as \u201canti-racing\u201d and \u201cFormula E on steroids\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\nVerstappen previously communicated that his enjoyment of the new cars would be crucial for his decision to remain in F1, having signalled his desire to partake in other racing projects.<\/p>\n
When asked if Verstappen strikes him as someone who could opt to walk away from a title-contending car if he is not enjoying the experience behind the wheel, Daly exclusively told RacingNews365: \u201cIn this day and age, it’s more likely than it ever was in the years past.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey start younger, so they leave younger. They make more money younger than they did in the years past.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith 24 races, it’s more of a grind on your family and you physically and personally than it ever was before.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no doubt the walk-away age will probably begin to come down. Maybe Max Verstappen, as he’s done in the past, is a trailblazer in making decisions like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tDaly backs ‘engineer-based drivers’ to succeed in 2026<\/p>\n
However, Daly is hopeful that Verstappen will opt to stick around for several more years before calling time on his F1 career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope the regulations don’t drive him away from the sport too early,\u201d Daly said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is, what I call, a gifted, natural racer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new season will kick off in under two weeks’ time at the Australian Grand Prix, where it will be discovered just how the new power units will impact racing.<\/p>\n
Daly has predicted that it will no longer be the flat-out fastest driver who will emerge on top, but rather the driver who best understands how to harvest and deploy the electrical energy from the power unit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wonder are we in a position now with these regulations where you have a driver who may not be as fast as a Max Verstappen, but has the brain capacity to multitask at a higher level than other drivers, and that gives him an advantage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have a football player [who] is instant reflex, just brilliant, just get the ball anywhere close to them, they\u2019re magical.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you have a football player who’s the thinker – he\u2019s able to read the field and position the players, position himself and create situations.<\/p>\n
\u201cNico Rosberg was always known [as a thinker]. Frank Williams called him an engineer when he went to him first, because he could talk like engineers, act like engineers, think like engineers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wonder, do we have engineering-based drivers with the mental capacity to manage these cars at a higher level than pure out-and-out, instant reflex, fast drivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to see that. I want to see the gifted, fastest drivers in the world ultimately end up being able to race like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Derek Daly has suggested Max Verstappen could be a \u201ctrailblazer\u201d in commencing a trend of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-498968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}