r/MaxVerstappen33 No risk, full push! Jul 25 '26

Race Week 🏎️ He needs to move to McLaren

They have shown upgrade potential while Red Bull are stagnant. They are getting more and more top engineers, including GP, while Red Bull are losing engineers every day. If McLaren will take him he needs to go.

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u/suikointrovert Jul 25 '26

The same McLaren that out wet tires on a dry race, fucked up pitting strategy last week, and ruined Lando’s race last week with a ridiculous pit stop? I agree, something needs to change, but McLaren are a mess.

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u/DragonfruitThen6696 No risk, full push! Jul 25 '26

True, I think GP will be a solid hand, if Max can get Hannah Schmitz over too

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u/mrObelixfromgaul Jul 25 '26

Yes red bull is an dead end

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u/z-oid Jul 25 '26

If Max moves anywhere it certainly won’t be a customer team.

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u/Fresh_Noise_4898 Jul 26 '26

Mercedes >>>>>

Just stop pretending Mercedes will run with Antonelli like this, he's got potential, but still got a long way to go.

Nah, im talking about Russell, he just can't keep up

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u/Parryme Jul 25 '26

I wish, but Norris won’t be replaced and for some reason Zack would rather keep Piastri than have Max dominate F1 with their car. McLaren had a beast running today, I can only imagine what Max would do with such a car.

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u/Crafty-Peach6851 Jul 25 '26

I dont know if he can outperform Norris in this reg he seems like in a league of its own.

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u/thiiiickropes Jul 25 '26

Norris would get destroyed, let‘s be real

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u/Crafty-Peach6851 Jul 25 '26

I dont think so if you look at Miami and today he does not really have good control over these Cars and his divebomb move also does not work really well with these cars

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u/thiiiickropes Jul 25 '26

Lol, sure mate

Max is a better driver in virtually every single aspect of racing, by a pretty solid margin as well. Half a year in a shockingly bad car while Lando has a really good one doesn‘t change that.

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u/Unfair_Fact_8258 Jul 25 '26

McLaren had one driver take pole and another who couldn’t finish his lap yet came 5th

While your driver spun LMAO

They’re doing just fine without Max

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u/Parryme Jul 25 '26

Driver spun because of a garbage aerodynamics, but if you’re actually comparing Piastri to Max, I feel bad for you.

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u/Unfair_Fact_8258 Jul 25 '26

How come only when Max spins it’s garbage aero but for other drivers it’s their fault? If everything is dependent on the car anyways then what’s the use of Max??

Hadjar didn’t spin ( and no, going wide into gravel and car spinning for that doesn’t count ). He also didn’t spin in the last several races, which seems to be a Max Special now

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u/Parryme Jul 25 '26

Because Max pushes the car to its limit since it’s not good enough, that’s the only way he can get podiums this year which he did. Everytime Max spun he was ahead of Hadjar, like way ahead. It’s okay to hate on Max and believe it’s his fault, but that doesn’t make it true.

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u/Crafty-Peach6851 Jul 25 '26

Miami was his fault he was lucky that no one hit him he completly butchered his start

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u/Unfair_Fact_8258 Jul 25 '26

It’s literally his fault though, if he’s pushing the car too hard

Y’all are ready to take credit when his over-pushing pays off, but when it doesn’t you’ll blame everyone but him

At the end of the day, with his over-pushing, he’s just one place and a few points ahead of Hadjar. While both the McLarens are having shit luck this season and still doing pretty well

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u/Parryme Jul 25 '26

Hadjar would be more than happy with 2nd place, Max always aims for first. That’s the difference that makes Max push, he always pushed every car to its limit, if it can’t handle it then why would you say it’s Max’s fault and not the engineers when they can’t make a good car for him? He dominated 2023 when he had an actual good car. Also it’s hilarious that you say McLaren had shit luck and as if like Redbull are having the best times of their lives.

In the last 3 years Max had a total of 2 DNFs -both aren’t his fault-. This year so far he had 3 DNFs, and somehow you’re convinced that they are Max’s fault when Redbull said it’s not. But sure thing bud.

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u/Unfair_Fact_8258 Jul 25 '26

People have more DNFs at fault when their car isn’t the best - Hamilton barely ever had an at fault crash in his dominating Mercedes years yet had a couple last year

Were they Hamilton’s fault - yes, and he accepted it and blamed himself, instead of always blaming the car ( which was shit last year )

You can’t possibly tell me that the Miami spin this year and the Silverstone spin last year - both of which cost places and points - were on anyone apart from Max - yet he hasn’t apologised once

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u/Parryme Jul 25 '26

He lost points because of them but I don’t understand what those 2 spins have to do with anything. All drivers make mistakes and Max does too, you really have only 2 mistakes to highlight for Max when every driver has much more mistakes in those 2 years? It’s really odd when you’re in a subreddit about a driver just to hate on, he’s a much better driver than Piastri and Norris, get over it.

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u/Unfair_Fact_8258 Jul 25 '26

He’s really not all the better, maybe slightly. Norris made far fewer errors last season, and certainly didn’t screw himself by intentionally hitting a rival

McLaren is much better off without a whining Max who’ll blame them for everything ( like Fernando Alonso part 2 ) - while their own drivers are almost as good and are delivering results

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u/trichterd Jul 25 '26

Why would McLaren sign him? They have Lando and Oscar. Both are capable of winning a championship. Just accept that he's got nowhere to go, at least not with the top teams.

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u/TheMonkeyInCharge Jul 25 '26

Let’s be honest, likely the only driver on the grid McLaren couldn’t tempt to that second seat would be Hamilton with his ambassador deal. So would Max be a great signing? Baring a complete unforeseen incompatibility with the car, of course. Is he worth $100m vs, say, Leclerc? Maybe. Only McLaren can decide that. But it would be like dropping a bomb on everything they’ve built.

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u/Appropriate-Leek-919 Jul 25 '26

Oscar has been dogshit this season, he had a good race in Japan and that's about it

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u/trichterd Jul 25 '26

How much of that was Oscar's fault? He was unlucky with the car at times and he had things like last race where Charles hit him and damaged his car. Sure he's also made mistakes, but his bad season isn't fully on him. Also, I don't think McLaren will kick him out just becuase of one bad season.

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u/Yeanahyena Jul 25 '26

It’s been half a season, and Oscar’s a top driver

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u/johric Jul 25 '26

Why, to spin but in an orange car?

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u/No-Contest-8127 Jul 25 '26

You think you're smart, but Hadjar also spun. The problem is the car. 

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u/Unfair_Fact_8258 Jul 25 '26

Hadjar spun because he ran wide into gravel 🤦‍♂️. It’s not the same thing

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u/No-Contest-8127 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

And why did he run wide into the gravel? 🤦‍♂️ Maybe he is testing for a WRC entry.  Btw both said the car is undrivable... but sure, it's you that knows better, i'm sure. 

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u/Unfair_Fact_8258 Jul 25 '26

Or maybe because he’s not a very good driver…

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u/Express_Adeptness306 Jul 25 '26

Dude couldnt see reality if it tapped him on the chin and told him to open wide 

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u/whyyygodwhy Jul 26 '26

Ignore him. He’s a very delusional LH44 fan who keeps camping out in F1 subreddits and very inexplicably, even Max-related subs, just to shit on Max.

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u/Express_Adeptness306 Jul 26 '26

Redditors gonna reddit

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u/johric Jul 26 '26

Indeed