TREMAYNE: Max Verstappen has now joined the exclusive ‘four titles’ club – but he was already one of the all-time greats of F1

And so Max Verstappen’s inexorable rise continues, as he joins Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Juan Manuel Fangio, Alain Prost and Sebastian Vettel in the pantheon of four-time F1 world championship winners.

After a blistering start to his 2024 campaign slowed to the point where he had to wait 10 races after Spain to triumph again – and at one stage appeared to be in jeopardy as Lando Norris’ campaign at McLaren continued to gather strength – his upturn in Brazil and now his result in Las Vegas pushed him back into a safe zone from which he could not be toppled.