{"id":286789,"date":"2023-08-27T00:35:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T00:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=286789"},"modified":"2023-08-27T00:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T00:35:09","slug":"sebastian-vettel-backs-max-verstappen-to-level-his-nine-straight-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/racing\/f1\/sebastian-vettel-backs-max-verstappen-to-level-his-nine-straight-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Vettel backs Max Verstappen to level his\u00a0nine straight wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Former Formula One star Sebastian Vettel backs Max Verstappen to level his\u00a0nine straight wins at Sunday&#8217;s Dutch Grand Prix as the Red Bull driver is set to start on pole<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sebastian Vettel backs Max Verstappen to level his nine straight wins on Sunday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Verstappen secured his eighth pole of the season ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mercedes Lewis Hamilton will start\u00a0 in 13th after he was eliminated in Q2<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Max Verstappen revealed he received a supportive text from an unlikely source, Sebastian Vettel, whose mark of nine straight wins he is odds-on favourite to equal in Sunday&#8217;s Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel was an avid accumulator of statistical milestones during his four world championship-clinching years at Red Bull between 2010 and 2013. Verstappen, on the other hand, doesn\u2019t much care for the history books, yet he is breezily rewriting them.<\/p>\n<p>His pole on Saturday \u2014 his eighth of the season \u2014 was half-a-second faster than second-best Lando Norris, an impressive star himself for McLaren. Verstappen\u2019s success raised a huge cheer among the partisans at Zandvoort after a stop-start, wet-to-dry qualifying session. George Russell. for Mercedes, was third fastest, with Alex Albon a notable fourth for Williams under impressive new team principal James Vowles.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen said: \u2018After five wins in a row, Seb texted me, \u201cWell done doing what you are doing at the moment. Keep it up\u201d, and something like, \u201cYou are going to do the record\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But I was like, \u201cThat is nine wins in a row, and something very impressive\u201d. I never thought I would be able to get to eight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/26\/21\/74756597-0-image-a-37_1693082513769.jpg\" height=\"565\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Vettel (pictured) has backed\u00a0Max Verstappen to level his record of nine straight wins\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/26\/21\/74756631-0-image-a-52_1693082683738.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Verstappen secured his eight pole of the season ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If it is possible tomorrow, of course I\u2019ll go for it. But it is not something in the back of my mind. I am not in this sport to try to break records. I am just here to win in the moment.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It will spoil the party if Verstappen fluffs his lines in the 72-lap race front of a 105,000-strong crowd. Saturday&#8217;s performance was as assured as it felt inevitable. \u2018That last lap was very enjoyable,\u2019 said Verstappen, who only had one crack at pole after several interruptions.<\/p>\n<p>The season\u2019s all so predictable, is it not? Mercedes boss Toto Wolff tried to be as diplomatic as possible as he delivered his verdict: \u2018Unpredictability is what makes sport exciting and you want to look at the telly on Sunday and hope for a fight. That is not the case at the moment but that is because one team and one driver are doing a much better job than anybody else and we need to acknowledge that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton was eliminated in Q2 and will start 13th, a blow to his recently stated ambition to finish second in the drivers\u2019 standings. He is currently fourth, 41 points behind Sergio Perez. Hamilton was perhaps impeded slightly by Yuki Tsunoda\u2019s AlphaTauri, though the seven-time world champion blamed his and his car\u2019s underperformance, rather than the Japanese driver, for his short-comings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/26\/21\/74756673-0-image-a-53_1693082745158.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton was eliminated in Q2 and will start 13th at Sunday&#8217;s Dutch Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 Logan Sargeant crashed out on the entry of Turn Two, bringing out a red flag that delayed Q3 for 20 minutes as barrier repairs were carried out. The American is suffering an error-strewn season.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, Charles Leclerc ran wide at Turn Nine and out of the action. The Monegasque makes too many mistakes to be a convincing No 1 at Ferrari. He is quick but cannot keep it on the track reliably enough. In this instance, he carried too much speed into the corner, a right-hander which he failed to take. He will start from ninth.<\/p>\n<p>The Leclerc-inspired red flag lasted six minutes, with 4min 5sec remaining on the clock \u2014 the window Verstappen had open to him to pull off his latest marvel.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12449157\/Formula-One-Sebastian-Vettel-backs-Max-Verstappen-level-nine-straight-wins-Sundays-Dutch-Grand-Prix.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former Formula One star Sebastian Vettel backs Max Verstappen to level his\u00a0nine straight wins at Sunday&#8217;s Dutch Grand Prix as the Red Bull driver is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/racing\/f1\/sebastian-vettel-backs-max-verstappen-to-level-his-nine-straight-wins\/\" title=\"Sebastian Vettel backs Max Verstappen to level his\u00a0nine straight wins\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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