“You’re seeing Max really perform exceptionally well”– Lewis Hamilton changes his mind about advantage he thought he had

Tanish Chachra | 19/09/2021
"You're seeing Max really perform exceptionally well"– Lewis Hamilton changes his mind about advantage he thought he had

“You’re seeing Max really perform exceptionally well”– Lewis Hamilton thinks his more experience over Max Verstappen is not an advantage.

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton are intensely battling for the 2021 championship, and even after 14 races into the season, the difference between the two is only five points.

During the Spanish Grand Prix, Hamilton claimed that his experience of winning the championships with Mercedes on six occasions will help him battle against Verstappen, who is yet to have his first championship.

“This year you’re seeing the closest battle we’ve seen for some time,” Hamilton said, back in May. “You’re seeing Max really perform exceptionally well and he has a championship-winning car,” he added.

“Without doubt, and a championship-winning team who can really pull off the job this year if we don’t do our job. I definitely think our experience will help us as we approach our weekends and how we battle back from difficult weekends.”

“And I think from my side, I would like to think that experience will help. But at the end of the day you just have to do the job. Minimal mistakes, and reliability is also going to be a big deal this year.”

It is not relevant now

Hamilton, four months later, has now contradicted his previous statement by claiming that his experience as a world champion is not relevant in the championship battle of this year.

“I would not know in what way experience fighting for the world title would be an advantage,” Hamilton told the Formula 1 Magazine. “Max is just a top driver.”

“In the junior categories, he already proved to be a champion and in each of those classes you increase your experience. I am no less under pressure than Verstappen because I have been World Champion once.”

Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra
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Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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