Max Verstappen set his unerring sights on the task in hand in Vegas and was rewarded with an F1 title – Mark Hughes looks back on an uncannily similar performance over four decades ago at the same location
It was fitting, given the see-sawing competitive pattern of this season that Max Verstappen clinched his fourth consecutive world title with a low-key run to fifth place in Vegas. With the Red Bull relatively uncompetitive around this venue, he did all that he needed to – and even resisted the temptation to race Lewis Hamilton and the Ferrari drivers as they each came to pass him. As Hamilton tracked him down, you could hear the concern in the voice of Verstappen's race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase: "Please don't lose sight of our aim today," he urged. This was Hamilton, after all. They rarely go wheel-to-wheel without some sort of incident...
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