David Coulthard congratulated Max Verstappen for his “f****** superior” Formulation One world championship victory on the finish of an unique interview simply hours after the 24-year-old beat title rival Lewis Hamilton on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Verstappen handed Hamilton on the ultimate lap of the season, in extremely controversial circumstances, to win his tenth race of the yr and safe his maiden championship.
The Purple Bull driver needed to wait 4 hours for his title to be confirmed after Mercedes launched an enchantment of the race outcome, just for it to be dismissed by stewards.
Verstappen, who partied via the evening in Yas Marina as he celebrated his title, was interviewed alongside his father Jos Verstappen by former F1 driver Coulthard the next morning.
In an in-depth interview on the CarNext YouTube channel, Verstappen mentioned the 2021 season and his journey to turning into an F1 champion, earlier than Coulthard dropped the road after seemingly believing that the cameras had been minimize.
“That is f****** superior,” Coulthard mentioned to Verstappen after the interview. “It’s f****** superior isn’t it. Effectively completed, son.”
Verstappen paid tribute to Hamilton after the title rivals competed in some of the dramatic and unpredictable F1 seasons in a technology.
“Lewis is a tremendous driver and a tremendous competitor,” Verstappen mentioned. “They actually made it laborious for us and everybody liked to see the 2 groups operating in opposition to one another.
“We had some powerful instances however that’s all a part of the game and its emotion. Everybody desires to win and it might have gone both method.
“I attempted to maintain on pushing and generally miracles occur. Subsequent yr we’ll come again and take a look at once more.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
