In the same interview Marko said it's normal for Max, he has a different rhythm, and he got his sleep quotum that night. He's stayed up even longer before and won. Horner also said after the race it wasn't and hasn't been an issue and Max was completely alert and focused during the pre race briefing as well. So yes, it's a narrative being pushed by Crofty and co. and yes all the shite those knobs have managed to stir up with these stories has likely led to a conversation where they've asked Max to lay low for a while on that front as to not add fuel to the fire.
It’s not a narrative being pushed. It was something that had happened.
I’d love enough money to have racing set up like these guys have
No way, imagine if Rashford or Bruno did this, we’d be rightfully asking how is it allowed. It’s not been as issue before cause he’s won easily over the last few years. I don’t have any negative agenda against him, I just think it has to have an impact when he starts to get all cranky and argumentative when things are unraveling.
Sancho basically did it and got vilified for it as he should
Exactly, I just think professional sports people getting paid ridiculous money should do everything they can to win. Gaming to the early hours isn’t that. You can get away with it when it’s all smelling of roses but doesn’t take long for it to turn sour.
No it's not, Crofty was going on about a lack of sleep (and repeating that 100 times in his commentary, blaming his frustration and anger and everything else he could think of on it as well) which by all accounts is not what happened.
Hope you're not serious
if you think sim racing is even 5% like driving on an actual track in a man actual car, you’re mental. it’s as close to racing as fifa is to football. you can basically learn the track layouts and maybe some braking points. stuff he knows inside out already. there’s feck all else to be gained from it.Hope you're not serious
the hard part of racing is the conditions, the g-force and the actual risk of binning the car or crashing. that is completely gone in sim racing. does he lose kilos of weight from sweating during the sim racing? does he piss himself in his seat if he has to? is it unbearably hot? if he was up until 3 in the morning in the actual simulator, i would have a tiny bit more sympathy. i would still think it’s irresponsible the night before a race, but there’s a tiny bit more merit to it.
Mate he's got a sim racing setup worth over 50 grand. He's racing in professional events. F1 teams actually use similar (though obviously with custom software and the like) setups to train, to establish a base setup for the race, etc., and have done so for years. They employ people specifically to do this. And you're ignoring my other points. If you can't see how what Max does is different from a footballer sitting on his couch with a fecking PlayStation controller in his hands playing FIFA and subsequently showing up to actual training late, I don't know what to tell you..
it is still an incredibly poor replica of actual racing conditions, regardless of how much he’s spent. there’s a reason the fia don’t give a feck about how much time the teams use it but limit actual running time on tracks. you can’t learn that much from it. it’s all built from limited runs on actual circuits. they cannot fully replicate the driving, let alone the toll on the driver.
because they’re all racing nerds and would have grown up playing gran turismo and the likes. max sim races because he enjoys it. that’s fine. i was about to say he’s a grown man, but we’ll go with him being an adult. he can do what he wants. but staying up until 3am doing it on the eve of a race is not for his job. it’s selfish and it’s irresponsible to the entire team. i doubt any of them are fine with it. i would wager that’s why his race engineer was so shitty with him. he’s about to have a month off. maybe that would be the time to do it instead.
Let’s agree to disagree then. If one of my Project Managers was playing Project Manager Extreme all night and messed up a huge presentation to millions of people I’d not be happy! But each to their own.No it's not, Crofty was going on about a lack of sleep (and repeating that 100 times in his commentary, blaming his frustration and anger and everything else he could think of on it as well) which by all accounts is not what happened.
Footballers get stick for playing games like FIFA or Call of Duty or going clubbing untill late at night. They don't usually get stick for basically training too much do they?
Are you really going to act like what Sancho did is the same? My god. You're comparing competing in a professional event in a racing simulator untill 3 AM, getting enough sleep and showing up focussed and on time for the pre race briefing to playing games like FIFA untill 3 AM and turning up late to training multiple times.
No but Karen and Crofty don’t get paid by Red Bull so don’t have to toe the line.
It really is the devils work that this coincides with the time you develop your adult habits
.I also posted this news yesterday but it got lost in the stupid max sim racing nonsense.
Red Bull probably see an advantage for a fresh engine at Spa for Verstappen, combine that with their DRS and the Kemmel Straight should be a hive of overtaking activity for them.
They did the same thing last year at Spa. Though it will be harder this year for him to get into the podium (safety cars aside*). The McLarens, Mercedes, Ferraris are all competitive and also if Max is behind the Haas's after his penalty is applied that could be tough as they are rapidly in a straight line.
Even with Briatore back on the grid, we can confidently say that it'll be a driving issue rather than anything manufactured* Perez to crash his RedBull on Sunday and cause a safety car? Almost guaranteed
. If Perez doesn't score well here, then expect the vultures to circle and Ricciardo and him to swap for the rest of the season.