David Coulthard respond back at Lewis Hamilton’s ‘not the case’ Max Verstappen claim.

David Coulthard has presently hit back at Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton for addressing the quality of the partners Max Verstappen has confronted in Equation 1 with Ruddy Bull.

The seven-time F1 winner has started talk about among the enclosure after claiming that Verstappen has never confronted an inner fight like he has. Hamilton has shared a carport with a spate of individual champions all through his time within the sport at McLaren conjointly Mercedes.

McLaren gave Hamilton his breakthrough in Equation 1 in 2007 when they set him next to two-time winner Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard had fair won back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006 with Renault. However Hamilton battled Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen for the title in 2007.

Hamilton has shared McLaren and Mercedes carports with F1 champions
Raikkonen fixed what remains Ferrari’s final driver’s championship in 2007 with a one-point edge to both, Hamilton and Alonso. McLaren at that point supplanted Alonso with Heikki Kovalainen for 2008 as Hamilton went on to win the primary of the Stevenage-born ace’s F1 championships.

Another world winner would connect Hamilton at McLaren in 2010, in spite of the fact that, as Jenson Button arrived new off of winning the 2009 title for Strength GP. The Somerset-born star remained at the Woking-based furnish until he resigned in 2016, whereas Hamilton cleared out for Mercedes in 2013.

Hamilton joined Nico Rosberg at the Silver Bolts and the match would battle for the F1 title in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The Briton won their fight in 2014 and 2015 some time recently Rosberg took the crown in 2016. Valtteri Bottas at that point supplanted the German who resigned at the best of the don.

Bottas demonstrated able to remain near to Hamilton but never sufficient to support any title challenge. Instep, Sebastian Vettel was the 38-year-old’s closest match amid 2017 and 2018 whereas with Ferrari. Verstappen at that point took on the mantle with Ruddy Bull in 2021, when he won the crown.

Hamilton questions the quality of Verstappen’s colleagues at Ruddy Bull.

Ruddy Bull advanced Verstappen from Toro Rosso to the manufacturing plant group amid 2016 and he won his make a big appearance in Spain. The 25-year-old joined Daniel Ricciardo at the Milton Keynes-based furnish and finished the year fair 52 focuses behind the Australian. Ricciardo edged him by 32 in 2017.

Verstappen obscured Ricciardo for the primary time in 2018 some time recently the 34-year-old cleared out to sign for Renault. The Australian’s exit took an at-the-time seven-time Amazing Prix victor out of their carport. Pierre Gasly at first ventured up but misplaced the Ruddy Bull drive mid-season to Alex Albon.

Albon moreover as it were remained at Ruddy Bull through the 2020 season some time recently Sergio Perez joined. The London-born Thai, like Gasly, was incapable to adjust to the characteristics of the Ruddy Bull and challenge Verstappen. WhereasPerez has too demonstrated to be a competent No2 for the Dutch driver.

So, Hamilton as of late certainly addressed the quality of Verstappen’s partners at Ruddy Bull compared to the calibre of driver he shared a carport with at McLaren and at Mercedes.

“In my individual conclusion, Valtteri and, really, all my partners have been more grounded than the colleagues that Max has had,” Hamilton told Sky Sports F1.

“Jenson, Fernando, George [Russel], Valtteri, Nico – I’ve had so many. These folks have all been exceptionally, exceptionally solid, exceptionally reliable and Max isn’t dashing against anybody like that.”

Coulthard hits back at Hamilton for addressing Verstappen’s colleagues

Ex-McLaren and Ruddy Bull driver, Coulthard, has presently hit back at Hamilton for addressing the quality of Verstappen’s colleagues in F1. The 13-time Terrific Prix winner believes it isn’t an precise evaluation of a driver’s ability who he shares a carport with but who you’re battling.

“I know Lewis has made a comment that he does not have intense teammates,” Coulthard told F1’s official site. “First of all, that’s not the case and moment of all, it’s not really almost who your colleague is, it’s almost who your competitors are.

“His greatest competitor, so far, has been Lewis and they have been mind boggling within the way they have gone wheel-to-wheel and performed and truly conveyed a few awesome results.”