all they need is simply a more consistent driver than Stroll. had he just a be a bit more consistent they couldve beaten McLaren in the standings at least
Look, i wish i could also be like Shattered child Horner wanting Mummy Verstappen and Daddy Riccardo back together, but sometines they just need to seperate so that Mummy can get a new (and better) Partner...
They do appear to be closing the gap to red bull. I’m just shocked they can execute on plans both on and off the track again. Vasseur was definitely the right choice
It's about time. Year after year they've struggled with tyre degradation even as the rules changed from one season to the next, but one year under Fred Vasseur and they've managed to tame that problem. And can I say, touch wood, four races in and there hasn't been any significant strategy blunders during a race that would cost them a lot of points. For sure, the pressure to perform and deliver must still be there, it's Ferrari after all. But I think the tension in the team is definitely less high-strung under Vasseur, and that's allowing people to deliver, even when under pressure. Let's hope this continues.
@@captainross4706 I think Yuki still has a chance he has to start putting in some spectacular performances and I dont mean finishing 10th he has to start knocking on the top 6th spots regularly to even have a chance for a RB seat next year especially with Perez getting closer to Verstappen.
@@Dischingono way Yuki will get that RB seat since he's a Honda driver first and Red bull driver second. I really wish he can get that 2nd RB seat but with Honda move to AM 2026 onwards where Yuki will go with them no way RB moves him to the main team.
@@Dischingo There is no evidence to suggest Tsunoda is a better driver than Perez. A consistent Checo is levels above a temperamental Yuki. Funny how people forget Gasly destroyed Tsunoda for 2 years at AT and he wasn't deemed good enough for Red Bull. I like Yuki but he's been made to look good by underperforming teammates.
Crazy how quickly he fell off. He beat vettel, is the only driver on the grid to outperform max in equal cars, and was terrific in renault as well. Then suddenly he went to literally zero.
@@askeladden450I’m just getting into f1 over the last few months, but this is something that has me scratching my head. Like, why leave Red Bull? Alright, I get it, didn’t wanna have Max as a teammate. I just cannot understand his move to McLaren.. cause it seems like that’s where he dropped off completely.
@@JonathanGonzalez-wv8mc You can yourself google reasons why F1 drivers leave their teams. Ricciardo himself said in 2019, that he wanted change and thats why he left Red Bull. At Mclaren he has done decently with getting one race victory in 2021, so he wasent dropping down in Mclaren, while he could not get that many race victories as he did with Red Bull, because obviously Mclaren dosent have as good car as Red Bull has. His results seem to have dropped since joining Alpha Tauri and not since joining Mclaren, but we will see, if Ricciardo manages to come back and outscore his teamate with the tweanty remaining races this season.
@@askeladden450I mean he did it to himself and then lost confidence. watch UFC once a champ gets beat they often fall off randomly and never win again. It’s an odd comparison but I feel like something similar applies. He got beaten down and just won’t win again
Yeah, well, Charles needed a different strategy because he needed to do something to work his way through traffic. Good thing though, it was improvised. He got a call to do the opposite of Norris and Norris went into the pits. So Charles thought his tires good enough to make it a one-stop. Did work. Mercedes tried the same from the outset only to find out that for them it did not.
DR has had about 352299 second chances. Any other driver would have been kicked to the curb. Lawson is inevitable. But if DR outperforms Yuki in China all of the first 4 races will be forgotten just like that.
@@juggadaaku4219 “he’s back, just took him time to adjust” “The upgrades are finally suiting his driving style” “He deserves the RB second seat” “His season starts here”
As much as I love Danny Ric he constantly is talking talking and never doing anything on track. He needs to just start driving because presently he’ll be lucky to justify being there over lawson.
3:05 It's simply because Checo views Max as a benchmark, rather than a championship rival. Sergio now takes comfort in being close or near to his teammate in showing how good he can be.
I mean ok, Red Bull has improved the least and normally that seems to be expected when you're already closer to the best theoretical performance you can get under a given set of regulations... BUT... they have a completely new concept that they probably haven't yet fully understood or optimized. So we should not be surprised if the gap between Red Bull and the rest of the field might even increase during the season.
@@smet145 Please stop with the zeropod nonsense. Red Bull have their cooling and radiators positioned in such a way that they aren't going to radically change design. Only Merc thought it was worth it chasing peak numbers instead of thinking about consistent downforce. If Red Bull were going to bring a 'zeropod update' the radiators would be somewhere different. Nobody with any understanding of engineering thinks a "zeropod" is happening. B Sport (who used to work for an F1 team) doesn't, Sam Collins doesn't and Scarbs doesn't.
People forget this point, that Redbull pivoted to a new direction that gives them more development scope which means there's more to come from them and since it's early days, teams will close in a bit before they get the match on the rest of the pack.
Gaining 0.7 seconds on an already dominant car in just half a year is quite impressive I think, even more so if Verstappen's lap wasn't as good as last year's.
Every driver Red Bull has thrown at Yuki, with the sole intention of that particular driver moving up to Red Bull, Gasley, Nick DeVries, Liam, and Riccardo, Yuki has beaten them all, yet Horner is still high on Riccardo for some reason.
When did Yuki beat Gasly lmao In 44 races as teammates, Gasly out-qualified him 34 times and outraced him 21-8 What seasons did you watch, Gasly absolutely destroyed him
yuki will never get the reb bull seat no matter how good he performs.... he's more of a honda driver than RB and that's why neither Marko nor horner will consider him.. it's sad but true
They did the team order test in Bahrain far outside of the points and Yuki threw a tantrum. That showed he would not be a candidate for the Main Red Bull seat.
Checo should be congratulated for his brilliant drive, where copied Max's race approach. After pitting, Checo used a little of the new tire life to quickly regain P2 before managing his tires to the end.
It’s amusing for The Race to go on and on and on endlessly in such a petty way about the meaningless RB name change and then not mention REAL material racing performance of Yuki… ?!
@@Lastname6955 they need to start prioritizing Oscar over Lando, this year Lando might still be faster but he gets the heebie jeebies when push comes to shove.
