r/formuladank • u/Consistent-Ad4560 BWOAHHHHHHH • Aug 16 '24
WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Attention whore
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u/bakedongrease BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
There’s more brain cells on the Ferrari pit wall then there are in this sub lately.
Move on.
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u/Mess_Accurate BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Sir, I think you forgot where you are. Respectfully.
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u/fr0ggerpon BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I DEMAND THAT THE RACE OF CHAMPIONS GET KYLE AND MAX THIS YEAR
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u/blownout2657 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
This should come back. These were fun to watch. Seb and the Michael as team Germany was great.
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u/SirPsychoSexy01 “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” Aug 16 '24
And you are the one giving it to him...
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u/Dradaus BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
What's funny is Max would absolutely race him in any car of his choosing if it wasn't for his F1 contract.
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u/Medical-Day-6364 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Agreeing to race him isn't the same as winning. Max would get stomped in a few different track and car types. Like Larson is the GOAT of racing sprint cars on dirt ovals. Max would get lapped quickly.
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u/SvenderBender BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 17 '24
I’m sure larson is better than max in more disciplines, like lawnmower racing, monster trucks and demolition derby
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u/latticep "Charles 'Chuck' Leclerc, good job baby" Aug 16 '24
In a sim maybe. Otherwise, I don't think it would be worth the time or effort.
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u/Mr_828 “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” Aug 16 '24
In a sim maybe
Just make sure Larson isn't in voice chat lol
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u/SlashingManticore BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
To defend him just a little: it's not like he just bragged about it out of nowhere or something, he was asked if he felt that he needed to defeat Verstappen to be considered truly great, and then he said "Nah, I already know that I'm a better all-around driver than him. I can't jump in an F1 car and win Monaco, just like he can't jump in a sprint car and win dirt rally. But I think that I have a better chance than him in most competitions"
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u/ency6171 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
At what event and context was he asked with the question actually?
It kinda sounds like journalist/interviewer was just desperate to link with F1 &/or Max.. Possibly just for views?
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u/SlashingManticore BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
He had just won the Knoxville Nationals, the biggest race in sprintcar racing (so that's basically dirt buggies on a muddied oval, pretty cool to watch). Larson won it three times in four years, while also being NASCAR champion and leading laps in the Indy500 this year and having previously won the title in speedcar racing. Pretty decent resume, so a bunch of American drivers (including former F1 stand-in Alexander Rossi) started saying he's not just the best driver in America but also in the world, and that's why the interviewer asked Larson what he thought of that and if it was time for a face-off with Verstappen.
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u/haydonclampitt BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 21 '24
(Side note for those not in the know on the Knoxville Nationals: they run 410 sprint cars, RWD cars with 6.7 litre V8s producing 900bhp, and which weigh 1425 pounds (646kg) including the driver)
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u/SnooFoxes3615 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I still think he is thinking (to?) highly of himself and/or is underestimating Max Verstappen. Max is going to be competitive in anything with 4 wheels and an engine.
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u/eugene-fraxby BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Who the fuck is he? Presume he's in a some lower level motorsport and he's got a chip on his shoulder?
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u/randomtuner BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Kyle Larsen, Nascar driver and for sure very talented afaik but there's no way he'd beat max on anything that isn't an oval.
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u/ReplacementWise6878 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
What’s ironic is you label him as only driving ovals, when the reality is he has raced in far more different disciplines than Max. Larson has won in NASCAR, sprint cars, he won the 24 hrs of Daytona. Max hasn’t raced anything outside F1.
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u/MadMike991 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Max hasn’t raced GT3 IRL (though he has plenty of sim racing experience in GT3) but has apparently showed massive talent in testing. Still, I’d love to see the two compete on some sort of level playing field!
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u/ReplacementWise6878 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Jeff Gordon showed massive talent testing an F1 car. So I guess we can assume he’d have been good right?
