“If you can pass Max safely, take it”: Unheard radio from title rivals’ latest fight

16 comments on ““If you can pass Max safely, take it”: Unheard radio from title rivals’ latest fight”

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   Edvaldo
   29th October 2024, 15:09

   Only way to make a safe pass on Max is to use DRS, and put it in front of him at the braking zone. Otherwise, he’ll brake late and run wide off the track.
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      mystic one (@mysticus)
      29th October 2024, 18:14

      safe and max dont come/fit together too often. this guys has been enabled for years dont think maturity comes naturally by age.
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   Mr B
   29th October 2024, 15:41

   One or two drivers could do with being as smart as Carlos Sainz. Max got a great start, was in a position to pull off a strong and brave racers overtake on Carlos and used all of the circuit to do so. Carlos being the smart racer that he is held on as long as he could before bailing out, rejoining in the lead and when convenient to him handing the place back to Max. He then set about using his clear pace advantage to overtake Max a few laps later and go on to win the race.
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   Broderick Harper (@banbrorace)
   29th October 2024, 21:54

   I’d argue that only Lewis and Feranando can outdo Max and that of course assumes they have the car.

   Sainz is actually the next one – as when he’s on his game, he’s a natural attacker.

   The rest are nowhere near. That’s because they are modern ‘woke’ drivers coming up against someone with the cunning of streetwise fighter, who would have been box office against Senna (they’d basically have taken each other out every race!!)
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      User463
      29th October 2024, 23:19

      What on earth is a ‘woke’ driver?
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      An Sionnach
      29th October 2024, 23:29

      I’m not quite sure about your diagnosis of the other drivers, but there are a fair few of them who don’t know much beyond hot laps and DRS passes. Alonso and Max are the ones who’ve demonstrated that they can race. Sainz can be clumsy in attack and defence sometimes and end up looking a bit like Pérez, blaming everyone else. Russell is also not to be messed with as he does stupid things. Kevin… can be good. There was one example earlier in the year where Lewis came at him and he gave as good as he got until he got the penalty for not moving over! I think Leclerc may be developing more than just his race pace. Let’s see what happens if Max tries to shove him aside again in Vegas. Lewis… there are too many crashes. I can suggest the fix for the slow Mercedes car. It’s because it’s built like a tank so that Lewis and George don’t get any damage when they hit things. Once they work out how to reinforce the car so it can survive contact with the wall, George will be world champion!

      Other than Alonso and Max, I’d say that Piastri, Colapinto and Lawson look the feistiest, and they’re young. Lawson might be a bit more measured than the others, but time will tell.

      Max got it wrong this time around, but generally when he makes his move it works out, even when he’s ridiculously far behind. Above everyone else on the grid, he seems the most able in calculating everything to inch perfection, pulling off moves that would end up in clumsy crashes for others. Still, there are things even he cannot do and should not even try, like the second move on Lando in Mexico, which was a joke. It’s interesting to see the narrative this week. Much of the complaining about Max trawls through a list of technically legal moves. What is the problem, then? Should he move over to let your favourite driver by? I’d like to see Lando do it this year even though if everyone was in the same car, Max would be in another league than everyone else. Lando’s done well and improved over the year. He’s been the next best combination of car and driver, and may be the best after the next few races. It doesn’t matter if that combination has more car than driver in it. That’s the way it is. Lando is definitely the best McLaren driver this year!
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         Mayrton
         30th October 2024, 7:18

         +1 for this analysis.

         there are a fair few of them who don’t know much beyond hot laps and DRS passes.

         this is what bothers me most in F1. The majority of the field is like this, growing up in the processional Mercedes era.

         Much of the complaining about Max trawls through a list of technically legal moves. What is the problem, then? Should he move over to let your favourite driver by?

         I wonder the same. It hasn’t got anything to do with his racing, it’s that people don’t like him because he stopped the impressive Lewis streak and because he is not British.

         Max got it wrong this time around, but generally when he makes his move it works out

         You are right and I think it is plain disrespectful and testimony of poor insight into F1 to not be able to balance this vs the mistakes that of course also do occur from time to time.
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         Tom
         30th October 2024, 8:04

         +1 also
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      Addme (@dontme)
      30th October 2024, 1:19

      I also would like to know what a “woke” driver is. Is that someone who got up early and is very fresh?
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         Ludewig
         31st October 2024, 8:55

         @dontme

         I would argue that these are traits that people with those belief tend to have:
         – Victim mentality
         – Expecting to go through life unchallenged (in the context of F1: DRS passes and people moving aside)
         – Expecting an authority to solve problems for them
         – Very sensitive to criticism
         – Emotionally unstable
   4. 

      Kenneth Jefferson
      30th October 2024, 2:59

      Max is basically schmachmer 2.0 he drives exactly like him Mike wrecked quite a few cars in his day also with the same divebomb get outta my way move they’re both fast & reckless with little patience for other drivers
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      Patrick (@paeschli)
      30th October 2024, 8:19

      If Sainz and Hamilton are so great, why are they behind their teammates in the driver standings?
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         ChrisJ (@chriju0411)
         30th October 2024, 11:50

         Go check again.
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   RUTH222
   30th October 2024, 1:07

   “and he gave as good as he got until he got the penalty for not moving over!”
   He got a penalty for driving himself and Hamilton off the road. That’s not racing, that’s cheating. He himself said he deserved every penalty.

   “Much of the complaining about Max trawls through a list of technically legal moves.”
   It’s not technicaly legal to drive other cars of the road on purpose. It’s never been legal and it never will be legal. It’s also not legal to defend with your car off track.
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      An Sionnach
      30th October 2024, 3:40

      You are putting words in my mouth. I do not like seeing foul play by anyone – Senna, Schumacher, Max or anyone else. Senna gets a blank cheque from many even though he was the worst of the three. In Michael and Max’s case, a lot of the animosity goes beyond what they do on track.
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         Mqrkos
         30th October 2024, 8:59

         Norris should complain less and race harder.

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