Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen is at the top of the drivers’ championship at the end of seven races in the 2022 season, but that’s not important to him at this stage.
Defending champion Max Verstappen hasn’t had a great start to the 2022 season. He retired twice while running second in the first three races.
However, except for those bad lucks, all the races that finished were on the podium. Saudi Arabia, Emilia Romagna, Miami. He won the championship in Spain and took the podium in 3rd place in Monaco.
With these results, Max Verstappen has rapidly improved his fate in the drivers’ championship and is now at the top of the rankings, leading Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc by 9 points.
Max Verstappen is in the best position to win his second F1 World Champion, but Positiony in the standings hasn’t paid attention yet, instead, at this stage he will maintain the results so far in the season. To that end, it is important to demonstrate the performance of the car.
“I don’t think it matters where you are in the championship or where you are in second place,” Max Verstappen said at F1i.com.
“It’s important what the car has. If you know the car is good and you can win the race in the future, it’s not that much pressure.”
“As F1 drivers, we’ve been in sports for a while and I think we know what we can do.”
“At least in my experience, that doesn’t really make a difference. I just want a good car, because it gives me the confidence to do it well.”
After the Monaco Grand Prix, Max Verstappen isn’t the only Red Bull driver looking to the title.
Sergio Perez won his third F1 career victory on the Monte Carlo city course, reaching within 15 points of Max Verstappen.
While Max Verstappen is seen by the outside world as the clear number one driver for Red Bull Racing, team boss Christian Horner says it’s up to the team to win the driver’s title with Verstappen or Sergio Perez. He said it wasn’t important.
“It doesn’t matter to us which of the two is the world champion,” said Christian Horner.
“Of course, the constructors are very important.”
“But whether it’s Max or Czech, they’re both Red Bull drivers and they both have the same chances. Of course, it’s a long season and there will be declines and trends, but both. It ’s great to have a driver on the front line. ”
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