Analysis of Formula 1 Race Dynamics

In this whole

area-

Hmm

... there's only one car here who's gone as

aggressive and on his teammate.

Now bear in mind, turn one here, you're gonna see when I fast-forward, is a

90-degree right. He's gonna have no room here.

So Leclerc

is watching his mirror here now as well, 'cause if he backs off for Hamilton there,

he's gonna be vulnerable to Max. You don't wanna be vulnerable to Max

Verstappen.

Okay.

Right. Hamilton now has to give him room for the

next corner, which is here-

Okay

... which is a left, which means Leclerc's gonna have the

inside line for that.

Russell's now hoping they don't collide with him.

Back here, frankly, no one gives a shit.

But what he tried to do was what he did to Max in 2021,

where they, they

put Max wide here, and everyone blamed Max for this.

And I always said from day one, never Max's fault.

Hamilton squeezed him here, caused Max to get back out.

In 2021, they went up the curb, Max landed on top of Hamilton's car,

both out of

the race. He's tried it there, but now compared to '21, there's no curb,

there's

no bump curb here like there used to be.

Mm.

So Leclerc's able to hang it around the outside there.

Now you can see

he's enough-- he's alongside the car, would you agree?

He's enough alongside the car to w- have this corner.

Mm.

Right? Back here.

No one cares.

Okay.

He's in second.

Right. This is called a racing incident in my

opinion.

Anyone who says he forced him off is stupid.

Turn one and two, look how the corners are,

90-degree to the right, would you

agree?

Mm.

Even tighter, the 90-degree left, would you agree?

Mm.

Right. So if you're here, the driver on the inside has every right

to put you

wide. Every right. Someone with his experience should know

I'm going to be put wide

here.

Of course he was put wide,

because who in their right mind wouldn't put you wide? And it is turn one, lap one.

We're not always leaning on penalties because of all the cars going.

There's popcorn in my throat.

What a fucking move by Max and Piastri.

Well, actually, Piastri was attacking Max, but Max knows the one good thing this

Red Bull car can do is when Max is on his brakes.

It's the only thing this car can do.

So Max has used that advantage knowing Piastri's gonna have to go on this curb,

which gives Max this room here. If Max is in this position in his car,

he knows he's got this next corner.

Norris knows if Norris gets his car here alongside, he has the line for this

corner. And so you-- it's a very brave move,

but I like the move.

You have to brave it out there to get this corner. Did the same thing.

Yeah, Charles pushed him off.

No, he didn't.

Didn't push him off. But now because Russell's u-

and Leclerc's used more battery-

Kane and Pierre Gasly-

Watch Gasly

... have gone down from first to third.

Can he get the Ferrari back as we go through Curva Grande?

Like, that's not an overtake

He's got the Ferrari-

Sorry

... and he's got P2

... that's not an overtake. What is that?

That's happened in Formula One all season, and I'm, I'm meant to accept it.

That's not an overtake.

Now, I'm biased. I'm a Max fan.

This is the same situation, so I now can't say great overtake.

Mm-hmm.

Right? But part of me likes it because Max

doing it.

Part of me doesn't like it because it's not a Ferrari,

and part of me hates it because he, Max just pressed the button

and he had more

than Leclerc in this straight. Right? But Max does around the outside of

Leclerc.

Losing power and the position for Max.

I'm gonna ask class, why do they do that?

'Cause the corner is in the other side.

Well, if the corner was here, the cars would stay here,

and this would become the

racing line.

Yeah, because they won't have enough room to

turn-

They don't

... behind it.

What lap are we on? Lap two. This is where, this is where, this

is where the, it

happens, right? Why, why do you not want to overtake here?

But what, what's after this corner?

A straight.

A longer straight. So-

The back straight?

There we go. So if you overtake in this corner,

you're then gonna be vulnerable the

next straight.

Yep.

But Leclerc being the nutter he is, why I likes him, hang, hangs it round the

outside. The problem is he goes too far on the outside.

Actually, look at-- that's interesting. Look how wide Max is.

That's fascinating.

So is he gonna crash now?

You can see, lifting his, his car. He's already lost rear grip.

Is he gonna crash?

He does. He hits the-- he hits the-

Is, is it here where he crashed?

Huh?

Is it here where he crashed?

Yeah, but look, look how-- notice that. Look how wide Max-- Max is wider than him.

Mm.

You'd think with the cars going, okay, he's going this way, he's gonna correct,

but when he corrects at this speed, the car then grips at a sudden stop-

a sudden

rate, so then he over-corrects, and he can't get the second snap,

which is what leads to this.

He can't find his way by each other. Oh, what a wall-up.

See how he goes left to right?

A big moment.

He couldn't get the second snap.