He is a B tier driver in the best car in the field. He should go try and run the Daytona 500 or Indy 500 see how he does an Oval. Where contact is allowed.
He's still one of F1's GOAT in my opinion. But to be considered one of the best overall driver of all time, you got to do the triple crown or, at the very least, win in different types of racing categories like Alonso, Montoya, Ickx, or Andretti.
@@countrykids6483 I really think that if max is bothered he can be the second driver to achieve the triple crown. I can’t see Alonso making an indy return or Villeneuve winning Le Mans any time soon
@@Zezezeze69 Alonso at Indy is a possibility. Not likely, but possible. Villeneuve never won at Monaco. So he couldn't win the Triple Crown, unless you substitute the F1 Championship for Monaco. Villeneuve only won races in 96 and 97. Panis won Monaco in 96 and Schumacher in 97.
The Indianapolis 500 is the Greatest Spectacle in Racing......Nothing else comes close to winning the Indy 500, that includes winning am F1 World Championship....There is a reason Indianapolis was one of the original F1 Championship points races..
I’ve heard that he rushes off the Monaco podium to watch it every year. Schumacher said he’d never race an oval. Indy Cars now go into the turns at IMS at well over 200mph. And if you’re off line at the apex you’re going into the wall at very high speed.
Max should drive what he's comfortable doing. If he doesn't want to run in the Indy 500 that's his decision. However, I would ❤️ to see Max come to Indy!
Why should he go to indy500? Dude surely gets paid way more than any Indy 500 racer, plus you can’t beat that RedBull sponsorship. He’s perfectly content where he’s at lol
You get a $3.5 million usd payout for winning the 500. For context on Max’s current contract he makes 1.8 million euros per race. So from a purely financial standpoint it is viable.
Because being a champion in F1 does not mean much if you are trying to prove you are one of the best overall drivers in the world.. Winning the indycar championship or winning the indy 500 can help prove that along with winning lemans or 24 hr of daytona or even rally. Most F1 race winners or champions that dont do anything else other than F1 and junior formulas are viewed as only good in one niche area so even being a champion leaves you with a LOT to prove to the motorsports world. Top Racing scouts/Teams are not looking at F1 drivers because they never seem to have the talent to drive other types of vehicles, guys like Kimi and Alonso in recent years are the exception. But being an F1 champion means nothing to drivers who are winning in rally, WEC, indycar or nascar ect you have to prove your worth in every discipline and F1 is just very political so most of the best drivers dont bother going there because they dont fit the narrative that F1 teams are looking for. But trust me there are guys who could lap the whole F1 grid in a different style of racing
Verstappen couldn't handle IndyCar. I am 100% certain of that. Romain Grosjean did a video on his YT channel going over some of the differences vetween the two. Its pretty apparent that IndyCar is simply harder to drive and requires more of the driver than just taking good lines.
He's not scared, he's being professional. It's logical why he don't want to switch career and also gamble his life over something he's not comfortable with just because someone want him to do so.
Most road course drivers struggle on ovals if its not something they are use to as its entails more danger at times with drivers taking cars 3 wide at 200+ mph is crazy, so I dont see max doing the Indy 500 in real life any time soon but maybe one day we will see him do the iRacing Indy 500 as we all know he loves his sim racing.
It's cool, F1 drivers can't hang anyways. Hell McLaren won more races in F1 than Indycar this year, RLL won multiple times in Indycar and McLaren won none. Indycar is about skill and F1 is simply about money. Max could win in a good car as he's obviously very good but recent attempts by recent F1 drivers have not gone well at all.
Because...who wouldn't rather be in Indianapolis rather than Monte Carlo? "The greatest spectacle in motor racing," according to those who've never seen the Nurburgring.
As a huge Indycar fan and oval fan, I can truly respect the mass amount of talent that comes from Lewis, Seb, Max, just to name a few F1 drivers who never did ovals that I watched from time to time. I wish people would would stop saying you need to do this or need to do that to be the greatest. Hello will forever be one of the greatest Indy 500 Drivers, Michael Schumacher will forever be one of the greatest F1 Drivers, and Dale Earnhardt will forever be one of the greatest stock car drivers. There’s countless others I haven’t named from other series, as well as the series listed. Whichever motorsport you enjoy, just enjoy it while we have it :)
I mean the thing is he needs to win it for that third crown. Granted he still needs to win at Le Mans, but that's a lot more doable now for Verstappen than the Indy 500
Verstappen has nothing to prove. The only reason to do it, is to possibly win The Triple Crown, and to win that, he still needs to win 24 hours at Le Mans and of course Indy 500.......but he has plenty of time to achieve that.........
