Why McLaren's F1 car is so tricky to drive
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2021
- Daniel Ricciardo's struggles to get up to speed at McLaren this year have brought a sharp focus onto the Australian's challenge in switching F1 teams for 2021. But there's more to it than Ricciardo just failing to get the most ouf of the car. As Edd Straw explains in this video, the McLaren has some 'peculiar' traits that require a very specific style - one that isn't coming naturally to Ricciardo, while team-mate Lando Norris has mastered it over a much longer period of time.
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Can you do a breakdown of how every car on the grid is to drive? I'd love to hear the differences between the characteristics of each car
IF someone could make this video, it would very nice indeed.
merc: spaceship running on beer
redbull: spaceship running on redbull
mclaren: rollercoaster
ferrari: slow button
aston: tea
alpine: baguette
alphatauri: redbull on budget
williams: gutted.exe
alfa: radio broke
haas: agriculture equipment
@@mayankanand6733 why merc on beer?
@@Dzaen2 German beer ig lol just a joke don't quote me pls xD
@@mayankanand6733 Eh idk man that merc still can be unstable at the rear it just doesn’t look like that way because they run the a very stiff rear to counter it
I hope Ricardo gets it figured out. Really like to see this team do well.
@Curly Cat constructors is pretty big deal for teams that aren’t able to battle for World Drivers Title. I’d say ric is a big investment and risk from mclaren that will eventually pay off.
Maybe Norris is just the better driver for Mclaren, but the Ricciardo fanbois just can't accept it
@@sepg5084 Before you talk again i would like for you to look at ricciardos outperforming and delivering before. Thats a really bold statement if you look at it as a whole.
@Curly Cat not like ricardo has done shit anyways🤣 i love ricardo but jesus man this is bad
Imagine if he wins in the next race.
Ricciardo and Verstappen have very very similar styles of driving.
It may surprise a few people that Ricciardo has never been a late braker when it comes to say a qualifying lap/his natural style.
Both Max and Dan are both extremely efficient on brakes, and as Stella says like to ‘roll speed’ into the corner without attacking the braking zone too much.
This allows Ricciardo and Verstappen to be two of the best in the business at keeping the rear in check, and can handle a car that is on the nose. It is a large reason why Dan annihilated Vettel in 2014, and why both he and Max have been the only two who could tame the Red Bulls of recent years.
The Renault inherently had the same characteristics as the Red Bull, they struggled with oversteer mid corner and it was something Sainz could not handle as well as Hulkenberg who also likes to drive in the same way Ricciardo does. Ricciardo was quoted as saying he just needed to tweak a few things at Renault minorly and boom he was on top of it in a couple races.
The likes of Sainz, Norris and Vettel all seem to have similar driving styles. Late, hard on the brakes and get all the weight onto the front end before unloading it in a short space of time. Like a trampoline - the harder you jump down the higher you go up. They are masters of rotation, and this is how get rotation of a car lacking an adequate front end but as soon as the rear starts to move around on entry they suffer.
The likes of Verstappen, Ricciardo and Raikkonen are the opposite - but these kind of drivers are much less common to find according to John Barnard when taking about Schumacher.
Ricciardo’s main issues this season have been with that (lack of) front end. Karun did an analysis on the sky pad and could visibly see how much understeer Ricciardo was having mid-corner and all he was doing to compensate was adding full steering lock which just bleeds laptime.
From the outside, it’s just a very clear mismatch of driving style and car characteristics. In hindsight though we shouldn’t be surprised - if Sainz struggled in the Renault but excelled in the Mclaren we should expect a driver moving the opposite way to also have equal but opposite struggles🤷♂️
(Copied from a comment I made on Reddit)
f**k yeah
This is a really great analysis thanks
But isn't Ferrari oversteery as well then why sainz is doing so good?
this is fantastic analysis
Exactly Ricciardo struggling at Renault was a myth. He matched hulkenberg pretty quickly and qualified p4 in canada. We havent seen that kind of performance in quali yet from him. He barely gets out of Q2 atm
Here after his win and the 1-2 🧡 congrats Danny Ric
Finally some actual analysis of the driving challenges faced by Riccardo. So many channels have just been throwing out fact-free bullshit (cough Peter Windsor) rather than actually investigating what's going on. Good job on this one.
