It’s the rooster and the egg story of Components 1. The hole between Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson was immense throughout their first and solely two Grands Prix collectively at Pink Bull. Was that actual hole actually fully on account of Lawson’s incapability to deal with the RB21 or is Verstappen otherworldly?
David Coulthard is an professional by expertise, he says within the podcast Components for Success. The Scot too had moments throughout his profession when confidence was fully gone. “In my case, it was then the rear finish that was not steady, which made it very troublesome for me to construct up a lap. Nevertheless it was by no means the type of hole we see now [between Verstappen and Lawson].”
Verstappen ‘a phenomenon’
Coulthard argues that Verstappen is “a phenomenon”. “However we’ve got seen different phenomena within the historical past of the game. Senna, Schumacher and so forth. And with them there have been by no means such variations.”
After all, as soon as in Monaco within the McLaren, Ayrton Senna was a second a lap quicker than teammate Alain Prost, however that was an exception. “These had been totally different instances. In Components 1 now, issues are extremely shut. However between an awesome driver and a mean driver, it ought to solely be two or three tenths distinction. It should not be near a second,” Coulthard mentioned.
Briefly, is {that a} signal that Verstappen even places Senna and Schumacher in his shadow?
