As the roar of engines echoed around the Styrian mountains, for Max Verstappen it resounded surely as a rumbling but triumphal chorus, booming from the natural amphitheatre of the Red Bull Ring and acknowledging he is simply untouchable.
His afternoon centre stage with a win at the Austrian Grand Prix was as complete a demonstration of dominance as he has shown this season, while in his wake there was only frustration and almost discord for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes amid the trying times of understudying the champion elect.