Marcus Ericsson? I remember him from the first season of Drive to survive. He was the also ran to Charles Leclair. Didn’t he win an Indy 500 a couple years ago? Most people join that circuit when they are on the back side of their F1 career not when they’re winning. Also, I don’t see why an oval would be that big of a difference for somebody like Verstappen. Except to be bored out of his skull.
Max has proven he one of the best if not the best overall wheelman in the sport, Kyle Larson and the guy from Australia I can’t remember his name is pretty good. Max is good enough to do so if he wishes and that’s that. We’ll see. He’s great for the sport either way.
The only reason Monaco is popular is because of its age while IMS is popular because of its age, spectacle, and the fact basically any driver from any other discipline can participate and have a chance at being immortalized in racing history. To win the Indy 500 is to be on the list of all time great racing drivers. To win Monaco you are on the list of great F1 drivers but that’s about where it stops.
@@codymoe4986 Indy does not need Max and Max does not need Indy. Indy will be there long after Max or Schumacker or Lewis or whomever is "next". Indy is one of a kind and stands on its own.
I don’t think you can be the best race car driver EVER if you don’t, but he’s poised to be the best F1 driver ever if he keeps up with his current successes. Obviously if he competes at Le Mans it makes a stronger argument. Mario Andretti has won in F1, IndyCar, NASCAR, Sprints, and Midgets, and has a second place at Le Mans.
Max doesn't want to leave the comfort of racing in the best equipment against field where there's really only 2/3 drivers per weekend that can stay within 15 seconds based on equipment alone... put him in a Penske car at Indy, he still doesn't crack the top 10..
It's amazing that Verstappen is given GOAT status yet people still deny Hamilton as a GOAT. If the criteria for Hamilton not being a GOAT is that he's always had the best car and no competition then Verstappen is even less of a GOAT. Either they're both not GOATs or they both are, no in-between.
Damn, modern F1 drivers are such wusses. This is why Kyle Larson is the current world's greatest driver and not Verstappen. Half of what makes racecar drivers epic is that theyre willing to overcome fear and not settle for comfort. Huge wuss Max is
you can stay in f1 and race in the indy 500... jensen button filled in for alonso at mclaren when he did it, although you do have to miss monaco, which for max means giving checo a win, His worst nightmare hahaha
Why would you go from playing in the nba to go play in South Korea ? Why would Max go from the top Motorsport to not even 5th best Motorsport lol. Indy fans funny af
I used to be a Max Verstappen fan, but no longer. He's nothing but a punk who gets mad when he doesn't win every time. Give credit to Lewis for not putting the #1 on his car, when he had 7 chances to do so.
F1 it's top speed is less than 220 indy can spike to 243 and a this year Ave speed was 234 and change and f1 Ave speedvis 160 so there is a substantial pucker factor of driving 80 mph more on ave then customary. If he did it all the time , ok. But just dabble in it. Naw. Ask Jimmy Johnson.
When you said the Indy 500 is the greatest spectacle in motor sports, I was thinking noooo…that’s the 24 hours of Le Mans. Then you said it, so nevermind 😂
It’s literally been called the Greatest Spectacle in Racing since it’s inception you clown. Interesting how you have no problem with F1 at Vegas calling itself the “greatest racing spectacle” literally shut up, drone
Well it dates back to before F1 ever existed, Drivers faces go on the trophy and the trophy is worth i think 6 million itself. it has over 350,000 people at the track on raceday so what an F1 race would bring combining all 3 days of an F1 weekend and twice as may viewers for tv... so according to the stats for sure the greatest spectacle in motorsports worldwide nothing else comes close.
