David Brown

There was a lot of buzz.

How did Max Verstappen come onto the scene in that 2021 F1 season?

Did he surprise everyone?

He was a prodigy.

So you have this generational component and then you turn over to the rival, right?

Verstappen's rival in that 2021 F1 season, the British driver Lewis Hamilton.

Many people consider Hamilton the goat, I suppose.

He and Verstappen, as you were describing, just fought wheel to wheel, collided on more than one occasion.

I think Verstappen's car actually ended up on top of

of Hamilton's car in one of those wipeouts.

So as those two went tire to tire in 2021, was the fight friendly?

How would you describe it?

Isn't this beneath F1 to be brawling like this?

Was there some feeling that, oh, this isn't civil or we're just people all in on this?

And what can you ask for more in sport than that?

And it kept delivering too.

I mean, because over the season you had Hamilton and Verstappen flip-flopping for championship points and then they tied and it all comes down to the last race in Abu Dhabi.

What was that like?

Yeah, and this wasn't just between the drivers, obviously.

We're talking about a battle of teams here, Verstappen and Red Bull versus Hamilton and Mercedes, and a ton of money at stake.