Is Lewis Hamilton frustrated by Max Verstappen's F1 dominance? 'Nothing I can do about their amazing performance'
Two-time world champion Verstappen continued his charge to a third straight drivers’ crown as he equalled168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Ayrton Senna’s career total of🅠 41 victories with a dominant win at the Canadian🎀 Grand Prix.
It marked Verstappen’s sixth triumph in eight races as the Dutchman maintained Red Bull’s unbeaten start to the season to extend his lead in the championship to 69 points over teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez.
Hamilton was beaten to second place by Aston Martin’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso but racked up his second⛎ podium in as many races in Mercedes’ upgraded W14.
When asked if there is a sense of frustration that he is currently unable to challeꦍnge Verstappen, the seven-time world champion answered: “It’s not a frustration anymore, if it ever was.
“You know how it is. You know what you are faced with and there’s nothing I can 🌳do about their amazing performance.
“It’s likely they will win every race moving fo༒rwards this year, unless the Astons an🧜d us put a lot more performance on the cars, or their car doesn’t finish.
“It’s not easy with the regulations to chip away or to find🦩 the amount 𒅌of performance that they have advantage-wise.
“They’ve got to be 30 points up on us in certain poin💟ts through the lap. We’ve got some work toღ do.
“It’s not that it’s frustrat🍸ing. I’m happy to firstly be back in the mix and I’m hoping at some stage we can get back to some of the good races🍌 we had in 2021.
“To have all three of us in a super-tight battle wo💞uld be sick.🧸”
The trio of Verstappen, Alonso and Hamilton have a combined total of 11 worl𓆉d championships between them. Hamilton suggested it is the strongest top-three F1 has ever seen.
“It’s a privilege to be up here fighting these two, who have done inc𒅌redible in their careers,” he said.&n🐽bsp;
“This is quite an iconic top three. I don’t know if th🦂ere’s been a top three ♈like this ever before. I don’t believe there has.”
And𒆙 the 38-year-old Briton hopes to enjoy 🎀closer fights with Verstappen and Alonso in the future.
“Hopefully they’ll be more,” Hamilton said. “There’s a huge respect between us and we are able to race so closely♍ and trust in one another.
“So I really hope at som൲e stage we will have a 𝐆more level-playing field with our cars and can have much more exciting races in the future.”
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