0/10 take. he’s won one world championship fairly. the fact of the matter is Max will never win 6 or 7 no matter how long Red Bull cheats. Checo is the only reason he won in 2021 and 2022, despite the simple fact Red Bull cheated both years🤣
Plus I think you can be the greatest formula one driver of all time and not be the greatest driver of all time I think AJ Foyt is the greatest driver of all time and I don't think its close, no one ever asked him to drive an f1 car because he hated Europe but if he liked Europe he would have wrecked the field
@@precesionnoreaster1507 very true, i would love to see hamilton in sports cars or anything BUT f1. my personal pick for greatest driver is alonso or jim clark, they can do it anywhere in any car
No, Unfortunately he could not claim to be the best without achieving the triple crown. Other great drivers have conquered all three disciplines. Its totally fine if he doesnt want to do it, but he could not claim to the "best" without doing so.
@@Alumii Graham Hill - Monaco 5 times (1963, 1964, 1965, 1968 and 1969) He won the Indy 500 in 1966 and Lemans 24 hr in 1972. He is the only driver to do so. I did write "drivers" plural. I thought Montoya and Rindt had done it also, but I was mistaken.
@Alumii Indeed, very rare. But it has been done so max is S.O.L unless he does also. He will be the best F1 driver for that particular year absolutely. But not the "The Best".
The entire F1 championship is whats really pointless LMAO People forget F1 race winners and champions but Indy 500 winners go down in history and date back before F1 even existed... So yeah if you want to be immortal and known as one of the best drivers in the world you race the 500. Nobody even watches monaco LMAO
F1 fans really get lied to thinking their Motorsport is the highest discipline in racing lmao when you cant even get in without an insane amount of money.
he's scared because he knows in IndyCar he wont have the advantage of a superior Red Bull car. also he wouldnt get away with causing wrecks left and right in IndyCar like he's been known to do in F1. someone would smack him in the face in IndyCar. they dont play.
I’ve been to the Bathurst 1000 six or seven times and it takes a special breed of driver to race there so I’ll reserve judgement on whether the Indi 500 is the greatest race in the world.
It’s totally fine he doesn’t want to run it. It’s fine to turn down something that you don’t feel comfortable do but that being said, it’s hard for me to legitimately be able to call him one of the best ever if he never runs one of the Triple Crown races. And there is a part of me that is curious if he does win Monaco and the Le Mans 24, if he may change his mind a little bit
This guy actually thinks Max is intimidated by Indy racing. 😂😂 He might drive in it at some point, more than likely at the twilight of his career like alot of the great F1 drivers but I can assure you Max isn't even nearly intimidated by the Indy 500. This guy must be trolling or else is absolutely clueless about racing.
Indy500 this and that... Stop! It's not the greatest spectacle. If it was then every aspiring driver would be looking up to it rather than spending their life and money for Formula 1. F1 is the reason of innovations which further bleeds into all the motor-racing categories.
@@gherbo1609 Le Mans Hypercars are not faster over a lap. They may have faster acceleration times, but an F1 car is faster around a circuit. In terms of innovation, F1 has been at the forefront and a ton of the tech you see in Le Mans hypercars came from F1. F1 remains the most desirable place to be for racing drivers around the world… there are even a few hypercar and Indy drivers who have tried to get into F1 over the past couple years.
@@Spankster. you said it yourself, "has been" i dont dispute that it is the pinnacle of motorsport but the current cars are slow and not at all innovative. 2026 promises "movable aero", maybe we will see something ground breaking and innovative then.
I think Schumacher said it best. It’s a few steps down from F1. It’s high risk putting yourself on track with 40 amateur drivers. It would be like Patrick Mahomes playing in the Australian Rugby Championship Match. Doesn’t make any sense to do something like that.
@@chrislawson9476 Agreed, that it is the most coveted triple crown and all. However, rhe charm has been lost over the years. As an American you may not get it. Formula 1 was & is a prestigious worldwide championship, any racing driver will say that winning the F1 driver's championship is what they aspire to. So in conclusion yes the Indy 500 is a prestigious race and winning it means a lot to racing drivers. However, if you present a choice, win Indy 500 or win an F1 driver's championship, chances are nine out of ten times the F1 driver's championship will be chosen.
