Max Verstappen has claimed it’s “exceptional” and “very spectacular” that he stays on this planet championship hunt as he stoked up the thoughts video games with Lando Norris and McLaren as this season’s Method 1 battle reaches its climax.
4-time world champion Verstappen was 104 factors off the title tempo after his house race within the Netherlands 5 rounds in the past.
However heading into the concluding 4 contests — beginning with this weekend’s Sao Paulo Grand Prix in Brazil — Verstappen is simply 36 factors adrift of Norris. The British driver’s teammate Oscar Piastri is one level additional again with McLaren the category of this 12 months’s area.
And Purple Bull’s Verstappen, returning to the scene of his gorgeous wet-weather victory final 12 months which noticed off Norris’ title bid, mentioned: “For me, there isn’t any strain.
“Even when I do not win it, I nonetheless know that I drove a very good season and I can fortunately say that to attempt to replicate the season that I’ve performed, most individuals on the grid would discover that very powerful.
“So, you simply must be real looking with the probabilities now we have had all through the season and to nonetheless be speaking about being on this struggle is already exceptional within the first place.
“For positive, it has to do with the turnaround of the workforce, they nave gave up and that could be a power of a workforce.
“Nonetheless, at one level when you find yourself over 100 factors behind, and we’re nonetheless speaking about being on this struggle, that could be very spectacular.”