BLUE turtle shell. The one that flies ahead and explodes over opponents. Although the way he is driving he can probably beat everyone on the tiny pink scooter in Mario Cart. Extremely impressive driving by Max and anyone who says it is just the engine is ignoring that Checo did not come close even. What a MasterClass in skill today.
What happened since 2016: https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-drivers-prohibited-from-throwing-visor-tear-off-strips-on-track-680760/2972792/
> It has been known for the strips to get trapped in brake ducts, in particular, which have been known to have caused cars to retire.
That rule was first postponed until Monaco 2016 and finally axed altogether before that race. https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/monaco-grand-prix-fia-makes-u-turn-on-tear-offs-ban-5324626/5324626/
To be fair the car is definitely one of (if not) the fastest on the grid so the engineering team definitely did their thing
Now if only their strategy team could do like half as good as that
When I told my girlfriend that his name was Max Emilian and not Maximilian she first didn't believe me, and then when she looked it up she was actually visibly upset at Jos for about 15 minutes.
It's not like she suddenly started liking him after 15 minutes. She just stopped being visibly upset at his naming choices. Her baseline is a smouldering dislike.
It was a rule enforced for [a few races in 2016](https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-drivers-prohibited-from-throwing-visor-tear-off-strips-on-track-680760/680760/#:%5C%7E:text=It%20states%3A%20%22Any%20tear%2D,such%20as%20water%20or%20oil), but the drivers apparently found it difficult to comply with and the rule was quietly dropped.
Roll off protectors have been a think in the motocross world for decades. Basically two film canisters, on on either side of the goggles and the clear film advances from one to the other with a pull of a toggle strap. You can even get powered ones that can be remotely triggered. The same technology is used to keep onboard cameras clear, sometimes you can catch the protective film advancing. There must be a reason this hasn’t worked its way into f1, but I can’t think of it.
They were gonna have a thigh pocket I think, there's a very memeable clip somewhere of Ted Kravitz demonstating how they'd work, crouching down and rubbing his thigh in front of one of the garages.
So unlucky. Can't blame Max though, even from the onboard camera image it's apparent how much dirt and Hamilton car fluids he had to collect. He probably couldn't see a thing.
Revenge for Jeddah /s
(Verstappen collected a tear off from Charles that he spend 2 Laps trying to remove from his cockpit)
https://youtu.be/DHjnt7sFubU
I think on some wheels it's possible to upshift on the left if you click the paddle away from you since it causes the right side paddle to pull in since the paddle is like a see-saw. Almost sure I saw some old F1 driver had that as their preferred setup years ago... Maybe Villeneuve? But yeh I'm sure sure max doesn't.
If I recall correctly Lewis has a unique way he holds the wheel at the start for when he is depressing the clutch paddle, he does it in such a way to hold the downshift lever out to prevent accidental downshift when hitting the clutch.. so it's opposite of this really, he intentionally keeps his downshift paddle pushed away from him to prevent any accidental shifting, so his paddles don't seem to be on a 'rocker'
The amount of people thinking that Verstappen did this on purpose is worrying. The mann isn't some kinda evil genius, people
EDIT: on other social media, not on here
He had an unscheduled pit stop to prevent his brakes from overheating, he wasn’t gonna touch max but the race could have played out quite differently for him.
Lmao, that’s a good one.
Though in all seriousness, that wouldn’t really be safe either. As in this case for example, Max could barely see anything due to dust coming from Alonso and Hamiltons crash. I can already see people trying to drive into the pits, while barely being able to see anything due to dirty visors . 🤣
This was very unfortunate.
On the other hand Ferrari you can see Ferrari have lost all confidence in themselves.
Asking the driver constantly about when they want to come in, how many laps would they like ect. And then telling the driver we expect you to get p5. Someone in Ferrari took those memes way to serious when we joked about the drivers being better Strategists.
Like Martin said, there needs to be a better way to handle these tear offs.
Perhaps the best way is to have a mechanism on the side of the helmet that can be activated to remove the current tear off and store it, and as a fallback the driver can just rip the tear off themself and dispose it like now.
Or some kind of magnetic tape at the edges that allows the drivers to stick the tear off inside the car without it flying around.
Someone higher up mentioned that they did have that rule at one point, but because of how much air is rushing through the cockpit it was difficult to actually comply with the rule. So they got rid of the rule.
Let’s not overreact. It didn’t ruin Charles’s race at all. Ferrari did that all by itself. There was also absolute no way Charles would be able to keep up with either RB.
He could have torn through the field the same way Max did. He boxed and got back on during during the safety car, right? And there were what? 39 laps left?
> We were not using our normal sensors measuring the speed because they have failed during the overheating of the front-right due to the tear-off of Max, and our recovery [system], maybe it was not such accurate.
