Max Verstappen's 2023 championship victory will go down as one of Formula One's greatest ever. Nate Saunders looks back at how the Red Bull driver achieved it.
DOHA, Qatar -- Max Verstappen's 2023 championship will go down as one of Formula One's greatest ever.
The latter, at Baku's popular street circuit, also featured a sprint race, which Perez won, while Verstappen narrowly avoided a brush with the wall after being forced wide by Russell. Ahead of this week's race in Qatar, Verstappen pointed to that Baku race as the defining turning point in his season. "Towards the end of the race, I found my rhythm, I found my preferred balance and it helped to just find a little bit more of an edge. There's a few things coming together more, and having a good run as well.
It can be so easy to dismiss a dominant driver due to the strength of their machinery. Verstappen's Baku is a great example of the fact that, while having a fast car is a key part of winning a championship, the tiny human details are what can separate the great from the good.Verstappen would turn those Baku learnings into a hammer blow at the next race, which would turn out to be the final high point in Perez's 2023 season.
As we now know, Miami was the first win of Verstappen's famous streak, while qualifying at the circuit which snakes around the Hard Rock Stadium would prove to be the final high in Perez's season, as things would quickly come crashing down around him.Monaco would be a sign of things to come for the middle stretch of the year. Perez, dubbed the 'Street King' by some for his previous victories on street circuits, crashed heavily in the first qualifying session.
The race itself was another masterclass, as Verstappen managed changing conditions -- and rode his luck at one moment late on -- for the victory. Alonso might have won the race had Aston Martin made a braver call on strategy when the rain intensified late on. They may also have done so had Verstappen not saved his Red Bull from sliding into the wall after getting loose at the Rascasse corner around the same time. That one moment aside, Verstappen had controlled the Monaco race completely.
At Zandvoort, the venue which returned to the calendar in 2021 purely because of his rise to superstardom, Verstappen was half a second faster than the next quickest car in qualifying. In a race bookended by heavy rain showers, the second of which caused a chaotic sequence of laps, he never showed a sign of cracking under pressure. Like always, Verstappen seemed unfazed by the frenzied support of the home crowd.
It was easy to imagine the younger Verstappen tangling with Sainz, deciding it was now or never. He lost a win at the 2018 Chinese Grand Prix in similar circumstances. Verstappen knew the patient approach was the right one and when the moment finally came, with the aid of the Drag Reduction System , he breezed by and went on to disappear off into the distance to win.
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