Int: [...]compared to some of the best racing drivers in history
Seb: you cannot compare Max to Lewis, there is not one formula, one recipe to success. Lewis has demonstrated he's the best there has ever been. Max is demonstrating he's pulling off something that's never been done before.
"Look I know how it is, and how it works and there was always going to be some, lets say dates and deadlines this year, whether it was like summer break or now, post-Singapore, but yeah, honestly, it's still, so many things are up in the air. Lets see how the weekend goes, obviously, I'll give it all I can, as I always have, there's always something to fight for, see what happens, try and get the thing on the podium, that's my plan."
A recap of Max's Singapore performances:
2015: stalled off the line, had to be wheeled back for a pitlane start, managed to make his way to p8 after starting a lap down! famously told his pitwall to go fuck themselves as a tiny 18 year old when they tried to make him swap positions with sainz. a good-bad race! ✅❌
2016: had a poor start (classic 2016 max) and then got completely hampered by sainz and hulkenberg colliding and hulk spinning out about a foot in front of him. managed to regain some places in the race. bad race. ❌
2017: got fucking clobbered by both ferraris literally about 20m off the line. then got whacked again and took alonso out. four cars down and out before the first corner. and then ferrari blamed him. bad race. not an actual race. ❌❌
2018: actually almost beat hamilton's now-legendary quali lap and kept p2 throughout the race. very good! ✅✅✅
2019: also fine and without incident: p3 behind the (illegal) ferraris that the red bull had no hope of competing with. a good race! ✅✅
2022: death and destruction everywhere. RBR fueled his car wrong in qualifying so he couldn't complete his final lap?? started in p7, went through the wars in the race, ended p7. bad race. ❌
2023: the rb19's one and only achilles' heel. genuinely not much he could have done about that one. bad race. :( ❌
Jean Alesi was honestly the craziest like when it was barely preseason of 2021 and he was already telling Italian media that charlos are “the most beautiful couple”