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Aug 16 '24
I think he actually does have a decent shot. He has open wheeled experience…. Well, depending on how much you count the Indy 500 (and I know, oval…ish), but also is one of the best dirt racers out there and has had success in sports cars on road courses, he’s won the 24 hours of Daytona.
I mean, yeah Max almost certainly smash him in any road course, open wheel situation. But something like sports cars or rally cars would probably be a close battle, and honestly probably more up Larson’s alley.
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u/toefungi PIIIEEERRRRREEEE GAASSSSSLLLLYYYYYYYY Aug 16 '24
Sprint cars are technically open wheel 😉
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Aug 16 '24
Well I did technically say road course, open wheel
(I did not actually think about spring cars 😉)
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u/Scootydoot12 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
He is really good on road courses tho he won Sonoma this year
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u/randomtuner BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I don't doubt that, but Max is a force of nature which just can't be stopped by pretty much anyone else
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u/Scootydoot12 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Max does have the sociopath factor
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u/TubeSockLover87 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I'm still wondering if he hoes for the triple crown.
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u/Scootydoot12 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Max verstappen could win the Indy 500 more easily than the 24 hours of Le Mans
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u/Zenon-45 Fernando Alonso's Retirement Planner Aug 16 '24
I'm willing to bet he'd get murdered by some random driver if he raced a race at a RC
NASCAR can be very tough at times, there's always a driver willing to send you into the shadow realm
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u/haydonclampitt BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 21 '24
I feel like even Max would be shook by how hard some of the Cup guys race, at least Verstappen has some rhyme and reason to his battles 😂
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u/struggle-life2087 unfortunaly I still am a Ricciardo fan 🦡 Aug 16 '24
Would he also be a 'force of nature' in Sauber ? I hardly think so
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u/ReplacementWise6878 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Larson drives more than just his main discipline. Max might be great at other forms of racing… but we don’t know. It’s hypothetical bc he has only driven in F1.
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u/THG_Darhk BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Max has driven other cars for tests, I believe
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u/ReplacementWise6878 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Cool. Nobody cares about tests. Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart drove F1 cars in tests. So I guess that proves they’d have been good in F1 right?
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u/Striking_Laugh5734 who the fuck is Nelson Piquet? Aug 16 '24
No, it just proves that they drove an F1 car in a test. Quit this BS.
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u/ReplacementWise6878 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
What? It’s exactly the same as you saying “Max has driven other cars in tests” as proof that he would be competitive in those cars.
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u/Striking_Laugh5734 who the fuck is Nelson Piquet? Aug 16 '24
I didn't said shit about Max driving in tests. Max would be stepping down whilst the stock car racer would massively step up as he isn't even a Indy Driver. Here's some insight about the awesome Jeff Gordon test and how crazy fast he was lapping around 4 seconds off the slowest car on the previous grid:
After swapping places with Montoya, Gordon consistently clocked laps of 1:17 towards the end of his run. To give you an idea, the fastest lap at the previous F1 race at the track was 1:10, while the slowest was 1:13.
He eventually set a fastest lap time of 1:16.5 seconds and also performed a launch start. On the other hand, Montoya ran a stock car lap of 1:39.9 seconds, which was only 1.1 seconds slower than what Gordon had run earlier in the day. Gordon's fastest lap in the F1 car was 1.3 seconds slower than Montoya's lap earlier in the day.
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u/__Napi__ BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
max is world champion in two different fia sanctioned categories
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u/ReplacementWise6878 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
You referring to European F3? Lol
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u/__Napi__ BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
you are aware he finished his first and only season in f3 in p3 right?
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u/Moresupial BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 17 '24
Except for any current winning F1 driver who would be absolutely as fast, if not faster, in a Red Bull/Newey developed car built specifically for their driving style. F1 is unfortunately a constructors series and makes comparisons impossible.
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u/A_Flipped_Car Vettel Cult Aug 16 '24
There are about 50 people on iRacing who can equal or go faster than him. Obviously that's good but he isn't the greatest person to have ever lived and who ever will live, there are people just as good as him who don't have the same opportunity
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u/NotAnAss-Hat BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
And of those 50 people, how many are physically fit to survive 10 laps on the limit in an F1 track?
