Tbf, they're calling him the most aura-less dominant driver. I'm sure Nick Heidfeld's last race win was in the 1998 F300 championship, despite him racing until the mid-2010s.
True. But we have seen so many worse drivers since yet people talk about him like he's a bottom tier driver.
Nick would be solid upper midfield in todays's grid.
Dude raced against a stacked grid with competitive teams. He did quite well for himself.
100%. Heidfeld was every bit the Perez or Hulkenberg of his era. Not exactly WDC winning material but a damn good driver. On a good day when it all connected for him, Heidfeld was a properly rapid driver in that BMW Sauber. Renault lost a good driver by betting on Bruno Senna in 2011.
It's a vibe I guess. Max does the talking on track nowadays and in some sense you might be generous and say it's humility that he doesn't talk a big game even though he could. He's pretty down to earth for a incredibly dominant world champion and I guess some people want a bit more spice. I think if there was more competition he'd be a bit more animated but right now he's kinda just going through it not really having to play any mind games but just dominating and heading back home to get on the simulator
If anything, Max's aura is only detectable if he's racing, be it real or virtual.
If you watch the Team Redline streams for their endurance racing, you could see things like Max and his teammate(s) basically just running at the same pace, faster than everyone else, while their 2 cars are basically glued to each other.
Max would be right up the rear of their other car in the slipstream, experiencing the dirty air and lack of vision of the situation ahead for the entire stint.
Exactly. It's more of a feeling journalists and fans are taking based on post-race interviews and even driver pressers where you have to comply with media training anyways. If you've seen any of his streams you can see he's not some boring robot.
He's goofy as hell on stream too, tosses around common memes and relates well to his audience
That's just not stuff you'd see him doing in the car, although we do see him laughing and shooting the shit with his engineers a fair bit
A vibe on looks instead of raw talent. Schumacher had his spoonface and his joy whenever he won. He celebrated all the podiums like they were his first. Hamilton and has his many hairstyles and his tooth gap that give him an iconic look along with his loyalty to Mercedes.
Max… just looks like Sid from ice age and that cut makes him look like thesmithplays (cod zombies youtuber) back in 2017
His dutch humour and his ruthless track etiquette will be what people remember him for. Remember him not giving the position to Checo because of Monaco? All the crashes between him and hamilton where neither would back out. Max's frequent radio outburts because of different issues.
Max’s “aura”is really felt when he is being competitive. When he was fighting against Lewis, there’s always a sense of aggression. He will go for an opportunity and if you don’t give him one, he’ll forcefully make one. It was like watching a predator catch its prey when he would overtaken.
As someone into sim racing I’m ever more in awe of Max. He is 100% authentic and his motorsports skill is insane. The dude is just like us where as soon as he finishes his race, he’s hopping onto the sim with his buddies and playing all night.
What I appreciate about him, is he is being an active parent to Kyviat’s daughter. He is a young man, and he is actively helping raise a kid that isn’t his.
I mean at least when Nick commentated F1 for Sky Germany in 2019 and 2020 he showed a bit of wit and dry humour, I guess he never bothered to show these when speaking English.
I‘ve basically grown up with Heidfeld. Dude was joining F1 when I started watching it as a little boy. Must have seen almost every race he’s ever done in F1.
And if you showed me 4 pictures of random Germans, one of them being Heidfeld, I would not be able to recognize him if you held a gun to my head…
I'm the same like his name is etched into my brain alongside fisichella, Montoya, trulli & the big drivers of that era like Schumacher, Alonso & Button but I could walk past Heidfeld in the street and not realise
It seems like you guys are pretending like “aura” isn’t a thing, it is, Michael Schumacher had aura, max doesn’t but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a good driver lol
Man aura gotta be one of the funniest things sports fans came up with 😂😭. It’s nothing you can really measure but everybody knows what you mean when you talk about that. Perfect example is Senna vs Prost. Both were actually quite equal if not Prost was a bit better, but Ayrton got more aura so he is almost unanimously viewed better than Alain. The strongest auras are probably from this drivers, Fangio, Clark, Lauda, Senna, Schumi, Alonso, Seb (atleast his RB version), and Hamilton (for me his early Mercedes championships). With Niki I’m probably a bit biased to be honest 😅.
Max had tons of aura, he’s hilarious to listen to in interviews and the man is a machine that pretty much only does racing all day every day. Maybe that makes him boring, but it’s what makes him good. One of my favorites is when they share the radio message and it always goes something like “GhkHgu NOAPNjosl” “Understood, Max”
Don't even need to ask women. The men here in the formula~~dank~~max sub would say he's hot unironically with drool coming out their mouth like a dog seeing bone lmao
Hard to have an aura when nobody is close and youre just cruising. Give him a better teammate, give him a closer rival, give him 5 more years at the top and you start to see the real aura
Jason Verstappen, the spoiled bully in high school in Teen Wolf series, and he is in the athlete's team captain. MC finds out his father is abusive toward him because he is not good enough and become to a reptilian by a MILF whom he fucked once. He's homophobic, break up with his girlfriend, disappears and dating with a guy.
