Max Verstappen has stated that paying attention to detail in the final rounds of the ongoing season will make the difference in the F1 title fight.<\/p>\n
The Dutchman has slashed into Oscar Piastri’s championship lead across the last four events, cutting his 104-point advantage to just 40.<\/p>\n
Just five rounds remain in the campaign as Verstappen aims to complete a sensational comeback and grab his fifth career title.<\/p>\n
However, the 28-year-old acknowledged that Red Bull will need to be flawless until the end of the season in order to produce the title upset.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that we need to be perfect until the end to have a chance, so that\u2019s what we just need to focus on,\u201d\u00a0Verstappen told media including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said before, it’s super close, and just attention to detail will make the difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTrying to get the best set-up on the car every weekend and then try not to make mistakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that’s what we’ll try to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verstappen dominated the US Grand Prix on Sunday en route to his fifth win of the season.<\/p>\n
He crossed the line ahead of Lando Norris, who was held back for much of the race by Charles Leclerc in a tight battle for second place after the Ferrari driver moved in front on the opening lap.<\/p>\n
When asked how different the race would have been if Norris had retained position on the first lap, Verstappen replied:\u00a0\u201cI think then it would be a very close race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time I think that Lando was in clean air, we were very evenly matched. Maybe at times, he was a bit faster as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wouldn’t have been the gap that it was at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has stated that paying attention to detail in the final rounds of the ongoing season will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-230532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}