Peter Windsor is the best analyst of driving styles by a country mile.
@@fintonmainz7845 He has some decent things to say from time to time. But 90% of those interesting things are lines regurgitated from Rob Wilson, who is an actual driving coach and truly knowledgeable person. On the other hand Windsor also says some of the most laughable howlers in the F1 youtube community, an accomplishment to say the least. Like when he tried to claim that reaction time isn't important in today's F1 (despite people like Lewis Hamilton saying that he will have to retire once his reaction time starts dropping off as it's so crucial to being fast in contemporary F1). Windsor even went so far as to say that Pierre Gasly was wrong to do reaction time exercises before grands prix, and he should instead...wait for it...practice juggling before the race starts! You know because F1 drivers have to...juggle so many things in the car! If that's what you call the best analyst then the current F1 wisdom on offer is worse than I thought.
@@GreedRuinsEverything Agreed. I enjoy his channel for the most part, it can be very entertaining and informative at times, but some of his analysis leaves much to be desired. And some of it is downright cringe worthy. Another hilariously vague and near meaningless line he's always repeating is, "it's all about the supple driver inputs."
He is supposedly one of the top 10 drivers on the planet, this is still a bit slow for him you’d have to say after 10 races
If only this channel did the same treatment with Albon. This channel was ripping Albon since the beginning.
Can I just say that I find it absolutely fascinating how so similar looking and tightly regulated cars can still be so different from team to team that it can take a driver off their game?
Even spec series such as F2 has these differences. That's the beauty of motorsports.
My thoughts, as well.. Plerplexing!
I think the drivers are driving on such a high level with so much precision that even the slightest changes can make a difference, I doubt a lot of people would actually experience a big difference.
I think alot of it comes from driver styles & the front wheels turning & changing the airflow at different times, creating different patterns of behaviour that are mitigated by pace control
@@moritzheinzel815 this pretty much explains it. Typical compound effect - since everything is being done at such an intense, hard, fast pace, every slight adjustment is amplified accordingly. Yank your wheel hard going 20kmh nothing happens, yank it even slightly at 200kmh and get ready to roll!
2022 will be completely different for all drivers as they get used to a totally new aero philosophy, we will see who out of the drivers adapt the best next yr when everyone is on a new playing field!
yeah, seems very promising for sainz who seems to adapt super quickly
Guarantee the experienced drivers like Hamilton, Alonso & Vettel will have an advantage over their team mates because they’ve all been through loads of aero & chassis changes so they will adapt easier to the new cars.
@@geert574 he had to do it sometimes
Hamilton and Alonso most likely, they have been through multiple major rule changes and still come out on top
@@donaldlee8249 none of the drivers have driven "ground effect" cars!
3 weeks later and we have a McLaren 1, 2. It was beautiful to see. :-)
Fast forward to Italy.. this aged well
Even if Danny Ric doesnt get fully to grips with the car this year I wouldn’t be too worried because specs will be much different next year so let’s see how it goes.
7:29 says otherwise. Glad you watched the entire video before your input.
@@Jabootylolz oh dear
You don't have to worry because you're not one of the hundreds of talented and hardworking team members relying on his performance.
He can sepnd the first half of next year getting to grips with that too!
@@Jabootylolz Then again it's just an assumption based on the evidence, which is not always true.
So long story short: he’s having understeer because he brakes earlier.
Yeah good summary, I remember seeing during the testing he had ton of understeer, now it isnt as visible but its still there.
You would think that one of 'the most highly rated drivers in F1' would be able to learn to brake a little later.
@@streuthmonkey1 he probably only does that when overtaking
Isn’t he known as “last of the late brakers”?