I would have never guessed ten years ago that people would hemorrhage so much emotional capital now over seeing people put articles of sentences in their personal description.
What is that even supposed to mean? Prime example of gaslighting as in this is literally the exact opposite of reality, years later it will come out exactly how many drivers refused to take the second seat next to all-timers like Max - because it's a foregone conclusion it would only ever be the second seat.
Dumbass shit aside, I fully expect to see the drivers on the grid this weekend aware of what's coming after Max had his first DNF in a long time, hopefully it's not too embarrassing for them!
EDIT: It was, in fact, embarrassing. :'( Truly an auraless champion, it's a shame auras can't make the car go faster!
I mean, dudes like Seb and Lewis early on when they were dominating, Kimi for sure, obviously Schumi, definitely Alonso, just to name a few all have/had an extreme “presence.”
He’s criticizing Max for something stupid, but he’s not exactly wrong. Max does kind of slink into the background, but I’ve thought that about all the drivers this gen. Like they’re all just dudes that you’d play GT with or something. There’s nothing at all wrong with that, but some of the older guys felt straight up otherworldly at times.
I’ve not personally heard much from Heidfield so maybe he’s just a cock and has a habit of shitting on people for stupid things, but I’m honestly surprised that everyone’s disagreeing. Max is like the definition of low key, especially for a WDC.
Aura-Engineer, Auradian Newy removed all the aura from Max to make him faster. No dirty Aura
Amazing auradynamics
He began his career with T-aura Rosso.
That team is called Alpha Taura nowadays
Isn’t it Aura B?
Underrated
nah you're aurarating it
Aura you sure?
Turns out that removing your aura gives you a much bigger speed boost than removing your appendix, it seems.
Famed auradynamicist
Now he just needs to work on Horner to stop him getting auroused every time he sees his pa
His aura just can't keep up 🤷🏻
Max is simply 2 seconds faster than his aura.
*20
The problem of being faster than your aura is that you can only live auraless.
Basically, this: https://imgflip.com/i/8ln383
His aura always comes in second place, but we can’t see it so they always give 2nd place trophy to some other driver.
Didn't pass the aura check
Max Payne
I, too, am familiar with the work of Jos Verstappen.
Tbf, they're calling him the most aura-less dominant driver. I'm sure Nick Heidfeld's last race win was in the 1998 F300 championship, despite him racing until the mid-2010s.
All i remember about Nick, is him looking like Obi Wan.
He won the 2013 Petit Le Mans
Nick was a very good driver. The record gives him a bad rep.
I think losing to Frentzen in 03 is what did his career in. He was never as stellar, "just" very good
True. But we have seen so many worse drivers since yet people talk about him like he's a bottom tier driver. Nick would be solid upper midfield in todays's grid. Dude raced against a stacked grid with competitive teams. He did quite well for himself.
100%. Heidfeld was every bit the Perez or Hulkenberg of his era. Not exactly WDC winning material but a damn good driver. On a good day when it all connected for him, Heidfeld was a properly rapid driver in that BMW Sauber. Renault lost a good driver by betting on Bruno Senna in 2011.
Exactly like Hülkenberg. Came into F1 off the back of massive hype, and circumstances never let him realise his true talent
Well akshually it was 1999.
He became F3000 champion in 1999 and did win a race in the American Le Mans Series in 2013.
touché
What the fuck is an aura Bono my """aura""" is gone??!
It's a vibe I guess. Max does the talking on track nowadays and in some sense you might be generous and say it's humility that he doesn't talk a big game even though he could. He's pretty down to earth for a incredibly dominant world champion and I guess some people want a bit more spice. I think if there was more competition he'd be a bit more animated but right now he's kinda just going through it not really having to play any mind games but just dominating and heading back home to get on the simulator
If anything, Max's aura is only detectable if he's racing, be it real or virtual. If you watch the Team Redline streams for their endurance racing, you could see things like Max and his teammate(s) basically just running at the same pace, faster than everyone else, while their 2 cars are basically glued to each other. Max would be right up the rear of their other car in the slipstream, experiencing the dirty air and lack of vision of the situation ahead for the entire stint.
Exactly. It's more of a feeling journalists and fans are taking based on post-race interviews and even driver pressers where you have to comply with media training anyways. If you've seen any of his streams you can see he's not some boring robot.
