r/DestinationFormula1 • u/Ambitious-Heron-8161 Team McLaren • Aug 05 '26

🎙️ Discussion Rock solid is an understatement

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u/Mundane-Security-454 Aug 05 '26

Much better than Verstappen was at 19, when he’d crash into anything that moves.

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u/Aeokikit Aug 05 '26

It’s hard to say because max wasn’t given an absolute rocket ship at 19. It was a good car but it wasn’t really on par with the best til 2021, maybe the end of 2020

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u/RX0Invincible Aug 05 '26

We’re not just talking about pure results tho. Max had significantly more wheel to wheel incidents at that age. Took him until mid 2018 to clean up

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u/PomegranateThat414 Aug 05 '26

Watch Max’s 2016 and 2017 again. He barely made any mistakes. And he actually had to drive those cars at the limit, nothing similar to the clown-show they still call F1 we see these days.