Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won his second consecutive Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship with a dominant drive in the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday, but the Dutchman’s win came with some controversy for the second year in a row.
to take the title in Japan. Under normal racing conditions, that amounted to a race win and the fastest lap point.
When Verstappen, who was clear of Leclerc by almost half a minute, crossed the line, calculators came out to work out if he had indeed won the championship. He hadn’t — Leclerc, running in second with Verstappen’s teammate, Sergio Pérez, hot on his heels, would finish within the margins needed for the fight to continue to the next race.
Vettel, also driving for Red Bull at the time, went into the race more than a decade ago knowing that to win the title, either he needed to finish in the points or McLaren’s Jensen Button had to not win the race. As rain poured down on the circuit, the day hearkened back to a tragedy in Formula 1 history, when driver Jules Bianchi crashed into a tractor in wet conditions in Japan in 2014. The accident, which saw Bianchi having to undergo emergency surgery and be placed in an induced coma, ultimately resulted in his death nine months later.
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