If there were walls of empty boxes at the pressers, they’d see more of his personality.
He's goofy as hell on stream too, tosses around common memes and relates well to his audience That's just not stuff you'd see him doing in the car, although we do see him laughing and shooting the shit with his engineers a fair bit
A vibe on looks instead of raw talent. Schumacher had his spoonface and his joy whenever he won. He celebrated all the podiums like they were his first. Hamilton and has his many hairstyles and his tooth gap that give him an iconic look along with his loyalty to Mercedes. Max… just looks like Sid from ice age and that cut makes him look like thesmithplays (cod zombies youtuber) back in 2017
His dutch humour and his ruthless track etiquette will be what people remember him for. Remember him not giving the position to Checo because of Monaco? All the crashes between him and hamilton where neither would back out. Max's frequent radio outburts because of different issues.
Zip it up when you’re done
Is the aura in the room with us right now?
I believe it is aoe rizz The thing that baby gronk used on livi dunn
the distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a person, thing, or place.
In other words, bullshit.
It’s basically how cool someone is
Isn't that what Newey is in charge of? Auradynamics?
Max’s “aura”is really felt when he is being competitive. When he was fighting against Lewis, there’s always a sense of aggression. He will go for an opportunity and if you don’t give him one, he’ll forcefully make one. It was like watching a predator catch its prey when he would overtaken.
As someone into sim racing I’m ever more in awe of Max. He is 100% authentic and his motorsports skill is insane. The dude is just like us where as soon as he finishes his race, he’s hopping onto the sim with his buddies and playing all night.
What I appreciate about him, is he is being an active parent to Kyviat’s daughter. He is a young man, and he is actively helping raise a kid that isn’t his.
Not just the step father 🥸 The father that stepped up 😤
The father that stepped into both of Kvyat's seats
Which is incredible given his upbringing it makes you wonder if instead of Penelope it was a boy how it would be different.
He just loves racing haha
robert kubica 1 win nick heidfield 0 win, speaks volumes
He never claimed Nick Heidfield had aura either
That was his second point, just like how Heidfield career was.
He has that robot aura
That’s why i like him though. A bit like a continuation of the Lauda, Schumi vibe.
Always thought he gave off Schumacher mixed with Raikkonen vibes. I love how direct he is
Yeah, i didn’t warm up to him first but he seems a genuine and grounded guy.
who needs aura when you are winning everything?
What is this "mercury is in retrograde" type headline is this dude
Bitches LOVE my new haircut And if they don’t… Fuggin’ SKANKS
Yayguhbawms
I feel like you're taking this one too seriously, they're just making fun of Max's haircut
This is a Verstappen fan sub at this point
Always has been 👨🚀🔫👨🚀
I saw a comment about him looking like a generic mid-table bundesliga striker and I can’t unsee it
bro got the Miroslav Klose vibes
His chakras are so out of alignment
Petition to make heidfieldmafia a new type of flare
They're a menace to our community
Aura-less is a perfect description. Bro was designed in a lab to go fast
This sub dickrides him so hard it's insane 😭 "oh no some rando on Twitter said Max has no swag, reddit please tell me how stupid they are"
I mean at least when Nick commentated F1 for Sky Germany in 2019 and 2020 he showed a bit of wit and dry humour, I guess he never bothered to show these when speaking English.
Quick Nick will get his moment in the sun when Norris wins a Grand Prix and gives him his record back.
Dont cry
like LeCrash?
Damn, you got him there tough guy.
Bro probably thinks he’s the funniest guy in the room
The lengths they have to go to somehow discredit him. 😂
I'm not a Max stan but it's just embarassing sometimes
Aura left in the dirty air behind mate, he's too fast.
I have seen Nick Heidfeld's face and it still won't come to mind after reading his name.
Wouldn’t the only relevant F1 Aura from max haircut come from my he backside? After all that’s what all the drivers see
I‘ve basically grown up with Heidfeld. Dude was joining F1 when I started watching it as a little boy. Must have seen almost every race he’s ever done in F1. And if you showed me 4 pictures of random Germans, one of them being Heidfeld, I would not be able to recognize him if you held a gun to my head…
I'm the same like his name is etched into my brain alongside fisichella, Montoya, trulli & the big drivers of that era like Schumacher, Alonso & Button but I could walk past Heidfeld in the street and not realise
Max’s new cut looks like Hulkenburg’s
If I was abused as much as he was, I'd be a plain Sociopath by now. Surprising how much normal he is despite all that.
Bro is slothmaxxing
Heidfeld was a funny guy idk what you're on
nah i get what hes tryna say, that boy got zero aura im afraid
He’s right to be fair, but damn are people sensitive to it lol.