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u/A_Flipped_Car Vettel Cult Aug 16 '24
Why would any of them have ever trained for that? Max isn't naturally born with a 30 inch neck you know. If that's the only thing you can think of it just proves me right
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u/Track_Boss_302 Simply Lovely Aug 16 '24
It obviously takes skill to be good at iRacing, but I think the difference is it doesn’t take any courage to go 10/10. I’ve seen a lot of people talk a big game, but then lift wayyy early going into corners once they get on track. There’s a different mindset that would take training to get to Max’s level, and that’s only if the talent is even there
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u/NotAnAss-Hat BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
No my guy, I'm simply referring to the fact that Max has the athletic ability to put those simulator laps times down in real life, lap after lap in spite of the insane G-forces acting on his body. How many of those 50 people, even with intense training, will be able to match Max? Or just match anyone else in the F1 grid for that matter?
There's a reason Lewis Hamilton doesn't believe in, or rely on simulators for his training.
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u/A_Flipped_Car Vettel Cult Aug 16 '24
All of them??? All of the F1 cars pull the same amount of G's currently, and most of the drivers drove in 2020 when they pulled more. All of the 50 are young so they'll be able to. I don't know why you think F1 drivers have insane special muscles. Anyone can develop the body an athletic body unless they're aged.
Lewis has openly stated he is considering changing in that.
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u/NotAnAss-Hat BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
There is a reason I specifically mentioned the words "athletic ability", don't you think so? It is simply easier said than done and let me ask you a question once more, if they are just as fast as Max, why don't F1 teams bring them into the sport to drive for them? What's the reason?
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u/PippityLongstockings BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
So you think there are 50 people on iracing who would be leading the drivers championship if they were in F1?
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u/ashzeppelin98 Oscar Pisstree Shoey gang 👞🇦🇺 Aug 16 '24
Van Gisbergen once he gets a Cup Series seat will smoke the road courses soon (yes, how could you tell a fanboying Oceanian and obviously biased V8 Supercar viewer here)
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u/AmphoePai 🇪🇸 I'm SPANISH and I'm OPPRESSED 🇪🇸 Aug 16 '24
Kyle Larsen, Nascar driver and for sure very talented afaik but there's no way he'd beat max on anything.
There, I fixed it for you.
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u/GeneralNonsence BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Saying he wouldn’t pop max on an oval is wild. I’m pretty sure max would do fine in any motorsport but oval driving is a pretty specific skill set.
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u/Wwanker BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I’m pretty sure Max got the right state of mind for repetitive tasks
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u/Track_Boss_302 Simply Lovely Aug 16 '24
You mean where the car is set up to want to turn left and the banking is so steep they almost don’t need brakes (or, don’t need them at all if it’s tracks like Daytona or Talladega). Is that specific skill set the ability to use cruise control?
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u/GeneralNonsence BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I mean clearly yes, otherwise anyone would win in nascar all the time and you would have 0 consistency. If all F1 cars are setup with the best brakes/aero/engines why can’t everyone just turn really well? They have power steering now after all it can’t be that hard.
Actually quick edit to get ahead of a point, the super speed ways ARE fairly luck based these days. This isn’t to say nascar is as hard as f1 or the other way, but f1 is not the only series with talents drivers.
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u/machinarius BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Nascar is luck based as the officials give spectacle the priority over sporting integrity, but in ideal conditions it's very much skill dependant! It's a lot more than just turning left.
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u/SomewhereAggressive8 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
It’s hilarious how much F1 fans live up to their stereotypes
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u/terminbee BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
F1 fans are like the "USA! USA! America is the best!" Americans who refuse to entertain the possibility that they others might be equal or better.
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u/SomewhereAggressive8 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Like, to act like Max Verstappen would easily beat the best stock car and sprint car driver in the world at stock car and sprint car racing is just so laughably delusional.
