“A Schrodinger’s season for Max Verstappen. Concurrently his best and not his best.” That’s how we’ve described the world champion’s campaign in our Formula 1 driver rankings. And that’s because there are two ways of looking at Verstappen’s performance over the past months.
One is that his success in winning the title again with immense performance peaks against the background of a squad seemingly imploding around him combined into Verstappen’s greatest ever season. The other pairs the moments in this campaign that were of a lower ebb than in his other championship wins with more cynical (some would say disappointing) tactics in battle, to dip it below his other highs overall.
