The reigning Formula One world champion was in unfamiliar territory: Starting seventeenth on the grid, with only two cars behind him (and one in the pit lane), and his title rival, Lando Norris, way, way ahead of him on pole position.

the father of his girlfriend Kelly and the main rival of another Brazilian three-time F1 champion, the late local hero Ayrton Senna. Sunday'a race put Verstappen under a different light, de Araújo said. “No one can be indifferent to what Max did today.

After Max Verstappen took a jibe at the British press, Sky Sports F1's David Croft has felt the need to issue an important clarification