Coulthard: 'Verstappen only beatable in a faster car'

Red Bull Racing chief and former F1 race winner David Coulthard is lyrical about Verstappen and thinks the Dutchman is unbeatable as a teammate. If you want to give the Dutchman a hard time, you don't have to be in the same car and your car has to be a lot faster.

So argues the Scot in the podcast Formula For Success opposite Eddie Jordan. His argument shows that as long as Red Bull has the strongest car, no one else has a chance of winning the F1 title but Verstappen. According to Coulthard, Sergio Pérez's attempt to go for the title in 2023 is therefore doomed to fail.

Coulthard: "Any of those guys, who'll get their hands on a racewinning car have a chance to challenge Max. Challenging Max in the same team is going to take a mighty, superhuman effort. He is a machine. He is made to be on the track. He is assertive, strong willed and more than capable." Jordan replied, "He is light years ahead of the others."

By 'those guys who have a chance 'to challenge Max', Coulthard designates the batch of twentysomethings now performing well in F1 and some veterans. Coulthard: "Your Landos [Norris] and Georges [Russell]. Your Charles [Leclerc] and Maxes. And then at the other end, of course, you have got Fernando [Alonso] and Lewis [Hamilton] as the elders. We have a generation of drivers in their mid-twenties that for the next decade are trying to fight it out."