A four-time world champion and a driver with barely 11 Grands Prix to his identify. It comes as no shock that Helmut Marko, Pink Bull Racing’s advisor, sees Max Verstappen as the large favorite inside his workforce subsequent season. Consequently, the Austrian doesn’t even need Liam Lawson to attempt to beat Verstappen internally.
After Sergio Perez departed the Austrian workforce after a horrible 2024 season, it was a choice between Racing Bulls drivers Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson. The choice was made, and it was the latter who changed the Mexican, and Marko says there’s a clear purpose for that: “Liam Lawson is mentally the strongest of our juniors, though he has little Grand Prix expertise.
“However it’s necessary to simply accept alongside Max you can’t beat him. Nobody can do this. And when it comes to high quality, regardless of his restricted Grand Prix expertise, Liam has essentially the most potential to develop additional,” Marko acknowledged in dialog with sport.de.
Nevertheless, the workforce’s exterior advisor does anticipate Lawson to be inside three-tenths of a second of the Dutchman in each qualifying and racing and structurally decide up factors for the championship.
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“He’s within the workforce with the perfect Method 1 driver and shouldn’t attempt – as many colleagues did – to go on the lookout for it in expertise, with absurd set-ups or when it comes to technique. One ought to settle for that he [Verstappen] is the perfect and never attempt to beat him. That has gone unsuitable with all his colleagues.”
In the long run, it’s fairly logical that Verstappen can be absolutely the primary inside Pink Bull Racing in 2025. The Austrian sees it as a bonus that the proportions are clear: “At Ferrari – and it stays to be seen whether or not Kimi [Antonelli] instantly asserts himself at Mercedes – it’s clear that it will likely be a battle between Charles [Leclerc] and Lewis [Hamilton]. And I do not assume they are going to be glad with a quantity two function.”
This text was written in collaboration with Olly Darcy
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