Verstappen d🍸ominated Sunday’s race at Suzuka to take his 13th victory from 16 races and help his Red Bull team clinch the constructors’ championship fo꧙r a sixth time. 

The Dutchman, who can now claim his third consecutive drivers’ title at the next round in Qatar, finished 19.3 seconds clear of McLaren’s168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lando Norris. 

Verstappen predicted his winning margin during🔯 a padel tennis game that Horner invited him to in the days after Sin𝓡gapore, where Red Bull had suffered a shock first defeat of the season. 

"We all left Singapore knowing that ultimately the winning run tha✱t we had would come to an end, but we were still a little frustrated,” Horner said after Sunday’s race. 

"I played padel tennis with Max on Wednesday a🍌nd he was properly fired up and he said: 'I want to win the race by 20 se🃏conds’. 

"And in fairness, he came withiꦕn 0.7s of achieving that.

"You could tell from the very first lap in FP1 where on the hard tyre, he was 1.8 seconds ✃quicker than the rest of the field on medium oꩲr soft tyres at that point, he was totally focused on this event. 

"It was an outstanding performance. His f♋inal lap in qualifying has got to be up there with one of the best laps of all time in qualifying.

"And then he converted that after not th🦂e best of getaways, but he was able to hang on to the lead andꦅ then thereafter build a very commanding lead and control the race.” 

After taking a commanding pole position on Saturday, Verstappen told his critics to168澳洲5最新开奖结果: “suck on an egg” if they believed Red Bull’s drop in performance at th🃏e Singapore Grand Prix was linked to a new FIA technical directive. 

Asked whether the theories had given Verstappen extra motivation, Horner said: “He's just a racer. He doesn't need a lot of motivation, but he certainlyꦰ came here very keen to reestablish the season he's been having."