Bojan Vrbnjak
Max Verstappen has already completed four entire seasons Formula 1 and its form curve only ascends. After the fifth place of the year 2016 (partly in To Toro Rosso), was 2017 otherwise the sixth, but already 2018 swung to fourth place, 2019 but we already find it among the first threeeven though he was Ferrari in the design championship before Red Bullom. "Max is strong. But we knew that before,”Is for colleagues from Motorsport-Total.com said his father Jos. "That he has now won overall third place, even though Ferrari was second in the team championship, proves that he has done an excellent job. But we need to make progress and that is also our goal."
In the world Formulas 1 there is unity about being young Max already able to win the title of champion. But the package Red Bull- Honda he hasn’t been good enough this year. Joseph Verstappen is convinced: “If Max had been sitting in a Mercedes four years ago, he could have become a world champion four years ago. A lot depends on the car.“It’s the first half of the season Max drove perfectly, but: “After the summer break, he was partly very frustrated. The reason also lay in the fact that Ferrari was so fast because it had no chance against them.But this advantage has been mitigated by technical directives ombudsmen FIA. "I hope this topic is over now," so Verstappen older.
For the season 2020 the direction is quite clear: “We have to be competitive from the first race onwards. Because this season we spent a lot in the first nine races. So we need to focus now and be at the top from the first race onwards.“At first eight races this season it was Max otherwise very constant (never worse than fifth place), but it just did twice swung to the podium. The dominance was too great Mercedesa and partly also Ferrari. From race v Austria it is Max compared to Hamilton lost only yet 48 points, but unfortunately in the first eight races 87.
If I was Max in a position to put pressure on from the first race onwards Hamilton, would the season have gone differently? “Of course, that would make a difference, for sure. We are aware of this and we are all working on it. Everyone in Formula 1 wants to win. We’ll see where we stand at this time next season. Now it’s good that the season is over. The championship has been decided for a long time. But I look forward to how it will go next year. I hope we have a race car that is good enough."
