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Croft about dominant Verstappen: 'Why not marvel at the record?'
- Toby McLuskie
With the lead firmly in hand in the drivers' and constructors' standings, Red Bull has absolutely nothing to complain about this season. The drivers' championship already seems decided in Max Verstappen 's favour and Red Bull also seems unlikely to miss the constructors' championship. In the Sky Sports podcast, commentator David Croft sees a fairly monotonous half of the season, but he does not find this season boring at all.
Max Verstappen leads the championship with a 125-point lead over number two Sergio Perez. Red Bull Racing is also firmly in the lead among constructors with 256 points over Mercedes. All races up to the summer break were won by the Austrian team, which does sometimes lead to discussions about the tension during the Grands Prix. British commentator David Croft would rather see spectators appreciate what they are currently seeing in Formula 1, rather than shouting that F1 is too boring.
Croft admires Verstappen's performance
"All I would say is if you think the sight of cars going at 200 miles an hour plus, or doing 170 miles an hour through Maggotts and Becketts, or showing the most supreme engineering challenge, in the hands of some of the most talented human beings ever to grab hold of a steering wheel, where we’re at tracks where you’re millimetres away from ruining your afternoon for 70-odd laps in a race, if you think that’s boring, I can’t help you. I really can’t," Croft said. Along with former driver Karun Chandhok, Croft is also looking at a superior Verstappen this season. "It is so so easy to run with the herd here and say ‘Oh it’s boring because Max keeps winning’. Why not marvel at the record? At the excellence, at the consistency and to be that good for so long."