Verstappen believes only one thing can stop him winning the 2025 F1 championship
Speaking via The Inside Track, journalist Matt Majendie says the 28-year-old believes that only ‘bad luck’ could prevent him from beating the McLaren to the title.
He said: “And he’s got amazing self-belief as well. I spoke to him in Mexico and [I] asked him what’s the one thing that could stop you winning the title? And he just said: ‘Bad luck’, which I think sort of sums up, he didn’t mention the McLaren drivers. I thought that was sort of him in a nutshell.
Fellow journalist Rebecca Clancy added: “With Verstappen, I thought it was interesting because I think it was Austin, obviously an unbelievable weekend for him in Austin, winning the sprint and the race.
“And he just came out and said: ‘Yeah, all the momentum is with me. I could probably win this championship. Why not?’
“And you think it’s really interesting because in the run-up to that race, he had been sort of, not saying race by race, because he doesn’t play by the PR handbook as is well known.
“But he was kind of like: ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, look, the McLarens are doing a good job. We’re there or thereabouts. I’ll go out, I’ll race, I’ll see what happens’. And then in Austin, the language changed and he very much felt like he was in it.”
RE: the article above, Verstappen sounds decidedly braggadocious but, as Walt Whitman once wrote, "If you done it, it ain't bragging."
I must be nice to be so filthy rich you can be brutally honest without one whit's fear for who you offend.
Hamilton-Ferrari partnership slammed as a 'marketing project' only
Bernie Ecclestone, speaking to Sport.de:
"Everything is slipping away from him [Hamilton] there. He wanted to become world champion there and is now surprised that he can't do it."
[Hamilton is] "one of the best of the last ten years, but not the best."
Ecclestone then labeled the partnership between the Maranello team and the seven-time world champion as "a financial marketing project," suggesting that "he [Hambone] will do more with fashion in the future."
... and if Hambone isn't the best of the last 10 years, then he obviously is nowhere near being the best of all time.
If you didn't understand the reference I made in a post a couple of pages back ( ...At which point Hambone pressed the Kimi Raikkonen button (Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing)... ), here's a little F1 history lesson:
Toto Wolff is selling his stake in Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 (which he received as part of his pay package as team principal) for 4.5 BILLION pounds sterling, about $6,000,000,000 USD.
And that will buy him a lotta, lotta wienerschnitzel.
https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/formula-one/wolff-in-talks-to-sell-part-of-his-mercedes-f1-stake-reports