"You just have to be confident. Otherwise, I don’t think you can succeed in the world here."
Max Verstappen is speaking in the Abu Dhabi night, three days out from the end of the 2022 Formula 1 season, which he has utterly dominated. He’s at a table outside the Red Bull hospitality building in the Yas Marina paddock, albeit one that’s squeezed in between that structure and Mercedes’ next door. It’s private, away from the busy paddock, but the team isn’t letting the media view the inner sanctum.
