Cut-throat Red Bull driver will relish McLaren duo chase in Mexico City where he has won five of the last seven races
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njoying a late surge out of the final bend, Max Verstappen is looming large in the mirrors of his championship rivals. The Dutchman is a threat beyond his formidable pace. An ominous, unsettling presence whose singular determination carries a weight of its own and at this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix he will be hoping to put the hammer down once more.
Having all but written off his chances by mid-season, Verstappen and team Red Bull have orchestrated a striking comeback. In closing down a 104-point gap to the championship leader, Oscar Piastri, to just 40 points in the space of four races, the defending champion has left Piastri and his McLaren teammate, Lando Norris, as prey in his paws.
It is impossible to imagine they do not feel the pressure given both are in a real title fight for the first time. Indeed, one that for no little time had been but between the pair of them and played to McLaren’s own in-house interpretation of Queensbury rules to keep everything fair.
