Christian Horner makes Tyson Fury comparison after epic Max Verstappen-Lando Norris duel
Red Bull has co⛦mpared Max Verstappen's head-to-head battle with Lando Norris to Tyson Fury's heavyweight fight from last nig𓃲ht.
Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner has likened 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s duel with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris at the Emilia Romagna Prix to Tyson Fury’s heavyweig൲ht fight with Oleksandr Usyk.
The sporting world was captivated o🧸n Saturday night by an epic Boxing fight between Fury and Usyk, with the latter coming out on top to become the undisputed hea🗹vyweight champion.
24 hours later, the battle for the win in F1 at Imola went down to the final lap, wi🎐th Verstappen beating Norris by j🔯ust 0.7s.
Speaking to Sky Sports F1 afte🐈r the race, Horner 🌠compared the battle for the victory tonight to last night’s heavyweight clash.
“He was pushed hard by Lando,” he said. “Two guys at the top of the game going ha꧟rd,ꦏ like Tyson Fury in the bout last night! Fantastic racing.
“The pole to match Senna’s record… the stint on his simulator last night, he won the Nurburgring 24 Hours which he’s very proud of! If he crashed, it wasn’t going to hurt! He did a couple of hours this morning, as well. Then dro🌟ve an incredible race, this afternoon.”
Verstappen controlled the race during the first stint, building a six-sec෴ond lead over Norris.
How💟ever, the McLaren driver caಞme alive in the closing laps, moving to within a second heading into Lap 63.
Horᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚner conceded that Verstappen was put 💞under “massive pressure” by Norris, with his efforts not aided by the fact he had three strikes for track limits.
“Massive pressure beca🐼use he’d had three strikes with track limits🎃,” he added. “He couldn’t afford to put a millimetre wrong, with all that pressure.
“A great, great job by Max 🔯withstanding the pressure. Lando was coming hard at the end of the race.
“It was a race of two halves for us. The first half was very s🍷troꦫng, we built a 7-8s lead. The second half of the last stint, Lando started to really catch us quickly.”
Verstappen “at the top of his game”
It’s back-to-back races wher൲e McLaren have arguably been quic♎ker than Red Bull over a distance.
Horner hailed the work of test driver Sebastien Buemi for his set up work on the simulat🍌or while heaping praise on Verstappen.
“Everything has to come together. We came on the back foot on Friday,” he explain♏eꦺd.
“The team worked really long hours. Sebastian Buemi did a great🧔 job on the simulator into the early hours of Saturday morning.
♔“We made a step forward in P3. Max got an incredible pole. We managed to convert it. Ma🍨x had to be at the top of his game.”
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