I'm sure you've seen some of the videos, but there are some great recent in car videos of Max owning the track; I'll put a couple below anyway -- it's difficult to find one without that annoying Max Verstappen song overpaying the video.I can't stand Lewis Hamilton's whiney ass, but I feel bad for him this week. His bulldog of 13 years, Roscoe crossed the rainbow bridge. For any dog or pet person, that's a traumatic event.
In happier news, Max Verstappen racing GT3 cars is going like you'd expect: He punks the entire field. Destroys them.
RIP Roscoe.
Max is growing on me with these side quests of his. Here's one more vid about him on the 'Ring:
I've had much the same view. You captured it well. I could never really put my finger on it, he's always been a phenomenal driver -- it's literally in his blood -- but there was also something there that made it hard to like him. Maybe he's changed/changing. Maybe I'm seeing him a bit differently now.When I returned to F1 in 2022 I saw him as some entitled Dutch dickhead driving a Red Bull which is obnoxious enough in its own right. 2023 rolls around with some of his temper tantrums and I really didn't like the guy. He had the best car in the game so of course he'll put in superlative races and qualifying.
Last year though, I started seeing him as just a blunt, no BS guy off the track. On the track I watched him take an underperforming Red Bull to yet another WDC and was candid in his interviews about the car and team. Then the cursing incident occurred and Max iced the press after that one race. I saw a guy raising another man's child who by all accounts the 3 parents have a solid relationship for their daughter's sake. A man Max replaced in F1 and Max himself being the recipient of quite a bit of abuse as a child; Penelope is adored in the paddock.
And his personality remains unchanged.
On track he kept a tractor for much of 2025 and put in amazing laps and races. The dude is a generational talent and if he retired today I'd have to consider him one of the top 5 drivers of all time in F1. Personally, I'd love to see him go to another team, log another WDC, and then retire. Max could have won the 2023 WDC with the Merc or Ferrari, he is a phenomenal talent.
Uh oh. What did I miss?Fuck Lando Norris. Bitch ass bitch.
OK, I'm caught up now. What a dipshit move.Fuck Lando Norris. Bitch ass bitch.
Well, I'll help you get started a bit. Rule #1: Don't crash into your own teammate.I watched F1 so I could be a knowledgeable contributor in this thread. It didn't work.
Norris got up the inside of Piastri at Turn 3, but then made contact with the Red Bull of Max Verstappen ahead, with his reaction to that initial collision sending him right and into his team-mate, with the heavy wheel-to-wheel hit almost sending the Australian into the barrier.
It was a bone headed to be sure. Lando claims it was just racing, but it was an ill-timed, poorly executed, and forced move that didn't need to happen when it did. I won't be quite as hard on him as you overall, but agree wholeheartedly with your tunnel.vision assessment.After yesterday I put Lando in with the likes of Hamilton, Colapinto, and Stroll though to be fair two have talent and two do not.
If you watch Lando's in car views the incident (inchident) looks like good, hard racing. If you watch LeClerc's in car view Lando looks bad. If you watch the overhead, Lando looks like ass. You can see him brake late and move to gain position on Piastri. Good move. The problem I see is Lando forgets Verstappen is there, Lando's so focused on beating Piastri to the apex he ignores or forgets there are other cars on the track. You can see this in the way he taps Verstappen's rear and then jerks the wheel to the right. Piastri avoids a wreck through lightning reflexes and just a little bit of room to the wall; indeed, Piastri nearly hit the wall as a result.
I'm not the only one:
Lando Norris-Oscar Piastri Singapore GP collision has changed ground rules in F1 title battle, says Martin Brundle
If you go back to Canada Lando did the same thing but on a straight: he focused on a gap that didn't exist and crashed his car. Lando has a track record of tunnel vision when passing other cars. Whereas in Canada Lando took responsibility, yesterday in Singapore he treated it as hard racing.
Where it gets infuriating is the team supports Lando's assertion nothing was wrong with the move, but 1 meter is a mile in this case because a meter's different in braking causes a massive, massive crash.
Minus qualifying, Lando is a good driver with a clear track. Put him in traffic and every pass is a roll of the dice.
Piastri has to stop being a little bitch. I'm all in on the lad, but his attitude over the last two races is dogshit. That said, his manager is Mark "Multi 21" Webber and after yesterday I think Papaya Rules is all but dead, now Multi 81 is the order of the day.
As an aside, I think if you watched it on F1TV you saw a case of the announcers being gagged by production and forced to take Lando's side. That was disgusting.
It was a bone headed to be sure. Lando claims it was just racing, but it was an ill-timed, poorly executed, and forced move that didn't need to happen when it did. I won't be quite as hard on him as you overall, but agree wholeheartedly with your tunnel.vision assessment.
I would've loved to have heard Max's radio call after that. He's certainly willing to take risks, but they seem much more calculated, smarter...
Did any of you catch the DTM championship race at Hockenheim over the weekend? Awesome final lap battle.