Max Verstappen not sure whether US GP is a ‘make or break’ amidst HEATED F1 championship tussle
Max Verstappen is currenly leading the driver's championship with a 52-point lead over McLaren's Lando Norris.
Max Verstappen (via IMAGO)
The 2024 F1 season has only six races remaining, and the pressure is on the reigning world champion Max Verstappen. McLaren’s Lando Norris is on the charge and is just 52 points behind Verstappen in the standings.
Max Verstappen dominated his competition in the first 10 races, winning seven of them. However, since the Spanish GP, he has been on a downward trajectory and has struggled immensely in the cockpit of the RB20.
With the United States GP just a few weeks away, Verstappen has given a verdict on how he is looking at the event in regard to his ongoing driver’s tussle.
I don’t know if it’s a make or break, but from now on, of course, we want to make steps forward. When or how it will arrive, I don’t know yet. But we’re just trying to get the balance back together. I think Baku is already a small step forward, so we just need to continue that route.
Max Verstappen via F1
Verstappen has asserted that he is not looking at the Austin event as do or die kind of an event. But, he has emphasized the importance of making small gains regularly in order to challenge as strongly as possible in the remaining races of the season.
Rb20 improvements to help with the development of next year’s challenger
Max Verstappen has always been a very blunt kind of a figure at the pinnacle of motor racing. In Singapore, he was asked about the development trajectory of the RB20, he openly admitted that the improvemnts of the remaining rounds will help immensely with Red Bull’s 2025 challenger.
The ground-effect era has majorly belonged to the Milton-Keynes-based team.
And yeah, of course, here this weekend [in Singapore], you can’t really do a lot from Baku, but hopefully with the two, three weeks that we have [after Singapore], we can make some further improvements. There’s still a few more rounds left where I think we can improve the car, which will also help for next year.
Max Verstappen via the same interview
Verstappen has won the coveted diver’s world title thrice since 2021. If he manages to amass a fourth this year, he will equal F1 legend Sebastian Vettel‘s Red Bull record.
The German amassed four tiles on the bounce between 2010-2013, and Verstappen on his end, has the chance to do the same this year. But, keeping in view the upward trajectory of the high-flying McLaren and Lando Norris, the title fight could get quite ugly by the time the campaign reaches its final stop, the Abu Dhabi GP.
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