Max Verstappen He is a two-time Formula 1 champion. This last world championship in which he has swept away. There has been no rival. It looked like it could be Ferrari, but it fizzled out in the middle of the season. Now charles leclerc has revealed when he thought he couldn’t beat Max Verstappen.
The Monegasque has even lost second place in the drivers’ world championship. He is currently third behind the other Red Bull, the one from Sergio Perezwho has five points ahead.
In ‘Motorsport’, he explained how the Belgian Grand Prix: “It was the first weekend of the season where Red Bull was really superior in terms of pace. After that weekend I thought it would be very difficult to keep our world championship chances intact.”
That was after the summer break, after the French GP. At that time Ferrari still aspired to fight Red Bull. A fight that ended in Spa. the performance of the energy drink car was too superior.
Verstappen seems to have no rival. Yes he competed Lewis Hamilton in 2021, when he lost the championship on the last lap of the last race, in Abu Dhabi. It has not been so in 2022.
Helmut Marko, Red Bull adviser, believes that at the moment no one on the grid can compete with Verstappen. just get up to “half his level”: “There are only two drivers in Formula 1 who are halfway to Verstappen’s level, and they are Leclerc and Hamilton.”
“Leclerc was very strong in qualifying but he is prone to mistakes compared to Verstappen, whereas for 2023 Hamilton I think will be more of a challenge,” Marko said.