Doesn't that go against how a racecar should behave in corners? If you're braking early and in theory reducing speed to what is ideal to properly hit the apex then why should the car understeer? Now on the opposite end if your braking later and giving yourself less of a chance to scrub off the necessary speed not to understeer then chances are you'll understeer and having to square off the corner.
So you hire a right footed driver for millions and then tell him to use his left foot
Like it 🤣🤣
If you are using the foot analogy its more like "ok we have seen you score with your left several times, can you do it all the time." For some reason Danny can't take his aggressive breaking and use it all the time.
seriously is something they should've anticipated
@@rodolfo6reyes640 this is true and their engineers should have figured out a way by now, Alpines engineers found a way for Riccardo last year
I have said it and will say it again Riccardo should have carried his chief engineer with from Renault/Alpine. Look how fast they figured out that changing Fernando Alonso "power steering " was the answer.
Do you guys remember last year that it was changing the brand of brakes that helped Riccardo with Renault. McLaren needs to try harder or hire someone persons from Alpine. Everyone is poaching staff right now they might as well join in.
I imagine "unlearning" years of a particular driving style must be very difficult. I had been curious why Ric was struggling so much, this is a great explanation!
Yeah, like Russel who didn't even fit or know what the buttons did on the steering wheel.
Then.. he totally outclassed everyone with no practice.
Ricciardo is just bad, sorry to burst your bubble.
@@Aria432 because he was in a frickin mercedes bro😂😂
Yes he was in a merc and did hamilton times.. Ricciardo is suppossed to be objectively "better" than Lando and he does shit times with Mclaren while Lando is doing superb.. Can you see the pattern, fool?
@@Aria432 You have already been told to stop humiliating yourself but you keep on going. Here it is - Lando's third year in McLaren where he was part of developing this car to the level it is now with all its pros and cons. On the other hand, you have DR who just joined the team at a time of global pandemic when he barely got any practice before the start of the season. Lando might be less experienced than DR but he is way more experienced McLaren driver.
@@nikolababadzhanov3554 but Bottas has been at Mercedes for many years, and c'mon, he's not that bad. then got outclassed by Russel who could barely fit in the car.
Makes you wonder: how many other cars weren't slow, they just had drivers that couldn't master them.
Ahhh, that might mean they were actually “slow”
Invariably we define “fast” by race winning. Or “fast” by top speed, ask me why I bought my GS750DB in 1977 over the Z650 - the GS was 5 mph faster in the Bike Magazine test of the year,
To use the guitar playing analogy, they should loop a corner on the simulator for hours at a time, the same way musicians loop small pieces, in order to drill down into the minutiae of the technique. As the great Paul Gilbert once said when referring to learning a large piece of music, you’d never dream of eating a pizza whole, you break it down into manageable chunks.
I tried the whole pizza thing after seeing him say that. It's hilarious but ineffective ☺
this could be exactly what they are doing, we don't get information about sim work so we won't know and also sim work can be close to the real thing but its never the real thing, practicing a guitar is still different, you get to use the actual equipment that you perform with while sim work you still don't so it wont be 100% effective.
Norris outperforming Ricciardo is expected, if we knew this car was this difficult to drive before the season started everyone would have had different expectations, Norris' whole career has been driving this car so he would have developed his style with the car in mind while Ricciardo has not and has developed his style in effectively a redbull/torro rosso, the Renault was different to the RB but not to this standard and he took a little time to get use to that car before way outperforming the car in his second season.
I always dream of eating pizza whole!!!
not only guitar, basically any instrument
He doesn't spend nearly as much time on that simulator as Lando does. Carlos pretty much moved to Woking during his time at Mclaren.
I think it definitely is an adaptability problem. Remember Carlos said to Daniel that the car was weird? Clearly he adapted a bit quicker. I also remember a McLaren video in November 2019 when Lando and Carlos answered fan questions.. Each was asked what quality the other had that they would like. Carlos said Lando's ability in high speed cornering and Lando said Carlos's ability to brake and steer (into corners) at the same time. Carlos laughed and said "all drivers do that" and Lando responded "yes, but you do it better." Clearly Carlos had adapted and Lando learned to copy him.
