@@ALPHABYTE94 he WILL BE overtaken sooner or later , he's losing that spot , so it has no point to wast tires and laptime and focus on the actual fight, if the dude on front fights with perez for ex , he'll lose tires and lap time , which is good for norris.
@@ALPHABYTE94 in every racing category you want to do what’s in your best interest. If you have behind a driver that is much much faster or a driver who was fighting for the lead and just came out of the pits, you’re just wasting tyre life to delay an overtake that will happen. It doesn’t benefit you at all to fight in some occasions, and Norris knew it
not in this case, as it is shown the f1tv onboard with all the radios in real time, as there is no censorship and they are just broadcasting everything that is being said @@dobiesawjocek4996
ah but when Hamilton does it you all speak much differently. Meh... lando is just meh. Nothing special. He hasn't faced a lot of adversity yet, that's for sure.
How comes CZcams didn't recommend me this before? It's genuinely amazing, very interesting and with proper context, no drama, zero fuss, just racing facts.
@@Vahron CZcams's algorithm is messed up, that's known for years. But what saddens me more is that yelistener isn't taking all his amazing content to platforms where people would find him easier. Such as Tik Tok. His videos are short and the F1 community would stick around to watch a 2 minute video of analysis on Tik Tok.
norris is a very intelligent racer he knows how to preserve his tyres he knows how to pick and choose his battles and he knows how to use his tyres later in the race
@@gopr3117 no, it's based oof over 100 races, Lando was always choosing his battles, not fighting when it was pointless but racing hard when he had a chance
The diffrent between Piastri and Norris. Piastri uses his tires up very much in the beginning, trying to overtake and deffend. While Norris plays the long game with his tires, and exampel is Emilia-Romagnas 2024. Piastri was chasing Leclerc for the most part of the race, but lost alot of time in the ending, while Norris lost alot of time through the beginning and mid of the race, and gained alot in the end. A strong team with diffrent driver powers. Can't wait to see more races from McLaren side.
I think a lot of the difference is just a difference in general tyre management experience between the two drivers as well. I'm sure Oscar will get used to different strategies of saving tyres in F1.
@@TheFatSandwhich yeah, I think that for most of the season onward, I think piastri will qualify higher that Norris, but Norris will make it better in the race.
@@TommydrengenStill the most balanced driver lineup on the grid, pace wise are pretty much close,but Lando has learned the hard way that messing with the tyres can have a costly outcome (it took him time to get back from Sochi 2021).
@@DerpSherman if they keep going this way, I could easy see Ferrari, RB and Mclaren, fight for 1st place construction championship. The other teams are catching the Red Bull. Ferrari is also a very balenced team, so I can see a interresting season coming in this year.
@@Tommydrengen I wish Ferrari can be consistently competitive whole season long, consistency (team wise)is the weak spot of Scuderia in the long run,while for McLaren,in don't think they looked this strong since at least..2021,but now they have a balanced lineup to be a real treat (unlike 2021,where Norris was facing both Sainz and Leclerc,while Ricciardo was barely beating Gasly). All that's left is to wait and see how the rest of the season develops,but it feels like McLaren and Ferrari are finally back in shape.
Which is right! He's clearly slower, why destroying tires for a fight that is lost anyway. Now with McLaren being faster, he has to defend brutally. (As we saw in Silverstone as an example)
Mate, that's smart racing, at Canada McLaren didn't even have their upgrades, so it was a back of the grid McLaren vs 3rd fastest Ferrari, both would lose time if he chose to defend
in 2022 Mclaren were 5th best car behind Alpine, they only have 1 podium, norris in Imola, and it's the only podium in 2022 outside of the Big 3 team (RB, Ferrari, Mercedes)
Norris is smart. He knows who they/McLarens are racing against. No sense killing your tires and battery trying to defend the inevitable. But this year, McLaren is looking a lot stronger and can keep up with the Ferraris and RBs on certain tracks, so we might just see more defending from Lando
You should make a video about how hamilton has been leaving the inside open, inviting an overtake for the past few years, i can list the races if youd like
Random anecdote but it actually feels like they programmed this behavior for Norris in F1 Manager 23. I just hired him to Alfa Romeo for 2026 and on race 1 of the season I noticed him willingly giving up several places early in the race when he clearly didn't have the pace to keep up, yet it resulted in him having a tire advantage and finishing P5 overall from a P4 start. He's ranked 92 OVR now and has 97/100 for attack and defense when in peak form so it had nothing to do with poor defensive driving. I'm pretty sure this was just coincidental but interesting nonetheless.
