#just glad este also uses the word aggressive to describe max but with positive connotation

[rb19]

We always lose out on essential content because of L'équipe’s paywall articles. I’ve been doing some digging and found this quote from Esteban about Max, before the Abu Dhabi decider.

As soon as I met him in karting, Max was fast. That didn’t change in F3. He’s one of the most talented of our generation. He has always been at the forefront. He never needed time to adapt. He would do an installation lap, then he would go for it and smash the lap times. From the qualifying sessions, he was always at the front. I've always known him to at least be fighting for podiums. He was always aggressive and I think he pushed me to be better, to push my limits. With others, I might have hung in there. He does everything to the limit. You know that if you are in contact, you have a 90% chance of getting out of it. He's a bit like Fernando Alonso: he's virile, very virile, but that’s ok because he has this reading of the race and this understanding of the space and the environment. He knows what is possible to do with his car all the time.