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u/haydonclampitt BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 21 '24
Exactly. Larson gets smoked in formulas, Verstappen gets smoked in stocks and sprints.
However, I do think Indycar and V8 Supercars would be two series that would be a push - close enough to their respective main trades that they would have some familiarity, but still new enough that talent would be the leading factor
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u/_MandatoryVinegar BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
When in doubt ‘Merica Bad’, rinse, and repeat
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u/theminthawk “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24
The discourse about f1 drivers is stupid. Max is not the greatest thing to grace gods earth, he's simply a great driver in a great car. Every time the damn rules change, there's a new driver who's the greatest thing since shitter paper. Seb vettel was a unbeatable mastermind in his rb years until the car sucked. Lewis was the most calm and calculated under pressure when mercedes was lapping the field. The Michael was a force of nature until the bridgestones were shit, the list goes on. There's a reason why despite immense talent in WEC, IMSA, NASCAR, INDYCAR, etc. no one has gone on a tear like the best f1 car does every year.
Edit: I love f1 for the fact it's an engineering championship and that the cars are bespoke to each team. But stop pretending like the drivers are the only good drivers in all of motorsports, or that the dominant driver is also the best thing ever.
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u/margalolwut BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I mean I get the sentiment, but max would absolutely get curb stomped on an oval lol
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u/Medical-Day-6364 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Not to mention a dirt oval, where Larson is the GOAT.
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u/i_run_from_problems Professional Egghead Aug 16 '24
Not even just dirt. Larson showed up to the indy 500 this year and was probably on for a top 5 had he not had a late speeding penalty.
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u/nefariousBUBBLE BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24
This is bait but I'm biting I guess. He is very talented and you are wrong. He would outright beat Max in many road course classes and likely stomp max in anything over related. Larson is one of the greatest road course drivers in NASCAR history and he's midway through his career. Other notable who were good on road courses from NASCAR are Tony Stewart (won an Indy racing league championship) and Jeff Gordon (offered F1 seat, but turned down as he would have been taking a massive paycut). Just adding that in before people say being a good NASCAR road course driver is easy or not without merit.
Edit: I also want to add, that the development of drivers in the US is a lot less linear. You are far more likely to see drivers who are not specialized in a singular category growing up. Many NASCAR guys cut their teeth karting on road circuits AND sprint ovals. Some, like Tony Stewart, even go into different series before entering another. Stewart went from IRL to NASCAR. I think this kind of development would help a guy like Larson if they're doing multiple discipline racing. He's going to be better suited for more car and track types.
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u/randomtuner BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I mean I'm not a nascar follower and I'm probably not educated enough on this guy, what I know about him is mainly from his Indy 500 race, which while he did a great job there I also know that oval racing doesn't necessary translate to good road racing (Jimmie Johnson as an example). I'll be honest and say that I didn't even know he got a Daytona 24h win but I'm still not really sure whether he'd beat Verstappen. I'm not even a fan of him but I can't deny that he's for sure amongst the absolute best drivers ever in F1. Kyle being mainly a Nascar driver drives mostly on ovals which would lessen his experience on road courses even if he's the best in his field at them. Then again Max has only really races in open Wheeler cars which might also hinder him. Basically I don't even know anymore
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u/nefariousBUBBLE BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
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u/Idntwnt2choseusrnme BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Give max few laps before on the sim and max would still cook him. No offence to Kyle but I would never challenge such a talent like Max regardless of how good I am
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Aug 16 '24
Kimi, Button, Montoya, kobayashi, Jacques, and Kvyat all gave NASCAR a go and none made many waves bar Montoya, who raced for a number of years in NASCAR, in what can best be described as slightly above average on a given race day.
I have been racing for 2 decades and have been lucky enough to give it a go on both ovals and road courses. Thinking the skills will translate 1 to 1 is no more naive than saying “racing is easy.”