In Canada last year he somehow had a very poor exit from the chicane. The cars in front of him were almost glued together, yet he was unable to follow them closely and therefore he didn't get a slipstream to defend himself from Leclerc. Austria 2021 was a weird race indeed. Norris was happily sitting in 3rd place, when all of the sudden he let Pérez and Bottas by. He must have regretted this, because he could keep up with them quite well later in the race, so he could have finished ahead of them. A week later, at the same track, he actually did put up a fight.
I understand strategy and not wasting overall race time. However, defending is part of the sport. When you defend, it allows for the attacker to make a mistake. This whole notion of just letting people drive by is insane to me.
Both instances were towards the start of the race. If he defends against a *clearly* faster car, he'll ruin his tyres for his own race against his actual rivals. Either he won't have the tyres to attack/defend when he needs to, or he'll be forced to pit too early. There's also the risk of damaging the car from an incident. Piastri suffers from this at the moment. It's fun to see him getting aggressive, but he chews his tyres too early. He also takes a lot of risks dropping out of points, fighting too hard (Monza 2023, Spa 2023, and Miami 2024 are examples, irrespective of who's at fault).
another good example is jeddah 2024, after the safety car where norris stayed out but the redbulls pited. he let them through the strait, but when leclerc tried to do the same norris defended
2:01 .. definitely not the 'normal braking' line into T3. You can see the normal line being taken by the Williams ahead. Norris would have been trying to let Perez pass him before the DRS detection line.
Ah, this reminds me of some of Tony Stewart’s infinite wisdom “Look up the definition for ‘passing’, then read the definition of ‘racing’, ok? We’re not here passing, we’re racing.”
norris did the same with charles leclerc again at saudi arabia go 2024, norris just kept the car on 7th gear while charles was on max speed with drs and 8th gear
What do you mean they are not his rivals? What are they then? They are racing against each other and Norris is loosing points, possibly falling behind his actual "rivals" in points
The guy behind is much faster, be it a generally faster car or better tyres. Norris has no chance of beating the guy behind. So, the car behind is going to get past him no matter what but, if norris defends against it, even for a single lap or so he will damage his tryes. Then when it comes to battling the car he wants to fight, he wont be able to because his tryes are finished. He's basically picking his battles wisely.
Maybe you don’t know The overtake button activates a different mechanism to the DRS button Overtake is an engine configuration which grants maximum power from the electric motors and minimum resistance to combustion engine acceleration from the generators
But isn't it slower to take this corner so far from the ideal line? Why not take the corner the predictable/fast way and let checo find his way past in whichever way?
If you let them by on purpose you can choose to do it in a way that doesn't lose much time, instead of having your corner exit compromised by them doing something like going around the outside
Norris and his fan girls think he's racing smart, but he's not even racing, this'll affect him when he starts racing for wins, he's never won a w2w battle against max and soon enough max is going to take the gloves off now that the cars are getting much closer.
I was waiting for someone like you to show up because I‘ve seen this a lot last season, especially after the Brazil race last year How do you expect Norris to come out on top against Verstappen when the car never allowed him to compete with him?😂 I mean I‘m looking forward to the possibility of someone actually challenging Verstappen on track for the first time in two years and if Norris is up to that challenge but what you said is ridiculous You can call it „not even racing“ if you want because that’s the point of why it‘s so smart to lose minimal time to cars you don’t have a chance of fighting with anyway When there‘s a chance to beat a car he‘s fighting, of course he races against them, when there’s no chance of beating a car, why lose time and tire life to maybe keep ahead for two more laps and let the cars you are actually racing against catch up?
