By Daily Sports on February 4, 2020

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen says he can beat Lewis Hamilton to this year’s world championship as long as his car is good enough.

The Dutchman, 22, thinks his team can “mount a challenge to Mercedes”.

“Lewis is very good. He is definitely one of the best out there but he is not God. Maybe God is with him, but he is not God,” Verstappen said.

Asked if he could beat Hamilton, he said: “Yes. It is very car-dependent, of course.”

Verstappen said he believed Hamilton and Mercedes were vulnerable if Red Bull could put them under more pressure.

“When you can put the pressure on, of course it is a lot harder for the guy in the lead,” Verstappen said.

“If you never really have pressure, you can drive at 97-98% and you never make mistakes, or maybe one weekend out of 21-22.

“Even if we start within 0.2secs, you can really mount the pressure and I would like to start straight away there because then it is really on.

“I know that when everything is put together, as a team, under pressure situations like in Brazil for example – but also other difficult situations like in Germany [where Verstappen won in the wet and Hamilton and Mercedes made a series of errors] – you can see that the team is really excelling compared to the others.

“I am looking forward to when we get that fight and we are really close; I am pretty sure we can do better.”

ON RACING HAMILTON

Last year, Hamilton admitted he gave Verstappen more room when they were racing closely together because of the Dutchman’s reputation for aggressive driving. (BBC)

•PHOTO: Max Verstappen

Source Daily Sports

Posted February 4, 2020

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