Max Verstappen is aiming to equal Michael Schumacher's record of winning five consecutive F1 drivers' championships
For the first time all year, Max Verstappen said after the United States Grand Prix that winning the world championship was a real possibility.
It felt like a significant moment, because until now Verstappen has been dismissing the idea.
That made sense during McLaren's imperious form from the beginning of the year to the end of the summer.
Even when Verstappen started winning races in September, the points gap to the McLaren drivers was so big that the four-time champion refused to entertain the idea in public, even if he might have been thinking about it in private. He was taking it race by race, he said, and not thinking about the championship.