@@cyancut21 at least put up a fight it's racing, conditions change all the time, even impacting the time of a faster driver by a few tenths can flip an entire race on it's head and open up strategy options, that's why lando can't take advantage of the rare moments when an opportunity opens up cus he's always racing passively. There was a race where he let a faster car go by, a few laps later the driver totally lost pace while somehow the conditions favoured the McLaren, he could drive closer but could never overtake because he had earlier thought he was being smart by letting the faster car by and that came back to bite him in the arse, can't remember the race right now though. At least make them fight for it, you don't have to burn out your tires, at least take a defensive line instead of rolling out the red carpet, that will not even cost a tenth, make us believe we're actually watching a race.
@@chiefdenis In that instance, you‘re absolutely right. But since you can’t predict when a situation like that will arise, taking that 1/100 loss from that approach to benefit from it the other 99 times is the more efficient way of going about in a race I can’t remember those circumstances ever occurring (could have easily happened though, maybe you remember which race you meant later), the only instance that comes to my mind is Austria 2021 where he let Hamilton by who later picked up floor damage…and Norris just overtook him again It‘s not about our viewing experience, it’s about maximising your result and with the tires‘ operating window being so narrow it‘s a delicate task to keep them working properly, driving in dirty air for a few laps after being overtaken is bad enough as is but with a faster car by some margin it will happen anyway…so taking a defensive line, going onto the marbles and asking more from your tires than you’d normally want under braking, turning and accelerating will lose you time and tire life (which in the end means also lost time and strategic options) and I think the results Norris gets with this approach speak for themselves
I disagree with the consensus of this video and make the argument that this is landos biggest weaknesss. He bends the knee to anything and everything quicker than him. There comes a time he’ll have to show some ferocity, like max, Lewis and fernando (all WC’s)
@@willojames9910 Ferocity? Yea, of the top of my head, look at Austria '20 and Monza '21. No ferocity there was there! Let me guess, if this were you you've fought that position? And killed your tyres so you get passed by everyone else. Proving once again you have no idea about racing.
Theres a reason K-mag is at the back you know. So lets say he defends against a much faster car, whats the result, he gets overtaken anyway. Your way however, hes fucked his tyres in the process. IQ of a potato
in the 2022 mclaren? literally zero chance he'd be fast enough to keep leclerc behind, they were still down there with williams/aston martin/alpha tauri that early in the season
@@samkostka126 Relax smart ass, we are only talking about that straight, whether Norris would have defended Leclerc if he had pressed the overtake button. It is obvious from the video that Leclerc made an overtake at the very end of the straight, so if Norris had used an overtake button he would surely have defended Leclerc.
@@samkostka126 literally 100% if Norris pushed overtake button he would defend from leclerc on that straight that lap.. iam not talking about whole race of course
@@oliverSK that straight sure but why drain your battery to defend against a car that's going to fly past you 15 seconds later anyway? Better to save that burst of power for the Williams you actually have a shot at defending against
@@samkostka126 of course man just talking hypotheticaly becouse in video is shown just that straight and if he would defend or not and ist obvious that he would
As far as I can remember, he only defended Hamilton in GB last year. And it was a race where McLaren was way faster than Mercedes, and he had hard tyres with like 18 laps to go, against Hamilton's soft tyres. He had every reason to defend
This is a serious problem and regulations should aim towards to solve this. I understand why Norris does that, I would do the same, but that kills the sport. Imagine explaining this to someone who doesn't watch F1 races: "this guy is racing but let other cars pass because they're faster". Come on....
Why is Perez so much slower than Verstappen in Canada: czcams.com/video/0b4sx8oRt2Q/video.html
Racing 101 : don't lose time battling people you aren't racing .
Bad
Always fight
@@ALPHABYTE94 he WILL BE overtaken sooner or later , he's losing that spot , so it has no point to wast tires and laptime and focus on the actual fight, if the dude on front fights with perez for ex , he'll lose tires and lap time , which is good for norris.