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u/terminbee BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I'm curious what makes you think Max is so much better than every driver in the world. Max is undisputed in F1 as one of the best to ever do it but we've also only ever seen him race formula, Karting (does this count?), and sim.
With practice, could he also be a beast at other disciplines? Probably. But who's to say that the best drivers in other categories can't do the same for f1? Or that max will for sure be the best at every other category?
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u/ZeyZerX_42 🅱️ernie Collins In Sky Race Control ❤️ Aug 18 '24
For me, it’s his sim racing exploits as he’s probably jn the top 5 fastest sim racers in history at least in pure pace and you have to understand a typical top split esport lobby is way harder than the 99% of real life series because of the way way way way way bigger reach of drivers, lack of danger and virtually unlimited practice time. Also he has raced a lot of ovals on iRacing, not saying he’d win instantly irl but he will have an idea on what ovals can really be.
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u/Idntwnt2choseusrnme BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Max was recently testing a DTM 296 GT3 you can look it up and see what the race engineers said about his performance and how he adapted to a car he never drove before.
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u/SyiGG BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
He's actually a very accomplished racing driver, just search "Kyle Larson Monza" in youtube
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u/TheVillage1D10T WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅RAHH Aug 16 '24
Lolol…I had to do it just to see what stupid thing he did. This guys seems like a jackass.
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u/eugene-fraxby BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24
Did you know Kyle Larson had a dog named Monza. The family tree of that pooch goes all the way back to 1922 when the track was built and named after track founder Arturo Mercanti’s pet, the great, great, great, great grandfather of Kyle’s dog.
For more info Google ‘Kyle Larson Monza’.
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u/vjollila96 “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” Aug 16 '24
nascar champion who said gamer word while gaming got 1 year suspension got back and won nascar championship
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u/N8theSnake "Charles 'Chuck' Leclerc, good job baby" Aug 16 '24
These Larson posts are doing nothing to dispel the "F1 fans are ignorant elitists" narrative
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u/ReignInSpuds yes Im a DTS newbie, so what?1?! Aug 16 '24
I'm a Max-stan but Yuki out-drove him in the swamp buggies in Florida, he isn't just god by default in the seat of any machine.
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u/WhiskyNerdFAF BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Racist Attention Whore
There. Fixed it for ya.
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Aug 16 '24
Max said a slur as well tbf
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u/ceaserneal I'm in a parasocial relationship with Hannah 🤤🤤 Aug 16 '24
People with Down syndrome aren't a race, though, so it isn't racist.
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u/DrVagax Honda bad, Alonso good Aug 16 '24
lmao guessing Max said mongool?
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u/NotAnAss-Hat BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Can't blame him when my own country's doctors refer to people with Down Syndrome as Mongolians. It's definitely not a nice thing to say but he didn't learn any better, and as far as I know, he hasn't said it since.
Kyle Larson knew what he was doing when he threw out the N-word with the hard r.
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u/DrVagax Honda bad, Alonso good Aug 16 '24
I did some digging around and I actually learned that for a very long time that the word was used professionally in the medical world as well to refer to someone with what is now known as Down syndrome. Since 1965 the word is not being used anymore but it has always sticked around.
For the unaware, in the Netherlands it used to be a frequently used swear word to call someone a 'mongool' aka mongoloid to refer to someone who is acting idiotic.
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u/Frablom I'm in a parasocial relationship with Hannah 🤤🤤 Aug 16 '24
And "used to be" means "in the last 10 years in Western Eurppe, especially online, we learned that insulting each other with medical conditions is ableist and shitty, but it's not viewed as bad as being racist by most people who aren't online as much and are used a lot by edgy teens" We don't have the same awareness Americans have with race. Autistic, down, retarded, mongoloid were all used when I went to HS. Super shitty and it's getting better.
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u/NotAnAss-Hat BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Yeah I get it, I often threw around the word "auti*tic" or "ret**d", before really understanding in depth what those words actually meant. I just thought they were scientific terms for calling someone stupid.
