Max Verstappen’s furious wake up call to Red Bull

“Not good enough, too sensitive and also really too slow”. That was Max Verstappen’s damning indictment of the upgraded 2024 Red Bull, during a Hungarian Grand Prix weekend in which he failed to feature in the fight for victory and became embroiled in furious radio exchanges with his own Formula 1 team.

Such a crushing defeat never goes down well with someone as ultra-competitive as Verstappen of course, but this happened on an F1 weekend he declared especially important because of the introduction of Red Bull’s biggest upgrade of the season.

Verstappen’s frustration has been growing for months, starting long before Oscar Piastri led home McLaren team-mate Lando Norris to take his first grand prix victory.

00:00 Verstappen's Red Bull fury
05:45 What Red Bull changed
07:21 Red Bull's mix and match strategy
08:22 The added pressure of McLaren's rise

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[pranavsharma]

This was officially the most TOXIC race of the season so far 😂😂

[garythefishable]

The radio communications today were the best part of the race. I was in stitches waiting for the next dose of comedy gold to appear.

[offbeatberry]

Lando’s radio felt like a movie, Max’s radio felt like a dramatic reality show

[koachk]

You didn’t even have to watch today’s race. Just listening to it was gold. 😂

[sar]

Newey took all the Red Bull’s power when he announced his departure.

[drewbrew]

"Yuki could never get the second RedBull seat, he's too hot-headed!"

Meanwhile, their number one driver:

[QuentinWatt]

Expect this race to be the most dramatic part of drive to survive on Netflix.
Max and Lando will be villains.
Lewis and Oscar will be knights in shining armour.

They'll probably milk Lando refusing to let Oscar passed for a good 20 minutes with all the begging and crying of the Mclaren team radio stretched out into several team interviews about Lando's competitve character.

[AbdulRWatches]

Newey leaving just before the ship starts to sink, legendary move.

[joepzenz]

I loved how petty the drivers were over the radio. I especially enjoyed hearing McLaren begging Norris to give the position to Oscar after THEY messed up the strategy and screwed Oscar over to begin the whole fiasco

[gerryrozema]

The whole point of the cost cap was to eventually tighten up the field. Looks like it's been working.

[MrDuneedon]

F1 is truly interesting again. And a LOT sooner than I thought it would be.

[jeremy]

It’s crazy how much these upgrades matter during the year. After the first 2 races people were like “ahhh another Red Bull year” but now it’s not clear who’s going to win either championship.

[roncharls]

Who knew we’d be at this point given how dominant Red Bull seemed to be in Bahrain.

[ohthatremindsmeofmypruneju]

When even Max is struggling to drive the car, Checo's struggles seem a lot more understandable now

[keegan]

Did ‘Crowdstrike’ install the upgrade.?

[temporalsoliton]

Toto's pursuit might not be as crazy as most of us thought.

[akagainesy]

I know everyone says Adrian Newy didn't have a lot of input over the last year or so. But isn't it telling that once he annouces he's leaving the team and they fase him out of meetings and such the performance of the car starts to take a decline 🤔

[seyer]

The problem was the team allowed hom to be undercut twice! Bad strategy was how he lost his podium

[joshu]

Now we know why RB is testing an older car. It was the car Newey was heavily involved in, development-wise.

Now that Newey has technically “left” the team and not involved in the development anymore, RB’s contender is starting to show its problems.

[Tacko]

I'd laugh myself silly if Max entered Spa in the rb19. 'Well, it's the better car'.