Television cameras at the Monaco Grand Prix missed a moment of "genuine respect" between Max Verstappen and his closest challenger Fernando Alonso.
The Dutchman had produced a monster third sector on his final qualifying lap a day earlier to snatch what would have been a very popular pole away from Alonso. And Verstappen converted that into yet another victory on race day with the 41-year-old Spaniard his closest on-track challenger.
With just 0.084 seconds splitting their best lap time sin Q3 on Saturday, Alonso had been mightily close to his first Formula 1 pole position in more than a decade. Verstappen needed to produce magic of his own to stop the Aston Martin star and there was plenty of mutual admiration between them afterwards.
