Max Verstappen beaming as leader, Ferrari lacking a strategist, Daniel Ricciardo on an ejection seat… Find out what caught the editorial staff’s attention during the first 13 races.
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Max Verstappen, the imperturbable defending champion
With an 80-point lead and a whopping eight victories on the clock, Max Verstappen has produced a demonstration since the start of the season, all the more impressive since the Red Bull, except on certain tracks, did not appear clearly dominating vis-à-vis -to the Ferraris. But the Dutchman has this talent and this composure to take, without pun intended, the max as soon as he has the opportunity. As was the case last weekend in Hungary where, although starting 10th on the grid without much hope of winning, the reigning world champion accomplished a formidable reassembled to stick the knife in the Scuderia’s wound. Tactically, Red Bull makes few, if any, mistakes, and Verstappen does the same on the track. Since his retirement in Australia, he has chained nine podiums in ten races, only his 7th place in Great Britain tarnishing the table. But as his opponents do not take advantage of his rare misses, the Dutchman sees a red carpet towards a…
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