This was really well-done.
He should make a video defending checo as well 😂
Just reminded of when Juan Pablo Montoya said that the McLaren had so much understeer, still bloody fast, but so much understeer.
Yesss
Montoya just drove the McLaren with cojones
@@beanlentil 😂😂I mean he is Pablo Montoya FUCK THIS fuck that
Montoya didn’t give a fuck about anything he drove without fear😂
he never cared about understeer tbh lol
Think Ricciardo sorted it out now ahah
Great video! Finally someone sheds light on what makes McLaren a challenge to drive. This answers questions I've had since Monaco
These videos are so polished nowadays. Honestly, great stuff!
thanx for the real analysis of challenges Ricciardo facing, people forgot how good a driver Ricciardo is
More like people don’t realise how average he is, at least until now.
@@Draconian8 Average drivers don’t annihilate a four time champion like Vettel in their first season with a team. Mans has proven through his career how elite he is, so half a season all of a sudden makes him average. Nice way of thinking........🗿
@@karthikpenumetch9300 One season doesn't make a great driver. Vettel had a bad year. Ricciardo's driving style was clearly suited to the car that year. he qualified second at the first race. No adaptation was required. Great drivers can adapt their driving style to different cars. This is why Ricciardo is an average driver rather than a great driver. He clearly does not have that capacity.
How has his post Red Bull career proved that he is even remotely 'elite'?
@@streuthmonkey1 p5 in a Renault last year means nothing to you, okay then. And why is that this excuse applies to Vettel and not Ricciardo. Perhaps this is off season for Ricciardo. Vettel the past couple years a Ferrari for instance and is performing better this year in AM. It would do you a service if you actually watched and understood the video above. The characteristics of this Mclaren could even prove to be tricky for guys like Verstappen, Hamilton and Charles. Their driving styles are more in line with Ricciardos.
@UC7zz6LG2jmSt17PmbhNQvYg
How odd Karthik. When I post it changes your name to these random letters and numbers.
p5 is that much of an achievement to be honest. We can't really compare his and Ocon's performance as Ocon retired four times losing a good haul of points, whereas Ricciardo only retired once when he was running in 11th so lost no points.
such a wonderful video with so much in depth info which cannot be otherwise obtained from youtube!
This is the vídeo I’ve been waiting for quite some time now. Thanks!
what an amazing insight to the car. i would love to see more about the tradeoff of the other cars
Sadly, without more time in the car at testing i can't see it getting better for him this year. The musician analogy is spot on. Hoping for a big step up next year.
This has been highly informative and you've gained a new subscriber. The depth of explanation rivals that of the Mercedes F1 CZcams page, except that you guys can discuss any team and any driver unlike them. Stellar work!
This whole saga has highlighted just how good Norris and Sainz are
Agreed i dont understand why Peter Windsor says Sainz is not a great driver
Or that the car suited their driving styles more.
Because the car was built for them. This car was still the same of what Norris & Sainz drove last year except the engine is different.
Sainz has the talent of being able to adapt to his new teams very well
@@njabuloshezi522 imo Sainz is better than Lando
This sounds like an Alonso driving style preference. No doubt they ended up with this style of handling through his feedback.
Ric is class, there's no arguing but he needs to get the hang of it quick, lando is pretty much single handedly keeping the team competitive in the constructors championship
A team must know a driver Style if they are to sign him
@@tonimaestre96 A driver who thinks he belongs to the elite and who's being payed accordingly, should be able to adapt fast.
I think part of what makes Ricciardo look a bit average is that Nando is such a good driver, too. But then, it would be interesting to see him in a Red Bull or even Alpine, he would probably have a similar problem to Dan
@@tomsriver2838 you don't go telling a driver that brakes with his right foot to brake with his left. Also Riccardo is a slow learner, took him a full year to get the grip of that renault.
I think ricciardo should retire now
Wow, awesome video. It explains everything in a simple but effective way. Loved it
its like when you cant turn off vsync and mouse acceleration
Gross.