How many times do we have to listen to the Mercedes being talked up by the team and the media throughout a weekend only for it to fail in the real test. The Mercedes is a mid field car and will be for this season and likely the next. There is not enough time before the rules change to make the changes that are needed. Best they work on their 26 car
Red Bull upgrades aren't scheduled to begin appearing until after the Chinese F1 race. They will probably continue with their dominance. Since there is so much speculation in these comments I'd like to add my own. Checco out at the end of the season and Sainz in the #2 seat for 2025.
merc was not 'better than the result projected' - it was clearly slower than the mclaren while having the same tire wear. Mclaren were slower than ferrari while also having worse wear. Who were in turn slower than RBR. How is merc anywhere in this picture?
You should have factored in the different temperatures in the 2023/2024 comparison. It was a lot colder today so less cooling needed and also the tires performed better.
I really want a team to start winning that we haven’t really seen before. Or at least haven’t seen for a long time. Like it would be great for Aston to suddenly be the dominant team. Saying that I still love watching Max wipe the floor with everyone
While Lecrerc is usually stronger at Qualifying, I think Sainz is a more complete package overall, better technical understanding of the car, solid race pace, more consistent, hence the better driver. Unfortunately his personality doesn’t work on his favour tho, he is more of a humble discrete guy, not getting as much media attention and hype resulting on him being consistently underrated.
You’d think as the “better driver” he’d have beaten Leclerc in any metric in their 3 seasons together Only thing he has is barely squeaking ahead in points in 2021, a season where Leclerc outraced him 15 times
@@Duval-In-The-WallCharles barely squeaked past Carlos in 2023 - that too he only started performing after Ferrari brought a non performance upgrade for Charles that sacrificed Carlos’s performance
F1 needs to turn back the clock to be an actually great sport again, where more than 1 team can actually win races, without years of domination, without existing teams blocking new entrants, with less street tracks, with smaller cars, and actually great sounding cars. I know it will never happen, but it would be nice if f1 actually cared about the fans for once. Thank you!
Was it really that revealing? RB is on top, Ferrari is 2nd best, McLaren/Mercedes/Alonso are fighting for 3rd spot. That's nothing we didn't know before.
You are doing very good job on analyzing and presenting the facts, but the last years we don't learn anything..we just watching more or less the same thing , race by race..the same was happening when Mercedes was in the place Red-Bull is now.
While this short video spreads the focus, when we look TR’s website, the focus is 75% Merc + McLaren and their British drivers, 20% Ferrari and RBR and 5% other. Their bias is absurd. Anyway, the Aston is the fifth fastest car and they almost never talk about how much he is extracting from the car.
@@JakeM218 Stroll's average GAP to Alonso in qualifying is over half a second this year, he also f*cked int into the barrier in Saudi. Hamilton is onlty a tenth behind Russell on average in qualifying (Russell is faster than Alonso over one lap) and lost points due to a mechanical DNF in Australia (would've finished in front of Stroll without it). You need to look at the datas and analyze the race before judging, raw results don't tell the whole story all the time, not mention the gap between Russell and Hamilton usually goes in favor of Hamilton in the latter stages of the season, while Stroll remains miles behind his teammate.
@@quentinhirschfeld9382 Stroll and Alonso both clipped the barrier in Saudi with a very similar force. It was mostly luck that Alonso survived and Stroll had a DNF. But look at the setups they’ve got. They’re running two different aero levels. Alonso’s races are about single lap pace, qualifying high and then doing everything possible defensively within the rules (and a bit outside) to keep that place. Lance is all about race pace with virtually no single lap pace. His races are all about overtaking as many cars as possible. I’m not sure if this has been chosen by the team to help them get development data or whether each driver is actively choosing a completely different approach - but it’s the biggest car difference across a team on the whole grid.
@@JakeM218 Lol, what race pace? He finished 1 minutes behind Alonso, got overtaken by a Haas he finished (on track) 13 seconds behind Alonso in Australia (not only because of strategy, he was much slower overall), he was about to get overtaken by Tsunoda in Saudi Arabia before his crash. Stop defending the guy, he even had a session with the full upgrades more than Alonso who always needs to at least 1 or 2 FP before getting it, just like last year. Last year, the dude barely finished ahead both Alpine drivers.
Love how everyone makes excuses for why Charles is behind Carlos. Carlos is more consistent in my opinion and I think Red Bull should pick him up. Sergio hasn’t done enough and Carlos is in his prime and deserves a top ride.
As a longtime Mercedes fan, it is about time for Mercedes to hang it up in racing and focus on building cars and trucks. They are practically backmarkers. No one wants to buy backmarkers.
I admire your optimisim but this season is already Verstappens. There is no chance anyone will catch him and reminds me of the 2002 and 2004 season. How long fans will tolerate this is another matter, obviously the rules do not work.
If it were a brit putting that Alpine in Q2 (where it has absolutely no business being) and celebrating that way, you guys would have no problem with that, and you would be cheering him up for his enthusiasm. But if it's a French guy, Ocon, you have to make fun of it. I'm just saying.
@@1greenMitsi Why do they need that? No evidence to suggest Ferrari will be more lethal with Hamilton than Sainz. Red Bull could replace Perez with Sainz though. I could see that upgrade working
@@TheChocolateChiken new regs in 2026, no guarantees RB will enjoy a superiority over the rest of the field and safety margin to allow the number 2 driver to be so far off their No1 Driver. Specially when you consider Ferrari improvement in 2024 so far Sure Sainz has surprised everyone by being a match for leclerc but on paper, he is still a number 2 driver - deserved or not. On paper Ferrari will have 2x no1 drivers, if RB lose even some of their performance advantage they will be fighting for constructors with 1 arm behind their back with checo
@@1greenMitsi Yeah, all good points, although I disagree with the characterisation of Sainz as a No. 2 driver. New regs are definitely a curveball for the teams, although you could make the argument that the new regs could make Checo the perfect driver for Red Bull. We just don’t know those variables yet. For Red Bull to react preemptively to other teams is risky, just as being purely reactionary is risky. I don’t disagree with you, but I also can’t say for sure that changing drivers is the best move for Red Bull.
I don't understand why Ricciardo is given so much credit especially by the British media. They seem to hunt for every micron of positive information and praise him for it, yet they are happy to discard other drivers who are performing far better than Ricciardo, for example why don't you have any words of encouragement for Hulkenberg , he is a far more deserving driver? In my mind Ricciardo does not deserve to be on the grid at all , what is the real objective for keeping him when there are so many young talent who can comfortably do better than Ricciardo!
