Newly-crowned four-time F1 world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen says he kept his focus on on-track matters dꦫespite the “messy” political turbulence that embroiled his ❀Red Bull team.

The 27-year-old’s fifth-place finish in the Las Vega🍸s Grand Prix was enough to see him retain his drivers’ crown and wrap up the 2024 world title with two races remaining.

Verstappen star💎ted the season in dominant fashion but his Red Bull team was engulfed in scan🅰dal after a female employee made sexual harassment allegations against team principal Christian Horner.

The controve💫rsy su🦄rrounding Horner resulted in political in-fighting involving Verstappen’s father, Jos, and Red Bull motorsport advisor and Verstappen’s close confidant Helmut Marko, and led to doubts about the Dutchman’s future.

But Verstappen did not let the off-track noise affect him, and despite Red Bull suffe♈ring from a dip in performance, he kept his cool to become the sixth driver in F1 history to win at least four world titles.

“The beginning was quite, let's say, a bit messy, but I think I'm quite calm in those sꦑituations,” Verstappen said after the race.

“I think it's very difficult to disturb me with anything. I'm v🥀ery focused on the racing side of things. I know that when I sit in the car, I forget about everythin🎉g, even positive, negative stuff.

“I just focus on what's ahead of me, and tha🔯t's performance, and drive the car as fast as I can.”

Horner labelled Verstappen’s latest crown as his “best and hardest𝓡” championship to win.

When asked if he agrees with Horner’s view, Verstappen r🌟eplied: “I think soꦇ, too.

“I mean, last year, I had a dominant car, but I always felt that not everyone appreciated what we achieved as a team, winning ꦜ10 in a row. Of course, our car was dominant, but it wasn't as dominant, I think, as people thought🌸 it was.

“That's for sure my best season [2023]. I will always look back at, because even in places where maybe we didn't have the perfect set-up, we were still capable, because in the race, our car was alw🦹ays quite strong, to win r𒐪aces.

“Bu🐭t I'm also very proud of this seaဣson because for most of the season, I would say for 70% of the season, we didn't have the fastest car, but actually we still extended our lead. So that is definitely something that I'm very proud of.”