Max Verstappen, they said, would change everything. And now he is... F1
At last a freedom returned to his driving, becoming the foundation for his first Q3 appearance since June, before that intelligence for which he is famed saw him make the leap as the first driver to switch to intermediates and recover from a first-lap spin to finish sixth.
Everyone knows that driving for Ferrari brings more pressure, more scrutiny, than any team in Formula 1. How galling, then, must it have been to start this season as he did? To make the exact elementary errors he had previously vowed to avoid? To suddenly be inviting all that pressure and scrutiny on his shoulders, having successfully smothered it throughout last year?
There was only so much he could do to avoid crashing out on the first lap at Suzuka, resulting in his fifth retirement of the season. On Saturday at Suzuka, Sainz spoke of his frustration of missing out on pole position by less than a tenth, the latest in a string of near misses in qualifying in recent months.
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