He admires Hamilton for sure, I've seen plenty of interviews where that shines through. Lewis is just the absolute top dog, obviously Verstappen and also every other driver secretly wants to get the better of him on track and be the number one. But it's not as malicious as people make it out to be, of course in the heat of the moment things can get nasty, but for example I just watched the celebration as well and Hamilton is the first Verstappen starts spraying with champagne so I don't think there's much going on.