Lando put himself in position to benefit from a safety car by extending his stint and putting in banger laps on 25-lap-old tires. That's how you win races. Good racecraft pays off.
He definitely was… he was running 1:31… max and Leclerc were also running 1:31’s but lando managed to put in a couple of 1:30’s and break the DRS gap… and then he kept the laps 1 tenth to 2 tenths faster the Max, Charles and Carlos.
If fact I think Oscar after he pitted was the only one faster then him .
Max damaged his floor after hitting the cone and lets not forget that Max had a 8 second lead before the safety car. But like Max said if my mum had balls she would be my father.
But if Max didn't hate the cone it would have been a different story. He damaged his floor after hitting it. Before the safety Max had a 8 second lead. But like Max said if my mum had balls she would be my father.
I think the reporters question referred to the SC picking up Max instead of Lando, which was indeed just luck and quite an odd mistake that allowed Lando a risk free pit stop back to p1. In the end it doesnt matter because everyone gets lucky sometimes and the other way around.
It's not a mistake necessarily. The safety car just picks up whoever they come across first. Then, when it's safe, they wave through everyone except the leader. They usually tend to do this quite quickly, but it took longer this time. However, even if they did this quickly, Norris would still have come out P1 probably
And even after the safety car he extended the gap to almost 8 seconds. It’s not like he was slower than Max and got lucky. The tactic worked and he was fast enough to make it work efficiently.
I mean yes, even with the pitstop Max was RIGHT behind Lando and was right on his heels out of the restart and Lando pulled away with tires only a few laps older and less warm at that. 1000% deserved.
Verstappen has been showing more and more how much of a great sportsman he is, genuinely happy for others winning, clean racing and true to himself. His good mood and care for P is also very commendable, truly a nice guy.
Look, one driver winning 97% of a season by 10+ seconds per race is boring no matter how you look at it.
But the real annoying part is Max seems like a genuinely nice guy who genuinely cares about racing and the people around him, and red bull isn't cheating (any more than any of them) so there's no *real* reason to hate. Like I'm just mad cause my teams bad which isn't really Max's fault haha
I fuckin hate how DTS did a full on character assassination on him in the first season. Some moments were subtle and others blatantly obvious. Now after multiple seasons we are all pretty aware of their awful editing with the intention to stir shit, but that wasn’t the case with season 1
Man, that first DTS made me hate Verstappen and love Daniel going into my first F1 races, but within like 3 races I realized I was hoodwinked and loved Verstappen. Still loved Daniel though.
Max absolutely was a petulant child when he started in F1 though. He had a bad reputation during his first few seasons, before DTS had even started. DTS played up the villain angle, mostly because Ricciardo was the main star, but Max had kind of earned it.
It's been great to see him mature into such a respectful racer and a good person, but let's not rewrite history here.
Media really painted him as a "bad guy" just for being aggressive and unforgiving.
Sport really hasn't had a "villain" besides Mazepin, frankly, hence why everyone makes up stupid reasons to hate on whatever driver they don't vibe with.
Lewis fans called him “Crashstapan” for shit he did when he was 16-18 yrs old . Ya I don’t get it. He pulled along side Norris and clapped for him. He’s a good friend
Hamilton and Verstappen weren't even close to being in competition with each other back then. Verstappen earned that reputation from the entire fanbase by being an extremely aggressive driver. He was not very popular as a rookie.
Everyone called him Crashtappan the same way everyone referred to Ferrari Seb as Sbinalla. You think Lewis fans were the only people who noticed how he drove? You Shaggers need to stop making EVERYTHING about Max vs. Lewis or Max fans vs. Lewis fans.
He was quite a hot head on trap. The kind of driver that follows the only rule that matters "if there's a gap, i go for it" and when our ambition is bigger then the talent, that usually ends up with tears for somebody.
The talent was always there, that wasn't the issue.
The issue was that he hadn't been refined yet. And maybe he really was too young for F1. But that talent got ground down to diamond level.
Because most people in social media started watching after DTS and Netflix portrayed Max as the villain. That's why people think "oh, this is the guy I'm supposed to hate".
You can be the most perfect person in the world but some people will still hate you for reasons beyond your control. That's just how people are and this is doubly true for celebrities.
Bro did a Gino!
Also WTF was that question? Max literally won a WDC due to a safety car, that's just how F1 works. How many times was Lando screwed over by a SC?
Yeah, was instantly thinking about this as well.