I think this is interesting, as it gives you an idea of how much influence Alonso had at McLaren
Ricciardo has been an interesting case study this first half of the season. He clearly should be up better on the wheel than he is now, and he knows that. It’s also evident that drivers need to modify their style a bit to better suit the car, not vice versa (see Gasly). If Daniel’s confidence wavers, then he will lose his edge. A significant improvement is expected in the second half and many eyes will be on him. Everyone praises his driving ability, this could be his biggest test.
This is great work champ..... bloody well done on this video
I became a fan of F1 when the Netflix series premiered and since that moment I have DEVOURED every ounce of F1 material I can get my hands on. This video and explanation was one of the best I have ever seen. It connected so many concepts that I am learning about. Thank you!!!
Also... I think you all have stumbled on to a gold mine with an analysis of how the car fits or interacts with a particular driver.... you could even do a "re shuffle" and pair different drivers to different cars and make it a tournament. Just some ideas from a fanatic. 😅 all the best and keep up the great content!
daniel struggled in the first half of the season with renault and then was pretty good in the second so hopefully that happens again
Now i Really understand what Daniel is coming to terms with the McLaren, as a former A grade fast bowler it would be the same as changing my bowling action for whatever reason, it's a lot to do with Muscle Memory and changing the thought process in the brain, it takes time and lot of practice. That's fine for a cricketer, but having to retrain the brain while also racing a F1 car at the same time, that's a huge load on the brain ! He has had a win and a 4th place last two races, just hoping he continues to keep going on that trajectory. Thanks for your informed explanation.
Sounds a lot like driving an older Porsche sports racer (935, 956, 962, etc) with a 'spool' rear axle which, unlike a 'differential', does not allow the rear wheels to spin at different speeds. They are simple and very durable, but the car understeers unless the driver breaks the tail loose and drifts it to some extent. Porsche chose durability to cope with massive turbo torque, and expected the drivers to adapt.
That was excellent! I learnt so much from your explanations. Cheers.
I find hard to believe that they would change a car that is doing so well for Norris, Riciardo will have to adapt
His pitstop team error at Monaco 2016 was the first F1 video I ever saw. Then I was caught in a loop of F1 videos and saw few funny videos of his and became a fan of his character. Eventually I ended at his redemption race at Monaco 2018 and became a fan of his racing. His races made me a fan of F1. Sad to see him struggle and hopeful that he overcomes it.
Not ricciardos error that was red bulls error
@@tommyvercetti1989 wording error 😂
@@vivekr2280 😂
Great video thxs as always
I love these in depth technical analysis video's.
Great video, very well explained. I really hope Daniel can get better results (a podium would be nice) in the rest of the season. I still believe he’s a world champion.
Yessir
They had a huge impact with the rear end aero being demolished between seasons. So the car is even more extreme then last year. Next year won't have the strange no aero pressure on the rear end floor like this year so I think both Vettle and Ricardo will improve drastically.
Hope so
Great video, really well explained!
Great bit of analysis. Would love to see more of this for other cars.
mclaren are doing pretty alright this year pushing third place with ferrari. imagine what would happen if ricciardo got to grips what results they could achieve. i hope he gets there cuz he deserves it
I think McLaren would benefit from a team therapist. If I were Danny Ric I would be hesitant to "unlearn" a driving style that has been so successful when 2022 is such an unknown. Not to mention the age difference with Lando may be having a tiny impact on team dynamics. I think there is more going on here than just a unique car design.
thats what i reckon, cause changing your whole technique you've used for such a long time would be scary cause you know how well it works. but you've gotta do what you've gotta do and he just needs to knuckle down and fix it shortly. get in their honey bagder
I don't think of it as unlearning but as adding more tool to your presently available tool, so that he would be better appet for 2022 changes and whatever they result in.
@@krishnachopra2661 - Daniel absolutely needs to unlearn his old style because it's what he does automatically when concentrating on extra issues e.g. when overtaking & being overtaken. Having a relapse when under extra pressure means going out into the dirt or into a wall. It's intense work out there, and the brain can fade.
