Hamilton and Verstappen 'agreed' to stop media war
Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton have "agreed" to stop bickering in the media.
That is the news not only from the Red Bull-Honda driver's father Jos, but world champion Hamilton himself.
Recently, Verstappen and Hamilton have traded verbal barbs in the media, but Jos says he has urged his son to back down.
"He and Lewis don't have to be friends," he told Ziggo Sport.
"But I have talked with Max about this, and I hope next time we do not have to discuss it in the press.
"He should focus on his work on the track, as he does already, and when journalists raise the issue, pretend that nothing happened," Jos added.
"I saw that Max and Lewis talked before the race (in Austin) and they have agreed not to criticise each other in the press. If something happens, they will discuss it among themselves."
Hamilton confirmed that he spoke with Verstappen in the US.
"I was like 'dude, you're such a great racer, let's just squash whatever there is between us'," the Mercedes driver told Channel 4.
Jos Verstappen said recently that he thinks Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel are "threatened" by Max.
He now adds: "Personally, I think Lewis is afraid of Max on the track.
"It's evident when you see them on track - he (Hamilton) is prepared for a tough fight every time Max is near him.
"This is to the credit of Max, who achieved it with his driving style and his way with the press."
1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve says he sees nothing wrong with the rivalry between Hamilton and Verstappen, including their clash in qualifying in Austin.
"The fans enjoyed the incident," he told Sky Italia. "It is exactly the rivalry we want in Formula 1."
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I think should all grow up not try to create rush 2 ......only get 1 life and with the vulgar rate money they earn they should do something good with it
For YEARS and YEARS I would want FERRARI to pull the PIN from F1 to STOP all of the TEAMS and FIA Lies, Cheating and Stealing at the expenses of a TEAM, FAN'S all over the world and the ITALIEN INDUSTRY and COMMUNITY.
Legalized THIEF'S ( LIFE STEALLEAR'S ): Racing within reasons suppose to be Technology
FREE and never ever complain to impose others ( FERRARI ) to reveal their hard earned KNOW HOW and make the opposition!!! to FAKE championships.
Mercedes may have invented cars but; ALFA ROMEO invented SPORTS CAR'S and FERRARI followed................... IGNORANT.
Actually I think it’s the other way around. Lewis’s fighting spirit is destroying his opponents, Rosberg is an example. Under pressure MV, SV, etc are cracking up.
I'm in the opposite camp, the 'hand bags' at dawn makes F1 all the more interesting.
Senna - Prost, Hamilton - Alonso, Vettel - Webber, Lauda - Hunt etc all provided a great backdrop that people remember
OK then, mark the date. We agree. :-)
OK then mark the date. We agree. :-)
Ah, what the hell, we've agreed long enough. Let's take sides. Senna-Prost PROST, Hamilton-Alonzo HAMILTON, Vettel-Webber WEBBER, Lauda-Hunt, BOTH.
Daddy Jos finally says something intelligent and then ruins it with the observation that HAM is afraid of VER on the track. Maybe HAM is fearful that young VER will cause yet another shunt, but certainly not awed by his racecraft. I still maintain that VER has accomplished very little in what is now a full five years in F1. I am not a huge HAM fan but his record speaks for itself...one of the best ever, and that began in his rookie year.
Agree Old man racer. Jo's Ver is an idiot and the son is a chip off the old block
You’re probably right, although I do like LH.
Norm, just to be clear. I like HAM. He is just not my absolute favorite.
I urge you people who can read other than the English media to do so. Baby HAM is a product of the English media that portrays him as the greatest of al time including Fangio and Schumacker. It's just a shit load of bunkum. He's pretty average, just benefited from the poor management currently in the Ferrari camp. Whenever Ferrari got its act together this year, HAM was roundly beaten.
Ham is the greatest- the stats tell the story and the truth- just accept it and move forward Michael M!!
Mr M :- Hamilton 'average' oh how I laughed. He certainly made Alonso look average!