Max Verstappen has agreed to stop competing in simracing events late at night before grands prix following his performance in the Hungarian Grand Prix, according to Red Bull motorsport consultant Helmut Marko
Max Verstappen has agreed to stop competing in simracing events late at night before grands prix following his performance in the Hungarian Grand Prix, according to Red Bull motorsport consultant Helmut Marko
Is it? I’d say we don’t really know.
Yeah he did a couple where he won easily the day after. But he was also in literally the most dominant F1 car of all time at that point. He barely had to push at all.
The most recent time he didn’t have that advantage. He was irritated (to put it mildly lmao), error prone, and dangerous. Then the way he went on after the race was completely unhinged.
Lapses of concentration and irritability are pretty synonymous with lack of good sleep. I don’t think it’s that unreasonable to ask “was he tired?” considering he was up awake and actively competing well past 2 in the morning. Max is human, and that sounds like something that would make almost anybody tired the next day.
The McLaren was already up there/faster than the Red Bull in Imola this year and he won that race with a similar sim racing schedule that same weekend.
I don’t actually know anything about racing, I just hear through the grapevine that he’s one of the best. I figured it was like when they tried to get Denny McLane to stop drinking Pepsi and he couldn’t pitch anymore
Oh he’s certainly one of the best ever. I’d never dispute that. I can’t really name anybody else on the grid capable of seriously going against Lewis over the course of a season.
But the Red Bull has went from the most dominant car ever to second best, with the Mercedes in a not too far behind 3rd (certainly good enough to compete depending on the track)
Max has stated that the car now needs his complete concentration otherwise it’s easy to lose control, whereas last season and early this season it was on rails and just did what you wanted it to do.
I think that if he was tired (and I know I would be if I stayed up doing competitive sim-racing past 2 in the morning!), it’d be a lot more noticeable in his current car than in last year’s (or early season this year’s) car, because he has to be more “on the limit”, so-to-speak, in order to get a good result.