Martin Villari on Max's Weakness, Why F1 Drivers Need Coaches, and Who'll Dominate in 2026

The Red Flags Podcast

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4.6 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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This week Brian and Matt are joined by Martin Villari, aka Lower Lap Time, after he left a comment on our YouTube that absolutely required follow-up. We get into why Max Verstappen is untouchable in the wet, why copying a teammate’s setup never works, how Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, George Russell, Charles Leclerc, and Lewis Hamilton approach corners, driver mentality, bad radio calls, and why Formula 1 somehow still hasn’t figured out coaching. Sit down and listen up, cause class is in session. If you haven’t signed up yet, use bonus code DADDY and you’ll get up to a $1500 New Player Offer on your first wager with BetMGM! Go to https://www.liquid-iv.com/ and get 20% off your first order with code REDFLAGS at checkout. Chapters: - What happened to Oscar? - 05:50 - Why more drivers should SIM - 10:43 - Driving style breakdown - 21:17 - How George can beat Max - 41:50 - Why drivers need coaches - 59:47 - Drivers' strengths and weaknesses - 01:11:00 - The perfect F1 driver - 01:30:12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.1	Our encore!
0:55.0	Hello, Venkers.
0:59.6	How is everybody doing?
1:02.8	How are you doing?
1:05.4	It's the new year.
1:09.4	You might be saying new year, new me.
1:10.7	Well, guess what?
1:12.8	You're going to learn today, people.
1:20.9	You're going to learn today, because today, on the pod, we've got Martin Villary,
1:23.6	otherwise known as Lower Lap Time.
1:30.4	You might have seen his videos on YouTube.com. You might have seen his stuff. He's a driver coach. He's a man who knows about racing lines. And he's a man who knows about regulations
1:36.9	and rules. And he has strong opinions. And he's left those opinions in our comment section.
1:41.5	And we will be discussing those on the pod today but first
1:44.8	off martin welcome to the podcast thanks guys a big introduction geez i hope i live up to that i hope i
1:51.4	can help and honestly i hope you do too we hope you do too i don't remember the comment either
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