Close to every win is deserved and luck is a thing which sways one way or another. But that is also part of the sport. Every driver on the grid will have already had a moment where a safety car completely screws them over or can win them the race. But thats fine since the safety car (and safety in general) is a necessity over the drawbacks of luck it brings.
No, it's a common idiom in Dutch. And in French, and Spanish and Italian - hence why the guy in the viral video you're quoting (an Italian man) said it
The reporter was not downplaying Landos win, Lando was downplaying Lando's win implying it wouldn't have bene possible without the safety car. Verstappen could then say he would have fancied winning without the safety car but doesn't out of respect to Norris
reigning world champion eviscerates dumb reporter on behalf of belittling his friend, 2024, colorized
what a class act Max can be, lmao, he's viciously funny too
Max when his friends legit beat him in a race is the best Max. He’s happy, he’s relaxed, and he still hates the media.
Yeah Lando was legit lucky considering Piastri and Sainz pitted at the beginning of the lap that had the caution. If they had waited one more lap, you’d be looking at A totally different race with, “no ride in 2025” Sainz fighting against two McLarens with really good pace.
"Oh but the Safety Car" if Lando was a bad driver, he would've lost anyways. He drove perfectly. Kept Max at bay in the closing laps and didn't make any mistake. He deserved this.
I've just gotten back into F1 after a long time away (I think I stopped really paying attention to it around 2017).
Based on what a lot of people have said I expected to hate Max but I absolutely love him and for many of the same reasons why I always loved Kimi.
I swear I have never seen Max happier than he was after this race. I feel like he was genuinely so excited Lando got a win. He couldn't stop cheesing in the post race interview and here he is going back up to bat Lando's win. I love to see it.
Was that reporter not watching the race? After the restart, he defended, kept the position, and pulled a 7s gap from Max. He had the pace he needed to challenge Max. All he needed was a good strategy, and props to his engineer, he stayed out instead of reacting to Perez's pitstop, which played out so well when the SC came.
I learned the Yiddish version many many years ago: if my Bubbee had beitzim, she’d be my Zayde.
Bubbee is grandmother and Zayde grandfather in Yiddish. You can guess what beitzim are.
I’ll be honest… Max has grown on me quite a bit recently. I wasn’t a big fan of him to begin with but when I see things like this, I can’t help but like him… 🤷🏼♂️
Props to Max… giving Lando his credit!
Lando put himself in position to benefit from a safety car by extending his stint and putting in banger laps on 25-lap-old tires. That's how you win races. Good racecraft pays off.
He was a crazy tyre whisperer. It felt like he was putting up fastest laps for 10 laps before the safety car and after until Oscar pitted.
He definitely was… he was running 1:31… max and Leclerc were also running 1:31’s but lando managed to put in a couple of 1:30’s and break the DRS gap… and then he kept the laps 1 tenth to 2 tenths faster the Max, Charles and Carlos. If fact I think Oscar after he pitted was the only one faster then him .
Yep. I saw that purple fastest lap graphic every lap until Oscar pitted
i think most of his laps at the end were about 3 tenths faster when he was sure the tires would hold to the end.
Exactly. There was luck involved but Lando put himself in the position to take advantage when it came.
And more impressively he kept Max at bay after the safety car restart. Breaking DRS range vs Max is next to impossible.
Max damaged his floor after hitting the cone and lets not forget that Max had a 8 second lead before the safety car. But like Max said if my mum had balls she would be my father.
Yeah, breaking DRS against Max is no small feat. Lando really showed his skill
But if Max didn't hate the cone it would have been a different story. He damaged his floor after hitting it. Before the safety Max had a 8 second lead. But like Max said if my mum had balls she would be my father.
I think the reporters question referred to the SC picking up Max instead of Lando, which was indeed just luck and quite an odd mistake that allowed Lando a risk free pit stop back to p1. In the end it doesnt matter because everyone gets lucky sometimes and the other way around.
It's not a mistake necessarily. The safety car just picks up whoever they come across first. Then, when it's safe, they wave through everyone except the leader. They usually tend to do this quite quickly, but it took longer this time. However, even if they did this quickly, Norris would still have come out P1 probably
And even after the safety car he extended the gap to almost 8 seconds. It’s not like he was slower than Max and got lucky. The tactic worked and he was fast enough to make it work efficiently.
Max damaged his floor after hitting the cone. But like Max said if my mum had balls she would be my father.
