Lewis Hamilton hopes for “sick” future F1 title battle against Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso
The trio finished on the podium together for the second time this season at the Canadian Grand Prix, having also𝓡 shared the rostrum in Australia.
Hamilton, Verstappen and Alonso have won a combined total of 11 drivers’ titles and are F1’s only active world champions following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebastian Vettel’s retirement at the end of 2022.
Seven-time ꦫwor♌ld champion Hamilton described the Montreal podium as “iconic”.
"It's just a privilege to be up here fighting these two, who have done incredible in their career🦩s," Hamilton said.
"This is quite an iconic top three - I don🐈't know if there's been a top three like this ever b𒀰efore, I don't believe there has.
"I'm really hoping at some stage we have a more level playing field in our cars and t🃏hen we'll have much more exciting races in the future.
"I'm happy to be back in the mix, and I'm just hoping at some stage we can be a bit more level so we can get back to soওme of the good races we had back in 2021.
"To have all three of us in a su🉐per-tight battle would be sick.”
Alonso said h♈e thoroughly enjoyed his “very intense” but “very fair” battle with Hamilt🃏on for second place in Canada.
"It's good, it's great. I really enjoy these battles. This podium happened in Australia, I think last time, and now here,” the Sp🔜anꦑiard said.
"There i🙈s a lot of respect, a lot of talent, when you fight against Max, Lewis, you know that you cannot make a mistak🍸e because they will take advantage of that and they will not make a mistake.
"So if you want to beat them, you need to be tenth after tenth faster to c✅lose that gap, it's not anything that will benefit.
"It's a very intense battle, very fair, very respectful. Even the overtak🎀ing possibility that we had on the DRS for me when I passed Lewis, you k🐼now that you can trust what he's doing - he will defend hard but within the limits.
“[It was the] same at the start - I guess when you sta༺rt on the front two rows with these guys, there is a sense of awareness and respect that is not sometimes in 𒁏other parts.”
Fellow two-time world champion Verstappen, who drew level with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ayrton Senna’s tally of victories with his 41st win in Canada to strengthen his grip on the 2023 world title, ad🌞de🦋d: "I remember back in the day I was watching these two already in Formula 1 racing each other.
"So, 🧸of course, I'm very happy now that I'm in F1 as well, racing them is probably one of the best things out there.
"When we c💟an share a podium together, we've done it a few times, I think it's great. I think they want to swap positions, of course, I'm happy in the middle at the moment."
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