Hamilton would beat Verstappen in 'identical F1 cars' - Smedley
Smedley, who was Felipe Massa’s race engineer at Ferrari and head of performance engineering at Williams before 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果ꦉ🐭历史:taking on a technical consultant role at F1, has weighed in on the 𒈔2021 title fight.
Verstappen heads into this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix holding a 12-point lead over Hamilton. With five races r🐠emaini✨ng, there are still 133 points left up for grabs.
Speaking to the F1 Nation Podcast, Smedley backed Hamilton to overcome Verstappen. He also reckons the seven-time world champion would have the upper hand if they were in a straight༺ fight in equal machinery.
“I’ve got to go with Lewis, because he’s done it seven times before,” Smedley replied when asked who he feels will b♐e crowned world champion.
“Now, that’s not to take anything away from Max, because Max is a once in a generation🎶 tal✃ent, but I think that Lewis has learned more of his craft than Max – just like anybody, he’s just been doing it longer than Max.
“He’s done it seven times before, so if they were in identical cars with identical tyres and all the r♎est of it for the five remaining races, I would still bac๊k Lewis at this point in time.”
Smedley thinks Red Bull has ꦅhad a better car than Mercedes for the majority of the campaign and has failed to capita🌼lise on having a “significant” advantage at the start of the year.
“If I was going to go for car, I would go for the Red Bull,” he explained🌠. “I think it’s a slightly better car and it has been a better car all season.
“I read something over the weekend where Helmut Marko said that Max has given away 50 points or something like that. Now, ཧI don’t know whether that’s true.
“If you take the races where he hasn’t finished, it might not be a net 50 points c🗹ompared to Lewis, ✨but it’s certainly quite a few points that he’s given away.
“I think they’ve had the best car si𒐪nce, I think they had a si🙈gnificantly better car at the start of the season. They’ve probably, I think it’s fair to say, failed to capitalise on that but as the season has gone on they’ve still kept that small advantage.
“It’s swung Mercedes’ way on occasions but overal⭕l they’ve still had the be𝔍st car.”
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