@@ALPHABYTE94 in every racing category you want to do what’s in your best interest. If you have behind a driver that is much much faster or a driver who was fighting for the lead and just came out of the pits, you’re just wasting tyre life to delay an overtake that will happen. It doesn’t benefit you at all to fight in some occasions, and Norris knew it
@@ALPHABYTE94 brb, gonna battle a F1 car in my GTE Porsche
Bro Xavi talking while i am driving 350 trying to overtake would drive me crazy
Radio comms are always delayed a few seconds. They most likely communicated just after the turn or just before.
Dont forget they have to censure sometimes thats why it has delay :D
@@Skafiskafnjak51 F1TV doesn't censor anything.
We are checking
not in this case, as it is shown the f1tv onboard with all the radios in real time, as there is no censorship and they are just broadcasting everything that is being said @@dobiesawjocek4996
He is picking his battles, there's no point wasting your tires to delay an overtake.
ah but when Hamilton does it you all speak much differently. Meh... lando is just meh. Nothing special. He hasn't faced a lot of adversity yet, that's for sure.
@@chamiltonart3319 man who the fuck brought hamilton into this? Crybaby dick rider
@@chamiltonart3319 he will never win a world championship.. which is sad because hes a good guy, just not aggressive enough
@@chamiltonart3319 shed some more tears...he is way better than lulu
@@snugsel5412So.. another David Couldhard scenario?
I see yelistner post, I click, I watch, I like.
Best f1 content on yt low key
How comes CZcams didn't recommend me this before? It's genuinely amazing, very interesting and with proper context, no drama, zero fuss, just racing facts.
@@Vahron CZcams's algorithm is messed up, that's known for years. But what saddens me more is that yelistener isn't taking all his amazing content to platforms where people would find him easier. Such as Tik Tok. His videos are short and the F1 community would stick around to watch a 2 minute video of analysis on Tik Tok.
@@winniewinner4545 That's actually a good idea. I've set up a tiktok account. Let's see if my vids could gain some views on tiktok.
@yelistener Oh that's great! On my way to folloow you there!
following this guy a good while now best f1 channel on yt especially if you like details like this
These graphics for speed, rpm, braking, drs, gear etc. are far better than what we currently have
That’s what we used to have around 2015/16
@@amielterence Yeah I remember those times. The idea of the halo graphics is not bad, but the implentation has... potential to put it mildly
He picks his battles. On the other hand, Kevin Magnussen…
Norris: avoiding pointless battles
KMag: looking for pointless battles
meanwhile ocon: let me unlap myself real quick max. it might cost you the win tho.
norris is a very intelligent racer he knows how to preserve his tyres he knows how to pick and choose his battles and he knows how to use his tyres later in the race
Your assessment based off two races…
@@gopr3117 no, it's based oof over 100 races, Lando was always choosing his battles, not fighting when it was pointless but racing hard when he had a chance
Last lap Lando baby
Imola 2024?
The diffrent between Piastri and Norris.
Piastri uses his tires up very much in the beginning, trying to overtake and deffend. While Norris plays the long game with his tires, and exampel is Emilia-Romagnas 2024.
Piastri was chasing Leclerc for the most part of the race, but lost alot of time in the ending, while Norris lost alot of time through the beginning and mid of the race, and gained alot in the end.
A strong team with diffrent driver powers. Can't wait to see more races from McLaren side.
I think a lot of the difference is just a difference in general tyre management experience between the two drivers as well. I'm sure Oscar will get used to different strategies of saving tyres in F1.
@@TheFatSandwhich yeah, I think that for most of the season onward, I think piastri will qualify higher that Norris, but Norris will make it better in the race.
@@TommydrengenStill the most balanced driver lineup on the grid, pace wise are pretty much close,but Lando has learned the hard way that messing with the tyres can have a costly outcome (it took him time to get back from Sochi 2021).
