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As the 2022 Formula One championship kicked off in Bahrain on 20 March, the noxious embers of the controversial 2021 championship climax in Abu Dhabi still smouldered. For many, Max Verstappen was the illegitimate champion, crowned in the heat of the moment through human error masquerading as a regulatory intervention in the final five laps of the season and in a car later confirmed to have exceeded that year’s cost cap.
Over the next nine months in 2022, however, the Red Bull champion not only annihilated any doubts about his worthiness as a crown-elect, but also demonstrated a bulletproof combination of maturity and speed that rocketed him into the Schumacher league of greatness. In 1994, like his then teammate’s future son, he also
