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.
“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
Albon needs to become a commentator/pundit once he retires from F1, like take over from Martin
Regardless of how the rest of his career goes I think Alex will be one of those drivers that’s back in the paddock working for a team when he’s done driving.
He’s been given so much praise for his sim work and his debrief skills that (in my unprofessional opinion) Red Bull or someone else will probably want him around to give input on new design paths or something.
Ant does that while also commentating for Sky.
He was Yuki’s mentor during his off season. I bet he will do something similar when he retires.
I feel like he would be better in F1TV. They tend to have much more technical commentary.
Vowles too if being TP doesn’t work out.
Whenever they call in to James on the pit wall it is such a treat. His frankness and explanations are excellent to hear.
I can’t explain why but that guy severely irritates me.
Albon is a gem 💎.
So basically, verstappen drives like a Quake player on meth
I am getting tired of people claiming the car is built around verstappen and twisting albon’s words to ‘prove’ it. Albon clearly says in the article that the car is what it is and that the only reason the car ends up being developed more towards verstappen is because he is faster and hence his inputs are given more weight.
Hell even this year started off with the car suiting Perez but even then Perez could hardly match verstappen and once the car was updated slightly. Why would you give the guy who is at best equally matched and at worst nearly a second behind the other guy equal weightage when it comes to upgrades.