@@DerpSherman if they keep going this way, I could easy see Ferrari, RB and Mclaren, fight for 1st place construction championship. The other teams are catching the Red Bull.
Ferrari is also a very balenced team, so I can see a interresting season coming in this year.
@@Tommydrengen I wish Ferrari can be consistently competitive whole season long, consistency (team wise)is the weak spot of Scuderia in the long run,while for McLaren,in don't think they looked this strong since at least..2021,but now they have a balanced lineup to be a real treat (unlike 2021,where Norris was facing both Sainz and Leclerc,while Ricciardo was barely beating Gasly).
All that's left is to wait and see how the rest of the season develops,but it feels like McLaren and Ferrari are finally back in shape.
Lelclerc overtook a lot a cars that day
In particular the overtake to alonso at the hairpin was sick
He started p19, and he was a man on a mission
There's no need to waste tyres and sabotage your own race to keep a faster car behind.
Lando is smart, his brain is bigger than his ego
@@Skafiskafnjak51 It actually isn't lol
you are the absolute goat of F1 channels
He understand when it's not his fight. Fair play
smart man, also i like you covering these little things that are actually very interesting, keep it up
Great video as always sir.
I love your content
He just knew the time to fight them would come… 2 years later, he must be enjoying going head to head with them!
yeah he always leaves the door open when faster cars approach
Which is right! He's clearly slower, why destroying tires for a fight that is lost anyway. Now with McLaren being faster, he has to defend brutally. (As we saw in Silverstone as an example)
Mate, that's smart racing, at Canada McLaren didn't even have their upgrades, so it was a back of the grid McLaren vs 3rd fastest Ferrari, both would lose time if he chose to defend
Max never thought like that. And guess who pulled great performances even without the fastest car?!
@@daveruda Max, even when given the slowest car, is still a demon behind the wheel
@@DarkCyberUK no lol he crash
I remember this. Charles started last and finished 5th, because he had a skinny trimmed out rear wing, compared to everyone else!
in 2022 Mclaren were 5th best car behind Alpine, they only have 1 podium, norris in Imola, and it's the only podium in 2022 outside of the Big 3 team (RB, Ferrari, Mercedes)
Ocon could never
hes not racing next season anyway
Norris be like: nah, I ain’t kmag…
Tbf, McLaren had quite slow straight line speed that season.
Not many knows It Is a repost ahah, anyway It Is Always good to re Watch your videos
Norris in 2024: I will defend that RedBull
1:36 Sticks loved that move 🦡 😄
we are checking
This is the sign of a mature and intelligent racer.
Norris is smart. He knows who they/McLarens are racing against. No sense killing your tires and battery trying to defend the inevitable. But this year, McLaren is looking a lot stronger and can keep up with the Ferraris and RBs on certain tracks, so we might just see more defending from Lando
Me: Don’t but I will
Good racecraft
The sound
2022 Ferrari was so strong
It was the best car, even though it lasted less than half a season.
@@il-ma.le. It def was the prettiest car
@@il-ma.le.Sainz was nowhere in the "best car"
it was best in just 3-4 races all season, bahrain, australia, monaco and austria, and was never faster by more than a tenth ahead of redbull.
@@askeladden450it was the best in spain and better in brazil, Not enough but if they hadnt Shit themselfes maybe something could have went better
"if car behind is not your rival, let it pass rather than unnecessary defense"
Ocon seeing another team mate in front or behind: I only have 1 rival
You should make a video about how hamilton has been leaving the inside open, inviting an overtake for the past few years, i can list the races if youd like
wasn't this your old videos like Vettel and Hamilton on Suzuka 2019?
The most amazing thing about this video is Perez hitting an apex perfectly.
Random anecdote but it actually feels like they programmed this behavior for Norris in F1 Manager 23. I just hired him to Alfa Romeo for 2026 and on race 1 of the season I noticed him willingly giving up several places early in the race when he clearly didn't have the pace to keep up, yet it resulted in him having a tire advantage and finishing P5 overall from a P4 start. He's ranked 92 OVR now and has 97/100 for attack and defense when in peak form so it had nothing to do with poor defensive driving. I'm pretty sure this was just coincidental but interesting nonetheless.
