Verstappen, Norris and Perez judge each other's season

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Verstappen, Norris and Perez assess first half of season
23 July 2023 at 19:51
Last update 23 July 2023 at 20:28
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  • Toby McLuskie

At the press conference after the Hungary GP, the top three were asked to rate each other's first half of the season. Max Verstappen, Lando Norris and Sergio Perez then amusingly handed out report marks to each other.

Lando Norris decided to rate Max Verstappen's first half of the season. "You weren't on power yesterday, so I'll give you a 7," joked the Briton. However, when Verstappen pointed out that it should be an assessment of the entire first half of the season and expected at least a 6.9 for that, the Briton became a bit more generous in giving a rating: "No, I think obviously he's clear, he's 9.69, 9.69 for Max".

Max Verstappen, however, refused to hand out marks. Even when the interviewer pointed out that the rating could also be given in another way, Verstappen remained silent. Sergio Perez did hand out grades. When assessing Lando Norris, he compared the first few races with the last few races. "I think, from where they were in Bahrain, or not even in Bahrain, before Silverstone, the step that they made these last two races on very different tracks, layouts. I think it's impressive. I do expect to see Lando a lot more up here. They've done an incredible job. High number," said the Mexican.