Max Verstappen has suggested that he would never pair two top young drivers together if he were to act as an F1 team boss, with the Dutchman arguing that such a strategy is \u201cnot sustainable\u201d and can \u201cbreak up\u201d the squad in the long run.<\/p>\n
During a discussion on the Pelas Pistas Podcast<\/a> alongside Gabriel Bortoleto<\/a>, Verstappen<\/a> reflected on the advantages of a line-up like Bortoleto has at Audi<\/a> next to the veteran Nico Hulkenberg<\/a>, as he explained why he feels this works better than having two names at their peak together.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not ideal,\u201d the Red Bull<\/a> driver said about putting two top youngsters alongside each other in a team. \u201dI think [it shows] if you look at the best partnerships in the past [in terms] of how to win championships, Team and Driver.<\/p>\n \u201cFor a team also, I think that stress is not always what you want, and when you have the same age, I think honestly for me\u2026 You know who does that really well in football is [Real] Madrid.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a Barcelona fan, but Madrid does a very good job at having a squad, a starting 11, current, amazing, but making sure that once the older guys are at their end, to immediately replace them with a good young talent that can fill the gap.<\/p>\n \u201cSo that\u2019s what I think you need to try to achieve in a way in Formula 1 as well, that you have one older guy that is at his peak or close to going over the peak, that immediately you have the other guy step in to make sure that you don\u2019t also as a team go backwards, to make sure the other driver\u2019s also there to take over in a sense.\u201d<\/p>\n In terms of the impact of having two of the best drivers together in a line-up, Verstappen said: \u201cThey will always try to mess with each other and, at the end of the day, even if the team is very successful now, eventually it will break it up, and I think you will see that happening very soon in Formula 1 as well with the current scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n The four-time World Champion went on to detail why he would not create such a pairing as a team boss.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m more worried about the internal fight that you create, and people will leave,\u201d Verstappen explained. \u201cIf it\u2019s the driver, very important people up top\u2026 If it\u2019s such a mess between the drivers, you create a two-sided garage. And at one point, it doesn\u2019t matter how successful you are, it will break it up. It will create problems eventually.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can deal with it one year, quite intense, maybe two years, but it\u2019s not sustainable for me personally. If you\u2019re not fighting for championships, it\u2019s less of a problem. There\u2019s not really high stakes.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day, you really see the true colours of people when you fight for championships, but it\u2019s very tough and if I would be a team boss I would never do that, risk two drivers fighting like that.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked what his dream line-up would be if he could select from any driver in the sport\u2019s history, Verstappen responded: \u201cIt might sound a bit controversial, but if you would have to have them drive the current car, they would struggle.<\/p>\n \u201cIn sport, people evolve, sports evolve, become more professional, and that\u2019s why I think it\u2019s always very important to just leave the greats in their era because they were the best in their era with what they knew, what the world knew, and that\u2019s why I find it very unfair when people ask me this.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst of all, who do you think is the greatest? For me it\u2019s impossible to answer because every generation or era had their own greatest driver.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite this, Verstappen conceded that there are certain moments in the past that he would like to have the opportunity to observe more closely.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can ask the question of who would you like to see, if it would be interesting to see how they would be working at their prime,\u201d the Dutch racer said. \u201cFor example, I think it would be quite cool to see Michael [Schumacher]<\/a> in his Ferrari<\/a> days, be in there and observe how he was with everyone, and is there something to learn.<\/p>\n \u201cStuff like that for me, and at the same time you could argue, would you want to be in the [McLaren<\/a>] team when Ayrton [Senna]<\/a> was fighting with [Alain] Prost<\/a>? Probably not, but at the same time they were winning and dominating as a team, so you learn, and I think it\u2019s just very interesting to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has suggested that he would never pair two top young drivers together if he were to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-402125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402125","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=402125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}