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He's also much more likely to drive it at 3x the speed limit. Also, the fact that he's Formula 1 driver actually works against him here: F1 cars that he is used
by Detrytus 3y ago
He's also much more likely to drive it at 3x the speed limit. Also, the fact that he's Formula 1 driver actually works against him here: F1 cars that he is used to are far more sophisticated technology, and F1 tracks are not your regular highway, making it easy for Verstappen to end up at the side of the road, after overestimating his Mercedes' capabilities.
- blasphemers 3y agoThis may be the most absurd statement I've ever seen on this site.
- tracerbulletx 3y agoYou don't think a professional driver at the absolute pinnacle of his profession knows the difference between different types of cars...?
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoI bet he knows fuck all about drum brakes lol. That has zero relevance to his profession. Boomers who have never been within half a mile of a race car know all about drum brakes.
- dharmab 3y agoThe man is one of the most obsessed car guys on the planet. Dude tunes his own iRacing setups between race weekends. He knew more about cars at 16 than everyone you and I will know in our lifetimes combined.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoiRacing has you disassemble, modify, and reassemble Pakistani-made truck brakes in VR? Nice!
- dharmab 3y agoNormally, I browse HN with uBlock rule that removes the comments section, because I don't have to see terrible takes like this.
- cthalupa 3y agoVerstappen has more than $6m in street legal high-end cars. He has spent a significant amount of time driving cars with performance quite similar to that Mercedes. Even if this wasn't publicly available information, isn't it quite bizarre to act as if you have some better understanding of the difference between F1 cars and sports cars than one of the best F1 drivers in the world? I would bet you quite significant sums of money that he has spent more time driving cars with performance similar to that Mercedes than you have spent driving an F1 car. We also know that Verstappen races street-legal private cars on tracks during at least some F1 offseasons, something his Red Bull Racing team advisor has shared in interviews with the media. The idea that some internet posters have a better understanding of the risk profile of taking this car onto a track than one of the best racecar drives in the world is some special HN hubris.