Lewis Hamilton quoted from “Austin Powers: Goldmember” to poke enjoyable at how dominant Max Verstappen is in Formulation One this season.

Verstappen breezed to an eighth straight race win on the Belgian Grand Prix, one away from Sebastian Vettel’s file of 9 consecutive.

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Requested Sunday night if Verstappen is having it too simple, Hamilton stated: “What would you like me to say?! I have never spoken to him.”

“He is having a smoke and a pancake,” Hamilton quipped, a quote from Michael Myers’ character within the film.

Verstappen was so comfy out in entrance he was in a position to have some backwards and forwards together with his race engineer Ganpiero Lambaise.

At one stage throughout a tetchy alternate, Verstappen stated he may cease once more to offer his Purple Bull workforce pit cease observe.

“He has all the explanations to be just a little bit cheeky,” Mercedes boss Toto Wolff stated when requested in regards to the Purple Bull driver’s radio messages.

“He is simply driving circles round everyone else on advantage. There’s nothing else to say about that.

“We have got to look at that, and as a lot as that’s annoying, that is simply above the lot.”