Difference with others
Max Verstappen showed his teammate Sergio Pérez all corners of the circuit this year. The Mexican was never a real threat to the three-time world champion. Verstappen’s former teammate, Alexander Albon, has an idea what was going on.
Never before has a Formula 1 driver won the championship by such a large margin as Max Verstappen this year. Even if Pérez had not scored a single point this year, Red Bull would still have become constructors’ champion. Two facts that illustrate how big the difference between the two was this year. If anyone can talk about being snowed in the team next to Verstappen, it is Alexander Albon. The British-Thai driver has a suspicion about what happened.
According to Albon, Verstappen can handle a car that is sharply adjusted to the front wheels very well. “I like a car with a sharp nose, so it turns sharply and directly. Max too, but his level of sharpness is of a completely different caliber. To give you an idea: if you turn the sensitivity of your computer mouse all the way to maximum and the mouse dances across the screen, this is what it feels like,” Albon said in a podcast by the BBC. According to Albon, that can make you quite nervous as a driver, if it is actually too sharp for your taste. At the same time, it seems that this makes the car faster and Max can then get even more out of it. “Max wants the car to be sharper and sharper and it will become faster and faster, but you have to take more and more risks.” Albon says that when the crashes started to creep in, a ‘snowball effect’ occurred, causing him to sink further and further.
Albon’s analysis is quite similar to what Red Bull’s technical director Pierre Waché stated earlier this year. He docked GPFans from that Verstappen ‘asks for the fastest car’ and that that is apparently a car that is very sensitive at the front. According to him, that just happens to match the Dutchman’s driving style very well.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl