Red Bull’s Max Verstappen says he can beat Lewis Hamilton to this year’s world championship as long as his car is good enough. The Dutchman, 22, thinks his team can “mount a challenge to Mercedes”. Maybe God is with him, but he is not God,” Verstappen said. Verstappen said he believed Hamilton and Mercedes were vulnerable if Red Bull could put them under more pressure. But Verstappen said he did not believe that necessarily gave him an advantage over Hamilton. Verstappen then finished second to Hamilton in the season finale in Abu Dhabi.

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