Lewis Hamilton faces massive F1 challenge as Damon Hill spells out main Mercedes problem

As Damon Hill explains the primary Mercedes issue, Lewis Hamilton faces a significant F1 challenge.

Over the past two seasons, Max Verstappen and Red Bull have excelled above their F1 competitors, starving teams like Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes of success.

Red Bull and Max Verstappen are so dominant in Formula 1 that their competitors must be faultless to overcome them.

Damon Hill expressed this sentiment in response to the Dutchman winning the title at the Qatar Grand Prix.
Verstappen secured the 2023 drivers’ championship with the Los Angeles Grand Prix remaining and five more events left in this year.

Additionally, his Red Bull team had already won the constructors’ championship two weeks prior. Carlos Sainz’s victory for Ferrari in Singapore, which was secured to fully capitalize on a sporadic off weekend for Verstappen’s team, marked the only other team’s victory of the season.

As far as 1996 world champion Hill is concerned, the speed of Red Bull’s car and the consistently high level of performance Verstappen has been able to get out of it make it nearly impossible for teams like Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team.

He told Sky Sports, “They’ve got a tall order to match or overturn the Red Bull combination with Max Verstappen driving.
They really have been this close to perfection this season, and they’ve broken a lot of long-standing records.

“I believe Max is on track to surpass a record that Jim Clark set regarding the percentage of races won in a season back in the 1960s.
This year, he broke numerous records, and it seems like he will continue to do so.
So, in order to defeat them, you must strive for perfection.
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Verstappen has already won three world championships despite only turning 26 at the end of September.
Despite his repeated declarations that he intends to leave Formula One earlier than most, his Red Bull contract, which runs through the end of 2028, gives him enough time to win a number of more championships and challenge Michael Schumacher’s record, which Hamilton and he share as the most titles won.

Hill encourages the Dutchman to keep getting better.
He “is a new breed of driver whereby he started very young,” the speaker continued.
In Max’s case, his father was a Formula 1 driver, so he had the benefit of Jos Verstappen mentoring and guiding him.

“Michael Schumacher lived near a go-kart track, but his father wasn’t a well-known Formula 1 driver; like Lewis Hamilton, he began driving at a young age.
Max has had the most extraordinary talent and has been trained and coached in the proper manner since a very young age to understand what is required.

He is mature and has a good head on his shoulders. He entered Formula 1 at the age of 17, before he was even qualified to drive a road car, and he was both erratic and quick.
He’s now been able to combine his youth, speed, and experience, and I believe he has a better understanding of the job.
He’s just improving more and more.
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