Oh god I forgot how good that 2022 Ferrari engine sounded
In Canada last year he somehow had a very poor exit from the chicane. The cars in front of him were almost glued together, yet he was unable to follow them closely and therefore he didn't get a slipstream to defend himself from Leclerc.
Austria 2021 was a weird race indeed. Norris was happily sitting in 3rd place, when all of the sudden he let Pérez and Bottas by. He must have regretted this, because he could keep up with them quite well later in the race, so he could have finished ahead of them. A week later, at the same track, he actually did put up a fight.
Tell me you know nothing about F1 without telling me gou know nothing about f1
But against Lewis, he always defend like crazy !!!
I understand strategy and not wasting overall race time. However, defending is part of the sport. When you defend, it allows for the attacker to make a mistake. This whole notion of just letting people drive by is insane to me.
Both instances were towards the start of the race. If he defends against a *clearly* faster car, he'll ruin his tyres for his own race against his actual rivals. Either he won't have the tyres to attack/defend when he needs to, or he'll be forced to pit too early. There's also the risk of damaging the car from an incident.
Piastri suffers from this at the moment. It's fun to see him getting aggressive, but he chews his tyres too early. He also takes a lot of risks dropping out of points, fighting too hard (Monza 2023, Spa 2023, and Miami 2024 are examples, irrespective of who's at fault).
Its not about time,its about tyres.
344KMH LECLERC🔥🔥🔥🔥
another good example is jeddah 2024, after the safety car where norris stayed out but the redbulls pited. he let them through the strait, but when leclerc tried to do the same norris defended
He’s learned it from Daniel. He always does it as well
Norris is smart, be like Norris.
Reliability aside, Ferrari’s F1-75 was a monster car in 2022. It was challenging the RB18 and even had more pace when the season began
Yes Norris is a “master” of letting people overtake him. What you mean is, Norris employs this tactic more observably than other drivers
PLAN A QUESTION
1:05 Question?
It was that divebomb year of RedBull drivers
2:01 .. definitely not the 'normal braking' line into T3. You can see the normal line being taken by the Williams ahead.
Norris would have been trying to let Perez pass him before the DRS detection line.
Smart driver tbh
When you have a slow car, everyone is passing you. In 2024, the Mcclaren is a very competitive car. Back then, not so much.
Ah, this reminds me of some of Tony Stewart’s infinite wisdom “Look up the definition for ‘passing’, then read the definition of ‘racing’, ok? We’re not here passing, we’re racing.”
Now everyone is his rival💀, that McLaren is hooked in!
开总能不能做一期为什么现在小周这么慢的视频阿？可以就跟博塔斯比。同样的车。想知道到底咋回事。B站也留言了！希望能看到！谢谢
Brunld always makes the example of seeing Senna in your mirror in his McLaren
Not PASSIVE but SMART.
Tell this to Ocon.
norris did the same with charles leclerc again at saudi arabia go 2024, norris just kept the car on 7th gear while charles was on max speed with drs and 8th gear
"norris" clearly "understands" "the" art of "racecraft"
Let they go and uses some slipstream
What do you mean they are not his rivals? What are they then? They are racing against each other and Norris is loosing points, possibly falling behind his actual "rivals" in points
i mean that with leclerc at 2023, uts no point to fight leclerc since we kne mclaren beginning of 2023 its awful
We need a new tire manufacturer, this “preservation of tires” game is so boring to watch. No one ever pushes and goes racing anymore
On top of that you get drs when the guy has passed, at least in F1.
Pick your battles.... are you listening Kevin
Kevin DOES pick his battles, he just picks them all
“Past” not “pass” at 2:09, but excellent vid regardless
Pick your fights tactic.
And now Ferrari cant even make it to Q3 its like they are evolving backwards
He defo shouldve been fighting harder against perez in '21 austria, he had plenty of pace
Perez dinished 26 seconds ahead of him (this was the Styrian not austrian GP)
sorry can someone explain why anyone would want the guy behind to get ahead of them?
