“Getting on the podium here is very nice”acknowledged the Red Bull driver who He comes from celebrating his third win in a row in Mexico and is not satisfied because he admitted that he will go for one more to extend his record of celebrations in the highest category.
“Why not?”responded to a query in this regard during a press conference in Sao Paulo, stating that “the machine is strong enough to be able to achieve it and I will try.”
The Dutchman, who rules in the contest that consecrated him several days in advance and by a field of advantage (416 units against the 280 of his teammate, the Mexican Sergio Pérez), can increase his harvest even more because in Brazil will run the last “Sprint Race” of the year that also awards points in the classification.
“I’m not a big fan of the Sprint because it doesn’t feel like a real race because you know you can’t take risks, you don’t see as many overtakes and, at least for me, it’s not particularly fun.”commented on it.
While Verstappen focuses on continuing to add wins, Ferrari’s bet is to close as runner-up in the Constructors’ Cup in which Red Bull also took an undisputed advantage of 696 points.
With 487 units and a 40 advantage over Mercedes, the Italian team is betting on closing the season in the best possible way, also looking for the Monegasque Charles Leclerc, third in the Drivers’ Championship with 275 units, to climb to the second step, and for Carlos Sáinz to recover at least the fifth place that seven-time British world champion Lewis Hamilton took from him, who with 216 points is four ahead of the Spaniard.
Sainz, who finished fifth in Mexico ahead of Leclerc and behind the Red Bull and Mercedes drivers, stressed that this Grand Prix “was quite unusual, but now we are focused on the last two of the season” in reference also to the one will run at Yas Marina on November 20.
“We bet on second place in the Constructors’ Cup”affirmed the Spaniard when alluding to the 103 points that remain at stake and the slight advantage over Mercedes.
Regarding how he feels in his second season at Ferrari, he replied: “The first half of the year was difficult because I couldn’t adapt to the machine, but then everything got better even when we had some reliability problems.”
“We have found the rhythm and that is the fruit of the great work of the mechanics and the engineers,” he added, acknowledging that the recent death of one of the legendary engineers of the Italian team, Mauro Forghieri, “left us with deep pain and In his honor we will wear a sticker on the machines this weekend.”
Perez, Meanwhile, he also stated that he had “some difficulties at the beginning of my second season at Red Bull and in some Grand Prix I was left out of the fight for the championship.”
“We must work on that aspect for 2023, but first we must try to close this season in the best way and I aspire to finish second behind Max because for me it would be very important”assured.
hamilton, who on Monday was declared an illustrious citizen of Brazil, will go in search of his first victory to extend his record of 16 seasons in the highest category with at least one triumph celebrated.
If successful, the Briton will surpass the legendary seven-time German world champion Michael Schumacher, although the mission of achieving his fourth consecration in Interlagos after those obtained in 2016, 2018 and 2021 in ten disputed editions is anticipated to be difficult, especially if Verstappen decides to accelerate fully. as promised.
Source: Ambito
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