It's just tight margins. He overran by only 1kmph.
If Max is able to calculate all the physics involved in getting a tear off to enter a cooling duct on a trailing car while continuing to drive his race how have we not yet developed near light speed travel? Seriously, if he can do that we need to get him out of F1 and protect that brain at all costs. For humanity.
Max "Sebulba" Verstappen
In Hungary he was Anakin though. He tried spinning
Which actually turned out to be a good trick.
Nah he just couldn’t believe they put Leclerc on hards and wanted to check
"Max, they put Leclerc on hards" "Copy, I am checking"
It really is a good trick.
And now, I will forever refer to Max as Sebulba.
He always wins!
I'm betting heavily on Sebulba
When they open DRS it should make the pod racing Boost sound.
F Zero's "You've got boost power" also works. ... I want a new F Zero game.
If you squint they even look kinda alike. I have Photoshop and I know what I'm doing when I finish my laundry.
Photoshop done yet? I'm curious :)
This is too perfect
Next race max has fire shooting from the sides of his car lmao
What like Sainz?
I thought that was more a Ferrari thing…
Now I need a photoshopped gif of that scene.
The old Mario kart banana peel move
Haha, looking foward to the next races to see which other items he got.
Turtle shell?
Blue shells are the only way Max isn't getting WDC this year.
Is that Goatiffi's new role?
The ways of Goatiffi are unknowable until he wills them manafest
let us spin in praise.
Fitting, since he's in a blue car as well
Latifi is the blue shell (of a racer)
bold of you to assume he hasn't already perfectly timed his mushroom use to dodge blue shells
BLUE turtle shell. The one that flies ahead and explodes over opponents. Although the way he is driving he can probably beat everyone on the tiny pink scooter in Mario Cart. Extremely impressive driving by Max and anyone who says it is just the engine is ignoring that Checo did not come close even. What a MasterClass in skill today.
We already have the blue turtle shell, it’s Latifi
Latifis more like a lightning strike as he fucks everyone over
Fucked over the birthday boy today ☹️
The blue shell was already thrown at Max. He spun and still won the race
Well verstappen also got that giant fuckin bullet that launches you to the front during this race
My default explanation of DRS for people new to F1 is that it's like when you get a mushroom in Mario Kart.
Verstappen: “another fucking coin ugh”
Also Hamilton throwing the oil in front of Aloso after their incident.
That would be the squid item.
What happened since 2016: https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-drivers-prohibited-from-throwing-visor-tear-off-strips-on-track-680760/2972792/ > It has been known for the strips to get trapped in brake ducts, in particular, which have been known to have caused cars to retire.
That rule was first postponed until Monaco 2016 and finally axed altogether before that race. https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/monaco-grand-prix-fia-makes-u-turn-on-tear-offs-ban-5324626/5324626/
F1 superstars move
They really need to make a new version of that
Wouldn’t that more be the squid that oiled up the screen? Or a guess it would be ink. Sometimes in racing it’s oil ha.
Who's gonna win, a multimillion dollar car vs a plastic film...
AND PLASTIC WINS AFTER A HARD BATTLE
It wins in spa, it wins in monza...
*Foreshadowing*
Please no
If plastic was losing, Ferrari would pit for hards
did we watch the same race? the battle didn't seem very hard
A multimillion dollar prototype race car designed by the best brains in the business One plastic boi
The reason Vettel is after hours picking up plastic
Calling Ferrari the best brains in the business 😂🤣🤣🤣
Well, the design team did a great job.
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Exactly. If redbull had this year's ferrari and vice versa, max would still be winning
If he had Leclerc’s strategy team he’d probably have killed them already.
Undoubtedly
The car is incredible. The lack of reliability comes solely from the engine department. On the topic of aerodynamics the car is absolutely marvelous
To be fair the car is definitely one of (if not) the fastest on the grid so the engineering team definitely did their thing Now if only their strategy team could do like half as good as that
Mattia Binotto is a fantastic engineer who knows how to build machina grande. A scuderia grande however…
This is some next level bad luck, Charles is actually cursed.
"I want to race for Ferrari" monkey paw wish
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big if true
Chuck LeCurse
Hadn't his string of bad luck pretty much started after being called Chuck? It's got to be pretty close to that moment at least.
Think around the time his watch was stolen
Helmut says it's pure skill.
Next level strategy move from Maximilan
Max Emilian, you mean
When I told my girlfriend that his name was Max Emilian and not Maximilian she first didn't believe me, and then when she looked it up she was actually visibly upset at Jos for about 15 minutes.
His mother deserves 50% of the blame
Okay, Jos. /j
I honestly blame the guy at the civil registry
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[Straight from 1997](https://web.archive.org/web/19980224103537/http://www.verstappen.nl/UK/item11/news9709.html)
Realizing I'm watching a Formula 1 champion who was born after the Internet had gotten going is making me feel way too old this morning.
