Verstappen shuts down drama: good with Russell, unfazed by McLaren rumors

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00:00It doesn't really matter what is being talked about. We just focus on ourselves.

00:06Every year you learn what you want to improve on your car and that's what we'll try to do for this year.

00:12How would you characterise the state of your relationship with him?

00:16It's fine. We're good.

00:21Honestly, we just hope to be competitive as a team.

00:25If we are competitive as a team, then I'm sure that we can win it again.

00:30Because I think we're a very strong team. We're very experienced.

00:33And I think we showed that also last year.

00:35In moments when it was a bit tougher for us, we were still maximising our results.

00:40And that's, I think, a big strength of the team.

00:44Let's see. It's exciting. I don't know where we're at at the moment.

00:47I think no one knows that.

00:50In a few weeks we'll know.

00:53We haven't really spent a lot of time in terms of actually talking about the car.

00:59We've seen each other at the photoshoots.

01:03But I'm sure it's going to be fine.

01:05I've seen, of course, also Liam grow throughout the junior team.

01:09And he definitely deserves the shot at the team.

01:12So I'm just very excited to get to work.

01:15Just work together with the team. Try to improve the car.

01:18And have a great season together.

01:22Yeah, it's been good.

01:24It's obviously a big opportunity for me.

01:27One that I'm very excited for.

01:29It's the first time I've had a proper pre-season.

01:34So it's been quite strange, to be honest, to have so much time.

01:37It feels like, honestly, now I'm just ready to go racing.

01:42So, yeah, it's just exciting.

01:45To work with this team has been something that I've done for quite a few years as a reserve.

01:50It doesn't exactly feel new.

01:52Because the relationships are all there.

01:54But just to know that, obviously, I'll be racing.

01:57It's very, very exciting.

02:02Yeah, I prefer not to speak about that.

02:04It might get me in trouble.

02:05So it's better not to answer that.

02:09I've just come from that meeting.

02:12Basically, the discussion was, obviously, Monaco.

02:15You can't change the layout of the circuit.

02:17And, of course, as we've seen previously, particularly with these cars as big as they are now,

02:23the race is very much dictated by the Saturday.

02:26And what we saw last year was, if you get a red flag early on and everybody just puts another tyre on,

02:31then it's very static.

02:33So stating that you have to use potentially all three compounds brings in another element.

02:39So it becomes a two-stop race.

02:42And should it rain as well, there would also be a mandatory two-stop.

02:46So it's unique to that race.

02:49And it's really due to the nature of the circuit.

02:55Better for you?

02:56Is it more comfortable?

02:57Or no?

02:58Do you feel that Red Bull will be the champion?

03:02It's better where, obviously, Sergio left in the winter.

03:06Yeah, I mean, we haven't really...

03:13I mean, it would be nice.

03:14It would be nice, but it's impossible to answer right now, right?

03:16I mean, I have to answer in my car.

03:20Yeah, Luke.

03:24Luke Smith from the Athletic Outlook.

03:25Liam, just a question for you about your winter and how you're fitting into the team.

03:30We have separate rooms.

03:31Yes, we have separate rooms.

03:32Come with us.

03:35And then we'll move you guys.

03:38Yeah.

03:43OK, and then we'll do these for ten minutes, yeah?

03:45We've got to keep it quick.

03:47What time do we go?

03:50You get the new plane?

03:51Yeah.

03:52So we have two flights.

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