F1 2024 awards: Max Verstappen joins the greats after hardest-won title

The Red Bull driver overcame an ‘undriveable monster', McLaren delivered and Lewis Hamilton ended win drought.
F1 2024 awards: Max Verstappen joins the greats after hardest-won title

FORMULA ONE AWARDS: Norris, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.

Driver of the year 

With a fourth consecutive world championship, Max Verstappen deserves to be recognised as one of the greats, a place he has earned not least with this year’s title, his most hard-fought yet. After opening in a dominant Red Bull, he executed clinically to take four of the opening five races, keeping his head even as the controversy surrounding the team principal, Christian Horner, consumed Red Bull. 

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