What Hamilton, Russell And Sainz Said About Verstappen After Las Vegas Grand Prix

Monday, 25 November 2024 at 14:50

All top three drivers, George Russell, Lewis Hamilton, and Carlos Sainz, talked about Max Verstappen after the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix. See what they said.

Red Bull Racing F1 driver Max Verstappen sealed his fourth consecutive Championship title at the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix - with two race weekends still left in the season.

Even though Red Bull brought a wrong rear wing in Las Vegas and lost some performance on the straights, the 27-year-old still finished ahead of his Championship rival Lando Norris, which was all he needed to do to become a four-time World Champion.

Up until that point, the four-time World Champion scored eight victories (seven of which came in the first ten race weekends), 13 podiums, eight pole positions, three fastest laps, and his worst finishing position was P6 at the 2024 Italian Grand Prix.

Speaking to the media during the post-race press conference at Las Vegas Strip Circuit, the Grand Prix winner George Russell was asked about his thoughts about Verstappen, and he said:

"Exceptional. I mean, he had a dominant car at the start of the year and he got the wind when he needed to and then genuinely thought he probably wasn't going to win this championship."

"And he delivered week in, week out, and got the best result the car was capable of, and his rivals didn't."

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The seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton congratulated Verstappen already during a post-race interview on-track, but he also shared some more thoughts with the media later on.

"He's done a fantastic job. He's not made any mistakes and he's delivered every time and every point he's supposed to. And him and his team have done the best job, again, fourth year in a row."

"And it definitely got exciting at one point. I think they will be hard to beat next year because they probably started earlier than everyone else developing next year's car, as well. But yeah, really happy for him."

Scuderia Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz, who finished the race in Las Vegas third, also highlighted how faultless the new four-time World Champion has been as he said:

"I think he's driven for four years now at an incredibly high level. I think this year he just dominated whenever he had a dominant car and then he didn't do mistakes and maximize the points that he could get with a less so performing car and just did whatever he had to do in every race. And yeah, congrats because he clearly deserves it."