Five-time Grand Prix winner John Watson told PlanetF1 that he believes Max Verstappen races Charles Leclerc in a completely different fashion to Lewis Hamilton. F1
more than with ’21 title rival Lewis Hamilton and, unlike last year, their racing has resulted in few dramas.
“He made errors in my opinion, in ’21, which cost him – he should have won that World Championship way before we got to Abu Dhabi. “But he had a comfortable advantage going into Silverstone. The judgments that a driver has to make, again, is ‘do I go to the wall?’ as he did with Hamilton – and he paid the price – or do I concede in one corner, but knowing that he will probably be able to make that position back again.
“I think he used some of that mentality, or whatever you choose to call it, in his approach to racing with Hamilton. In other words, ‘I will never lift off’, ‘I’ll never concede’, which I don’t agree with. That’s not part of my philosophy as a racing driver. But I think that’s the direction he pursued.
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