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Verstappen increasingly closer to Mercedes in 2019

It is undeniable the evolution of Redbull in recent years-the team today is more competitive, today the taurine team is composed of cutting-edge professionals and even has competent drivers like Ricciardo and Verstappen.But with all these advances won the team still can not fight directly from the world title - it is still necessary to improve the set of his car in order to be able to get close to the front squad, that is, to be a direct threat to Ferrari and Mercedes ... this reality may be possible next season.Everybody knows that Verstappen is one of the best drivers of the day - he has already made a lot of progress since his debut, despite his young age ... The young driver wants more, he does not want to just win some points or climb on the top of the podium a few times . This ambition is natural because if you are on a team that is growing every season and you are also in the same growth pace, it is clear that the pilot begins to think about bigger goals such as winning a world title - which is the biggest dream of a racing driver of the world's premier motorsport category.The title fight this year can change the direction of the situation dramatically. Ross Brawn recently said that the Ferrari car is superior to the competitor of the three-point star team, Brown said that the mechanical set of the maranello house is superior to that of Mercedes ... although Hamilton is in the first championship position at the moment. So Vettel is closer to the title, and that can change a lot - if the German rider takes the title home that would leave Hamilton unmotivated and certainly closer to his compulsory retirement following the example of Rosberg in 2016 ... and the vacancy would be in the hands of a driver full of vigor, energy and bold as Verstappen-with this Mercedes would fill the void left by the absence of Hamilton ... It would be like joining the useful to the pleasant and consequently Verstappen would be closer and closer of his great dream.


Kelvin Ayres