Is Lewis Hamilton frustrated by Max Verstappen's F1 dominance? 'Nothing I can do about their amazing performance'
Two-time world champion Verstappen continued his charge to a third straight drivers’ crown as he equalled168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Ayrton Senna’s career total of 41 victories with𒀰 a dominant win at the Canadian Grand Prix.
It marked Verstappen’s sixth triumph in eight races as the Dutchman maintained Red Bull’s unbeaten start to the season to extend his lead in the championship to 69 points over teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez.
Hamilton was beaten to second place by Aston Martin’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso but racked up his second podium in as many races in Mercedes’ upgra𒉰ded W14.
When asked if there is a sense of frustra✃tion that he is currently unable to challenge Verstappen, the seven-time world champion answered: “It’s not a frustration anymore, if it ever was.
“Yo🍬u know how it is. You know what you are faced with and there’s nothing I can do about their amazing performance.
“It’s likely they will win every race moving forwards this year, unless the Astons and us put a lot more performance on the cars, or their𓄧 car doesn’t finish.&n🍨bsp;
“It’s not easy wi🍰th the regulations to chip away or to find the amount of performance that they hav🐟e advantage-wise.
“They’ve got to be 30 points up on us in cert🐓ain points through the lap.🐎 We’ve got some work to do.
“It’s not that it’s frustrating. ൩I’m happy to firstly be back in the mix and I’m hoping at some stage we can get back to some of the good races we had in 2021.
“To have all three of us in a super-tight♋ battle would be sick.”
The trio of Verstappen, Alonso and Hamilton have a comb💜ined total of 11 world championships between them. Hamilton suggested it is the strong⛦est top-three F1 has ever seen.
“I𒐪t’s a privilege to be up here꧟ fighting these two, who have done incredible in their careers,” he said.
“This is quite an iconic top three. I don’t know if there’s beܫen a top three like this ever before. I don’t believe thꦐere has.”
And the 38-year-old Briton hopes to enjoy closer fights with Ver🌌stappen and Alonso in the🔯 future.
“Hopefully they’ll be m♕ore,” Hamilton said. “൩There’s a huge respect between us and we are able to race so closely and trust in one another.
“So I really hope at some stage we wi♔ll have a more level-playing field with our cars and can have much more exciting races in th🔯e future.”
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