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Originally Posted by Marcoose
In decades of following F1, I’ve concluded champions have Lady Luck on their side, are at the top of their driving skills, have a good car, and the car and regulations fit their driving style. I doubt Prost, Senna and Schumacher would enjoy the same success in today’s F1. We’re already seeing how Hamilton is struggling, and yet the most successful driver of all times. In Verstappen’s case, he has a car perfectly suited to his style. In other words, it’s the car.
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When you say he has a car perfectly suited to his style - that can work the other way too. His style has allowed RBR to take the car to a place that no other team can match. He can control such a pointy car at the edge in any situation while still preserving his tires better than anyone else on the grid at the fastest pace. His teammate obviously cannot do this with any kind of consistency in anything other than optimum conditions and still cannot match pace at that point. Once the car got to the point where VER started really dominating in '23 then PER's points per race plummeted. RBR was able to evolve the car into a monster with the right person behind the wheel - so in other words it's both.