With his 13th victory of the season, Max Verstappen now has 400 points on the clock. Only Sergio Perez, victim of an abandonment in Japan, can now prevent him but he only totals …223pts. 177 units therefore separate the two drivers and there remain 180 points to be distributed if a driver wins the last six races, the three sprints and achieves the six best laps.
The title therefore has almost no chance of escaping the Dutchman who could glean his third coronation in a row in Qatar during the sprint race, Saturday October 7, by simply finishing ahead of Sergio Perez. A bit strange but F1 wanted its sprints and that will give it great publicity.