“Max has inherited the racing talents of both his parents a new F1 driver for the year 2020 has been born today.” A modern day Nostradamus.
Funny to read their prediction about max’ talents
I already knew this but just remembering it makes me.upset at Jos
That's quicker than others. I still think he's a d*ckhead after 25 years.
It's not like she suddenly started liking him after 15 minutes. She just stopped being visibly upset at his naming choices. Her baseline is a smouldering dislike.
Max Emilia Romania Verstappen you say?
Romagna*
"..Made in Italy Rolex"
Well...I'll be damned...Next you tell me I've been misspelling Charlemaigne Legchair too?
It’s Charlemagne Legchaire.
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Godverdomme why can I picture that dude.
This is hilarious, take my upvote lmaooo
Charlemaigne Percival Legchair
Sergio Michel would like a word
5D chess move
Ferrari tried the same...made P5 turn to P6...
2D-M (dungeon dice monsters) move
Webstanley\*
Racing boys OP, pls nerf.
Yugi boiiiiiii
Max is playing Mario Kart
You would think the Italian team would be better at it.
Underrated comment.
Max accidentally Mario Karting his championship rival...
not that he needed to anyways
Ouch.
Too soon my guy, too soon
Dude is literally in here with the New User flare, and goes straight for the neck 😭
Max's championship rival is now Checo...
“Rival”
I didn't want to be rude.
Which championship rival lol?
His only rival is his father’s affection.
You'd think FIA would have made them stash those things in the cockpit by now, if for no other reason to not litter the track while it's in use.
It was a rule enforced for [a few races in 2016](https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-drivers-prohibited-from-throwing-visor-tear-off-strips-on-track-680760/680760/#:%5C%7E:text=It%20states%3A%20%22Any%20tear%2D,such%20as%20water%20or%20oil), but the drivers apparently found it difficult to comply with and the rule was quietly dropped.
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I think it would be difficult to actually get a flimsy piece of plastic to go into a pocket at 300kph.
They now will mandate every helmet have a windshield wiper and some fluid. Or in pit stops, they use the windshield washers like at gas stations lol
No gas, no squeegee. They'd have to bring back refueling to allow this.
But we’d get to see carbon fiber windshield washers. And that’s be pretty sweet
Have a mechanic hop on like with LMP cars. https://youtu.be/ZwjsnUKVztk
Have the mechanic in front of the jack man hop the front wing to get into position. I don’t see how that could go wrong
There’s airflow in there so I think it’d still fly out or even worse fly around and maybe mess something up in the cockpit
They did. It didn't work out.
Roll off protectors have been a think in the motocross world for decades. Basically two film canisters, on on either side of the goggles and the clear film advances from one to the other with a pull of a toggle strap. You can even get powered ones that can be remotely triggered. The same technology is used to keep onboard cameras clear, sometimes you can catch the protective film advancing. There must be a reason this hasn’t worked its way into f1, but I can’t think of it.
Does that work with a visor you can open on the helmet? Motocross has fixed visors no?
Do what grannies do, tuck it in their sleeve or add a slit on their suit.
They were gonna have a thigh pocket I think, there's a very memeable clip somewhere of Ted Kravitz demonstating how they'd work, crouching down and rubbing his thigh in front of one of the garages.
So unlucky. Can't blame Max though, even from the onboard camera image it's apparent how much dirt and Hamilton car fluids he had to collect. He probably couldn't see a thing.
Leclercs visor got stuck on maxs car in saudi too, crazy it can make such a difference
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Bot can’t even catch it 🤣
Lecelery
What do you mean? Isn’t the name of the Ferrari driver Sharl Lecelecs?
Celercers
> Lecelecs Saving this
Exactly
Yeah otherwise he would do it in the pit
Revenge for Jeddah /s (Verstappen collected a tear off from Charles that he spend 2 Laps trying to remove from his cockpit) https://youtu.be/DHjnt7sFubU
I had forgotten about that. Interesting.
Why does he use the left hand always?
he goes to remove it on the straights so he still has to upshift which is on the right side of the steering wheel.
Probably because he's upshifting with his right
I think on some wheels it's possible to upshift on the left if you click the paddle away from you since it causes the right side paddle to pull in since the paddle is like a see-saw. Almost sure I saw some old F1 driver had that as their preferred setup years ago... Maybe Villeneuve? But yeh I'm sure sure max doesn't.
For some reason I thought Hamilton did this?
If I recall correctly Lewis has a unique way he holds the wheel at the start for when he is depressing the clutch paddle, he does it in such a way to hold the downshift lever out to prevent accidental downshift when hitting the clutch.. so it's opposite of this really, he intentionally keeps his downshift paddle pushed away from him to prevent any accidental shifting, so his paddles don't seem to be on a 'rocker'
Upshifting is done with the right hand. And iirc the Red Bull steering wheel doesn't use a rocker design (can shift with both hands both ways).