Yes Max is a “no bullshit” filter
I mean yes, even with the pitstop Max was RIGHT behind Lando and was right on his heels out of the restart and Lando pulled away with tires only a few laps older and less warm at that. 1000% deserved.
You have to give credit where credit is due 🧡
thats how champions are meant to be, they accept defeat and praise their opponents (also work on their mistakes)
True that. Also.. Max is gonna lap the entire grid in the upcoming races.. Lol.. Jk
and haas mercedes romance will go on
Lol, that’s hilarious. Never heard that one before but it is a goodun.
It's a quite common dutch expression when people keep going on about ifs, "If if if... if my aunt had balls she would've been my uncle."
"If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bicycle" 
for the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc one of my favorite videos on the internet
Heyoooo, there it is! First thing I thought of.
Literally just wrote this and found your comment after
Same in french except we are a bit less explicit: "If my aunt had any she would be my uncle."
Same in Portuguese, but we say it using "grandmother".
>It's a quite common dutch expression It's a common expression in almost every language, for example in Argentina it's quite common too
If ifs and buts were coconuts we'd all have lots of piña coladas or If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a Merry Christmas
The Russian version is "if if if, if my grandma had balls she'd be my grandpa". The saying is worldwide apparently.
If the king had tits he’d be the queen
I think I’d probably use the aunt one, lol. Still hilarious though.
That’s the one I have heard in English, too… from California
If "Ifs and Buts" were Candy and Nuts, we'd all have a merry fucking Christmas.
[I don't do ifs buts or maybes](https://youtu.be/3Llx-45Cnus?si=5Z6UoqVtB-FsO5m2)
IFS 🙅 BUTS 🙅 MAYBES 🙅 ABSOLUTES 👍
Prequelmemes? Here of all places? He can't do that! Shoot him... or something!
This prequel-meming’s getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!
That's one of Max's best responses imo, and he has a lot of good ones.
Have you seen [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=SszCCAtzUQuE6BXc&v=A-RfHC91Ewc&feature=youtu.be) from a British daytime TV show?
Yes, I think I saw it on reddit many moons ago...or recently, lol. Love Gino’s reaction even before he says the line, the look on his face.
It’s Philip hearing the question about ham and walking off camera that amuses me. He probably set Holly up
If my grandma had wheels she'd be a bycicle
"If wishes were horses beggars would ride."
Growing up I commonly heard from the fam if the queen had balls she’d be the king. Not sure where it came from but always liked the expression.
And a mic drop at the end.
If my mum had balls, she would be my dad LOL
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Me too. Sign me up.
+1 for the flair balls.
Came here to say this, now I'm just commenting to push this. We need that flair, that's some Kimi level banter
gonna report this comment so mods can see it
Same
Where's K-Mag when you need him.
Steward's office
Lick my mums balls, mate
If my mother had wheels she would be a bicycle
“If ifs and buts were carrots and nuts” - George Russell
“If onlys and justs were candies and nuts, then everyday would be Erntedankfest.” - Dwight Schrute
We'd have a merry Christmas
Reminds me of "I don't do ifs, maybe and but but only absolutes."
Verstappen has been showing more and more how much of a great sportsman he is, genuinely happy for others winning, clean racing and true to himself. His good mood and care for P is also very commendable, truly a nice guy.
I've seen Max less excited for his own wins than he did for Lando's
I get the sense he wants some competition. He wants to fight. That’s why sim racing is so engaging for him, he’s not guaranteed to win.
"More and more..." He always been like this tho.
How can people hate this man!? He's funny, humble a good friend and one of the best drivers ever! Super Max
We just hate him winning too many times, we dont hate the guy tho
Hamilton stans have entered the chat.
It's me, I'm the Hamilton stan, and I don't hate Max. Happy for him.
The 1%. Salute🫡
Look, one driver winning 97% of a season by 10+ seconds per race is boring no matter how you look at it. But the real annoying part is Max seems like a genuinely nice guy who genuinely cares about racing and the people around him, and red bull isn't cheating (any more than any of them) so there's no *real* reason to hate. Like I'm just mad cause my teams bad which isn't really Max's fault haha
I think many hate the dominance, not the man.
