Verstappen: Daring or Dangerous?

Paul Jeffrey · Apr 15, 2018

Max Verstappen crashes once again, this time into the World Championship leader, causing one to wonder if the flying Dutchman is more dangerous than exciting.

Everyone likes to see fighting spirit out on the circuit, however with over 60 Grand Prix and in his fourth season of Formula One, is it about time the 20-year-old Red Bull driver calmed down and stopped making rookie mistakes?

Possibly highlighted by such a composed and established over taker in the form of his Red Bull team mate Ricciardo in the sister car, it is clear now that Max Verstappen still has much to learn about cleanly racing with his rivals out on the racetrack, not least of which with accidents in two consecutive race weekends for the youngster. Has Verstappen become something of a danger out on the circuit?

Let us know your opinion below!

tigermilk · Apr 15, 2018

Not so much dangerous as just plain stupid. Drives like my mother in law.

jonofmine · Apr 15, 2018

It's kind of boring without a shake-up such as a crash or spin every now and then imo.

The Swiss Hillclimbracer · Apr 15, 2018

He has alot to learn, still. I`m not a massive fan of his but i know he has some good driving Talent. He just makes these mistakes which he should not do.

AlBell1967 · Apr 15, 2018

Seems like he has not spent enough time learning to race. He can drive but racing is a lot more than driving fast.

Jolero02 · Apr 15, 2018

Nothing else to say other than needs to know when to overtake- I think memories of Australia where he couldn’t get pas Magnusson was probably on his mind when he rushed to overtake Vettel.

Michael Lowe · Apr 15, 2018

It is impossible to defend what he did today, after the way things panned out it should have been a red bull 1 2. With Max as 1!! He threw that away with some serious levels of stupidity. The vettel one was just plain embarrassing, 10 secs later he would have pulled onto the home straight with far superior traction, and drs, and strolled past vettel.

aduo · Apr 15, 2018

3 years of F1 and still have a lot to learn .

The Flying Hun · Apr 15, 2018

He just doesn't get it. Well, I said it here what I think of him:

https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/dickhead-verstappen-move-whos-to-blame.149409/#post-2725241

At the press conference, Vettel defended Hamilton in his verbal attack against Verstappen. The German now got served Verstappen's bill.

RobertGracie · Apr 15, 2018

He needs to calm himself down he took a dive that if it had been done at the correct time it would have been amazing rubbing out Vettels line into the corner and he would have had it but he mistimed it by a few seconds and it caused an incident, but hes what just 20 years old hes got a long way to calm down and get into the zone of a champion, one of these years Max Verstappen will be the first Dutch F1 World Drivers Champion but from that performance hes got a LONG way to go before he can challenge for the title....

Appie Kuipers · Apr 15, 2018

aduo said:
3 years of F1 and still have a lot to learn .

Dangerous NO, taking to much risk maybe!

Stanislav Minakov · Apr 15, 2018

hell-goddamn-o.
Well somebody told me you had a new Senna
Who looked like a Kvyat

John Addison · Apr 15, 2018

And Danny Kvyat got bounced out of RBR.......for what?? Max is a punk with a very large head. And its all thanks to his old man.

RobertGracie · Apr 15, 2018

John Addison said:
And Danny Kvyat got bounced out of RBR.......for what?? Max is a punk with a very large head. And its all thanks to his old man.

Kvyat got the boot from RBR because he acted like a Torpedo twice to Vettel and he was furious from what I remember of it

ricerracer · Apr 15, 2018

Vettel was totally innocent

Appie Kuipers · Apr 15, 2018

John Addison said:
And Danny Kvyat got bounced out of RBR.......for what?? Max is a punk with a very large head. And its all thanks to his old man.

You are a hero! Kvyat did'nt win anything!

M-Bimmer · Apr 15, 2018

Really don’t get how on earth Max. thought this would work.
What is annoying is those 10 sec. penalty still ended up him in front of Vettel

He seems to target Hamilton and Vettel with these crazy overtakes or?

Appie Kuipers · Apr 15, 2018

racingenthusiast said:
think it was just a racing incident with Vettel and his first lap proved how good he is as a driver - needs to learn to be patient though could of easily got 2nd, but that is also his race engineers job to give him instructions

It's more a hype on this forum for simmers, then the 20 f1 drivers. Anty Maxforum

Kuba Oczos · Apr 15, 2018

Take into account he is still one of several youngsters in F1. For sure there is a talent, but if no one puts effort to mitigate such childish and irresponsible behaviours, this is how it ends. There is almost no race where Verstappen is not involved in some incident or investigation, and almost always he blame others instead of admitting his fault.

Overall this "the most prestigoius racing series" are now more like series for wealthy kids. Not a place for well grown man anymore.

Koen Verlinde · Apr 15, 2018

For me Verstappen is a GP winner, but not a champion, he's just too impulsive and he suffers from way too many red mist scenarios. He's in a top team and if his own team can't tame him, then I presume he'll never improve from here. It only is a matter of time before Red Bull makes a decision about that.

Imo the result of too much hype and his father's pressure to see his son accomplish what he couldn't do and see his son achieve more but still fail in the same way.

If Bottas does well this year he'll keep his seat at Mercedes, so Daniel could go to Ferrari. If Max is given the time he'll end up team lead which would - imo - only make it worse for Red Bull in the future.