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🗣️ Isack Hadjar on Max Verstappen:
“I'm probably facing the prime of the prime of the level you can achieve in F1 & he's just next to me in the garage. To experience this at my age, this early in my career, I'm one very, very lucky guy.”
“It's like he has no peak. It's just like it's flat. It's up there, but it's flat. It's what makes him such a tough driver.”
“I would say on a track of like 15 corners, maybe there's 1 corner you master or 2, 3, 4, 5 corners you do really, really well. He matches you there & then on the others, he keeps that same level.”
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🗣️ Isack on Max: “I'm probably facing the prime of the prime of the level you can achieve in Formula 1 and he’s just next to me in the garage. To experience this at my age, this early in my career, I'm one very, very lucky guy,"
"He's a very, very kind guy. We get along really well. It's good to work with him. I'm grateful because he gives me so much to work with, to improve, which probably no one else can give. So just for that, I'm thankful and it's great.
“I would say it’s exactly what I expected Max Verstappen to be on the track. I had an idea of how good he was and it translates really well. What I have in my mind that I want to achieve on track, he kind of does it. But there's always a difference between what you're aiming to do and what you actually deliver.
"There's always a little gap sometimes, but he's constant, he doesn't like really have low moments. I would say, it's just like no mistake. He's always at the right time, the right place as well. He creates his own luck a bit.
"But I love the challenge. I love going into every session knowing that he's going to set a benchmark that I need to match and I need to overcome. It's just exciting. It changes from everything I've had my whole career.
“Let's say on a track, you have like 15 corners and maybe there's one corner you master, or two, three, four, five corners, you do really, really well. But he matches you there and then on the others, he keeps that same level.
"And then over the lap, he makes the lap time difference. I wouldn't say I look at the data and I'm like, ‘I can't reproduce this.’ It's how often he does it. That makes the big difference at the end. It's like he has no peak, it’s flat. It's up there, but it's flat. It's what makes him such a tough driver.”