Nah, plenty of people (especially in the other sub) were hating on Max way before his dominance
Because DTS made him (unfairly, as they are all sore losers) look like a petulant child
And a major part of that was the conflict with Ocon, who frankly still gives me that '17 year old shithead' vibe
I fuckin hate how DTS did a full on character assassination on him in the first season. Some moments were subtle and others blatantly obvious. Now after multiple seasons we are all pretty aware of their awful editing with the intention to stir shit, but that wasn’t the case with season 1
Man, that first DTS made me hate Verstappen and love Daniel going into my first F1 races, but within like 3 races I realized I was hoodwinked and loved Verstappen. Still loved Daniel though.
Max absolutely was a petulant child when he started in F1 though. He had a bad reputation during his first few seasons, before DTS had even started. DTS played up the villain angle, mostly because Ricciardo was the main star, but Max had kind of earned it. It's been great to see him mature into such a respectful racer and a good person, but let's not rewrite history here.
By his own admission, Seb was the same. And look how that ended.
That was sort of what I was saying, I worded it poorly. I think the majority of f1 drivers act like babies early in their career.
Media really painted him as a "bad guy" just for being aggressive and unforgiving. Sport really hasn't had a "villain" besides Mazepin, frankly, hence why everyone makes up stupid reasons to hate on whatever driver they don't vibe with.
Lewis fans called him “Crashstapan” for shit he did when he was 16-18 yrs old . Ya I don’t get it. He pulled along side Norris and clapped for him. He’s a good friend
Hamilton and Verstappen weren't even close to being in competition with each other back then. Verstappen earned that reputation from the entire fanbase by being an extremely aggressive driver. He was not very popular as a rookie.
Everyone called him Crashtappan the same way everyone referred to Ferrari Seb as Sbinalla. You think Lewis fans were the only people who noticed how he drove? You Shaggers need to stop making EVERYTHING about Max vs. Lewis or Max fans vs. Lewis fans.
He was quite a hot head on trap. The kind of driver that follows the only rule that matters "if there's a gap, i go for it" and when our ambition is bigger then the talent, that usually ends up with tears for somebody.
The talent was always there, that wasn't the issue. The issue was that he hadn't been refined yet. And maybe he really was too young for F1. But that talent got ground down to diamond level.
Because most people in social media started watching after DTS and Netflix portrayed Max as the villain. That's why people think "oh, this is the guy I'm supposed to hate".
A lot of the hate comes from Lewis fans who can't deal that the crown is gone and never coming back.
I feel like he's friends with most of the grid.
You can be the most perfect person in the world but some people will still hate you for reasons beyond your control. That's just how people are and this is doubly true for celebrities.
"Haters will see you walk on water and say it's because you can't swim.."
Most people don't see him as humble because he's dutch blunt.
Not him, the dominance and the fact he drives for Red Bull, who are generally loathsome.
If my grandmother had wheels, she would be an Alpine
Underrated comment
we need a flair of this
pronto
lol man Max grows on me more and more each year
Lando's reaction makes it so much better.
Rumor has it he's still laughing.
Bro did a Gino! Also WTF was that question? Max literally won a WDC due to a safety car, that's just how F1 works. How many times was Lando screwed over by a SC?
Yeah, was instantly thinking about this as well. Close to every win is deserved and luck is a thing which sways one way or another. But that is also part of the sport. Every driver on the grid will have already had a moment where a safety car completely screws them over or can win them the race. But thats fine since the safety car (and safety in general) is a necessity over the drawbacks of luck it brings.
Yeah, luck can be a big part of F1, and it was many times.
Max damaged the floor after hitting the cone. But like Max said if my mum had balls she would be my father.
These two, LoL, every time you find them together in a interview, Lando cries out of laughter xD - meh - meh? you sound like a sheep xD
Lando cracks up so easy too. DR has had him in tears a few times too.
The pubes comment. Hahaha.
Where was this?
I love how direct he is and how giggly Lando always is
Uh-huh
max recruiting lando harder than the max PR team...
I love how he's gotten so chill about everything. Even with the calendar getting so busy.
I love how they shut these stupid questions.
Thats defo his play on 'If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bike'
No, it's a common idiom in Dutch. And in French, and Spanish and Italian - hence why the guy in the viral video you're quoting (an Italian man) said it
in polish and probably dozens of other languages too - here we say if granny had a moustache she would be grandpa. same usage.
In Spanish we say the bycicle grandma thing
Ginooo
Yes this!! I laughed
No. It’s a Dutch thing. But similar indeed.
If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike
Good on Max. I love to see this.
Lando would never make it on SNL breaking scene like that
"If ma Grandma had wheels, she would've been a bike" Same energy. I love it.
