‘Max is in that club’: Verstappen joins F1 greats after fourth drivers’ title

Giles Richards - TheGuardian - 25/11
Red Bull’s Christian Horner says his driver is in same class as Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton
Max Verstappen has his image displayed on the Sphere after winning the F1drivers’ title for a fourth time. Photograph: Ty ONeil/AP
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Max Verstappen has his image displayed on the Sphere after winning the F1drivers’ title for a fourth time. Photograph: Ty ONeil/AP

‘Max is in that club’: Verstappen joins F1 greats after fourth drivers’ title

Red Bull’s Christian Horner says his driver is in same class as Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton

“What I have witnessed with him, I have never seen before,” says Max Verstappen’s team principal Christian Horner, expressing a quiet conviction in his driver on securing a fourth consecutive Formula One world championship.

Horner, the CEO of Red Bull Racing, believes Verstappen, who claimed the title in Las Vegas, is setting new standards and has now unequivocally taken his place in the pantheon of Formula One. After a season-long demonstration of skill, race craft, and no little ruthless determination to close out what has been his most challenging championship yet, Verstappen has earned the plaudits.

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