“Am I impressed with Verstappen’s speed? I am mostly impressed with Adrian Newey and his team. I think it’s a great team, making great cars. They did an amazing job and everything I’ve said in the past about the team wasn’t in a bad way. I think I said years ago that it was a beverage company, pointing out that they would have bet more on a car company, but they proved to me and everyone else that they were wrong. Knowing that Newey did his thesis on ground-effect cars, it’s no surprise what he designed and created this year. It’s impressive, but I believe in the young talents of my team and I think we will be able to catch up ”. So Lewis Hamilton dribbled a question about Max Verstappen’s 2022 performance and was impressed by it.
The seven-time world champion therefore preferred to shift attention to the goodness of the Red Bull RB18 compared to the talent of the driver who beat him in 2021, preventing him from winning the eighth title that would have definitively handed him over to the legend. The car of the Milton Keynes team in recent races has really impressed on different types of tracks, proving to be effective both in the very fast Spa and in the Zandvoort toboggan. Max Verstappenhowever, he is objectively making the difference compared to his box mate Sergio Perez.
The latter is precisely the aspect on which the reigning world champion and leader of the standings paused to respond to this ‘move’ by Hamilton reported to him during the press conference. Verstappen admitted that in F1 the car is what countsalso adding that Lewis should know this peculiarity well since he has been able to dispose of unbeatable Mercedes for over a five-year period.
“A lot in F1 is due to the team and the car, of course, it’s also how Lewis won his championships. That’s the way it is in Formula 1. The car is very important, but I believe that when you are an exceptional driver, as obviously Lewis is, you make a difference compared to your teammate. Champions make the difference compared to other fast drivers, but not as good. So, yes, the car is very dominant in Formula 1, but of course among teammates only one can win, and that’s where you have to make a difference “the words of Max Verstappen.
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