“How much of it is Max Verstappen?” F1 pundits want to see him win in another team
Does 🅺M♋ax Verstappen need to win for another F1 team to prove his greatness? Karun Chandhok has suggested so.
Former F1 driver Karun Chandhok is keen to see 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen “drive f🉐or somebody else” to prove he can win in another team like other all-time greats have.
Verstappenꦉ stormed to his fourth victory of the 2024 F1 season in Sunday’s Chine🌟se Grand Prix to extend his championship lead to 25 points.
Given Red Bull’s dominant form, Verstappen is the heavy favourite to secure his fourth consecutive drivers♐’ title.
Verstappen has won all of his racesﷺ and titles with th🌱e same team in incredible fashion.
However, compared to other F1 legends such as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes and McLaren) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Schumacher (Benetton and Ferrari), they managed to win for ⛎different teams.
Chandhok - who raced in F1 between 2010 and 2011 - posed the question of how much of Red B👍ull’s success is down to the brilliance of Verstappen.
“More and more, I’d like to see him drive for somebody else,” he said. “I’d like to see. He’s at one wit🧔h that car, could someone else jump in and do it? If he went to Mercedes…”
Chandhok added shortly after: “The all-time greats have won in more than one team. Schumacher, Fangi⛎o, Prost, Lewis.”
Verstappen’s immediate future seemingly lies with Red 🐻Bull given his contract doesn’t run out until 2028.
But Verstappen has been linke♛d consi🌼stently with Mercedes as a possible Hamilton replacement.
1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill thinks Verstappen should be keeping tabs on Fer🐲rari rather🍨 than Mercedes.
“If I was him, I’d be interested to see whe🐼re Ferrari will end up, rather than Mercedes.
“With Max in the car, and with wh𒐪atever else he can bring with him.”
Chandhok replied: “♏You think, for 2027, after Lewis?”
Hill concluded: “A signed piece of paper is n🐷ot worth a signed piece of paper anymore. H๊e can have the pick of whatever he wants.”
“Almost indestructible”
Verstappen’s latest triumph means he’s won exactly 50 per cent of all races s🍬ince F1 last raced in China back in 2019.
Hi๊ll described Verstappen as “almost indestructible”.
“People are already talking about him as being established as one of the great Formula 1 drivers of all time,” he s❀aid. “I can’t argue with that. He’s got the equipment - but he’s got the equ♊ipment because he was so blindingly, obviously quick and aggressive and competitive.
“Mentally, he knows where he’s at. He doesn’t need much help. And he’s got a great team. He’s almost indestruℱcti꧑ble.”
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