’It doesn’t come easy’ – Max Verstappen on pressure, breaking records, and the search for perfection

“He’s just driving circles around everybody else on merit. There’s nothing else to say. We’ve got to watch that, as much as that is annoying.”
That’s Mercedes boss Toto Wolff’s assessment of Max Verstappen right now. Wolff knows a thing or two about F1 greats, having witnessed Lewis Hamilton’s relentless form between 2014 and 2020 that yielded six titles.
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