Horner claims Russell showed Verstappen is better than Hamilton
Jan.22 - Max Verstappen is already better than seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
That is the sensational claim of Christian Horner, the Red Bull team boss who thinks the image of Hamilton's dominance took a major hit late in 2020.
"I think he is the best, yes," Horner told the Dutch publication RacingNews365 when asked about team driver Verstappen.
"Russell's performance at Mercedes confirmed that for me."
He is referring to the Sakhir GP, where Russell stepped up from his back-of-the-grid Williams seat to substitute for Hamilton while the seven time world champion had covid-19.
Horner said his comments should not be interpreted as him being "blind to all that Hamilton has achieved", but pointed out that the 36-year-old driver "does have access to a good package while Max has to get more and more out of his car".
"You can see that by the fact that a driver from Williams qualified directly on the front row of the grid and almost won the race," he said.
"If someone had to get into Max's car - if he had coronavirus - they would never reach his level of performance," Horner claims.
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Horner needs to take his nonsensical comments and sit in a corner. I find the constant denigration & debasement of Sir Lewis extremely off-putting, objectionable & offensive.
oh that made me laugh.
Well he would say that wouldn't he.
He has to talk up HIS man after all,
Christian doesn't have to talk Max up, all anyone needs to do is watch the races. Red Bull has not been consistent enough to win the Championship away from Mercedes due to primarily their Engines, however when Max has a car even remotely competitive he shows Hamilton up. Put George Russell in the other Mercedes car in 2022 and Hamilton won't finish better than 3rd.
Oh yeah, we saw that in Turkey, right?
Did Horner say he is disable to deliver a proper monopost?
What does that say about Bottas? That he's worse than the back of the grid drivers?
I think you would have to agree Bottas is not as good a driver as Hamilton, Hamilton wins over Bottas more often. David