Verstappen says Hamilton never had “pressure” from team mate

Max Verstappen has issued a challenge to Lewis Hamilton. Red Bull driver has claimed the five-times world champion hasn’t faced “big pressure” from a teammate. In an interview with Motorsport magazine Verstappen said Hamilton has “never really had big pressure from his team mates.” Speaking to journalists at the Hungaroring yesterday, Hamilton said he would “have no problem” with Verstappen joining him at the team: “As I’ve said before I like working with Valtteri. I don’t know how that dynamic would work for the team, I’m not saying it would not. I see the positives and potential negatives. “Obviously there’s always positives and negatives with different people you end up working with but I have no opinion towards it. In some ways it works well for me because people at the moment write, I see stories of ‘we’ve got different cars’ so that’s the only way and so that gives me an opportunity that’s not the case.”

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