No one gives Hulkenberg any respect ever, F1 fans will hype up anyone with a pulse for the most basic results and yet the man who has done it consistently for 14 years, no matter the car, driving style, or time away, no excuses, just puts points on the board and drags his car into Q3, isn’t considered by anyone for a better team For someone who’s truly underrated, Hulkenberg is the answer, most F1 fans forget he exists
Could Norris have stayed ahead of the Ferraris? His strategy didn't make much sense, I think. His second stop coincided with Leclec's only stop, which ensured he'd finish behind him. And the stop was so early that Sainz could pass him at the end of the race on much fresher tires. Norris' race pace was comparable to Leclerc's in the second half of the race and he started 5 places ahead, so he should have finished ahead of him at least.
Why was GR allowed to brake multiple F1 / FIA rules by denying Piastri enough space to turn & then barging him 'off track' to make sure he went 'off track', damaging his worn tires. As GR has a long record of making this type of F1 / FIA breaches, over 5 seasons, , GR should have been given a minimum f a 10 second penalty to encourage him to understand that that type of driving is not acceptable.. What makes this type of transgression even worse is that GR is the driver's spokesperson.
6:14 if Verstappen didn't make the mistake on his last lap of qualifying, he would've been a tenth/tenth and a half faster. So I'd say they've definitely improved a bit more then the graph gives away. The new upgrades are faster, they just can't be integrated properly straight away. By Miami, they'll have a handle on them, and I expect them to gain another tenth and a half over the rest of the grid again.
Ricardo is washed out. Should give the seat to a promising rookie next year. And no way will Ricardo get the Redbull 2nd seat lol. Especially when Carlos is going to be available.
1. Established tracks provide more exciting racing than new/street tracks. 2. The regulation changes have done nothing to improve the actual product of F1, the racing. The cars are still too big, heavy, and aero disruptive. 3. The front of the field isn't worth watching. Formula 1.2 provides something of interest occasionally. 4. F1 has always had off track drama and politics, but that's really all the 'sport' is now...
For McLaren it was worse than that in race pace, in 2023 Perez exploited a loophole in VSC regulations, feigned more acute car problem and robed Norris of 6-10 seconds to Verstappen. This time the gap genuinely doubled, but the presence of the Ferraris & Perez in between were part of this. There was also plenty of talk that Piastri had learned how to deal with the Pirellis at Suzuka, but precious little evidence in the race itself, unlike his performance at Jeddah early this year. This is still a circuit that accepts no substitute for experience.
I hate how many F1 youtube channels keep giving Danny Ric leeway on his slump performance especially when taking into account his DELETED Australia lap. A failed lap is not a documented lap.
If it’s Ricardo it’s ok 👌 any other driver they would never dream of it 😅 I think they all fancy buck tooth Ricardo at this point bunch of fanboys of a mediocre GP winner
If Perez sets out to be the best #2 on the grid (not that he is, but if takes his sights off Max), then he can be really good in the best car. But if he listens to those who think he can challenge Max/or want the drama of an in-house championship quarrel he pushes beyond his abilities & struggles.
danny ric is done. I havent seen so many excuses and reasons from any other driver for under performing. He sucks so bad when he needs to perform, and is awfull under pressure. This season allready look like his last season in mclaren. As soon as he had to perform, it was game over.
The lap time was deleted for a reason, because it was not an acceptable lap from Daniel. WEIRD to include that as opposed to his actual final lap, you know the one that counts.
-Stroll defender are ridiculous (3rd time he failed to qualify to Q3 in 4 races despite the 5 best team are miles in front of every other team in the pack, finished a full minute behind Alonso despite Fernando had a poor strategy with the first stint on the soft). -Ocon is underrated, as always (he's one of the dude that has the least amount of crashes on the grid and is bloody consistent as well as very fast often on one lap pace, always making progress) -The RB are the best in the midfield.
7 Things: Max is on another level in terms of performance. Stroll needs to accept reality and leave F1. Riccardos' days are numbered. *Liam intensifies* HAAS are just making the Andretti situation a huge ? mark. Mclaren are still just mid and will likely fall off by summer break. Mercedes fans are "loyal" right until they don't have a +1 Lap ahead winning car. Ferrari wasted $446M on a WASHED driver who has had every excuse under the sun and we're only on race 4.
Finished 3rd last year, out-performed Russell by 3 tenths on one of the most technical tracks this weekend. At the end of the day, he only finished 2 seconds behind and Russell is a fast driver.
I've never really liked Ocon. Something about his driving style just rubs me wrong. That said i do think he is an underrated driver, and if given the right oppurtunity would be on par for a regular top 5 finisher.
I think mclaren could have gotten 3rd if they had a better strategy in japan. They ended up leaving their strategy calls to being responses to everyone else rather than forging their own strategy. That tends to never work well unless you are at red bull levels of performance dominance.
The fact that a visor tear off can cause enough aero problems that you can't do better than 5th just shows how lost F1 has become. F1 has always had sensitive cars, but thats just ridiculous. Between that level of sensitivity and stewards that penalize drivers for the slightest amount of batteling is very sad. Unless red bull is lying, and thats not why checo did poorly in australia, something needs to change in F1.
Checo should keep his seat. He’s doing better than any other of max’s teammates even if he’s not close which is fine if they keep up the form. You guys should do a video ranking the best #2 drivers😂
I agree. He doesn’t need compete with max consistently, that’s not what Red Bull want. What they want is for him to be the best of the rest consistently
The Japanese GP confirmed that the following drivers are washed and should be gone after the summer break: -Daniel Ricciardo -Lance Stroll -Zhou Guanyu -Logan Sergeant We all know that driver performance isn't all that decides who gets a ride, so I'm sure that many of these drivers will stick around regardless of aptitude. However, if there were any justice in F1 we would see Liam Lawson, Filipe Drugovich, Theo Pourchaire, and, I don't know who for Williams (Zane Maloney maybe?) taking their places.
@@omarsalcido8891 The overwhelming majority of champions did it with the best car on the grid. Nobody expects Lewis to be champion at Ferrari with the current relative performance of teams.
