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I'm Max Steppen, and today I'll be answering your questions from the Internet.

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In our team together with Oracle, we run over 8 billion simulations before the race basically starts.

So it gives a lot of opportunities to make sure that we have the right strategy out there and know when to pit, basically.

Do F1 drivers watch endless hours of tapes of each other in car film of other drivers, like football players do?

I mean, we do look at onboards of even other drivers.

You do look back sometimes on the years before.

But the thing is that also the F1 cars, every year, they change, and

sometimes with that, the balance changes.

The weather has a massive influence as well.

So, yes, you can learn a little bit of it sometimes, or you can use it as a little bit of a reference to start.

But then it's very important to basically just go off what you learned throughout the weekend and then just try and optimize it from there.

What's your best advice to improve your overtaking ability?

I mean, practice makes perfect if that's in the real world, virtual world.

The more you race, the more you come into these kind of situations where you have to either defend or overtake.

Asking F1, which track statistically is the most exciting?

Overtakes, accidents, flags, pits, ups, weather drama, and unexpected winners consistently.

I think of the history of F1 probably is a bit unexpected with stuff you know exactly like.

Wet races are boring, cars are slow, and there is no racing.

The only entertainment is driver mistakes.

Races are not boring, cars are not slow, and there is racing most of the time.

Yeah, that's definitely not the only entertainment.

It also depends a lot on how much rain when it comes in.

Start of the race, middle of the race, stuff like that.

What's up with the new Formula one obsession in the usa?

I guess, you know, having a series on Netflix helped a lot also throughout Covid.

You know, people being more aware of what's going on, you know, especially when you were mainly sitting at home.

And then, of course, I think also the ownership has really pushed it of Course, to have three races in the US Showing more awareness for the sport here.

So I think all those things definitely help.

What is the biggest difference between a good driver and a great one?

I think the difference between a good one and a great one is to be, first of all, consistently performing well, especially when the pressure is on, you know, to get the best out of yourself.

You know, these kind of moments really define, I think, the difference between a good and a great driver.

What is Max Verstappen's biggest weakness and in what way does it affect his performances, if at all?

No, you would never say something like that about yourself.

Even if you know what it is, you try to work on it and that's it.

Why do F1 drivers need to be physically fit?

Well, like in any other proper sport, if you're not fit, you can't perform at your very best, you know, within those one and a half hours as well in the race.

There are a lot of forces on your body and you need to make sure that you're not busy trying to hold on to the car and basically be fit enough to drive the car and be busy with other stuff as well.

Does anyone know about the mental preparations the drivers do to stay on top of their game?

Some need to do all different kind of prep before they jump in the car.

I'm probably on the lee side of things where you do a bit of warm up for your muscles and stuff, some tiny reaction games, but

you can also easily just sit in the car and go.

You know how driving and sneezing at the same time is horrific for that split second?

I think, for me, it only happened really.

I think when you're a bit ill, then it can happen.

I mean, it's like, what, half a second a second?

Well, just looking at it already, most of them, of course, look quite different.

And that's, of course, from the things that you can see.

Most of the things, of course, underneath are completely different or designed in a different way.

And that's, I think, also what makes Formula one very special.

You know, you have all the teams racing, but

they all try to find it in their own way to be competitive.

Why do F1 drivers all drink out of inordinately long straws.

Can't they just drink from normal bottles or reasonable length straws like us models?

I don't know what they exactly mean with that because for me it's quite a short straw that I have connected in my helmet.

So at least for me, it's quite a normal straw.

I don't know what they've been looking at, to be honest.

Why do a fun drivers eat ice like an ice cream or what pieces of ice, but

Do Formula one drivers really lose weight from the sheer tension of a single race?

I mean, I lose weight from sweating and my effort that I put in during the race, not from the tension.

How do drivers usually get into Formula one?

Well, first of all, by being better than others.

Most of the time, of course, you start racing and go karting and then of course you go up, up through the ranks and that can go in many different ways.

To be honest, there are a few categories out there, but

yeah, it's more or less like other sports.

You move up the ranks throughout your career to get to the highest possible.

What's a random fun moment that you remember or sticks with you?

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