Max Verstappen bluntly responds to NASCAR driver’s “I am better than him” claim
Debate breaks out after 🤪bold claim from Kyle Larson

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen has responded in trademark fashion to a NASCAR driver’s “I am better than him” staꦰtement.
NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Larson caused a stir ahead of this weekend’s F1 Dutch Grand Prix 💎by insisting he possessed more tale🉐nt behind the wheel than the F1 champion.
“I know in my mind I am better than him as an all-around driver,” Larson said to aboಞut Verstappen.
“There’s no way he can get into a Sprint Car and ღwin the Knoxville Nationals. There’s no way he can go winᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ the Chili Bowl. There’s no way he can go win a Cup race at Bristol.
“There’s proba𝔍bly no way I can go win a Formula 1 race at Monaco, but I think I’d have a better shot at him just because of the car element.
“That’s what gives me ease and confidence that, like, I know I’m bett🍎er than him.
“Maybe not in an open-wheel IndyCar or Formula 1 car, but that’s one discipline. I think I would beat him in everything else🌜. You cꦺan quote that.”
Verstappen was given a chance to res🧜pondಌ before his home grand prix.
“That’s fine,” he responded, bluntly. “Eve𝓡ryone thinks their own way, right?"
Do F1 drivers or NASCAR drivers have more talent?
NASCAR and F1 drivers have w🌄aded into this debate.
Kevin Harvick, the NASCAR driver, was quoted by : 🍌"If Kyle Larson went to drive Max Verstappen's car, it wouldn't be [in] one or two days, he would♈ be damn close to being as fast as Max Verstappen in there.
“But there is no way that Max Verstappen comes over here and does that in a stock cꦉar.
"I think Max is extremely talented and very, very, very good at what he 🥀does for his discipline.
“I heard him talk about drivers being specialised in their discipౠline. That's not Kyle Larson. Kyle Larson can go out and drive anything!
“He's very good at his discipline, but he's got multiple disciplines. 🍬We saw what he did in 𓄧an IndyCar.
“I truly believe that Max would do o♏kay, but he's not🦩 going to do anything anywhere close to what Kyle Larson does.
"Some of the arrogance that comes from the international crowd on the media side to just say ‘you can’t do that, Kyle Lars♚on, that's not even a fair comparison…’
“Th🍷ey just don't even know what they're talking abo൩ut."
Fernando Alonso had his say at Zandvoort.
Two-time F1 champion🐻 Alonso has also won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the World Endurance Championship, and has also driven at the Indy 500.
H🌄e joked: “I don’t know, I think Max is quite [good] in GTs as well. And I bet he’s good in everything, but he’s still not as good as me!
“You need to adapt very quickly to different disciplines. Oval racing is one thing🃏, a completely independent technique and driving skills.
“Dakar Rally, pressing the throttle and the ♑brake at the same time for six hours, just domﷺinating the car, it’s not easy to adapt.”

James was a sports journalisﷺt at Sky Sports for a decade covering everyth꧒ing from American sports, to football, to F1.