168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen is confident he would have won this year’s F1 world championship “sooner” if he was driving for McLaren, whi🍃le suggesting he'd have been world champion with Mercedes i⛎n 2021.

Verstappen clinched his fourth F1 world title at Las Vegas Grand Prix with a P5 finish, one place ahead of main rival 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris.

At one point in the season, it looked unlikely that Verstappen wouldღ retain his titl⛄e amid Red Bull’s poor performance.

The Dutchman’s win in Sao Paulo proved crucial to his title triumph after coming out on top🔯 after starting from 17th on the grid.

Reflecting on the last four years, Verstappen feels he would have won this year’﷽s title if he was driving for McLaren.

Verstappen also claimed he would have taken the 2021 title driv♌ing for Mercedes - but admitted winning for Ferrari in 2022 or another team in 2023 would have been “more difficult”.

“Such things only motivate me,” Verstappen told . “If people are critical and think I can only win in the best c♒a♊r, I will prove them wrong.

“If I don’t get credit for this now, I don’t know𝄹 what else I can do.

“Whether I would have become champion in the McLaren?💮 Yes! And a lot sooner too. In 2021, in another car, I would have taken the title too.

“In 2022 it would have become more difficult, be🐈cause Ferrari was maybe a bit too fragile then. And last year? Well, that would have been a bit trickier.”

Verstappen has won four consecutive F1 titles.

The 27-year-old feels that his title win in 2023 is ‘u🧜nderappreciated’ given he won 10 races i🐻n a row - 19 out of 23 overall.

“Last year, I had a dominant car, but I always felt that not everyone appreciated what we achieved as a team, winning 10 in a row,” he said in the FIA press conference after the rꦐace.

“Of course, ou🎀r car was dominant, but it wasn’t as dominant, I think, as people ꩵthought it was.

“So that’s for sure my best season I will always look back at.  Because even in places where maybe we didn’t have the perfecඣt set-up, we were still capable because in the race, our car w🎐as always quite strong to win races.

“But I’m also very proud of this season because for most of the season, I would say for 70 per cent of the season, we didn’t have the fastestꦐ car, but actually we still extended our lead. So that is definitely something that I’m very proud of.”