Jenson Button advices Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen to quit F1 in order to attain ‘greatest driver’ status

Jenson Button feels Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton need to try their hands at other racing categories.

Jenson Button advices Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen to quit F1 in order to attain ‘greatest driver’ status

Max Verstappen, Jenson Button, and, Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have been doing their trade in F1 for several years. Keeping this into view, the 2009 F1 World Champion, Jenson Button has asked the two prolific drivers to say their goodbyes to the pinnacle of motor racing and try their hands at other racing categories.

Jenson Button feels Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen can’t consider themselves as the best in the world until they have tried their hands at other racing categories and triumphed in them. Button since leaving F1 has tried several different things and has even won the Super GT title. He is currently preparing for his first-ever start in the historic 24 Le Mans competition.

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For the event, he is partnering up with seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and former DTM champion Mike Rockefeller. The trio is doing their trade in the competition for the Garage56 Hendrick Motorsports outfit. While Jenson Button has done plenty of challenging things since leaving the F1, Hamilton and Verstappen are still loving life in F1.

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Lewis Hamilton has previously ridden a MotoGP bike once whereas the reigning F1 World Champion, Max Verstappen has done a bit of sim racing that he prefers to do during his time off from the sport. The duo’s life since becoming pros has only revolved around F1 and while the 25-year-old Verstappen still has time to try different things, Hamilton doesn’t.

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Jenson Button’s take on Max Verstappen’s racing career

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Max Verstappen since making his debut at the pinnacle of motor racing has gone from strength to strength. He is currently on a two-year Championship streak in the sport. However, despite this fact, Button wants the Dutchman to try different things. While talking about the same, he said, “There’s every possibility that Max [Verstappen] could go down as the greatest but I like the idea that you can’t be the best driver in the world if you haven’t stepped outside of F1.”

“Fernando has done a phenomenal job. He left F1 and came and raced in Le Mans and Daytona, won both, then won Le Mans again. I don’t think his performance has dropped away in his forties.” Button has made it crystal clear that in order for Max Verstappen to consider himself the best driver in the world, he needs to leave F1.

However, considering that he is currently contracted to the Milton-Keynes-based Red Bull F1 team until 2028, it seems highly unlikely that he would leave F1 in the upcoming years of the sport. He is the hottest property in F1 and the way his career is pinning out, he would first like to win a few more titles before thinking of trying other racing categories.

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