driver! And Toto would be working against the interests of Mercedes if they replace Bottas with Russel.
Honda has been powering up
I feel like Verstappen has this attitude on track that "it is my position and you have to take it from me." This is clear by his elbows out driving style but Hamilton has the maturity to back out of a crash to possibly challenge Max later in the race. The mentality of a champion losing a battle to win the war. I am rooting for Max but acknowledge that he is the aggressor and will not back out for future possibilities during a GP. Add in the development of 2022 race cars and long term planning for success, in addition to creating a thrilling season.... Max will take the championship but Mercedes is looking long term. What a good sport to watch
this is why i have a little worry on red bull right now at this point after silverstone (both championships blown wide open). If red bull over develop this year's car causing next year's car slow as hell just like what happen in 2014, they are screwed
Lewis and Max are so so close talent wise that whoever has the better car will win, that simple. Mercedes’ wins have been from excellent strategy whereas whenever Red Bull mirror them, they end up winning with ease e.g. Austrian and Styrian Grand Prix
Simple Verstappen had the best car by some distance this year. Vettel did on occasions only in 2018.
I think we could only really say that Verstappen will or will not crack under pressure after the summer break
Max has got better conditions to fight because of his car and team than seb, but I believe the main difference is the driver. Max has been flawless and unstoppable this year, hope he bags it
What a great episode. Thank you
1:52 Fernando Alonso: Am I a yoke to you?
Couldn't agree more with everything you said 🙂
I never truly believed Vettel would the title in 2017/2018 even though the car was good enough especially in 2018. See always had a bit of a tendency to make little errors even back in the Red Bull days when he was a bit immature and petulant. But he's much more mature these days and doing ok at Aston Martin. But max does look very good and made minimal errors so far this season. I can see the title fight going down to the wire, it's a shame the finale will be in Abu Dhabi and not Brazil.
ok but Vettel was stronger in 2017 than 2018 and brought an actual challenge up until Singapore where he lost all chances. And in 2017 the car of the Ferrari was the better chassis but the merc engine was much more powerful than ferrari’s. Vettel’s challenge was very different compared to Max’s this year
Vettel was much closer to Bottas than Hamilton in points in 2017.
Vettel is a better driver than Verstappen (my opinion)
@@adampetten5349 Vettel also DNF’d at Singapore and Japan, he had to start from the back of the grid in malaysia due to the DNF at singapore cause his replacement engine didnt run properly, and had the tire failure at the British GP where he lost a lot of points. He could have been much closer than where he ended up. Another thing that has derailed both of Vettel’s title challenges is the way the Ferrari failed to respond to the Mercedes car developments
@@ransomsdp Vettel in his prime was possibly one of the best drivers to be in the sport so possibly, but as of now, Verstappen is the better driver, and he shows it with his incredible consistency this year he has finished either first or second in every race he has finished and the two races he dnf’d he would have won one and possibly won the second
Even after Silverstone and Hungary, I STILL think Max is the title favorite. Yes, Lewis leads. But he leads by a margin that can be closed simply by handling business. It's a 7 point swing from P1 to P2 in a race and we have almost half a season left. This might as well be a dead heat into the second half.
So, a thought exercise. If on the restart, Hamilton is the only one out there, and none of the other cars can go until he passes the pit lane because they all dove into the pits, and grands prix are fixed by time, what if Hilton had just stood at the start finish line and quite literally ran out the clock? Or a less extreme example, if he thought rain was going to come again, could he have sat there until it came again. And all his rivals are on slicks but he at least is on inters. The first corner would turn into a doozy.
Say what you will of the Silverstone incident and how much of it was caused by Lewis, Max would have benefitted from being a lot less aggressive and settling for second, at least in the first stint of the race where it was obvious Lewis was going to drive like a madman. it would have made his championship position a whole lot more comfortable not to mention better for his safety and the car.
Can’t you say the same for Lewis
Nice music 🎶 👌,, brings the video to life
SUPER MAX
The other factor is that Lewis is busy going to the phase after his prime. Not there yet but on his way. Max is still building to his prime. This WDC will come down to who makes the least amount of mistakes and who can capitalize when the other driver makes a mistake.
Max couldn't capitalize at Imola because Lewis got lucky. At Baku Lewis made a mistake. At Silverstone Max got the short end of the stick and Lewis capitalizes
Helmut and Christian calling lawyers every time Lewis and Max touch.
Luck is having the FIA remove DRS, the W12 would have wiped the floor with the RB16b with it. F1 should be about engineering first and close racing an after thought. Watch other series for the same spec boredom that has close racing.
DAS*
Disagree with what you said about 2018 title fight, the passing of Sergio Marchionne was one of the reason. I do agree that Seb was bit down in 2and half but Ferrari updates made their car slow and they review it in US gp and then kimi fought for win
So WDC's gonna be determined by Checo vs VB.
Very interesting analysis of the difference between 2018 and 2021.
Hamilton has the best luck I have seen. I am pretty sure the luck will give him additional 20-30 points this year. Max will have to be "perfect" to win
Even now he is still in the title race
Hopefully a change will happen (ykmin)
Better car relative to merc than seb ever had
Team who don't mess up
Everything the team has on him
Lewis is awesome under pressure but past championships have shown that Lewis believes his talent can overcome any deficit. When the car is slower like in the maclaren days against red bull, or this year with the Mercedes not quite as well rounded as the red bull, he will tend to overdrive the car and the errors start to creep in.
So this is great for doing the odd unexpected pole position or win but when the competition is as close as max, a little bit of Alonso patience is in order.
Alonso almost won two championship just racking up second places and watching other drivers bad luck and mistakes.
Didn’t work though, he always missed the championship by a fistful of points in the end.
Imagine if Perez does exactly the same to Lewis what Lewis did to Max in future GPs in 2021 ... the moment Lewis takes the outer corner racing line and the Perez the inside corner-racing-line very close to Lewis, with some dirt on the road + under steer + maybe some tire issues it can “look like” unintentional ... then getting “10 seconds penalty” .... Lewis DNF and Perez & Max get the points ... let that sink in for a moment ... to realize HOW Lewis fans would react if this happens in GP Zandvoort The Netherlands and the Dutch Fans shout: “karma is bytch” ... to Lewis ...celebrating JUSTICE + playing the Music Video: “Max Max Max Super Max” with 2,4 million views already ...
By the way who cares what anyone’s “opinions” are ... the verdict is GUILTY by the experts knowing about how to manage risks in a ±300 Km/hr corner ... otherwise they call it “just an incident” which it clearly wasn’t ... If it were in reverse like Max did exactly the same to Lewis they would call Max “aggressive” taking unnecessary risks etc. etc.
Dutch Fans know the British fans hypocrisy all too well sir.
Lewis Hamilton missed his own apex line that is a FACT ... NOT because Max was "aggressive" ... Lewis should have slowed down (because he was NOT in the lead, and try to pass Max elsewhere) Slowing down in a 300Kmph corner IS WHAT ALL DO if you are behind some one, but he didn't because he "felt the power of the 120,000K+ British fans" cheering for him and he KNEW if he did not what he did ... he would most likely not be able to win the race! Just like what happened in the Sprint Race.
cheers,
John Kuhles