Doubts on Verstappen: 'He just makes too many mistakes'

The season is not going well for Max Verstappen so far. The Dutchman had to deal with two crashes in the first three races, so the gap to leader Charles Leclerc is now large. Eddie Irvine, however, believes that the driver cannot only blame the peripheral issues, he told La Gazzetta dello Sport.

After his failure in Bahrain, Verstappen took revenge in Saudi Arabia. The reigning world champion took the victory and thus crept closer to Leclerc in the world championship. In Australia, however, things went wrong again and he again did not make it to the end of the race.

Verstappen makes too many mistakes in 2022

However, Irvine not only sees that Red Bull Racing is short of speed to actually compete with Ferrari, he also notices that Verstappen is not performing at the top of his game this season. According to the former Formula One driver, Verstappen needs to do something about that soon.

"Personally, I don't believe there is anyone faster than Verstappen. Yet I believe that he just makes too many mistakes. Leclerc just doesn't make those," judged Irvine, who sees that the Dutch driver is in sixth place with 25 points. List leader Leclerc picked up 71 points so far.