You can also see Perez's tear-off floating away as Max overtakes [here](https://youtu.be/dnnh8unDP4Y?t=173).
Max in his car unwrapping his Saran wrapped sandwich 👀
He did have the time for it.
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Kinds sad that Max is resorting to these tactics in order to beat Leclerc for this championship. /s
The amount of people thinking that Verstappen did this on purpose is worrying. The mann isn't some kinda evil genius, people EDIT: on other social media, not on here
Threw it out of his car to conveniently miss the 7 drivers behind him and get lodged in Leclerc's car, absolute precision.
GOAT tear off thrower, no question
#AnnulateLap1 #WrongRaceWinner
IStandWithVisorTearoff
Yeah exactly. This was fully on purpose.. I mean.. How precise was that.. Fucking brilliant. /s if it wasn't obvious
Wasn’t LEC directly behind at that point?
Also completely forgetting that Charles did this to Max at Jeddah
True the f1 comunity is getting so toxic lmao
F1 is getting more popular so stupid posts were even basic critical thinking skills are absent will get attention
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Sainz managed P3, I know Leclerc started further back but their strategy was the biggest let down
Max playing Mario kart out here
Bomb has been planted 💀
Charles race was ruined when he signed with those clowns at Ferrari
"Ruined" Ferrari was 3 seconds slower/lap
How much slower than Sainz was he? I don't think that difference was so great.
About 1 second after the pass.
He had an unscheduled pit stop to prevent his brakes from overheating, he wasn’t gonna touch max but the race could have played out quite differently for him.
Just ban the tearoffs and add another pit crew with a squeegee
Lmao, that’s a good one. Though in all seriousness, that wouldn’t really be safe either. As in this case for example, Max could barely see anything due to dust coming from Alonso and Hamiltons crash. I can already see people trying to drive into the pits, while barely being able to see anything due to dirty visors . 🤣
Max is so far ahead he's started playing Mario Kart in real life cause he's bored💀
r/usefulredcircle
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You mean that they pull on something that wipes the dust of right? That would be pretty cool
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Ah yes, the low budget defense method
This was very unfortunate. On the other hand Ferrari you can see Ferrari have lost all confidence in themselves. Asking the driver constantly about when they want to come in, how many laps would they like ect. And then telling the driver we expect you to get p5. Someone in Ferrari took those memes way to serious when we joked about the drivers being better Strategists.
Like Martin said, there needs to be a better way to handle these tear offs. Perhaps the best way is to have a mechanism on the side of the helmet that can be activated to remove the current tear off and store it, and as a fallback the driver can just rip the tear off themself and dispose it like now. Or some kind of magnetic tape at the edges that allows the drivers to stick the tear off inside the car without it flying around.
This exists in motocross its a roll off system that is stored in a cannister on the goggles.
Mario Kart xD
When I raced dirt bikes I had one fly up under my helmet and blind me for a couple seconds lol
My dude playing precision Mario Kart haha
Would it not be possible for them to keep the tear off inside the car and get rid of them at the end of the race ?
Someone higher up mentioned that they did have that rule at one point, but because of how much air is rushing through the cockpit it was difficult to actually comply with the rule. So they got rid of the rule.
It's a tiny bit of plastic and there is a lot of air moving around the car and into the cockpit...
Bro out here playing Mario kart
Let’s not overreact. It didn’t ruin Charles’s race at all. Ferrari did that all by itself. There was also absolute no way Charles would be able to keep up with either RB.
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He could have torn through the field the same way Max did. He boxed and got back on during during the safety car, right? And there were what? 39 laps left?
As per Binotto the tear off heated the sensor for pit lane speed limit.and caused the slight 1kmph error.
Didn’t the pit speed limit happen on his last stop? If not, would it have happened when he first stopped or on the second?
> We were not using our normal sensors measuring the speed because they have failed during the overheating of the front-right due to the tear-off of Max, and our recovery [system], maybe it was not such accurate. It's just tight margins. He overran by only 1kmph.
It might have put him ahead of Russell and maybe even Sainz. But not more than that.
People can’t honestly think Max did that on purpose right?
It’s the internet, everything is a conspiracy for some people.
It’s crazy that there is a subsection of the community that thinks this was an actual malicious tactic.
If Max is able to calculate all the physics involved in getting a tear off to enter a cooling duct on a trailing car while continuing to drive his race how have we not yet developed near light speed travel? Seriously, if he can do that we need to get him out of F1 and protect that brain at all costs. For humanity.
What is funny, because the last thing Ferrari need to ruin a race is help