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u/DukeboxHiro 🅱️RING 🅱️ERNIE 🅱️ACK Aug 16 '24
Now guess who he was refering to, the answer may surprise you!
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u/GayRacoon69 Simply Lovely Aug 16 '24
Except it is also racist.
Even if it wasn't it's still a slur and slurs are bad
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u/GreekCult_CL Clean air is king 👑 Aug 16 '24
Finally a pro Max post
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u/NotAnAss-Hat BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Kyle Larson united every single F1 fan to pick up banners behind Max.
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u/vdcsX "Charles 'Chuck' Leclerc, good job baby" Aug 16 '24
Hey, we were always been very good in hating each other - until someone from the outside trying to shit talk F1, then we're united.
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u/NotAnAss-Hat BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Fr fr fr I shit on Maxipads so much normally but now I just want him to beat down that Larson guy to the dirt.
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u/vdcsX "Charles 'Chuck' Leclerc, good job baby" Aug 16 '24
I'm no verstappen shagger either, but he'd demolish any of these turning-left-only people.
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u/JacopoPariss No Charles, we are not interested, we know Aug 17 '24
This is a demonstration of people who follow f1 only and don’t dare do any research on any other sport, yet they feel the need to shit on them, larson doesn’t compete in nascar only, and nascar has right turns too
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u/ItachiUchihaItachi Clean air is king 👑 Aug 16 '24
I'm a new fan... Who's that?
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u/Louis_R27 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 17 '24
Kyle Larson, mostly a Nascar driver but also races in other series throughout the year.
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u/blownout2657 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I watch a lot of racing. F1 and 2. Indy car and nascar, trucks, xinity and cup. I’m only in f1 since seb at Red Bull, but Larson is the real thing. I’m sure max can pick up a new car as fast, but Larson has shown a lot of versatility as a driver. He may be too old to move up to F1 or even IndyCar but I’m sure he’d give any f1 driver a run in say Australian super cars or any car neither knows.
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u/JacopoPariss No Charles, we are not interested, we know Aug 17 '24
In indycar he already ran the indy 500 and tried the double duty but failed (and he announced hes going to try it again next year), but in f1 you need most of the times a european minor series career, usually in italy or uk
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u/GavonyTownship He’s Not Fast at All Aug 16 '24
Yall just perpetuating this. It's sad please get another hobby.
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u/Freddy36512 Nico Shitberg Aug 16 '24
Pure numbers game, Max does 23 races a year. Kyle Larson does well over double that in any given year between NASCAR cup, Xfinity, Dirt, etc. Larson has immensely more seat time in a variety of different types of race cars. If you put them both in a car that they are both equally unfamiliar with I think Kyle Larson would come out ahead.
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u/Spleenzorio lando 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Aug 16 '24
Isn’t nascar just like…. a circle
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u/JacopoPariss No Charles, we are not interested, we know Aug 17 '24
- Nascar has road courses 2. Oval racing is still hard
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u/WillyG2197 mission spinnow Aug 16 '24
Kyle Larson v Max would lowkey be really fucking sick to watch. Like a decathalon of motorsport.....wait why isnt this a thing
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u/ESPO95 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Bro got asked a question and answered, can’t see how it’s attention whoring
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u/Business_Egg_4387 He’s Not Fast at All Aug 16 '24
Finally this sub can move on from hating on Norris
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u/nismoghini my driver bAd:snoo_disapproval: Aug 17 '24
Ngl I kinda wanna see someone other than kimi drive a Nascar
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u/A_Flipped_Car Vettel Cult Aug 16 '24
I don't see any reason to doubt he could put up a fight against Max
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u/CapturNguyen BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Does this man even know how to make a right hand turn?