@@CroftVan an indy 500 win is one race, a champion ship is many races, its not a fair comparison, im british and indycar is not for me, ill watch the highlights for some overtakes every now and then but i ALWAYS watch the indy 500. you are simply deluded if you think it isnt one of the most prestigious races, and out of the triple crown, monaco is the most pathetic. lets make this comparison, would a driver rather win monaco or the indy500? you know the answer already
Ummm… I love watching state of the art cars go around the ✨Monaco GP ✨ at 27 MPH with 0 passing… totally entertaining. Go to the 500 in person and you’ll take it back 100%
He's a great driver. If he doesn't want to run the 500 that's cool.
I love Indycar
He is a B tier driver in the best car in the field. He should go try and run the Daytona 500 or Indy 500 see how he does an Oval. Where contact is allowed.
What about Lewis Hamilton
Max has nothing to prove, just like Scott Dixon didn’t need to “prove” anything in F1. People are great at different things.
He's still one of F1's GOAT in my opinion. But to be considered one of the best overall driver of all time, you got to do the triple crown or, at the very least, win in different types of racing categories like Alonso, Montoya, Ickx, or Andretti.
Don't forget Dan Gurney and Graham Hill.
Graham being the only triple crown winner.
@@countrykids6483 I really think that if max is bothered he can be the second driver to achieve the triple crown. I can’t see Alonso making an indy return or Villeneuve winning Le Mans any time soon
@@Zezezeze69 Alonso at Indy is a possibility. Not likely, but possible.
Villeneuve never won at Monaco. So he couldn't win the Triple Crown, unless you substitute the F1 Championship for Monaco.
Villeneuve only won races in 96 and 97. Panis won Monaco in 96 and Schumacher in 97.
And do the Dakar as well
Calm down, even Villenuve win WDC ín Newey car
Reverse psychology isn't going to work lol.
Yeah don't mention Ericsson winning, mention Alonso and Grosjean running it instead. And Norris running it virtually...
Alonso had one of THE cars to beat in 2017... until that Honda engine committed Sepukku with 40-60 laps left, I can't remember exactly.
Ahem...Takuma Sato
@@derekwbooker93 22 laps. he only had 55 miles left, and he was passing guys like crazy until literally the second it blew.
@@theballingboi5360 my bad. Like I said, I couldn't remember exactly when his engine decided to self destruct on him
@@derekwbooker93 no you're good it was just to emphasize how close he was.
Alonso did it and had a car good enough to win it. Kurt Busch did it in nascar and finish too 6
Tony Stewart is still the only driver in history to complete the Memorial Day Weekend gauntlet of 1100 miles.
Not until Larson does it.
The Indianapolis 500 is the Greatest Spectacle in Racing......Nothing else comes close to winning the Indy 500, that includes winning am F1 World Championship....There is a reason Indianapolis was one of the original F1 Championship points races..
tell me your american without saying your american complete bs
Better than any Modern Monaco race.
@@Frost_Maverick wdym, this years monaco was fun imo
@@joris7409 it’s funny, I guarantee if we said Le Mans was the greatest race ever, you Eurodrones would have no issue. Literally stfu
@@joris7409 I'm sorry, but hes actually right man.
I’ve heard that he rushes off the Monaco podium to watch it every year. Schumacher said he’d never race an oval. Indy Cars now go into the turns at IMS at well over 200mph. And if you’re off line at the apex you’re going into the wall at very high speed.
Max should drive what he's comfortable doing. If he doesn't want to run in the Indy 500 that's his decision. However, I would ❤️ to see Max come to Indy!
When will people get it ? F1 drivers are just not interested in this race lmao
Why should he go to indy500? Dude surely gets paid way more than any Indy 500 racer, plus you can’t beat that RedBull sponsorship. He’s perfectly content where he’s at lol
You don’t have to race Indy car to race the 500 it’s open to anyone .. some drivers only do the Indy the whole year .
You get a $3.5 million usd payout for winning the 500. For context on Max’s current contract he makes 1.8 million euros per race. So from a purely financial standpoint it is viable.
