Basically, Beckenbauer is just as boring as Sawatari said because he is just a 'machine' which means he just followed what he learned on his homeland, but on real term he is just too inexperinced due lack of REAL opponents.
Sawatari already raced against Kanata countless times on their past (NOT SPOILER) but Kanata seems didnt remember that about racing against Sawatari. The difference between trained like machine against trained like real racer is just too big like Rocky Balboa 2.