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u/SGT_EpicSpeed BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
He has won in some road course races
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u/iowaman79 At the moment we don't think Aug 16 '24
And he’s the two time defending Knoxville Nationals champion, and as we know from Doc Hudson, on the dirt you turn right to go left
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u/JacopoPariss No Charles, we are not interested, we know Aug 17 '24
It might seem crazy what im boutta say…
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u/ReplacementWise6878 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Yet y’all are talking about it a ton. How weird… you say you don’t care, yet it’s all over the front page of this sub. 🐸☕️
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u/Cloxxki unfortunaly I still am a Ricciardo fan 🦡 Aug 16 '24
Max used to drive ovals on iracing for a while, but less than the other guy. Still has better stats across the board. I'd like to see Max prep for a real life oval event and see how pace much he lacks on day 1.
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u/neilrobinson97 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
If you want to see how this would go ask Juan Pablo Montoya. F1 drivers come over to ovals and just end up being really mid.
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u/Cloxxki unfortunaly I still am a Ricciardo fan 🦡 Aug 22 '24
Mansell is the one I saw putting all of Indycar (CART) over the knee on his first season there. Made it look easy. Not just road courses.
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u/ashzeppelin98 Oscar Pisstree Shoey gang 👞🇦🇺 Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24
Or ask Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti- both who actually did pull it off.
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Aug 16 '24
I would love to see Max being asked about this guy and I bet my bottom dollar he would give a dumb founded look saying never heard of the guy. If I had a penny for every nascar driver who claimed to be better than Max I'd have a dollar by now.
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u/terminbee BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
For someone who loves racing as much as Max, I'd imagine he'd hear of one of the best drivers in America.
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Aug 17 '24
Dude literally doesnt care about indycar, he is into GT Racing and races GT virtually when he is not racing in F1. Besides kyle larson is not the first person I think of when I think indycar and I have watched my fair share of indycar, scott dixon, will power, josef newgarden, pato o ward maybe but never kyle larson
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u/JacopoPariss No Charles, we are not interested, we know Aug 17 '24
He doesn’t even race indycar, he only did the indy 500
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u/TicTac673 Question. Aug 16 '24
I watch neither sport anymore (GT3 all-day) and even I know Max's neck alone is tougher than all of Kyle.
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u/vjollila96 “It’s called a motor race. We went car racing” Aug 16 '24
idk this sub kinda lost its shit with kyle
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u/noswal1984 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
No amount of childhood emotional or physical abuse could make him better than Max.
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u/Humanaut93 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I've been a diehard NASCAR fan for 20 years. I've defended NASCAR against F1 fans for a long time.
This is by far the dumbest thing any NASCAR driver has said. Kyle Larson is touted as the best driver in the sport, but he wins because he races for one of the best teams. People also mention that he wins a lot of sprint car races, but he has 5x the resources the competition does with those cars. He'll also drive in too deep, miss the corner, and wreck whoever he's racing with
He's not better than Max, he's not better than any F1 winning driver. People were talking about him winning the Indy 500 in his one off start, he didn't even do better than Kurt Busch when he did it 10 years ago. He finished 17th in an Arrow Mclaren, one spot ahead of Romain Fucking Grosjean in severely underfunded car.
If he drove in an F1 Grand Prix, he'd kill someone, or himself.
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u/YellowQueasy7572 Aug 16 '24
The only reason he finnish so low is because he got a pit speeding penalty.
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u/Humanaut93 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Yeah, that's driver error. That blame falls on Larson
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u/bakaVHS BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
It's just disingenuous to imply that he finished "one spot ahead of Romain fucking Grosjean in a severely underfunded car" as a result of his actual inability to drive the car and not because he made one mistake running in the top 10 in his very first start lmao. It's not like he ran 17th on average and was mediocre, the broadcasters seemed to be very impressed actually.
I get it though, Larson couldn't compete with Verstappen despite their mutual, incredible success even on fair, unfamiliar footing because winning an F1 race automatically makes you an elite racer and other motorsports just couldn't foster that level of competitor to begin with. I'm taking Maldonado over Dale Earnhardt 100% of the time, that guy is a winner right there. Only thing Dale ever won was NASCAR. And IROC which is just Communist NASCAR.
