Max Verstappen has dismissed Helmut Marko’s feedback suggesting that his curiosity in System 1 dipped as Pink Bull’s efficiency additionally sank earlier within the season.
Requested immediately about whether or not he agreed with the adviser’s feedback forward of the 2025 Mexican Grand Prix, Verstappen shortly shot the concept down.
“No, I do not,” he confirmed. “In fact it is extra pleasing coming to the race weekends like this than realizing that you do not have an opportunity to win, however I do know for myself that once I sit within the automotive I’ll at all times attempt to maximise every thing that I’ve and I give it every thing.
“So even when I am preventing for P4 or perhaps a P9, I’ll at all times attempt to get one of the best out of it.”
Marko additionally said that Verstappen “was extra curious about GT racing, so to maintain him in an excellent temper, I used to be speaking about Nürburgring and issues like that.”
The four-time champion shot this down, too.
“Permitting me to do different stuff, this has been deliberate already for a very long time so it is not that this has immediately come on the radar as a result of this stuff should be deliberate nicely upfront and the preparation for it as nicely in order that it allowed me this 12 months to compete myself in actual life,” the Dutchman mentioned. “Yeah, that was the primary alternative however I have been doing this additionally offline quite a bit, even racing throughout F1 weekends on-line so there’s nothing actually that has modified when it comes to how skilled I strategy my race weekends.”
Lando Norris, McLaren, Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing
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This weekend, the Pink Bull driver seems to proceed his latest enhance in efficiency after an ideal weekend in Austin. Whereas McLaren’s Oscar Piastri nonetheless leads Verstappen by 40 factors, the reigning champion is now a favorite to win the drivers’ championship this season.
“In fact naturally you wish to win, you wish to win the championship, in fact I’ve gained championships very late, very early. Now this one may be very totally different as a result of I feel for a lot of the season it was quite a bit tougher for us, and to be trustworthy with you, to nonetheless be on this struggle may be very shocking. However I take it and now like I mentioned earlier than we must be excellent, however for me it is simply constructive strain.
“I imply, I am loving what I am doing. If the automotive is aggressive, it is significantly better to be racing it than when it is not. So yeah, each race that you just do, I do know till the tip we will not afford any unhealthy luck or errors, however this workforce I feel has proven previously that usually we carry out rather well below strain anyway and that is what we’ll attempt to do till the tip.”
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