Exactly. They better chill da f#k out over there. Motorsports has actually evolved over the last 5 decades or so.....in other parts of the world
Because being a champion in F1 does not mean much if you are trying to prove you are one of the best overall drivers in the world.. Winning the indycar championship or winning the indy 500 can help prove that along with winning lemans or 24 hr of daytona or even rally. Most F1 race winners or champions that dont do anything else other than F1 and junior formulas are viewed as only good in one niche area so even being a champion leaves you with a LOT to prove to the motorsports world. Top Racing scouts/Teams are not looking at F1 drivers because they never seem to have the talent to drive other types of vehicles, guys like Kimi and Alonso in recent years are the exception. But being an F1 champion means nothing to drivers who are winning in rally, WEC, indycar or nascar ect you have to prove your worth in every discipline and F1 is just very political so most of the best drivers dont bother going there because they dont fit the narrative that F1 teams are looking for. But trust me there are guys who could lap the whole F1 grid in a different style of racing
Verstappen couldn't handle IndyCar. I am 100% certain of that.
Romain Grosjean did a video on his YT channel going over some of the differences vetween the two. Its pretty apparent that IndyCar is simply harder to drive and requires more of the driver than just taking good lines.
He's not scared, he's being professional. It's logical why he don't want to switch career and also gamble his life over something he's not comfortable with just because someone want him to do so.
yes he's scared.
Most road course drivers struggle on ovals if its not something they are use to as its entails more danger at times with drivers taking cars 3 wide at 200+ mph is crazy, so I dont see max doing the Indy 500 in real life any time soon but maybe one day we will see him do the iRacing Indy 500 as we all know he loves his sim racing.
I’m gonna say it he needs the most important race to be the goat
It's cool, F1 drivers can't hang anyways. Hell McLaren won more races in F1 than Indycar this year, RLL won multiple times in Indycar and McLaren won none. Indycar is about skill and F1 is simply about money. Max could win in a good car as he's obviously very good but recent attempts by recent F1 drivers have not gone well at all.
If he's worried about safety then they have the better halo system hell he should know that since Red Bull helped develop the Indycar Halo.
Max is still so young and cementing his F1 legacy. I think he’ll drive the Indy 500, but not for another 7-10 years
You make it sound like he's gay "which is fine, there's nothing wrong with that"
It's pretty funny that Danica Patrick has bigger stones thab Max does
Because...who wouldn't rather be in Indianapolis rather than Monte Carlo? "The greatest spectacle in motor racing," according to those who've never seen the Nurburgring.
Ever been to the Indy 500?
When Mike Conway said he didn't feel comfortable on ovals anymore. My respect shot up for him. I definitely root for him in WEC.
As a huge Indycar fan and oval fan, I can truly respect the mass amount of talent that comes from Lewis, Seb, Max, just to name a few F1 drivers who never did ovals that I watched from time to time. I wish people would would stop saying you need to do this or need to do that to be the greatest. Hello will forever be one of the greatest Indy 500 Drivers, Michael Schumacher will forever be one of the greatest F1 Drivers, and Dale Earnhardt will forever be one of the greatest stock car drivers. There’s countless others I haven’t named from other series, as well as the series listed. Whichever motorsport you enjoy, just enjoy it while we have it :)
If he will race Indy 500, Danny Ricc to drive for Red Bull and Lawson to replace Danny.
"greatest race outside of le mans" boy, did he forget about the DAYTONA 500?!?!?!??!?!
No...because it is the ugly, red headed step child to both Lemans and Indy...
I mean the thing is he needs to win it for that third crown. Granted he still needs to win at Le Mans, but that's a lot more doable now for Verstappen than the Indy 500
Verstappen has nothing to prove. The only reason to do it, is to possibly win The Triple Crown, and to win that, he still needs to win 24 hours at Le Mans and of course Indy 500.......but he has plenty of time to achieve that.........
Marcus Ericsson? I remember him from the first season of Drive to survive. He was the also ran to Charles Leclair. Didn’t he win an Indy 500 a couple years ago? Most people join that circuit when they are on the back side of their F1 career not when they’re winning. Also, I don’t see why an oval would be that big of a difference for somebody like Verstappen. Except to be bored out of his skull.
as the famous Michael Schumacher once said "it is a step down from the glamour of F1"
Jajajajajajaja. That’s cute!
because shumi was scared af lol he knew he might not even qualify because he did not have a dominant car like he did in F1
Schumis balls aren’t big enough to go around the fastest oval😊
Now he just famously mumbles and drools while a nurse cleans his diapers...
It’s fine if Max doesn’t want to race the Indy 500…. But I still wish he would, if he ever feels up for it.