@@brianvogt8125 Oh that is the right way to look at it.
Not much F1 content on CZcams as good as this. Great insight
Wow! Thank you for summing that up.
Layman's terms:
If you have a pushy (understeer) car, you back up the corner incrementally until the car stops pushing.
I'd imagine Daniel Ricciardo knows what trail braking is, but it seems like hes having trouble implementing it
Ricciardo gonna look very different on the second part od the year 🙏 trust the process 🔥
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@@nexus_aor7623 thats what i thought xD
Here's hoping.
No hes not, if anything hes gotten worse since the start lmao
Love love love so much detail about there actual driving style
5:24 finally an explanation that makes sense of why rolling speed into the corner isn't working for Ricardo. thank you!!
And here we are, 3 weeks later, first team in 2021 to get a 1,2 result. 😀 Great drivers, great job 😀
If the goal is to win, they better create a car that suits Ricciardo'a driving style.
The best video yet thank you love it
Fantastic analysis, I’m 100% confident Danny can sort it 👍
Really hoping Danny Ric and Checo can figure it out soon. Was hoping for a great season from them both
He should have just stayed another more year at RedBull.
Yeah yeah, I know, pressure from max, etc. but god damn, it just felt like he just gave up too quickly.
It'll be good
Just a great example of how finely tuned both car and drivers are in F1. Just incredible machines.
Wish Danny Ric all the best, got to be tough trying to relearn muscle memory and something that's intuitive from thousands and thousands of laps. 👍🏁👍🏁
From what I understand "braking earlier" more specifically Daniel rides the brakes lightly and earlier. There are a few videos where it shoes the data on his brake pedal pressure.
He’s done it!! Hopefully more success for Ricciardo after Monza!
It'll definitely click eventually. Once he figured out the Renault he was a joy to watch. I think this season has shown that lando was infinitely better than what people gave him credit for before the season started.
It wasn’t that he adapted to the Renault but that Renault changed the car to suit him , this will lot happen at McLaren as they don’t see him as a Star driver
@@Ben-go1iq we'll see what happens. Wether it was the car that changed or him. Once he was happy at Renault he went from average to being one of the hottest properties on the grid. Hopefully he clicks this season but I hope McLaren can at least make next year's car a bit better for him. But at least McLaren seem to be genuinely trying to help. Unlike Red bull who would be calling him a shit stain and a waste of a seat by now.
What a fantastic video. Top job.
This really gives me a new appreciation for the things that F1 teams have to do. Just the amount of room they have to design the aerodynamics of the car can result in two cars behaving completely different but still being competitive. Obviously other series do as well but I don't think it's quite this extreme.
I thought he was the “last of the late brakers"
Looking back at Ric when he joined Renault, he had "problems" adjusting to the new car and didn't start to have good results until the second half of the season. In 2020 he more than doubled his 2019 point tally, but even then his best results were in the second half of the season (if we can even say that last season had two halves and not one big rush all of the time). So I'm not too worried.
to be fair Renault (+ Hulkenberg) were shit in my honest opinion compared to McLaren and Norris
the redbull and renault were similar though all renault had to fix was the kind of breaks they used for him, but the mclaren is so so different for him so I dunno
Good video mate
That was a great break down thanks.
feels like two years ago we were saying a similar thing at Renault
The moment when Danny fully trusts the car and takes a leap of faith with what the car is capable of is going to be special, special day. He just needs to keep chipping away and he will eventually hit diamond.
yesterday
Great video, thanks for that.
really nice video!!
Maybe I'm over simplifying it but if I were mclaren I wouldn't change an aero philosophy to suit one driver. Its much less of a risk to stick with what they know, and what is proven to work than risk changing it to suit riccardo
Dan saw this video and said "HOLD MY BEER"
That description just before 6 minutes explains why I had to use that braking style in all low speed corners coming off high speed straights in the F1 game driving the McLaren. Apparently this has been how the car has worked since at least 2017. Wait as late as possible, smash the brake then gradually release brake pressure as the car slows and loses aero grip. When I don't ease off the brake, the fronts lock as downforce fades.
