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Jimmy Broadbent in the Road to Succes Podcast, about Franz Hermann and Max in other categories

"There's very little people that can say that they have raced Max so much and got to see the inner workings of his personality as clearly as you. In a sim, which we all know means the world to him, as well as actually on track. You were on track with Franz Hermann at the Nürburgring! What was that whole experience like? Did you know before that happened?"

"Sat on the track at the same time is certainly correct but that's about it. We had an idea he was gonna be there. I had sort of a friend of a friend say to me: watch out for a Franz Hermann on this day. And I saw it… I saw a picture of the car there, the Verstappen.com Ferrari with Franz Hermann and a Dutch flag and I thought to myself: for fuck's sake, it's definitely gonna be him. And obviously it turns out his was him. And again, for Max, this is where I feel a bit sorry for the guy because he wanted to just turn up and go do some laps at the Ring in a GT3 car. And he did that. And for us as creators, this is the part about YouTube I hate but you kind of have to do it because that's the game, then I'd be like: now I have a short of him overtaking me whilst I was like 'bedding in my drive shaft, driving around at like 50% pace he overtook me, oh my god Max overtook me on YouTube.' And then my whole video is like: 'Max turned up to the Nürburgring' and stuff like that. And you have to do that. And it's kind of sad. Because the guy just wanted to be left alone, I think. And then as news started to break that he was there, more and more people started flocking down to the garage, it gets harder to move around the paddock. And I remember seeing… because one of our cameramen went down to get a shot of him basically, and seeing him just trying to get from his van, which is basically from this end of this van to the paddock or to the garage, not very far at all. He was getting mobbed. TV guys, everything. He just wanted to do some laps."

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"I'm really looking forward - and I really hope this happens - that he'll just find what he wants in F1, leave and then just go and get to live his life. Because… I'm on no place to comment on what his upbringing was like. I don't know. You only hear stories about what it was like. But what is painfully obvious: all he's ever known is that sort of racing: karting into Formula into Formula 1, that's it, on these circuits and nowhere else. And I'm a massive racing fan. I wouldn't say F1 is my favourite racing, you know, I love endurance racing, I love the circuits, I love the prototypes, I love rallying, stuff like that. And I think he's kind of the same. Again, I don't know him personally."

[about the popularity of different racing categories] "Do you think it's coming for those other series? And do you think Max is actually potentially a part, if he does leave and goes to them, of making that a thing?"

"Yeah, I mean, wherever Max goes there'll be media. I mean, there have been some teams at the Ring saying they don't want Max to go there because it'll make everything a lot harder: the competition will go up which means that the top classes will be top heavy which means the bottom classes, which is the accessible part, will be sort of pushed out, etc. etc. That's the sort of pessimistic thinking there."

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Jimmy Broadbent in the Road to Succes Podcast, about racing Max:

"Do you remember your first race against Max? Or even meeting in the virtual world?"

"Yeah, it was I think 2018 or 2019 and it was driving F3 cars at the Canadian GP circuit and it was actually in Redline like I mentioned. […] Max for some reason started behind me. I forget why. And then made a mistake and spun at the hairpin and you know: 'I don't care if he spun or not. That's an overtake.' I went by: 'I've overtaken Max Verstappen! Oh my god!' And then a couple of corners later he just applies the pressure and I folded straight away. 'Cause I was just a little sim-baby then.

This seems a little mystical and odd but I think some drivers have like an aura around them, have like this feeling around them. I guess it's like Dale Earnhardt Sr.: the Intimidator, right? He had that to him. Max is one of these people. Even in sim, you drive against him, you know he's coming and you think: 'oh god. okay. what am i gonna do?' And you always drive differently as you would to anyone else."

"Do you make more mistakes?"

"Yeah. 100%. Because you're worried about the guy in the mirror. Even when you're like-- I've driven against him inthe DNLS series which is the digital Nürburgring series and he was in a class above me so I'm not even racing him. And even when he comes on my relative, I think: 'oh god, I need to make sure I get out of the way properly here.' But I genuinely believe that he is the greatest driver of all time. Because racing drivers up until now have had only one discipline to be good in, F1 or whatever series. He is good at everything. You put him in a sim, he'll be in the top 1%. In any sim! All sims are a bit different, different flavours, you know. And he's consistently the fastest in everything. I think he's one of the fastest iRacers on the planet which is super impressive if you're a sim guy. Again, I think that's the harder achievement than being a fast racing driver. And it's not because he feels the need to do it. It's because he wants to do it. He's wired to do those things. And I just find that impressive to see. I'm impressed by Max Verstappen. The rest of the drivers on the grid, in F1 for example… Not taking away, they're all very fast and very fast in the sim as well but they're not Max. Max has an extra 2% and it really separates him, I think."

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"But that's like leaving the door open for Max, isn't it? He's just gonna go for a gap that, like, barely exists and lunges."

"He's definitely controversial. There's a lot of moves he's made where I was like: 'uh, I don't know about that one.' The most recent one with Russell at the Spanish GP. I was watching that and I just laughed. I'm like, yeah, that's Max right there because he wants it. He's a scrapper. Every chance he'll take, he'll just take it, whether it's on or not. He'll just have an opportunity, rather have a go and then it maybe work than not have a go at all, you know."

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the post brazil podcast with dc and eddie jordan lives rent free in my brain. both of them talking about max as though he is god and eddie basically saying lando is finished and will never win a wdc 😭

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gigi being absolutely gagged that they dared drop his precious little cargo

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guy who says "FUCK!" to every minor inconvenience x guy who says "oopsie daisies" to earth shattering catastrophes

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rbr's bag of bones said upgrades in austria that will further get perfected in silverstone :)

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Sabrina Carpenter – music video Manchild

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do not ask me what book i’ve been reading because it’s been the same one for months

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i don’t even rpf i just understand

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max in st tropez

[📸 pudelek]

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wait other post cancelled. mutuals. when r ur birthdays.

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max in monaco, he’s got my dream car 😔😔 mad as hell

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did alex pose naked????????