Hmm….no body seems to ask the question if Lewis has ‘gone off the boil’ as people have suggested for Daniel. Ie, both Lewis and Daniel were fast is a great car, know they are being exposed when driving an mid-field car.
They're still signing a 7 time world champion who literally nearly finished 2nd last season. A bad start in a shit merc where he's obviously having to do more work on that car doesn't mean anything.
I don't understand the apologizing for Leclerc - Sainz has shown he is the more consistent and often faster package for a few years now. Ferrari just makes bad choices.
can we have a adult discussion about not just how bad the race direction was but is purposely getting worse so sky is shifting more content to sky q and other ways for more money
DR: I want a new chassis
RB: just get on with it
*DR crashes lap 1
DR: new chassis next race
DR behind Tsunoda in China. DR: "Well, it's the new chassis' fault".
This chassis move is really the final roll of the dice for Ricciardo
One thing I learnt: Aston Martin will never win a constructor championship unless they race with 2 drivers
At least bring in a rule if your daddy owns the team you can't get paid and you have to stay in your bedroom after every tantrum🤔
all they need is simply a more consistent driver than Stroll. had he just a be a bit more consistent they couldve beaten McLaren in the standings at least
@@damag3planwhy are you hating lance so much😭 he didn't do anything to you
@@tegarandikash because he's a pay driver who is absolutely garbage. Bearman is already more consistent than Stroll 😂
How long did you take to learn that? Please tell me it was less than 5 seconds
I wish my parents have as much faith in me as this channel has in Ricciardo
Or in Mercedes.
I know right!
Look, i wish i could also be like Shattered child Horner wanting Mummy Verstappen and Daddy Riccardo back together, but sometines they just need to seperate so that Mummy can get a new (and better) Partner...
If that chassis change for China doesn’t close the pace deficit, he’s finally out of excuses. Most outlets have already written off Ricciardo anyway
And Charles LeClerc.
The kinder the car is to the tires, the faster it is in the race. Ferrari is on an upward trajectory.
And they haven’t bought any major upgrades yet - whereas Red Bull bought some fairly decent upgrades to Japan.
@@JakeM218exactly! Supposedly they are bringing extreme upgrades to Imola. Fingers crossed!
They do appear to be closing the gap to red bull. I’m just shocked they can execute on plans both on and off the track again. Vasseur was definitely the right choice
@@erics489 Which could go extremely bad
It's about time. Year after year they've struggled with tyre degradation even as the rules changed from one season to the next, but one year under Fred Vasseur and they've managed to tame that problem. And can I say, touch wood, four races in and there hasn't been any significant strategy blunders during a race that would cost them a lot of points. For sure, the pressure to perform and deliver must still be there, it's Ferrari after all. But I think the tension in the team is definitely less high-strung under Vasseur, and that's allowing people to deliver, even when under pressure. Let's hope this continues.
Vettel would have a way higher chance of getting that 2nd Red Bull seat before Ricciardo does
The sad thing is that vettel would have a way higher chance of getting the 2nd redbull seat before Yuki does too.
@@captainross4706 I think Yuki still has a chance he has to start putting in some spectacular performances and I dont mean finishing 10th he has to start knocking on the top 6th spots regularly to even have a chance for a RB seat next year especially with Perez getting closer to Verstappen.
@@Dischingono way Yuki will get that RB seat since he's a Honda driver first and Red bull driver second.
I really wish he can get that 2nd RB seat but with Honda move to AM 2026 onwards where Yuki will go with them no way RB moves him to the main team.
Vettel retired from F1 getting beaten by Stroll... lol get a freaking clue.
@@Dischingo There is no evidence to suggest Tsunoda is a better driver than Perez. A consistent Checo is levels above a temperamental Yuki. Funny how people forget Gasly destroyed Tsunoda for 2 years at AT and he wasn't deemed good enough for Red Bull. I like Yuki but he's been made to look good by underperforming teammates.
Daniel announced a contract to drive for Uber
Crazy how quickly he fell off. He beat vettel, is the only driver on the grid to outperform max in equal cars, and was terrific in renault as well. Then suddenly he went to literally zero.
How? You need a clean driving record no accidents 😅
@@askeladden450I’m just getting into f1 over the last few months, but this is something that has me scratching my head. Like, why leave Red Bull? Alright, I get it, didn’t wanna have Max as a teammate. I just cannot understand his move to McLaren.. cause it seems like that’s where he dropped off completely.
@@JonathanGonzalez-wv8mc
You can yourself google reasons why F1 drivers leave their teams. Ricciardo himself said in 2019, that he wanted change and thats why he left Red Bull. At Mclaren he has done decently with getting one race victory in 2021, so he wasent dropping down in Mclaren, while he could not get that many race victories as he did with Red Bull, because obviously Mclaren dosent have as good car as Red Bull has. His results seem to have dropped since joining Alpha Tauri and not since joining Mclaren, but we will see, if Ricciardo manages to come back and outscore his teamate with the tweanty remaining races this season.
@@askeladden450I mean he did it to himself and then lost confidence. watch UFC once a champ gets beat they often fall off randomly and never win again. It’s an odd comparison but I feel like something similar applies. He got beaten down and just won’t win again
Was expecting Albon to tell Logan to pull over so he can continue the race😅
Holy crap! I laughed hard at that one!!! 😂
1950 style
If that was a loop, believe me the team would ask for it.
“Logan, it’s James…”
1 glaring thing from the Japanese GP. Nobody is touching Max nor RedBull.
We need Alonso in the 2nd RedBull to spice things up
@@marcmillis3867 either Alonzo or Sainz. Either one will definitely spice it up. But that could bring drama which would be fun to watch lol.
@@Uranswer-yu5kpocon for a version of hell
@@leoarevalo6786 😂
Everyone except RB themselves want anything to spice up in the team@@marcmillis3867
I was shocked when I realised this is the first race when we have seen different strategies
Yeah, well, Charles needed a different strategy because he needed to do something to work his way through traffic. Good thing though, it was improvised. He got a call to do the opposite of Norris and Norris went into the pits. So Charles thought his tires good enough to make it a one-stop. Did work. Mercedes tried the same from the outset only to find out that for them it did not.
