Max Verstappen lauded after Imola win: “He’s slightly better than the rest, isn’t he?”
Damon Hill believes Max Verstappen madeꦑ the difference at Imola in his battle for t🃏he victory.
1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill has heaped praise on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen following his impressive victory at the Emil🌄♔ia Romagna Grand Prix.
Verstappen narrowly beat 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris at Imola to take his fifth victory of the c🔜ampaign🔯.
It was arguably his most impressive performan🔯ce of the year so far, particularly given McLaren’s outstanding pace at times this weekend.
Verstappen sꩵtormed to pole when McLaren looked like they were the favourites, while🃏 Norris’ race pace on the hard tyre at the end of the race was slightly superior.
Reflecting on Verstappen’s performance, Hill feels that Verstappen made the difference after Red Bull “🥃hadn’t given him a dominant car.”
“He is paid a lot of money. He should be wor🌳king hard,” Hill said on Sky Sports’ F1 broadcast.
“𓃲Those ones provide more satisfaction. He knows that he won that race, he g𒆙ot pole position. They hadn’t given him a dominant car.
“He’s slight𝐆ly better than the res🌟t, 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 no🐽ticed Verstappen’s “elation” after the race, something that hasn’t been common during Red Bull’s era of dominance over the last few years.
“The sound of Lando’s frustration, and Max’s elation, g꧙oes꧅ to show that this battle is well and truly on,” she commented.
“It’s the happiest we’ve heard Max all year. They’ve been far too dominant for far ꦛtoo 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 Lando ꧑being 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 la🐲ps, 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 t🦩o get the good bits out! You could see Lando’s focus was much more intense.
“You could see him using the track. Th꧃is is why I turned on F1 to watch."
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