How ‘ultimate driver’ Verstappen is ‘improving every year’ – 2024 Las Vegas GP Review with Max’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Tom Clarkson is joined in the paddock by F1 correspondent and presenter Lawrence Barretto to celebrate Max Verstappen becoming a four-time World Champion at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Was this Verstappen’s best title? How does he compare to other sporting greats? And what can he still go on to achieve in Formula 1? His race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase tells the guys why this championship was more ‘emotional’ than he expected, while Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner explains how Max has made the difference this season.
Tom and Lawrence also discuss what Lando Norris will have learnt from his title fight with Verstappen and what we can expect from their battles in 2025.
Plus, was George Russell’s phenomenal victory in Vegas a ‘statement’ to Toto Wolff? And were Ferrari’s mistakes a first real ‘test’ of Fred Vasseur’s new culture at the team?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by T-Mobile, official 5G partner of F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix. |
| 0:12.0 | In Vegas, it's Vastappen's fantastic fourth. |
| 0:16.0 | The Dutch driver will retain his crown. |
| 0:20.0 | Max Vastappen is a four-time Formula One world champion. |
| 0:25.6 | Oh my God, man, on the season, four times. |
| 0:31.6 | Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you to everyone. |
| 0:34.6 | I mean it's a little bit more difficult than last year, but we gave it all. |
| 0:39.9 | Thank you so much, guys. |
| 0:45.5 | Welcome to Grand Prix Plaza, Las Vegas. It's F1 Nation with me Tom Clarkson, surrounded by the lights, the hotels, the high roller observation wheel. |
| 0:56.7 | And with me is F1 correspondent and presenter Lawrence Beretto. |
| 1:01.3 | In Vegas, it's all about the winners, the newly crowned four-time world champion, Max |
| 1:06.6 | Vastappen, and the race winner, George Russell. |
| 1:10.3 | Lawrence, what a day, what a weekend it's been. |
| 1:14.6 | One of those winners, I think quite predictable. The other one, less so. The George Russell victory |
| 1:20.4 | was definitely not on the cars coming into this weekend, but the Max Vestappen World Championship |
| 1:26.4 | most certainly was. |
| 1:28.5 | I've just spent 20 minutes chatting to him, and it was interesting that he said there, |
| 1:33.8 | it was in Brazil when he crossed the line after that epic drive back from 17 to 1st, |
| 1:39.4 | where he realized he'd won the title. |
| 1:41.6 | He was like, that was the moment. |
| 1:42.9 | He was like, I've done it, like, unless something dramatic happens. And I would, I'd never seen Max talk like that. I've |
| 1:49.5 | never seen him be so open and so forthcoming and kind of revealing that kind of detail about |
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