Long story short Graham Hill is the greatest driver
Max has proven he one of the best if not the best overall wheelman in the sport, Kyle Larson and the guy from Australia I can’t remember his name is pretty good. Max is good enough to do so if he wishes and that’s that. We’ll see. He’s great for the sport either way.
Ricciardo might do it lmao
He would need to gain mass the car is more heavier at high speeds
Don't forget Monaco.
Best time if the year for racing ❤
Monaco is not on the level of the 500 or the 24 anymore
The Monaco is more like follow the leader with the new F1 car
The only reason Monaco is popular is because of its age while IMS is popular because of its age, spectacle, and the fact basically any driver from any other discipline can participate and have a chance at being immortalized in racing history. To win the Indy 500 is to be on the list of all time great racing drivers. To win Monaco you are on the list of great F1 drivers but that’s about where it stops.
They should start asking him if he wants to race in the daytona 500
Bet any F1 driver would if it paid as much as F1
no most are scared
You get paid much more than F1 for winning the Indy 500.
He cannot become the greatest of all time without completing the Triple Crown, which cannot be done without the 24h of Le Mans and the Indy 500.
If he did race in Indy it’d bring some needed attention to Indy
Needed attention? For a century old race that consistently draws hundreds of thousands of fans, every year??
@@codymoe4986 Indy does not need Max and Max does not need Indy. Indy will be there long after Max or Schumacker or Lewis or whomever is "next". Indy is one of a kind and stands on its own.
Max can’t be the best open wheel driver if he doesn’t drive the 500. Simple as that
Guy doesn’t care about being the best, he just wants to win. He couldn’t give a fuck about how the public sees him
I don’t think you can be the best race car driver EVER if you don’t, but he’s poised to be the best F1 driver ever if he keeps up with his current successes. Obviously if he competes at Le Mans it makes a stronger argument.
Mario Andretti has won in F1, IndyCar, NASCAR, Sprints, and Midgets, and has a second place at Le Mans.
Max doesn't want to leave the comfort of racing in the best equipment against field where there's really only 2/3 drivers per weekend that can stay within 15 seconds based on equipment alone... put him in a Penske car at Indy, he still doesn't crack the top 10..
He has to race Monaco. Why would he race the 500 lol?!
500 is a harder race to win then Monaco
@@PeRRXX he's in F1 though bud, they don't go to the 500.
@@ObiWann90 no shit
It's amazing that Verstappen is given GOAT status yet people still deny Hamilton as a GOAT. If the criteria for Hamilton not being a GOAT is that he's always had the best car and no competition then Verstappen is even less of a GOAT. Either they're both not GOATs or they both are, no in-between.
He could run a road course then
Max could try the Bathurst 1000
Damn, modern F1 drivers are such wusses. This is why Kyle Larson is the current world's greatest driver and not Verstappen. Half of what makes racecar drivers epic is that theyre willing to overcome fear and not settle for comfort. Huge wuss Max is
Na he’s not. Definitely stay in F1 buddy
you can stay in f1 and race in the indy 500... jensen button filled in for alonso at mclaren when he did it, although you do have to miss monaco, which for max means giving checo a win, His worst nightmare hahaha
Why would you go from playing in the nba to go play in South Korea ? Why would Max go from the top Motorsport to not even 5th best Motorsport lol. Indy fans funny af
I used to be a Max Verstappen fan, but no longer. He's nothing but a punk who gets mad when he doesn't win every time. Give credit to Lewis for not putting the #1 on his car, when he had 7 chances to do so.
Bro its just a number
Doubt he cares what you think.
Credit for what? 😂 Oh man this kids are insane😂
Lewis actually put the no 1 in 2009. First and only time he did that and stop it, get some help - a Lewis fan.
@@Mohagnito94he had no choice
Umm, Indycar fans aren’t the problem it’s F1 fans who don’t respect other racing disciplines.
