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Two points: that’s how close Max Verstappen came to equalling Michael Schumacher’s feat of winning five consecutive Formula 1 world championships, despite having fallen more than 100 points behind in

The surface colours of the season constantly changed but the background of its canvas was always papaya as McLaren delivered a formidable weapon for its drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri; the unv

McLaren man took the crown, but it was a close-run and tense season.

The season ended rapid-fire on consecutive weekends and amid those shots a new world champion was crowned. In Vegas Max Verstappen re-lit the dying embers of his title challenge with a victory around

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It took a while for Sainz to get going at Williams but, once he did, he demonstrated his class as both a driver and a driving force at the team. It had been an inauspicious start in Australia, where h