Why Verstappen’s Dominance Feels Different to Anything Else

The "unprecedented reliability" jinx is unbelievable

The reason why it feels different is it’s a driver dominating and not the team. Other teams and drivers can challenge Perez on track and do, while Verstapen seems untouchable

Max's is that the gamer who even after finishing a game still wants to get 100% completion. Even after winning the title with 5 races to go he still won every race last year. His relentless desire to win after winning the championship is incredible. He is possible the last driver you want to have a dominant car because unlike other champions he never has an off day. You can argue about who the fastest is between Senna, Schumacher, Hamilton or Verstappen is and their arguments for all of them. But in terms of consistency and machine like efficiency, we are witnessing another level

The thing with Verstappen is that everyone saw this coming years in advance. For a long time there has been a consensus that Lewis and Max are the top 2 drivers in F1. We knew that whenever Red Bull gave Max a competitive car, which was a matter of time, that he was going to win multiple world championships.

IMO it feels different because SkySports tells us its different. We didn’t hear domination being a negative when it was Mercedes and Lewis.

The reason it feels different is the amount of consecutive wins Verstappen gets is incredible, plus Red Bulls mechanics and engineers have built a very reliable car. During Schumachers, Hamiltons &Vettels dominent eras they didnt win every race, other drivers won the occasional races throughout the season

Its just sad when you saw people hate max because of his dominance. They bully him and redbull instead of supporting and pushing their own favorite team. I don't have a favourite driver, but hating and bullying on one is just pathetic yk, very unsportsman like.

Watching now for over 30 years, this is not boring, this is special

You left out the FACT that Mercedes had two years developing the hybrid power unit before anyone else was allowed to.

Who’s here after the smooth operation

i think the things that are helping max the most are the increased number of races a year and the sim racing honestly, like sure he's not the best over 1 lap, but the sheer number of races he's competed in (both irl and online) have allowed him to develop his racecraft to such a high level, plus the fact that his attitude that only a win is really good enough (while he has the best car, i wouldn't be surprised to see that mentality hurt him if he's in another super tight championship battle). also side note: it still blows me away that in 2012 we had the championship winners for every season from 2000 to 2020 on the grid

Firstly... he won the most consecutive races in history.... 19 out of the last 20. Secondly, both Schumacher (who was my idol) and Ham did mistakes, here and there. Max doesn't make mistakes (anymore).

This whole “faster over one lap” is the miss congeniality of F1, points are scored at the grand prix not at qualifying.

That reliability Stat aged well😅

2 things, I think the biggest difference in the Merc domination and Red Bull is that, Merc and/or Lewis occasionally had bad days. Germany 2019, Austria 2018, Monza 2020 and 70th anniversary GP comes to mind which allowed other teams to capitalise, which arguably Red Bull/Max, seem to have very few, if not any, for example since the TD that effectively began the full fledged dominance, they have made 2 mistakes in set up which allowed Russell to win in Brazil and Sainz to win in Singapore. Secondly, the biggest difference in this domination is Max. Say what you will about the car and his teammate, no wdc has had THIS level of consistency. To put it into context, since 2021, when he has finished a race without damage, which is 60 in total, he has won 46 of them, p2 11 times, p3 once in Monaco and p5 and p7 in Singapore, which is consistency unlike we've ever seen. Maybe a bit of luck in a couple of races, but to consistently bring it home and not make a single mistake is something else.

Verstappen is the key. We never had a driver with this much talent and a good car at the same time. Max is such a monster now. The consistency is insane. Only thing stopping him is his car shitting itself 😄

He is too damn consistent, he doesn't have an off button man won his third before the Suzuka GP but you wouldn't know that by how he drove the rest of the season. If you want atleast some excitement this season somebody needs to step up like Max did in 2016-2020 during the Mercedes dominance, but so far none of them have. Zandvoort with the insanely tricky conditions should have been that opportunity instead Max just put in another master class wet drive.

Bro jinxed the reliability of redbull

Another difference is that teams used to build their cars with different philosophies and the drivers, especially in the Bridgestone V Michelin era, would have different driving styles. Which would make it interesting to watch. Now, Max and Red Bull are so dominant that everyone is trying to copy them at least to some extent, and Red Bull can’t be beat at their own game.

If people must use the argument that Max has the best car and 'only' Perez as a team-mate, then they must also accept that of Hamilton's 7 titles, 5 of them were with lesser drivers than Perez, ie. Kovailainen and Bottas.