The Red Bull was crowned its world champion for the fourth consecutive time, after the Las Vegas Grand Prix, won by George Russell and spoke of his new great success. Max Ferstapen had only to finish ahead of Lando Norris to maintain the world title in Formula 1 and succeeded, after Red Bull’s pilot passed the finish line 5th, in front of McLaren the British. With two matches left and a maximum harvest of 60 points in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, Fairstapen is not threatened because he’s 63 points apart from Norris. With his fourth title, Max Ferstapen “played” on the list with the multi-nice champions, German, Sebastian Fetel and French, Alain Prost, while in front of him are Argentine, Juan Manuel Fangio (5 titles), German, Michael Schumacher and British Lewis Hamilton, with seven titles each. “It’s nice, of course. Growing up as a driver you see these statistics of legendary drivers, very impressive, and you just hope to get on the podium, win a race, maybe a title. It’s very hard to win a title. You need some luck to be on the right team at the right time. This title is different from the others, we started the season well, but then we had some difficult games. I am proud of the team, as we did not have the fastest car, we stuck together, we did a lot of teamwork at the factory, we knew how to stay calm, we made very few mistakes and maximized our capabilities,” said the 27-year-old pilot and added, agreeing with Christian Horner – the “boss” of his team – that this is the most impressive title: “I agree. Last year I had a dominant single-seat, but I don’t think the world fully appreciated the streak of our ten wins. I’m very proud of this year, we had a lot of problems in the middle of the season. Personally I knew how to stay calm in these situations. When I get in my car, I forget everything, the positives and the negatives.” Referring to Lewis Hamilton and the possibility of reaching him or even surpassing him (ed. has seven titles), Ferstapen stressed: “You must always be on the right team to achieve this for such a long time. I don’t think about it, but if it happens, the better. I’m already very proud of four titles. I know that if I still have a chance to fight for the trophy, even if I don’t have the best car, I’ll give it all when I’m behind the wheel. In recent years I have evolved as a driver, become more complete and I look forward to seeing what it will be like in the coming years.”
Max Ferstapen for his 4th title in Formula 1: He’s different from others, he’s the most impressive
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