Despite his young age, Max Verstappen takes advice from few and is intolerant of any criticism directed at him, thus it came as a something of a surprise when the 21-year-old acknowledged that earlier in this season he was overdriving his Red Bull RB14.
The Dutchman went through a wayward spell in the early part of this season but after a below-par Monaco Grand Prix, where he crashed in FP3 forcing him to miss qualifying, obviously compromising his race which teammate Daniel Ricciardo went on to win.
Since then Verstappen upped his game impressively, scoring eight podiums of which two were victories.
After winning in Mexico on Sunday, he commented, "The difference is I just listen to myself. I do my own thing, even if there are a lot of things written, I really don't care.
"My dad always told me in go-karting, back in the day, if I was maybe overdriving or something, he would always tell me: Max, even if you think you are not going fast enough, it's still fast enough."
"So basically, for my feeling, I just backed it out a little bit and that seems to make me a bit faster," which amounts to a driving style change which he was adamant he would not change.
But after his second victory in two years at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Verstappen admitted, "I think, in the beginning of the season, I was always overdriving maybe a little bit. I wanted a result too much. So, I just basically slowed down a bit, which made me faster."
https://www.grandprix247.com/2018/10/24/verstappen-call-to-change-my-driving-style-was-big-bullsht/
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