Albon shares the secrets of Verstappen’s unique driving style (www.formula1.com)

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Alex Albon has opened up about the time he spent alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull and the key elements that make the reigning triple world champion’s driving style so unique.

Albon confirms that Verstappen likes his front-ends pointy and that Red Bull pushes cars development toward his driving style, in the detriment of the other driver.

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[-] smeg@feddit.uk 47 points 2 years ago

“Everyone has a driving style, I would say my driving style is a bit more on the smooth side, but I like a car that has a good front-end, so quite sharp, quite direct. Max does too, but his level of sharp and direct is a whole different level – it’s eye-wateringly sharp.

“To give people kind of maybe an explanation of what that might feel like, if you bump up the sensitivity [on a computer game] completely to the max and you move that mouse and it’s just darting across the screen everywhere, that’s kind of how it feels. It becomes so sharp that it makes you a little bit tense.”

First time I've actually seen "driving style differences" explained in layman's terms

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

So basically, verstappen drives like a Quake player on meth

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