Verstappen

[frankbmd]

Formula 1 fans educate me.

The races are relatively short and that is a good thing.

The courses don't seem to encourage passing. Once ahead the leader needs to make a mistake in order not to win.

I have walked the starting grid and portions of the course in Monaco.

I have successfully predicted the winner of a majority of the recent races.

I pick a driver whose name begins with V.

Verstappen

Verstappen

Verstappen

and Verstappen

His girl friend Kelly Piquet seems nice.

Am I missing something?

Does anybody collect Formula 1 cards

Should I be thrilled?

Why?

[frankbmd]

Verstappen does not win today. It would have been a fender bender late in the race, but alas there are no fenders on the F1s.

[Bored5000]

I collect Formula 1 cards, and racing cards in general. Formula 1 has always been a series without much passing and is almost always dominated by one or two teams. F1 is a technology/money driven series where the best car almost always wins. F1 is a series of ungodly sums of money and drivers that are largely aloof/arrogant compared to the more fan friendly drivers of NASCAR (or even IndyCar). All of those are the reasons why F1 has never really caught on in the United States relative to the rest of the world.

The phenomenon of the dominant driver/team definitely has definitely gotten worse in F1 over the past 30 years. Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and now Max Verstappen have all enjoyed periods of dominance in which they were nearly unbeatable over the past 30 years. In the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, F1 was a lot more competitive than what it is now.

[Bored5000]

One additional note, the Monaco circuit is notoriously impossible to pass on, due to the size of the current cars. Monaco almost tops the list of the worst F1 circuits, and there has been a growing call in recent years to boot the circuit from the schedule.

The thing that keeps Monaco on the schedule is the history of the circuit, and it being F1's glamour race for decades.

Max Verstappen has been especially outspoken about Monaco being nothing but a single-file procession. In a pre-race interview before the 2022 race, Verstappen was asked how he planned to win the race from fourth starting spot. His answer that was he wasn't going to win the race because passing is impossible at Monaco.

[Carter08]

I’m not a race fan - just a casual observer. My casual observation is Verstappen seems like he might be dominating his sport like no one has dominated their sport in history. I could be way off but the guy does not seem to lose.

[Peter_Spaeth]

The great wrestler Alexander Karelin went something like a decade without giving up a single point.