Drone shot at .38 was sick. Epic
I fear this may be where Daniel’s career takes the final nail
nah it really has nothing to do with his driving ability, put him back in a redbull and you'd think he'd be up there. However he has to change everything underbreaking so it should be expected when a driver has to change a technique they've used for a very long time its gonna be a while.
Great clip 👌
I really enjoyed this look at the McLaren car and Riccardo’s driving style. Thanks.
so basically you’ve gotta brake late and chuck the mclaren into the corners aggressively to get the most out of it
Im pretty sure he’ll adapt towards the end of the season. For us those changes in driving mechanics might look simple, but not easy when relying mostly in your instincts at these speeds. Ric just needs more seat time, hopefully that will bring him back towards the front where we miss seeing him.
I am not that confident. We have several really fast tracks on the calendar after the break (Spa, Monza, COTA) and none of the rest are as slow as Monaco. This means that Daniel will probably be able to reduce the gap to Lando and maybe even shine in a couple of races, but this will essentially mask the underlying problem of adaptability. McLaren have been very patient and understanding with him but at this point I fear Dan will not serve his 3rd year with the team and will leave F1 prematurely.
ffs Rossi changed his style so many times on a moto gp bike which is much harder than changing your style sat on your arse!
All valid points, i guess time will tell... I remain in the hopeful side 💪🏽
@@paulmorgan8254 Rossi was never fast on the Ducati that I can remember...
Fantastic piece, Edd. More of this sort of thing, please. Red Bull next?
Oh we 1000% need more videos like this about other times
Must be so difficult to change his style to this. Intuitively you'd think braking earlier would be the response to understeer. Braking later to counter understeer just flies so much in the face of what seems like the naturally correct thing to do.
Trail braking?
its simple weight transfer. brake late and hard to get the weight on the front tyres (especially in fwd shitboxes), and keep some brake pressure on to keep the nose pinned. From there you can input steering, rotate and straighten for the exit. I learned to drive fast in crappy FWD cars so I've developed a habit of trying to transfer weight to the fronts to avoid understeer.
I think Ricciardo is a good enough driver to get it figured out eventually. I honestly think he is more surprised than everyone else about his performance. I have faith tho!
I don't think he'll figure it out, certainly not in time to achieve much, but I don't think it matters. He's only got half a season left until there's a totally different car. Since he's in the development process of that one we should see him back to the awesome driving we're used to ☺
This highlights how good of a driver Carlos Sainz is. He has been the driver that adapted better to a new car this year and he was able to squeeze a lot of all the cars that he has driven in his career in the F1.
Yeahhh very underrated a1
No he's not. He got easily beaten by hulkenberg. Daniel ricciardo easily beat hulk
@@samab7891 just see now who is beating Daniel in a Ferrari that he started driving at the same time as the McLaren.
Good video the race👍
Who's here after he just won Italian GP in Monza?
the thought of not seeing a shoey this year terrifies me...
You should expect it. It took him a year and a half to get a podium in the Renault.
This is excellent content.
Great insight
“Hamilton can be competitive in any car.”
Ricciardo: 🤨
Not gonna lie I am a little curious how Hamilton would preform in the McLaren compared to Lando.
What if he isn't....will you take his watch??
Let's see how Hamilton does in a truck called the Haas VF-21.
@@yodaisgod2 what about the Ferrari sf1000
He will obviously will give a similar result. Unless you have a dominant car in F1, you basically can't do shit.
I guess he figured it out mate
What a great video!!
fantastic insight
Technicalities aside, Riccardo MUST adapt. This is what's expected from a great driver
a real voice of sense finally! praise the Lord!
Thing is though he's not a great driver, mediocre at best.
@@BIGKEV1973 I guess Vettel was mediocre in 2014?...
@@BIGKEV1973 hahahaha that aged well 😂
@@jaybardon1549 hahaha 1 win in 3 years, yep mediocre at best 🤣