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Verstappen ‘head and shoulders above rivals in 2021’ – Horner

by Phillip Horton
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Verstappen ‘head and shoulders above rivals in 2021’ – Horner
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Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner believes Max Verstappen has been “outstanding” through 2021 and believes his performances have been underappreciated.

Verstappen will head to the 2021 season finale level on points with title rival Lewis Hamilton but ahead on countback of having taken more victories.

Red Bull trails Mercedes in the Constructors’ Championship by 28 points.

The situation effectively sets up a winner takes all showdown in Abu Dhabi and Horner believes Verstappen has comfortably been the superior driver through 2021.

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“Max is a fighter and if there’s a driver that deserves to win this world championship it’s Max Verstappen,” Horner told the F1 Nation podcast.

“Mercedes have had the better car; he [Verstappen] has driven outstandingly – look how close Valtteri [Bottas] has been to Lewis this year.

“Max has been head and shoulders for me the driver of the year and he would be very deserving to win his championship, the way he has driven this year, the way he has conducted himself, I think has been outstanding.”

Horner labelled Verstappen’s aborted final Q3 push lap as “the best lap we’ve ever had in one of our cars up until that corner” and added that “I don’t think people actually realise what Max is doing in that car.

“I don’t think people recognise that we haven’t had the best car all year, Max Verstappen has lifted this. I think he deserves all the credit.”

Horner pointed to Hamilton’s straight-line speed advantage as a potential performance influencer for the finale.

“The engine speed Hamilton has… he was a second quicker, he was a second quicker in Sector 2 and Sector 3 [in Jeddah],” he said.

“Max would pull out half a second in Turn 13, and you can’t defend against that, it’s the most frustrating thing for a driver to be sitting with that kind of deficit.

“It has been frustrating the last 3-4 races, we’ve been watching that dominant straight line performance which you can’t do anything about.”

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Comments 4

  1. Matthew Vause says:
    4 years ago

    He’s as delusional as Helmut this teams becoming a joke. Max needs to get emotions under control in that car before he seriously injured someone.

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  2. Terry says:
    4 years ago

    “Max has been head and shoulders for me the driver of the year…” Horner would say that wouldn’t he! There is no doubt Max is a very fast and able driver, but his gung-ho and daring manner of racing at this level is compounded by the undue influence of people in the team who should know better. To say “…the way he has driven this year, the way he has conducted himself, I think has been outstanding.” is delusional and as the previous commentator says, if he continues driving as if he is the only one on the track (sometimes on the track!), somone is going to be seriously injured and it could be Max himself.

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  3. spencer gray says:
    4 years ago

    Yes Max is head shoulder above everyone when you consider how he run over top of Lewis Hamilton’s car a few races back, that’s the only way he’s not experienced enough to really out drive Lewis Hamilton between the white lines.

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  4. Dami says:
    4 years ago

    Reading some of the comments on this forum I think the posters must be seeing about as much as Stevie Wonder. I’m not sure what sort of brain incapacity would lead to calling Horner delusional when it wasn’t Verstappen who deliberately sent his opponent hurtling with a force of 51G into the wall at Silverstone, having tapped his rear wheel with the intention of spinning him out for the second time in half a lap, just as he had done to Vettel at Monza in 2018. Hamilton set out to injure Verstappen, and wasn’t at all bothered by the prospect of killing him. There is only one cheating, dangerous driver in the Formula One title contest, and it isn’t Max Verstappen.

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