Ricciardo producing more reasons why Lawson should have that RB seat.
i think Liam Lawson will drive this season for RB
@@kingayrton8327wow, ur so cool
More prey served up to Yuki.
DR has had about 352299 second chances. Any other driver would have been kicked to the curb. Lawson is inevitable.
But if DR outperforms Yuki in China all of the first 4 races will be forgotten just like that.
@@juggadaaku4219
“he’s back, just took him time to adjust”
“The upgrades are finally suiting his driving style”
“He deserves the RB second seat”
“His season starts here”
@@captainross4706 No I think he means because then people will believe that there was something wrong with his first chassis.
Riccardo isn't helping his case to get a seat at RedBull 😂. He probably won't have a drive next year.
Nope, he was only at 0'05 from Tsunoda at Q2 . He will be probably better than him in next races .
@@SiouplaitMercihe scored how many points?
With Perez's good season and Sainz on the market his chances of getting a Red Bull seat for 2025 are almost inexistent.
@@soundscape26unless he goes somewhere like haas/sauber etc
As much as I love Danny Ric he constantly is talking talking and never doing anything on track. He needs to just start driving because presently he’ll be lucky to justify being there over lawson.
3:05 It's simply because Checo views Max as a benchmark, rather than a championship rival. Sergio now takes comfort in being close or near to his teammate in showing how good he can be.
and thats the best strategy he can do, BTW MasakoX you need to watch todays episodo of Really3D.
I mean ok, Red Bull has improved the least and normally that seems to be expected when you're already closer to the best theoretical performance you can get under a given set of regulations... BUT... they have a completely new concept that they probably haven't yet fully understood or optimized. So we should not be surprised if the gap between Red Bull and the rest of the field might even increase during the season.
They wont go zero sidepod. @@smet145
@@smet145 Please stop with the zeropod nonsense. Red Bull have their cooling and radiators positioned in such a way that they aren't going to radically change design. Only Merc thought it was worth it chasing peak numbers instead of thinking about consistent downforce. If Red Bull were going to bring a 'zeropod update' the radiators would be somewhere different.
Nobody with any understanding of engineering thinks a "zeropod" is happening. B Sport (who used to work for an F1 team) doesn't, Sam Collins doesn't and Scarbs doesn't.
People forget this point, that Redbull pivoted to a new direction that gives them more development scope which means there's more to come from them and since it's early days, teams will close in a bit before they get the match on the rest of the pack.
@@Ruylopez778❄️
Gaining 0.7 seconds on an already dominant car in just half a year is quite impressive I think, even more so if Verstappen's lap wasn't as good as last year's.
My takeaway; Logan Sargent had an opportunity in Japan to show that the decision to give Albon his chassis was a mistake, and he didn't manage it.
They screwed up his pit stop which cost him any shot at getting ahead of magnussen, let alone p10.
@@arg_9584 he wasn't exactly spanking it before that point, and then made a very costly unforced error.
To me it seemed to me like he had pace. He was overtaking and closing the gaps pretty well. He went to the pits in p12. @@CKTechTV
@@arg_9584 Stop making excuses for the worst driver on the grid. He is always dead last.
@mave1273 thats what it seemed like. That terrible pit stop was not his fault at all. He was doing pretty well before that
Sainz has a bigger technical understanding than Leclerc thats why everytime the car is worse for Charles he can make up for it
The leniency towards Mercedes is incredible at the-race…. Damn
Agreed. Someone should compile that video so I can “like and subscribe “.
also towards Danny Rick and against Checo, lol.
Every driver Red Bull has thrown at Yuki, with the sole intention of that particular driver moving up to Red Bull, Gasley, Nick DeVries, Liam, and Riccardo, Yuki has beaten them all, yet Horner is still high on Riccardo for some reason.
When did Yuki beat Gasly lmao
In 44 races as teammates, Gasly out-qualified him 34 times and outraced him 21-8
What seasons did you watch, Gasly absolutely destroyed him
yuki will never get the reb bull seat no matter how good he performs.... he's more of a honda driver than RB and that's why neither Marko nor horner will consider him.. it's sad but true
I think Tsunoda disproved non believers that he is actually fast. He’s proven it over and over.
He's faster than Ricciardo, who hasn't been in at least four years. I don't know much more than that.
It’s his 4th season, he was bound to show something at some point
They did the team order test in Bahrain far outside of the points and Yuki threw a tantrum. That showed he would not be a candidate for the Main Red Bull seat.
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That and the fact that Gasly (the man utterly crushed by Max) beat him very easily in their time as teammates
@@cp6027 he was right though.The outburst was more reasonable considering Dani is actually slower.,
I don't need a chasis change to observe Ricciardo's past it while Tsunoda is setting the track on fire.
Wow you guys clearly watched a different race than I did🤔🤣🤣
Checo should be congratulated for his brilliant drive, where copied Max's race approach. After pitting, Checo used a little of the new tire life to quickly regain P2 before managing his tires to the end.
Just a shame he's still 12 seconds behind him.
Though Checo himself admitted that that had taken enough life out of his tires so as to make any attempt to close up to Max impossible.
It’s amusing for The Race to go on and on and on endlessly in such a petty way about the meaningless RB name change and then not mention REAL material racing performance of Yuki… ?!
Especially when they're sponsored by Stake
Sargeant was actually having a great race until he made a slight mistake. His performance was very encouraging.
Going from 12th to 16th due to a slow pitstop finished his race.
Mclaren shot themselves in the foot, with their poor strategy decisions
With their tire deg, I doubt they could've done much more then they did.
@Alex_Martin_ perhaps a P4 or just holding a podium but it would've been tricky
@@Lastname6955 they need to start prioritizing Oscar over Lando, this year Lando might still be faster but he gets the heebie jeebies when push comes to shove.
@@ChuyR. L take, Norris was miles clear yesterday
How many times do we have to listen to the Mercedes being talked up by the team and the media throughout a weekend only for it to fail in the real test. The Mercedes is a mid field car and will be for this season and likely the next. There is not enough time before the rules change to make the changes that are needed. Best they work on their 26 car
Red Bull upgrades aren't scheduled to begin appearing until after the Chinese F1 race. They will probably continue with their dominance. Since there is so much speculation in these comments I'd like to add my own. Checco out at the end of the season and Sainz in the #2 seat for 2025.