F1 it's top speed is less than 220 indy can spike to 243 and a this year Ave speed was 234 and change and f1 Ave speedvis 160 so there is a substantial pucker factor of driving 80 mph more on ave then customary. If he did it all the time , ok. But just dabble in it. Naw. Ask Jimmy Johnson.
max speeking facts tho
When you said the Indy 500 is the greatest spectacle in motor sports, I was thinking noooo…that’s the 24 hours of Le Mans. Then you said it, so nevermind 😂
He is still very young. Should be banging on about Lewis doing it… after all, he loves danger… apparently
How the fuck is Indy 500 the greatest spectacle in racing??? I sense some American bias here
Exactly
It’s literally been called the Greatest Spectacle in Racing since it’s inception you clown. Interesting how you have no problem with F1 at Vegas calling itself the “greatest racing spectacle” literally shut up, drone
Well it dates back to before F1 ever existed, Drivers faces go on the trophy and the trophy is worth i think 6 million itself. it has over 350,000 people at the track on raceday so what an F1 race would bring combining all 3 days of an F1 weekend and twice as may viewers for tv... so according to the stats for sure the greatest spectacle in motorsports worldwide nothing else comes close.
As a European F1 fan, this is 100% if I'm being honest mate.
No. We want to see max race the 500 because he is that good
0/10 take. he’s won one world championship fairly. the fact of the matter is Max will never win 6 or 7 no matter how long Red Bull cheats. Checo is the only reason he won in 2021 and 2022, despite the simple fact Red Bull cheated both years🤣
Plus I think you can be the greatest formula one driver of all time and not be the greatest driver of all time I think AJ Foyt is the greatest driver of all time and I don't think its close, no one ever asked him to drive an f1 car because he hated Europe but if he liked Europe he would have wrecked the field
@@precesionnoreaster1507 very true, i would love to see hamilton in sports cars or anything BUT f1. my personal pick for greatest driver is alonso or jim clark, they can do it anywhere in any car
@@gherbo1609 tbh Hamilton was quick in Nascar when he switched with Tony Stewart
@@Mohagnito94 i mean a real race though, or if he were to drive for his extreme e team, that would be incredible
The Bathurst 1000 is better
"No race compares to indy 500" 😐
As an F1 fan, and a European, he is right.
Where’s the lie Europoor
Means he's scared
He is not a true racer, and he doesn't have cojones to try an oval at 240mph.
No,
Unfortunately he could not claim to be the best without achieving the triple crown. Other great drivers have conquered all three disciplines.
Its totally fine if he doesnt want to do it, but he could not claim to the "best" without doing so.
nobody has achieved the triple crown
@@Alumii Graham Hill - Monaco 5 times (1963, 1964, 1965, 1968 and 1969) He won the Indy 500 in 1966 and Lemans 24 hr in 1972. He is the only driver to do so.
I did write "drivers" plural. I thought Montoya and Rindt had done it also, but I was mistaken.
@@nickloepp329 Oh you are right, apologies my bad. but still its a very rare occurrence
@Alumii Indeed, very rare. But it has been done so max is S.O.L unless he does also. He will be the best F1 driver for that particular year absolutely. But not the "The Best".
Max never claimed to be the best, nor does he care to be the best. Max just wants to win
I agree with you 100%.
However... I would like to see him attempt the triple crown. I feel like he could legitimately do it
The Indy 500 is pointless😂.
The entire F1 championship is whats really pointless LMAO People forget F1 race winners and champions but Indy 500 winners go down in history and date back before F1 even existed... So yeah if you want to be immortal and known as one of the best drivers in the world you race the 500. Nobody even watches monaco LMAO
F1 fans really get lied to thinking their Motorsport is the highest discipline in racing lmao when you cant even get in without an insane amount of money.
Leman>500
I think only Americans care about ovals though
Till Verstappen tried his talents in something other than illegal rocketship he'll always be a one trick pony. Same with Hamilton.
Indy 500 is NOT the greatest racing spectacle!
Care to enlighten us to what is?
Make sure to present facts, other than just "My favorite"...
he's scared because he knows in IndyCar he wont have the advantage of a superior Red Bull car. also he wouldnt get away with causing wrecks left and right in IndyCar like he's been known to do in F1. someone would smack him in the face in IndyCar. they dont play.
I’ve been to the Bathurst 1000 six or seven times and it takes a special breed of driver to race there so I’ll reserve judgement on whether the Indi 500 is the greatest race in the world.
