Max Verstappen is absolutely unbeatable in the current
Formula 1 season. Partly due to his dominant
RB19, the Dutchman is now in pole position for this season's world championship. That the Red Bull driver is a good driver is one thing that is certain. But how do you recognise someone of his calibre? Former Formula One world champion
Damon Hill explains.
The 62-year-old Hill explains that drivers with excessive talent are quickly picked out.
"But you know that there are certain people who stand out even before they ever get anywhere near Formula 1" Hill tells the
F1 Nation podcast.
Verstappen was discovered early on as a talent in the world of motorsport. The reigning and two-time world champion already won his first Formula One Grand Prix when he was 18 years old. Hill cites Felipe Drugovich as an illustration:
"Drugovich has done some good stuff in F2, but you need to be knocking spots off of everyone in the lower formula and that's the marker, that's the one that will make Helmut Marko say, 'we'll have him or her'," Hill said.