the macho attitude and lack of empathy is weird. Max (and especially his fans) said sickness compromised his performance in Zandvoort, George got a podium while having a respiratory infection in Baku last year. People’s bodies just work differently, no need to imply he’s weak
Max was asked about Russell's comment about the cooling vests and comparing driving in Malaysia to being in a suana
"I don’t need it. Maybe I suffer a bit less from the heat.. I find a Finnish sauna at 85 degrees a lot hotter... You shouldn’t make a fuss. Yes, it is hot, but that’s part of it. You have to train for that."
"When I was eighteen, I had a bit more trouble with these conditions. But after that, I started training more in the heat, such as in the sauna and a steam room, so that I can handle the sweating better and the fact that your head gets very hot. Maybe I should take him (Russell) to the sauna a few times."
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@georgieporge63 ⬅️George was faster in Monaco FP2 btw
RUS 1:13.405
ANT 1:13.529
and then this was FP3...➡️
ANT 1:12.720
RUS 1:13.483
setup changes overnight found ANT 8 tenths, while it made RUS slower😅
your driver has a grand slam weekend where he dominated every session except for one fp session after a very hard season and the first thing you do as a tp is go and say how emotional he is and how hard he was coping with kimi winning and his story is not as marketable kimi’👍🏻
oh this is just very sad... george would like to use the cooling vest but merc basically told him there's no room in the budget to do so. antonelli will not be able to use one either.
the thing about this that’s funny to me is that now, the narrative will NOT be “George Russell won his first championship” if George wins. If by some miracle it happens, the story will be a driver overcoming the biggest points deficit in history to win
"If it's George it is a story to George Russell won his first championship. If it's Kimi then it's a different story. It's this amazing super kid that won his first championship."
toto claims that there's no commercial appeal to prioritizing kimi so that he can win the championship then continues to say this...
if there’s anything he found it difficult to cope with, it was the disparaging comments alongside the steadfast refusal to acknowledge and correct issues on his car until it was much too late.
asking how you can technically favour a driver like we didn’t watch the team forget to serve a penalty in Monaco, set up a car completely wrong multiple times, blame George for a software issue and ignore it for weeks, and put him on the worse strategy multiple times. Ridiculous
📻 L44 RUS: "I think we should go for 7, it'll be quicker into the last sector"📊⏬
T12→T16 to OT detection node:
-Strat 8 (L40-44), VER gained 0.19s/lap
-Strat 7 (L45-50), RUS gained 0.23s/lap
Node gap ≥1.05s L46-50=no OT mode for VER last 5 laps 🧠
🚨 2025 & 2026 BAKU HAD THE SAME SCRIPT 🤯
🏆 Verstappen & Russell finish 1-2 with a grand slam for the winner
💀 Longest active finishing streak ends (Piastri in 2025, Colapinto in 2026)
☠️ Longest active points streak in GP races ends (Piastri in 2025, Lando in 2026)
GEORGE RUSSELL HAS HIS FIRST CAREER GRAND SLAM
🔥 RACE WINNER
🔥 LED ALL LAPS
🔥 FASTEST LAP
🔥 POLE POSITION
🔥 FASTEST S1 TIME
🔥 FASTEST S2 TIME
🔥 FASTEST S3 TIME
🔥 FASTEST IN Q1
🔥 FASTEST IN Q2
🔥 FASTEST IN Q3