Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso have been praised for their ability to make F1 cars look like go-karts.
‘Extraordinary Fernando Alonso and Max Verstappen drive F1 cars like go-karts’Aside from being F1 World Champions, Aston Martin technical director Dan Fallows reckons there is one other thing that Fernando Alonso and Max Verstappen have in common.
That’s because the double World Champion, like Verstappen, races a Formula 1 car much like he would a go-kart – on the limit. “If that’s the case, we need to make sure that the platform of the car is predictable, stable, all the things that we try to achieve with a car anyway, but it’s absolutely amplified with someone like Fernando.is a driver very much like that. He likes to drive a car at, or slightly over, the limit all the time, so you need to make sure the car behaves properly in those conditions – at the absolute limit.
“And, if that’s how they drive, it’s up to us to give them a car that they can drive like a go-kart.”