Once the first races of 2024the logic was to think that this season was going to be a trace of the precedent, that is to say the incontestable domination of Red Bull. But this idea was only extended to the first seven Grands Prix of the year. From there, doubts invaded the “Toro” team and McLaren The ground began to eat away at him.
A few months later, the World Cup promised a very intense battle between Lando Norris And Max Verstappen. It’s at that moment erected the figure of the Dutchman. At a time when the car was not with him, Max brought out all his talent to hide the considerable defects that the car presented. Red Bull in the race.
Helmut Markoadvisor to the Austrian team, recognized that without Verstappen everything would have been worse: “This is not a winning teamit’s pretty clear. You’ve seen it before. Pérez did not have a very good season. Without Max, if we don’t have such a good car now, you can see what he does.”
“He’s the one who covers everything with his incredible talentnow also with common sense and his knowledge of when to push and when not to push, has amazing insight. I think his only mistake was with Norris in Austria. But beyond that, it was a season without accidents,” confesses Marko in statements collected by the media ‘ORF’.
The truth is that the championship Verstappen speaks for itself. The Dutchman managed to win his fourth World Cup with the team which is third in the manufacturers’ standingsand it would be much lower without the quadruple world champion.
