Max Verstappen has insisted Kimi Antonelli will get \u201ceven better\u201d as a driver as he sits on the verge of a maiden world championship.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old enters the Mexico City Grand Prix this weekend needing only a ninth-place result in the race to clinch the title.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Antonelli’s meteoric rise to the height of F1 success has come in just his second season, having made a substantial step forward after a challenging rookie campaign.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
With nine wins in his pocket so far this year, Verstappen predicted that Antonelli will only mould himself into a sharper driver after he wins his first title.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hasn\u2019t yet tapped into 100 per cent of his potential, and winning the world title will make him even better,\u201d Verstappen told Bild\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve achieved your life\u2019s goal and start approaching race weekends with a more relaxed attitude.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In the same discussion, Verstappen also discussed one of the grid’s oldest drivers, seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen highlighted that a significant difference between Hamilton and Antonelli is the fact that the latter can still get faster as a driver due to his inexperience.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cHe [Hamilton] probably won\u2019t get any faster,” Verstappen said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Don\u2019t get me wrong: I\u2019m not saying Lewis is getting slower, just that he won\u2019t get any faster. It\u2019s different with Kimi. There\u2019s still a lot more left in him.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has insisted Kimi Antonelli will get \u201ceven better\u201d as a driver as he sits on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-645969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","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-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}