'Verstappen was already one of many all-time greats of F1'

And so Max Verstappen’s inexorable rise continues, as he joins Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Juan Manuel Fangio, Alain Prost and Sebastian Vettel within the pantheon of four-time F1 world championship winners.

After a blistering begin to his 2024 marketing campaign slowed to the purpose the place he needed to wait 10 races after Spain to triumph once more – and at one stage seemed to be in jeopardy as Lando Norris’ marketing campaign at McLaren continued to assemble energy – his upturn in Brazil and now his lead to Las Vegas pushed him again right into a protected zone from which he couldn’t be toppled.