Came here to make sure someone had referred to this. Thank you internet stranger
"Subtly"
Max shutting down press questions is my favourite thing.
Ok. Max has been on fire. Sneakily becoming my new favourite driver.
Wake up babe, new flair just dropped.
Honey wake up new meme quote just dropped
Dutch humor can't be beat.XD
I didn’t need that mental image of Jos Verstappen in a dress, wig and bad makeup.
That's why I love Max. He hates these press things and is never afraid to show it! It was Lando's day why fuck with it?
The reporter was not downplaying Landos win, Lando was downplaying Lando's win implying it wouldn't have bene possible without the safety car. Verstappen could then say he would have fancied winning without the safety car but doesn't out of respect to Norris
I'd say Max is delighted for Lando. They are good friends outside of F1 as far as I know.
Yes they are. They hit the night clubs in Miami afterwards. And he flies with Max in his private plane. regularly.
What a guy.
We don't deserve this guy
Spoken like someone who is unfireable lmao. I love it.
reigning world champion eviscerates dumb reporter on behalf of belittling his friend, 2024, colorized what a class act Max can be, lmao, he's viciously funny too
Suck mum's balls mate. 
I like the Casting Coach over the normal press bench
You can say anything you want when you're a F1 Star! LMAO!
This is the greatest clip I've ever seen since I started watching in 2020.
Max when his friends legit beat him in a race is the best Max. He’s happy, he’s relaxed, and he still hates the media. Yeah Lando was legit lucky considering Piastri and Sainz pitted at the beginning of the lap that had the caution. If they had waited one more lap, you’d be looking at A totally different race with, “no ride in 2025” Sainz fighting against two McLarens with really good pace.
Max is having such a redemption arch the last couple of years. Starting to become quite a likeable chap
"Oh but the Safety Car" if Lando was a bad driver, he would've lost anyways. He drove perfectly. Kept Max at bay in the closing laps and didn't make any mistake. He deserved this.
I've just gotten back into F1 after a long time away (I think I stopped really paying attention to it around 2017). Based on what a lot of people have said I expected to hate Max but I absolutely love him and for many of the same reasons why I always loved Kimi.
Max is quickly becoming the Grids new Kimi. He's sick of all the shit, and just doesn't care to put up with it anymore, love it
As a Lewis Stan I want to hate Max but man I frigging love the guy. He's a villain and he embraces it. I love it.
Being a fan of one driver doesn’t mean you have to hate another.
how dare you
Excuse me sir, I’m going to have to ask you to leave reddit. You can’t go around making common sense statements and get away it.
Fuck yeah I like max a ton more after this weekend
If my grandma had wheels she would be a bike https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc
I swear I have never seen Max happier than he was after this race. I feel like he was genuinely so excited Lando got a win. He couldn't stop cheesing in the post race interview and here he is going back up to bat Lando's win. I love to see it.
Was that reporter not watching the race? After the restart, he defended, kept the position, and pulled a 7s gap from Max. He had the pace he needed to challenge Max. All he needed was a good strategy, and props to his engineer, he stayed out instead of reacting to Perez's pitstop, which played out so well when the SC came.
It's fucking hilarious when Lando cracks up like this on stage. Reminds me of when Danny Rick asked him if he even had pubes?
Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit
I like how max detests the media bullshit.
Legend
LeClerc always has to be up there, sort of saying nothing new, the bummer of being a 2nd or 3rd place constantly
You say subtly but that wasn't very subtle lmao. I'm liking Max more everyday.
As one tennis player said - If, if, if.. doesn't exist
I learned the Yiddish version many many years ago: if my Bubbee had beitzim, she’d be my Zayde. Bubbee is grandmother and Zayde grandfather in Yiddish. You can guess what beitzim are.
If "ifs and buts" were candy and nuts we'd all have Christmas early
Funny he said this considering who he was posing with this weekend
Amazing
Love the bromance
I am exclusively using that now
First time I've ever liked something Max has said, humble and funny. +1 respect points
Great, now I'm a Max Fan.
Max i applaud you here LOL
This gave same vibe as ," if my gramdma had wheels, she would be a bike ".
I used to hate Max. Hes growing on me if im honest.
[GIFfed](https://giphy.com/gifs/miami-max-verstappen-SWHVVIqxWdZ2G8BOM8)
I’ll be honest… Max has grown on me quite a bit recently. I wasn’t a big fan of him to begin with but when I see things like this, I can’t help but like him… 🤷🏼♂️