Max Verstappen hit again with sarcasm on Thursday after seven times Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton suggested his Red Bull rival feel the first title slope pressure.
“I was very nervous I could hardly sleep,” said the 23-year-old Dutch reporters to Reporters at the Russian Grand Prix when Hamilton’s comments were put on him.
“It’s terrible to fight for the title.
I really hate it,” he added.
Verstappen told those who knew he could testify how relaxed him.
“I’m very cold.
This is the best feeling ever a great car where you go to every weekend and you can struggle to win …
The comments only show you that he really doesn’t know me,” he said.
from Mercedes rival.
“What is okay.
I also don’t need to know him, how he’s entirely.
I just focused on myself and I really enjoyed it in front and hopefully we can do that for a very long time.” Verstappen was five points from Hamilton after 14 of the 22 rounds but had a grid sentence of three places for Sochi after they collided in the previous race at Monza.
Their clashes have become the story of this season as Verstappen and Red Bull trying to end seven years dominating Mercedes and Dethrone the most successful driver of all time.
Hamilton previously told reporters that he knew from the experience of what Verstappen passed.
“Obviously he won’t admit it and I will not make an assumption,” Briton added when asked if he felt the pressure began to catch up with Verstappen.
“I just said that I remember how it felt when I had the first and it was definitely increasing.
It’s hard, it’s intense, I’ll go through a lot of different emotions and I don’t always handle it best.” “It is expected …
there is a lot of hope and self-pressure because the desire to win is very large.
I empathize and understand it.” Hamilton won his first championship in 2008 as a 23-year-old child with McLaren, in his second season.
Verstappen is now a veteran of 133 races and in the seventh campaign.
No Lingeringshamilton effect said there was no effect lingering from Monza, where the car Verstappen ended above Mercedes with rear wheels that hit the Briton helmet.
He said that he had done yoga and acupuncture and his physiotherapist Angela Cullen had flown with him to America, where he attended a gala dining feature in New York.
Set aside comments reported 36 years reported from Red Bull Consultant Helmut Marko questioned how much pain he actually felt.
“I don’t really listen to what these people talk about.
It’s natural when the car lands in your head that you will have a kind of inconvenience,” he said.
“I didn’t say I was dying.
Just realizing that in any milliseconds can happen.
I feel grateful to get out of it not hurt seriously and continue.” Hamilton said he did not put energy to worry about more collisions.
“I think the important thing is that we continue to race hard and just and I have no doubt that we both will become professional and learn from the past,” he said.