Verstappen is the 34th driver to win the world championship and will bring #1 back to the Formula 1 grid for the first time since fellow Red Bull champion Sebastian Vettel’s final title defence in 2014.
The Dutchman claims being champion makes no difference, that he won’t change. That’s in keeping with his public persona – he wouldn’t admit to the tweaks he made after some major errors early in 2018 – but, as Alex Kalinauckas shows in our cover article, that can’t be the case.
Verstappen’s rapid rise marked him out as a future star as soon as he started to compete. Marcus Simmons talks to some of those who worked with the youngster in his early days to find out what really grabbed their attention.
Honda played a key role in Verstappen’s successful title tilt, no mean feat given the disastrous time it had experienced with McLaren before joining the Red Bull fold. Team boss Christian Horner is one of those to tell Adam Cooper why Red Bull was confident about the…
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