“Difficult mentally” - Nico Rosberg recalls Lewis Hamilton battle amid Max Verstappen vs Sergio Perez
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen is running away with the F1 2023 championship and the only other driver to win a race is his teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez, who has since slipped away.
Rosberg and Hamilton both vied for the title in four seasons as Mercedes teammates, the German winning once and the Brit claiming two du꧑ring that period.
“Verstappen is a phenomenal driver,” Rosberg was quoted ꦍ꧋by .
“For me it will be at the level of ♍the most important names in history, Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher, Hamilton... among the five or six best.
“He is a phenomenon and the 🐟team has also given him a very good car, the best car.
“But you a✅lso see him with his teammates, they're all going strong and can never be close to h✱im.
“Now Perez, who is a good driver, I know him well, but it is impossible for him to be close to [Verstappen] and 👍that is difficult for them mentally, to accept that the other is better.
“I know this well because I've had the same thing with Hamilton,ജ the complicatiওon of having a very fast driver alongside.
“Some will say that it is not good for F1, becaus༒e it is always🐭 the same one who wins. But sometimes it is.”
Asked if Red Bull cou💦ld win ever𓆉y grand prix in 2023, Rosberg answered: “It seems so, right?
“The difficulty is that, for the moment, they only have one driver who can win all the races, the other one is always behind with many difficultie♊s.
“That's why it's more complicated.”
Perez can alleviate the pressure piled on by Dani🌸el Ricciardo’s return to F1 with a good performance at this weekend’s Hungarian Grand P🐈rix.
Rosberg abruptly retired after his sole F1 cham🥂pionship in 2006 and is still just 38, four years younger than the oldest driver on the gri💦d.
“I'm 🌳a bi♚g fan of Fernando Alonso, at 42 years old he's going to be driving at his level now... it's phenomenal, incredible,” Rosberg said.
“He's a gladiator, it's fascinating to watch him fight Hamilton and Verst🌠appen.
“He gives it his all at every lap, and I have always had a lot of♊ respect for him.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Spo🍌rts for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
