I sometimes think the same. The closest he was to a F1 champion was punting one off the track. Max is already far better than he ever dreamed of being, give him some support not down him all the time.Marti_EF3 wrote: ↑30 Sep 2019, 22:42I think that sometimes he talks too much. Heads down and be a team, please.Wouter wrote: ↑30 Sep 2019, 21:46More about the interview :TNTHead wrote: ↑30 Sep 2019, 20:34On Dutch television Jos Verstappen commented on the development pace of Red Bull/Honda. He said something along the lines: at the end of this year the gap with the Ferrari en Mercedes should be closed, otherwise next year will be another year of struggling. You could see some growing impatience within the Verstappen team. I cannot disagree.
That doesn't sound good!Through a Skype conversation in the tv programme Peptalk on Ziggo Sport father Jos looks back on the performance of his son in Russia, and he looks ahead to the remaining races of the season.
It should not take too long before he is going to deliver what we are all hoping for and he can challenge for the world title. “No, that is what we think too”, says the father of Aston Martin Red Bull Racing driver who today celebrated his twenty-second birthday: “We should have been closer, but that is more difficult than we thought. It is very frustrating. In the last races before the summer break it went really well, but after the summer break we did not progress while the other teams did. Max cannot change that, we depend on the team, the car is a bit behind, the engine is a bit behind, more work has to be done on this combination if we want to challenge for the world title next year.”
Verstappen senior continues: “We are very concerned if there will be any improvement in the short term, we will talk to the team to see what can be done. We depend on the equipment we get and at the moment it is not good enough.”
Asked if it is discouraging now and then, Jos answers: “Seeing Max’ performance, put him in a good car and he will challenge for the world championship. We are now working with Red Bull for a couple of years, but it still does not look that we will be able to challenge for the world title next year. Looking at the last couple of races it seems that we will be half a second short in Japan. Of course we will try everything to close the gap, but half a second you cannot catch up in two weeks’ time. The expectation was to close the gap to the competition, but at the moment it does not look like it. We have to work hard to close the gap, otherwise next year will be lost too.”
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