Max Verstappen appears to be allergic to winning a World Championship under normal conditions, after it took his team to open the rulebook to discover that he had indeed become a double World Champion with victory at the Japanese Grand Prix. The Dutchman dealt with pressure from Charles Leclerc superbly during the shortened race at
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Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, has lauded the achievements of Max Verstappen after the Dutchman sealed his second championship in Japan on Sunday. Having already won 11 races this year, Verstappen headed into this weekend 104 points ahead of Charles Leclerc in the Drivers’ Standings, and he needed to beat the Monegasque by six
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Max Verstappen’s victory at the Japanese Grand Prix won him the 2022 world championship after Charles Leclerc was given a five-second penalty. The Dutchman took pole position on Saturday, and led going through Turn One despite a strong getaway by the Ferrari driver. The race was red-flagged when Carlos Sainz crashed and Alex Albon stopped,
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Last weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix was perhaps Max Verstappen’s messiest race of the season, after what was a weekend full of near-misses and driver errors. In all fairness, though, none of which would’ve likely happened if Red Bull hadn’t made a costly error during qualifying last Saturday. In the final sector of the Marina Bay
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen will keep pole position after a lairy incident with McLaren’s Lando Norris in Japan. The Dutchman had looked the quickest driver on track throughout the opening two phase of qualifying in Suzuka, and he was preparing for what would ultimately prove the pole run in Q3. As Verstappen was crawling out
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Not for the first time this season, Carlos Sainz came within a whisker of claiming pole position, something he last achieved at the Belgian Grand Prix. The top three were astonishingly split by just 0.57 seconds, in what is arguably one of the closest top three in the history of Formula 1. Onboards show that
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Lando Norris will start from a disappointing at for the 2022 Japanese Grand Prix, after an incident with Max Verstappen left the McLaren driver cutting across the grass at 130R. The near-miss, which the Brit admitted after qualifying would’ve been a “pretty big crash”, clearly shook the driver up, which is fairly understandable given that
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Former Formula 1 driver and Toro Rosso, Gerhard Berger, does not think speculation over who might have broken the financial regulations is a worthwhile discussion. Red Bull and Aston Martin were mentioned in a report last week that indicated that two teams had gone over the budget cap in 2021. Agreed upon in 2019, a
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Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, has reiterated that the timing of the cost cap debate, just as Max Verstappen is about to wrap up his second title, is no coincidence. The teams were given a spending limit last season, and they were required to adhere to a $145 million cost cap to be spread
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Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz both narrowly missed out on pole position at the Japanese Grand Prix by an unimaginable margin, with Leclerc being just 0.01 seconds off Max Verstappen’s pole time, and Sainz just 0.057 seconds behind the Dutchman. Ferrari have carried their strong performance at last weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix into Suzuka this
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