In McLaren’s special 60th-anniversary year, the one milestone it probably didn’t expect to get broken was its Formula 1 wins-in-a-row record. But when Max Verstappen cruised to his seventh victory in a row, at Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix, it netted Red Bull its 12th-consecutive triumph – the Milton Keynes team eclipsing the record held by McLaren since 1988.
It was therefore fitting that Lando Norris finished second at the Hungaroring and, in an amusing bit of retribution, managed to damage Verstappen’s winners’ trophy.
As Norris banged his bottle of bubbly on
