Jeremy Clarkson's Max Verstappen claim rubbished by F1 champion in Lewis Hamilton comment

Former F1 world champion has hit back at after he .

"We learned two important things during last weekend's Grand Prix in Brazil," Clarkson wrote in a column for the . "First of all, is one of the all-time greats. He may even be the greatest driver we have ever seen."

However, Villeneuve believes Verstappen has had a lot of "easy" title wins so far and insists it is impossible to "compare different eras. In response to Clarkson's claim, Villeneuve told : "How can Jeremy Clarkson say Max Verstappen is the greatest of all time?

"He had a great season when he beat Lewis for his first championship. Then he's had the same way that Lewis won his first one. Then he's had easy ones, the same way Lewis had easy ones. And this year he's been fighting back.

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"So this year has been a great year. You cannot compare the era of [Juan Manuel] Fangio to now. They are different eras. So you cannot say any of them is the greatest of all time. The sport has changed too much."

However, Villeneuve believes Verstappen could become the third driver to win a record seven world titles after and Hamilton. "Max Verstappen definitely has what it takes to match Schumacher's titles," Villeneuve added.

"Max is still hungry and competitive and always goes for the win. He doesn't get brought down. With the right situation, he will always be there to win a championship.

"The same way that Alonso could have had seven championships. Look how often he got close to Ferrari. Take Schumacher, he could have had three instead of seven. But he could have had even more.

Sometimes it's close and there's a few drivers out there that don't have the amount of championships that they probably deserved with their talent. Max has won every championship that he could have won. He hasn't missed one so far."

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