Going into the new Formula One season, so much attention was being placed on Lando Norris as the championship favorite. McLaren’s surge to last year’s constructors’ championship was spearheaded by Norris,

Max Verstappen was full of praise for Oscar Piastri after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, giving a classy assessment of the Australian racer’s ‘talent’ following a close duel at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit.

The Briton, who had finished fourth in Saudi Arabia, had said: “Red Bull are just as quick in qualifying. They're just as quick as us in the race. Just because we're quick in practice, people just keep coming up with all this this crap.