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Everyone keeps talking about how Max Verstappen prefer a very strong front end so extreme that most of his teammates fail to extract competitive performance of the same car.
Lewis Hamilton is on the opposite side preferring a stable rear, but how does it actually look like?
From the moment Lewis Hamilton started karting, his father would stand next to the track and move further where his rivals would typically brake forcing Lewis to mold his style of late braking.
Lewis tries to brake as late as possible often braking and turning at the same time and is also aggressive at corner entry. This usually results in the rear sliding mid corner and Lewis has to open up his steering to correct. You can see this style clearly on his older onboard with the McLaren at Turn 2, and Turn 13.
The Mercedes Lewis dominated with had insane rear grip where he could throw the around car and it looks like it is glued on the track 1, 2, 3, 4.
Verstappen on the other hand prefers a very strong front end. Verstappen is not a late braker like Hamilton and he is conservative on corner entry. He prefers to do most of the car rotation mid corner 1, 2.
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