"We're a lot better dan the results zat we get" - Toto Wolff
The race loves leclerc
Of course, they love great talent and he's one of the 4 best drivers on the grid.
7 things we learned and nothing about Yuki? I guess we watched 2 totally different races..
Yea agree quite disrespectful tbh given its yukis home track
Yuki really impressed, those passes today were incredible and crafty
What was there to learn about him like? That he is Japanese?
I thought this race was good news for Ferrari and proved they probably have a platform to built from and to catch red bull
I agree, also because RB brought massive upgrades while Ferrari brought barely any
No one is catching redbull this year.
Max was 22 seconds ahead of Sainz, catch what exactly?
Jesus F1 fans are deluded
Shouldn't one of these seven be that F1 was tedious last year and it's even more so this year?
Go watch IMSA, WEC, or Indycar then
Absolutely horrendous season. May actually top 2015
Nah Imma watch the Sopranos, one season still less time than one fucking WEC race @@scottmeredith3359
merc was not 'better than the result projected' - it was clearly slower than the mclaren while having the same tire wear. Mclaren were slower than ferrari while also having worse wear. Who were in turn slower than RBR. How is merc anywhere in this picture?
Yh completely insane analyses once again. They where to 4th car this weekend.
@@Marc98338they were the *5th* fastest car bub
Ricciardo still can't come to terms with the fact he's not fast anymore
It’s funny everytime Sainz beats Leclerc, there is always something wrong with Leclerc’s car 🤣
You guys at The Race are absolutely crushing it with RUclips. We've never seen analysis this enlightening, this quickly before. Keep it up!
You should have factored in the different temperatures in the 2023/2024 comparison. It was a lot colder today so less cooling needed and also the tires performed better.
Valid
But the same for all cars .. beat look at the times between the cars and not the ultimate lap time
At this point, just put Lawson for the next race. I think we have seen enough of riccardo.
I really want a team to start winning that we haven’t really seen before. Or at least haven’t seen for a long time. Like it would be great for Aston to suddenly be the dominant team. Saying that I still love watching Max wipe the floor with everyone
While Lecrerc is usually stronger at Qualifying, I think Sainz is a more complete package overall, better technical understanding of the car, solid race pace, more consistent, hence the better driver. Unfortunately his personality doesn’t work on his favour tho, he is more of a humble discrete guy, not getting as much media attention and hype resulting on him being consistently underrated.
Rightly said
was it 2023 or 2022 when the majority was bashing on him due to graveling the car a couple of times?
You’d think as the “better driver” he’d have beaten Leclerc in any metric in their 3 seasons together
Only thing he has is barely squeaking ahead in points in 2021, a season where Leclerc outraced him 15 times
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It was 2022, he was very inconsistent that season
@@Duval-In-The-WallCharles barely squeaked past Carlos in 2023 - that too he only started performing after Ferrari brought a non performance upgrade for Charles that sacrificed Carlos’s performance
F1 needs to turn back the clock to be an actually great sport again, where more than 1 team can actually win races, without years of domination, without existing teams blocking new entrants, with less street tracks, with smaller cars, and actually great sounding cars. I know it will never happen, but it would be nice if f1 actually cared about the fans for once. Thank you!
Was it really that revealing? RB is on top, Ferrari is 2nd best, McLaren/Mercedes/Alonso are fighting for 3rd spot. That's nothing we didn't know before.
The race are always making excuses for Mercedes it’s pretty sad
" a gentle improvement" 😂
And Riccardo, their biases are so obvious its not even funny
It really is
Its disgusting.
Race Snoozefest rating: 8/10
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You are doing very good job on analyzing and presenting the facts, but the last years we don't learn anything..we just watching more or less the same thing , race by race..the same was happening when Mercedes was in the place Red-Bull is now.
The way things are going so far, Daniel should think about a seat in another race series or in the commentary box if he wants to stay in F1.
We're only four races into a season that threatens to never end and most viewers have already lost the will to go on caring.
😂...so true...😂
While this short video spreads the focus, when we look TR’s website, the focus is 75% Merc + McLaren and their British drivers, 20% Ferrari and RBR and 5% other. Their bias is absurd.
Anyway, the Aston is the fifth fastest car and they almost never talk about how much he is extracting from the car.
How many times have we heard Merc say they're finally on the right track towards solid improvement and understanding of the car...?
the race is pushing ricciardo in a bold shameless way... using deleted lap times to compare him with tsunoda, come on! 🤣
Ricciardo in their pockets confirmed?
No mention of how Logan and Stroll (besides Ricciardo who you DID cover), are well into overtime and dragging their teams behind?
Russell: 24 points
Alonso: 24 points
Hamilton: 10 points
Stroll: 9 points
Stroll is pretty much performing identically to Hamilton so far…
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Stroll's average GAP to Alonso in qualifying is over half a second this year, he also f*cked int into the barrier in Saudi.
Hamilton is onlty a tenth behind Russell on average in qualifying (Russell is faster than Alonso over one lap) and lost points due to a mechanical DNF in Australia (would've finished in front of Stroll without it).
You need to look at the datas and analyze the race before judging, raw results don't tell the whole story all the time, not mention the gap between Russell and Hamilton usually goes in favor of Hamilton in the latter stages of the season, while Stroll remains miles behind his teammate.
@@quentinhirschfeld9382 Stroll and Alonso both clipped the barrier in Saudi with a very similar force. It was mostly luck that Alonso survived and Stroll had a DNF.
But look at the setups they’ve got. They’re running two different aero levels.
Alonso’s races are about single lap pace, qualifying high and then doing everything possible defensively within the rules (and a bit outside) to keep that place.
Lance is all about race pace with virtually no single lap pace. His races are all about overtaking as many cars as possible.
I’m not sure if this has been chosen by the team to help them get development data or whether each driver is actively choosing a completely different approach - but it’s the biggest car difference across a team on the whole grid.
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Lol, what race pace? He finished 1 minutes behind Alonso, got overtaken by a Haas he finished (on track) 13 seconds behind Alonso in Australia (not only because of strategy, he was much slower overall), he was about to get overtaken by Tsunoda in Saudi Arabia before his crash.
