Verstappen urges media to drop Hadjar’s Ferrari comparison
Archive photograph: Max Verstappen · 2024-08-25Archive photo · 2024-08-25 · Steffen Prößdorf · CC BY-SA 4.0
Verstappen called the debate over Hadjar’s Ferrari comparison unimportant and asked journalists not to keep putting the claim to other drivers.
Max Verstappen has urged journalists to stop repeatedly putting Isack Hadjar’s Ferrari comparison to other drivers, calling the debate unimportant at a media day in Austin.
Hadjar had suggested Verstappen would have won the Singapore Grand Prix by a greater margin in Ferrari’s SF-26. Charles Leclerc had already disputed the comparison, saying Hadjar did not know what kind of car Ferrari was running and Ferrari did not know Red Bull’s either.
Verstappen accused journalists of repeatedly raising Hadjar’s comment to irritate people. He said he normally lets such remarks pass: “Let it go; tomorrow is another day.”
Asked about Ferrari’s pace in Singapore, Verstappen said it had been very fast but that he could not judge the car’s exact pace because he had not driven it.
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