Former Aston Martin team driver Sebastian Vettel clears up why current Mercedes AMG driver Lewis Hamilton and current Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen can't be compared.
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are fierce rivals; former F1 driver and close friend to Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, says that one cannot compare Max Verstappen to Lewis Hamilton for "best there's ever been" driver. That there's not "one formula".
Lewis Hamilton and the Mercedes team ruled the Formula 1 world for seven years. From 2013-2020, the young British driver won six Drivers' Championship titles. He also broke record after record to win an incredible 103 wins and 104 pole positions. Now it seems Verstappen wants some of that success. According to Sebastian Vettel, "There's not one formula, one recipe to success."
At the Italian Grand Prix, the 25 year old Belgian-Dutch driver put his name in sports history by winning a 10th successive race and breaking Vettel's record of nine races won. As such, Red Bull extended their record winning streak to 15 wins for the team. That's just the beginning of records falling to Verstappen and his team. This is leading fans to ask where Verstappen is among the ranking of greatest F1 drivers.
In an interview with Martin Brundle of Sky Sports, Vettel had this to say. "It's impossible to rank drivers. The beauty of it is they're different. You cannot compare Max to Lewis, there's not one formula, one recipe to success. Lewis was rated as the best there's ever been, Max is demonstrating at the minute that he's pulling off something that's never been done before. I think Max is a great driver. He's able to adapt very quickly. He's able to be comfortable in the uncomfortable. He's learned and understood the sport, and he will get better in that regard and happy to go racing - that's what he loves."
Verstappen's successes this current season, along with the dominating way in which he's won, have led some to believe Formula 1 has become boring. That it's boring when he wins all the time. The Belgian-Dutch driver has made it very clear that he doesn't care. His motivation is winning and winning by the biggest margin available. Vettel does state he deserves more credit for what he's doing with Red Bull. "It's a state of mind more than anything else. I mean, so many incredible things need to come together for the run he had now, which is incredible. People say he's got a dominant car, he might have, you know he has a very good car. But also for the team, the job they're pulling off every weekend, it's incredible. And you see other drivers, they're not as consistent. Everybody should get up and applaud. I know that people don't like to see the same guy winning and so on. With Michael [Schumacher] it was like that. And with Lewis, and with myself for a short time. You cannot appreciate the excellence enough."
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