Stop defending the guy, he even had a session with the full upgrades more than Alonso who always needs to at least 1 or 2 FP before getting it, just like last year.
Last year, the dude barely finished ahead both Alpine drivers.
Aston Martin makes you realise it takes two good drivers to be competitive in formula one
Love how everyone makes excuses for why Charles is behind Carlos. Carlos is more consistent in my opinion and I think Red Bull should pick him up. Sergio hasn’t done enough and Carlos is in his prime and deserves a top ride.
As a longtime Mercedes fan, it is about time for Mercedes to hang it up in racing and focus on building cars and trucks. They are practically backmarkers. No one wants to buy backmarkers.
I admire your optimisim but this season is already Verstappens. There is no chance anyone will catch him and reminds me of the 2002 and 2004 season. How long fans will tolerate this is another matter, obviously the rules do not work.
From what I gather fans are tolerating it because it’s not Mercedes winning week in week out.
I think Haas has quietly flown under the radar. Nothing spectacular, but are doing better than id imagine most people thought they would.
If it were a brit putting that Alpine in Q2 (where it has absolutely no business being) and celebrating that way, you guys would have no problem with that, and you would be cheering him up for his enthusiasm. But if it's a French guy, Ocon, you have to make fun of it. I'm just saying.
Ocon is doing an excellent job this season tbh, his performance will go under the radar and he’ll definitely look for a new team
No reason to replace perez with anyone at this rate
they will need an upgrade for the 2nd seat with vs Hamilton leclerc pairing
@@1greenMitsi Why do they need that? No evidence to suggest Ferrari will be more lethal with Hamilton than Sainz. Red Bull could replace Perez with Sainz though. I could see that upgrade working
@@TheChocolateChiken new regs in 2026, no guarantees RB will enjoy a superiority over the rest of the field and safety margin to allow the number 2 driver to be so far off their No1 Driver. Specially when you consider Ferrari improvement in 2024 so far
Sure Sainz has surprised everyone by being a match for leclerc but on paper, he is still a number 2 driver - deserved or not. On paper Ferrari will have 2x no1 drivers, if RB lose even some of their performance advantage they will be fighting for constructors with 1 arm behind their back with checo
@@1greenMitsi Yeah, all good points, although I disagree with the characterisation of Sainz as a No. 2 driver. New regs are definitely a curveball for the teams, although you could make the argument that the new regs could make Checo the perfect driver for Red Bull. We just don’t know those variables yet. For Red Bull to react preemptively to other teams is risky, just as being purely reactionary is risky. I don’t disagree with you, but I also can’t say for sure that changing drivers is the best move for Red Bull.
I would still replace him. At the end of the day he was still 12 seconds off the lead.
I don't understand why Ricciardo is given so much credit especially by the British media. They seem to hunt for every micron of positive information and praise him for it, yet they are happy to discard other drivers who are performing far better than Ricciardo, for example why don't you have any words of encouragement for Hulkenberg , he is a far more deserving driver? In my mind Ricciardo does not deserve to be on the grid at all , what is the real objective for keeping him when there are so many young talent who can comfortably do better than Ricciardo!
No one gives Hulkenberg any respect ever, F1 fans will hype up anyone with a pulse for the most basic results and yet the man who has done it consistently for 14 years, no matter the car, driving style, or time away, no excuses, just puts points on the board and drags his car into Q3, isn’t considered by anyone for a better team
For someone who’s truly underrated, Hulkenberg is the answer, most F1 fans forget he exists
Could Norris have stayed ahead of the Ferraris? His strategy didn't make much sense, I think. His second stop coincided with Leclec's only stop, which ensured he'd finish behind him. And the stop was so early that Sainz could pass him at the end of the race on much fresher tires. Norris' race pace was comparable to Leclerc's in the second half of the race and he started 5 places ahead, so he should have finished ahead of him at least.
Why was GR allowed to brake multiple F1 / FIA rules by denying Piastri enough space to turn & then barging him 'off track' to make sure he went 'off track', damaging his worn tires.
As GR has a long record of making this type of F1 / FIA breaches, over 5 seasons, , GR should have been given a minimum f a 10 second penalty to encourage him to understand that that type of driving is not acceptable..
What makes this type of transgression even worse is that GR is the driver's spokesperson.
Because he's british and feminine, like damon hill.
6:14 if Verstappen didn't make the mistake on his last lap of qualifying, he would've been a tenth/tenth and a half faster. So I'd say they've definitely improved a bit more then the graph gives away. The new upgrades are faster, they just can't be integrated properly straight away. By Miami, they'll have a handle on them, and I expect them to gain another tenth and a half over the rest of the grid again.
Daniel Ricciardo is Nikita Mazepin in disguise
Ricardo is washed out. Should give the seat to a promising rookie next year. And no way will Ricardo get the Redbull 2nd seat lol. Especially when Carlos is going to be available.
1. Established tracks provide more exciting racing than new/street tracks.
2. The regulation changes have done nothing to improve the actual product of F1, the racing. The cars are still too big, heavy, and aero disruptive.
3. The front of the field isn't worth watching. Formula 1.2 provides something of interest occasionally.
4. F1 has always had off track drama and politics, but that's really all the 'sport' is now...
My takeaway is that Riccardo is gonna be delivering takeaways next year
One lap pace doesnt mean anything after qualifying
For McLaren it was worse than that in race pace, in 2023 Perez exploited a loophole in VSC regulations, feigned more acute car problem and robed Norris of 6-10 seconds to Verstappen. This time the gap genuinely doubled, but the presence of the Ferraris & Perez in between were part of this. There was also plenty of talk that Piastri had learned how to deal with the Pirellis at Suzuka, but precious little evidence in the race itself, unlike his performance at Jeddah early this year. This is still a circuit that accepts no substitute for experience.
verstappen was cruising
I hate how many F1 youtube channels keep giving Danny Ric leeway on his slump performance especially when taking into account his DELETED Australia lap. A failed lap is not a documented lap.
If it’s Ricardo it’s ok 👌 any other driver they would never dream of it 😅 I think they all fancy buck tooth Ricardo at this point bunch of fanboys of a mediocre GP winner
@@omarsalcido8891Shows how much fake charisma can go with the braindead general public
Saying Charles is fundamentally faster than Sainz while already establishing that he's been beaten in both races and quali is a wild ass pull...