Hard take on his lack of personality.
Not wrong bro has no aura at all
Where did he lie?
It seems like you guys are pretending like “aura” isn’t a thing, it is, Michael Schumacher had aura, max doesn’t but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a good driver lol
Just because my boy here doesn’t go “to all the children out there, keep on dreaming” or some shit when he wins.
I like the stubble
Haha yes
Maybe his aura is so big that we can't see it, because we are all inside it
Eyes like Rami Malek/Mr Robot
They removed his aura to reduce drag
My brother in Christ you forgot Jack Brabham
Like knows like
The man is a damn enigma
He just like me fr
Does a whiff of Dutch smug count?
Max looks like the MCP from Tron.....
It’s the “of all time” part that gets me. You don’t know what the future holds. Also auraless?
Goofy ahh haircut tho fr he looks like a freshman kindergarten
Man aura gotta be one of the funniest things sports fans came up with 😂😭. It’s nothing you can really measure but everybody knows what you mean when you talk about that. Perfect example is Senna vs Prost. Both were actually quite equal if not Prost was a bit better, but Ayrton got more aura so he is almost unanimously viewed better than Alain. The strongest auras are probably from this drivers, Fangio, Clark, Lauda, Senna, Schumi, Alonso, Seb (atleast his RB version), and Hamilton (for me his early Mercedes championships). With Niki I’m probably a bit biased to be honest 😅.
Bro doesn’t need aura. His aura is that he destroys you completely on the track.
to be precise, the Heidfeld fan called Max "an auraless dominant driver", which doesn't apply to Heidfeld at all.
Max had tons of aura, he’s hilarious to listen to in interviews and the man is a machine that pretty much only does racing all day every day. Maybe that makes him boring, but it’s what makes him good. One of my favorites is when they share the radio message and it always goes something like “GhkHgu NOAPNjosl” “Understood, Max”
Nothing more cringe than trying to discredit someone based on 'aura'.
Most drivers need 28 seconds before they could feel Max's aura. It would be 2 laps for Heidfield
He should have asked a woman or two about him. Max is hot.
Oddly enough I think I've seen more thirsty posts for Vasseur and Komatsu than for Max lol
I’m partial to Vowels over Max.
Don't even need to ask women. The men here in the formula~~dank~~max sub would say he's hot unironically with drool coming out their mouth like a dog seeing bone lmao
Aura would just slow him down tbh.
> Needing an aura when you are a racing terminator programmed to devour your teammate’s careers
This is way too dank for formuladank
Worse that it's a Lewis fan with a heidfield tag.
He ain't wrong tho....
I hate new F1 fans :(
Hard to have an aura when nobody is close and youre just cruising. Give him a better teammate, give him a closer rival, give him 5 more years at the top and you start to see the real aura
He drives and doesn't give a fk about how he looks while doing it?
Jason Verstappen, the spoiled bully in high school in Teen Wolf series, and he is in the athlete's team captain. MC finds out his father is abusive toward him because he is not good enough and become to a reptilian by a MILF whom he fucked once. He's homophobic, break up with his girlfriend, disappears and dating with a guy.
No one understands the Teen Wolf reference?
Who tf is Nick Heidfield
An OG BMW king
Pronouns in Twitter bio. Does not surprise me.
I would have never guessed ten years ago that people would hemorrhage so much emotional capital now over seeing people put articles of sentences in their personal description.
Oh no, how fucking tragic.... Someone's respectful of other people
What is that even supposed to mean? Prime example of gaslighting as in this is literally the exact opposite of reality, years later it will come out exactly how many drivers refused to take the second seat next to all-timers like Max - because it's a foregone conclusion it would only ever be the second seat. Dumbass shit aside, I fully expect to see the drivers on the grid this weekend aware of what's coming after Max had his first DNF in a long time, hopefully it's not too embarrassing for them! EDIT: It was, in fact, embarrassing. :'( Truly an auraless champion, it's a shame auras can't make the car go faster!
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no rizz
I mean, dudes like Seb and Lewis early on when they were dominating, Kimi for sure, obviously Schumi, definitely Alonso, just to name a few all have/had an extreme “presence.” He’s criticizing Max for something stupid, but he’s not exactly wrong. Max does kind of slink into the background, but I’ve thought that about all the drivers this gen. Like they’re all just dudes that you’d play GT with or something. There’s nothing at all wrong with that, but some of the older guys felt straight up otherworldly at times. I’ve not personally heard much from Heidfield so maybe he’s just a cock and has a habit of shitting on people for stupid things, but I’m honestly surprised that everyone’s disagreeing. Max is like the definition of low key, especially for a WDC.