“How much of it is Max Verstappen?” F1 pundits want to see him win in another team
Does Max Verstappen nee♒d to win for another F1 team to prove his greatness? Karun Chandhok has suggested soꦗ.
Former F1 driver Karun Chandhok is keen to see 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen “drive for somebody else” to prove he can win in another team like oth🦋er all-time greats have.
Verstappen storm♐ed to his fourth victory of the 2024 F1 season in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix to extend his championship lead to 25 points.
Given Red Bull’s dominant form, Verstappen is the heavy favourite to ꧋secure his fourth consecutive drivers’ title.
Verstappen has won all of his races and titles with the same team 🅠in incredible fashion.
However, compared to other F1 legends such as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes and McLaren) and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher (Benetton and Ferrari), they managed to win for d𒐪ifferent teams.
Chandhok - who raced in F1 between 2010 and 2011🅰 - posed the question of how much of Red Bull’s success is down✨ to the brilliance of Verstappen.
“More and more, I’d like to see him drive for somebody else,” he said. “I’d like to see. He’s at one with that car, could someone else jump in and do it? I🅰🐓f he went to Mercedes…”
Chandhok added shortly after: “The all-time greats have won in more than one teamꦗ. Schumacher, Fangio, Prost, Lewis.”
Verstap🍃pen’s immedi༺ate future seemingly lies with Red Bull given his contract doesn’t run out until 2028.
But Verstappen has been linked consistently with Me♕rcedes as a possible Hamilton repl🏅acement.
1996 F1 wo𒅌rld champion Damon Hill thinks Verstappen should be keeping tabs on Ferrari rather than Mercedes.
“If I was him, I’d be interꦇested to see where Ferrari will end up, rather than Mercedes.
“💯With Max i✅n the car, and with whatever else he can bring with him.”
Chandhok r🍰eplied: “You thi🐟nk, for 2027, after Lewis?”
Hill c💦oncluded: “A signed piece of paper is not worth a signed piece of paper anymore. He can have the pick of whatever he wants.”
“Almost indestructible”
Verstappen’s latest triumph means he’s won exactly 50 per cent of al꧙l races since F1 last raced in China back in 2019.
Hill described Verstappen as “almost indestructꦗible”.
“People are already talking about him as being established as one of the gre🧜at Formul✃a 1 drivers of all time,” he said. “I can’t argue with that. He’s got the equipment - but he’s got the equipment because he was so blindingly, obviously quick and aggressive and competitive.
“Mentally, he knows where he’s at. He doesn’t need mucဣh help. And he’s got a great team. He’s almost indes♛tructible.”
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