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.

F1 Journalist Will Buxton has hit back at Max Verstappen after the Dutchman poked fun at the British press during his post-Brazil GP press conference.