The Formula 1 team boss Franz Tost, which was eliminated at the Red Bull Sister team at the end of 2023, said clearly and clearly from England, especially from Sebastian Vettel.
How good are the Formula 1 drivers, how much depends on the car? And who is actually the best of all time? The long-time F1 team boss Franz Tost, who was responsible for today’s Racing Bulls (formerly Toro Rosso and Alphatauri), was responsible for these questions.
Asked from the portal of the TV station, whether Max Verstappen, which Tost brought into Formula 1 as a 17-year-old at the time, was the best, he explained: “I don’t like such comparisons and it would also be unfair to the other big drivers in history.”
But: “No matter whether this is a fangio, a senna, a stewart, a Lauda, a Schumacher, a Vettel or Hamilton – what everyone has in common: they all had super talent, an extreme passion and discipline and were the best in their time. They got the maximum out of the possibilities and made the difference,” he emphasized. And, no less important: “Everyone was extremely strong in the head.”
His thesis is therefore: “I therefore also claim that a fangio would ride ahead in the front as well as the others in Formula 1 at fangios times.”
Tost: Vettel is one of the best Formula 1 pilots
In the end, this also applies to Sebastian Vettel. Tost did not want to leave the fact that the four-time world champion, who ended his F1 career at the end of 2002, is not always at the level of the very best drivers, especially in Great Britain, because he supposedly always sitting in the best car.
A picture of old Formula 1 times: Vettel and Tost together at Toro Rosso
“This is nonsense,” the 69-year-old became clear and precise: “Vettel won as a newcomer with a Toro Rosso, the formula BMW previously dominated and also won with Ferrari.”
The German is “certainly one of the best of all time,” he added, adding: “The car was only part of it.”
Also the currently leader of the World Cup, Oscar Piatri, “would not win today if he didn’t sit in a McLaren”, Tost was certain.
The only one who can still hold against the dominant competition with a rather inferior car is stalled according to Tost.
In Japan, the Dutch showed this skill, although the McLaren was actually considered to be more. Piatri would not have done it the other way around in the Red Bull car, said the Austrian. Because Verstappen “put a magic round in qualifying and everything controlled in the race. That was the typical Max factor.”