The guy behind is much faster, be it a generally faster car or better tyres. Norris has no chance of beating the guy behind.
So, the car behind is going to get past him no matter what but, if norris defends against it, even for a single lap or so he will damage his tryes. Then when it comes to battling the car he wants to fight, he wont be able to because his tryes are finished.
He's basically picking his battles wisely.
@@user-qf7dl2ki4t thank you!
1:59 perez was 30km/h faster than him, what could have been done different
norris did press the button for the ferrari, we can see the open drs in the next scene
Maybe you don’t know
The overtake button activates a different mechanism to the DRS button
Overtake is an engine configuration which grants maximum power from the electric motors and minimum resistance to combustion engine acceleration from the generators
@@cyancut21 ill sleep less stupid tonight it seems XD
Gotta learn something new every day lol
Thats not the DRS button.
@@user-qf7dl2ki4t i know, you are a few days late ;)
It's like Norris just dodged a rocket that would've blown his McLaren up both times 😅
Norris and Sainz actually use their brain for racing
Sainz l's brain is bigger tham the entire Ferrari strategy team.
But isn't it slower to take this corner so far from the ideal line? Why not take the corner the predictable/fast way and let checo find his way past in whichever way?
If you let them by on purpose you can choose to do it in a way that doesn't lose much time, instead of having your corner exit compromised by them doing something like going around the outside
@@samkostka126 Ah it's about the exit speed, I see thanks.
How do you even notice this
Hiw do you not?
No wonder russel let max passes him in suzuka
Norris and his fan girls think he's racing smart, but he's not even racing, this'll affect him when he starts racing for wins, he's never won a w2w battle against max and soon enough max is going to take the gloves off now that the cars are getting much closer.
How old are you?
I was waiting for someone like you to show up because I‘ve seen this a lot last season, especially after the Brazil race last year
How do you expect Norris to come out on top against Verstappen when the car never allowed him to compete with him?😂
I mean I‘m looking forward to the possibility of someone actually challenging Verstappen on track for the first time in two years and if Norris is up to that challenge but what you said is ridiculous
You can call it „not even racing“ if you want because that’s the point of why it‘s so smart to lose minimal time to cars you don’t have a chance of fighting with anyway
When there‘s a chance to beat a car he‘s fighting, of course he races against them, when there’s no chance of beating a car, why lose time and tire life to maybe keep ahead for two more laps and let the cars you are actually racing against catch up?
@@Holoflux older than you for sure
@@cyancut21 at least put up a fight it's racing, conditions change all the time, even impacting the time of a faster driver by a few tenths can flip an entire race on it's head and open up strategy options, that's why lando can't take advantage of the rare moments when an opportunity opens up cus he's always racing passively.
There was a race where he let a faster car go by, a few laps later the driver totally lost pace while somehow the conditions favoured the McLaren, he could drive closer but could never overtake because he had earlier thought he was being smart by letting the faster car by and that came back to bite him in the arse, can't remember the race right now though.
At least make them fight for it, you don't have to burn out your tires, at least take a defensive line instead of rolling out the red carpet, that will not even cost a tenth, make us believe we're actually watching a race.
@@chiefdenis In that instance, you‘re absolutely right. But since you can’t predict when a situation like that will arise, taking that 1/100 loss from that approach to benefit from it the other 99 times is the more efficient way of going about in a race
I can’t remember those circumstances ever occurring (could have easily happened though, maybe you remember which race you meant later), the only instance that comes to my mind is Austria 2021 where he let Hamilton by who later picked up floor damage…and Norris just overtook him again
It‘s not about our viewing experience, it’s about maximising your result and with the tires‘ operating window being so narrow it‘s a delicate task to keep them working properly, driving in dirty air for a few laps after being overtaken is bad enough as is but with a faster car by some margin it will happen anyway…so taking a defensive line, going onto the marbles and asking more from your tires than you’d normally want under braking, turning and accelerating will lose you time and tire life (which in the end means also lost time and strategic options) and I think the results Norris gets with this approach speak for themselves
I disagree with the consensus of this video and make the argument that this is landos biggest weaknesss. He bends the knee to anything and everything quicker than him. There comes a time he’ll have to show some ferocity, like max, Lewis and fernando (all WC’s)
Tell me you dont actually watch F1 without twlling me you dont actually watch F1 lol
@@user-qf7dl2ki4t and he does let everything by if he’s got a pace disadvantage. What do you mean? Maybe you don’t watch too often
@@willojames9910 Ferocity? Yea, of the top of my head, look at Austria '20 and Monza '21. No ferocity there was there!
