‘Max destroys everyone’
A special compliment to Max Verstappen: McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown believes that it is not the Red Bull RB19 but Max Verstappen that is dominant this year. According to the American, the world championship would look very different with two Sergios Pérez.
Max Verstappen delivers performance this year that has rarely or never been seen before in Formula 1. The fact that he succeeds is of course largely due to the car he has this year. The Red Bull RB19 is undeniably a feat. Yet teammate Sergio Pérez shows that you don’t just go for the win with a good car. McLaren chief Zak Brown also emphasizes this, who even states that Red Bull owes its dominance this year to Verstappen and not so much to the car. “With all due respect, if they had two Sergios in the car, this championship would be wide open,” he said. ESPN.
There is only one driver this year that could disappear on the horizon: “If you take Max out of the equation and classify everyone who finished second as the winner, you would have an exciting and competitive season.” Brown believes that Verstappen is simply taking a good base to a level where it becomes an unbeatable one: “As much as Red Bull is currently crushing everyone, in reality Max is demolishing everyone. The Max-Red Bull combination is really unbeatable at the moment and both Max and the team makes no mistakes.”
A sporty compliment from Brown, who also believes that this season is not boring despite Verstappen’s dominance. “It’s not just about who wins, right? The racing has been great so far.” Brown also thinks Verstappen’s performance is nice to see. “We’ve seen it in other sports too. When Tiger Woods won every time, the ratings were also unprecedented, because people admire it when an athlete rules his sport.”
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