Max Verstappen

kizdan, Bas Jaski, and furoni banned until Monday for personal attacks.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Karma perhaps ?

It looks like the Max Verstappen subject is as volatile as the Lewis Hamilton's one. Clearly these guy are stirring up more passion on the Ferrari forum than Vettel !!!

 

Ciao Andrew, perhaps in the heat of the moment but a little hars descision...Imo Bas is quite informative and the others also contribute relevant info in the F1 thread.

Well perhaps you can reconsider your descision as during the race we need some unbiased input

Ciao
Oscar

 

Your comments don't help

 

Juan-Manuel Fantango has been given a 24 hour ban for P&R out of bounds.

Oscar,

I gave them a few days instead of a month each. The lack of their input during the race is their fault for failure to behave as gentlemen, not mine for enforcing the rules of the forum.

How informative any given poster is considered to be does not excuse personal attacks. The bans will be served to completion.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Max has certainly livened the sport up a notch, and got people talking. In a similar way to when Gilles arrived in F1. Fortunately Max has not yet had crashes with similar consequences as Gilles' accidents. For that we should all be grateful.

I am certain MV will be a Ferrari pilot before he's 30.

 

I think Max kept his nose clean after trying valiantly to pass Bottas in the 1-2 complex. I assume he was under strict orders to finish the race. He acquitted himself well by gaining a well deserved podium.

 

Verstappen did Canadian GP "on his own" after Red Bull talks - Horner

 

Verstappen still a child says Villeneuve

JUNE 11, 2018


Jacques Villeneuve has hit out at Max Verstappen for threatening to "head butt" journalists in Montreal.

On Thursday ahead of the Canadian grand prix, struggling Red Bull driver Verstappen issued the threat when asked about his spate of recent crashes.

"The journalist's role is to report facts, even if Verstappen answered the question a hundred times," Villeneuve told Le Journal de Montreal.

"The responsibility of the driver is to answer -- if the question is justified. But Verstappen had no right to take offense and react in that way," he added.

"You need to be aware of your mistakes in order to progress, and he has not done that. Instead he showed a lack of respect and education.

"In some ways he is still a child. He was dragged out of the cradle and put into a car. That's probably why he is not at Ricciardo's level and even looks bad.

"If Red Bull considers him to be the future, he must beat his teammate. In the meantime, the opposite is true. He is overrated," Villeneuve concluded.

 

Jacqie, the question was already asked and answered...

2ndly has no one ever noticed that ALL drivers tend to be ruder to the newspaper lot compared to say the guys from Autosport asking a question?

 

With all the talks and comments on how Max is/was not learning from his mistakes (which I partly understand) I saw an article about this and how high he would have been in the standing without those issues. it was third and only a few handfuls away from the nr one position.

Now imagine that Max continues the way he drives from now on. That will make him a serious outsider the championship.

Taking history into account, Ferrari might not be able to maintain there current strength ( or Vettel might collapse again..)
And on top Mercedes is struggling at least more than they did the last four years.


If indeed Max has grown up by now, something that most seems to want, than he could be a serious contender. Remember, we have still 14 races to go.

 

Max drove an excellent race. The kind of racing he should be driving a majority of the time. This, I would think will help him put the earlier problems behind him. We shall see of course.

 

It has been reported that Max Verstappen attended the Canadian GP without his usual entourage; his "management" team and his family.
He did so on the advice of Christian Horner, apparently, and he was calmer and less stressed all weekend.
Having an interfering father in the pits all the time must put some pressure on Max, and perhaps goes against the team's wishes.
After Max' first win, Jos Verstappen said his son had reached maturity and didn't need his coaching anymore.
But his presence was still felt in the background, and he was also seen commentating every aspect of the proceedings during a race week end.
Maybe Horner thought that Max' close followers had a distracting effect on him, or probably were putting too much pressure?

 

Nothing to see here.

So much BS again, Max Verstappen was already attending races alone since the beginning of last season.

 

I've seen his father in the pits a LOT

 

One of the reasons it’s being talked about is because Christian Horner mentioned it...IOW, it may have been happening, but for whatever reason, CH attached some change of mindset to the fact that it was the case last weekend.

 

I'm sure I've seen him at nearly all races in Max's career. He missed one at some point last year and that became ''news''.

 

That must have been when he was arrested for assaulting another guy while drunk.

 

I think that was Jos and his dad...

But not the same weekend.

 

Nope, he actually and deliberatly didn't go to more than a couple of races last year.

 

This isn't the place to discuss Brexit. Please use the P&R forum. Posts deleted.

No bans applied on this occasion. Happy Father's Day.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

With the risk of being called a fanboy i really think that, with all the talks about leclerc being the savior for Ferrari, Ferrari should had put ALL their efforts in getting Max on board.
The display today, again, showed that despite all the new talents around, Max is truly from a different leage. Driving an underpowered Red Bull and still achieving all he does ( including really wrecking Rici, who was just a few years ago regarded amongst the highest) makes MAX to the one that every team should be aiming for in signing.

I'm sure next year Leclerc will do oke, and Vettel will too. But if you want to win, you simply need something special.

 

Really have to agree here. I'm sure Verstappen has a performance clause in his contract, so if Honda fails to deliver he's a free man. Though it's a big step to take, leaving Red Bull into the mess that is Ferrari.

Whilst Verstappen makes the odd mistake, I don't think he'll have made the ones that Vettel has made.

Verstappen had a storming drive again. Frankly, he made Vettel's and Lewis' drives (in better cars) from back to the front end look rather...amateuristic. He passed with supreme conviction and most where made without DRS.

Whilst I give Ricciardo a pass (moving to another team, I believe Singapore was the last time he was allowed inside crucial team meetings regarding parts and whatnot), he really did wipe the floor with him. The drive was special. How he made those tyres last is beyond me.

 

Verstappen should eat a bit of humble pie and accept that he owes part of his performance today to his RENAULT pu ( aka TAG-Heuer).
No doubt encouraged by the Red Bull management, he has been vociferously criticising Renault all season for his lack of results.
I can't wait for next year, to see if the Honda unit brings him more success.
I wouldn't bet on it...

 

Strong performance, of course, but bear in mind that he had nothing to lose in taking risks.

Verstappen wasn't fighting for the championship so has no responsability on his shoulders like Hamilton or Vettel.

Whatever happens they will put the blame on Renault anyway !!