Albers: "That's the great power of Max Verstappen."
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Former Formula 1 driver Christijan Albers was impressed by how Max Verstappen recovered from his crash in the warm-up lap in Hungary last weekend. "Then the real racers come up."
"Max can adapt to his car. If he has an oversteering car, he knows how to handle it. That's the great power of Verstappen. Only real racers master that. Lewis Hamilton can do it, Sebastian Vettel can do it and so can Max. Other drivers can't compensate car problems with their racing abilities. That's the big difference between the smaller and bigger racers," Albers says in De Telegraaf's Formula 1 podcast.
"Maybe the steering wheel of Verstappen was a bit skewed in the run-up to the start. The set-up could not have been ideal", says Albers. The former driver saw how the Red Bull driver crashed in the opening lap and ended up in a race against the clock to be able to appear at the start at all. "He was lucky to be able to start in the end."
Too much push
Albers judged the Dutchman's crash as an error. "Drivers always drive at the limit. He was driving on a new set of rain tyres, of which the first layer always has to wear out to get a grip. In the first lap the car feels backyard-slippery, it's like driving on ice. Max pushed too much. It's good to see he admitted he was wrong." Verstappen drove his RB16 to second place, behind World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton.