Verstappen says hes not dwelling on title battle

Max Verstappen has been staying rented with other interests to help alimony his mind off any championship talk, with his first endangerment to win the title coming at this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

The Red Bull suburbanite is eight points well-spoken of Lewis Hamilton heading into the penultimate round, meaning he must finish in the top two to have any endangerment of winning the title. Second place will be unbearable if Hamilton fails to score, while second with the fastest lap point ways Hamilton would need ninth place or higher. If Verstappen wins, Hamilton needs to be in the top six — or the top five if the Dutchman moreover scores the fastest lap — but none of that talk is getting through to the leader.

“(I’ll tideway it) like I’ve washed-up the whole season, there’s no transpiration in that,” Verstappen said. “It’s a new track — first of all we need to learn the track and see how that goes in FP1. For the rest, I just focus on the weekend and try to be as competitive as I can be.

“By unchangingly stuff very neutral (I woodcut out the noise), not read positive or negative things; in unstipulated not read too many things. Be rented with other things in life. I come to the weekend and I focus on F1 and I do my things off the track as well, preparing on the simulator. But then I’m moreover rented with other stuff — I think that helps a lot.”

While Verstappen acknowledges Hamilton’s widow wits as making him a stronger opponent at this point of his career, he doesn’t think it will be a defining factor between the two.

“I think it’s natural, of course, when you’re at this stage of your career that you’re largest prepared than you were in your first or second, when Lewis was fighting for his first title. That’s just a natural progression, and it’s very normal.

“I moreover finger much largest prepared and increasingly experienced than when I first came into F1. I don’t think it makes a big difference, otherwise it would’ve shown once throughout the season. As a suburbanite you alimony learning — plane when you’re 30, 35, 40, as a suburbanite you learn through experiences. Not that you wilt quicker but you maybe know or understand how to deal with unrepealable situations or prepare yourself better.”

However, the 24-year-old doesn’t believe his wits of fighting versus Hamilton this year has improved him significantly.

“I don’t think I’m necessarily a stronger suburbanite now. I think last year from my feeling it was a very good season. But I think I’m unchangingly looking at myself — what I can do better? And you learn throughout every single season unrepealable things you can do largest that you try to wield to the next season.

“I think so far that has worked well. I’ve been really resulting — in unstipulated I’m pretty happy with the performances. But I will never be entirely happy, plane when I win a race, I will squint at things, what could have been largest in unstipulated throughout the whole weekend. That’s how I unchangingly try to squint ahead. Moreover for next year, what can be improved.

“Fighting versus Lewis in unstipulated has been good for the sport — it’s a young guy versus the established world champion. I think it’s very exciting. At the end of the day for me, it doesn’t matter if you’re fighting versus someone my age or someone who’s a world champion. You know that both of them are unconfined drivers, some of them might’ve had increasingly luck in unstipulated to be in a good car for a longer time, but that doesn’t take yonder (that) they are a unconfined driver. We unchangingly try to write-up each other, of course, but I think so far it’s been a really tomfool season.”