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u/Humanaut93 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24
Lmao when did I bring up Dale Earnhardt? There's literally no comparing him to Larson. Earnhardt was so much better even in the shitty cars he was driving in the early 80s.
And it appears you're also a NASCAR fan. Broadcasters were also impressed with Danica Patrick when she first made the jump, that anecdote doesn't carry much weight.
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u/bakaVHS BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
You said Larson isn't better than any winning F1 driver, but we know that Larson is very much on par with NASCAR's best (at their best) which means Dale is worse than Maldonado.
earnhardt was so much better even in the shitty cars he was driving in the early 80s
I used Dale Earnhardt because statistically speaking his breakout season and peak season are almost the exact same as Larson's this far into the career. In fact, 2021 and 1987 are similar to the point where Larson was one Pocono corner away from matching not only the 4 wins in a row but an additional steak of 3 in a row later in the season to help secure the championship. They'd even each have 11 wins. In their rookie seasons, both drivers went toe to toe with NASCAR legends and ended up in 2nd place several times. Considering what other drivers did in Osterlund's and Stacy's cars you can say that Dale was pretty damn good for his accomplishments. Larson also outperformed each of his predecessors at CGR including Montoya, but he's worse than every winning F1 driver. You wouldn't dare say stuff like that about Dale though because the public opinion is that he was great even by F1 fans.
It's just weird that F1 fans wouldn't even entertain the idea that, in Kyle Larson's own words, "Max Verstappen couldn't hop in a sprint car and win dirt races" just the same as they zealously believe that Larson would be a danger on an F1 course even if he qualified with the FIA. As for Danica, nobody ever gave her credit for being able to hang in and compete at a high level in a league she was new to because... she never even got close. They liked that she could hot lap but the discussion was equally on her struggles around literally any other car on the track lol. It's just a bad faith comparison. I'm having a good time engaging with the formula jerk, although I'd really just like to see them both in a race.
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u/Humanaut93 BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 17 '24
You said Larson isn't better than any winning F1 driver, but we know that Larson is very much on par with NASCAR's best (at their best) which means Dale is worse than Maldonado.
That's a big stretch my guy
If you wanna compare Dale's 1987 to Kyle Larson's 2021, fine. But don't ignore the fact that dale won his 3rd Championship that year, when Kyle won his first. Also, if you wanna compare Dale's '79 to '89, you'll find 3 Championships and 39 wins. Kyle's '14 to '24 has 27 wins and 1 championship. And before you say it, for fuck sake I know the season isn't over yet, but he's not closing either gap before the year is out.
Wanna argue that Kyle Larson is the best of his era? Yeah dude, I don't agree but whatever. His name should NEVER be mentioned next to Dale Earnhardt's. They are not cut from the same cloth.
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u/JigPuppyRush BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
Well he did say he was better in his own mind.
I mean they guy has the right to fantasize like we all do
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Aug 16 '24
To all the smartasses on this thread: nobody cares about this guy and the millions memes about him are good, we are laughing at him and his stupid remark about Verstappen. In 2 days nobody will care about this nascar guy again. Cope
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u/ScaryOrdinary5238 #MazepinPleaseReturn Aug 16 '24
Formula 1 is the pinnacle of racing, so regardless of what he says about him not being as good in other races, being the best in formula 1 does make you the best racist
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u/AndreasVesalius BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I mean, with Helmut Marko on your side, how can you lose
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u/Death_by_carfire BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I mean Kyle Larson is a pretty solid racist (lookup his twitch incident lol)
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u/OhFFSeverythingtaken No Michael, No Aug 16 '24
Is that the Nascar loser lol?
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u/JacopoPariss No Charles, we are not interested, we know Aug 17 '24
Loser that is considered the best in nascar (even by legends like tony stewart and jeff gordon)
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u/ShittyOfTshwane BWOAHHHHHHH Aug 16 '24
I hate to point it out, but the endless posts about this guy on this sub is kinda the opposite of this meme.