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Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) y Max Verstappen (Red Bull). Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi. F1 2021.

F1 | They don’t even look at each other’s faces

The cup is in the middle, the champion is on the left and the opponent is on the right. It feels like weight, and there’s tension on balancing, although in the press conference before the crucial Abu Dhabi race there was a lot of linden and no sparks, but they didn’t shake hands. They didn’t even look at each other’s faces, nor did they look at a single gesture in twenty minutes of talking. Verstappen defends the lead, tied on points with Hamilton, but facing the crowd, neither of them fear it will be a double-crash that will determine the championship, or that the stewards’ decision will have a direct bearing on the season’s decision. privately, and in the ringYou’re breathing something completely different.

“I don’t waste my energy on it. I think we’re all vying to win, but we want to do it the right way,” said Lewis. Accident rate given by the two opponents (They collided at Silverstone and Monza, they touched in Jeddah.) Max, on the subject: “You don’t think about it, you want to have the best weekend possible and win the race. The press starts saying these things and I don’t have much to say.”

The Dutchman criticized the penalties he received in Saudi Arabia for overstepping the bounds of the track (as he did in Brazil, with impunity), and emphasized that he had “different rules from the rest”. A few hours before the match, Verstappen gave another somewhat more relaxed media interview where he made his mind clear: “I think we were running really hard and because of what I did, He didn’t deserve a penalty. The other two who had done so before did not receive it. I do not understand. We both go outside, one turn. For some reason they see this as my fault, I disagree. But then he pushed me off the track (in the last corner) Off the white line, not even your warning.”

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“I hope they’re fair and I don’t feel like I was wrong. Why would I change? Why can’t I run this way? Everyone should be able to run that way,” he said. crazy max Visibly upset, a few hours before appearing in peace. The Red Bull driver confirms this He will give “congratulations” to Hamilton’s “if fair” champion. And he’s not listening to the cloud of criticism that has hovered over him since the last race: “They’ll always be there. The unfair thing to me, the problem, is that they treat me differently than other passengers.”

Lewis plays Swedish

Sir Louis, who chose the times and words correctly, explained that he hadn’t seen Max when I locked him off the track before he got past him: “I thought this would happen to him and I just drew looking for the width to enter and the best possible exit from the curve. “ With a couple of inconsistent maneuvers on the Jeddah Corniche, hardly any complaints about his movements in Arabia fell while Verstappen had to answer for all those incidents in which he crossed the line, which were not few.

“I’m in very good shape, very comfortable. It won’t change my life,” Verstappen concludes, although his perception of Mercedes has changed: “A lot, not in a positive way.” He came to lead by 32 points, but accidents at Silverstone (with Hamilton) and Hungary (with Bottas) suddenly took him 42 points. After Mexico, his income was 19 points, but he disappeared with the last three victories of Mercedes. The trend is favorable for Lewis, although Verstappen has been on top all season. Clash of the Titans is epic in Formula One’s most even season of Anniversary. The unknown now is that this clash is not just a metaphor.

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