Max Verstappen lauded after Imola win: “He’s slightly better than the rest, isn’t he?”
Damon Hill b🐼elieves Max Verstappen made the difference at Imola in his battle for the vic𝓀tory.
1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill has heaped praise on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen following his i☂mpressive victory at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Verstappen narrowly beat 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris at Imola to take his fiftﷺh victory of ꦐthe campaign.
It was arguably his most impressive performance of the year s♋o far, particularly given McLaren’s outstanding pace at times this weekend.
Verstappen stormed to pole when McLaren looked like they were the favourites, while Norris’ race pace on thﷺe hard tyre at the end 🍌of the race was slightly superior.
Reflecting on Verstap🍨pe🎀n’s performance, Hill feels that Verstappen made the difference after Red Bull “hadn’t given him a dominant car.”
“He i༺s paid a lot of money. He should be working hard,” Hill said on Sky Sports’ F1 broadcast.
“Those ones provide more satisfaction. He knows that he won that 🐠race, he got pole position. They hadn’t given him a dominant car.
“He’s slightly better✅ than the rest, isn’t he? He had to use that talent to win this race.
“Great to see Lando as well. Somehow the star♑s are aligning for this to be an interesting rivalry between these two, this season.”
Former W Series driver Naomi Schiff noticed Verstappen’s “el♔ation” af💃ter the race, something that hasn’t been common during Red Bull’s era of dominance over the last few years.
“The sound of Lan🌠do’s frustration, and Max’s elation🐟, goes to show that this battle is well and truly on,” she commented.
“It’s the happiest we’ve heard Max 𓂃all year. They’ve been far too dominant for far too long and it’s great to see them under a little bit of pressure. Hats off to Max as well. At the end, he was under a lot of pressure. Lando was closing in on him.
“With the battery emptying he was having to do things on a steering wheel himself, in that moment, with Lanꦫdo being in DRS. That’s what we want to see.
“At the beginning of the race we thought: ‘Is he going to run away with it?’ With two💜 more laps, we would have seen them battling it out.”
Hill added: “It brings out the best of them. Like squeezing oranges, you’ve got to squeeze hard to get the good bits out! You coul🐈d see Lando’s focus was much more intense.
“You could see him using the ♊track. This is why I turned on F1 to watch."
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