The seven-time winner and his emerging challenger are two of the best gladiators F1 has ever seen
I was racing in Formula One when Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost were vying for the title and when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill went wheel to wheel, but without doubt Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen’s battle this season has been the best I have ever seen. Their season-decider finale at Abu Dhabi will bring the curtain down on what has been an absolute epic.
This championship has something extra exciting about it because you have two of the best gladiators that we have even seen going head-to-head and it has been unmissable. The way this championship has gone up and down, that’s what you want as a race fan. You don’t want to go into a weekend thinking it’s going to be Max or it’s going to be Lewis, you want the uncertainty, the thrill of knowing you’ve got to watch it right down to the last lap, seeing the skills of these two drivers tested to the maximum.