Dutchman Max Verstappen was crowned F1 world champion for the first time, after winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday.
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“The future belongs to Max Verstappen”, comments Formula 1 specialist and former Liberation journalist Lionel Froissart, Sunday 12 December on franceinfo, after the first title of the Dutch driver, crowned F1 world champion for the first time on Sunday thanks to his victory over the wire against the seven-time champion World Cup Lewis Hamilton at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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“It was a season and a Grand Prix under high tension, to analyse Lionel Froissart. This Grand Prix is a rather astonishing summary of what these 22 Grands Prix were – a record this year – with a rather paradoxical victory for Max Verstappen who had been led since the start of this race by Lewis Hamilton but who overall of the season deserves this title. “
“Max Verstappen was very strong with the Red Bull team from the start of the season, until the middle of the season.”
Lionel Froissart, Formula 1 specialistto franceinfo
Lionel Froissart thinks that this “duel” between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton “should continue at least next year” but that, the Dutchman being only 24 years old while Lewis Hamilton is already 36, “We expect that in the future Max Verstappen will fight a little more maybe with Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc, people almost his age. Lewis Hamilton is at the end of his career. He obviously hopes to finish on an eighth title, perhaps in 2022 “.