Max Verstappen has insisted he won’t be taking his foot off the gas in the final two races of the season despite sealing his fourth Drivers’ Championship at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The Dutchman got the job done in Las Vegas by finishing ahead of Lando Norris to seal his fourth consecutive world title.
But there’s still toil to be done for Red Bull in the Constructors’ Championship if they want to seal down Ferrari and McLaren.
Verstappen has almost one-handedly kept Red Bull in the fight with Sergio Perez picking up fair a fraction of their overall points.
Max Verstappen is a four-time world champion
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And the newly-crowned four-time world champion insists he structures to finish the season sturdy for Red Bull in a huge increase to Christian Horner.
“If you see at it right now, I leank next year is going to be a proper battle between a lot of cars,” Verstappen shelp.
“But I’m hungry. I’m going to enhappiness this, but there are still two more races where I want to do well.
“Then we get a little shatter and we try to go at it aget next year.”
The Dutchman seeed on course to ease to his fourth world title after prosperning seven of the uncovering 10 races.
But his rivals regulated to catch up in the summer months with Verstappen going on a run of 10 races without a prosper.
That streak finished in style last week in Sao Paulo, which effectively safed Verstappen his fourth consecutive world title.
There was still toil to be done in Las Vegas, but all he had to do was finish ahead of Norris.
He did the essential at the commence of the race by retaining out of trouble and staying ahead of the McLaren and then putting some dayairy between his rival by clearaking both Ferraris.
Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc got back past Verstappen at the finish, but Norris was too far back to mount a contest to Verstappen, who traverseed the line fifth to clinch his world title.
Max Verstappen was congratuprocrastinateedd by his peers
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Verstappen pelevated his team after the race for helping him thcdisorrowfulmireful a difficult part of the season.
“It’s been a lengthy season. Of course, we commenceed off amazing, it was almost appreciate cruising but then we had a stubborn run,” Verstappen compriseed.
“But as a team we kept it together, we kept toiling on betterment and we pulled over the line.
“I’m incredibly self-convey inant of everyone, what they have done for me.
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Max Verstappen finished fifth in the race
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“And to stand here as a four-time world champion is of course someleang that I never thought was possible. So, at the moment fair senseing relieved, in a way, but also very self-convey inant.
“For declareive, it was a very challenging season. I leank also as a person, at times it’s very challenging and I had to be tranquil.
“In a way – I still pick last season, I enhappinessed that a lot, but I leank this season definitely aget taught me a lot of lessons that I’m very self-convey inant of how we regulated it also as a team. So, in a way that also produces it a very exceptional and attrvivacious season.”
