wiktor977 wrote: ↑09 Jul 2025, 14:34
I'm not taking anything away from Max and his mega talent, but I think he would struggle in a different car than a very pointy and direct RB.
You are 100% trying to take away something from Max, and thinking that Max is only doing well in a 'pointy and direct' RB when that car has been anything but that in the past few years sure is something. Heck, even with the dominant 2023 car, that car was mighty, but it was still not 'pointy' in any kind of relative sense. Still fairly sluggish at the front, even though it had enough overall downforce and grip and importantly
balance to give a driver confidence. The 2024 and 2025 cars have offered good downforce and all, and same sort of understeery front end, but without the same level of predictable and consistent balance that the 2022 and 2023 cars had.
Really though, Max has excelled in ANY car he's driven, which includes several different regulations in F1 at this point. Suggesting that there's any situation that Max would outright 'struggle' in is pretty wild. He's clearly been demonstrating in recent times how incredibly adaptable and able he is to make the most of imperfect machinery not to his taste.
If anything, I think where Max would be less dominating is simply in a much better car where he has teammates who wouldn't be floundering so hard because they aren't exceptional like Max is in driving around imperfections.
