Could Max Verstappen have backed up Charles Leclerc in Abu Dhabi to give Sergio Perez a chance at the overtake? Damon Hill scoffs at that suggestion. F1
Damon Hill defends Max Verstappen not backing up Charles Leclerc: ‘You’re joking?’Damon Hill has scoffed at the suggestion Max Verstappen should have backed up Charles Leclerc to give Sergio Perez a run at the Ferrari driver late in the Abu Dhabi season finale.
But it was not to be with Perez’s two-stop strategy dropping him behind Leclerc, and although he came close to chasing down the Ferrari driver, he missed out by 1.3s., finishing the season three points behind Leclerc. “The only thing that Max might have been able to do,” Clarkson said, “was back-up Leclerc into his team-mate a little bit, like funnily enough Checo did last year when he slowed Lewis Hamilton down.”“You don’t want this guy breathing all over your gearbox when you’re leading the race. You’re just going encourage him and he’ll get DRS and then fly past you.”Fellow pundit Natalie Pinkham is convinced that if there had been an “obvious opportunity” to help Perez, Verstappen would have done that.
He told that media that had to do with something that happened in the past but, now that the air had been cleared,Aside from trying to back up Leclerc, there wasn’t an opportunity on Sunday for him to do so.
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