Let me guess, if this were you you've fought that position?
And killed your tyres so you get passed by everyone else.
Proving once again you have no idea about racing.
@@user-qf7dl2ki4t well done you found 2 examples in 4 years. Point proven.
@@willojames9910 well done on not understanding the term 'off the top of my head's
Slow clap.
Norris is so disappointing when you hope that he can block for a bit some opponent...
Yes, you should have defended against the clearly faster car that will inevitably pass you anyway and fuck your tyres in the process.
Sigh
I mean... who are you to judge a formula one driver man?
Theres no judging here. Juat analysis
The only one he always fights is Lewis.
Truly a beta male driving master
Didn't he put Perez in the gravel in Austria 21?
And then perez put leclerc in the gravel too yea
I mean Perez was on softs, probably 80% of the grid would’ve done the same
The boy needs to grow a pair of K-Mags and defend like someone is holding his family hostage.
Theres a reason K-mag is at the back you know.
So lets say he defends against a much faster car, whats the result, he gets overtaken anyway. Your way however, hes fucked his tyres in the process.
IQ of a potato
Norris Rivals: Hamilton
Actually, Norris would has defend leclerc if he pushed overtake lol
in the 2022 mclaren? literally zero chance he'd be fast enough to keep leclerc behind, they were still down there with williams/aston martin/alpha tauri that early in the season
@@samkostka126 Relax smart ass, we are only talking about that straight, whether Norris would have defended Leclerc if he had pressed the overtake button. It is obvious from the video that Leclerc made an overtake at the very end of the straight, so if Norris had used an overtake button he would surely have defended Leclerc.
@@samkostka126 literally 100% if Norris pushed overtake button he would defend from leclerc on that straight that lap.. iam not talking about whole race of course
@@oliverSK that straight sure but why drain your battery to defend against a car that's going to fly past you 15 seconds later anyway? Better to save that burst of power for the Williams you actually have a shot at defending against
@@samkostka126 of course man just talking hypotheticaly becouse in video is shown just that straight and if he would defend or not and ist obvious that he would
Norris cant fight. We saw it in Spain and in Austria. Winning car, but he’s no winning material
every drivwr is winning material. uf norris not a winning material then why he's still at F1??.
Only defends against Hamilton 😂
Ocon seeing this and mad
aka norris only wins with a superior car
This makes me dislike Ocon even more lol
Norris when he sees Hamilton behind: *time to defend* 😡
Do you even remember how easily he let him through in Silverstone 2021? Of course you don't
Norris never defends against lewis, drives me insane! Only time was at Austria.
As far as I can remember, he only defended Hamilton in GB last year. And it was a race where McLaren was way faster than Mercedes, and he had hard tyres with like 18 laps to go, against Hamilton's soft tyres. He had every reason to defend
Thats because he actually has a chance of beating lewis.
@@de1623then you need to actually watch F1 lol
2022 clown ferrari
first
noone cares
Who KERS?
@@FCB001 ooo thats a good one
Gg ez
@@ghosty9051 bru what
This is a serious problem and regulations should aim towards to solve this. I understand why Norris does that, I would do the same, but that kills the sport. Imagine explaining this to someone who doesn't watch F1 races: "this guy is racing but let other cars pass because they're faster". Come on....
Trust me if it was Hamilton he would defend for life.