Max Verstappen names F1 high this season and brutally snubs Red Bull team-mate

Max Verstappen, the F1 star, has ignored his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez whereas predicting the highest three for this season’s championship.

Verstappen, who hails from the Netherlands, is aiming to safe his fourth consecutive world championship title. He kicked off the season with a commanding win on the Bahrain Grand Prix, main a 1-2 end with Perez transferring up from fifth place on the grid.

Despite driving the identical highly effective Red Bull automotive as Verstappen, Perez has discovered it difficult to maintain tempo along with his teammate over the previous few seasons. In the final three seasons, Perez has received 5 races in comparison with Verstappen’s 34, though he did handle to safe second place on this planet championship for the primary time final season.

When requested throughout a Q&A session on Viaplay who he thought would make the highest three this season, the world champion did not embrace his teammate. “Me, then Lewis (Hamilton), and then Charles (Leclerc),” was his response.

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Hamilton, who final clinched the world championship in 2020, is set to finish his ultimate season with Mercedes on a excessive observe. Despite exhibiting promise throughout observe in Bahrain, the British driver struggled to compete within the season opener, ending in seventh place, stories the Mirror.

Leclerc, who shall be Hamilton’s teammate subsequent season at Ferrari, is tipped to place up a powerful competitors. He has been a challenger to Verstappen within the final two seasons however ended behind his colleague Carlos Sainz in Bahrain.

The driver from Monaco was close to Verstappen’s velocity throughout Bahrain qualifiers nonetheless, the Ferraris discovered it robust to take care of race velocity. Leclerc feels extra assured about 2024 than he did a 12 months earlier than, but acknowledges that Red Bull stays the benchmark.

He said just lately: “Everything that we expected from this car, we got it on the real track, so that is a good thing because that helps us to develop the car on the simulator and everything seems to make sense. Then how competitive we are, it’s very difficult to understand. My personal feeling is that Red Bull is still quite a bit ahead, but we have a much stronger base compared to last year.”

“I remember last year, I finished the test and it was very difficult to understand in which direction we developed because the car was just so inconsistent, it was very difficult to understand what were the main weaknesses.

“This 12 months, it is a very totally different story. We know precisely the place we have to enhance, the place are the weaknesses, the principle weaknesses of this automotive, and this offers us a bit extra hope for the for the event.”