Champions in dominating cars drive less aggressively, you saw the same with Lewis in the Mercedes years. You’ll see Lewis drive more aggressively now than he did three years ago but not as much as before his dominating years.
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I think the point made in the headlines is pretty obvious. There's no benefit in being agressive when you're so much faster than everyone else.
I agree that the other point is more interesting. Especially the fact that those drivers he don't feel so comfortable going against, it's not because they're agressive, but becdause they don't (yet?) have the spacial awareness.
My guess for those 3 drivers would be Max, KMag and maybe Stroll? I can't think of who else the 3rd driver could be but funnily enough, Stroll has been one of the best at wheel to wheel racing this year.
I'm not sure about Max. Obviously this season is different, but in the past, I've always viewed him as someone who has excellent situational awareness - but slightly less honed risk management. But I don't think his situational awareness has ever been in question, only his risk management.
If RBR somehow screw up their car, and Max has to start really fighting again, I suspect we'd see far fewer incidents than a couple of years ago, because by then not only will he be older and wiser, but also because he's now proven himself to be one of the greatest of all time (and I say that as someone who is not a fan of Max, I just think it's objectively true), so there won't be any need to take the kinds of risks he used to take in the past.
Lewis was the same, now when he has a worse car people call his driving "vintage". I wonder, if Max sticks around for couple of years more and somehow RBR manage to screw up their car, if we will see a "vintage Max" as well.
Little bit of a misleading title, the article is more interesting.
Russell can be pretty changeable, but in this case I can see his point. Max can fire that rocketship on lap 1, and then its race over, no reason to do anything else but bring it home.