MADRID, 1 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Helmut Marko, adviser to the Red Bull team in the Formula 1 World Cup, is clear that “perhaps” the Spanish Fernando Alonso and the Englishman Lewis Hamilton could be “closer” to Max Verstappen if they drove the other ‘RB19’, but he believes that “no one” could beat the Dutch driver at this time.
“Being second behind Max is like a victory, there is no other driver who can stay with him at this level. Maybe Alonso and Hamilton would be closer, but no one could beat him at the moment,” Marko said in the podcast of ‘ F1 Nation’.
Last Sunday, at the Belgian Grand Prix, ‘Checo’ Pérez seconded the current world champion, but was 22 seconds behind Hasselt’s, which led Hamilton himself to dare to say that if he drove his car, his partner I wouldn’t be so comfortable. But that is something that does not seem to worry the Red Bull adviser, who focuses more on the quality of his number ‘1’.
“I know how good Max is and this must be taken into consideration. He is taking care of the tires and he is still going fast, he can read the race and he anticipates so much that what he does has already happened. He has incredible capacity in his head,” he stressed. .
For Marko, Verstappen is “very, very special”, but he does not forget “the
“incredible performance from the whole team”, which has 13 straight wins. “And we do some entertainment with the radio conversations between Max and his engineer,” he stressed.