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Red Bull junior inspired by Hamilton: 'He's very smart'
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Red Bull junior team driver Tim Tramnitz was tasked with putting together his ideal F1 driver on the F3 website. The 20-year-old German driver will spend a second season in Formula 3 in 2025. So, who did the youngster praise? Read how he'd put together his ideal driver here.
In terms of intelligence, Tramnitz goes for Lewis Hamilton. "I think the way he approaches all his races is always really smart. He is never doing anything stupid, always smart in his approach and not really making mistakes. Also, when battling he is clever and he does not take too many risks when he doesn't have too.”
In terms of racing in the rain and qualifying, he picks Max Verstappen, explaining why. "He is just incredibly quick. I think Monaco last year was just impressive, how close he was to the wall you could have not fit a piece of paper, it was super impressive.” Max Verstappen pipped Fernando Alonso to pole in 2023, in what was one of his greatest laps ever.
Tramnitz: 'I could pick Verstappen for everything'
In terms of risk-taking, he also picks the reigning world champion. "I could almost go on every point with Max because I think he is really impressive, so let's go with him again. I think it is just so impressive how he developed throughout the year. If you look back at the beginning of his career sometimes, he was taking a bit too many risks and there would be contact but he changed completely from the beginning. Now, he is a very smart racer and just doing hard overtakes and hard fights without any consequences, so he is really quick.”
The talent decided to pick someone different for the overtaking category but kept it in the Red Bull family: "Let's go with someone different, someone who is always taking risks and doing nice overtakes, especially in his rookie year, it's Yuki Tsunoda. I feel like we have seen some really impressive moves from him over the last few years. It doesn't get recognised so much but I think when I remember some replays during the race, he is always making some really impressive overtakes, like in Abu Dhabi in 2021, how far he came back on Bottas was insane.”
This article was written in collaboration with Toby Nixon
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