“We have to keep the lead in the Championship,” Max Verstappen critical of maintaining 80 points lead over Charles Leclerc
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Max Verstappen has recently talked about the importance of maintaining his lead in the Championship and has indicated that Red Bull is analyzing everything in order to hit the ground running straightaway during the second half of the season.
Max Verstappen after 13 rounds, is sitting pretty at top of the table and has got a massive 80 points lead over Championship rival Charles Leclerc. Moreover, in the process has also managed to amass 8 race wins.
If this was not enough, the Milton-Keynes-based Red Bull team is also leading the Constructors Championship by a margin of 97 points from the Ferrari F1 team that has come under extreme pressure for its recent strategy calls.
However, despite being in the lead of both the Championships, Max Verstappen is not taking anything for granted and has suggested that Red Bull is not going to ease off in any way during the second leg.
While stressing over the first half of 2022, Verstappen said, “I’m probably always the most critical to myself.”
“There are always things that you can do better and I will always look at that, now during my holiday as well. Not only on myself but also on what we can do better as a team.”
“It’s nice. Now we have a bit of a break, we can analyze everything and we can also think about what we can do better, and hopefully, we can come back even stronger.”
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Max Verstappen wants to secure back-to-back world titles
Max Verstappen is looking to nail everything in terms of preparation for the upcoming leg, and during the Hungarian Grand Prix, the Dutchman was asked about the prospect of challenging for the most number of wins in a season.
At the moment, the record is held jointly by Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher who have both won 13 races in a season. To get at par with the F1 legends, Verstappen would have to win at least 5 of the remaining 9 races.
Verstappen while talking about it said, “We’ll of course try to win as many as we can in the remaining races we have.“
“More importantly, we have to keep the lead in the championship – that’s what we have to try and secure.”
Max Verstappen has clearly indicated that keeping the lead in the Championship is the number 1 priority as he is aware that the F1-75 is supremely fast and he cannot afford to take the challenge of Ferrari and Charles Leclerc lightly.
F1 is well known for unpredictability all over the world and considering there are only 9 races left in the season, fireworks are expected and it will be fascinating to see Ferrari and Red Bull fight it out to get the bragging rights at the end of the season.
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Rishabh Negi
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