It’s totally fine he doesn’t want to run it. It’s fine to turn down something that you don’t feel comfortable do but that being said, it’s hard for me to legitimately be able to call him one of the best ever if he never runs one of the Triple Crown races. And there is a part of me that is curious if he does win Monaco and the Le Mans 24, if he may change his mind a little bit
He needs to race some form of Indy if he wants to be the undisputed best. Indy has plenty of street circuits
Watching same spec cars go round and round and round for hours is boring AF!
It IS a spectacle to behold, but boring...
Hours of turning left in the motorsport equivalent of ultimate slap fight might just not be enticing to someone like Max.
F1 is basically me driving around chicago gtfo lol
The 500 is like if every corner was Eau Rouge and you're going 50mph faster with another 13 cars on grid.
Slap fight? Sure bud...
This guy actually thinks Max is intimidated by Indy racing. 😂😂
He might drive in it at some point, more than likely at the twilight of his career like alot of the great F1 drivers but I can assure you Max isn't even nearly intimidated by the Indy 500. This guy must be trolling or else is absolutely clueless about racing.
Indy500 this and that... Stop! It's not the greatest spectacle. If it was then every aspiring driver would be looking up to it rather than spending their life and money for Formula 1. F1 is the reason of innovations which further bleeds into all the motor-racing categories.
yeah man, not anymore. leman hypercars are faster than f1 cars and have more innovative technologies. you tell me what is innovative about the rb19...
@@gherbo1609 stop the cap
@@Spankster. the new reg cars are ass, it is not "cap" it is the truth.
@@gherbo1609 Le Mans Hypercars are not faster over a lap. They may have faster acceleration times, but an F1 car is faster around a circuit. In terms of innovation, F1 has been at the forefront and a ton of the tech you see in Le Mans hypercars came from F1. F1 remains the most desirable place to be for racing drivers around the world… there are even a few hypercar and Indy drivers who have tried to get into F1 over the past couple years.
@@Spankster. you said it yourself, "has been" i dont dispute that it is the pinnacle of motorsport but the current cars are slow and not at all innovative. 2026 promises "movable aero", maybe we will see something ground breaking and innovative then.
This is what bad parenting does to the young mind, thanks Jos for creating a literal monster.
What?
Tell me what exactly is wrong you PC hero
Bad parenting is the reason he won’t race the 500??
Or maybe he does not care about indy 500 because ovals are stupid
Go to the 500 in person and you’ll take it back I guarantee it.
Think he's too chicken, honestly!
I think Schumacher said it best. It’s a few steps down from F1. It’s high risk putting yourself on track with 40 amateur drivers. It would be like Patrick Mahomes playing in the Australian Rugby Championship Match. Doesn’t make any sense to do something like that.
Why the F would he want to lower himself to that level?🤔
There is nothing in motorsports that tops the Indianapolis 500
@@jessallen7756 Yes, but only if you're an American.
@@CroftVan yea that’s why world wide the 500 is on the list for triple crown of racing lmao..
@@chrislawson9476 Agreed, that it is the most coveted triple crown and all. However, rhe charm has been lost over the years. As an American you may not get it. Formula 1 was & is a prestigious worldwide championship, any racing driver will say that winning the F1 driver's championship is what they aspire to. So in conclusion yes the Indy 500 is a prestigious race and winning it means a lot to racing drivers. However, if you present a choice, win Indy 500 or win an F1 driver's championship, chances are nine out of ten times the F1 driver's championship will be chosen.
@@CroftVan an indy 500 win is one race, a champion ship is many races, its not a fair comparison, im british and indycar is not for me, ill watch the highlights for some overtakes every now and then but i ALWAYS watch the indy 500. you are simply deluded if you think it isnt one of the most prestigious races, and out of the triple crown, monaco is the most pathetic. lets make this comparison, would a driver rather win monaco or the indy500? you know the answer already
Excuse me what?? How is the Indy500 the greatest spectacle in motor racing? Almost every F1 track is more entertaining than a... Circle...
Ummm… I love watching state of the art cars go around the ✨Monaco GP ✨ at 27 MPH with 0 passing… totally entertaining. Go to the 500 in person and you’ll take it back 100%
He's chicken caca
No he'll never be the greatest. Not even close. Today's F1 drivers suck.
Huh?
You’re delusional
Silly American sports
He is nowhere close to the greatest ever