If Perez sets out to be the best #2 on the grid (not that he is, but if takes his sights off Max), then he can be really good in the best car. But if he listens to those who think he can challenge Max/or want the drama of an in-house championship quarrel he pushes beyond his abilities & struggles.
Riccardo has to stop wishing for checo's seat and worry more about not losing his seat at VISA RB.
Why need 7 when you need only 2:
1. Red Bull is STILL alone in F1
2. Ferrari reigns supreme in F1.5
danny ric is done. I havent seen so many excuses and reasons from any other driver for under performing. He sucks so bad when he needs to perform, and is awfull under pressure.
This season allready look like his last season in mclaren. As soon as he had to perform, it was game over.
"Dark arts of Tyre Prepration" - laughed so hard at this 😂😂
The lap time was deleted for a reason, because it was not an acceptable lap from Daniel. WEIRD to include that as opposed to his actual final lap, you know the one that counts.
Visor Peel = Mario Kart Banana Peel
-Stroll defender are ridiculous (3rd time he failed to qualify to Q3 in 4 races despite the 5 best team are miles in front of every other team in the pack, finished a full minute behind Alonso despite Fernando had a poor strategy with the first stint on the soft).
-Ocon is underrated, as always (he's one of the dude that has the least amount of crashes on the grid and is bloody consistent as well as very fast often on one lap pace, always making progress)
-The RB are the best in the midfield.
How is using a deleted lap (basically invalid according to regulations) a fairer reference?
7 Things:
Max is on another level in terms of performance.
Stroll needs to accept reality and leave F1.
Riccardos' days are numbered. *Liam intensifies*
HAAS are just making the Andretti situation a huge ? mark.
Mclaren are still just mid and will likely fall off by summer break.
Mercedes fans are "loyal" right until they don't have a +1 Lap ahead winning car.
Ferrari wasted $446M on a WASHED driver who has had every excuse under the sun and we're only on race 4.
Daniel should of taken the haas or williams seat
My main takeaway was that Hamilton is washed up. "Lewis, George is faster than you!"...🤣
Finished 3rd last year, out-performed Russell by 3 tenths on one of the most technical tracks this weekend.
At the end of the day, he only finished 2 seconds behind and Russell is a fast driver.
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sauber hasnt finished a race without major issues or horrendous pitstops.
I've never really liked Ocon. Something about his driving style just rubs me wrong. That said i do think he is an underrated driver, and if given the right oppurtunity would be on par for a regular top 5 finisher.
Honestly he’d be a great choice for Aston Martin or even Mercedes
Adrian newey speaks the language of the air gods other professional aerodymicists barely read.
I think mclaren could have gotten 3rd if they had a better strategy in japan. They ended up leaving their strategy calls to being responses to everyone else rather than forging their own strategy. That tends to never work well unless you are at red bull levels of performance dominance.
The fact that a visor tear off can cause enough aero problems that you can't do better than 5th just shows how lost F1 has become. F1 has always had sensitive cars, but thats just ridiculous. Between that level of sensitivity and stewards that penalize drivers for the slightest amount of batteling is very sad. Unless red bull is lying, and thats not why checo did poorly in australia, something needs to change in F1.
thanks for the hardwork
Checo should keep his seat. He’s doing better than any other of max’s teammates even if he’s not close which is fine if they keep up the form. You guys should do a video ranking the best #2 drivers😂
I agree. He doesn’t need compete with max consistently, that’s not what Red Bull want. What they want is for him to be the best of the rest consistently
Daniel using the same excuse Mazespin did before he was finally dropped 😂
‘Im not shit, it’s the chassis bro!’
No. Ricky said before we say im shit, lets try a new chassis.
The Japanese GP confirmed that the following drivers are washed and should be gone after the summer break:
-Daniel Ricciardo
-Lance Stroll
-Zhou Guanyu
-Logan Sergeant
We all know that driver performance isn't all that decides who gets a ride, so I'm sure that many of these drivers will stick around regardless of aptitude. However, if there were any justice in F1 we would see Liam Lawson, Filipe Drugovich, Theo Pourchaire, and, I don't know who for Williams (Zane Maloney maybe?) taking their places.
Other than Red Bull/Vcarb it's pretty rare that other teams change drivers mid-season.
@cephalopad You forgot to mention LH, he is washed and overrated, he needs to retire ASAP
@@aleksavijatovic8834 Nah, he's fine. His move to Ferrari is one of the most intriguing prospects for 2025.
@@soundscape26 his move next year can also highlight he is only world Champion if he is in the best car on the grid which is true for LH and MV
@@omarsalcido8891 The overwhelming majority of champions did it with the best car on the grid. Nobody expects Lewis to be champion at Ferrari with the current relative performance of teams.
Danny Ric is WASHED
What is washed? I have never heard or seen this word in f1 before ? Is this a new word?
@@Chris-sf2cp someone who was good for a very long time, but now they just don't have it anymore and never will again.
@@icebear4511 I’m guessing you don’t understand sarcasm
@@icebear4511 🤡🤡🤡🤡 🐑 baaaaaaaa
mclaren obviously didn’t carry all their upgrades but the ‘23 suzuka race was near the end of their development path and ‘24 they’re only at the start
Hmm….no body seems to ask the question if Lewis has ‘gone off the boil’ as people have suggested for Daniel. Ie, both Lewis and Daniel were fast is a great car, know they are being exposed when driving an mid-field car.
My takeaway is that Ferrari should've signed Sainz instead of Hamilton for the next year
They're still signing a 7 time world champion who literally nearly finished 2nd last season. A bad start in a shit merc where he's obviously having to do more work on that car doesn't mean anything.
I don't understand the apologizing for Leclerc - Sainz has shown he is the more consistent and often faster package for a few years now. Ferrari just makes bad choices.
Favorite part of F1 is a $10,000,000 car is "slow AF" if it's half second behind over a 3 mile track. Life is good
can we have a adult discussion about not just how bad the race direction was but is purposely getting worse so sky is shifting more content to sky q and other ways for more money
Why did alphatauri even bring ricciardo back last year? Lando destroyed him