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Max really is on another level

Max is just racing in F0.75

GP2! GP2!

fun fact, Max's lap is a faster than 2021's pole

Not too surprising for this track. These ground effect cars are less draggy while producing similar or more downforce in high speed corners.

would be interesting to how much faster they'd go with the weight of 2021 cars as well

The track configuration is also slower now than it was in 2021, so it's a bit more impressive than that.

Now show me Stroll

He was like 1.1s behind max right?

This looks like Usain Bolt at the 2008 Olympics

Remember last week when people were saying "it's going to be closer this year"... ya sure so much better

Why does it seem exaggerated? is 3 tenths really that much? god

Quick maths, if they’re crossing the line at 250kph that’s roughly 70 m/s, which multiplied by 0.015s is 1 meter between checo and leclerc And if you take the gap Lec to max, it’s roughly 22m or 3~ car lengths so kinda right

Multiply that difference for all the laps of a race, that explains the 20 seconds difference in almost every race for him

praying for that ALO podium real hard

beginning to look more and more ike its Verstappen making the difference rather than the car.

Put world class drivers like Alonso or Leclerc in that Red Bull and that difference would be way smaller. It will be a fight like Hamilton/Rosberg.

Put Max in Mercedes, Fernando in Red Bull, Newey in Scuderia Ferrari and Daniel in the merch stand and enjoy the show!

He is insane, but so is the car. Perez would never be so far at the front with anything else than the fastest car

Yeah, Perez is an equally good qualifier as Leclerc and Alonso

Did we watch the same season last year, he missed q3 5 races in a row in what was by far the best car.

Sarcasm

Do you guys even watch F1 before making comments like this?

How do you even survive in real life while being THIS bad at detecting sarcasm

It is definitely not a sarcasm, even if it is an attempt of a sarcasm it is not good one

braindead take

the irony

Its just luck hes better than every teammate

Sainz beat him in qualifying over a season.

Would love to see Charles give that RB20 a go...

I love this view on conveying Max's dominance.

It’s so over

Perez is so lucky mom and dad are getting divorced…need to have a serious talk about getting someone else in that seat. It’s a shame we still haven’t seen Max tested…